#i can't tell if this anon is someone who does have a rp blog and is just worried abt selectivity or if they're unfamiliar with tumblr rp

[janeromeroshow]

If your mutuals only how do we interact with you? /gen

ty for asking in good faith anon!

me being mutuals-only doesn't mean i don't follow anyone new; any time a roleplay blog follows me, i check to see if i can see us interacting, and if i can i will totally follow back! don't be intimidated by the fact i describe myself as selective!

the label of "selective" is mostly because i personally don't feel comfortable with personal (a.k.a non-roleplay blogs) interacting with or following me; this is a roleplay blog, not an ask or fanfiction blog, so my writing is just meant to be seen and responded to by the people i'm writing with. for the most part, if you follow me and i see you roleplay someone who i can see jane interacting with (a.k.a, a dead by daylight character - i'm sorry but i'm not really sure about writing with completely different fandoms if i don't know the person or we don't have a shared AU/verse) i will most likely follow back!

[coco-and-friends]

Welcome to our universe!

Hello there! Coco speaking! I want to personally welcome you! It's nice to meet another person! You don't seem like you're from around here! Where are you from? Would you like me to show you around? maybe you can meet everyone else too!

(this is an rp/ask blog! feel free to interact or just ask questions!)

(Under is who you can ask or interact with!)

Rules: 1. You control your characters, I control mine. No mind control, no hypnosis, and no whatever else you can think of to control someone else's character. Just let me control my characters, and I'll let you stay. 2. No NSFW. Please. Let's keep this SFW.

The Original 5

Coco: Coco is a 7 ft tall corrupted anon. Coco uses He/They pronouns. They can grow and shrink whenever they want. If they touch water, the part that touched the water will crack. If they are kept in water, they will crack until they die and turn into dust. Coco may be strong, but that mostly comes from their magic. If a normal person hits them, they will crack where hit. They are easily taken care of if you can somehow get through the crystals they can summon. They are extremely friendly.

Grim: Grim is a 7 ft tall reaper. Grim uses He/Him and They/Them pronouns. He is often called the Grim Reaper. He is a skeleton that wears a pure black cloak, however, when his hood is up, his face is becomes covered in shadow and can't be seen even with light shining directly in. Only his dark red eyes can be seen, glowing through the darkness of the cloak. He often keeps his hood up because of what he looks like. Not only because he is a skeleton, but because he has cracks all over his skull, as punishment from the gods themselves. He takes the souls of those who's time has come. He either lets those souls go, letting them choose to stay on earth or go up, or he eats the soul. He only eats the soul of those who did a lot of wrong in their live, an example would be someone who killed for fun. Those souls don't disappear. They have any humanity they have left ripped away from them, then get sent down. Grim feeds on the humanity of those that have done wrong. He doesn't like feeding on those who have done minor wrongs, like stealing minor things, so he sill gives them the choice to stay on earth or go up, but warns them that the heavenly machines won't like them. He doesn't consider people who do things out of need as evil, but the heavenly machines do.

Gaster: Gaster is 8 ft tall. Gaster uses He/Him and They/Them pronouns. Gaster is a scientist, but not a normal one. He often does dangerous and deadly experiments on people, animals, and monsters. He transforms them, melts the, combines them and so much more. He is cruel. After the experiments, no matter how much or how little happens, he almost always kills them. Sometimes he lets creatures live though. its often humans if he decides to let something live. It's always a trick though. He gives some people amazing and stunning powers, and lets them tell the rest of the village. it brings a lot of people in, wanting powers. he starts off giving people powers, but once everyone is in a chamber, he starts the real experiments. He turns them into horrifying and disgusting creatures. He slices, shoots, and does a lot of harm to them, seeing what they can take before they faint or die from their wounds. He lets their screams echo out through all of his facility letting everyone know what's in store for them, and that they may be the next one. When he's done with everyone, he cleans up the chambers like nothing has happened. no corpses, no blood, no smell. and then he moves to another village and repeats it. Very few have ever escaped, and those who know what he does try to warn others. But they're often not believed because of the trick miracles he performs. giving people power. only for them to realize too late that the one warning them was right. It's a trap. a horrifying trap. Someone is after him. Someone who wants to make him feel the same pain, but they're waiting for the right opportunity.

Nightmare: Nightmare is 12 ft tall creature of shadow. His shape looks like a man in a suit and top hat. It's hard to make out any facial features. He is thin and has tendrils made of the same shadow. They can come from him, or he can summon them from any close surface. He is often seen to be grumpy and mean. He is not really friendly, but doesn't harm anyone. Not much is actually known about him.

Ash: Ash is a 4'7" mun. Ash uses They/Them pronouns. Ash looks like an anon, but they are completely black. They wear a dark grey hoodie and sweatpants. They are almost always in their personal void, deciding to stay away from people due to much of the pain they have caused others. Like an anon, he also wears shades. If they know you well, and likes you enough, they might take them off when he's around you.

The Demons (More to be added)

The Shadow Demons: Shadow Demons are a special type of demon that can't be in light, as it hurts them. They're like vampires, but any light can harm them. the light doesn't kill them, but it feel like fire on where the light touches them. These demons are quite different from others. They don't make dangerous deals, kill humans, or torture others. These demons are much nicer than others. The other demons feel a deep hatred towards the shadow demons due to their kindness. The demons decided to formulate a plan to rid the shadow demons for good. While the shadow demons may be kind, they still have warriors, magic users, and strong guards. Once the demons had their plan fully thought out, they attacked. It was mostly normal demons that did the fighting, so more powerful demons could get further into the shadow demons' villages. The powerful demons dealt with the much stronger guards. In the end, the shadow demons were no match for the demons as they worked together to slaughter the shadows. There was only one hope left for the shadow demons to continue as a species. The village elder called for 2 families to come quickly. He asked for their children. One family had a baby, and the other had a young child. The elder created a portal to a black void-like area. The elder put the baby inside, but as they were about to put the child inside, a fireball was shot at them, and the elder was incinerated. The portal closed before they were able to put the child into it, leaving the baby completely alone. This was the last shadow demon in existence.

Ozul: He is 8 ft tall! He goes by He/Him. Ozul Is the last shadow demon. He was merely a baby when his species was erased by the other demons. He was in that void alone for days, before a creature found him. It is unknown how they were able to get into that void, but they were a 4'7'' tall, completely black creature that seemed to have sunglasses on. The creature took care of him until Ozul was able to take care of him self, and then the creature just left. Soon, Ozul would learn how to open a portal to and from the void-like area. He could only go to specific areas and it would be years before he was able to open a portal to go anywhere when is his void. Now, he is a very sociable person and often visits friends. He is on a never ending search however. He is trying to find any others of his species, as he does not know he is the last one.

Regular Demons: Regular demons are human sized demons that come in multiple colors. They can be green, blue, tan, light red, and a few more. They are one of the least dangerous demons. They are usually found in groups of 5 - 20 and usually are accompanied by a larger demon.

Larger Demons: Larger Demons are usually 1.5x - 3x the size of a human and come in the same colors as regular demons. They are dangerous and are aggressive towards anything not a demon. They are usually leaders of a group of regular demons.

Red Demons: Red Demons are 5x the size of a human and are, obviously, only found in red. They are pretty dangerous and aggressive to anything not a Red Demon or higher. Yes. This means Red Demons will attack Larger Demons and Regular Demons.

White Demons: White Demons are 20x the size of a human and are only found in white. These demons are aggressive towards almost anything and will even attack higher demons despite having a huge disadvantage. White Demon corpses are common to see.

The Dealmaker: He is a 9 ft tall demon. He is as red as old blood, his teeth long and sharp in a constant smile, eyes blacker than a night with no moon, claws sharper than steel swords, horns as twisted as him, he speaks in a deep voice with a growl.

Colossal Demons: Colossal Demons are 50x - 62x the size of a human. These demons are actually not that aggressive, but are still incredibly dangerous. They often just don’t notice the smaller demons or creatures. These demons will attack large buildings.

The Tortured: The Tortured 1x - 100x the size of a human. These demons need to be constantly tortured. They are extremely dangerous and extremely aggressive. The reason they need to be constantly tortured is because the torture keeps them at bay. If the torture stops for even just a few seconds, one could escape and wreak havoc on all of hell and eventually the world. These demons are incredibly powerful.

