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Re: RP WOES

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT (sorry to take so long replying, kind of funny given the thread topic.)

- I do tags on my phone at about 50wpm, which is a lot slower than most people on keyboards.

- I like to wait after reading a tag to process my feelings and separate them from how my character would feel so I don't just reply as myself.

- For text tags I probably take a couple minutes to think, a couple minutes to write the tag, and then also an extra minute to pick an icon and preview for typos. Text memes and network posts also tend to become multiple boomerang threads at once so my inbox itself then also slows me down.

- For log tags I tend to be writing multiple paragraphs — usually I can clearly imagine what my character would feel and say (eg he's going to be annoyed and say "So what?") but I want to adequately convey that feeling and tone to the other person, so I will think about body language, ways to describe tone, if the tag will need some introspection to clarify for the player that I know my character is being rude but I'm going somewhere with it.

- In intense threads sometimes I play chess a little, because I can imagine multiple possible responses and want to pick one that works for the thread, so I might try and imagine how the other character could respond to each possibility, sometimes I'll rewrite a couple of times.

- With my favourite deep shippy PSLs sometimes I just stare into space and think about the ship and enjoy the dopamine for a while.

- I don't tend to draft aside from a brief read over for typos (necessary with phone tags since autocorrect is a bitch) but sometimes I'll realize I used the same phrase twice in close succession or did a 180 on tone for no reason and end up rewriting.

- I only play canon characters and I mostly have a handful of characters who all have one or two shippy psls, rather than just getting into the "rhythm" and voice of one character (when I focus on one guy I tend to find in retrospect what I felt was me inhabiting the character was just kind of character blur and he sounded a lot more like me than himself so I prefer not to do that and stay on my toes.)

Re: RP WOES

[(Anonymous)]

damn this sounds exactly like me down to the taking a beat to process feelings. like if i'm loving a shippy thread and eager to keep it going or push things further i want to make sure i'm not letting that override an ic response when my character would be hesitant to put himself out there.