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If you’re reading this, it means that our queue has officially run out of posts. We won’t drag this post out for long, but we wanted to make an official announcement:

bandgirlsrph will be closing its doors indefinitely, effective immediately.

Yes, you read that correctly. We have spent time mulling over this decision and we came to the conclusion that this would be best for us both as neither of us are still active participants in the bandom community and haven’t been for a while. We may decide to come back in the future if we feel up to it, but it’s unlikely. We will leave the blog up as an archive of resources, but know that no further resources will be reblogged and our ask box will be turned off to prevent from further requests or shout outs being sent in.

This blog has been open for a long time, and our experiences with it have been both good and bad. Regardless of that, we want to thank you guys for allowing us a platform and giving us an opportunity to help you with your roleplaying needs over the past nearly two years. This is the Nine-Nine, signing off for the last time.

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for those who remember LOA9 & F2Y2D, we are back to bring you The Festival once again. Once a month, your muse will travel to a music Festival in a new location to perform, chill with friends, and make romances flourish. However, it’s not all fun and adventure when you could receive a blackmail task from that you must finish by the end of The Festival or have your life ruined. We plan to be interactive and make sure your plots are always growing. Taking reserves and will be open at 20 apps!

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hello!! i was wondering if you knew any sources with advice on playing a chinese oc more accurately? i hope that makes sense haha

For some reason, this seemed to disappear from our inbox when I checked it just now. Weird! I’m glad I was able to get it back.

Anyway, I don’t have too many, but based off of a quick search, I did find these for you:

Writing a character originally born in China (1, 2)

Writing a Chinese character who recently learned English (x)

Experience of an adopted Chinese female growing up in the US (1, 2,)

Writing a third-generation Chinese character wanting to learn more about their culture (x)

Writing people of color if you’re of another color (x)

Dear non-Asian writer (x) (includes stereotypes to avoid and other things to keep in mind while writing an Asian character)

I’d also recommend just taking a look through the Chinese tag on both of the blogs linked before (writingwithcolor and xiaolongrph) to see if there are any other resources that may be relevant to you. I know on the latter blog, they have some masterlists and guides about how to accurately name a Chinese OC, assuming that you aren’t giving them an Americanized name, but since you didn’t specify, I didn’t link those above.

Hopefully this helped!

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can we add trevor Wentworth to banned lists? he dressed as a native American for Halloween with a huge headdress and when people told him that wasn't right, including native americans who tried explaining what a headdress means to them and why it shouldn't be a costume. he tweeted that people needed to stop being so sensitive.

First of all: Yes. I didn’t see him doing this, and can’t find evidence (because he often deletes his tweets and posts when people call him out), so please send us some links. However, it sounds fairly on par with his character, and I personally think there are multiple reasons to ban him outside of this incident. EDIT: Links HERE and HERE.

Secondly, I want to let it be known that I played Trevor for…roughly two years? And I had until very recently been hesitant to continue playing him. I officially stopped supporting the band as a whole after Our Last Night put out a video trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement, which you can find HERE. It was insensitive, tasteless, and fairly in line with the person Trevor has presented himself to be; I can’t speak for Matt, Woody and Tim, as I haven’t played them and therefore never made an effort to actively follow them. EDIT: Matt defending his brother’s actions HERE.

Lastly, I wouldn’t ban someone for their political values or for just being an asshole, but all of the “Crooked Hillary” shit on Twitter got old during election season last year. And his continued bitching to and about the Alternative Press for not posting a story every time OLN posts a cover (which is more often than they make original music) is obnoxious and entitled.

All in all, it’s up to you all as individuals whether or not you ban Trevor or anyone on our list, but we will be adding him to our list, yes.

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Hi during this year I had problems with another bandom talk blog and I just wanted to send in a message to tell you how great you are for not being jerks about anything. I hope you have a great 2018

I think any large group of people tends to have some bad eggs in it, but hopefully it didn’t spoil your fun in bandom. Thank you for this sweet message and we hope your 2018 is wonderful, too!

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A while ago you guys had a guide to 1x1 rp -- do you still happen to have that? And also maybe some resources regarding active 1x1 blogs and so on??

We do! The guide for transitioning into 1x1 rp is right here. If there are any things not covered in the guide that you have questions about, feel free to come back and ask!

As for resources, I’d highly recommend following some muse blogs first so that you can fill up your blog with content that’s relevant to your muses and your ships. The ones I personally follow on my 1x1 blog are @yourmuseco, @ofmymuses, @musinghq, @insp0s, and @museinspo, but there are plenty of them out there and they tend to follow each other, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find them. Here is everyone that I’m currently following and my dash is a pretty nice place for the most part, so I’d highly recommend following them. Some of them are character blogs or non-rp related ones, though, so make sure you check before giving them a follow.

And I know we have plenty of people from bandom who have transitioned into making their own 1x1 blogs following us, so if you have any further advice not already covered, feel free to reply and add your two cents or name some blogs you love following!

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can i suggest Shane Dawson be put on banned lists? even though he apologized for the multiple times he did black face, he refused to apologize for all his racist jokes, rape jokes and skits, sexualization of minors, insulting a little black girl, and more. i've tried sending in to bandomrants twice about it and they've ignored it, it gets tiring and uncomfortable to see people in the rpc idiolizing him still.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen Shane played (except maybe once), but we can definitely go ahead and add him to ours for you. Just give me a little bit to find some links and he’ll be put on it.

