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Re: RP WOES

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you think they’d take it personally?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

The thread in question is with their most favorite and most special blorbo. They’ve also expressed insecurity in the past about people not wanting to play with that character, so I anticipate they’d respond poorly to even the most neutral “I’m not feeling it.” We have other threads together and we write regularly and consistently, and I don’t even think they’d have a negative reaction to me telling them that about other characters. I just feel very aware of their sensitivity around this one.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

probably a good idea to just not tell them and instead fester with resentment about being coerced into playing with them, that will probably end better for all parties involved.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not sure why you think I feel coerced into playing anything. I said above that I’m not AS excited by this thread as our other threads. It feels pretty normal to have varying levels of enjoyment from different dynamics, especially if you write with someone regularly and with a lot of different ships. I don’t feel coerced - I feel overly aware of my own disappointment that the things that are appealing to me right now aren’t to the other person. I guess I’m assuming things, but when they’re only replying to the thread of one character when we have multiple, that indicates to me that they’re most excited about that thread in this moment. That’s not a problem or their fault, and I don’t resent them for loving their favorite blorbo and wanting to play that blorbo all the time. I’m just expressing that in a moment when I have no other tags in my inbox, I’m disappointed that my regular tag partner isn’t on the same wavelength of interests right now, which happens with the way hyperfixations ebb and flow especially in this hobby.

I like threading with my tag partner. I like this character that they play. So ultimately, the problem is that I feel a creative gap in my ability to write the things I’m most excited to write and I can’t meet my partner on the same level when they’re so eager to boomerang one particular thread and no others. No coercion, no resentment. Just a small sadness on my part that I know will pass.