#📝 The Author

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I was just thinking how long it's been since I watched Gundam Wing and how fun it would be to take on Duo Maxwell as a muse. But also sad, because I don't if anyone on tumblr remembers Gundam Wing. :/

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This is my brain today. I've been working on the same reply for like an hour, help meeeeeeee. 😭

Not a thought behind those eyes

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Speaking of the US election, I want to make something crystal clear right now. This is my blog, so I can say what I want, and I'm gonna say it, regardless of what happens or if I lose any followers or whoever.

If you are in the United States of America and you voted for trump, leave. Unfollow me. Block me. I do not tolerate any kind of the hate he has spewed and continues to spew, so if you support him, I do not want you on my blog. Goodbye.

Everybody else, you are welcome here. You are safe here. You are loved here. I support you and care about you. Know that if you ever need someone to reach out to or a shoulder to cry on, I am here. You may come into my DM's any time. 💞

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"FUCK, I should have known this would happen. Doom, Oleander, and James are all fighting over who's the most feisty. God damn it, those little shits. I'm getting the fire hose."

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I don't know if I trust tumblr right now with the way it's acting, I don't want to lose any replies... I think I'm gonna wait a little while before I work on replies. Ugghhh. x_x

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Okay everybody - tag your muses. Hahahaha! I can't think of who among mine this would be, but I gotta see what you guys say about your muses. xD

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As someone who is a newly identified ace (at least, questioning, since I'm an older folk who has always felt sort of... I guess "out of sorts" when it comes to sex, but has never had a word for it until more recently), I had no idea I was in the company of so many fellow aces in the roleplay community. I feel blessed. ☺

I also used to feel super awkward about doing Sexual Sunday memes because I was worried people would either abuse it (like see my muses as sex vending machines and nothing else) or not be interested in it at all (which has more so been the case, but it's not a big deal), but I've been relaxing more and more about it because people have helped me feel more comfortable. I haven't had any bad experiences, so I feel better about sharing insights and things now!

I may not roleplay smut, but my muses do have their sex lives and personalities, so I don't mind including those aspects in threads, discussions, and answering inquiries about them. They're sillies for sure. x3

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⭐ Stuff I am NOT comfortable with roleplaying

Let me preface this by stating that I do understand the separation of fiction and reality. I understand that fiction is a place where people may safely explore themes that wouldn’t be okay to do in real life and that it does not reflect who you are as a person. However, the below subjects are personal icks for me, so I’d like to avoid roleplaying them. You may roleplay them on your blog and I have no issue with seeing it on my dash. That is all fine. It’s just that I personally am not interested in roleplaying these topics with my muses (except whether otherwise noted and with extensive discussion and consent), and I appreciate your mutual respect in this matter. Thank you!

Group Roleplays

I do not feel comfortable with participating in group roleplays - this includes both discord servers and group dash events, or any other kind of group roleplay. It messes with my anxiety big time, and so for my own personal comfort, I have chosen to abstain from these kinds of situations.

This means that if you are posting anything related to these events, and it's a tagged event, I will not see your posts, including your art, drabbles, nothing. I will not see any of it because I will have the tags blocked. I promise this is nothing personal against you, the group organizer, or the event itself - it is purely to protect my own mental health, as these events can fill my dash otherwise, and I'd rather not see them.

If you have created something and you'd like to share it with me, that's fine - you are welcome to share it with me directly in DM. I'd like that. It's just that I am not comfortable with participating in the events themselves or seeing it all over my dash.

If you'd like to talk about this in private, you may do so. My DMs are open.

Smut

I am not really into rping smutty stuff. Suggestive or risque humor, implying things, flirting, mentioning it, saying it happened, asking questions about my muses’ sex lives (like in inbox ask meme games), and suchlike is all fine. I don’t mind other people rping smut and following those who do or seeing it on my dash; I am just uncomfortable rping it myself. If in any case an rp starts going in that direction, I’ll have it fade to black or skip ahead.