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Hello lovlies, we are a brand new blackmail run tabliod type rp. We run as freelance, accepting celebs, musicians, and anyone of the like. OCs also welcome! We will be hosting events as well as have a few character specific plot drops as well as rumors, etc. Officially open to plots starting yesterday, we plan to open at 15 apps.

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hey pumpkins! We would love to get this blog up and running again. Would you mind giving us a shout out? We have a long list of services we offer, and now that we have time on our hands, we're back to try and help the bandom rpc again.

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Hello! Good Intentions is looking to build a team of mods to help run the rpg effectively and efficiently. If you’re interested, please take a look at our mod application. ( The application can be found at our url /modapp )Thanks!

If you’re looking to help mod a freelance group, go ahead and check these guys out and fill out the mod application here!

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What are your tips for writing a plot for a rp? I'm stuck. I know what I want to write but idk how to formulate it into a plot page ):

Writing plots is always the most difficult part, especially when you have very little to work with (i.e. freelance groups where everyone does their own thing). Whenever I’m writing a plot, I try to follow a basic formula of paragraph one setting the stage and paragraph two introducing the plot twist. Here are a couple of other tips that may help:

Keep it short. Having more detail is fine for AU groups where you need a lot of information to set the stage of the group, otherwise it’s best to keep it to about two paragraphs. The first paragraph should set the stage of your group’s “world” so to speak. If it’s a tour group, explain how the tour came to be. If it’s a freelance group, talk about the state of the music/entertainment industry and how that works into your group. Nobody really wants to read a really long plot page for a group with the basic freelance plot where you only need to know what the twist is. Which brings me to...

Include a twist! Groups are more interesting if they have something that makes them stand out from all the others. It doesn’t have to be anything over the top. This twist can be as easy as how the gossip blog will be implemented into the plot (i.e. if it’s a blackmail group, how do you get the information? Is there a faceless group watching the characters’ every move or are their social media networks (aka sideblogs) being hacked?) or as complex as bi-weekly plot drops. Typically, I start off the second paragraph with the information regarding whatever your twist may be.

Break up your paragraphs! It’s difficult reading huge walls of text. Make sure that if you write a long plot that you break it up into multiple paragraphs. I said two, but if you feel like more line breaks are required, go for it. Just make sure it’s easy to read, otherwise you probably won’t get anybody reading it.

Keep it simple. There are a ton of amazing group ideas that pop up into the tags that never get opened because bandom has the tendency to not go for anything that requires a lot of effort. A convoluted plot won’t get as much attention either because people have a difficult time figuring out just what will be going on in the group. More often than not, people are also afraid to ask questions.

There may be more, but those are the ones that come to mind right now. If you ever need help writing your plot though, we can certainly try to help! Just message us off of anon or over the IM system and we can give it a shot. Hopefully this helps you out.

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thank you so much angels!!! i had been talking to an ed writer for weeks and we couldn't figure out a good fc for a sibling, and holy cow luca is perfect!!! much love

My partner is an FC expert, huh? So glad we could help you out! Happy RPing!

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what kinds of bandom games would you like to see around?

I’d personally love to see some AU groups that bandom actually gave attention to and let open for once.

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hey! we're a new group with a plot based loosely around a real event that happened in nyc in 1995. we're a blackmail, semi-freelance group revolving around a mysterious radio station! do you think we could get a shoutout?

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I feel stupid asking this but I hope you guys can help. I struggle with sometimes talking to people and creating connections because I don't know what to talk about. I don't know how to make small talk and talk that last, so do you have tips on that or like topics people normally talk about when they're becoming friends or once they're friends? Sorry if this is an awful question.

That’s not an awful question! I personally struggle with small talk too, but unfortunately that is a stepping stone to getting to further, in-depth conversation. What you talk about with people will vary depending on personalities, interests, and a few other factors, but here are some basic things that you could talk about that could help build connections:

Start off with a fun ice breaker. This could be anything, honestly, but some of the favorite ones that I’ve come across have been making a post that’s like “like this and I’ll send you a cheesy pick up line” and doing exactly that to everyone who likes, or by starting a conversation based off the other character’s URL/Hangouts name and asking what inspired it if it’s something really unique.

Ask about their jobs! If this is a character that you have no knowledge of OOC or one that your character would likely not be familiar with, it can always help to ask the person you’re talking to what they do for a living. It will give the other muse the opportunity to talk about themselves (and in all honesty, most people enjoy doing that anyway), show that you are interested in more than just talking at them, and it will also give your character a chance to learn more about them, which can turn into further conversation based off of what they say.

Take note of their interests/hobbies and ask about them. If you see someone reblogging something that you are also interested in or have thought about getting into, it never hurts to ask someone their thoughts on said hobby. You could find that you end up having a lot in common with this muse and you could have something to carry on with in future conversations.

I’m going to go ahead and link you to a few conversation starter lists that I found as well that can hopefully help to spark something. There’s a lot of options within these lists, so I’m sure something’s bound to stick out! 

250 Quality Conversation Starters: The Only List You’ll Need

Deep Conversation Topics

33 Killer Conversation Starters With Anyone

101 Conversation Starters

Easy Conversation Starters

When you’re just starting to get to know someone, I’d say it’s best to avoid potentially controversial topics. You’ll want to save that for later when you already have common ground and a good rapport with the person. Just remember that conversation may not always be easy right off the bat, but don’t let that turn you off from interacting. Rome wasn’t built in a day!

I hope this helped you, but if you have more questions, don’t hesitate to come back and ask.

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hello! hope you’re well. we’re a brand new freelance rp based around a record label, chit chat records, which houses musicians and staff in four separate locations across america. would you mind giving us a shoutout? we’re so excited to get our group on the road!