#sixwordstories

[magshortstories]

"He realized everything in a moment."

[sincerelybeau]

[yuuberrypie]

✒️📜"Eternal Beauty Comes From Eternal Slumber."📜✒️

[mywebweaves]

I will warm your cold hands

[riptidejas]

BBG fuck that let’s love ourselves more.

— 7 words; truth.

“You taught me love, then left.”

— six words; one.

[aaj-umadhay]

[nizvey]

[crystal-charlotte-lynch]

Six word story challenge

“Still Me”

By Crystal Charlotte Lynch

Still naive: growing up. Still me.

[jirogers-author]

A New Review!

TKFS - Short Stories: Vol 1 - Four Stars from Literary Titan

Read the full review for The Korpes File Series – Short Stories: Vol 1, here on Literary Titan

[magshortstories]

"She stopped pretending she didn't care."

[darkersolstice]

Dreamwidth

The spiritual successor to Livejournal is still alive with both casual roleplaying on 'memes' and more organized games. While it can be a little hard for newcomers to learn the culture, this space should not be discounted, especially if you're interested in crosscanon fandom play.

RESOURCES

bakerstreet

fortanon

sixwordstories

rpanons (OOC anonymous commuinity)

enablemeplz

Roleplay Is Not Dead Nor Doth It Sleep

There's a post going around about how text-based, freeform roleplay is dead, and I was typing up a huge response to this, with an accompanying guide on how to find roleplayer in 2024, when I realized it might have a bigger reach if I made it its own post. So here's that guide.

I hesitate to say that there isn't a problem with the new format of social media making roleplay more difficult to find, but in the desire to make that point, the OP of the original post has left people with the idea that there's no way for them to get into freeform text roleplay in 2024. Which just isn't true! Here, look at all the ways.

Forums

The link to RPG-Directory to find roleplaying forums is a good start. Once you've found a forum RPG, even if you don't join, there's usually an 'advertising' section on that forum where other forum RPGs post their ads - this may help you to find forums that don't advertise on RPG-D.

Another really good forum to find roleplay on is Barbermonger. Barbermonger is focused on connecting people for one-on-one roleplays.

This last one's going to be weird, but it turns out that there are still people seeking roleplay on the Gaia Online forums after all these years. I think this is delightfully retro and then crowd there seems a little older than average. No pre-existing knowledge of Gaia required.

Tumblr

You can also find forum roleplay groups (as well as tumblr and Discord groups) right here on Tumblr. Usually, the thing to do is to use the search function - search for "[genre] rp" or "[fandom] rp" and sort by "latest." (If you sort by Top, you are likely to find dead RPs.) For example, here's fantasy rp, historical rp, and marvel rp. You can also try jcink rp, as most roleplay forums are hosted on Jcink these days, or discord rp, depending on your favored platform.

There are also tumblr blogs specifically dedicated to advertising roleplays. I'm not super familiar with these nowadays, but just in the process of searching those tags above, I found these:

Jcink Tinder

RPG Adverts

RPings

There are more, I just don't know them off the top of my head.

Reddit

Listen, don't run away, I swear it's good now - I swear Reddit is good now -

Reddit is a good place to find Discord roleplays. It's a little heavier on smut-only roleplays than other platforms mentioned here, but it's not impossible to find sexless, plot-based roleplay here either. Most ads are for one on one RP, but you can find groups mixed in here too. The big subreddits for text-based freeform RP seem to be:

r/DiscordRP

r/RoleplayPartnerSearch

r/roleplaying

r/Roleplay

Some of these have weird rules about what you can put in your ad, and I don't remember which ones, so read carefully and don't get discouraged if your ad is initially removed.

Discord

In 2024, Discord is by far the biggest and most popular platform for roleplay, and it has its own native roleplay advertising hubs. Here are a bunch:

roleplay partner hub

Rockin Roleplay

The Roleplay Garden

roleplay help

the roleplay connection

RP Central

Roleplay Central

Roleplay Hub

Barbermonger also has a Discord server

Roleplay Meets: Reborn

RP Hub

The Scribes Guild

DM Rp Village

cherry blossom! roleplay hub

DM-RP

Roleplay Round Table (21+)

The Historical Syndicate (specifically for historical roleplay)

The Roleplayer's Directory

If you can't find the Discord roleplay you want on here, you can also try Discord hub websites, like Disboard. These work similar to tumblr tags - search for [genre] rp or [fandom] rp.