The Future

Future Gaster: He was 8 ft, now he’s 10 ft. His arms are a bit longer. His fingers are longer and sharper. His legs are thinner. His teeth are much sharper. He has a long tail, and it appears to be made of bone. He may look scary, but Future Gaster is nicer. Thing is, before his formation, he’s was also still nice. This transformation happened many years after this day. About five years after today, he finds a partner. Someone who always stays by his side. This partner made him nicer and he stopped testing on people. He was still a scientist, but he didn’t test on living things anymore. They spent many years together. But after a while,,, the transformation started. He was turning into this hideous beast. His partner was too scared and ended up leaving. Gaster was left all alone. The reason for the transformation is, well,,, his terrible deeds have caught up with him. Some sort of mysterious magic transformed into this monster because of the past. He has given up on trying to find another partner. He thinks that nobody will like him in this hideous form. That is just what the person that casted the magic wanted. Let’s just say this magic caster was a previous experiment,,, and they got their revenge.

Future Coco: Future Coco is the same size as his past self. Future Coco has a lot more crystals all over them, and has crystals entirely covering their arms. The crystals have even spread to inside their body. There are crystals in their stomach, mouth, and throat. There are even crystals stabbing into them. It is hard for them to do anything, due to any movement at all causing them pain. The reason for all of the crystals is because from now to then, Coco’s corruption has been getting more aggressive and energy needing, turning into, basically, a parasitic creature. The crystals take energy away from them and directly gives it to the corruption in their body. The crystals themselves and the energy consumption have taken a huge toll on Coco.

Other creatures/people that don’t have a specific universe

???: There is not much information on this,,, thing. It is about 6'2. It prefers It/It’s and They/Them pronouns. It is usually curious but still tends to stay away from people. It is unknown why they carry a knife around and have, what seems to be, blood on them. When it speaks, it sounds like multiple different voices are talking.

???’s True Form: They are a tall dark grey thin humanoid creature with sharp claws and extremely sharp teeth. Their arms almost reach the ground. Their black eyes can barely be seen. They are about 3 times the size of their usual form, or so you don't have to do the math- about 18 ft tall!

The assassin: He is 6 ft tall. He is no longer himself, his love ripped away from him again. Every single time he gets a chance at love they die or disappear. This was the last straw. Overwhelmed with extreme sadness, hate, anger, confusion, and more, he became unstable. He now attacks anything that moves. You will not be able to get to him. You will not be able to bring him back. He is gone. The creature you now face is no longer The Assassin. They are just an insane man with nothing left to lose or gain. They are nothing.

Truic: He is 6 ft tall. He is basically just your normal plague doctor. He has an odd way of healing people, but it always works. He is usually very friendly and is willing to help anyone. Most people just visit him for healing, so he would love to have a few friends.

The Cryptid Plague Doctor: He is 9 ft tall. He is a creature that lives in a forest along with other cryptids. He is very dangerous, but mainly to cryptid hunters. He may look like a plague doctor, but he is nowhere close to one. Those clothes and that mask are actually a part of him. That mask is actually his face, and the beak can open to reveal rows of razor-sharp teeth able to cut through flesh like butter. If he doesn’t see you as a threat, he will be decently nice, but will advise on getting out before humans see you talking with him. If humans see you with him, he will keep you in the forest with him.

Cryptid hunters: These are normal humans, experienced fighters, and sometimes soldiers. These people hunt cryptids. They hunt them because they fear them. They are afraid of getting killed by cryptids, and decide to kill them first. They don’t think to just defend their village. They feel like they need to completely eradicate cryptids. If they see a human interacting with a cryptid, they will assume they are a cryptid too. If that person comes back to the village, they will be burned at the stake like a witch.

Rose: He is 5 ft tall. (The other grunts are 6 ft tall. Some taller.) They’re an agent that decided to work with AAHW because he had to. It was the only way they could gain somewhat stable income. He soon realized this was a big mistake. On his first mission, he ended up going face to face with the man himself, Hank. He was so scared he couldn’t move and started to cry. Hank decided to spare him, and told him to leave the agency. What Hank didn’t know, is that Rose couldn’t leave the agency. He was the Auditor’s favorite agent, and received special glasses. Now, the general description. He is an agent that looks normal, but has 2 key differences. He is smaller than an average agent, and he has pink glasses. While most other agents are 8 ft tall, he is only 5 ft tall. They are easily scared of creatures bigger than them, especially when it’s MAGs. The are scared of MAGs because of the building they work in. It’s full of MAGs. They costantly threaten or tease him by saying they’ll eat him. Rose is nice, and the only character of mine that smokes. They smoke a cigarette that doesn’t have the chemicals of a normal cigarette. It is specially made to calm a person, removing fear and felling of being scared. Warning for trauma ahead. He was eaten by a creature a few years ago while on a mission. He didn’t know what had happened until he was already inside of it’s stomach. A few other agents had to chase the creature down and cut it open to save Rose. The MAGs, of course, didn’t care and didn’t help. MAGs could not care less if an agent dies. At that point, their clothes had been dissolved and they had acid burns on them. The acid burns have healed, but have caused discoloration on his skin. The acid burn discoloration are hidden under their suit.

MAG Rose: MAG Rose is not like your normal MAG. He is much bigger. While most MAGs are 20 ft tall, he is 100 ft tall. He is 5 times the size of a normal MAG. Now, let’s get onto the features. He has 2 rows of extremely sharp teeth, and could eat a MAG shotgun. In fact, it’s actually something he likes to do. He likes to scare other MAGs by doing that. He has no cheeks. Due to his size and the rapid growth to it, they were ripped completely open, basically making his entire mouth seen. He also has blood red glasses instead of the pink glasses. It is unknown why they turned red when he became MAGnified. He also has claws. He doesn’t use weapons, due to the fact that MAG weapons are too small for him. And who needs guns or blades when you have claws, extreme strength, and very sharp teeth?

Robot: He is 8'7. The location he was found in is an abandoned laboratory. He was in a room that had heavily reinforced walls and bulletproof glass. It appears to have been made to be a weapon, with secret compartments that have firing weapons and blades, but instead of hostility, it shows a large amount of curiosity. It doesn’t have a mouth or speakers, so it is unable to speak. It is able to hear and understand English.

Suriv

Suriv: Suriv is ??ft tall. It is ?? years old. Suriv is a sentient computer program that was made to install itself on a computer. He is a virus, but not a bad kind. All it does is add a sentient friend to your computer. You can talk to it, interact with it, and much more. It can even interact with your icons. It can move your apps to play with you. It can open new tabs on your browser and type things in to show you what it wants to. It can talk to you. No speakers needed. Have fun with your new friend!

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Case Number ?: Victim was found in their room dead 27 days after death. Victim is sitting in their chair, at their computer. The screen of the computer is broken. Computer still works. When turned on, it worked like normal, but a large chunk of the inside of the screen was missing. It looked to be in a vague humanoid shape. We think this to be the sign the murderer leaves at every crime seen. There have been [REDACTED] crime scenes with the same situation and sign.

Injuries: torn off arm (unable to be found), open chest and stomach cavity, missing heart (unable to be found), missing 1 lung (unable to be found), bite marks on other lung, missing 2 kidneys (unable to be found), missing 53% of the liver (unable to be found), bite marks on left over liver, pieces of intestines missing (unable to be found), bite marks on intestines, cuts and deep wounds on head, one eye missing (unable to be found).

Cause of death: The cause of death was blood loss. It may seem odd considering the injuries, but whatever monster did this specifically made sure to keep them alive.

[mayxthexforce]

☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you?

♥ What's the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?

♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise?

�� Has anyone ever tried to steal your blog? Your headcanons? Icons? All that jazz

♚ How many people don't like you?

⚜ How many people do you not like?

✮ Have you managed to stay away from drama?

☄ Have you ever been in the middle of drama?

☯ Have you ever tried to bring peace to a situation?

☼ How long do you stay mad?

☀ What's your rp pet peeve?

the salty af munday meme

☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you?

Make me believe (or straight up admit) that they're only interacting with me because they (the mun) find my muse/the trope-plot sexually appealing. I'm a roleplay blog, not an onlyfans account.

