Roleplay Guidance: Basic RP Vocabulary

musings-and-memes:

Feel free to add more to the list!

  • Mun: The writer; the blogger behind the screen
  • Muse: The character who the mun RPs as
  • Multimuse: Blogs with more than one muse
  • Mutuals: People that follow eachother’s blogs
  • Selective: Blogs where the mun carefully selects RP partners
  • Non-Selective: Blogs where the mun will RP with anybody
  • Semi-Selective: Blogs where the mun won’t RP with everybody, but are more lenient about RP partners than Selective blogs
  • Indie: Independent, not affiliated with any RP groups
  • Smut: Sex RPs
  • Gore: Graphic violence and blood RPs
  • Fluff: Cute RPs
  • Angst: Melancholy/Sad/Depressing RPs
  • Private: Blogs whose mun will only RP with mutuals
  • Mutual-Selective: Blogs whose mun will only RP with mutuals
  • Verse: Universe in which a muse will be written
  • AU: Alternate Universe
  • Multiverse: Blogs where the mun will RP in several AUs and Verses
  • Singleship: Blogs where the mun will only ship their muse(s) with one muse
  • Multiship: Blogs where the mun will ship their muse with more than one muse
  • OC Selective: Blogs whose mun will hand pick which OCs they RP with
  • OC Friendly: Blogs whose mun will RP with any OC
  • Crossover Friendly: Blogs whose mun will RP with fandoms other than their own
  • Anon: Someone who sends a question on anonymous or an anonymous question
  • M!A: Magic!Anon
  • Magic!Anon: Anonymous question that makes a change to the muse for a certain amount of time, ex. child for 8 hours, moody for 2 days, extremely horny for 1 hour, etc.
  • NSFW: Not safe for work; Gore, Heavy swearing, intense violence, smut
  • Meme: A prompt post that involves going into someone’s inbox with a specified type of content
  • Musing: Something that the muse can relate to, usually a quote, song lyric, etc.
  • OOC: Out of character
  • Plotting: Discussing a possible RP
  • Shipping: Pairing muses, can be platonic, sexual, romantic, etc.
  • Thread: RP
  • Dropped Thread/Dropped RP: A discontinued RP
  • Starter: The initiator of a RP
  • Starter Call: A post that is liked or reblogged to request a starter
  • Open RP: RP that can be replied to by anyone in a certain group
  • Closed RP: RP that can only be replied to by the person it was made for
  • Reply: An additional comment to a RP

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