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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you think Ash Stymest should be banned? He's 26 and while Lily Rose Depp is now 18, they've been dating for over a year so he was dating her when she was only 17

I guess it would depend? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, I just remember she was born there and I’m not really sure where she is now, but I believe Lily lives in France, right? The age of consent there is only 15 years old, so technically nothing illegal happened, but... It is personally unsettling to me that he would date someone so much younger than him. We’ve previously talked about how we both feel about significant age gaps and it started up a debate that we don’t want to get into again, but I think ultimately it would be up to mods on if they would want to ban him in this case.

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do you have any recs for hispanic fcs? preferably from instagram and underused, thank you!

I do have some recs! I don’t have a ton of male fcs to offer, unfortunately, but I can keep looking for some if that’s what you’re looking for. I also included a few Brazilians even though they’re technically only Latinx and not Hispanic (since they speak Portuguese), but hopefully that’s alright.

female

Val Mercado - Dominican. She’s not exactly underused, but I don’t see her as much as I used to.

Sophia Miacova - Mixed (Mexican and white).

Jessica Torres - I didn’t find anything specific about her ethnicity other than that she is Hispanic/Latina.

Barbie Ferreira - Brazilian (?). A source I found said she has Brazilian ancestry, but there are others that say she’s only white ethnically, so I’m not 100% sure.

Molly Texeira-Torres - I didn’t find anything specific, but she’s listed as Hispanic. She’s already in the music industry (she used to work with WATIC back in the day and travels with other artists now!).

Melanie Iglesias - Mixed (Puerto Rican, Italian, and Filipino).

Lisa Ramos - Dominican.

Vic Hollo - Brazilian.

Michele Maturo - white (Spanish and Italian).

Rafaella Consentino - Brazilian (nationality, at least).

male

Jessey Stevens - Brazilian.

Blake Michael - Mixed (he’s listed as having Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian, Eastern European, Mediterranean, and Hispanic descent, but I’m not sure how much of each).

Francisco Lachowski - Mixed (Portuguese, German, and Polish). He’s of Brazilian nationality.

Ricardo Baldin - Brazilian.

Pablo Herrera - Colombian.

Mario Jefferson - I didn’t find anything specific, but he’s from/lives in Spain so I assume he is Spanish.

Gabriel Soares Torrubia - I didn’t find anything specific, but he lives in Barcelona.

Hopefully you like some of these options! If not, I can take a look for some more for you.

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do you have any guides to writing a poc? im Hispanic, but the fc i want to use is African American and i want to be sure i play her the best way possible

I only just saw this message, I’m so sorry it took this long to get to it!

One thing to keep in mind when playing a character of a different ethnic/cultural/religious background than your own is to be incredibly careful about not turning the character into a caricature. Utilizing common themes in these cultures isn’t a bad thing, but be sure not to turn your character into a walking stereotype.

I’m still tagging things, so I took a look through our

cultures tag to see if I could find something that could fit your specific need and didn’t find anything specific to African American/Black characters. There’s this post which has resources that are for more location-based cultures and religiously specific guides which could also help. I’ll take a look through some other RPHs and if I find any, I’ll be sure to reblog them for you!

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Hey! We are a brand new freelance/bandom AU RP with an interesting twist! Could you give us a shoutout?