#believe it or not there is not an active vagueposting situation happening so you don’t have to worry i’m doing the vagueposting here

[romansmartini]

hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️

[armsdealing]

6, 9, 16, 19, 26, 29, 36

be honest / accepting / @inkokeli​

9 and 29 i’ll answer in a different ask as to not make this reply too lengthy!

6. do you prefer writing male muses or female more? why? 

i’ve always written more male muses than female ones. i’ve always written more male characters, period. it has always been like that. i started writing at around the same ages i was figuring out my sexuality, when i was more certain i was gay than anything else (i consider myself bisexual right now) and one way for me to explore this in a safe manner was to read and write about men, who happened to like other guys. so my focus has not only always been in men, but in gay or bisexual men. 

this translated into my roleplaying, which is something i’ve always been quite self-aware of. i overthink myself a lot, and when i am coming up with a new character, i worry if it’s really necessary for me to worry about yet another male muse, and likewise i try to put special focus on my female characters’ development. i especially appreciate when people show interest in any of my girls tbh, and i try to give other people’s female characters my focus and appreciation. the same applies to nb characters, too.

16. if you could change one thing about rp on tumblr, what would it be? why?

any of the gross attitudes and opinions the rpc loves to flaunt when it thinks you’re not looking.

19. do you delete anon hate or post and address it? why?

in all my years of being in the rpc (and that’s since 2012, iirc), i’ve never gotten anon hate. i’m not sure why. maybe i’m just too quiet! maybe i’m just too secluded or irrelevant. maybe i’m just lovely. closest thing i’ve gotten are anons (allegedly from people i know) hurt about me not giving them enough attention, and that’s about it. i have a bad track record of people getting crazily possessive over me.

if i were to ever get anon hate, i’m not sure what i would do about it. depends on why i’m being hated on, i guess! however, i’d like to believe that people would sooner approach me privately with their concerns than hit the anon button. i believe in giving people this courtesy, before going onto making problems public. i am a private person, and believe that if the goal is to solve misunderstandings, a one-on-one approach is best. a public argument is tense by very nature. it’s less about solutions, and more about having an audience – which might be necessary in certain situations, but detrimental in others.

26. how do you feel about vague posting?

what i have been victim of is extreme amounts of vagueposting in the past, all done by people i’ve considered good friends of mine. again, born out of jealousy and them feeling entitled to my attention/time/communication. if people think vagueposting is harmless they need to reevaluate themselves. that shit pushed me to the point of having anxiety attacks. i couldn’t even post without feeling like i had a weight tied to my esophagus. i despise vagueposting, and i refuse to partake in it. i get it if sometimes you need to vent about things and problems, but i don’t believe in passive-aggressiveness. either u passive or u aggressive, pick one. if someone makes you uncomfortable, approach them! if you don’t want to/are too shy, block them! keep your experience enjoyable.

36. what’s one thing that other people seem to hate that doesn’t bother you?

a lot of people seem off put by model and singer fcs and like… these are people i cannot roleplay with. maybe it doesn’t look much like it with my current active roster, but i use a lot of models. my flagship character has a singer fc. i believe there’s a lot of prejudice regarding the use of these fcs, and many reasons that don’t really hold up to scrutiny. it has seemingly died down over the years, for which i’m glad.

[smarmykemetic]

anon bc my kemetic blog is a sideblog; I dont understand this (message 1/2 or 3) Re: "disrespecting the NTRW" thing; I've read so many sources on people getting angry at them, threatening them & their temples like...obv it's not good to do that but i feel like they would understand if humans feel hard done by and pissy. Not to say they wouldnt *also* be angry that youre arguing or outright threatening them but its not like the way it is in christian spirituality (as far as i understand)

(2/2 unless i add more) and then as far as i know, thru my own research people also applied their own ideas to the NTRW all the time and joked with/about them??? And i feel like all-powerful or not- everyone enjoys a damn joke. And the “politics=/=religion thing” weirds me out too bc kemetic (place, not religion necessarily) politics was innately tied w their religion because their religion kind of like WAS their society. The NTRW influenced every aspect of fckn everything.

