Gonna be suuuper mushy, but...
I've known two of my current RP partners- and my closest friends!- for a pretty long time; one for 4 years, and one for 2 years! We both met through mutual friends, albeit different ones, and even though I've grown a little distant from the people that introduced us, I'm still eternally grateful for them because of it. I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about RP as a concept and a community, from time to time, but these two are definitely my best friends, in and out of the hobby. I just met one of them in-person this summer— not to get embarrassed or shy, but I really love her- and I have plans to meet the other around December or so, once I've settled into my new workload.
For advice... don't be afraid to find things you connect with outside of RP. People aren't RPbots ; shared hobbies otherwise, favorite books or movies, small snippets about one another's lives, or just how you've been doing this past week really mean a lot. I think the best RP partners I've had were with people I'd want to be friends with off the internet, too.
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