Other

The original post specifically mentions that 'all the old "omegle but for role play" type websites died out ages ago'. This is mostly true, but not quite! There's still Rolechat. It's a little janky, but what it needs more than anything is a bigger user base. Their Discord server is also a good place to find one on one discord roleplay. It is, of course, free, but if you want to support its development, they have a patreon.

Please reblog this post, and add your own tips on how to find roleplay!

[ruler-of-oz]

Guidelines

FOLLOWS/FOLLOW-BACKS

At least to start, I’m going to be fairly selective about who I follow/follow-back. However, if I have a clear understanding of your character and/or fandom, chances are I will eventually follow you back.

Even if I don’t follow you right away, please don’t be afraid to interact with me. The more we play together, the more chance there is I will follow you back.

There are several reasons I may end up not following someone. But the biggest one is obsessive posting of NSFW images or gifs. Often I am online at work and well, I just can’t have dicks all over my dash. Sorry.

THREADS/STARTERS/PLOTTING

I’ve tried doing starters for new followers in the past and it just never ended up well. They tend to get repetitive after a while and more often than not are lost on the dash. However, I will respond to any starters I am tagged in.

I am always open to plotting. Always. So if you have an idea (or even 11% of an idea), drop by my askbox and we’ll hash it out.

RESPONSE TIME

I run several other rp blogs (in multiple fandoms), so if I don’t reply right away, chances are I am logged in to one of them. I swear I am not ignoring you. Promise.

If it’s been a week or more, feel free to poke me. That way we know it’s just me being slow and not tumblr eating notices.

MUSE PORTRAYAL

I have been playing Ozma for several years now; she started as part of a "post canon" game on GreatestJournal. I then moved her to LiveJournal and the world of sixwordstories. Now, with the resurgence of the Wicked fandom, I'm bringing her over here.

While the idea of the line of Ozmas is taken from the Wicked novel, most of my lore and backstory for Ozma is more headcanon based. Adjusted to fit the world of the musical.

And yes, because I live for complicated relationships, she is the daughter of Elphaba and Fiyero. However, I do understand that "children of" are not everyone's cup of tea. So I will not be forcing Ozma on anyone.

Also, since I received an ask about this, I just want to state that I know Elphaba and Fiyero have a child in the books. I love the books. And if anyone plays a version of Liir that is musical based, please please please send them my way. Cause siblings! Ozma, like I said, was originally created for a game that was strictly musical based. But I am 10000% open to her existing alongside Liir and any other novel based characters.

If you ever have questions about my portrayal or lore, please ask. My ask box and IMs are always open.

Also, please do not take anything my baby says IC personally. She can be a bit of a sassmaster.

SHIPPING

This blog will be multi-verse and multi-ship.

TRIGGERS/NSFW

This blog may contain triggering material. All posts containing such material will be tagged appropriately with anything explicit being placed behind a read more.

ANON HATE

Will not be tolerated. Pure and simple.

[doldriest]

Only the birds read my words

Only the birds read my words. A #sixwordstory about #writing. #6WS #photography

Last week, my bicycle took me to the woods, where I spent a peaceful afternoon typing away on a new novel. And today, I might just do the same. Have a wonderful weekend! Posted as part of my Six Word Saturday musings; courtesy of Debbie at Travel with Intent. Will you join us there?

[tehamelie]

"Girl," in that tone of voice.

#SixWordStories

Okay I'm not entirely sure what genre of story this is. I think it hinges completely on the inflection of the word "that". But any way you cut it, this is a fucking masterpiece I thought up and wrote in approximately 8 seconds. It's the next level of six word stories. It's the next level of haikus. Maybe not. But it's something big. In a small package of six words.

[nizvey]

[morganbc728]

Mutation - #SixWordStories for #Meditation

  The Mutation twisted into leeching contagion. .   This 6-Word-Story is about how even the smallest dark spots inside us can slowly, yet inexorably, consume us and those around us.   Learn more about Six-Word-Stories By ~Morgan~ If you’d like to keep up with everything I’m doing, sign up for my monthly newsletter by visiting my author website If you’d like to see more of my artwork,…