Specifically for me, often I just try to ignore it and write anyways.

I think that even if my writing is the worst, or if say, my symbolism is a bit too heavy handed or something, if I'm not writing I’m not gonna get any better. This is assuming you mean the type of inner critic that stops you from writing entirely due to whatever reasons you may have, and not the one you use to edit a post when proofreading. Currently, I’m just trying to mould my hateful ‘inner critic’ into something that’s more useful — like, why do I feel this way about this line, am I being as fair to myself as I would be when reading someone else’s writing? Going the curiosity route may help, as it does for me, because sometimes I am being so dreadfully unfair towards myself, or it's because life is stressful and that just seeps into everything sometimes.

I’m speaking about writing broadly here, but there /is/ that extra social pressure I feel about exposing my writing to other people in a collaborative way that makes this critic worse, I feel. RP being a social hobby does bring pressure that my writing my novels doesn’t nearly as much. But again, we’re all pretty much on the same page, and RP isn’t about perfect final drafts, it’s about making a story together.

sick and tired of being sick and tired

recently learned that Aesprite is free if you compile it yourself. This could be my excuse to finally become a real pixel artist, huh

Finally starting to write posts again, I missed it

Recently I had a dream about a reply to a thread that doesn’t exist, but I may make it exist. It also featured video game enemies from a game I have been playing lately and I didn’t even question their appearance until I thought more on it, I just sorta accepted those enemies as part of the site’s world.

Interesting how so many discussions I’ve had about how “literate” is not a great term to use for RP end up with someone saying “well, it’s always been like this! And it’s not a problem” when, in the very same discussion, there’s been people talking about how it’s been a problem for them, or how the term just feels blah overall esp nowadays. “It’s always been like this so why change it” is such a bad justification on so many levels. And, in this case, it has been changing already in many circles anyways, but the term will probably still continue to residually float around in some way, which is fine enough, but I'm so glad so much of the emphasis has moved on in some communities

Slower-paced RP sites are definitely around, it just takes some looking for them, speaking as someone who tends to linger on one or two sites for long-term. It’s worth combing through “old” directory posts and looking at sites, plenty of these sites don’t get as actively advertised because the staff there are busy etc.

This also goes for slow-burn roleplayers and the like, I find that I'm more likely to find them on older and more slow-paced sites sometimes, instead of brand new ones

Another way I’ve used to find people who post at a similar pace, or won’t rush you, is to post RP partner searches/site wanted ads on directory sites. I don’t think there’s actually an extreme lack of patient people etc. but because they tend to be busier, they are harder to find/quieter in general

On the other hand, on sites that are kinda omni-RP communities that mainly focus on 1x1 RP, I find that “slow” posters are more common, so when I was lacking for people to write with at first, I looked there

Because yeah, I really cannot keep up with fast-paced sites much anymore...I don’t think I ever actually did, even back in the old days. I’ve tried to compromise and join sites that had tighter activity requirements or, while didn’t have those activity requirements, had the overall energy of being faster-paced, and it just didn’t work out for me. It’s very possible to find people and places with similar values and thinking, though, even if it takes a while or some trial-and-error. It isn't a bad thing to try out new places and end up figuring they're not for you. There's so many layers here...forums with settings I'd want to write + with a community I fit in with + with a pace I can keep up with and so on, but I've had success without compromising too much on any of that

spending the entire evening working on something and then deciding I don't actually like it in the end is a pretty terrible feeling even if most of the time I'm pretty relaxed about it. oh well, it's part of the process and all that, it will not stop me from trying again

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