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- how does your muse react when they find my muse waiting for them?

OKAY So ever since the Tumblr announcement over Apple's TOS for the app staying on the AppStore, I've been seeing so many posts spreading so much information AND misinformation.

If you haven't seen the post, click here, but basically it boils down to Apple's TOS for what Apps can and can't exist on the AppStore are pretty damn draconian. Famously Discord had to disallow ios app users from entering Not Safe For Work/Mature servers. Discord also put in a work-around to this but I'll get to that. Anyway, those TOS Apple's put in place are now affecting tumblr.

Misinfo #1: Tumblr is deliberately making the app experience unusable - False

Tumblr is doing what Apple is telling them to do. Apple is the one making the iOS version of the app unusable. Not tumblr. Although their enforcement of Apple's wants is rather obnoxious this isn't tumblr's fault. It's Apple's. Direct your ire to Apple, not tumblr, because this is directly their doing.

Misinfo #2: Tags have been ganked. - Well yes, but actually no.

It's true tags are borped on the iOs app BUT!!! "Banned tags" work just fine in the web version of tumblr, or the Android app. All the tags I've seen in the "banned tags" lists going around work just fine on my phone (I have android) or on my laptop. THE TAGS ALSO WORK FINE ON THE BROWSER ON MY IPAD. That's right, easy way to get around iOS shennangannery? Use the Tumblr website. It looks (and runs) just like the app. There are even other features on the website that aren't on the app. So if you're an iOS user frustrated by how the tumblr app now works, log in on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, literally any internet web browser, and boom bam. Your original tumblr experience is back. Original bugs and all. Screenshot below of my android phone, and the tumblr website being able to access "banned tags." Also a screenshot of the post from the wip tumblr saying that experiences on Android and the website will not be affected.

Misinfo #3: Tumblr's doing nothing to combat the ultra-censorship on their iOS app - Maybe

In their post, staff said they're working on a work-around. They left details pretty vague, as is staff's wont, but they aren't exactly out of options. This is where I get back to what Discord did when Apple did the same thing to them. Essentially you would have to go onto Discord on your laptop and allow access to not safe for work servers on iOS. It's a setting only found in the laptop/desktop version of discord. (see screenshot for proof) I believe Tumblr is probably working on something similar. To allow users to have the original experience by going through the website. For now you still have the browsers on your phone. Also screenshotted, where staff said in their post they're working on a workaround.

we all love a good polyamorous ship. but as someone who is polyamorous in real life i have begun noticing a lot of things in rpc that make me extremely uncomfortable and i think need to be addressed. 

— firstly, lets talk about shorthands for it. i slip up on this one, but it’s a good idea to try and use ‘polyam’ and not ‘poly.’ Polynesians have requests ‘poly’ stop being appropriated to mean polyamorous. before it was a shortened version of polyamorous, it was used to refer to their people. it really is better to try and say ‘polyam’ or ‘polyamorous.’  — secondly, lets talk about the language we use when referring to it. rpc likes to refer to sex as ‘sin’ and nasty, which if that’s your preference alright. i know plenty who prefer not to as it can reinforce shame and religious trauma. however, i really think people should not be using that kind of language about an identity and way of loving. saying your muse is being nasty, or saying you’re “swatting” them for wanting polyamorous ships/threesome. spraying them with a water bottle etc. anything that infers that it is wrong and greedy for them to want feels really shitty to see as an actually polyam person. i know many are just joking but it feels really hurtful and uncomfortable to see muns talking about it like it’s some forbidden, strange, unusual or taboo thing.  — lastly, lets talk about fetishizing. it kind of goes in hand with the last one. this idea that it’s some like secretive little kink. the conversation always being around sex. listen i love smut as much as the next person. but when polyam comes up primarily during days when the dash is focused on kinks and smut, it feels really shitty. 90% of the conversation is about sex and barely any times do i see people including other shipping content into it. how the relationship works, fluff, plot points, angst, etc. 

erotic orgasm bdsm sexual* vagina breasts foreskin suicide semen ejaculation foreplay masturbation

*Note: this includes combined search terms such as “sexual health”, “sexual help”, “sexual orientation”, etc. 

