Hey you…yes you! You’re doing great and I want you to know that I’m very proud of you. Thank you for existing.

Reblog this if you’re proud of your followers for the same.

It’s so easy to get lost in anxiety brain, or otherwise harmful thoughts. A great way to put life into perspective is this: people are not NPCs.

Everyone is playing their own game, with their own supporting characters. They are the main character in their life, just as you are in yours. They help when they can, but have their own quests and achievements to complete. It’s not personal if they can’t be there every time you need or want them to be!

Try to remember this if someone hasn’t responded in awhile, isn’t capable of doing what you want them to do, goes offline, or has their own motive outside of your needs. Everyone’s doing their best, and while we travel together a lot on this site, it’s totally valid for people to have their own limits, time, and life and not be present 24/7. Not this quest, adventurer! Till we meet again!

A Gentle PSA & Reminder on Bullying and Mental Health Stigma in the RPC

A person’s Tumblr page is meant to be their safe space. Sometimes, it is their only safe space. People are free to adjust their experience to make it so for themselves, and that includes blocking, adding rules, banning faceclaims, or venting out of character sometimes. It’s okay if someone’s content or rules bothersyou, the beauty of this hellsite is that you don’t have to follow them and you can even block them! What is absolutely never okay is bullying someone based on their content, and that includes out of character posts (in general, but today we’re going to focus on mental health).

Imagine just for a second that you’re having a horrible day, and your brain makes you feel as though you have no direct safe space (you pick up the phone and have no one to call, you feel like you’re bothering your friends, etc.) so you post on Tumblr that you’re struggling with a mental illness because the people who are your mutuals are the closest thing you have to friends, but you don’t want to impose. Next, imagine being bullied because you opened up about something hard in your life that is happening to you.

This happens with all kinds of illnesses and disabilities, but there is a particular stigma surrounding people who are struggling with their mental health. The bullying happens all the time and it has got to stop. As stated before, it’s okay to not have the brainspace to see things pertaining to someone else’s mental health, and it’s valid to have triggers. Blacklist the tag, or block and move on. Do not use this as a platform to bully someone. Life is absolutely already hard enough.

And, to people who see the bullying and aren’t sure what to think or whether they should speak up: please remember that a person’s mental health issue IS an illness. It is no less valid than a physical health issue, and treating it as such is ableism, whether intended or not. Don’t be ableist. Educate yourselves, please. There are so many people on this site that are struggling in one way or another with illnesses (both physical and mental) and life is too short for hurting people over something they have no control over, that has never once made them a bad person, just a sick person. Have compassion, and be kind. Curate your space to be safe for you, but don’t take someone else’s safe space from them.

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PSA: Please be mindful that not all RPers are comfortable being called pet names like honey, darling, sweetie, babe, etc! People can have all kinds of reasons for discomfort with those terms, including:

-being a minor

-having trauma

-those terms feeling too intimate

-those terms feeling degrading or infantilizing

-literally any reason

So when in doubt, please ask first before you use pet names for people.

Warning to Empty Blogs

This is mostly a note for those who may have recently come to tumblr and do not understand the importance of actually using your blog.

If you follow me, and have a default profile icon, and no posts or reblogs on your page, there is a chance that I am going to block you for thinking you are a bot/spam account.

I go through my recent follows every week or so, and if blogs like this have not updated their icon or made any posts or reblogged anything to their blogs , I will assume they are in fact bot accounts and will block them.
*I’m not referring to those who have not reblogged anything from me, I mean those who haven’t reblogged anything at allin general.

This is a common thing that blogs do, so if you suddenly cannot access blogs you follow, this is a likely reason.

All it takes is a profile pic change, some original posts or some reblogs. This is not the kind of site you should remain completely inactive on. There are like buttons, and reblog buttons for a reason.

*Also, if your blog remains empty and inactive, even if you log into it daily, there is a chance that it will be deleted by staff for mistaking you as a bot as well.

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