What's your tell?

Roz

Oh god. I’d much rather hear what OTHER people think my tells are. I have no idea myself.

sao

I have no idea. I do think all my characters end up having the same sense of humor but… ???

Roz

Actually, you know what it fucking is? I compulsively answer OOC questions on channels.

helvetica

I either play a goofy-ass manchild or a scary lady, and my sentences never fucking end.

ten

My dashes – fuck traditional punctuation.

IoleRae

Speech pattern, “Pause.”, —

Roz

@IoleRae said in What's your tell?:

Speech pattern, “Pause.”, —

Oof, yeah, I do that, and often with “Beat” or “A beat” because at some point I learned that usage and it has never left me.

dvoraen

@Roz You have KIND OF a tell with how and when you capitalize words. I haven’t cracked the code yet but ONE DAY I WILL.

Roz

@dvoraen said in What's your tell?:

@Roz You have KIND OF a tell with how and when you capitalize words. I haven’t cracked the code yet but ONE DAY I WILL.

The code is: When It’s Funny.

IoleRae

@Roz

It is almost impossible for me to break that sort of habit; I tried to drop it for a while (self-conscious about the correctness of my writing; I convey tone reasonably well with the style, but the technical quality of it is atrocious), but eventually just gave up. It is in my bones at this point.

Selira

The fact that many of you are listing things I would have considered my tells means they aren’t my tells, I suppose.

I feel I’m pretty fucking obvious, though, but couldn’t pin down why.

Snackness

I know I have distinct word usage patterns, I just can’t list any out at the moment.

Testament

I know my usual thing is that I emphasize a lot of words by using * word *. I also know that I tend to play older characters, because my mind can no longer associate with being 20 anymore because anytime I try the character just sounds generally whiny.

Tez

@sao whippet

Roz

@Testament said in What's your tell?:

I know my usual thing is that I emphasize a lot of words by using * word *. I also know that I tend to play older characters, because my mind can no longer associate with being 20 anymore because anytime I try the character just sounds generally whiny.

My brain does absolutely notice what other people use for their emphasis characters. Are you *this type*? Maybe /this type/? Or even //THIS type//? SOMETHING ELSE?

I also tend to notice the folks who double space after periods, if only because it’s uncommon.

tsar

@Jumpscare said in What's your tell?:

I play all sorts of characters. So I guess my biggest tell is that I don’t TS. I’ll flirt, write innuendo, and even make out. But the moment a pose drops the word “turgid,” it’s time to FtB.

If you think you may have TS’d with me, I can assure you, no you haven’t.

lol who the hell is using the word turgid, that’s definitely that person’s tell

Testament

@Roz The first one, if only because a number of different sites, like this one, will italicize the word. Like so. Also, Ares does it, and that’s been all kinds of helpful for me.

I used to use double spaces when I was real young, because I actually thought that’s how you were supposed to do sentence structure. It wasn’t until much later in life that I was told that’s not how that works. I realized that I wasn’t sure if believing that I had been told that in school was legit or if it was the Mandela Effect at work.

tsar

Wait no I changed my mind, I think turgid is @Jumpscare’s tell! In the TS they aren’t having, lol.

SpaceKhomeini

Upon realizing this is someone I know and actually want to talk to, the inevitable page of some 10+year-old unfunny inside joke that I will send them
Constant abuse of italicized or otherwise emphasized text
I’m probably playing an abrasive trainwreck
Numbered/bullet point lists

Solstice

My tells are that I use the word offer entirely too much, and I can’t seem to break the habit of talking about my character’s secondary characteristics.

Do they have long hair? I’ll post about it entirely too much.

Or if they have some sort of defining attribute? Again, I overdo mentioning it. Do they have unusual ears? A broken nose? A tail? I am going to fucking mention it multiple times per session, to the point where even though I notice it, I cannot be stopped.

Also, I pose kinda slow, and am generally more confident with my actions than with my dialogue, because at some point an English instructor wrote on one of my stories, “People don’t talk like this.” and it has haunted me and will continue to haunt me until the day I die.