Tags that are still searchable:

sexual is censored but sex isn’t

vagina is censored but penis isn’t

wank is censored but wanker and bugger aren’t

And here’s some additional tags that seem to have been screened:

lolita is censored, because screw you if you want to talk about literature or Japanese fashion

sexing is censored; animal husbandry is risque now

gore, including cw gore, because content warnings are forbidden

pedophile but not pedophilia for some reason; heads up for content warnings there, too

ass… and butt as well, because even if you have to be 13 to get an account on this site, the censorship is apparently operating at elementary school level

bondage, because you are not allowed to quote Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, or Nelson Mandela in the tags now

threesome is censored, but thankfully triad and OT3 aren’t (yet)

oral is censored, including compounds such as oral contraceptive, oral defense, and oral tradition

sadism is censored, (masochism isn’t)

labia, vulva, clit, and clitoris are all censored, but testicles, gonads, balls, cojones, and bollocks aren’t

cunt and pussy are censored too, but again, not penis

cock is though; you can’t “cock an eyebrow” or “hear the cock crow” in the tags

Have a look at this insanity.  (And same thing if you do “search’ instead of ‘tagged’.):

For those awkward nights or morning afters, these have triggering themes implied but are not explicit.

“Just what did we do last night?”

"Good morning, I guess?”

“And that’s why they don’t let me drink tequila.”

“I don’t remember any of that.”

“At least I won the contest.“

"You got home too late last night and we didn’t get a chance to talk.”

“I don’t get it, what happened? You suddenly like me now?”

“Did you sleep okay last night?”

“Your breakfast is getting cold!”

“No. Go back to sleep.”

“I dreamt about you last night.”

“It’s okay.  I couldn’t sleep anyway.”

“Did you have fun with you-know-who last night?”

“Are you lost?”

“Do you know where we are?”

“I guess, starting tomorrow, we can tell people.”

“What are the chances that we’re both serial killers?”

“I was joking about being a serial killer.”

“You ever wonder how you got to this point in your life?”

“I’m really into you. I just can’t be with you…right now.”

“Is there any way we could just go back to normal?”

“You got into a fight, didn’t you.”

“How’d you get those bruises?”

“I’ll take the sofa, you take the bed.”

“What part of "stay put” didn’t make sense to you?“

"We were only supposed to be friends.”

“Are you wearing my shirt?”

“I don’t do relationships.”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

“Why did you let me do that?”

“Please tell me you’re not wearing a ring.”

“Have you seen my shirt?”

“I know I said this the last time, but “Never again.””

So, one thing I hear over and over again in my time in the RP community, is the sentence “I suck at plotting.” Understandably, plotting can be difficult. Maybe you don’t know much about the other person’s muse, that muse’s fandom or universe. Maybe you’ve already used all your ideas on other plots and can’t think of any new ones. Maybe you don’t have much practice with plotting or you just automatically default to winging things because it’s easier, so you’ve gotten a bit rusty. Regardless of the reason why you think you suck at plotting though, I definitely believe there are some tips and tricks to learn how to become a better plotter or refresh your plotting skills, and I want to share some of those tips and tricks in this post.

                                          TIPS AND TRICKS.

1) ASK QUESTIONS. This is probably the most important part of plotting if you’re stuck and can’t think of any ideas. If you don’t have any ideas, ask questions. Some examples of questions you can ask: 

“What kind of theme are you interested in writing? (angst, fluff, ships, etc.)” or “What kind of dynamics would you be interested in? (romantic, friendships, enemies, frenemies, family, etc.)” or “Should we do a first interaction or something pre-established?”

The above are some questions that can narrow down on the millions of opportunities for plots that is only limited by your imagination, and instead give you a set direction when you try to come up with ideas. Think of it like a painter looking at a blank canvas. Staring a painting is always the most difficult because you have to figure out what to draw, and there are endless opportunities, which can be intimidating. But once you’ve figured out what to draw (for example a flower) it becomes a lot easier to put that painting brush down on that canvas and start painting.

