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      Testament @Roadspike
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      @Roadspike said in What's your tell?:

      Em dashes, “a beat,” describing small changes in body language, “I mean,” characters with tactical knowledge/background, characters with sports knowledge/background, and answering OOC questions on channels.

      Shit, I use this far too often in OOC talk, less IC.

      I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021

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        Testament
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        I’m double posting, because I noticed this as I was finishing a pose. I realize that my characters(not all depending)often grin so fucking much that I’m wondering if I’m just playing someone with behavioral problems.

        I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021

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        • JennkrystJ
          Jennkryst @Jumpscare
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          @Jumpscare said in What's your tell?:

          […] turgid […]

          I almost want to take this as a challenge to use turgid in a non-smut situation, but I am teh laze.

          My tells, uh… much as I want it to be amazing lewds because I have a brand… it’s probably fake pretendy words that sortaish make sense, to a degree.

          Endless run-on sentences and problematic punctuation; I use them more for the vibe than how they should actually work.

          If I decide to venture into purple prose, it comes across more like an SNL skit than actual writing, which… could be an improvement of other peoples’ purple prose?

          Love-Ahs

          Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
          She/her

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          • ToriT
            Tori
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            I still abuse ellipses. My tells are more OOC though, like spreadsheets and guides. I can’t help myself!

            Once someone asked if I was me because I was being helpful/nice and that was the coolest thing ever 😃

            Also ALLCAPS a lot. A LOT

            she/her, them/they - not super particular

            I have been here the whole time

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              mietze
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              I know I have them (though there have been many times where apparently even people who know me well didn’t realize an alt was mine, that happened quite a few times with Edris, but I wonder if perhaps gender is involved there), but I don’t know what they are. I’m pretty sure most of my tells are OOC chatting.

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              • WizzW
                Wizz @Jumpscare
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                @Jumpscare said in What's your tell?:

                I don’t know who it is, but someone does that, and I see you, whoever you are. And I like what you’re spinning.

                That’s not me just for the record (unless I’m sleep-MU*ing?!), but they’re def channeling my spirit!!

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                  tsar @mietze
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                  @mietze said in What's your tell?:

                  I know I have them (though there have been many times where apparently even people who know me well didn’t realize an alt was mine, that happened quite a few times with Edris, but I wonder if perhaps gender is involved there), but I don’t know what they are. I’m pretty sure most of my tells are OOC chatting.

                  I once tried to confess who I was to @dvoraen and he told me he’d figured it out months earlier from me talking on channels lol

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                  • SnacknessS
                    Snackness
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                    Pretty sure I have OOC tells like being shouty and having a Napoleon complex.

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                      tsar @Snackness
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                      @Snackness said in What's your tell?:

                      Pretty sure I have OOC tells like being shouty and having a Napoleon complex.

                      being knowledgeable about science things

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                        Flitcraft
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                        I have no idea what my tells are and trying to figure them out makes me nauseous with embarrassment so I’ll just live with the mystery.

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                          Juniper
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                            Selira
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                            oh, here’s a pretty big one – my standard greeting is usually “SUP NERDS” or some variant.

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                              Livia @Juniper
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                              @Juniper Oh yeah the Australian spelling and timezones is probably a thing for me too!

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                              • KestrelK
                                Kestrel @Selira
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                                @Selira said in What's your tell?:

                                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.

                                I can actually never tell it’s you. I’m always the last person to find out, and only when rude people snitch on you because they’re apparently better at @Selira-spotting than I am.

                                I won’t tell my tells. Except that I’m also a compulsive questions channel answerer, and that it physically hurts me when I consciously force myself not to in hopes of flying under the radar somewhere.

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                                  dvoraen @tsar
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                                  @tsar said in What's your tell?:

                                  @mietze said in What's your tell?:

                                  I know I have them (though there have been many times where apparently even people who know me well didn’t realize an alt was mine, that happened quite a few times with Edris, but I wonder if perhaps gender is involved there), but I don’t know what they are. I’m pretty sure most of my tells are OOC chatting.

                                  I once tried to confess who I was to @dvoraen and he told me he’d figured it out months earlier from me talking on channels lol

                                  It was more that I was PRETTY SURE it was you, but I can never be 100% unless you tell me. So 99.5% sure in that particular case.

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                                    Arkandel @dvoraen
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                                    My characters talk a lot.

                                    Like, they can’t shut up.

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                                      tsar @dvoraen
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                                      @dvoraen said in What's your tell?:

                                      @tsar said in What's your tell?:

                                      @mietze said in What's your tell?:

                                      I know I have them (though there have been many times where apparently even people who know me well didn’t realize an alt was mine, that happened quite a few times with Edris, but I wonder if perhaps gender is involved there), but I don’t know what they are. I’m pretty sure most of my tells are OOC chatting.

                                      I once tried to confess who I was to @dvoraen and he told me he’d figured it out months earlier from me talking on channels lol

                                      It was more that I was PRETTY SURE it was you, but I can never be 100% unless you tell me. So 99.5% sure in that particular case.

                                      YOU SEEMED 100% SURE AT THE TIME

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                                        dvoraen @tsar
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                                        @tsar said in What's your tell?:

                                        @dvoraen said in What's your tell?:

                                        @tsar said in What's your tell?:

                                        @mietze said in What's your tell?:

                                        I know I have them (though there have been many times where apparently even people who know me well didn’t realize an alt was mine, that happened quite a few times with Edris, but I wonder if perhaps gender is involved there), but I don’t know what they are. I’m pretty sure most of my tells are OOC chatting.

                                        I once tried to confess who I was to @dvoraen and he told me he’d figured it out months earlier from me talking on channels lol

                                        It was more that I was PRETTY SURE it was you, but I can never be 100% unless you tell me. So 99.5% sure in that particular case.

                                        YOU SEEMED 100% SURE AT THE TIME

                                        coy cat

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                                          YetiBeard
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                                          So many of these would also apply to me:

                                          • Meta commentary about my character lying or lovingly mocking them.
                                          • So many broken sentences, em dashes, ellipses, a beat, etc. breaking up dialogue.
                                          • A trainwreck with a heart of gold (or at least some goodness)
                                          • @Pyrephox I also have been told I can be easily picked out by my PBs (maybe by the same person) which is mostly true
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                                          • KestrelK
                                            Kestrel @Arkandel
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                                            @Arkandel said in What's your tell?:

                                            My characters talk a lot.

                                            Like, they can’t shut up.

                                            OK, this is probably a tell of mine, inversed:

                                            Paragraph of body language, one or two words of dialogue.

                                            I play pithy and/or strong silent types a lot.

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