What's your tell?

tsar

Or what do you THINK your tell is? I feel like one of mine is that I always end up playing weirdos. Even when the character is mostly serious, there’s always something kind of weird going on. Sense of humor, hobbies, fixations. Something.

hellfrog

I play tall people.

L. B. Heuschkel

More or less ace introvert nerd.

Jumpscare

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.

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.

moth

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