PROJECT STRIFE

Roleplay is when two or more people act or write out a fictional scenario. It may or may not include fictional personas. RP is the common shortened term for the word roleplay.

Fandoms are little clusters of fans who enjoy a particular series, whether it be a book, a video game, a movie, ect ect. Fandom is a blanket term to cover the whole of people who enjoy that particular thing, and many have a plethora of both helpful, happy ideals and very problematic ones. Always keep yourself safe and try to learn the ins and outs of how a particular fandom works, and please, no matter what fandom you are in, respect other people in and out of your own!Add Answer here

OOC means Out of Character, and IC means In Character. OOC typically describes posts that are the writer speaking, and do not pertain to the character they write. Likewise, IC (which is typically assumed as default, hence why OOC posts are tagged as such) is when a post is in character. It's taboo to assume something said IC was meant OOC, and vise versa. This is often where problems come in, as communication can get muddied and lost between these two ideas and cause a lot of problems for everyone involved.

Muse is a common term for the character you are roleplaying and is used to differenciate between them and you, the "mundane" (mun) or "moderator" (mod) of said individual.

NSFW is short for "Not Safe for Work" and describes content otherwise not safe for viewing within a work environment (or anywhere where said content may be considered offensive or socially taboo). NSFW typically refers to sexual content, graphic gore, and other sensitive/controvertial topics. (Note: in America, it is illegal to roleplay sexual content with individuals under the age of 18.)

Metagaming s when you, the reader, know something about the story that the characters do not and use this knowledge to either take advantage of a character, try to progress their story without actual growth, or have a character speak about something they should not know about. Think of it as a book: you can't tell the hero that the villain is his best friend, and the hero cannot see all the clues you can! Don't tell the characters major plot devices, spoil surprises, or explain interactions that they wouldn't canonly know! It ruins the fun and surprise!

This is exactly as it sounds: behavior or wording that will try to play on someone's empathy to get them to do something for you. This mostly applies OOC, as characters will interact differently than a real person will. If you try to guilt trip someone into anything (whether making you a character, or writing with you, ect), they may ignore and block you.

Godmodding is the act of controling another character that you do not play. "I went walking and X stopped me and then kissed me hard." You can only control yourself - so you cannot say X stopped you and kissed you because you cannot control them! Do not control other's characters like this. Most people will drop all interactions with you if you do. This also includes killing characters. You cannot kill or harm a character without the other person's permission!!!!

This is also what it sounds like: bugging someone, whether IC or OOC, for a reply or in generally just being a nuisance. Most people have lives outside of their blogs: work, school, family. It's rude and inconsiderate to bother someone for a reply when they're obviously very busy.

RP partners are those other individuals you are very familiar and close with. Consider it the term for "friend" in the RP universe, as you are more often than not closer to your RP partners than you are a majority of people you interact with. A shipping partner is typically the other person/s you are roleplaying a ship with.

A term coined from the word "relationship," shipping is when someone OOC pairs a character with 1 or more other characters. There are many ships - romantic, platonic, emotional, sexual - however the term typically refers to romance and is quite a heated topic for many roleplayers.

Tagging is the act of adding a "hashtag" via tumblr's (or other social media systems) tag line for easier searching. Typically, posts will be tagged with someone's username (#thestrifeuniverse, for example) or an AU/Verse they belong in (#modernau;, #child verse), or sometimes they are to represent what a character is thinking/saying/something that describes or applies to the character (#musings, #thoughts;, #the inner mind*), ect. Tagging helps you organize your blogs for easier navigation. (Note: It is considered rude to tag your roleplay posts with the characters you roleplay (such as: #Benedict Cumberbach, #Sherlock Holmes, ect) and may cause people to avoid your blog.)*

A thread is simply the writing you are doing - AKA the post you use to reply to someone. Typically this refers to a general plot that you have already written out with someone, but may contain writing you have not yet created.

