#online roleplaying

[casside-sionnach]

" you picked a good day, to have a bad day, don't worry I got you .. "

[heyeinin]

hi! i built an extension that lets you save multiple prompts to fire off on rolechat with just a click! you can download it from the chrome web store or the mozilla add-ons marketplace.

[playingpretender]

let's talk about the worst possible things about online roleplaying, just to get them all out there

websites for online roleplaying have historically done little to ensure the safety of minors - omegle's video chat function was essentially a cp factory. i myself was introduced to the site at age 10-11 and saw firsthand there were no safeguards

every fandom and subfandom and subsubfandom has their own roleplaying conventions and styles, and these subtle distinctions make it difficult for uninitiated roleplayers to join in (and, LRP/SRP, while generally in asterisks, also has a host of mores and standards unknown to novices) 2b. there is no way to learn how to join one of these spaces, except to leap in and learn along the way. while this can sometimes be exciting, it can also be uncomfortable and intimidating, and prevents roleplaying from reaching a wider audience

the mixture of creativity, vulnerability, and anonymity can lead to intense feelings and relationships. even assuming that your roleplaying partner is of age, relationships are fucking complicated and hard!! particularly between isolated people with a narrow outlet for self expression.

it can take the form of reward-seeking behavior. like people sitting in front of slot machines, roleplayers on a site like rolechat sit and cycle through their options on an endless loop, trying to find the one that hits the jackpot. it can sometimes feel demoralizing and disempowering to search for someone to 'play' with. and it can also be a total time suck as a result. you spend all night cycling through the same blank faces and end up with nothing. sometimes, you end up feeling worse than when you started. but you always go back to it, right?

[strawberry-sticky-autism]

Just one server for now!

Reblog this if you roleplay on Discord

[ranpo-v-world]

[Around 7 pm, Vizerxa gently wakes Ranpo by petting his hair. She's holding a couple thick coats, gloves, boots, and a scarf, all in ranpo's size. She doesn't know how well he can tolerate the cold and doesn't want him to be uncomfortable in Salha.]

"It's almost time for us to go. 're you ready?"

( - @the-fox-and-the-shadow ) (sending this 5 hours early so i dont forget about it entirely lmao)

mmm…. yeaaaahh……

[juliekenobi]

When your retired showjumper feels like polework got too boring ⚡️

His name is Pinehill :3

[mxjackparker]

Just some things said by people I interviewed for OOC...

If these quotes and the art by Pisces got you interested, please check out the Kickstarter for the book they're from to learn more and share this post!

[askingchoso]

((I am BACKKK WHEHEHEHEHE, would’ve come sooner but I had to deal with a proshipper in my comments 🫠))

*little bit of a time skip and Ako winds up filling out the paperwork at the shelter and ends up with. A tiny little calico kitten, who promptly buries herself in his shirt. You had followed him to the pet store, helping him pick out new things for the kitty and brainstorming names for her as he had asked.*

Choso was thinking of a name for the cat. Sometimes he looked up and noticed the animal curled up against Ako, making him smile. He mumbled a few names every now and then, seeing which one might be best suited to the cat. "Zuzu, Bubbles, Mika... maybe Coco..."

[gtafest]

GTA SECRET SANTA 2024

It's time for another Secret Santa!

For those who don’t know, Secret Santa art trade is an exchange between artists and writers who create fics/fan arts/graphics for one another as a Christmas present. Secret means that you can't tell anyone what you are working on until it's time to post your work.

The theme is mostly Christmas, but you can also leave other kinds of prompts if you want. You can ask for gifts about any GTA games or even your original characters. The mod will do their best to match up everyone so that there is representation for as many games as possible.

NSFW prompts or themes so heavy that they could make people uncomfortable are not allowed. Always ask if you're unsure! Make sure your prompts are very clear on what you want. The form has a guide on leaving prompts.

You can join by filling in this form. It will only be available until November 15, so be quick! By November 18, you will receive the information of the person you're going to gift your work to. Then you will have until Christmas to work on your gift. If you can't stick to the deadline, you shouldn't participate, but in December, all Christmas themed GTA works that this blog gets tagged to will be reblogged! <3

The moderator will ask you for progress a couple of times before the deadline to make sure that everyone gets their gift. If there are any problems and you can’t participate any longer, contact the mod ASAP.

Feel free to reblog this post and hopefully, we get a lot of participants to light up the Christmas time!

Mod: @nevergonnasimpyoumikey

[purefavvn]

absolutely love the new friesians! this is my new girl, sansa.

[casside-sionnach]

Casidhe Sionnach, MD aka " foxydoc" Chinatown, Cocoon Station, Dark Future RPG , Second Life Grid. Krea Enhancement of my original SL screenshot.

[katjadarkrider]

Friesian horse

Drawing from 18th February 2022

Time: 5h 57m

[playingpretender]

it really is so frustrating to work hard on a prompt idea and then get zero engagement. i have no idea how a pre-audhd diagnosis me was able to cope with so much passive rejection.

probably because then you meet someone who actually cares, who tries, who's putting in effort. it's only once in my life that i've managed to hang on to that person and become friends, but i have hopes for the future. i wish we could all trust each other

i remember once working on an idea i really, really cared about, and sending it as a prompt for days with nobody interacting. i know what you're thinking. why bother? if no one is interested, why keep trying? i ask myself the same thing every time i get back on roleplaying. because for every hundred ideas i have, there's one that resonates with somebody.

eventually, i started sending the prompt with an attachment asking people to tell me why they weren't interested in it. i got only one reply, which was someone telling me that they just didn't have any ideas for the story. it was so weirdly sobering. like, duh. no one is answering me because no one has any ideas. in my head, sometimes, it feels like people aren't answering because they dislike me, but that's probably just RSD talking.

at the same time, it made me sad. i've tried tons of prompts that i didn't have ideas for, just because it was someone else on my favorite tag trying to write for it. i wish that was standard. i dont even need like, the perfect response. any response will do. that's storytelling

[esmeralda-dragonstar]

The Jackalope 🐇

[cctinsleybaxter]

Artists who admit to not knowing small details about their characters and worldbuilding have inadvertently given better advice than any character design post on social media tbh. as fun as it is to come up with what your guys would order from a restaurant or the contents of their backpack or their favorite color I've run into very few people who can leave that stuff in a story (or even leave it offscreen as paratext) without it being distracting and poorly written because it's rarely in service of the narrative. a lot of that is def just down to personal taste, but it feels more like designing characters for a TTRPG

[terrible-mmo-names]

Search 'Hardcore' and 'Roleplay' in the ESO guild finder to find some real awfully named gems.