Edit 1: You don't need to follow the hub*, but that'd be very helpful for me to check if we're still mutuals or not. Just please, make sure you're following at least one of the RP side blogs, and not just the hub.
*Addendum: If you use the "disable comments from people you don't follow" feature, then I ask you kindly to follow the hub and not just the RP side-blog. Because it prevents me from commenting on your posts, since the comment is coming from this blog rather than the side one. Failing to do this heavily affects the way I can engage with you and your blog/muses.
If I've followed you, it is for one of these blogs:
@galaccias - Star wars Multimuse (Not following new SW mutuals)
@healbellls - Pokemon Multimuse
@hxdrostorms - In limbo rn will be reworked into a Castlevania one
@santuxrio - Saint Seiya Multimuse
As of the 25th of February 2024, I've been prioritizing Discord RP over Tumblr.
Interested in Discord RP? Check out @vanirpads
In light of a new awfull trend across the RPC: I don't send any anonymous messages ever. If you receive any form of hateful message with my name attached, ignore and delete it. Without a doubt, it is someone looking to impersonate me, in hopes of sparking controversy. It is a shame this has to be addressed.
Rules highlights:
I'm a big supporter of 'tag & curate your online experience', 'ship and let ship', 'don't like don't read' (Dead dove don't eat), 'fiction can affect reality, but it will never be that', 'shipping/fandom isn't activism'. If you have any issues with these things, then this blog might not be for you.
I do send in passwords/anything that the mun requires, to let them know I have read their rules. But, unless specified, I'll only do that AFTER being followed back. Because I don't wish to make it seem like I'm "pressuring" them to follow/interact with me.
I reserve the right to unfollow and block anyone, I don’t owe an explanation for doing so. Do not evade it, nor send people after me in an attempt to score an answer for you. If you find out you’ve been blocked by me, move on like any other person would.
The same goes out to anyone following me, who wishes to break mutuals with! Block and unfollow to your heart’s content, IDC what you do in order to feel well. I’d much prefer being softblocked, so I don’t end up sending prompts or interacting with your posts/blog, without realising we no longer were mutuals.
Anonymous messages are permanently turned off.
There’s no pressure when it comes to interacting with my muses. As in, if you’re only looking to interact with one out of all the other options? I’m cool with that. The choice is yours, I’ll obviously try to offer as many as I can see fit for us. But I’ll never force anything upon anyone. And on that note: All I ask in return is to respect my grading system for muses (primary, secondary & tertiary/friends only stuff)! As mentioned in the directories, while I don’t mind HC asks aimed at those tertiary muses. Interactions and plots are reserved only for my long-time partners or friends!
Reblog karma is in effect, if I reblog a prompt from you I will send in something back. And I expect the same from you, if you do nothing but reblog memes directly from me without sending anything back, you will be blocked. I have a tolerance when it comes to mutuals, I’ll contact you to stop with it. However, I have zero tolerance for non-mutuals.
I am NOT fictionkin nor self-insert friendly, I’ve had way too many bad run ins with them, and I want nothing to do with them! Mun =/= Muse, if you can’t understand that concept then leave. I’m NOT my muses, and I’m not here to judge anyone, but I'm also not here to fulfill anyone’s fantasies like that.
Non-mutuals: please refrain from sending prompts that have been specifically tagged/marked as ‘mutuals’. They have been marked in such way, for a reason. I get you may want to draw my attention to your blog, however, that’s not the way to go about it (If you do this, I’ll likely take it as an attempt to brute force your way into my boundaries. DMing me is a whole lot better.). I take a while to follow people back, you can find more info in regards to what I look into people’s blogs & take into consideration before following back in my rules.
I’m strongly against the idea of “if we’re mutuals, then we’re immediately friends!” (as it promotes an unhealthy sense of overfamiliarity, and it has put me in awkward situations in the past). So please, don’t go around calling me a friend, unless we’ve known each other and have been in constant contact for quite some time. It’s nothing against anyone, that’s just how I roll.
On following: If I don’t get followed back in my actual rp blogs after an week or so, I’ll take that as the person’s way of saying they aren’t interested and I’ll unfollow & softblock if they only followed the hub! Of course, I may contact the person in case they have already answered to my asks or other things.
If you’re someone who keeps adding new muses every other day, or is always making new blogs and quickly abandoning old ones (aka drifters or blog-hoppers). Then, it’s very unlikely we will mesh well as writing partners. It’s nothing personal, but this sort of thing doesn’t work well with me. I need rping partners, who wish to stick around for the long run. I can’t and won’t keep up with muns, who are always doing those things and clearly have other things in mind for RPing.
I don't have access to the Legacy editor only the new beta one. I'm using the new XKit trim posts, for my RP responses.
Don't use your muse(s) to vent your out-of-character frustrations or give yourself an ego boost.
I've seen this happen many times over my 10+ years of role-playing on this site. I've met a lot of muns that tend to use their muses as a means of airing out their grievances, or making themselves feel/seem important.