♥ What's the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?

Having someone who I followed and roleplayed with steal a plot and starter of mine almost word for word to use for their own ship and act like nothing happened.

♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise?

When I was active in discord roleplay servers (back in the days of Overwatch), two of those servers fell apart because of infighting between two people that turned into infighting between like 10 people because the first two people tried to force everyone else to pick sides. I left.

♢ Has anyone ever tried to steal your blog? Your headcanons? Icons? All that jazz

Only that one time someone stole our plot, at least that I know of...

♚ How many people don't like you?

In general? probably a healthy amount. In the RPC? I have no idea.

⚜ How many people do you not like?

Never thought to count them, I also can't think of any off the top of my head. I don't really bother disliking people, just disagree and move on or work to coexist with minimal to no interaction.

✮ Have you managed to stay away from drama?

Sunday anon hasn't come back in a while so, I'll say yes 😂 thank god

☄ Have you ever been in the middle of drama?

Overwatch fandom aside, apparently my muses (Sabé and Luke specifically) are sluts and I only reblog smut.

☯ Have you ever tried to bring peace to a situation?

I want to say yes. I consider myself someone who can tell a friend 'hey, you should take the L on this one' when a situation is getting out of hand and getting nowhere.

☼ How long do you stay mad?

Not that long. I'm a momentary anger person, sooner than later I just start finding the situation ridiculous and amusing.

☀ What's your rp pet peeve?

Formatting where the reply is just a huge block of text, especially when it's small text. I don't even have any eyesight issues (no need for glasses, nothing) and that shit is impossible to read.

[sansloii]

@hhemeraa | send me a number

10. anons

Imma be real honest--i don't use anon much anymore. anything i send, i usually just... send as is. mostly because tumblr is weird and will eat things without explanation so it makes more sense to not use anon so i have the option of following up and be like "hey, i sent you an ask. did tumblr eat it?" if i need to. if you send it on anon... kinda defeats the purpose of anon if you have to ask about it ( thus revealing yourself ). i'm also of the belief that if i send something to you, i want you to know it was me :) it's probably very obvious anyway but still.

i don't mind getting anons though! sometimes, stuff has to be sent through anon ( such as asks from rp sideblogs and such ) so i keep it on for myself purely 'cause of that.

19. smut

when i started this blog waaay back in... 2016/2017 (it's one of those years) i was not at all confident in my ability to write it at all. it was one of those things where i was like "oh i can't write it well and it's gonna be on the dash and everyone will see it and judge me" or some shit like that. i didn't even write it on skype ( which i still had at the time ) or discord ( i think i had one in 2016 but barely used it ) and just kinda like... alluded to the fact that some spicy things had happen.

fast forward a couple years and meeting my lovely, lovely friends on this hellsite and now I don't care as much about the insecurities i had in the beginning because i realized we are all struggling with the same things. if it's not a generalized "what the fuck is anatomy?", it's "how many ways can i describe this body part that doesn't make me want to toss my laptop out a window" or "did i write that already? lemme go back and see if i did." or "i don't have enough adjectives in my vocabulary or mental brain power behind my eyes to intricately write muse a gave muse b a sloppy toppy."

we're all struggling. we're all trying to make our muses sexy. it's okay. we can struggle together!

i can totally understand if someone is not comfortable with writing it for a myriad of reasons and honestly, more power to you. do what makes you comfortable and i honestly don't care if someone does or doesn't write it. or chooses to just write it in dms with specific people. if that's more your speed, then fly down that highway.

29. blocking

as someone who is a former "blocking is mean. what if i hurt their feelings? i can just ignore it" type of person, i will tell you that the block button is your best friend. some of the weirdest/worst people i have ever met have come from this site and after being here for just under a decade and going from one blog to another and just... settling here? i have no patience for nonsense that really gets on my nerves. i am here to mow ass and eat hay and if you disturb that, you need to go

that isn't to say that i use it liberally or that my block list is a mile long, though. it's more that i know the block button is a tool the site provides for you in order not see anyone you don't want to see or don't want to have in your space. and so, i am going to use that tool when i see fit and so should you. i have people i don't like and don't want interacting with my posts. i'm sure someone somewhere doesn't like me and doesn't want me interacting with their posts. block button fixes all that.

i also use blacklists to reinforce this little wall i have up so me? I am a happy camper here. i have my bubble, my space, and i'm content with that.

the only time i can say where it really sucks is when... someone i'm actively talking to and thinking i'm getting along with blocks me. it hurts and i get a little sad about it... but again, they're well within their right to do that. whatever is going on in their head and caused that, however, is another complicated story that's between them and god unless they wanna talk about it.

[straye]

the salty af munday meme. (reformatted from here!)

☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you? untagged / uncut smut roleplay, any display of bigoted or hateful views, guilt-trippy words, vagues, pity fishing. new one bug misgendering me (she/her and they/them are NOT my pronouns: I LITERALLY HAVE MINE LISTED EVERYWHERE), making jokes or fun of my name (newsflash: yin yang jokes are actually racist when i'm asian.) i've developed very low tolerance levels for all of this.

♥ What's the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise? uhhh that one time a duplicate (who was an adult) stalked and tried to turn an entire community against me when i was sixteen because I wouldn't give in to covert measures at discouraging me from writing this specific character. and then ANOTHER duplicate of that same character tried to do the same thing but she went the extra mile to have her lackeys send anon hate while gaslighting me about it when i confronted her directly.

♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise? Um. There's a conversation to be had about RPers preferences for cis male characters.

♢ Has anyone ever tried to steal your blog? Your headcanons? Icons? All that jazz YES. OH MY GOD. While I block all duplicates on a principle so I can avoid seeing it again, I've had it happened to me way back on the characters I played when I was 16 and it's like. WHY. YOU'RE EVEN FOLLOWING ME AND THE SAME PEOPLE I WRITE WITH TO DO THAT. Don't get me started on when I rped a character that was a popular fc among tumblr rps at the time because I'd find my icons on their blogs too and once I got so fed up that I just released all icons I used (shy of 900 total).

♚ How many people don't like you? I'm sure I've got plenty, but for my peace of mind, I'm not trying to think about it.

⚜ How many people do you not like? For everyone's peace of mind, I'd like to leave this one unanswered.

✮ Have you managed to stay away from drama? Somewhat. But because this place is that place, it inevitably crops up.

☄ Have you ever been in the middle of drama? Yes, but like, when I was sixteen.

☯ Have you ever tried to bring peace to a situation? Yes, and I got ganged up on for it.

☼ How long do you stay mad? Depends on the severity of the situation; I tend to hold grudges when I don't get apologies, though. ( And like, real ones. Not 'Oh, I didn't mean to do so and so. I'm sorry.' )

☀ What's your rp pet peeve? Triple space, purple prose, heavy font formatting, 5x5px icons. I ... don't have the best eyes, and a lot of people don't either. It gives me a message that people don't give a fuck about accessibility. I also hate when people use a lot of passive voice.

☁ Have you ever forgiven a partner when you shouldn't have? No, because the North remembers.

☂ Have you ever been forgiven when you knew you shouldn't have been? No, because I tend to not reconnect with people I've cut off and vice versa.

☢ What fads/trends are you so over? See my rp pet peeve. Can we PLEASE try to be accessible.

☣ Have you ever rp'd with someone you knew for a fact was abusive but tried to give them a chance/to make up your own opinion on the roleplayer? Did they change or did you understand what people were talking about? I'll do you one better: I dated one and rped with one and it was good for a year until I realized how much the callouts ended up actually being true of her behavior. (smiles) Needless to say....... sigh.

♨ Have you ever made a public call out post? No.

❀ What has made you completely lose your chill? Being gaslit when I tried to approach someone about something their friends were doing towards me. I don't expect you to be people's keepers but if your people are coming after me anonymously in your name, you can't just sit back and do nothing and tell me I'm overreacting like be serious.

✿ What do you think about public call out posts? They're good when they're necessary. They're dumb when the 'evidence' are the allegations themselves and not actual proof or just clear signs of stalking.

✂ A fandom that you feel isn't open and accepting? Idk. Most canons; they don't really care much for crossover interactions as much as they say they do, and they certainly don't care much for OCs.Some canon spaces don't even allow OCs.

