What's your tell?
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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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oh, here’s a pretty big one – my standard greeting is usually “SUP NERDS” or some variant.
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@Juniper Oh yeah the Australian spelling and timezones is probably a thing for me too!
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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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@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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My characters talk a lot.
Like, they can’t shut up.
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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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@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
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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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@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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@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.
I want something else to get me through this
Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-byeShe/Her or They/Them
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@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
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All my characters seem to do over-the-top and extremely corny flirting which abruptly becomes absolute terror if anyone ever flirts back.
Using the word ‘before’ in nearly every single pose (eg: ‘The Sammich nervously butters its outsides, before carefully sliding itself into the toaster.’)
Using the word moment way too much (after a moment, takes a moment, The Sammich momentarily does a thing, there’s a momentary thing before)
Lips ‘quirking’ upwards. I don’t know why that’s the only word I ever seem to use to describe that.
Never actually doing any RP because I’m too anxious to ask for any (even from my friends).
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@Third-Eye said in What's your tell?:
@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.
@Third-Eye I’d say you have a pretty eclectic taste in characters.
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@Sammich said in What's your tell?:
All my characters seem to do over-the-top and extremely corny flirting which abruptly becomes absolute terror if anyone ever flirts back.
Using the word ‘before’ in nearly every single pose (eg: ‘The Sammich nervously butters its outsides, before carefully sliding itself into the toaster.’)
Using the word moment way too much (after a moment, takes a moment, The Sammich momentarily does a thing, there’s a momentary thing before)
Lips ‘quirking’ upwards. I don’t know why that’s the only word I ever seem to use to describe that.
Never actually doing any RP because I’m too anxious to ask for any (even from my friends).
Wait, these are all my tells too (not -quite- so much the first one, but the others). Either we’re clones, or they might not be the tells that we think they are.
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I have a real problem with playing characters that are some sort of deadly (swords or guns, w/e the setting) but also whimsical in some way that’s supposed to be funny, weird, wholesome, etc. Having typed this, I now realize my tell is characters that fit into the MCU.
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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.
Okay, I also do the first four of these things enough that I’m wondering if you and I escaped from the same lab.
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@Snackness @Tez is actually Napoleon though
