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depends.

i don't care about tag length and i feel no pressure to match my partner's tag length -- i'll go longer or shorter depending on what i have to say.

however i get annoyed really quickly if i'm threading with someone who only responds to part of my tag and ignores the rest.

for instance if my tag is something like "[he hands her the cup of tea. its surface trembles as his hands shake, threatening to spill the hot liquid. does she know? what did she see last night?]

really? were you at the party?"

and they respond with

"yeah, it was a great party! [she smiles.]"

i will be sitting at my keyboard thinking, that's nice, but who has the damn teacup?

sorry about your vanishing teacups you're going to have to pick up some new ones next time you pass through diagon alley

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hahaha

i've been that rp partner, and i apologise

sometimes i legit forget to respond to certain things in a tag, but rest assured if it doesn't get answered this tag it'll get answered in the next one

hey, it happens to everybody sometimes! god knows i've occasionally fumbled shit like "has this character used their name with mine before" or "did my character take their shoes off before their pants for this smutty thread..."

once in a while's no big deal, but some people are really bad about keeping props and setting in mind for a scene.

I mean, in that example I'd guess the other player just unconsciously felt that their character receiving the teacup was implied and forgot to think about it at all, but I do see your point in general.

Also I realize you'd probably be more worried about the introspection in that example, actually. But, then, I personally enjoy keeping introspection quiet sometimes, so I very well might tease out the question of what she saw last night. I'd make it more clear that I was doing it on purpose, though.

On the other hand, see the previous thread about too much stuff happening in tags. If yours meanders across a bunch of topics, yeah, I'll choose the most important ones that I can condense into a single coherent reply and discard the things that won't fit into the flow.

Honestly, I don't mind if introspection gets ignored. That's mostly there for flavor; unless I'm threading with a psychic I don't expect them to directly respond to my introspection.

In that example I'd probably let my character's paranoia ramp up as the other character responds all obliviously and cheerfully while he's freaking out.

Physical objects going missing, or actions that don't make any sense in response to my character's actions, are what really break me out of the flow of the scene. I've sometimes actually PMed people to fix it. (I try not to be that anal if I can avoid it but there are times.) Likely in a situation like my example I'd just avoid mentioning the teacup myself in my next tag and hope that they said something about her holding it or drinking tea in their next one.

agreed with this! my current psl partner does this a lot but at almost 2 years of it I've sort of given up/gotten use to it. unless it's a drastic thing like she ignores that my character just got stabbed or something then I don't mention it anymore.

besides I'm sure I've been guilty of it too without realizing it.

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