hetalia | [News] Comiket 83 Goods~

Yess. I've been waiting for theeeese //was told by a friend about these about how they were coming out in Animate soon uwu

There's more information about them here if anyone is interested:
http://hetaliamerchandise.tumblr.com/post/38506493250/event-goods-winter-comiket-83-limited-cushion
http://hetaliamerchandise.tumblr.com/post/38505337278/event-goods-winter-comiket-83-goods-set

Looks like the pillows are event limited but the other cookie/clearfile/lunch bag will be up in Animate soon enough?

. . . :O
Do you have any idea who runs that thing? With them only having onecoins and then super brand new stuff, it would kind of be an idea to drag them over to the wiki (http://hetaliaitemguide.wikinet.org/wiki/Main_Page) instead.

I help my friend co-run the blog on Tumblr. The idea is to get news out and fast to people since barely anyone check on the LJ anymore and the wiki is only useful for reference but no so great in sharing and spreading news about.

>o>

If it's yours, then do you think you'd ever be willing to mirror that information?
Because really, it's only because people don't use the wiki that it's becoming useless. .__. It really needs somebody who can actively manage it, and I really can't be that person when I'm barely still in the fandom myself...

~~I mean I still love my collection, and I'll still keep buying, but there's less than 10 people that like Hetalia that I still even talk to, so ffff.~~

Sorry, no can do. The point of the Tumblr blog was just to share information and spread news and awareness about it. And, I don't have time to mirror everything on the wiki alongside my busy schedule fjdkglfd

A reason as to why people might not use the wiki is because it's actually pretty hard to get to due to the confusion with the old one and that it's not really heard of or mentioned anywhere? I pretty much forgot it existed even D:

~~One of the perks of being a RPer is that there is still quite a few Hetalia fans I talk to and the fanbase on Tumblr has been improving :")~~

... Wait wat. xD The RPers died off ages before the buyers and sellers...
I'm lost now.

No they didn't 0: On livejournal, the RPers/buyers/sellers/fans have died off. But other places, they're still fairly active.
Essentially if you want active Hetalia anything, Tumblr is the place to go nowadays. Like, I have 1k+ followers on my Prussia RP blog and majority are roleplayers. And other examples: I just posted about the new Gakuen Hetalia in the anime style the yesterday and it's already over 300+ notes. And my photos for the APH Sweets Book has gotten over 2k notes?

(Plus, the roleplayers are always the last ones to leave the fandom. I have lots of friends STILL RPing from various old fandoms despite most of their fanbase being pretty much dead)

Edited 2013-01-08 14:14 (UTC)

How exactly... Would you RP on a site like that?

Something with an LJ script or a forum makes sense-- everything stays in order, and you can go back and read it in order any time. But.
On tumblr, isn't every "reply" type post just a massively indented quote block?

Or am I just confused and people don't do it in narrative anymore?

Or is it just like those Ask blogs and such-- rather than an RP itself, just treating it like the character owns the account?
Because thinking about it, I was tied up in a Facebook RP by acting it out like that. It was... Odd, to say the least.

Edited 2013-01-08 14:58 (UTC)

Whilst livejournal is your typical forum style, no one really uses it anymore and that becomes pointless and 'dead' like you thought it was. Newer, more popular and different sites = adjusting to different formats and systems; it's nothing new, just like how the format is different if you were to RP on Twitter instead etc.

On Tumblr, it can be slightly similar to threads? But it's all in indented quotes and you reply via 'reblogs' (and you edit/cut off older replies when it gets a bit lengthy). It uses an indent quote block for every new reply to the post and auto-adds usernames to the previous comment/post for organisation and to tell who is who. And if you cut off a post, you can go through your notes section for that thread or press on their url name for the permalink on that post. Or there's even the tag system where you can go through your or their blog to search for RPs provided they have them tagged.

You can do script, semi-script or literate etc, it all depends on the roleplayers

Edited 2013-01-08 15:04 (UTC)

No, ask blogs are different. There are askblogs and then there are proper RP accounts. And it all depends on how people want to handle it. Some people want to roleplay where it's their character behind their blog (such like how you did with Facebook) but most people just use the Tumblr blogs as a medium for roleplaying.

;n; Are there any options to stretch the layout full-screen? Or at least 70~90%? Without spending money?

