I don’t care about themes and icons and aesthetics, I just like to write. I’m so happy that my RP partner respects that and doesn’t try to change me to fit in with what other RPers do.
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It really bothers me how much roleplayers use self-deprecation to get people to write with them.
I don’t really like that I feel like I have to act insecure about my writing in the tumblr roleplay community.
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I need people to tell me when I step on their personal boundaries instead of just magically assuming I know what it is I’ve done wrong. I’ve lost partners this way repeatedly and it’s annoying that I still don’t know what I’ve done. I can’t learn from my mistakes if I don’t know what they are.
I love when my threads are mentioned/discussed in other threads with other characters. I love the depth it adds to a verse.
Quality > Quantity. The length of replies does not determine how good someone is at roleplaying. I’ve seen brilliant single paragraphs and I’ve seen boring, repetitive multiple paragraphs. Same goes for vocabulary, just because you use more simple words than another person, doesn’t mean you’re any less of a roleplayer.
Sometimes I have to consciously tell myself to slow down and wait when I see a partner has replied to a thread I’m excited about. Especially if it took them a little while to get to it.
My roleplay partner and I roleplayed so often that our characters developed a complete history and aspects of their personalities that wasn’t specified in the canon. It’s impossible for me to read other fanfictions about them now without me seeing their adaptation of the characters as out-of-character.
It’s sad when RP partners call themselves terrible roleplayers because they replied to the wrong post, or took forever to reply to something, or haven’t been active on one account in favor of another. Don’t be so hard on yourself, you’re only human. I wouldn’t get upset at you over something like that.