✉ A fandom that you feel is open and accepting? OC 'fandom'(?) have my hearts. Other OC writers go above and beyond to help get some interactions going, and they're some of the strongest writers on the planet to keep going, despite how much this plaform has stacked against them.

✦ Thoughts on duplicates following you? Don't.

✧ Do you agree with reblog karma or is it forced interaction? Considering I don't want people reblogging memes and stuff from me, I don't practice it. However, if I see a meme on my feed, I'll do my best to send something in to engage.

❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you? [Pained smile.]

❦ Has someone been jealous of you? Yes.

❧ Have you ever been jealous of anyone? No.

✖ How has Tumblr RP changed since you started? In ways, it's gotten better. While it's not by a huge margin, the fact that people are generally more enthusiastic at having marginalized characters or characters with these traits added to certain canon characters in their spaces says a lot about where we are in society. I also love that we're more quick to call out weird people and whitewashing. Where I was in Tumblr RP back in 2012-16, you couldn't really imagine much of this since it was kept under horny wraps. People also won't put straight up korn with the p on your feed without their proper tags the way they did back then, so that's a major plus.

♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in? If I'm being honest with you, it's just the people that know about Psycho-Pass. LOL.

❣ How salty are you feeling right now? Not at all.

[shu-sakamaki]

Admin

Okay, I think it is time we talk about something very important here -, I saw the hate ask certain OC received and a private ask I got from a fan of the blog, I'm not going to sit and watch...

First of all...

You don't know us (the muses), you know the character we are doing. You can not judge my person by how I write a Character.

First of all -, you don't know the amount of "Daddy" and "Onii-chan" asks I have already deleted simply because I cringed too hard, you know what I post, not what I delete,

Second of all, I will not act as if Shu is a saint and loveable guy that can be "fixed with love", because he can't. Shu has done a LOT of terrible things in Games that have been exposed on this blog.

His victim-blame is not as bad? He, being pushy, doesn't count as something awful? For me, an extremly vanilla person, even his sadist comments makes me cringe, but guess what? I do it! Why? Because me, writing a sadist vampire doesnt make ME one.

There were Cordelia blogs running wild, doesn't mean the Muse did the same terrible things that Cordelia did. People need to learn to separate fiction and reality. Or are we forgetting about the canon/manga Laito that was encouraging Yui to 'hurt' herself? (S word here) Imagine wanting to make less of it by making Laito fluffy and lovey-dovey.

I am terribly sorry, but this character I write is a Canon one and with its own story to tell; hell, who knows me knows that I'm not a fan of any game past HDB and see them as one big AU. But for the sake of interaction and the fact that many people like MB-forward Shu more, and because Rejet has more power over DL and Shu than I ever will, ofc I act with it being as canon as HDB.

I have deleted so many asks, you can't judge us, muses, by the asks we do post. You don't know us, you don't know me. And I know there are people out there trying to sell me and others as the devil spawn and not worth our community support because of ONE day. If you just recently arrived in my blog, you don't have a saying to know why is my blog "big" or with so many support.

You don't know how many people have I opened my DMs so they could vent and talk, you don't know how many asks have I answered as Shu talking about body positivity, about sex.education, about support or simply about "love yourself". What you know about me, its me letting the fans that found the CD interesting let them come and vent about their knew discovery if so they wish for.

I would, more than happily, take a sit with each and everyone of you in my DMs so we can talk about things and then you can judge me for who I really am, not for who I am acting as.

Does someone knows my opinion on the CD? Someone knows if I liked it? Someone knows which is my favorite Drama CD? No... You all just know Shu does A, B, C, D and that I serve it as it is.

Few are the people that know me and know the AMOUNT OF asks I have deleted because was "too much for me" You came into my blog during a phase you don't like it -, there is an entire blog full of story behind you for you to scroll and see all this blog has done to help others. You only have to find in you courage to, maybe, notice you were not all that correct about judging me for who am I acting as.

If next CD to explode is about Shu playing sports, it will be 24h of me making Shu talk about sports and how to play them. Why? Because it is the character.

I, thank god, am a person that before pointing fingers at people and vomit my personal opinion, I try to reach out for them and talk to them.

I, thank god, have so much maturity to, at least, know there is a person behind a character.

My DMs are always open, for every and anyone, so please... Instead of sending Anon hate to others, or talk about others, feel free to come and, as humans beings, talk to us.

Half trues are still half lies. If you think you can judge me for 24h of scrolling through my blog, or for intwracting with my Character that I RP as, you are deadly wrong...

I invite you all to talk to me. Only us if you want, as civilized humans being. But don't act as if you know me and can judge me for the character I play.

I will have a Sesshoumaru askblog and, guess what? A complete different character with ZERO libido. So? What am I afterall? A Horny with no limits Vampire, or a Zero-Sexual-interest Demon Dog? Which of the extremes am I? Or am I both at same time?

Again... You don't know me, judge me for who I am, not for who I portrait

[stormblessed95]

I just wanted to rant a little about the fandom a bit. I am a few months into this fandom and boy is it filled with double standards, hypocrisy, and much more "wonderful" things. I have been a KM supporter for a while because I have seen what they have tried to tell us through their words and actions. I may be wrong, which I kind of doubt it, but that's my problem/prerogative not anyone else's. Now let's move on to the rant. Mine is about how people are ridiculously toxic when an opinion or view does not match up with what they think (I follow some KM blogs and almost always they are fine with people stating their opinion and view. They may not agree with it and they will explain why but that's usually the end of it. I enjoy that about these blogs because they don't let it affect them. Which is awesome!).

When I got into this fandom, I was confused as to what RPS was as I only had shipped movie or book characters. I just saw two men who looked and acted like they were and still are in love. And the next second I was hit left and right with people telling me reasons that "it was wrong", "you are making the boys uncomfortable", and my "favorite" one is "KM are just brothers and *insert whatever ship name you want* is more "realistic." I actually started to feel bad before I kicked myself and realized these people are intentionally trying to make you feel like scum because you don't agree with their opinions or views. However, you can't state that without getting attacked by other people. For stating your opinion, you are attacked and spit on and ridiculed all because they don't agree with what you are saying. Don't even get me started on the homophobia that is layered into the reasons as to why they can't possibly be real. You would think with how the boys preach about love that other would take the hint but that ain't happening. Never will in my opinion. It's like talking to a brick wall. Now that that is off my chest, why do you think people let this slide in this fandom?

Actually, I would like to share a quick story I saw Quora when I was being a dumbass and looking for answers (which I never did get and that entire section of Quora sucks ass because of how toxic and weird people are with their answers. Just eww.). It was about a KM getting into the fandom, falling into compilations of KM, and then she saw JM or JK interact/be touchy with the other members. She said that she was confused and that someone reached out to her. And they told her that they are all touchy and no relationship in BTS is "real" because they are all touchy and it is fan service. Furthermore, she want on to say that people should stop shipping because all of it is fake and fan service. And you know what I really learned from tha story? To not listens to others, learn about the culture the boys live in, and always always ALWAYS watch OG content. Learn from this individual's mistakes as I did.

Thank you~

Thanks for sharing your story anon!

[rpbetter]

You are them. Your speech patterns are the same. Your blog showed up on my recommended AND all your anecdotes point directly to what is in your rules, posts, rp style. You can say you know "them" to put distance, but don't bullshit me. I expected you to not post my other asks too. You're too much of a chickenshit to admit I was talking sense, so you still can't directly talk about what I said in my asks right? I'm done here, don't you worry.

I've done nothing but address your points directly, you continue to repetitiously insist I'm someone despite me telling you that it doesn't matter, then...you do it again, proving why it does not matter. I've posted every one of your asks, except the one that dropped a URL. This is, again, against the rules I set as we do accept vent posts and are not interested in having anyone harassed because of this blog depositing their URL. I don't know what part of "I'm not going to argue this" isn't clear to you, but maybe you're not understanding why and require a clear break down?