Icons are typically cropped works of art (or pictures) that an individual uses to represent their character in the post. It adds a little bit of spice to less serious posts, and may help convey emotion on top of the writer's description. Icons are typically no wider/taller than 200x200 pixels, however it is common and trendy to use much smaller square icons that do not exceed 100x100 pixels (and some people use none at all!). It's up to the interpretation of the writer and how their icons fit their style! This also applies to gifs (moving images).

These are terms for pictures of real life or fictional individuals who may describe an individual's character's features. For instance, if someone says their face claim is "Jessica Rabbit" but their voice claim is "Angelina Jolie", this means their character looks like Jessica Rabbit but sounds like Angelina when they speak. Note that not all roleplayers use this method for their characters and may create their own artwork for their icons.

This is simply a blanket term for the editing of images provided (photographs or artwork) by the internet. Some people make graphics for a living, some make them for fun. Usually, an edit will state whether or not you can use it for your own blog's content or not. Always look at people's rules and try to find out if they mind you using their edits/graphics before you use them, and it's always courteous (but not always required depending on the person) to credit them via a link to their website!

A trigger is something that stirs up, or 'triggers,' a severe emotional or physical response within someone due to a traumatic past experience. Trigger warnings are not to be taken lightly, and they are not things that simply make you uncomfortable. Triggers can cause severe anxiety or panic attacks in the triggered individual, or can make them physically ill, emotionally unstable, or a various other amount of things. These range from phobias to more controversial and sensitive topics (war, rape, guns, violence, ect) - so it is common courtesy to tag your triggers (#rape or #rape tw) so programs such as tumblr savior or blacklist can catch your post and hide them from the individual who may need to avoid seeing them.

An original character is a character that you or someone else has made up. Most of the time it refers to unpublished characters, however in technical terms, every fictional character made was, at one point, "someone's OC." (Note: some RPers do not like OCs, so always make sure to read their rules before interaction!)

A canon character is a character already established within a published series. These are copyrighted characters that are NOT of original creation and are more often than not portrayed in a way that mixes their story's "canon" (or, established material) as well as the roleplayer's ideas on how the character should be/would be played. (Note: there is a lot of stigma within the RP world around roleplaying a canon character due to individual bias on "how a character SHOULD be portrayed." Take everything people say about canon characters with a grain of salt, and always remember the golden rule: don't be an asshole.)

AUs, or Alternate Universes, are typically storylines that happen outside a character's canon verse and have nothing whatsoever to do with the character's canon. For instance, someone might make an AU based off of a book or movie, or they may make a modernization of a character. Verses are typically setwithin a character or story's canon, however often cover topics not explored in the story. I.e., a childhood verse, where all the characters involved are children and explore how they grew up versus their canon where they are adults.

A headcanon is something that isn't really stated as accurate or blatantly said within a canon universe's writing (or a character's bio), but is believed by the writer playing said character/exploring said world to be accurate to the world itself. They are assumptions by the public of how an already developed and published set of media works and functions.

Fanon is a term used to describe any ideas or headcanons the fandom as a whole agrees on and believes to be "canon." This idea has changed a lot of what is actually known as canon in several instances.

The term autoplay refers to a website that has a music player that plays automatically when the page loads (for instance, this blog has autoplay). There's a large stigma against music players that do autoplay, and there are certain people who are sensitive to sudden loud noises that may be triggered by such things. Always make sure to either warn your friends before linking an autoplay blog, or see if your music player has a volume button you can turn down halfway when putting on your blog.

Tumblr's system cannot read dahses ('-') and therefore it is common practice to either remove them completely (the-strive-universe becomes thestrifeuniverse) or leave them as spaces (the-strife-universe becomes the strife universe). Also, since tumblr is not just roleplay based, any new post you make will post in the tag you made for up to the first five tags you place. I.e., #NSFW will go into the NSFW tag that anyone can type into tumblr's search system and find. In the tags box, the first five posts count towards tags, so if your 5th tag was #cats, and your sixth tag was #love, the post would only show up in the #cats tag - so choose wisely what you tag!