#i am a hermit and a loner by nature and get overwhelmed by social stuff far too easily

[avaritia-ffxiv]

Idk if I'm a special case for... Never having struggled with finding rp? As in "other people who also rp". Yeah back when I started it was mostly on forums, but I moved to Tumblr at the tail end of 2012, started rping here in 2013 maybe? 2013/2014. I didn't have any trouble finding the rpc of my target fandom back then.

All the writers who matched my style kind of stopped writing over the years, but even then the rpc wasn't dead even when I left it two or three years ago and moved to FFXIV rp.

And again. I didn't have trouble finding people. I made an account for FF stuff, followed some FF blogs, looked at what other blogs Tumblr suggested to me or who the blogs I checked out were reblogging from and such, and had populated my dash within a week or two. Sent out a few DMs, got some threads going (we'll ignore what Gia did to all my other muses when I created him later on, I'm so sorry. Boy really did line them all up behind the barn).

Of course this isn't... Someone who wants to newly get into rp struggling to find where to start with that. I already knew the platform I wanted to use (Tumblr/one-on-one Discord servers with people from Tumblr) and was familiar with that platform, so idk if that was what made all the difference. I don't know if it'd be harder to do what I did as a wee tween that very accidentally stumbled upon the rp section of a not-exclusively-rp site, gained a mighty interest in that despite barely knowing how to write English, and then... I honestly can't remember anymore how I found my first forums, but once I did, I followed their adverts sections to find more, until I landed on something that was still active and looked interesting.

Idk idk. I didn't realize the trouble of finding rp had become a hot topic at some point over the years lmao. At most I figured that the challenge lies not in finding people, but the right people whose writing styles and interests in topics to explore match yours, but that was always the case.

#all this coming from someone who tends to stay on the sidelines of any community #'cause i honestly just don't really enjoy the feeling of ''community'' #i am a hermit and a loner by nature and get overwhelmed by social stuff far too easily #ANYWAY yeah i've seen some posts about this on my dash the past days #don't mind me i just find it curious that the sort of guides for ''how to find rp'' are necessary #another thing i see a lot of but have never had any personal experience with #are people who want to start ooc relationships based on ic relationships #like ''we ship our muses so THAT MEANS WE SHOULD START DATING'' sort of shit #like y'all alright out there #how do you keep finding creeps like that #anyway rambles over