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ellegaard · 2 years ago

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hhhow do you do this whole rp thing i kinda started a blog and it got absolutely ignored (pamabutnormalthistime)

probably didnt missed a step idk ive never done it before

I'm sending you the biggest of hugs, anon- starting a new blog is equal parts scary and exciting!! I’m sorry that you haven’t gotten the response you’ve been wanting; I just got the chance to go follow you (yippee!!!) and I also hope this answer can serve as a promo for @pamabutnormalthistime too!! 💜☺️ I put my long answer under a readmore for you!!

The Tumblr roleplay community (you might see this get referred to as the rpc!!) is really fun thing to be a part of, even if it’s daunting to join for the first time!! A lot of making a new blog is subject entirely to what you want it to have- but there are little features you can add that’ll help you organize things to your liking!!

When I started here it was my first ever time making any sort of rp blog- a lot of the beginner’s guides I found were older and spoke about processes that aren’t used as much in roleplay today!! This handy post here explains a lot of the terminology that you might see floating around- and this guide on the same blog walks you through some of the basics too!!

Your blog can be anything you want it to be! If you want it to have an aesthetic sort of theme that fits your muse (character), there are loads of custom HTML themes out there that you can apply to your blog on desktop!! But it’s also okay if you don’t add a theme too- you can let your writing speak for itself!

Some things that I found really helpful to add to this blog were a Rules post, an About post, and a small Mun section talking a bit about me!! Rules pages aren’t necessary, but they’re really helpful for setting boundaries for what sorts of things you are or aren’t okay with on your blog!! (An example is “Will/won’t respond to NSFW asks, please don’t hound for replies unless it’s been one week…") It’s a nice way to keep yourself safe, and also detail how you’ll be writing with anything that gets sent in! (And it's also a nice way for you to quickly learn about any pages you'd like to interact with!) 💜

An About post (or page) can be really helpful for detailing basic information about your muse!! If you’re writing a canon-divergent version of a character, or you have a special backstory that you’ve fleshed out, this section is a wonderful place to put it!! Having an About post can help others see how you’ve made your muse your own, and it can be really exciting to type out even small mundane facts (like height, eye color) to give your character more life!! Some roleplayers also like to include a list of verses in their About section- if you create different universes for your muse from interacting with different medias, or exploring different AUs in your character's story, it can be a nice place to keep track of them all!!

Having a section about you (the mun!!) can be helpful too, but it’s entirely based on your comfort!! A lot of roleplayers will include basic information on themselves (like age, general activity levels, etc…)

You don’t have to include a Mun section, and you’re never obligated to give out any information about yourself!! (You can always use my Mun page- or any of my other pages- as a template for your own!! I won’t mind!! 💜😊)

Once you’re happy with how your blog is formatted, you can consider making a promo for your blog!! A promo can be any post that helps advertise your blog to other roleplayers, and it doesn’t have to be complicated or anything fancy! (Here is an example of the promo I made for this blog, which is in character and pretty simple!! This is an example of a promo I made for a newer blog of mine, which keeps things short and lists off the basics of the blog! Because my rp blogs are sideblogs, me liking a thread will show my main has liked it instead of the actual rp blog- so until Tumblr allows us to change blogs before we like things, I always like to give people I’m interacting with a heads up that the random personal blog in their notifications is still me!! 😊)

A promo doesn’t have to be either of those things, though- it can be something as simple as “Like/Reblog this post if you’re interested in writing with [character]”, and it’ll still do just as fine!! One of the best things about promos is that other rp blogs can reblog them to help boost your exposure!!! (Which I can guarantee will be happening on my end!! 😌)

Something else you might want (but 100% don't have to get!!) is XKit Rewritten!! It's a plugin for your browser designed specifically for Tumblr, and has a whole host of features that you can use to customize your scrolling experience!! I use it specifically for the "Trim Reblogs" option, which lets me trim threads I've been writing with others to keep them short when they go across people's dashes!! (You might've seen some threads on my blog that seem to start with my mutual's last reply, and only feature my add on- that's the work of the trimming feature!! It cuts out all the earlier replies from the reblog, but they're still accessible!)

If you're interested, you can add it for Chrome here and for Firefox here!! (*It's super important to add XKitRewritten and not any other versions- XKitRewritten is designed specifically for the version of Tumblr we have right now, and other versions are older and might not cooperate!!)

If you notice some of the colors in my writing (such as the shade of red I use for Ellie's dialogue, or the other colors you might see in this post) are different from the default options Tumblr gives you, that's because I'm using https://roleplayformatter.carrd.co!! It's not a necessity, but I like pasting my writing in there and copying the source code to add new colors to my writing, and help me format things in one place!! (It's fun to type into, but it doesn't save your writing!! 😂 So it only gets what I'm getting ready to post when there's another copy somewhere!!)

And these are just some of the basics!! There are other things you can add if you’d really like to! (Like icons, which you might’ve seen me use on here from time to time- small pictures of your character that you can use to display their expressions and little mannerisms!! I like to think of icons as sprinkles- they’re never a necessity, and the main flavor focus is really your wonderful writing! But they can frame and accompany what you write if you’d like them to! 💜)

Assets (like the red stone border at the very top of this answer!) can be made yourself, gathered from source blogs like @animatedglittergraphics-n-more, or even requested/commissioned from resource blogs!! I make all of my assets myself in PicsArt, and it’s a lot of fun- but also something I know everyone might not have the energy or time to do!! If icons and assets aren't for you, that's okay- it's never stopped me from interacting with anyone before!!

I hope this beast of an answer helps you out, and I especially hope it doesn’t seem too complicated- I think the Tumblr rpc can be for anyone and everyone, and I’m so excited to go check out your blog after I post this!! 💜💜 You’re always welcome back here (whether that’s on anon or in DMS!!) if there’s anything else I can help you out with, or if you’d just like to say hello!! I hope you have a really wonderful rest of your day- I’m so excited to write with you sometime!! ☺️

#(( This thing was a doozy!!! I hope it's a helpful doozy though!! 💜#(( You've got this anon!!! I'm so excited for you!!!#𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏 || 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒂 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔 #𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 || 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 #“𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖? 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔?” || 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅

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ellegaard · 2 years ago

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🐅🎡?

──⇌• 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑴𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑨𝒔𝒌𝒔!

🐅 - What's your favorite thing about your muse?

🎡 - What have you done to the character to make them unique to you?

These questions are so much fun?? Where to begin!!! I have so many favorite things about Ellie that it's hard to keep track sometimes, but I think I always loved how excitable she was when she was in her element in Some Assembly Required!! The rest of her appearances in the game after that are her responding to a pretty high stress situation, and grieving things, and just adjusting to a huge amount of change- but getting to see her pacing about, talking to herself, and just getting giddy when she gets close to a breakthrough will forever be one of my favorite things!! 💜 She has so many little mannerisms, habits, and even tones to her voice that can be interpreted in so many ways- and I've been keysmashing about her for 3 years now!! 😂 And for ways that I've made her my own, I think a lot of my headcanons focused on fleshing her out in a way that felt alive, like giving her heart issues and a chaotic cat- which is something that's fun to do for all of the characters since they live on through us!!! Implementing more of my headcanons was something that I used to avoid so I could make her as blank of a slate as possible for interactions on here- but I get so much joy from reading peoples' interpretations of characters, and I'm definitely going to try weaving more in for the nerd queen!! ☺️

#(( Thank you so much for the ask Rainy!!! I hope you're doing okay!! 💜#𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 || 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 #𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏 || 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒂 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔 #“𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖? 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔?” || 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 #rainysauruswreck

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