i don't capitalize anymore unless it's for Emphasis.

i like NEVER bold my character's speech. sorry to everyone who writes with me.

i always put spaces between ( parenthesis ) like so.

my trademark is needlessly tragic backstories you'd find a 13 year old writing.

Oh heck, I didn't even consider this, but I also do spaces between parentheticals, plus italics. It's sort of like ( although, I suppose, it is also sort of 'unlike' ) that, only not that pretentious, that's just an dumb example, sdfjlkhjfhfs. I had a friend tell me that they'd read exclusively through all the silver text in my app, because the italics were styled to appear... well, silver, and the parenthesis are where I cram all my purple-est prose. >u>'

i also picked up the ( parenthesis ) trait from the rp community and it's so cute that other ppl did the same thing LMAO

i think my general rp quirk is i never take my prose very seriously. i love dropping jokes, shitty little hyperspecific metaphors, curse words, nicknames, stuff like that -- it's hard for me to maintain a serious tone for very long, regardless of the thread's subject matter. i blame it on reading the literal million words of homestuck multiple times during my formative years.

wait my specific rp quirk (and i bet posting this here is gonna ruin threads w/ me for all eternity) is hyper pretentious paragraph -> singular lighthearted sentence. like so:


i specifically blame this trait on hussie brainworms tbh

another specific rp quirk is i love referring to characters as nicknames while i'm writing to lighten tone. my gorl atlas is v. often referred to as "attie" despite said nickname being the exact same amount of characters and syllables as her given b/c the tonal difference between "atlas does xyz" and "attie does xyz" gives a lot of leeway for emphasis on certain sentences.

o also i focus intensely on word choice & language when writing dialogue for my chars b/c i always want them to sound unique. one of these days i really just need to start writing myself a lil dialogue cheatsheet google doc but not 2day

...might come back to this after i notice more stuff, but off the top of my head: i tend to offset description between em dashes?

pharaoh leap i do the italics too but only if i'm writing on tumblr ajksdh it's SO pretentious looking but also aestheticTM so idc

i also love just. doing mini lists to emphasis stuff. i try to not b/c im like this probably gets repetitive but also i love it.

so like, for example: "on a list of things tama hates: one, two, but most of all three" or "of all the things expected to go wrong today: one, two, three"

fossa pharaoh leap Wow, I've never even considered it, but I don't put spaces between parentheses. But the other weird thing I do is put spaces in between brackets! Like this, usually in a plotter or tracker title:

Empathy Link [ Rei's Tracker ]

That was another quirk i forgot about xD

I tag characters in my post even though they are not in the thread. I use this whenever I reference them whether it be parroting things they've told my character IC, explaining how things have come together, or any other reason they would be referenced.

For the people I've encountered, this gives other players a sense of world building and importance despite not being in the thread. It shows that their character has impact on yours, whether it be negative or positive, small or large. One of the best and often untouched parts of world building is weaving a web of how all the characters that exist in the world interact and their relationships with each other.

I would say try it out if you don't and over time see how it impacts your feeling of importance. I've had nothing but positive feedback about it so far despite everyone feeling weird about it at first.

me: okay so with certain characters i'll try to avoid using ah/um/hm/uh in their speech because they wouldn't do that!
me, out of instinctual habit: -does it anyways-

trying my best but my best still fails me

For me? Honestly it's not the roleplaying, it's the style. It will take me more than an hour to find the perfect template to post with since I don't know how to do it on my own xD

I like giving my characters a certain speech pattern. Currently, one uses 'Indeed' for affirmation despite it not fitting more often than not. Same with 'Ah' or 'Oh'.

sometimes i have a post where i have a full ass sentence. and then i break it up. one. word. at. a. time.