Every blog I've seen, and every account I've tried to set up, it's all such a small little space, and the sidebar's so massive and permanent...

.__. Basically, I do desperately want to get to keep RPing, so I'm up for learning any new site, but. Well. xD I want the words to stay in the correct order.
For obvious reasons, that makes IM-based RP impossible, so I'm not at all arguing that Tumblr's impractical in comparison.
The only thing that's forced me to stay on LJ is the $60 ish worth of paid time and icon space in it-- but when these retarded updates make it impossible to change my icon on any computer but my own, it kind of defeats the purpose. xD

So yeah, I know the basics on how to use the website itself-- It's just the using the website to make an RP thread that I'm not so sure on. Like once it's reblogged with the reply, is it safe to delete the previous entry to avoid clutter?
Or does the reblogging itself cause more problems, like smushing previous posts against the side of the screen to the point that it becomes unreadable?
Do you have any examples you could link, possibly?
At work, though, so needs to be worksafe. xD

S-so yeah, it's "how do they work as a medium?" that I'm wondering.

I can take one look at Facebook/Twitter/Plurk/etc and know it'd be a disaster.
Tumblr, I'm willing to give a chance. But it just... Doesn't sound like it's easy on the eyes, yet. xD

What do you mean stay in 'correct' order? Because, technically, IM based RP is in correct order. Older comments above and newer ones below.
With Tumblr, on the dashboard, you see newer posts are above and older ones below. But on the actual post itself, old comments up top and new ones below it.

And you can do shittons of customisations with Tumblr. You just download extensions and then adjust those features or addons to what you like. It's much more versatile than forums. And if you like icon use, you just add it into your reply somewhere etc as you cannot change icons for separate posts but that's just like what would happen on most other forum based RP sites.

It's actually extremely simple once you adjust to it.

The most difficult part of RPing on Tumblr isn't actually adjusting to it or anything etc. It's actually the Tumblr society and RPers themselves that'll give you the most trouble. Tumblr has quite a fair share of elitists and also really novice/questionable RPers alongside your average ones.

And just the usual: source any pictures you post, headcanon theft is an absolute no-no, go for a good navigational theme (single column is best), headcanons are not compulsory but very encouraged, make sure you don't use any of the bad fandumb stereotypes and character quirks because lots of people will be on your ass about it. Etc, etc.

In a way, it's much more stricter and yet relaxed at the same time?

If Tumblr is not the place for you, try hetalia_connect and advertise there?

Edited 2013-01-08 15:45 (UTC)

Headcanon.. theft? xD
Amazingly I've never even heard of that-- But I guess if it's something like "don't RP another RPer's muse" then that's fully understandable. Simply having the same headcanon as another person should be something amazing rather than a problem, right?

Well, IMs get conversation in between, and everything's lost between days or any other time you log out. Even checking logs doesn't help much-- what if you decided to actually spend a few days not RPing?

But yeah, while I know how to reply like that above, they'll eventually squish, right?
The biggest problem is it's lengthy RPs I'm used to. I can definitely manage small posts like that myself, but they're only when I get bored of the other player... xD

More importantly, is there any way to lock them? It's different with a fast-paced free-for-all with multiple characters, but when it's one-on-one I'd rather only have the other player able to read it.

No, it's not amazing.
What I mean by headcanon theft is not accidentally having similar headcanons but that there are actual roleplayers out there who just copy/paste or just read over someone's work and then rewrite it in their own words and then try to pass it off as their own work. In essence, plagiarism. It happens often //I've had work stolen from me uvu**
It's not just your simple 'oh, Russia's favourite colour is purple' but actual thought out and researched work such as historical and well researched things. 'i.e. Russia's favourite colour is purple because of this and this and due to this this event inhistory and blagh blagh blagh'. There are general headcanons that most people can share, but then there are actual researched work and thought out headcanons the roleplayer has worked on that is different and unique from just a general idea.
(If you think headcanon theft is okay, then Tumblr is definitely not a place for you. Shit hits the fan quick when people do stuff like that and the community adapts a mob mentality)

That's why they're threads. You can have multiple thread reblogs going on at the same time etc. It's not all on the same post. I could be reblogging and replying to one post and in another new reblog post, another person etc. There's also a private dashboard where you can go over your posts to sort through them. You should really never delete old posts as that will take it away from the blog completely and you won't be able to refer back to it.