Clear Break Down:

At no point has it been a good use of my time, or anyone else's time, to dispute anything with you that is not disputable. By dropping in to make strong assertions, it is clear that your mind is made up and you are quite proud of yourself. Therefore, there is nothing that can be said to you that is of value. Breaking down the issues with your assertion is irrelevant to engage in, as you have already made up your mind and will not have it changed. One should not engage in bad faith arguments, as one will be the only party involved doing so in good faith. This is something I have made advisements to - if someone believes anything strongly enough, it is a waste of one's time to argue with them about it, as they will not be altering that stance regardless of any sense, evidence, or vehemence given them. You believe this, you came into my inbox believing it, you will remain fixedly with this belief. My refusal to engage by pointing out the issues with what you feel is evidence, prior to you once again feeling this assured or presently, has only served to continually prove my point - that there is no point in arguing with someone who has made up their mind on something. As you surely must have noticed while browsing this blog, the only time I engage with people like that is when that response can prove a point or make someone else feel better about their own harassment. It is the best purpose that their ask can serve. Yours has served that purpose, not the purpose of being irrationally argumentative with someone who will not be proven wrong, even upon being proven wrong. The only thing I have bothered to point out to you was this very difference, a thing you clearly take issue with on that RP blog, and what did you do? Returned with this, once more validating my point, not yours. No matter how many types of barnyard animal feces you throw into the compost heap of your insistence.

Is it clear enough for you? No? One more round: There is nothing that can be said to you in refutation if you are unwilling to accept refutation, the core of participating in a good faith discussion, something that you made clear you would not be capable of from the outset. You are not owed a good faith discussion from only one end of that discussion, regardless of how outraged that makes you.

I'm sure it does sound like sense to you, Anon, it's alright. You believe you, that's what is important here! I hope the whole rest of your year is improved by taking this nugget of self-induced happiness into your heart and going forth, I'm glad I could do that for you, since I can't do anything else. However, since I only block those participating in callout culture and otherwise harassing RPers who are not myself, you are welcome to come back any time you have something more legitimate to ask.

As an aside, yes, getting people's desired pronouns correct is important, and that mun is nonbinary and accepts they/them as well as other pronouns, so? Yes? "Them." This is also common practice when not designating a particular, known person. I refer to unknown parties mentioned in asks this way as well, even if I could guess who the asker or the mun mentioned therein was, I'm extremely serious about providing an insulated space where muns can be anonymous. Even when I don't agree with them, even when things have sounded quite familiar to me.

Go breathe some fresh air, look at some clouds, have a snack, consider some CBD gummies, if you're not allergic or anything, they've gotten fairly affordable in most places! If you're harassing RPH blogs and this fixed on propagating your own drama from clippings of two unpopular blogs, you have been on this hellsite too long. Recenter. Refocus. Relax.

Have a chicken this time.

[fair-fae]

this is nervewracking to ask, but i'm going to do it anyway. what did cyril do that was abusive? i can't see it, and honestly that just makes me scared that i do some of the same things and don't recognize it.

Hey, anon! This is a perfectly fine question and there’s nothing wrong with asking it (the issues lies in people who don’t see the abuse and then decided obviously that means it’s just not happening… and then go the extra mile of harassing the victim and their supporters). Thank you for asking! I’ll try to explain as best as I can, but the best advice I can give is to Google signs of emotional abuse and you can find a lot of lists of certain behaviors. Most are framed in terms of romantic relationships, but they can happen with friends, family, RP partners–anyone, in real life and online alike.Cut for length and general sensitive content dealing with emotional abuse and the dreaded “drama”

Here are some common ones that imo appeared in the logs:Isolation

Abusers often try to isolate victims from their friends/family and any other relations they might have. A sad and lonely victim makes for an easier target, as does one with no support network to help them escape their abuser. It also means less people around to find out about the abuser’s true nature. In the logs we see him try to cast doubt on her friends, telling her that her friends were bothering him and calling him “her keeper” or coming to him about her private conversations with them that they were displeased about (yet refusing to say who, to leave her questioning everyone), not mentioning her friends and tumblr followers were worried about her and trying to reach her until after the fact, etc.Walking on EggshellsA lot of people in abusive relationships describe it as feeling like “walking on eggshells.” They try to avoid doing things that might set off their abuser… but their abuser has to keep them from being content and confident to keep them in control, so they’ll find smaller and more irrational things to get upset at them about. Replying “if you want” to being asked about taking screenshots becomes a point of contention. “When are you going to stop being sad?” becomes an angry question. She’s blamed for deleting her own blog even though he knew she did it for her health/happiness. She’s blamed for the smallest inconvenience of people asking him if she’s okay even though she has no control over them choosing to reach out to him and for the most part didn’t even have any knowledge of it. Rather than answer them or ask them to stop contacting him, he ignores them, then blames her for him continuing to receive questions from them and the perception he believes that people think he had a falling out with her.

Gaslighting

This is what I saw the most of them in the logs and the most alarming thing. Gaslighting is turning everything around on the victim and making them doubt their own memory/sanity/intelligence/credibility. No, that didn’t really happen, you’re lying. No, what I did to you wasn’t that bad, it was normal, you’re just dramatic. No, I didn’t really say that, you’re misremembering. It’s a lot of lies, justifications, twisting words and scenarios, and taking things out of context.You can see how everything is spun as her fault and actually hurting him. Her deleting her blog is her fault. Him receiving messages about it is her fault. Her not doing anything about the messages is her fault, even though he just now told her it was bothering him, even though he just now told her he was still even receiving them past the first couple ones. Her being unhappy is her fault and a bother for him. Her not being enthused enough to do things with him is her fault, why doesn’t she appreciate that he so generously offered to hang out just to make her feel better? Obviously it’s all because she just hates him. He’s not treating her like an inconvenience, that’s just her mental illness telling her that. She tries to talk to him about her feelings and the way he’s treating her, and rather than acknowledging it, he turns it around–rather illogically and irrationally–about how he is actually the one being mistreated and inconvenienced.Passive Aggression 

A classic way to make people feel like shit but then pretend you did nothing and act like it’s all in their head. Look at the language he uses. Calling her “childish and rash” for “expecting” him to answer messages about her even though she never said she expected that. “It’s better than nothing” when she tries to do something to address the people messaging him as soon as she finds out it’s bothering him. “I don’t think you handled something well -  whatever -  people handle things in different ways” in regards to her deleting her blog for her own happiness. “I would have hoped we could resolve the problem if we’d talked it over” as if he wasn’t the obstacle in that.Those are just a few examples from the first album (the others get into less passive aggression, and more… downright aggression but still have plenty of examples, “delete them - so you don’t just repost them later without my knowledge again.”).ControllingnessThe staple of abuse is an attempt to control the victim. Look how weirdly hung up he is on her deleting her own blog and not doing it in a way he approved of (I almost wonder if he’s upset because he lost the status points of having a “tumblr famous” ship partner?). Look at how, even after they stopped being friends, he wants to keep her character on his ship page after she’d asked him to remove it and he admits to intentionally doing it to make her talk to him and give him leverage over her. Look at how he won’t let her go talk to her own friends in private for advice regarding him and shames her for it being an invasion of “privacy,” as if the logs showed some personal/RL info and not just him being unreasonable. Look at how concerned he is with people on tumblr not assuming the two of them are on bad terms. Look at how, even after they stop being friends, he browses her blogs for posts he believes are about him and tries to tell her what she can and can’t say on her own blogs.It’s evident in his branding post, as well. If people cut ties with him on terms he doesn’t like, they can’t RP having a brand–because he said so. Even if they change the story of how they received it and what character gave it to them. Even if they had that idea before they met him and asked him to RP it with them. Even if they change the look of the brand so it’s no longer his design. This isn’t even a unique idea or something he came up with on his own. Branding slaves has been a RL practice. It’s been made into a trope with… pretty much every fictional slave storyline.And while I’m generally of the opinion of the opinion that IC =/= OOC, IC does not exist within a void unaffected by OOC and vice versa. It’s just speculation since there’s nothing wrong with RPing the type of character he does, but there could very well be a reason he’s drawn to an antagonist/rapist/slaver/abuser/sadist/kidnapper type character.Lack of Care for BoundariesShe says she doesn’t want to be friends anymore, she blocks him, she asks him to delete her number, so what does he do? He not only keeps her number, but texts her because he hopes she hasn’t blocked him there, too. Not even to make an apology, just to say “I would have hoped we could resolve the problem if we’d talked it over” as if he hadn’t been an obstacle in that and “if you change your mind, I’ll be here” to put the onus of fixing the problem on her. When that doesn’t seem to get a response? He keeps their ship on his page despite her asking him to delete it and says, “I used it to make a point, since I knew that you wouldn’t continue the conversation unless I had something to get your attention.” He knows she doesn’t want to talk to him, so rather than honoring it or even finding a respectable way to approach her and make amends… he’s does something against her wishes that he know will upset her so she’ll feel compelled to reluctantly reach out to him. And when he gets that platform he wanted, does he use it to apologize? Nooope! He uses it as leverage to make her delete her screenshots of their conversation.Ultimatums How do you make someone do something they want to do? Give them an alternative that’s even worse. You want your name removed from my ship list so people don’t think you’re associated with me after you’ve realized I’m not someone you want to be around? You have to message me, delete your logs of our conversation, and not say anything about me. You don’t want me to embarrass you by posting logs of your confession to me and me rejecting you? You shouldn’t do things I don’t like, then… oh, but I’d never actually do that, don’t worry, silly! :) :) :)General Narcissism There are numerous times he demands he should be more appreciated. I did all these things to try to cheer up you, be grateful no matter how I’m treating you now. I’ve been so nice to you, how dare you say you feel like I don’t care even when I’m disregarding your feelings. Heck, look at the posts about his rules regarding his branding. He acts like it’s a revolutionary idea he came up with all his own and anyone he’s RPing with is being graced with this groundbreaking idea and if they keep some element of it in their RP after cutting ties with him they’re just “piggy-backing off" his time, effort, and energy to make up for their “lack of creativity” like srsly dude??Even though he refuses to apologize or acknowledge any wrongdoing, he really wants her to forgive and her to make things up to him, to still be his friend, to still have a positive opinion of him so he won’t lose that control. He can’t just let things die. Look at how many times he brings up being “villified” to her friends, the community, etc. He is desperate to have the world see him in a good light, which goes back to the other things mentioned. Control over the perceptions people have of him. The power of popularity and being liked to better isolate victims. Respect from the community to lend credibility that he’s trustworthy and definitely not gaslighting.

