holy shit, huge fan of exo... handshaking you, such a charming game with a ton of replayability (this isn't the games thread i know) & i'd love a site with a similar presence, both rping in Space and then exploring the unknown. maybe with a player-contributed beastiary/catalog of plants & wildlife...

double post but… eyes welling up, does anyone else have such a problem in FFXIV rp of people not reading a character’s Most Basic Info (like, search info, not even a carrd)… with my head in my hands, I’ve been trying to get into overworld RP and the amount of people already who cannot read (they/them only) in my wol’s search comment are gonna drive me up the waaaaaaaaall

trapped in home world return queue Please send help

Hi! This isn't actually a post asking for help finding FCs, but moreso a thread I wanted to start to share some artists online who are alright with their work being reposted/used as icons and hovers (with credit!), since I'm currently looking on my own for graphics that I can use onsite!

...So far, it's a little kaveh-focused, since that's what I've been looking at for myself (I'm biased...!!) I'll try to update it every-so-often once I come across more!

Feel free to post below me here, if you have any recommendations/suggestions! I'd just ask for two things; that

1. the artist's explicitly posted on one or more social media (twitter bio, etc.) that they're OK with art being reposted/used for an icon with credit!
2. that you leave a note of the sources and/or characters drawn, just for ease of finding resources!

(...Quick note, this isn't a thread designed to provoke/invite any discourse; just for sharing and recording sources! I'd really like it if you could keep this thread argument-free! If you use any art from the artists listed, drop a retweet and/or follow; there's probably even cooler stuff in store from them!)

11101AM | twitter; jjk, genshin impact (kaveh)
xinmoni | twitter; hoyoverse, league of legends, fe3h, mxtx
volansaea | twitter; genshin impact (kaveh & haitham)
CALLiiBEE | twitter; hoyoverse, wuwa, howl's moving castle
enilehtnorevol | twitter; genshin impact, mxtx (premier beefleaf content)
Izyumn | twitter; genshin impact, houseki no kuni

nodding... kill the part of you that cringes, not the part that is cringe

Hi! A liiiittle bit of a peek through the door, since I've been dragging my feet on my own site concept... but I have a friend (& one of my closest longterm rp partners!) who's interested in hopping into forum RP, and I wanted to search for potential sites I could drag him into with me! I'm currently playing on a site myself, but it doesn't allow original art for face claims, and the two of us wanted to potentially play a long-term duo we've commissioned a ton of art of!

I think the dynamic doesn't need a ton of stuff to function... something that allows original art as a FC, preferably not a super "regular small town"/super slice of life heavy forum (they're a bit of a rough-and-tumble duo!), or anything with canon (as in panfan stuff, or a mix of canon + oc characters from a fandom) characters, but otherwise, it's a pretty open situation! As long as you don't mind a little bit of nonsense, I'd love to pull him along with me to check some stuff out; I'm super happy to take some want ads with my half in the process, if there's a lot of wants that need filling, too!

I know that's a bit of text, so thank you so much for considering this! Feel free to let me know below, or shoot me a DM if you'd rather keep things private-- I can totally let you know a little more about me/us/these characters, if you'd like any clarification!

this is for a custom profile gradient!! let me know if you need anything else!!

#6b5769 -> #a8879a !!

thank you :pleading:

As it says on the tin! I know a lot of people have a super well-rounded cast of characters, but are there any types you tend to default to when joining a new site, or who you've got a couple more in your roster than anyone else?

I think I definitely have a couple in mind, but I was curious about everyone else's...

- Coming with super obvious themes/metaphors! I usually default to giving them animals they're based on/modeled after (recovering furry) (ffxiv dawntrail probably made me one again, though), but I have a group of 4 I've been wanting to RP who're based on card suits, too!
- Musicians... I've rped an awkward amount of classical pianists, for someone who can't really play a single instrument well.

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.

grab a beer with a butch lesbian… think the last site I logged onto is also the one where I play some of my most level-headed/chill characters (besides the usual chucklefuck I drag everywhere).

Honestly, if it'll get me to work on my solo writing...

(Though, honestly, I agree that part of what I really love about RP is the suspense and surprise of collaborative storytelling... if I knew what the other character was going to say 100% of the time, it'd be hard to be as excited,)

Huuuge +1 to the importance of encouraging beginner artists to be able to draw their own hovers and character references- and that, too, includes people using picrews as a reference, who can only draw and take pictures of pencil-on-paper traditional art, people who can’t quite get that second hand right, but are pretty proud of their finished piece nonetheless- commissioning artists is great, especially for the sake of convenience (I highly recommend services like VGEN if you’re ever interested in buying art for forums/your characters!), but as someone who largely hails from DeviantArt roleplay communities, I would’ve never improved on my art if people weren’t so kind and accepting of my hand-drawn references back when I was 13.

There’s a big discussion already regarding the value people put on forum aesthetics and appearance, and I don’t want to get too into that- a lot of the stuff I’d mention has been said hundreds of times!- but it really does go a long way to encourage and accept artists and creators of all skill levels. Art and writing are both creative hobbies with a space in RP, and I love seeing them intertwine and interact in-RP! Going back to formats of RP where I draw my own references and create my own character art from scratch has felt really healing, for both interests.

THESE GRAPHICS!!! obligatory :eyes: ... the steelhand & memoria look SUPER sick & totally fit a character I've been dying to use... waiting with bated breath!!