#00b || you should check this out~ [psa]

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This is a PSA (and I wish I didn't have to)

//All right, so here we go. I had this saved in my drafts for a while now, like at least a month, because I didn't want it to be a vaguing post, nor a call-out. The person who prompted this is long gone from my life, but the problem isn't. Which is why I didn't delete this draft, I suppose. And am now posting it.

Ever since my blog has entered the Genshin RPC, my load of active threads has reached levels I have never experienced before. Back before February, I could go days and days before getting a reply at all. My drafts sat at zero most of the week, and so my replies were faster. But now.. now I have many wonderful new friends here. And I want to write with all of them. This necessarily means that the time I can dedicate to each individual partner has sadly gone down as a consequence.

This is where trouble begins. There has been an increasing number (nothing dramatic, don't get me wrong) of people among my new mutuals, or non-mutuals, who have been a bit too pressuring for my comfort to get replies from me. Some straightforwardly so, others through more passive-aggressive and manipulative means.

I do not want to get into that with this post though. All I'll say on the matter is that I know what you're doing. Don't think you're a smooth criminal because I am too. I've done these tricks before and I can recognize them.

Those who I deemed to be bothersome enough to earn an upfront request to stop have already been dealt with. Some I parted ways with (glad it's been civil), others have stayed and I am happy things are better now. But there's always going to be new ones. I think it's a form of blog growing pains, maybe.

To these people, I want to say that I feel you. I was where you were before. I know the excitement of finding a RP partner that inspires you and the frustration when they're not as quick to respond to you. But you need to keep in mind that just as I am excited to get to our things, I am excited to do the same for my other mutuals. I will not be able to prioritize our threads all the time, because there's fifty threads I feel exactly the same love for and I want to prioritize those too, but I only have a few hours a day. I need to pick and choose. I'm sorry.

I'd like to recommend that you do not make one or two blogs responsible for your happiness on Tumblr. I know finding new mutuals is hard, but please don't make my same mistake: I used to sit on my ass for months here, waiting for people to send me things. It was a mistake, really. If you want to write, you must be the one who sends things. Even if others don't respond. Even if others don't ever send things back.

Throw your muse at anything that moves. Something will stick, I promise. And what if your dash is full of things you're unfamiliar with? What if your partners all have muses out of your interested fandom? It doesn't matter. Throw your muse at them anyways. Chances are your threads will be noticed by others on your mutuals' dashes, and then, all of a sudden, people from your fandom are finally finding their way to you.

That is how I got to meet each and every one of you, after all.

So, yes. I'm sorry my replies are slow at the moment. My drafts are currently 2 weeks old at the oldest, but I'm trying to bring it down to at least a weekly reply for everybody. It's not easy. But you know what you can do to make the wait easier? Write with more people. Even if it's not things you were looking for; crossovers may surprise you. Give OCs a chance.

And, well, nothing else. Don't be a dingus. I love you. Leave my soda alone. And thank you for your patience.

Saru-mun\\

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Blog Update / Muse Retirement

//Hate that it's got to this point. Going to be a bit of a downer here so, read at your own discretion.

There is little to say really. Like many people here, I use RP as a form of escapism to my own stress and life. It makes me genuinely happy to get into character and forget about problems for a while.

These past weeks I have been in dire need of RP more than I had in a very long time. An awful timing really, to hit a slump in interactions.

I did my homework, I tried to network. I reached out. A few became welcome and beautiful mutuals, but many, many many others unfortunately did not. At my age, I tell myself I can handle rejection well, but that is only true to a certain degree. Even if I don't let these feelings impact my routine and real life, they are there nonetheless. And I don't want them to be.

After doing research on how to help with the situation, I have reached the conclusion that I have been in denial just how much my choice to make a multimuse blog has come back to bite me in the ass. Things like anonymous RP confessions say it like it is: multimuse blogs are stigmatized and often passed on without a chance given.

We are considered to be unorganized, lack commitment, and not provide the muses we put in our roster we asked. Personally, I thought multimuse was an excellent idea. I thought that making single blogs muses for such niche fandoms would lead to no activity, since my pool of potential partners would be smaller. I thought a multimuse would equal to fish with a net rather than a rod.