And not directed at you, anon, but in general.. for all the people trying to spin at as someone mad they got rejected who was actually terrorizing him… really? The only person who brought up her feelings in the logs was him doing it to spite her. idk I’ve dealt with a lot of admirers not taking rejection well and lemme tell you, I don’t invite them to hang out IRL (I try to avoid seeing them IRL, actually), I don’t ask them to hang out with me in game, I don’t go to lengths to contact them when they’ve blocked them, I don’t ship with them and try to parade it on my blog even after the ship has been retconned, I don’t desperately try to stay in contact with them and convince them to see me in a positive light, I don’t manipulate them into messaging me when I know they don’t want to talk, I don’t try to control their lives and their blogs, and I definitely don’t threaten them with ultimatums. Honestly, nobody deserves that in any context, even if they were a terrible person themselves.

[nevertobeships]

Do you have any writing advice for someone who really struggles with writing body language? I have a hard time reading it in the real world and I'm lost on how to write it in my fics. I think my dialogue is fine it just seems like everything else is lacking. The transition from rp writing to fanfiction is really tough, and I can't seem to adapt to the now popular fanfiction trends of the way things are written. I'd be very grateful for any advice.

Anon, do not worry! Many people, including myself, strugglewith this. I’m going to make a couple of assumptions to get us started (if theyare incorrect just shoot me another ask and I can go in a different direction).I assume that if you are coming to me then you have read some of my writing andtherefore I also assume that you enjoy supercorp. With those two assumptions inmind I’m going to use that arena to give my advice. But please keep in mindthat this is only MY opinion. I’ve been writing pretty much my whole life andI’ve learned that there really is no right or wrong way to go about writing.Sure, there are preferred styles, grammatical rules, trends that may bepopular, etc…but essentially you have to find YOUR flow and style. Writing andwhat is considered the right way to write so subjective.

And just as a quick note I have never done rp writing sokeep that in mind.

Here is my advice (and I explain each point below):

1. Keep trying at the real life body language and understandthe pros and cons of having that information.

2. Use the resources you have (e.g., the show and gifs).

3. Find actors/actresses to use as muses and inspiration whoare really talented and who also put everything into their characters.

4. Read! 

Reading body language in the real world is hard. When youare interacting with another person there is so much else going on. Not onlyare you most likely participating in that interaction but you are trying toprocess what the other person is saying and doing on top of consideringenvironmental/situational variables, analyzing your own intentions while alsotrying to gauge the other person’s intentions – its crazy! This is why so fewpeople are good at this. Yet body language is crucial in many cases. Hell, in apersonal example of mine just recently – I was saying everything I could tosomeone, being EXPLICIT with my diction and my intentions and they just didn’tget it (or chose to ignore it for what it was :/) and…*sigh* well it’s a messlet me tell you. And I wonder if the interactions between us had happened inperson where there was body language (i.e., extra data) to process then perhapsthings wouldn’t have become so convoluted? There has been a lot of research thatshows we humans are not really good at conveying what we mean in simple text.If someone sends you a text that IS IN ALL CAPS you know something is going onout of the ordinary. They are excited, angry, etc… and are trying to getcertain information across in that way. That helps to a point. And its funnythat the rise of emojis was supposed to help us communicate better, beyond capsand punctuation, in written form but new research is showing that we evenmisinterpret those as well lol. So obviously body language can help us withthis problem but again for many of us that can be overwhelming to deal with inthe real world. That being said, writing body language still needs to berealistic and convey important information but in fiction we can process iteasier than if it was happening live in front of us.

Lucky for us, we are writing fanfiction and we have thosecharacters on our screen where we can watch them over and over in the privacyof our own homes with little distractions. If you are in the supercorp fandomthen even more lucky because we have some of the best gif makers in the entireSupergirl fandom and they are an absolute blessing. I think gifs are underratedwhen it comes to character analysis but they are so good for body languagestudy because you have a small amount of data input, three to ten seconds orso, and it automatically repeats so no pausing and rewinding back on Netflix oryour stream. So let us look at an example:

These gifs were created by @brielarsan and you can find the original post here.

Holy shit. This is a writer’s gold mine. I mean look atthis: we know Lena doesn’t have a lot of friends (really none at this point inS2, our poor precious baby *cries*). We know she only ever felt accepted by Lexand look what he did to the world and ultimately her. And we’ve seen the longgazes, the smiles, the lip bites between her and Kara/Supergirl. We alreadyknow all of this – we have this data! So in that mindset, what does this mean?What does that sudden breath mean for Lena when Kara finally opens the doorknowing what we know? She has found acceptance in someone else – Kara – someonewho knew she was a Luthor from the start but has put her belief in Lenaregardless. But even if you don’t know or don’t use all of this data look ather body! Look at her hands, for example. They are in a classic worry positionone that other characters have done (see Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy asjust one example) and Lena has done this herself several times across many episodesbecause she is a soft precious baby who is really worried how others perceiveher. Now look at her facial expression. You can tell exactly when Kara openedthe door and realized it was Lena. Even though we can’t see Kara’s face we cantell from Lena’s face when Kara smiles because we see that relief on Lena’sface. And then in that second gif what does that little shy sway mean? What doyou pick up from her doing that? To me, she is not only relieved that Kara isletting her in her home and doesn’t seem at all freaked out that she is there butalso in a way she is in a giddy disbelief that she’s not being turned away akashe feels accepted (and of course these two fools love each other and we cansee that here). And look how we can see all of that in how her hands start torelax too! My biggest piece of advice is to study stuff like this and/or mimicit in your own fics. Also look at what people say about gifs in the tags! Its so frustrating when people don’t put anything in the tags and I can be guilty of it but some people do the type of interpretation I just did above in the tags of gif posts and you can learn a lot by seeing how others are interpreting a scene.