Excessive violence towards children

It’s okay if it’s part of a muse’s past, and in threads I am also okay with some angst and general childhood things like skinned knees and the like. But I am not comfortable rping actual threads where there is excessive harm being done towards children. Also, it should go without saying, but anything of the pedophilic nature will be absolutely, 100% not tolerated and will result in an instant block if it’s even suggested.

Abusive relationships

Enemies to lovers type relationships don't fall under this category to me - it is specifically when one partner is harming the other with no healing or remorse in sight. It’s when the party/ies are enjoying hurting one another and the other clearly isn’t enjoying it is when it becomes abuse to me and when it makes me uncomfortable. Again, you do you, I have nothing against that, we’re all good, it’s just something I’m not interested in rping myself.

Age gaps in romantic/sexual relationships…

...with THIS very specific scenario: If one of the muses in the relationship is 18-23 years of age, while the other is 30+. It is a personal ick of mine. I have nothing against other people roleplaying ships with this type of age gap and I am okay with following and being mutuals with those who do - it’s just that I am personally uncomfortable with roleplaying my muses being in a relationship with this kind of age gap. And obviously, anything involving minors is an automatic NO.

Any questions, let me know.

My muses being used as NPCs without my consent.

While I am okay with your muse referring to my muse in threads with someone else's muse, I am not okay with my muse being used in plots and developments with other people's muses without my consent, especially if it involves inflicting trauma on my muse.

An example of this would be coming to me to start a thread between our muses where my muse is put through a troubling situation to help out your muse which entirely benefits your muse, leaving my muse emotionally or physically hurt, only for the whole point of the thread to have been a plot point you have going on with another roleplayer that you didn't tell me about or ask me for my consent on beforehand. In this situation, you are essentially using my character as an NPC in your plot with someone else, inflicting harm upon my character and affecting them, and you didn't ask me if I was okay with it or if I wanted to be involved.

Your muse simply talking about mine to someone else's muse is simply your muse talking about them. It is them speaking of events and sharing their opinion, which they are welcome to do. What I am referring to here is specifically, physically putting my muse in the middle of plots you have created with other roleplayers without asking me or informing me beforehand, which I am not okay with. All I ask is that you communicate with me before involving me in things.

PLEASE NOTE: It is a trigger of mine and therefore I will have to politely state now that I cannot tolerate intentionally disingenuous friendships or relationships of any kind, unless they are discussed with me first.

What I mean by this is your muse intentionally using my muse’s feelings against them and manipulating them because they have feelings for your muse, be they romantic feelings, friendship feelings, familial feelings, any sort of positive feelings. 

I will also not tolerate you, the Mun, using my muse’s feelings towards your muse in this way either without discussing it with me first. Bluntly put, I have had several roleplayers use my muses to develop their muses, abuse them, and then drop all interactions with me afterwards and tell me “nobody owes you anything” while leaving my muses with all the trauma their muses caused them.

This is unacceptable, abusive roleplayer behavior and I will not tolerate it. I will attempt to discuss it politely with you, but any of this “nobody owes you anything” rhetoric will result in a block from me. This is not only for the sake of my own mental health, but again, I consider this kind of behavior entitled and unacceptable in the community and I will not tolerate it.

The key is discussing this kind of dynamic with me first. That is all I ask. I may be open to it for a whole, well-rounded plot. But I do not want people thinking it is their right to traumatize or hurt my muses without my consent. Some character dynamics and plots where one is using and manipulating the other are interesting and I honestly wouldn’t mind roleplaying these - all I ask is that you ask me first, and not try to deal it under the table as I described above. That’s all there is to it.

If you have any questions about this or need further clarification, please don’t hesitate to come talk to me about it. I’d rather us talk about it to clear up any confusion than not talk about it. Thank you.

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The Author: You know, technically... Doom could open portals, spawn objects, and toss around fireballs from any part of her body. The Dampening energy that allows her to do these things isn't concentrated to her hands - it's in her soul, and thus, throughout her body... she just does it all from her hands because... well... most people perform most tasks with their hands... xD

(Sound of a record stopping.)