Example #1: I once met someone who would speak through their muse whenever someone on the dash (a writing partner or just a mutual) angered or frustrated them. They wouldn't directly call the target out, but to those in the know, it was clear who they were talking about.
Example #2: I knew someone that I would plot a thread out in advance with, we both agreed that was how it was going to play out so both of us would be happy, and then when it came down to writing the thread, their muse unexpectedly vilified mine in order to make them seem like they were "special" or "more important" or "the good guy."
This is incredibly frustrating and off-putting. Writing is supposed to be fun for everyone involved. It's not meant to make any one person seem or feel more important than anyone else.
If you're doing either of these things, rest assured that you are the only one having fun.
I know I'm not that active around here anymore BUT I just want to give a reminder bc of the show's sheer popularity, which has been plaguing my feeds wherever I go:
Please tag or mention Leagu.e o.f L.eg.ends or A.rc.a.ne somewhere in your post, I already have those terms blacklisted bc I really don't want to see it anywhere on my dash.
𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒: Drawing, sculpting, cooking and roleplay!
𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: I can't pick one LOL some times it's purple, others it's blue and white or even black!
𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊: Dry lives - Graciliano Ramos
𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: Ava Max - Kings & Queens
𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄 / 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖: Knights of the Zodiac 3rd season (I don't watch a whole lot of movies or TV anymore lol)
𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: Fanfics on AO3. IDK where the drabbles collection book I was reading is rn LOL I can't find it.
𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: it juST HAPPENS MAN
𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐔𝐑𝐋:
Vanillahub: Vani is my long running pen name, and I just needed something to indicate this as a RP hub;
Healbellls: 3 Ls bc I needed to make sure it would be available for me to use. Healbell is the name of an attack within the Pokemon franchise, I wanted something different from my last pokemon blogs' urls.
Hxdrostorms: Hxdrostorm was the url for my Richter Belmont blog, wayyyyy back in 2017. And I recovered that url in 2022-23, for a multifandom blog, the last blog before I moved here. This blog was originally meant to be one for muses that I would only use with my friends. Back when I made it, I had full intentions of bringing back some muses............ But ultimately that idea was discarded. And now it's my mostly Saint Seiya multimuse blog (It still has Richter in it but like... He may as well be just there for decoration purposes LOL).
𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: You guys wanna see the Acrylic stand I got out of my art?
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Tagging: @gwiazdowe @amalgamatus @lightfaithed @eranthiss @the-wandering-rock-collector @shouxryuuxha @cpirits & anyone else wanting to do this! Just say I tagged you
what made you pick up the current muse(s) you have? Obviously, I'm heavily influenced by a set list of characters I personally love, which means I come up with a take/portrayal as I delve deeper into the lore. I tend to have a preference for side characters, rather than protags or lore heavy ones, bc of the freedom I get... BUT at the same time I've had numerous muses that carry a lot of weight in their respective franchises (see: Seto Kaiba, Captain Rex, rival Barry, Richter Belmont and Sea Dragon Kanon just to name a few).
I mainly write as canon characters, I genuinely have little to no interest in making or RPing as an OC. At most, I have 1 OC in two out of the RPCs I'm currently part of. Which explains this huge disparity.
is there anything you don’t like to write? My hard nos are Incest, Adult/minor types of relationships. Bodily fluids/toilet stuff and fetish focused RPs. One-liners and really short replies aren't fun for me, sure, they can be fun for crack/joke interactions. But they won't last long. I really love working and expanding on the source material, so RPs for me really need to have that good plotting to back it up. While I'm totally open for exploring darker/taboo subjects (e.g.: adultery, toxic relationships, etc.), they MUST carry weight on the characters and be handled accordingly.
is there anything you really enjoy writing? GIMME ALL THE WEIRD COMBOS TO INTERACT WITH!!! Characters that never met or barely interacted with one another in canon but, they can interact in our RPs!!! My jam is doing worldbuilding and expanding on the source material!!! I also enjoy writing comedy, fluff, romance, slice-of-life, over-arching stories that connect/get refferenced in other threads.
how do you come up with headcanons? I look for plotholes or anything that was barely touched upon, in the source material, and I go off from it. I try establishing connections or make them clearer, to serve as future reference for me and my RP partners. I also love taking influence from other medias I'm into.
do you write in silence or do you play music? I used to be able to multitask a lot easier in the past. Now, I mainly prefer writing in silence. Only in very rare cases, I may play some kind of lo-fi beat or lounge music.
do you plan your replies or wing them? It depends on the thread in specific! Most of them have been plotted out, so I go off what we have laid out. Only in a few cases I try to wing it.
do you enjoy shipping? YES YES. GIMME. However, due to some bad experiences in the past, I'm really picky with platonic and familial stuff (popular fanons my beloathed).
what’s your alias/name? Vani
age? 27
birthday? 19th of July
favorite color? Purple, blue, white, red-
favorite song? Tô de pé - Maneva
last movie you watched? I genuinely can't remember it LOL. It must have been Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary.
last show you watched? Saint Seiya Omega
last song you listened to? Discoholic - Disco Soul (Mr. Hoosteen's "Disco's Revenge
favorite food? Pesto Pasta
favorite season? Summer
do you have a tumblr best friend? Check these fellas out <3
These ppl know me for the longest time Gen ( @gems-of-lirema ), Simone (@unchcsen ) , Shiba ( @celestiialnotes ), Retto ( @245s ), Bobo ( @roleplayersoul ) and Smeargle ( @ofpokemon ) !! Really special mentions to @radi0activesmile, Val and @mxlik you guys will forever hold a v special place in my heart!!