I was wrong, haha.

I can be super organized and tag every post with its fandom; I can provide all the tools for my followers to blacklist fandoms they are not interested in; I can commit to respond to any muse in my roster one may ask for. All this hard work won't amount to anything to those who just look at a number and decide I do none of those things without actually giving me a chance to prove them wrong.

So what is it that I can do? Create single muse blogs. The idea of having to log out and log in from tumblr for each individual muse to check notifications, reblog memes and post replies seems like even more work than what I already am doing, but if it is what gets mutuals, then so be it.

I feel like I have lost a fight here, but RP is a hobby, my favorite hobby, and it shouldn't be making me miserable.

So what is the TLDR? Do not panic. This blog isn't going anywhere anytime soon. But I will be slowly retiring muses that haven't gotten any engagement in months. Those I care to keep will get their own blog, and when those are set up and running, I will update you and provide links for anyone interested.

We are talking about an endeavor that will take months, so do not throw me away as a mutual just yet. This blog will stay up and running until everything else is set up properly. I have over 1500 posts to scan through and decide whether to transfer or not (I hate to leave my own writing behind, I like to go back and reread these threads for my own enjoyment).

In the meantime, I hope to still RP with everyone here. If you want to make sure I update you regarding a specific muse getting their own blog, DM me and I'll write a memo to do so. Just know that it is a long term project.

Thanks to all of my new mutuals and the old ones who have stuck around. You guys are keeping me sane everyday and trust me, this is less of an overstatement than it sounds.

Saru-mun\\

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Tumblr still being Tumblr [Sorry]

//So a little PSA, since I've had this happen twice now to me.

Apparently there is a glitch going on that makes posts randomly unrebloggable. I replied to a closed starter with a mutual before and my reply resulted unrebloggable to them; then yesterday another mutual told me a few drafted replies they got from me also resulted as unrebloggable.

I just want to let people know that this is completely unintentional and sadly not something I can fix on my end, because when I go to check my posts, the Reblog setting is set on Everyone as usual. The only thing that can be done is, I guess, make a new post with your reply and @ me to it (if you do, include a link to the previous post, just for my navigation sake). We will continue from there.

The only posts I make unrebloggable with purpose are headcanon posts.

Tumblr, fix your stuff ffs.

Saru-mun\\

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//By the way, did you know that one cool thing about the beta editor compared to legacy, is that Trim Reblogs on xkit rewritten actually works on Asks? No more need to make a new post to start a thread off of an answered ask! You can just reblog it and trim the ask box off in the next reply.

I'm sure many have discovered this but if you're a dummy like me maybe this is happy news to you~

Saru-mun\\

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So this should be addressed..

//I don't know what exactly is causing this issue, but it's happened twice now so I want to make other people aware. There may be times someone will @ you to a post without you receiving notification of it - at all.

Sure in the past there were times where someone would @ me in a post and the notif icon wouldn't pop up, but clicking on Activity always did show it in the list at least, which was better than nothing. Now however... there may be times where it's just not there.

So I want to let my followers and mutuals know, if you ever @'d me to something and I didn't acknowledge it in any way, chances are I never received it! Please let me know if that's the case.

I will make an effort to Like posts I get now, as a countermeasure, until this stops happening hopefully.

Saru-mun\\

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//Just dropping this here, not to put pressure anyone in particular, but because it's already happened twice in the past and I want to be safe.

I know there were 4 or possibly more people who have either directly offered me a starter or for whom I have liked a starter call, that I have not received notification for yet. If you have already posted a starter for me and I haven't at least Liked it yet, that means I did not get notification for the @ in your post! Please IM me with a link to it if that's the case.

I know this is a thing and until Tumblr fixes it I will be forever worrying I am missing things and I hate that, because these people are making an effort to write for me and I want to reciprocate. Please let me know if I haven't Liked a started you have written for me. The FOMO is real~

Saru-mun\\

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//This is an unprompted and very occasional reminder that this blog does not drop threads without warning given! If you ever feel like it's been too long since your last reply to me and worry I may have lost interest: think otherwise. I am always waiting and eager to continue all of our things.

Of course threads need to come to an end eventually, but when that happens I always tag my last reply with //end thread. If I think YOUR last reply works as a fitting end-thread, I will leave a comment instead to let you know.

