East and West

this is roughly the post i wish i had when i was diving into discord a while ago and i had no idea what any terms meant relative to what i was used to in tumblr. there are probably better resources out there for this already. idk.

so from what i’ve seen in discord, you’ll usually have:

a server per partner. discord is mutual follows or bust, more or less

‘making a server’ may sound intimidating but the hardest part is deciding who’s going to do it and then coming up w/ a name tbh

rping without a server and inside discord dms is possible, just might just make ooc chat awkward. it’s basically rping in tumblr ims

after you make a server (big plus button on the left), you’ll need to send your partner an invite to it

at least one channel in the server for ooc chat (the default #general works well for this)

roughly a channel per thread overall

channel categories to organize things w/ if you want. not required. i’ve seen all sorts of permutations for ooc chats and ic threads across categories. a good starting point may be just “ooc” and “ic” categories. general chat and nsfw/inspo channels in the ooc category, and rp threads in the ic category. you can also do per-ship categories with channels (threads) within them

historically i think there’s been less focus on visuals as part of discord threads compared to tumblr. it was a bit more laid back because there’s not as much room for formatting in discord, and including images is a bit more awkward. that may change considering any exodus from tumblr to discord will be nontrivially centered around visuals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

basic formatting: *italics*, **bold**, __underline__, ~~strikethrough~~

Like wearing clothes, learned and second nature

Their mouth threatens and threatens

Hands wrecking havoc without pause

All done without any real thinking