What's your tell?

Jennkryst

[…] 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

Tori

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

mietze

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.

Wizz

@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!!

tsar

@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

Snackness

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

tsar

@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

Flitcraft

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.

Juniper

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Selira

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

Livia

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

Kestrel

@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.

dvoraen

@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.

Arkandel

My characters talk a lot.

Like, they can’t shut up.

tsar

@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

dvoraen

@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

YetiBeard

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

Kestrel

@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.

Third Eye

@YetiBeard said in What's your tell?:

@Pyrephox I also have been told I can be easily picked out by my PBs (maybe by the same person) which is mostly true

Somebody told me this once but it was before they tried to guess which character I was playing on a MU without any prompting from me, and they were wrong. WRONG.

Jumpscare

@Kestrel said in What's your tell?:

@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.

Yours is also being able to write the best 500 - 1000 word poses I’ve ever seen