#i feel this has and a bunch of people will reply “isn't this literally [blank media] and ill look like a dumbass

[hystrangea]

imagine one of those manwhas, shows, mangas, whatever where the female lead pretends to be a guy for her own protection and the male lead falls for her while she's a guy.

and the male lead is about as well as you'd expect. he's confused and thinking hard, staying up late. is he attracted to a man? to men?

maybe he's an important figure whose image would be messed up if he was gay. he's in love with this guy, possibly, but he doesn't want to know what it means for him and the main conflict is too important for him to be thinking any further.

so when it's all over, the female lead has also fallen in love and reveals herself and confesses.

and the male lead should feel relieved. he should. but he isn't. he's conflicted because he's spent this entire time falling for a man. having all of these bonding moments, confiding in, trusting, and falling in love with a man. the thought has kept him up for days, imagining how to keep his position while maintaining their relationship, or even running away if it came to it. he's thought about other men in his life, if he's ever felt anything for them. he's thought about women and his feelings for them, or possibly a lack thereof.

it might not even be a gender thing. he's fallen in love with them while they've been putting on a front. were any of those moments real? have they fallen in love with someone who doesn't exist? how does he know which person was the real them or which was the persona they made to protect themselves?

and the male lead asks for some space. the female lead is confused because she thinks he felt the same way. and he does, kind of. maybe. he doesn't know.

i imagine that after some time, the male lead stil treasures the female lead. after all, the moments they've had in their relationship don't change because of her gender. but he's still off-put by the fact that what they had might be built on lies. and they start over getting to know the real them.

maybe the male lead realizes he's gay and isn't actually in love with her. or that he's still in love with her but he's also attracted to men. idk, the end.

[meistoshi]

6. is roleplaying the only writing-based hobby you have, or are there other things you like to write?

8. do you expect your answered memes/asks to be turned into threads? regardless of answer, what’s your reasoning?

12. what roleplay trends do you remember from the year you started tumblr rp? how did you feel about those trends?

questions for muns.

is roleplaying the only writing-based hobby you have, or are there other things you like to write?

i've written a handful of ficlets n drabbles, i like writing out little character study one-shots. i also dm'd a homebrew campaign for about a year, so i got to write a lot of worldbuilding stuff ; the campaign exploded due to personal reasons, & the group isn't playing together anymore, so i haven't had chances to do dnd-related writing in while.

do you expect your answered memes/asks to be turned into threads? regardless of answer, what’s your reasoning?

i don't expect it, but i do encourage it, as i very rarely manage to wrangle up plotted starters, & i've always found asks to be great jumping off points for interactions. not everything has to be planned, & sometimes the greatest threads can come from off-hand replies that simply grew & spiraled.

what roleplay trends do you remember from the year you started tumblr rp? how did you feel about those trends?

so. i've been here since 2009. smile.

muse a: My first true threading experience was with the chat post format for threads. muse b: Threads that went on for at least 30 replies without trimming. muse a: That looked like the backlogs of IM threads. muse b: Complete with-- *actions*

it's in a similar vein to how often threads wouldn't get trimmed until the oldest reply was squished by the blockquote to individual words. good riddance to that, i can't believe there were people genuinely upset by the loss of blockquote walls, but the chat post thing is a fond memory, if only for that being how i did my first ever threads here.

big fuck-off jpegs instead of icons, even before gif hunts solidified themselves, think dollmaker game downloads, like how some people nowadays use picrews but with zero of the cropping. i was part of the crowd, & i was more than happy to switch to scouring gif hunts, then icon hunts, then learning to make icons myself.

magic anons were literally everywhere you blinked, & even if they weren't Magic Anons a bunch of people treated anons as simply blank-faced characters that could interact & talk to the muses like any dedicated-blog character might. they were fun, & i know anons still get treated with some degree of agency now, but no one's really threading with anons these days, y'know ; i like where we are with them right now.

everyone had the same handful of free template blog themes, the most widely used ones being fluid & redux. i've all but entirely switched to dash-only, but the template themes were nice, & seeing an ancient blog that still has one of them feels like stepping into a vintage bookshop.