(since you haven’t sent anything else im just publishing like this lol)

I agree, for the most part. Based on the sources we have, it’s up to the individual practitioner (and their gods, naturally) what kind of piety requirements, if any, are enforced. We have hymns and poems naming the gods as perfect, beyond reproach, deserving of eternal adoration; we have written records of insulting the gods being considered a crime and punished accordingly. Then we have some myths that pretty clearly portray the gods as doing silly or immoral things (i.e. The Contendings), which even if you insist these are not “real myths” but political satire, still indicates that in antiquity, these kinds of irreverent jokes and portrayals of gods were…well, maybe not common, but at least on some level accepted. You have the portrayal of Set, which changed based on a period’s politics, sometimes going so far as to call him literally evil or equate him with A/pep itself, often myths centered around not only Set’s defeat, but his humiliation -which should count as unacceptable blasphemy against a netjer the way the kemetic piety-police-wannabes act, but it is undeniably something that happened in antiquity. Then we have the spells and rites where people threaten the gods, talk about eating them in the Cannibal hymns, or even call themselves the gods as a way of achieving a magical end. Talking about in any way overpowering the gods, or being ‘equal’ to them (even only in a ritual sense of taking on their mantle for a spell), is exactly the kind of thing that gets these people’s panties in a bunch, but I mean. The ancients #did that. Are we supposed to ignore historical precedent because it makes people uncomfortable, or doesn’t sound respectful enough for somebody’s pious sensibilities?

The historical records we have, to me, show that there is a diversity of acceptable, historically-verified ways of interacting with the netjeru in different situations. But people seem to hold the first example as the only kind of historical interactions with the gods that modern practitioners are “allowed” to engage in. Some people even seem to think that they have the right to assert that the NTRW “wish that hubris was part of kemeticism”, which sounds A) unlikely, since they had millenia of state religion to make such an idea part of their theology if they wanted to; B) ahistorical, since while the idea of being disrespectful and arrogant is certainly found in the ancients’ writings on ma’at (usually uhmmm talking about how people should treat each other but whatevs I guess), the Greek idea of “hubris” was just that, a Greek idea, not an Egyptian one, and C) pretty goddamn arrogant for a human to speak for their gods unilaterally, using their UPG literally to say that how other people are practicing and believing is wrong, even as they’re claiming not to. (Yes, this is in response to one person’s recent statements in particular, but I’m keeping my response to this pretty clear vagueing on this person’s part also a vaguepost, because I genuinely don’t think there’s anything to gain through a real argument.) 

This kind of rhetoric, in my opinion, claims to be “for the gods’ benefit” while is really more focused around the tastes of one group of kemetic practitioners, wanting their particular religious practice and ideas -which, to be clear, are no better and no worse than anyone else’s- to be “the gold standard”, and everyone else’s to be categorized as lesser, heretic even. I think it’s more likely that the gods want some people to be more formal and reverent in their practice than others, and they should be supported and celebrated for doing so, but well. We aren’t all priests. We aren’t all the same, and we shouldn’t try to be.

And yeah trying to claim that politics and religion should be completely separated is ludicrous because not only is ‘separation of the Church and State’ something that only became the norm (allegedly, as it doesn’t really happen much irl) over the last few centuries, but “politics” basically encompasses or at least affects every single aspect of human existence anyways. Just like how Evangelical Christians in America have largely erased the political implications of Christ’s sermons against greed and his commands to care for the poor, modern-day kemetics want to erase the political implications of the tenets of ma’at that command us to care for the beggar and the orphan, not to wink at (close your eye to) injustice. They want to water the concept of ma’at down from a powerful moral imperative to keep us fighting for justice and actively working to create a world of harmony, into a safe little idea about reverence for the gods, correct ritual practice, and being ~nice and polite~ regardless of the situation. 

To Ammit with all that bullshit.