I only end threads when I feel the scene has run its course and it's time to start something new. I usually do not stop for OOC reasons (such as being put off by the plot, or incompatibility with my partner), but when I do have those issues, I still make an effort to lead the thread scene to a fitting ending before I call it off.

That's it! So never worry about it being too late, all right? If we have something going on, I will get to it eventually. And you can take all the time in the world too. Don't let anxiety or self-doubt stop you from continuing our things.

And remember when in doubt, my IMs are open. If you think you missed a reply from me or are still waiting for my new reply, ask me there. I will let you know anything you need~

Saru-mun\\

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//Just did a 100 or so purge of followers that either never interacted with me in the span of a year or have stopped activity since / moved on other blogs.

I think I only affected people who were not interested in RPing with me or were following me just as a meme source, but just in case I accidentally caught someone else in the web, please know it was nothing personal! Just hmu and I'll fix it~

Saru-mun\\

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Fandom filter for my followers!

//Since I have quite a few new mutuals, here's a quick list of my fandom tags. If you're not interested in any of these, simply add the tag to your Filtered Tags (on destkop, go to Account > Settings > Content you see). You can also use the blacklist feature on xkit if you have it.

That way, you can basically turn me into a single-fandom blog with just the fandom(s) you're interested in!

#v01 || K Project

#v02 || Inuyasha

#v03 || Fullmetal Alchemist

#v04 || Saiyuki

#v05 || Card Captor Sakura

#v06 || final fantasy

#v07 || final fantasy viii

#v08 || final fantasy x

#v09 || final fantasy xiii

#v10 || final fantasy xiv

#v11 || wild arms

#v12 || portal

#v13 || mystic messenger

#v14 || clover

#v15 || rurouni kenshin

#v17 || naruto

#v18 || genshin impact

I know multimuse blogs get a bit too much, especially when they hyperfixate on just one fandom (like my current cyno brainrot, for example). I want my followers and partners to only see what they like in the dash, so this should help out!

Saru-mun\\

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Pro Tip!

Are you following my multimuse for just one muse or one fandom? You can easily turn me into a single-muse / single-fandom blog on your dash by blacklisting any unwanted fandom tag here!

TAG TRACKER

(Note: the listed characters in the post are my partner's muse, not my own! Refer to the MUSE PAGE (Mobile here) to find muse-specific tags!)

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If you follow me for the RP memes, please read.

//This issue has been going on for many months now and while I’ve been too lazy to address it up to this point, I finally have the drive to do so. I’ve noticed that a number of blogs have followed me without intention to interact with me, but just to reblog RP memes from me.

I recently wondered if this may be because of my blog name. There’s a lot of blogs out there that provide RP memes, tips and sources for a roleplayer; these blogs usually have “roleplay” in their name: the-roleplay-zone, rpmemes, roleplayprompts, etc. So I wondered, maybe my blog name is misleading. Maybe these people think I’m one of those blogs.

So let me make it clear

This is not a RP memes blog. It is a multimuse blog looking for roleplay partners. If you just want the memes, please find blogs made for that purpose.

True, sometimes I make my own memes. And that’s okay if you want to reblog those, since there’s no other source. But half of the memes in my blog are reblogged from other Tumblrs. If you have no intention to RP with my blog, please make an effort to go to the source of my reblog instead.

As a final note, I am not angry nor do I hold any resentment or bitterness for those have behaved like this in the past. As I’ve said, it’s been a chronically long issue, and it was simply about time I addressed it.

Byebye for now~

Saru-mun

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To anyone feeling down today~

((Time for some Saru-mun pearl of wisdom.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Valentine’s Day! But, at the same time, I know that is not the case. For reasons I struggled to understand when I was little, many people are bound to feel lonely and take this day as a slap in the face for being single.

As someone who will die on the hill that society shouldn’t pressure people over things like dating, marriage, and making a family, let me tell you one thing:

Valentine’s Day isn’t about celebrating being paired to someone. It’s about celebrating love.

From an exquisitely scientific standpoint, love isn’t exclusive to romance. We have many forms of love that we know of, but have you ever sat there and considered that they might all be the same thing? After all, the chemicals in our brain that make us feel in love do not change. It’s always the same endorphines and seratonin we get, regardless of what the object of our love is.