You really can’t do anything that I just mentioned above ifyou don’t have that talented person on your screen though. Lucky for us we havethe one and only Katie McGrath who conveys more character information in twoseconds of acting than some of the other characters on Supergirl do in anentire episode. I could probably write two pages of description based on thetwo short gifs above and that is all in thanks to Katie and her wonderfulness. Katieis also a perfect example at someone who puts her heart and soul into hercharacters. You can tell that by how she does her interviews and the in-depthanswers she provides. She really IS Lena on screen. Chyler is another greatexample on Supergirl. I mean, Chyler should be earning Emmys for her portrayalof Alex in both Season 1 and 2 but I’m biased (and Katie too for Lena’s character). Sasha Alexander as Maura Isleson the TNT’s now concluded show Rizzoli and Isles is yet another example thathas benefitted me. When you have amazing characters and actors/actresses behind them they can inspire you to write your best stuff and give you so much to workwith. 

Lastly one of the other things you can do is to read.Whether its published fiction or fanfiction just read and see how others are conveyingbody language. When you read a section and get that vivid imagery as a readerstop and evaluate that section. What did that author do to set up that scene foryou? How do they have the characters interacting with one another and theenvironment around them? If you ever get to beta for somebody take thatopportunity! It will give you the chance to read someone’s fic and be in themindset of editing where you are looking at how the story is coming togetherthrough dialogue and body language. Or you can even contact one of yourfavorite writers and just tell them about your favorite sections of their pieceand list the reasons why. Not only will you make that author’s day but that mayalso help get a conversation started where you can discuss the intricacies ofthe characters including body language. This is really how @stennnn06 and I gotstarted talking. We squealed about Katie (as we still do) but then we startedlooking at each other’s writing, beta-ing for one another, and collaborating. Ican’t speak for sten but I know that I write better after discussing Lena andour headcanons with her. You can try to get a beta for your stuff too! Whenyour beta starts analyzing your stuff and asking you questions it really putsit in perspective for you and you can learn so much. I can tell you right nowthat I learned more about one of MY OWN stories by having @mssirey beta it andgive me feedback.   

On another note, also check out some writing blogs for tips. @heywriters is a great source and would be a good start for you. You can alsogo to my blog on tumblr (not tumblr mobile) and I have a page on the right handside labeled ‘Writing References’ and you’ll find a bunch of sources. Just out ofcuriosity I searched ‘body language’ on the search function on my blog and itbrought up some good posts so maybe check those out too! 

I know this is long and probably not anything you wanted butthere is my advice :)

[misfits-of-zaun]

Let Me Make Something Clear

Since this has been a reoccurring issue for a while now, and evidently has not been resolved despite @moon-of-mewni 's post specifically requesting for it to stop, and despite an apparently sincere apology from at least one individual acknowledging that they had been doing it:

The anonymous feature is not for you to send memes on behalf of rp blogs you do not own.

I will be perfectly candid here; yes, I write a lot of content with a popular Moon blog that is sparked through sentence starter memes, mostly for the Game Of Diplomacy AU. That is because the owner of that Moon blog sent those memes. We are well-established writing partners. We have plotted out a lot of scenarios for our characters over the course of many months. Every sentence starter meme that we send one another (and yes, we do tend to mutually spam one another) is a pre-agreed open opportunity to delve into some of those plotted scenarios alongside our main thread.

Sentence starter memes are not a platform for you to anonymously kickstart an interaction between whichever two rp blogs you like.

I can understand how individuals less accustomed to tumblr features / the general rp community etiquette might misinterpret these anonymous asks, signed off as a specific blog, as being sent by other people who simply want to request more content. But given my writing partner has already made a post about this stating that sending asks on behalf of blogs you don't own is not okay, I am not accepting that as an excuse.

But the asks were on anon! Why would a rp blog send a meme on anon?

Side blogs.

Lots of people on tumblr have side blogs. It makes managing your content neater and easier. It means you don't have to sign out and sign in constantly.

It means any asks you send off anon will always come from your primary blog.

Now, in the tumblr rp community, it's a widely accepted rule of etiquette that you only send memes to other blogs to start interactions targeted at a blog you own. That is why side blogs send asks on anon, and sign off with their blog name. That system is specifically to avoid misunderstandings as to which character the recipient is responding to. Obviously it has its flaws. It allows outside parties to send asks pretending to be someone else's blog, for example.

If you send an anonymous ask to my writing partner and sign it off with my blog name, you are deceiving them into thinking I sent that ask.

I do not tolerate this kind of behaviour. I do not interpret this behaviour as flattering. I am aware that the Game of Diplomacy AU has a following and that there are a number of people who follow this blog because they enjoy my writing. That's perfectly fine. But I do not owe my followers any content, nor does my writing partner, or any other people who own RP blogs for that matter. We write what we want to write, because this is our hobby and we enjoy it. Making polite enquiries about certain scenes or seeking more information on an AU you enjoy is one thing. Trying to push for more content by sending anonymous asks from specific RP blogs you don't own is deceitful, it is rude, and it is entitled.

Now that we've covered why this behaviour is unacceptable and left no room for excuses of harmless misunderstanding, let me get to the consequences.

If writing partners can't tell who's sending what, the anonymous feature becomes a problem. I don't want to answer asks for a rp blog if they weren't the one who sent it, because odds are they didn't want to send it, and it's a waste of my time writing a response. It's a waste of my time sifting through my inbox and asking my writing partner 'did you send this one?'

So in essence, I'm not going to enable this through inaction any longer.

If I get one more anonymous sentence starter ask from a rp blog that didn't actually send it, or if any of my writing partners receive an anonymous sentence starter ask from me that I didn't send - and I will check to verify this - then that's it.

I will disable the anonymous asks feature on this blog.

I will stop posting sentence starter memes.

Which consequently will rather drastically reduce the lovely extra content that gets posted on here, since it means side blogs like moon-of-mewni will no longer be able to send sentence starters from their rp blogs. And I certainly won't feel as inclined to send them myself. But that's no skin off my nose. I can continue writing all these ask-inspired extra GoD AU snippets with my writing partner - it just won't be on a public platform where anyone else can read it. And won't that be a dreadful shame.

So it's up to you, anon. Either you stop your behaviour and be satisfied with what you already get to read, or that extra content stops, and you'll be reading a lot less.

[starbrightmaiden-a]

Don't you fucking gaslight me.

You wanna know something?

Before seeing you and your little friends in the Elia tag, I was never bothered by your ship. I don't hate Rhaegar, I've stated that time and time again in my posts. I don't hate Lyanna, I've stated that also.

I've rped with some FANTASTIC Rhaegars.

I've rped with some AMAZING Lyannas.

And they know who they are. They follow me as we speak.

They are some of my dear and most darling of friends. I've known most of them for nearly a decade now. They know my likes and dislikes better than any stranger, like yourself, can ever dream of knowing.

They know my current distaste in the ship and the characters do not stem from them nor is it aimed at them or their takes on the characters and the ship.

It's you and rhaelyas and rhaegarxlyanna who continuously tag invade with your crap and vomit all over Elia's tag. CONSTANTLY.

I do not go to your tags, if I'm given Rhaegar or Lyanna content it's from the dearly beloved friends I rp with.

If anyone's to blame ... it's not me.

I can't speak of the rest of the members in the Water Gardens, I don't have that right, but I can tell you who makes me upset ... It's YOU. Whose dribble and harassment and interacting with properly tagged posts that have NOTHING to do with you and yours that is making me slowly hate everything about your ship.

We have ignored you constantly for weeks on end until you decide to show up again. If someone is harassing you in your tags, then it's no one I'm following on here. If you're getting harassing anons maybe you need to look within your own fandom because sometimes fandoms can contain wolves in sheep clothing. If I am posting things on my blog that might be about you and are not tagged, stop looking at my blog. I have no need to go anon to speak to anyone. I am an adult, I say my truth to your face regardless of feelings. I cannot apologize for something I am not doing.

I created The Water Gardens discord server JUST to have a safe place to talk to other content creators with. Because anytime we share our thoughts in our tags, that are not tagged with your favorites or your ships, you invade these posts.

This is what you've driven us too.

YOU.

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You WANT know where the contents at?

It's being made.

We have a THREE month challenge being worked right now with multiple creators. Fics and graphics. We are sharing ideas and plans.

As you said, and I will give you this, it takes time and effort. The effort is being made, the time is being taken. I'm seeing WIPs every day from them.