I've already addressed the 'squishing' problem in the picture example I showed you above. When you go to reblog someone's post, you can edit it and remove old comments so that it shortens the post and will not 'squish' it. Lengthy roleplays are fine, it just means you have to edit them more with each reply.

And yes, there is a way to lock them but that means no one else can reply to it and it becomes a 'read only' post to whoever you share the private link to. Useful for sharing private posts, but for RPing? Nope.

Tumblr's RP community is more of public RPing community, even if you join a private group. If you post it on your blog (and without the private/lock function), then it's free to access to all, pretty much.

It sounds like what you're looking for is better off suited to one-on-one Email RPing. Just pop an add in the hetalia_connect community or go through ads and find yourself some RP partners? I've found quite a few additional RP partners through there and the old hetalia RP ad before.

... So yeah while it isn't worded as such, you are actually saying my guess was right. I'll be fine in that area, then~

... In essence, I guess it's more "game" oriented?
Open, multi-player threads work perfectly, but one-on-one private threads with the players you end up RPing most with can just be taken elsewhere?

xD Sorry for so many questions, though, btw.
I'm used to helping noobs, not being one myself, and a pretty retarded one at that.

I'd have shut up ages ago if I wasn't interested, but with LJ getting worse every day, it's just that I am seriously considering the move.

Depends on what you mean was 'right'. Headcanon theft/plagiarism is a no-no no matter what. Accidentally having similar things that haven't been stolen is not amazing? But acceptable enough, but if too similar, problems will arise (and in most cases, it's not accidentally similar but actual plagiarism). There's a difference between accidentally similar and actual stolen work; it's not merely a matter of "don't RP another RPer's muse"

Not really? In essence, someone makes an open post that anyone can reply to. But once you reply to it, each reblogged reply becomes a separate thread and, as unwritten rule, you're not supposed to butt into them.
i.e. someone makes a new journal post on livejournal, and people post new comments, each comment becomes a thread but you do not reply to other people's comment threads and just keep up the thread you have. Basically public open starter posts become closed threads once someone reblogs it.

It's fine to roleplay with people one-on-one in public and make them 'closed rp' threads; everyone pretty much does that. If you want to take RPs to a more private medium, then you do that at your own discretion.

It's fine to ask questions, but it still seems to me that you're better suited for more private mediums such as RPing via email etc.

If you're seriously interested, then let me warn you again that getting adjusted to Tumblr isn't a problem, it's the Tumblr culture, community and society that is a problem. One small comment or foot out of place and you can offend half the community and start massive drama (and we really don't need more drama?)

Edited 2013-01-08 17:04 (UTC)

"Right" in that yes, the issue is making sure not to copy how others play their characters. That's common sense, so I don't see it causing any problems.
Having matching thoughts in advance, like "I ship ___ because ___" and finding that someone who plays the other half agrees, is basically finding the perfect RP partner for that pairing.
My own headcanon for Russia has been at least three years in the making (If Inksome hadn't died, I'd know the exact time. But. Still), with help only from people who don't play Russia. So. ;w; It should be fine.

Yes, but that's what I mean: One post allows multiple users to each make their own thread which turns one-on-one with the OP-- they each stay one-on-one, but more than one person's allowed to reply to the start post, right? If so, that's a game or dr or musebox or the like, as opposed to a post that clearly states only one specific user is allowed to reply.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, and when you make a start post, you're absolutely not allowed to get more than one thread out of it. Which would really be terrible if the first person to reply was a bad writer, or was awesome but played a character you didn't want in the scene...

So yeah, everything stays open like a game, but if you have a more serious story in mind and don't need to share it, no harm in asking the RPer if they're willing to write elsewhere?

I'm honestly not. I can't trust or even like a player enough for private threads before getting used to them in a game or dr setting.
There's nothing worse than committing to a one-on-one thread with someone you don't know, only to see their post is full of typos or fail grammar, and have no possible way to explain why you don't want to tag them back. XD

It's just with things like smut, or anything AU that might damage a reputation of being in-character, I hate letting people see unless they're directly involved. (I have had stalkers. fdhsdfsg. xD) Not that I need either of those types of threads to happen (and not that I still play with the only person who's ever pushed for them), but I'd just rather be informed.

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