#multimuses

                       rules & muses

@inmydrcams is not only the absolute sweetest person ooc but i've been writing with them for years now and i'm still in awe of their portrayal of elijah

“When a roleplay blog says “Specify Muse please” and doesn't have a muse page...“

🌴 I’m too lazy to seek out the muse page on a multi muse blog, scroll through the list of muses with huge pictures, and open each bio separately. It’s too much work. I shouldn’t have to click four links just to know the name of a muse, their fandom, or what kind of muse they are. I wish more multi muses just had a plain list of muses with their names, and a short description of them so I can know at first glance if I want to click through. Maybe a small icon on the side.

🌴 I'm really just genuinely curious about muns who just make separate multiple blogs for their muses instead of one multimuse blog. Like, how do they just do that? I really feel like they would benefit from making a multimuse but it's almost like they seem to have such an aversion to the idea? It really just seems like a hassle I honestly don't get it. Maybe I'm just bitter but I'm just a little tired of seeing new blogs pop up and they're ran by practically the same 5 people.

🌴 I have a friend that has had many muses over the years, about three or four that she routinely keeps or returns to, and she's the only person I've met in ten years of rping on tumblr that doesn't push anyone to interact with all of the muses/new muses. There is never pressure to do so, she doesn't even sneak them into all threads as npcs to force it, and she doesn't act like someone personally insulted her if they decline anything. I've even helped her work on creating those muses without her taking that as an implication that I want to write with them. It's so great! Serious shoutout to the rpers like her who are mature enough to realize that not ALL of their muses are of equal interest to ALL of their partners just because they interact with one or two, or because the muns are friends. Of course it's hard when other people, especially people you like, don't love the creation you love, but not acting like a spoiled child about it really does make the rpc so much more pleasant. Y'all multis who are reasonable folks, I love you, please keep up the good work!

🌴 not all multimuses are like this obviously, but i'm leery of multimuses because having one hub blog makes it way too convenient to make muses without thinking it through. wondering if you really want to make a new email, blog, theme, aesthetics, and writeups for a muse makes you think twice about it and stops you from making as many impulsive muses, than if you had one single blog per muse. i see way too many multimuses with 100 or 200 muses, where people add three new muses after they see one movie, and they never get any use, either that or they're deleted anyways after a month with literally zero headcanon posts or threads. big difference between thinking a muse is cool and really wanting to write them but too many people mix that up. i had too many bad experiences with them before so now i look for people with single blogs, unless their multimuse is older and they have a clear track record of not treating it like a bottomless buffet.

Anyways, it is just an opinion, and I'm just speaking from my own experiences. If I don't know a muse, I just treat them as an OC in my mind and try to get to know them. Sometimes it can make for an interesting interaction and you just never know until you try. I'm not insinuating anyone has to force interactions with characters they're not interested in... but perhaps try to keep a more open mind about things from time to time.