If you’re still stuck after asking these questions, you can also ask questions directly about the other mun’s muse. Some examples: “How would your muse react to x, y,z?” or “.”

Some other questions you can ask. “Would you be up for doing an AU? / Would you be up for making a crossover verse for x,y,z fandom?” (If asking for the other mun to make a crossover verse for their muse, you can also offer to give information about said universe in case the other mun isn’t familiar with it.)

2) DON’T BE AFRAID TO SHARE YOUR IDEAS. If you have an idea, or even a part of an idea, don’t be afraid to share it. Even if the other mun isn’t interested in that particular idea, maybe that idea can spark an idea for them and they’ll probably tell you something akin to “I’m not sure my muse would fit in that setting, but I could see them x, y, z.” Oftentimes, even ideas that don’t work or interest your RP partner can help spark new ideas, maybe in the same direction or maybe in an entirely different, but just as much fun direction. It also shows your RP partner that you’re at least willing to make some effort with coming up with ideas, which will in turn, make them more interested in coming up with ideas of their own.

3) SOMETIMES, LESS IS MORE. A part of why some people seem to fear plotting is because they think they have to come up with intricate plots with lots of details and planning. And while that can definitely be fun, a lot of the time, LESS IS MORE. And by that, I mean, if you can just come up with the most basic of settings, sometimes, that’s more than enough to go on. Maybe that setting is something as simple as figuring out how your muses should meet. After all, if you plot out everything from how they should meet, to how their relationship should form, all the way to the end, there isn’t really a lot left to explore when you are going to actually sit down and write threads together and that can take away from the fun. It can also be that you plot out all these things, and when you start writing, you feel forced to take it in that direction when it just doesn’t flow naturally. So yeah, sometimes less is, in fact, more, and you shouldn’t ever be worried that you have to come up with big, detailed plots.

4) BACK-AND-FORTH / EXCITEMENT. Also what I like to call “Yelling about our muses to each other.” This can be a great way to plot without even thinking about plotting. It usually requires some good chemistry with the other mun, but if you are both excited about your muses and the potential for them interacting together from the beginning and show that excitement in your ooc messages, sometimes, just yelling those excitements at each other can spark a lot of ideas. Just a simple “I can see our muses becoming really good friends!!” will set in motion that back-and-forth yelling about your muses type of conversation that leads to ideas just spilling out naturally. Just the excitement in the messages themselves makes the plotting more fun and makes it come more naturally.

                             ETIQUETTE / DON’TS.

1) IF YOU’RE THE ONE ASKING TO PLOT / INTERACT. If you’re the one who approaches the other mun about plotting and / or interacting, DON’T leave the job of coming up with ideas to the other mun. If you’ve approached someone for plotting, chances are their muse caught your interest for some reason, and you could see an interaction between that muse and yours. Instead of putting all the job on them, express from the beginning why you could see an interaction between their muse and yours. Trust me, it makes the plotting so much more easier, not just for you, but for the mother mun, too. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to be asked to plot, and then the person asking never actually contributes to any ideas.

2) PLOTTING IS A GROUP-PROJECT. Kind of connected with the above, but if one mun alone ends up coming up with all the ideas, it can make that mun feel like you’re not really as excited or as willing to put in the work as they are. No one likes to feel like they’re the only one in a group project doing all the work.

3) IF PLOTTING WITH A MULTIMUSE BLOG… Help the mumu-mun out by telling them which of their muses you’re the most interested in interacting with from the get-go. Even if you are interested in all of their muses, it’s usually very helpful for a mumu-mun to have some options to choose between. Or at the very least, you can ask them which of their muses they are having the most inspiration for lately.

