- Can’t fly, is mad about it
- Sadguy Miseryman
- bird

uhhh Cheerios I guess? odds are that there’s a type I like much better and I just haven’t tried it

next question: What’s the strangest fact you know? Or the most recent one, if you cannot decide

My friend gifted me a game and it's jeopardizing my overall activity. BG3 couldn't do this to me but this indie game? It’s so much fun... I’m thinking “oh, just one more run...” all the time. I'm seeing the UI when I close my eyes --

it's going to be quite hot tomorrow and I'm not okay with this. it's the first Saturday (in a long time) where I'm getting some actual peace & quiet & freedom and it's gonna scorch me? that's fair I can still celebrate it all by taking an extra nap and maybe think of ideas to for this new event :0

I’m aware this isn’t an option but: Private Messages. I still miss plotting in PMs on forums. While PMs are technically not as private as Discord DMs (any admins, typically, can view them if they really want to on most hosts and especially self-hosts) the not-as-public aspect removes most qualms I have about responding to anything more publicly. It’s still -almost- the best of both worlds for me, especially since you also just use character accounts for the PMs and keep all plots/planning/IC-related communication neatly sorted that way.

That said...

I think everything I could say about forum plotting here has already been said. I do miss it, since outside of Private Messages, posting threads with all my ideas and all that felt easier. 

I never really used the ol’ friends/lovers/haters templates and moreso did freeform ideas alongside my typical “I will thread with whoever and if you can’t think if anything I probably can” since I do love making up scenarios for characters to just sorta stumble upon. I also still like first-meet threads—given that it makes sense for the characters to not know each other. One of my favourite things I notice on sites nowadays is the use of “public information” and making it clear what characters may know about each other, which makes spontaneous open thread shenanigans a bit more fun.

While I always tell anyone that there is no need to instantly respond on Discord, I’m a rambling fool and all that, there remains the pressure to respond quickly and even the expectation from others, at times, for that. Which ultimately makes sense as instant messengers are designed for that, it was the exact same when I used to use MSN, AIM and so on. And with those messengers I mentioned: you also had the mortifying ordeal of being unable to edit/delete your messages! And the MSN nudging. Ough. I appreciate roles which indicate whether or not someone’s fine with being messaged and/or tagged, saves asking or worrying (I will worry anyways, but that’s for /me/ to deal with).

But I think it’s a matter of mentality and that Discord DMs can actually be better than or the same as non-PM forum plotting for me because it’s private and I feel a lot more comfortable that way. I’m a patient person, despite also being as forgetful as a pebble, and I also don’t like being rushed, and so chatting in a public plotting channel just puts pressure on me when I like to sit back and think. I do like the idea of Discord threads, but I’d have to test it to see how much I like it.

Forums will always have the fact that they don’t tend to have such a limited character limit as Discord does, and Discord feels downright cramped to me. Etc etc.

So too long, didn't read: it’s Private Messages > Discord DMs ≥ Forum Plotting ⋙ Public Discord for me (and let's hope I remembered the correct face for greater than...)

Also, really considering starting the Frieren manga — and I'm actively following Witch Hat Aetlier still. Dungeon Meshi is over ;0; 

Thank you!~ I'm doing a bit better now. You're so lucky :0 It shocks me when I hear someone has never had a migraine. I always think "well, I don't get them as often as some of my family members so I'm pretty normal" but then I remember...some people never get them at all 0.o

right ?? Phone screens are so so bad for this

I woke up with a migraine and all I'm hoping is that it won't last for days this time. also I there should be an even darker brightness options for screens I think, that would be nice. anyways, I'm going into the abyss or something, let me go home

- I don’t have a chronological order for how I write posts, sometimes I’ll write the last paragraph first and work backwards, or it’s total chaos. Either way, somehow writing happens
- When I read someone’s reply, I note all of the things I think of when I read it and write it down. I sometimes make an outline of my reply I have planned when reading but...sometimes I don’t. I have general thread + character notes I make alongside the outline which I write at the start, and sometimes I nearly forget to edit them out which /would/ reveal too much if I left them in
- I absorb other people’s writing and am extremely reflective, I like building on already established things if I’m allowed to do so, though I understand when someone wants more control
- Sorry, I have an extremely broad and I fear is annoying sense of humour and it’s injected in my writing like some kind of contagion, though I usually keep this appropriate to my character’s perspective or reflective of it even if not a direct indication of it. Like yeah, my drier characters you will most likely, see much more subtle hints of it overall, but I will slide something in I’m sure
- I keep a list of seemingly arbitrary statistics that aren’t really arbitrary. Don’t worry, there’s totally no hidden metres going on or anything, trust me~
- I think of everything I read as exclusive to that character's perspective, so even when someone is actually misinterpreting my character, I think it’s their character doing it, and not the player. I find this fun
- I discard roughly a paragraph of text or much more per post, most of my editing is removing stuff, and then making sure that my writing is comprehensible after doing all that. I have been trying to do less of this lately on the sites I’m playing on, but I regret it and will probably go back to cutting a lot more out
- There’s certain words I always use, even 10 years later, and unique misspellings of them that I miss when proofreading. At this point? It’s flavour
- Doing-this-relatively-often or doing-this, I almost exclusively do this in my RP writing I notice (and I only use parenthesis in-body-text in RP writing compared to any other type)*

been trying to remember all the character types I tend to RP, I think there’s a distinct difference in characters I write in solo work versus my RP characters, so let me see here...

I have played lots of characters I would probably clash with or dislike or downright loathe. An example: I worry all the time about being /accidentally/ mean, so playing characters who are purposefully vicious can be fun but also very distant from me

but I have also been thinking lately on sometimes my initial concepts for characters origin as...taking some of my worst traits, many I’ve worked through and no longer actively possess. And then blowing those up to extremes or just to the point where they can be explored in an interesting way, in a fashion of “what if I was unfathomably bombastically worse, what if I just gave up/never realized my mistakes/doubled down instead of improving” while also shaping them enough to be way more than those traits & me. They’re at times relatable, in the worse ways possible, like nails-on-chalkboard.

If I was someone’s character? Well: I’m often sleeping whenever I get time nowadays... the lives between my characters and I are, thankfully, different than this. Not sure if I could make writing myself interesting, and definitely certain I wouldn't have fun doing it

I don't play any but I have friends who send me pictures of gacha characters they think I’d like

my willpower is unbreakable...so far. But I do like them

And, nearly as importantly of course, I discovered that I love mangoes & I eat them every chance I can