this is the road to ruin

the theme.

the key to a good theme for multimuse blogs is multiple pages - though i suppose this is more of a personal preference of mine. there’s going to be a lot of tagging involved, so it’d be slightly more convenient to find things such as starter calls, open starters, ask memes, wishlist prompts, etc. i’d suggest a them with 4-8 pages! i personally use one with 8.

some good resources for themes: theme-hunter ; rpthemehunter ; rpblogthemes

i also know a few more if you can’t find anything on these, just shoot me an ask!

the pages.

so, as i mentioned above, multiple pages can be very helpful. you, of course, want your rules page & mun page (though my mun page simply redirects to my mun tag), but, more importantly, you want to make a muse list page. mine is very simple - it gives the character’s name in a blockquote, then below that, in normal text, is their list of verses with a small title to describe it.

example:

aphrodite

aphrodite;; love and beauty in the sea (modern goddess) aphrodite;; fleeting love and untouchable beauty (modern human)

this helps when you have a lot of muses, but obviously, it isn’t enough to only list their verses. there’s more to your characters than that! you also don’t want to write everyone’s bios all in the same page - it’d be overcrowded and confusing. so, solution: make the name of each person into a link that leads to their bio page! i have mine set up where the muse list page is /muses, so to make a character page, i simply add a page that’s something like /muses/character-name!

bio example:

ABOUT.

[insert gif of faceclaim]

❝ quote that relates to/is said by the character ❞

name :  . nicknames :  . fc & alt fc :  . zodiac :  . birthday :  . age :  . sexuality :  . alignment :  . positives :  . negatives :  . fears :  .

backstory :

mini backstory

tags :  about/headcanons ; musings/isms ; visage/face ; music ; likes. ships :  ship 1 ; ship 2 ; ship 3.

there are a lot of different character sheets you can use, and feel free to edit this one to your heart’s desire! the tags & ships will be gone over in the next section!

so now you have your muse list and bios - now what? i usually have my next links in my sidebar set up as general tags, such as: -    ask meme -    wishlist -    possibly your mun tag -    starter calls -    open starters -    etc.

the tags.

easily the most complicated part of having a multimuse blog is keeping it organized. so many characters, so many posts, so many tags. tagging is a struggle. normally, with a single muse or double muse, you can have fancily formatted, individualized tags. that’s still possible here, but it will also take so much longer to set up and keep track of. this is why i prefer very simplistic tags. there are three main types of tags that i use on my multimuse - general tags, which are tags for things like ask memes, starter calls, wishlist, mun, and tags that you want to add to easily find things in broad categories; verse tags, which you use to tag verses (obviously), but that you also want to make in the same basic format so you can reuse it with ease and has the character’s name in it so they’re easy to find; and character tags, which are for things such as musings, likes, face, music, and headcanons, or just things specific to one character that you wanna use the same format for so that, again, it’s easy to reuse and find! here are some examples.

examples of tag formats for general tags:

-    &&. tag. -    [ tag. ] -    || tag. || -    { tag. }

examples of tag formats for verse tags:

-    name;; verse title -    name:: verse title -    [name] verse title -    {name} verse title -    name // verse title

examples of tag formats for character tags:

-    musings ;; character -    musings :: character -    musings [ character ] -    musings { character } -    musings // character

feel free to edit these as you wish, but i figured they’d make good templates for you to build off of! also for character tags, just replace ‘musings’ with whatever type of post it is (music, headcanons, likes, face, etc). 

misc stuff.

since you have more than one muse on your blog, you want a general description, dash icon, header, and mobile color them that can fit all of your characters, or is usually just aesthetically pleasing. if you want, you can always send me a request for a dash icon, mobile theme, and header pack - just shoot me a message with a general idea of what you’d like!