4) NON-CONTRIBUTING RESPONSES. If someone writes you multiple sentences with ideas when you’re plotting ooc, don’t just reply with one word sentences like “Yes!”, or non-contributing sentences like “Sounds good to me!” or “I’m fine with anything!” I’ll admit, this is something I’ve been guilty of, and I think pretty much all of us has at some point, and while I do think it’s something you can get away with if you only do it on occasion, if you give these types of responses multiple times to the same person throughout the same plotting session, it can get frustrating to the other mun after a while. It kind of ties in with #1 and #2, that you’re leaving the other mun to do all the work. At the very least, if you feel like you don’t have any IDEAS to contribute with, you can still show your excitement over the idea. For example “That sounds like so much fun! I can’t wait to write that out!” Maybe even ask something akin to “Is there anything else you think we should plot out, or do you want to start with what we’ve got so far?”

u know that gorgeous and underrated plot where one of the muses is being hunted down by bad guys and the other muse either volunteers or gets assigned to protect them and they go into motels and safehouses and maybe there's only one bed and maybe they have to kiss to hide their faces and maybe many things happen of shippy and angsty varieties? i gotchu.

from the bodyguard.

" we don't have much time. grab and pack a bag; you're coming with me! "

" i'll explain everything once we're on the road. for now, all you need to know is that your life is in grave danger, and i'm responsible for keeping you safe. "

" hey, don't give me that look. nobody's gonna think of looking for us in a wedding suite, alright? "

" jesus, where the hell were you?! haven't i been clear enough? there are trained men whose sole purpose in life is to kill you! "

" you can't just sneak off without telling me, damnit, they could've caught and killed you before i ever knew you left the hotel room! "

" y'know, i keep turning it over in my head, but... i keep drawing a blank as to why they're after you. "

" i'll take the sofa, you take the bed. "

" once we get to the safehouse, i'll teach you how to use a gun. "

" yeah... the movies never tell you kevlar leaves a bruise, do they? you're alright, just keep breathing, yeah? we'll get frozen peas on that once we're back inside. "

" hey... come on now, don't get all upset and worried. it's not my first time taking a bullet. this is nothing, trust me. "

" it's not like i planned this. i never felt a calling or anything. the money was good, i had nothing else, so... being a bodyguard just made sense. "

" look at me... it's my job to keep you safe. alright? part of that involves taking a bullet every now and then. "

" shit, they found us! hey, listen to me. go hide under the bed, alright? take the knife, and if anyone tries to grab you, you make sure they lose their hands. i'm gonna go handle this. just... don't come out unless i say so. "

" that's it. i'm done being cute about this. who the hell are these bastards, and what the hell do they want from you?! "

" you any good with a needle and thread? i, uh... i got a little graze on my back. nothing serious, but still... no time to get an infection, right? "

" you... you're bleeding... "

" shit, no, no no no, keep your eyes on me, alright?! come on, stay with me, i'm not through with you yet. this is gonna hurt, but you need to stay awake! don't go to sleep, you hear me?! "

" thank god... i thought i lost you... you would/wouldn't be the first, you know? "

" hey, come on. we're getting a proper dinner, not microwave burritos again. grab your coat; you just survived the first week of being on the run, you've earned a little treat! "

" can't sleep, huh? i get it. the adrenaline, the nerves, sleeping in a strange bed... i'll stay up with you a while. talking kinda helps when you're trying to go to sleep... "

" so... we're gonna need to kiss. i know, i know, but they're headed our way, and it's just for a few seconds, and then we're gonna be in the clear, we can stop and forget it ever happened. deal? okay. come here. "

" next time... if there is a next time, we kiss, i want it to be real. not because our lives are at stake. "

" no, i don't usually kiss the assets... usually i just turn around and cause a diversion so we can escape. i guess you must be special. "

" you realise it's ME that takes the bullet for YOU, not the other way around... right?! "

" hey, hey! take it easy... it's okay... you're safe, alright? it's just me... you had a nightmare, but it's okay. i got you. we're safe now, nobody's gonna find us tonight... "

to the bodyguard.