Then I'm always chatting with Ama ( @gwiazdowe ), who genuinely is one of the best ppl I've met!! Honestly, I couldn't feel anymore happier to have met you! Can't forget urs truly Mica, who lives rent-free in my walls LOL. Lea ( @todefendlife ) and Mars own my house smfh.
And also special shout out to folks I've met more recently, but still deserve a place here: @shouxryuuxha / @wayfaringstrangxr / @eternalstarlights / @triko-the-fluffy-artist <3 Love u guys!
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TAGGING: Anyone wanting to do this!! Just say I tagged you <3 !
Tagging: @gwiazdowe @rush-to-greatness @ofpokemon @gems-of-lirema @shouxryuuxha @eternalstarlights @todefendlife & anyone else wanting to do this! Just say I tagged you!
This is in a more general way of speaking, no fandom or characters in mind. I feel like I can sum up my neutral line as "things I may like or hate depending on the source material you specifically ask for".
where exactly have I been? It's no secret that my general activity in my blogs has declined A LOT, and I don't see that changing in a near future. Which is entirely due to my attention and focus currently being elsewhere.
Overall, I've been having far more enticing/interesting RPs on Discord, and it has definetely become my preferred (if not my primary) RPing platform and style (1x1, no peers).
Does it mean I'll be abandoning my blogs?
Not at all! Because I still have RP partners, who prefer doing things on Tumblr. So, I'm truly still around for those ppl, more than anything else.
But I'm truly saying that Discord RP from now on will be my main focus, and I'll still get back to Tumblr RP to reply to my current ongoing threads here. I'll try to send in prompts here and there whenever/if I happen to stumble upon it, and I'll be even more selective/unlikely about following new people.
My blogs are still very valuable to me in the sense of being able to post and save my muses Headcanons. So, they really aren't going anywhere.
If any of my current RP partners would like to move their threads to Discord, I'll be more than glad to oblige!
// I'll be properly adding this later in my rules or pinned posts, in the meantime:
I'm very much against the use of AI, in any shape or form in RP. I want NOTHING to do with people who use it, or create character bots. As it currently stands, this technology runs off scraping ppl's works, unethically and without any form of compensation for the rightful authors. If I find out you are somehow, feeding my writing/HCs to create bots around them. I will have no qualms in exposing your shit publicly.
I understand that effectively, this will not do anything to stop ppl from doing this shit. But, I still feel the need to show my stance on this matter. Because unfortunately, this is a growing issue in online spaces.
And on another note, bc I guess people have forgotten about this in my rules:
Please don't directly reblog rp prompts from any of my blogs, unless you have sent something back. Musings & Aesthetics are A-OK with me, it is just prompts I'm not cool with having them reblogged from me. I already try to avoid that by, constantly deleting old reblogs, but this still happens from time to time. Non-mutuals will immediately get blocked, and I'll DM mutuals to avoid/stop doing that.
Send 🗣️ and I'll share a random opinion I have about something be it about roleplay in general or RPC/fandom specific[Accepting]
last one for fandom specific
Ever since I started running a ship-centric fandom event, I've stumbled upon a weird trend amongst other similar events: Which is just basically allowing unrelated ship content, into the submissions.
I'm sorry for assuming these events were meant to celebrate, a specific ship, without others butting in?
There are a few things that makes me think, it drove ppl to begin:
Ppl likely wanting to try include platonic stuff into the mix. Which isn't a problem at all on its own, but surely they should have expected that ppl would try to abuse the loophole. This is why it is important to highlight the fact it isn't allowed to bring up, unrelated things to it (it's 2024 and you have to specify this, so ppl don't try to be sneaky about that shit). It sucks bc, I'm also a firm believer that platonic stuff deserves its space and be cultivated, just as valid as romantic ones. But then bad apples, give these ppl such a bad rep all around;
Fear that no one would participate in the event to begin with, thus they allow ppl to basically do whatever they want. This sucks, but I can imagine it being a reality for small/rarepairs. But at the same time, if it got to this point, I would have called off the event altogether.
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@amalgamatus
Still in general fandom territory:
While Gen 9 came with some genuinely cool pokemon designs.
In the human/trainers department, I feel like they fumbled so hard this time around. Not a single CHARACTER looked interesting in my eyes. And somehow, it got worse with the DLC.
Ppl may try to defend it and claim how "oh but it makes sense in the non-existent story". And like first impressions/presentation are EVERYTHING, this includes cool/interesting character designs to onlookers. For me... They dropped the ball really hard here as well.
And for me, the worst human design for this generation goes to...