So, if you have a romantic partner,

or a pet,

or a child,

or a family member you really cherish,

or a friend you think you couldn’t do without,

a hobby that fills you with joy even when you’re feeling at your worst,

a food, song, an idol, a book, a movie that has changed your life for the better?

The love you feel for those things is all coming from the same place. A sexual relationship does not make love love. It is just a component that goes in tandem with one of these.

If you have someone, or something you love, Valentine’s Day is about that.

So celebrate what or whom you cherish; the one person, animal, activity you enjoy spending time with and see thrive and grow. Valentine’s Day is your day too.

Me personally? I love roleplaying more than anything. It has saved me from very dark pits throughout my life, and allowed me to meet wonderful people like you guys. Consider this lil essay as a valentine letter for all of you, because this hobby fills me with joy and laughter.

Today I want to remind you that I love what we do, and I’m grateful from the bottom of my tiny salty heart.

Love you guys to bits~

Saru-mun))

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//Sup~

I’m hard at work restructuring my tag list right now, but will be soon resuming with the drafts I have. No obligation on continuing our old stuff if you’re over it; it’s just something I feel I need to do to get my head into gear.

Among the shiny new things, I am slowly but surely tagging all my posts by fandom. This way, if you don’t want to see my posts from fandom muses you’re not interested in, you can easily blacklist that tag to cut them out. I can basically become a single-muse blog to you that way!

Also, probably will be adding a new tenant to the madhouse. I’ve recently been watching an anime that caught my RP feels. You’ll see!

Talk soon,

Saru-mun\\

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//Look who’s lurking here again. I’m currently going through the patching up of the blog to get it running again. I started from updating the tags and the Deep Rules page. Common rules are unchanged, but feel free to give it a look anyways.

Can’t wait to be mingling with everyone again.

Saru-mun\\

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A sensitive PSA...

//All right. So, this is related to stuff of the past, and I waited a long while before making a public announcement because I didn’t want to come across as vaguing or calling out anybody. But it needs to be said because it’s serious and I sincerely hope to not experience this again.

I do not mind when my mutuals use their blog also for personal stuff, and I also do not mind when personal stuff posts outnumber their actual RP posts. People have spells of inspiration and drought, I do too, so I don’t mind.

What I do mind however is that some common sense is maintained in what to share in your personal posts. And very specifically here: if I see you posting death threats to others, specific individuals or not, I will be unfollowing you. I don’t care how angry you are, or what they did to you, or how much you love someone and wish to protect them. Wishing death upon, telling someone to off themselves or threat violence of any kind is definitely in my WHOA DUDE book and an instant turn off. I do not need to see it. It will not make you look cooler, or make me more sympathetic to your cause; it will only make me worry and that’s not what I log on Tumblr for. This is my safe space.

I hope I made this as friendly but direct as possible, without ruining anybody’s day. Stay cool and hands off my soda~

Saru-mun.\\

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((Frustrating...

For a few months now I’ve been contacted intermittently by the same guy asking to RP with me. Usually on a ninja turtle blog, but later on different muses blogs too.

The pattern is always the same:

- They ask me in IM if I want to RP

- I tell them sure so long as they agree to the rules

- They say they’ve read them

- I tell them to go ahead and send me a meme

- They say okay and shortly after delete their blog.

- Some time later they contact me again on a new blog and the cycle repeats.

This has happened at least 4 times now, and this last time, they actually finally sent me a meme in the Asks, to which I said I’d respond when their turn would come as I had a few drafts piled up.

Except I went to answer their ask today and...

You guessed it. They’ve deleted their blog. Again.

So, to whoever you are. Dude. Sis. Coffee teapot.

I can’t RP with you if you keep deleting your blogs.

Please stop doing this. Don’t contact me until you’re sure you’re going to commit to the blog you’ve made. It’s getting frustrating.

Sorry to be making this a post but I don’t know how else to get in touch with this person. All I know is that s/he keeps contacting my blog for some reason so obviously s/he’s reading my posts. I hope you get the message.

Thanks for reading and bye for the last time, hopefully.))