" so... did you always know you wanted to be a bodyguard? "

" this is your job? you get paid to risk your life to protect mine? "

" i don't need a babysitter! certainly not an armed one! "

" i'm sorry for dragging you into this... you could still go. they haven't seen you, they don't know you were helping me. i don't want you getting killed for trying to help me. "

" yeah... that kiss wasn't to protect our identities... "

" who are these people, and why the hell are they chasing me?! "

" no! i'm not going anywhere with you! not until you explain to me what the hell's going on! who are you?! who were those guys shooting at us?! WHY are they shooting at us?! "

" it... i guess it wasn't real before... but now? i mean... i/you just killed a man... "

" ...they're not gonna stop looking for me until i'm dead. are they? "

" i guess you wanna know why they want me dead, right? "

" you get that scar from helping other people like me? "

" i can't... i won't be the reason you get killed. i won't have it. you deserve a long and happy life, not one stuck in a motel room with me until one of us gets killed. "

" i'm sorry for losing it earlier... i'm just not okay with the idea of you putting your life on the line for me. "

" you... you're bleeding... shit, that was what i heard, wasn't it?! that was meant for me! you took a bullet for me?! "

" they'll never stop hunting for me! you know that! so go! just go! save your own ass, and go! "

" quit following me! nobody else is going to die because of me! "

" so... this is what a safehouse looks like. "

" i don't think a starbucks gift card and a thank you note can really repay you for protecting me for... well, for god knows how long. "

" ...how long's the longest you've been on the run with a person for? "

" you must have a family though, right? do they know about what you do? "

" woah... hey, now, take it easy, it's just me. i'm sorry, i forgot the knock... i wanted to grab you some breakfast from that IHOP across the way... "

" you must get so lonely on this job... "

" no, no... um... w-we could share the bed. right? i'm... i sleep easier when... when there's someone around. "

This is an article without the extension. See that messy format, and how the actual article content only takes up a fraction of the page? It's no wonder it took me 7 hours to write that paper.

Mun =/= Muse.

Mun =/= Muse.

Oh, in case you missed, it?

Collected quotes from the RPC Development Tea Room Discord Server! Feel free to change wording/etc to fit your muse.

(Name), you wouldn’t be you if you had chill.

I’m hoping Glitz is like glam rock. Jazz with more glitter. Like a hair band.

It sounds like they’ve named their dogs using one of those ‘what is your porn name?’ memes.

sorry sir, you’re asking for services that come with the girlfriend package, & you’re currently subscribing to the fringe benefits deal, please talk to me about an upgrade

this has backfired tremendously

leaves splayed out like a professional on a porn set’s casting couch

my next life, make me a fuckin houseplant

I have moments where I brain goodly

I’m a houseplant with more complicated emotions

But I’m a coconut ho

If you tell me they made you cry, I will burn down their house with them in it, & I will never forget they did that.

I regularly say Mercury is in Gatorade to fuck with people

and at some point I realized that I was in too deep

get your capybaras we got so many of em. ya want a sleepy one? a caffeine addicted one? how about an angry capybara, an angybara if you will

So edible undies, but made of cookies instead of fruit rollups?

where’s that cookie underwear, i need to eat my feelings

you’re not allowed to charge me with murder again

THREE TIMES I’VE BEEN ACCUSED OF MURDER WHEN IT WAS MAN-SLAUGHTER AND YOU KNOW IT

Well i guess setting yourself on fire would wake you up

DON’T THINK UNPURE THOUGHTS ABOUT WINNIE THE POOH I SWEAR

I came back to some weird shit

I felt my entire ass loosen.

Cows care not for hygiene

I think IHOP might be where hope goes to die, and I say that as having been in many an IHOP at 3am

life is too short and i choose violence

DID YOU JUST COMPARE ME TO THE BUG’S LIFE RIDE IN ANIMAL KINGDOM?

She is a ship, He’s a canal, Can I make anymore obvious?

It’s your fault I’m gay as hell so it must be your fault everyone else is too

the feral part is most accurate

send in the bitchslapping raccoons

you don’t gotta be old to be a cryptid

stop trying to kill people

I feel like I was rickrolled by a pet site.

grand theft horsey

jeff bezos; not even the first dickhead into space, but probably the first flying in on one

YOU SHUSH YOU SHITSTIRRER

May I remind everyone that they have the ass of a frog

what emotion am I depicting?? fuck around and find out

just because you read it in a fanfic doesn’t mean its a good idea

That information makes sense but I don’t like it

The heat wave has turned me into a part time nudist i swear

this isn’t twilight

But most importantly, hotter than Satan’s asscrack in a lava bath, so not a viable option