freckledandholy-blog:

Listen up fucknugget, we’re going on an adventure.

  Roleplaying is pretty difficult. The muses actually have minds of their own, and sometimes you can’t do certain threads.

“But Freckles!” I hear you cry, “they’re just fictional characters, you control them!”
  Wrong, you undercooked chicken nuggets. Muses are really peculiar. It’s like…Writer’s Block, with them. However, with certain feelings. The muse is feeling sad? You can’t do happy threads. Angered muse? They can’t be calm. Happy muse? No sads for them. They’re lil’ bastards, I’ll rell you that.

What makes roleplaying so difficult? I’ll fucking tell you man. People expect you to keep up threads, and it gets stressful at times. Most people do it to relax, so when people pressure them into doing things, it’s really, really annoying.

“You’re never IC so how do you know?”

  I had a Hanji muse and I have a Levi muse, and those two? They’re fucking difficult. Marco is my relaxing muse, I focus on his moods, and I focus on how he’s feeling. If he’s not up to playing, then I go to Levi, but it’s next to never that I have block for Marco.

When I had my Hanji muse, it was interesting. “Cheerful characters stay cheerful,” I was told. No. Cheerful muses have bad days, just like moody muses have good days, ya feel?

  Essentially, what I’m telling you is this; roleplaying is an art, just like writing, drawing and all that. It takes practice, and nobody gets better without that. You can’t start rping and expect to be good, you’re always gonna frick up at the start, especially on Tumblr Roleplaying.

When you make a Tumblr Roleplay account, you can expect to get critique or compliments, sometimes even hate, but we’re a community and we stick together. People you thought were scary? Dorks. All of them. Everyone is a dork. They may seem intimidating, but you’ll realise that it’s just because they’re so good at their character. The reason a lot of roleplayers can seem so..unnerving is because they’re generally very ic. But if you read roleplayer tags, bam, absolute dorks and I love everyone. Absolutely everyone, in the SnK Fandom or not.

  Anyway, back on topic; muses have feelings. Muses can be assholes(look at notquiteblessed’s Jean), muses can be stupid(look at my Marco), muses can be aroused and muses can feel. Their feelings are conveyed through our writing; you can choose a muse but if it’s not the right one, you won’t settle.

Settling in a muse is pretty….difficult to explain, I suppose. If you’re not cut out for a muse, it’s feelings can reject you(I noticed that with my Rei). You’ll feel challenged to keep up their personality and you’ll think ‘hang on, this isn’t right’. Muses are assholes, I’ll tell you this now. It took me a few days to settle into Marco, and a few weeks to settle into Hanji. The quicker you settle into a muse, the better-suited you are(a lot of people settle into it instantly).

All in all, roleplaying is pretty hard, people expect a lot from you and your muse will always have feelings of their own. Don’t put down roleplaying just because you don’t understand it.

  TL;DR: Roleplaying is difficult, muses are assholes and everything isn’t just rainbows and happy.