When I'm not working or helping my father with his house renovations or modding my friend's twitch chat, I'm working on my WIPS.

Again I cannot speak for anyone else, I can only tell you what I've seen with my own eyes.

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And yes, I took the time off of my wips to build up a discord server just to get away from the likes of you.

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As for the week I want for Aegon and Rhaenys, it's not a direct attack on the Targling week. I was kind of excited about that until I realized who was going to be in it. Again this falls back on your lot, not mine.

Because yes the Targling week sure as hell felt like all you and yours wanted was notes. And that you were willing to use us and our love for Elia and her children to gain those. Because that is what I've gathered from every interaction I've seen between you and the multiple members in the Water Gardens.

But I'm going off topic there.

I wanted a week for Aegon and Rhaenys, FOR THEM AND ABOUT THEM, that didn't include everyone's favorite fan theory baby. And Jon being a Targaryen is only that right now. I do not consider the show canon. Now if GRRM ever deems himself to finish the books and does prove the fan theory right, you will have my apologies on my denial of that. I will be glad to eat my words.

Since I am not getting that week, I decided to make one myself.

Dates are NOT set yet.

It's likely going to be late September or early October. It all depends on what's best with my schedule.

But I am not deciding on dates right now at your demand.

You don't get to demand our work and our time and our efforts.

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And maybe you shouldn't talk about about the 'health' of any fandom ... not when we're not the ones shipping a 14 to 16 year old with a man who is 7 to 8 years her senior.

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One final thing: What do you REALLY want from the Elia fandom?

If it's for us to shut up and leave tumblr & ao3, you're not getting that.

If it's peace, I can't give you that for the whole fandom base. If you want peace, we can't be the only ones willing to give out an olive branch.

So what is that you want?

When content is coming from people who have a very visual history of shitting on Elia and her children and her homeland why on EARTH?! should we interact with it?

When they tell us we’re not allowed our headcanons but constantly flood our tags with hate when we don’t buy into theirs?

Why should we interact with their content?

[inevitably-johnlocked]

I obviously can't come off anon, and I can't tell you what marketing department of what British broadcasting company I work for, but we have recently been told by our supervisors to NOT interact with two certain character accounts with any of our company twitter accounts. I personally don't know if they're official or fandmade either, but any way, I'm not sure what to think, make your own deductions ;) xxx

Here’s the ask I was wary about posting, but I’ve decided I’m going to anyway because why not, it’s an interesting discussion piece.

First of all Nonny, I appreciate that you know I have every right to be skeptical… I’ve had so many people come to me in the past claiming one thing or another and it never panning out so I need to maintain some skepticism.

Secondly, as someone who is remaining cautious, I suppose we can take this one of two ways:

Company that shall not be named wants to ENSURE that no one interacts with the RP accounts because they don’t want to encourage something that they do not own or have and cannot promote it. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. This is the most PROBABLE way to take this. OR:

They actually DO have something to do with it, and don’t want the 4th wall broken, so they cannot have the characters interact with The Company. THEY HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT or KNOWS WHO DOES.

I’m interested in discussion on both variants of this idea.

Thank you Nonny for sharing this, if you indeed are associated; I am honoured to be a blog that a social media team member follows. 

[wrangletangle]

Since you were recommending Dreamwidth, I decided to check it out. Is their anyway to look purely at art/fanfic without searching through someone's blog? What makes Tumblr so easy to use is that you can search through peoples tags quickly to find what you want, and I can't really find that on DW. Also, can you follow tags/interests on DW just like you do on Tumblr? It's a feature that allows me to keep up with my fandoms even when I'm not actively combing the tags and it's very helpful.

Hi anon, thanks for asking! Sorry for the delay.

Dreamwidth is constructed very differently from Tumblr, as you noticed. It was originally created as a fork of the Livejournal code, but has since developed in its own direction, as requests from the userbase came in.

To give you some parallels:

You can still follow individual users. In fact, you have a lot more control over how you follow users - you can adjust your following preferences to group users together into named dashes, for example. I have a dash for individual blogs and a separate one for communities (details below).

Most users do have a personal tagging system, and this generates an automatic list of their personal tags, available at the /tag URL for that user. So if I want to see all of the art that pentapus has ever posted (and I do, regularly), I just go to pentapus’s blog, glance at the taglist and pick the “art” tag. Voila, I have it all. No skipping stuff like Tumblr likes to do.

Now for what’s different:

DW doesn’t block your post for being “adult” or hide posts based on tags. Instead, you flag your individual posts or entire blog as adult, and if someone isn’t logged in, they get a warning before they see the material.

When I make a post on DW, I can literally control who can see it. I can either lock it to only my followers, to only a subset of my followers (groups I’ve put together privately, which my followers can’t see), or I can let everyone see it. I can choose my own tags for my own blog. I don’t have to worry about fighting over tags with another fandom I’ve never heard of, or strangers hopping into my blog and fighting with me over something they have no context for.

Where Dreamwidth is really different is in how it organizes what Tumblr does via general tags. DW does that via opt-in communities, which have mods and everything. When it comes to fannish content, I often won’t post that to my personal journal at all but to a community for that topic instead, or I’ll post it to my personal journal but I’ll post a notice about it at a relevant community. That way, I know that people who are interested in that topic can see the post. I also don’t spam my followers with 50 million Baze/Chirrut reblogs haha ha (still not apologizing).

I join and follow communities for topics I’m interested in. Those communities can show up on my dash/feed, mixed in with the individuals I follow, or I can separate them into their own dash/feed. I have the power!

I can lock my posts in communities to community members only, if I don’t want to tell the entire universe about my Baze/Chirrut feels but only want to talk to like-minded shippers. (Though really, I want to tell the entire universe.)

No need for sideblogs. Just post to communities related to that topic.

Functional cut tags.

Multiple icons on free accounts.

THREADED CONVERSATIONS IN CONTEXT, ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE’S COMMENTS ON THE SAME POST. ALSO, CONVERSATIONS WITHOUT REBLOGGING.

No ads.

No porn blog followers.

Community-run support, so you can literally see the support queue and usually get a helpful response within like 2-3 days at most, often faster for easy questions.

Help files? That tell you how to use the site? Linked from a button that says “Help”?

You can edit your posts, and there won’t be 500 copies of the version with the typo in it.

Screened comments that can be unscreened at will.

Long-form non-chat PM system.

Comment-tracking, even for posts you didn’t make.

Multiple icons, which allow you to mood theme your posts.

Polls, if you have a paying account.

Actual mood themes, if you have a paying account.

What does that mean?

No antis. Anti content is not posted to the communities, or if it is, mods remove it. Antis are allowed to form their own communities, and people who love the thing they hate just avoid those. (Most people don’t bother making anti comms and just occasionally mutter on their personal blogs. Overall anti noise level is much lower, comparatively speaking.)

No fighting over tags.

Better RP. Let’s be real, RPing on Tumblr is horrifying.

More control over what feeds I see and when.

More control over what other people see. I can post personal rl posts for my followers only, and they will never be seen by anyone who doesn’t follow me.

More personal connections among mutuals, as you’re able to talk either privately or in small groups about your personal life or interests without random people barging in, taking your sandwich, and kicking your shins.

Better privacy controls. Honestly, does Tumblr even have privacy?

But also, in the reverse, the ability to connect with most of the people who have a particular interest by posting in a community. Since communities are moderated, people don’t hide from them the way a lot of us hide from the tags on Tumblr. You also don’t have to call into the void for people to follow - you can literally just look at the community membership list and browse for cool people.

CONVERSATION.

Connection. Belonging to a community on DW is not like being on Tumblr. It’s much more personal and interconnected, with individual support. On the flip side, communities don’t have the kinds of requirements that Tumblr networks do. You don’t have to follow X or do Y and send in an application and give them your icon and description or any of that jazz. You click a button. There, you’ve joined. No submissions required. No mod has to trawl the tags for things to reblog - members just post their stuff directly to the community, or post to their personal blogs and post a link to the community.

None of this requires an xkit-style extension. All of these features are natively supported by the site itself.

The experience is very different, but it is very awesome. Much more interconnected, much less wank (not totally non-wanky, because fandom wanks, but the system is designed to make it harder to be a jerk and easier to be a friend).