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[ SECRET POST #180 ]

⌈ Secret Post #180 ⌋

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They might not be doing it on purpose. Have they given any sort of indication for the reason it takes them so long? I know that, personally, I get into these slumps with RP where I'm extremely slow, but it's never once been the other person's fault. I sometimes become overly critical and embarrassed of my posts (which is something I'm trying hard these days to lighten up about, because, hello, fun internet games) and get stuck for long times when I try to type up a response.

I used to worry all the time that I was making my friends and people I played with feel like you. :( I tried to mention enough, if I could, that I was constantly tripping over my typing and not theirs. I guess this is a long, rambling reply because of my guilt, hahah. I think you should seek out the reason, since it's entirely possible it's not your fault at all.

I just wanted to throw in my own little two cents, here, that I know exactly what you mean.

God, I'm loath to RP lately, because I'm so over analytical about everything I do not matching the quality of the other RPer - and I think my friends take offense to it.

It's a terrible feeling, because the last thing you want is to leave someone hanging and make them feel like their reply wasn't good enough to respond to. In fact, like you, usually it's because I'm trying my hardest to be as good as the person I'm playing with.

And man, RP through AIM can become incredibly awkward when it takes forever to type up two paragraphs. It's so frustrating to be stuck. :/ I sympathize.

Yeah... It's not cool. Because -they- don't realize how bad -we're- stressing. So, there's anxiety, and guilt and aggravation and... All sorts of other crap that just complicates, and can even cause resentment.
Like, I don't like to suggest we RP unless I have an idea as to what to play. I hate going "Wanna RP?" "Sure" "Great, what do you wanna do, because I have NO ideas?"

So people think I just... Don't want to RP anymore.

I actually prefer AIM RP. When you're both right there, you can't really put it off, you have to respond. Funny, I don't usually respond well to pressure but when it comes to RPing... Journal threads are worse for me.

Well.. um, sometimes she says she just isn't feeling very well, and I can understand that. But then I see her posts with her other character who she likes a whole lot, and I feel terrible. (The weirdest thing - I do the same with two of my characters. The one that has to RP with her character a lot I love, and the other one... meh, thinking of dropping. I'm sure I play with people's emotions like this too. But the character I was thinking of dropping isn't in, like, a big drawn-out-over-months sort of thing.)

And here's hoping she doesn't see this cause she'll know who I am - but there was this one time that she hadn't posted in.. well, quite a while, and I imed her and after some time i was like "er.. would you like me to add more to my post?" and she was like "actually that would be great" and that was what made me make the post. I felt terrible, even though I was the one offering to do that. ~~(It was during nightshift so we had plenty of time, but still. Heh. Givin' myself away left and right..)~~

She plays a quiet sort of character, and she feels bad if she doesn't have enough to post for him. I play a chatterbox who will talk/react at just about anything. I tell her that she can make the guy do just about anything and my character will have plenty to react to...

I mean, it's not my fault, I'm sure, but everything she does seems to affect me emotionally. She's such a good writer and I'm lucky that she wants to write our not-exactly-common pairing with me, but it hurts all the same when she does this kind of thing. :\

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