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nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

you don't have to put every single thing about your character/self on an info post, anon! Just a quick little blurb would do. specifically, what would you want my character to know about yours if I tagged you with assumed cr involved?

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[(Anonymous)]

really the big things you need are:

- age/height/weight/physical description (or a picture if you have one), stuff another character would notice right off the bat if they saw them face-to-face. i have one character who has a prosthetic limb that doesn't show up in icons but that anyone meeting them would notice right away, so i have a full-body image of the character in my info post for them to show the prosthetic. i have another character who doesn't look it but who is very tall, so having their height listed helps other players know that my character will probably be towering over theirs.
- a basic personality blurb to give people an idea of what your character is like, especially if it's not what you would expect from just looking at them (i.e. looks big and intimidating, is actually a giant teddy bear with one braincell who likes feeding stray cats).
- basic info about their world/their role in it to allow people to judge whether their character has anything in common with yours.

remember that the point of an info post is to give other canonblind people a cliff notes overview of your character! it doesn't need to be in-depth, it just needs to sum up the major points.

Re: +1 +1

[(Anonymous)]

just wanted to highlight that last bit you said abiut Cliffnotes vs in depth

if you are intimidated by the idea of writing something in depth about the character: don't do that. I don't want to read a 50 page essay just to tag them, I just want to know what my character should be experiencing/assuming about them

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[(Anonymous)]

In fact, I'd suggest even if you are the sort of person to write an in-depth biography, start it with a cliffnotes version. The top of an info post should be an elevator pitch. I'm not going to read a 5,000 essay that explains who their parents are until I'm already invested in the CR, but a quick outline that works as a springboard will work to get the CR rolling.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Da, this is actually really helpful advice - I have most of that information in my journals, but I used wiki links instead of a blurb of what the world is like/what I'm looking for, etc. I get occasional tags (I get more no-response than response tags, but I am persistent...and i'm greedy and wish for more), but since I don't have any significant CR I don't usually tag ship memes unless it's with a castmate (exceptions excluded), and I'm more interested in building gen cr right now anyway and jump into a ship meme if I vibe with the person. But with this advice I think I'll go over my journals again and pretty them up with more info for RPer bait. And should tag out to those enable me/roll call memes. Trying to break out of the 'is it okay if I tag this person' habit and just go for it! Worst case scenario, they don't respond right?

[(Anonymous)]

(agreeing) not to sound like, platitude-oriented or whatever, but i've literally been trying to break myself out of it by actively tagging even when my brain is like 'oh yeah they're def not gonna respond to this' and like. telling myself whole on that it doesn't actually affect whether i'm good or not if they don't respond. Sometimes it's not about me!! Maybe that person just isn't feeling the meme anymore. I don't let myself look to see if they're threading with others instead, either, cos it ain't my business.

And to be honest, the more i do it, the less it matters to me if a thread gets dropped or I don't get a tag back.