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give me a plot with college sweethearts who just moved to new city together only to break up and then one gets locked out of their new apartment, and shows up at the other's door saying 'i know this is awkward, but you're the only person in the city that i know.'
The community has been growing MORE & MORE supportive overtime. Most roleplayers do not mind the length of time that it takes for you to reply to things, which is WONDERFUL!! But, there are still some people who actually do mind the length of time, so please REBLOG this if you are not bothered by the time it takes for your roleplay partner to reply to you, and would much rather prefer them to be COMFORTABLE and HAPPY.
Aspen Ayers The Soccer Star FC: Cara Delevingne Beau Ayers The Tight End FC: Ross Lynch Phineas Adams The Diver FC: Tom Holland Alexis Weatherby The Cheerleader FC: Emma Watson
OKAY LOOK. It’s 2016. Ethnicity and nationality are two different things. Saying you don’t understand how it all works is fine, but if you’re offering fc help, the next step is to LEARN and stop spreading misinformation. Ethnicity is dependent upon your parents. Nationality is dependent upon what nation you belong to and they can intersect a LOT. See this guy?
His name is CHRISTOPHER LARKIN. you may know him from The 100. Christopher Larkin’s Ethnicity is Korean. He is a Korean man born in Daegu, South Korea. If he was raised in South Korea, his nationality would also be South Korean, but he was not raised in South Korea. He was adopted as a child and raised in Connecticut. This makes his nationality American. Christopher Larkin is an American man. A Korean-American man.
Now, if that was hard to follow, this next example may blow you guys minds, but bear with me. Lets look at my mascot, IMAAN HAMMAM.
She’s a Morrocan-Egyptian Dutch model. “Whoa!” you may say. “Slow down, Raven! Too much at once!” It’s alright. I’ll try and break this down for you. Imaan’s mother is Morrocan. Imaan’s father is Egyptian. She’s a black model born & raised in Amsterdam (Netherlands) which makes her nationality Dutch (because amsterdamian isn’t a thing I guess.)
Lastly, let’s look at someone who is aggressively white.
This is DANE DEHAAN. Ethnicelebs has him down as Dutch, German, Italian/Sicilian, English, with distant Welsh and Northern Irish. All that? By American standards, that’s A LOT of white. That’s a bunch of different names for white. Dane’s ethnicity is white. Yes I understand that if you ask some white people, they’ll start rattling off percentages ( because for some, their lineage can be easier to trace due to their ancestors not being killed off ahem ) and say that they’re “20% German, 10% Dutch…” etc. I’m not ignoring that, but in the end they’re still white ) His nationality is American.
Now let’s look at all these faceclaims together. If we were using them for roleplaying purposes, we could make ALL THESE CHARACTERS JAPANESE. “But, Raven. How?? You already said they were white/black/korean!!!” you shout from your tower of ignorance “Simple!” I reply! If they’re raised in Japan, their nationality is now Japanese. It’s like roleplay magic. Yer a wizard.
In some ways, sites like ethnicelebs are unreliable because when they list someones ethnicity, they could be listing their ethnicity or their nationality. More often than not, it seem like we play it safe and assume that ethnicelebs is listing ethnicity so we don’t end up whitewashing.
Nationality is flexible in the rp world. Ethnicity is not. You cannot make Christopher Larkin half white for shits and giggles, but you sure as hell could make him Australian or African in nationality. Because changing the latitude and longitude of the place you were born in does not change who your parents were ethnically. I pray to god that cleared some things up.
*NOTE: before someone tries to anon hate me for this: bold/italics/capitalization are stylistic choices made to emphasize the importance of certain WORDS and aren’t necessarily me yelling at y’all
okay but i feel like there need to be more make-out sessions in rp? like it seems like it’s either smut smut or kissing, but come on guys. make outs. like just super slow, sensual, making out with wandering hands and fingers getting lost in hair and slowly grinding in someones lap. sleepy make outs where they’re still tired from the night before, steamy make outs in locker rooms or in dark corners. make outs that lead to smutty things or make outs that don’t. exploratory make outs or slow make outs or frantic make outs just COME ON YOU GUYS WHY IS THERE NOT MORE MAKING OUT
basically these are some plots swirling around inside the old brain. I’m just going to spew them out into this post:
like this and I’ll message you, or just message me :D
Jumping back into the wonderful world of 1x1s! Anyone out there?
is anybody out there?
here is my new indie muse if anyone wants to play with him :D
I am making an indie blog for a character who has taken up residence in my head... Here goes nothing.
My mom was a single working mother. She is a type 1 diabetic. Seeing her strenght and resilience growing up was really inspiring.
my roommate is crazy.
REASONS YOU SHOULD RP WITH ME
REASONS YOU SHOULDN’T RP WITH ME
or not I guess...
