IF YOU ARE OKAY WITH ICONLESS ROLEPLAYS REBLOG THIS SO YOUR FOLLOWERS KNOW !!
like as much as i love icons and a good psd, sometimes its just tasking to do. and not everyone has great resources. so if you’re okay with having threads with no icons, please reblog this so that people know you’re okay with it. i feel like roleplayers today are too focused on the aesthetics and won’t follow people who use base icons or even none at all. it’s not about icons, but about the writing !!
You are still going to be here after the change. If your characters and relationships you’ve made on this shit storm of a site, is too important to abandon.
multimuse blogs can’t always be expected to choose our muse for starters. when we post a starter call and ask you to specify who you want, that doesn’t mean you can cop out by saying “ anyone is fine! ” because… it’s not. if we throw a character at you that you’re unfamiliar with – or, worse, a character you don’t like – nine times out of ten, your inspiration for that thread will dwindle right off the bat. we don’t ask to put you on the spot ; we ask because we want to write with you, and make sure you enjoy a thread as much as we do.
similarly, if we like one of your starter calls, we’re generally leaving it up to you to decide you feel would go best with your muse. when we get messages asking us who we want the starter for, it puts an enormous amount of pressure on us to find someone compatible, let alone someone you know, when you could do that far more easily. and please don’t worry about whether you’re choosing someone we’d want to write ; if we have a character listed on our blog, it’s safe to assume that we actively want to write them.
if you’re genuinely having trouble choosing someone, that’s fine! we’re more than happy to talk things out and figure out a plot that works for both of us. but multis get the short end of the stick as it is, and we need all the help we can get.
are you wondering about turning a meme into a thread ?
do it.
if you’re worried or concerned that i may not be okay with it, you have nothing to be anxious about. i approve turning memes to threads 100%. actually, i prefer it !you don’t even have to ask ever, okay ? it is always, always, always okay with me.
so, go ahead. turn that meme into a thread.
i am so bad with starters, but i always want to interact with everyone, and this is, in my opinion, the best way to do it.
STOP FORCING YOURSELF TO WRITE IF YOU DON’T WANT TO / DON’T HAVE THE MUSE / ETC.
this is for fun and you should write because you want to.
if you’re going into your drafts and dreading it, that makes this for work and this is just a hobby.
i know it can be really awful trying to keep up with everything to maintain relevance but the writing partners who matter won’t care how long you take.
the writing partners who matter just want to write with you and create something beautiful.
stop forcing yourself to write and allow yourself to have fun writing again.
Like when I was getting to know the Spideypool characters, I wrote Bad Ideas because adding the ABO element forced me to round out Peter/Wade in a way that maybe wouldn’t happen in a fic otherwise because ABO includes all the emotions/hormones/etc etc so every single moment was 100x more intense.
ie: The scene where Wade is triggered and slides towards a mental break. In a regular fic, Peter’s part is basically offering sex to distract Wade and then getting upset and leaving when Wade snaps at him. BUT since it’s ABO, it’s all about the way Peter is using his Omega side to calm Wade down, offering submission because he knows it’s good for the Alpha, Wade pushing him away because he knows he’s very close to breaking and doesn’t want to hurt Peter.
Or as I was getting used to writing Stuckony, I did it in TEASE where Tony is basically a lacy panty wearing cocktease and Bucky and Steve are hopeless and helpless and Natasha was super friendly and not at all scary.
This way Tony didn’t have any angst because of PTSD, and there was no “oh no the Winter Soldier” dynamics so I could work on how I wrote them laughing or the sexy times or even just working on Tony and Natasha’s friendship.
Writing something that lets you ignore the “canon” view of the character and work on sort of ridiculous HC’s about them will help you round out the character in your longer fics.
like you’ll notice in all of my Spideypool fics, they sleep with Peter curled up ontop of Wade. literally on top of him. Straddling his waist, face in his neck, in every single on of my fics. I thought it would be cute in Bad Ideas, and it made it’s way into everything else, and now it’s a way for Spideypool to show complete trust in each other because it’s sort of a vulnerable position for both of them to be in.
“Sure thing, sweet thing” came from Letter’s to Bucky which was VERY au but let me explore the winteriron dynamics without all the angst from the MCU, and it’s completely affected how I write Bucky because it’s such a romantic thing to say which makes me write him as if he’s a hopeless romantic beneath all that Growly Goodness.
Anyway, I’m rambling sort of, but the point it– when you want to work on rounding out a character, try writing them in an AU outside of any of their normal angst. Without that pressure to keep them “in character” you can work on all the different nuances and end up with really well developed characters
This works really well in rp as well, since it’s the same concept. Most of my muses I picked up in au rp groups and they stuck around from there.
Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”
Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.
Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters.
It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.
There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:
“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster”
The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis”
BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.”
This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.
(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)
I’m reblogging this to my main blog because it is extremely fucking important.
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