Doom: Okay wait, excuse me, now that you've said that, hold on a sec- (bending over and presenting her ass to the air)

The Author: DOOMSDAY, NO-

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Hey, everybody! I have added the following rule to my Mun & Rules page. Please have a look and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

I ask that you please reblog from the source whenever possible. If you are unable to (because the OP has been deactivated) or you forget every so often, that is not a big deal. It’s not so much of a ordeal to me that I’ll block over it, I just ask that you please try to remember as a courtesy to me because it’s frustrating to get a notification for something only to see it’s just that someone has reblogged a meme from you, and I am not a resource blog. Thank you.

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Me: I need to make more "normal" characters.

Also me: (makes them creepy)

Me: I need to make more mentally stable characters.

Also me: (gives them a shit ton of unresolved trauma that profoundly affects their ability to make and maintain relationships)

Me: I need to make more muses who are alive and/or human.

Also me: (makes more ghosts/monsters/aliens)

Me: I need make more muses who have normal eyesight.

Also me: (makes more muses with no eyes or ones that wear glasses)

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I'm considering going back to having my blog be Selective again, although I'm not sure about Mutuals Only. If I do go back to being Mutuals Only, I'll grandfather in anybody I am currently roleplaying with whom I am not mutuals with, and it will be Mutuals Only for new writing partners going forward.

I may need to make some changes to my rules, but I'm not sure what just yet. If I do make any changes, I'll be sure to post them so that everybody is up to speed.

My thought process behind this is to hopefully be able to refocus my energy into where it's welcomed and where it's working best, so I don't feel like it's being drained so much. I only have so much time and energy and I want to be the best roleplayer I can be for those who, plainly put, have been kind and respectful towards me and who I write well with. I guess that's the best way I have of putting it.

I have a lot going on this week, so I'm not sure if I'll be making any changes yet. I'll keep you guys updated with anything I do change, though.

Any questions, my DMs are open.

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The Author protecting her muses. x)

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Also, I just want to say that, it is really hard playing a villainous/unsavory character, for several reasons.

Because like, not only is it difficult to roleplay him against other muses because there is almost always this sort of tension there because he's off-putting in one way or another, but there's always the possibility that the other mun might be offended or hurt by something James says or does and take things personally. We all know that mun does not equal muse is one of the most important things in roleplaying, but I have personally played with people who have taken things personally before, and it's... not fun. I think we've all been there, and when it comes to playing villainous/morally gray muses, things can especially be taken out of context, and so I always feel a bit nervous, like someone might be hurt.

I'm also cautious of people virtue signalling through their muses too, because I've seen it happen before. I think sometimes people do it unintentionally, like they think if they excuse the villain muse's behaviors through their muse, then that means they are excusing it, and that is absolutely not the case. There is such thing as the separation of fiction and reality. It's okay to call out James's behaviors, but it doesn't make you a bad person if your muse likes him even if you personally don't. You know what I mean?

Another thing that happens is metagaming. Like people will have their muses just automatically know villains are bad, even if the villains aren't acting bad in any way, and that's frustrating. It's really hard to bring it up to people too, because people will come up with all kinds of arguments as to why their muse just knows the villain muse is a bad person, even if they feasibly shouldn't. x_x

I think what mostly makes it difficult for me, though, is just feeling bad for my muse being a jerk haha. Like when James isn't being genuine or when he gets scared of someone calling him out and he turns things around to make the other person's muse out to be the bad guy. I feel like, "James, why are you this way, that was mean" and I want to immediately try to fix things and make it all better for the other muse, especially if they've been hurt. :(

All this to say, it's fun and interesting exploring the psychology of villains and how they operate and mingle and everything, but sometimes it's also hard. I have nothing but respect for anyone who can manage it.

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A couple of my bookshelves with my TBR books. No, this is not all of them. This is... maybe a little less than half... Yes, I have a problem... >>;

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I want to start some new threads, but I honestly have no idea what all I have out there, so I'm gonna put this here.

Like this post if you'd like a starter from me! I might send you an ask or tag you in a post.

If you want specific muses, please comment and let me know!