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Re: RP WOES

[(Anonymous)]

to be honest?

They want you to know they still enjoy tagging with you, but what you're writing with them isn't what they're really feeling. Sometimes that happens. There were years I had really slow threads with people I am very good friends with and then all of a sudden we would have a thread that clicked for both of us a lot better than the previous ones and we'd boomerang for days or weeks after. It didn't mean the previous RP was bad, it just wasn't their favorite thing (or on times I was slow, it wasn't the shiny for me, either) but we kept playing, slowly, because we wanted the other to know that we still liked the threads and liked tagging with each other.

It is definitely frustrating to not have that shiny thing going with anyone, but if people are offering it's because they want you around for RP even when you aren't the top of their priority list. It still sucks, don't get me wrong, i'm not telling you to feel like it doesn't suck to be in your position. It's just not a matter of them leading you on.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

It's definitely not anyone's fault. It's still burning me the fuck out lol. I can only write so many unanswered starters or sloth speed threads before it feels like trying to engage in this collaborative hobby with my friends isn't actually benefitting our relationship.

It's not friendship ending, but I'm really struggling to scrape together the motivation to keep writing in these circumstances. I can a see a situation where I start to let the disappointment affect the relationships (Case in point: my original wording!).

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i'm with you, unfortunately. i'm trying not to internalize the rp 'feedback' (slowness or silence) as commentary on our friendship, because like ayrt said, it's likelier to be a case of what we're writing being less shiny at this particular moment than what else they have on offer - but it blows, and it does make you feel not great about your part in the hobby.

i've been taking the route of just starting more threads with strangers or people who do seem excited for what i have to give and getting my good energy that way, and it's been working to give me that dopamine hit. but i also think, if you are not feeling your threads for whatever reason, you're legitimate to let them go. there is no court or judge to adjudicate whether your disinterest meets some kind of objective standard.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

for sure, that's legit. I agree with the anon above me though, and the only advice I can really give is to start tagging with new people and get excited about those. When I branched out from my initial group and started getting tags from people of different paces, it stopped mattering to me that some threads were slow, because I had other faster threads going in the meantime.