An Open Letter to All My Past and Present RP Partners, Followers and Anyone Struggling to Make It In Current Tumblr RP Times
//I’m going to be open and honest here. This is not meant to attack anyone nor to hurt anyone’s feelings, but simply to make a statement, explain, and to reach out to those who may be feeling much the same that I have.
My own personal issues aside, I have not been present on this multimuse blog for some time. I started it with all the best intentions and dreams of being able to be organized, professional and HAVE FUN with writing these characters that I love. It went on to become a place that I didn’t enjoy coming on to, especially with my own troubles in real life. (Remember kids, BE NICE to people because you have NO IDEA what the person behind a tumblr or on the other end of a screen may be going through or dealing with at any given time. The same could be true even in real life, but our focus is on tumblr here.)
I started this blog as a means of keeping all of these characters that I truly love and absolutely adore writing for in one easy to access place. That way, I didn’t have to blog hop every 5 seconds and my partners didn’t have to be followed by 35 or more different blogs that were all just me. I could keep everything organized, breathe a sigh of relief, do what I love doing and just HAVE FUN. However, it didn’t end up that way for me and I know it’s something a lot of multimuse blogs face. You lose followers when you convert SIMPLY BECAUSE you’re a multi and not a single muse. You don’t get treated the same as single muse blogs either. You’re not considered a part of ANY of the fandoms from which you write JUST BECAUSE you’re a multi and not a single muse. Aside from OCs, multimuse blogs seem to have to work the hardest to be taken seriously, to get any follows, and to even be considered a VALID writer of ANY of the muses they play.
Speaking as someone that once held a very popular blog for a very popular character and had around a thousand followers (follower count is by NO MEANS a show of your quality by the way, remember that) I started this multi and watched all of these old RP partners and followers drop me like I was nothing. I shrugged that off and went on with this blog anyways. Over the time span of over 2 years, this blog has been the HARDEST for me to keep RP partners or gain any followers.
I am not leaving this blog due to a low follower count or lack of popularity. I tried many times to shrug it off and let the pressures and culture of the current Tumblr RP community effect me to the point that I began to feel more depression and worthlessness here than I ever had. I let it get to me when I shouldn’t have. Because, darlings, you should NEVER EVER let these things dictate what YOU want to do and what makes YOU comfortable.
Because, in the end? You ARE valid. You ARE valued. You ARE a part of the fandoms that you write characters from. You are NO DIFFERENT from any of the single muse blogs for the same characters that you write out there. You, my friends, just have a lot of love to give for a lot of characters and you want to share that with others and you know what? That is TOTALLY okay. Isn’t that what RP is in the first place? We’re all here to write characters we love and tell more and bigger stories for them with other people who enjoy writing.
Realizing all of this, I decided that I wasn’t going to drop my multimuse blog completely. I had planned to just do what it seemed the Tumblr RP community preferred and create single muse blogs for all of these characters again. At first? It was fun, but when you get above 5 or so and start heading towards over 30? It’s not so fun. You start to get disorganized. Stressed. So I backed away.
So, here I am. Starting to recreate and rebuild my multi somewhere else so that I can pick back up from the beginning. I will no longer let the pressures, stresses and worries that I am not good enough consume me and put a damper on what I love to do. I have so very little free time and I would much rather spend it doing something that makes me HAPPY. Writing has always done that for me and being able to write characters that I love and have connections to just makes it that much better. Why limit myself because it seems others don’t like what I do? Why change what I am doing to please people that probably don’t matter in the end? You will still make friends. You will still have writing partners. Numbers are insignificant at the end of the day.
My only wish is that the stigma towards multimuse blogs will someday soon end in the Tumblr RP community. That myself and other multimuse blogs will become a part of their fandoms again and be recognized and valued just like all of the other single muse blogs. That we will not be looked at with some sort of disdain and avoided before we are even given a chance. That we can all come on here and be happy and have FUN doing what we love doing and share our nerdy and ridiculous love for this character or that with other like-minded people.
Be kind to others. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. And most importantly, don’t give up on what makes you happy.
Go for it. Create that multimuse. Write the characters you want. Tell the stories you want. Have FUN. Only YOU are in control of that.