What's your tell?

dvoraen

So here are some of mine, now that I’ve had time to think on the question:

Redundancy in words (using them multiple times in the same sentence), typically terms like “also”, “however”, “yet”. “Yet he didn’t blah blah blah yet.”
I tend to insert dialogue even for characters that are more taciturn by nature. It’s like I can’t get my own characters to shut up, or that a pose (usually) feels incomplete without some form of dialogue.
OOC Obsessing over specific thoughts or ideas out loud to the point it’s like that therapy scene in Death Becomes Her when the other members start freaking out. I get very attached to some ideas sometimes and it’s extremely difficult to walk away from them.

tsar

I tend to insert dialogue even for characters that are more taciturn by nature. It’s like I can’t get my own characters to shut up, or that a pose (usually) feels incomplete without some form of dialogue.

I’ll never complain about a taciturn character saying something I can respond to lol

RightMeow

@tsar said in [What's your tell?](/post

I’ll never complain about a taciturn character saying something I can respond to lol

RightMeow nods.

RightMeow

Double post - I was going to correct my error in the previous one about not quoting correctly – but I consider it karma for being a jerk.

tsar

@RightMeow said in What's your tell?:

Double post - I was going to correct my error in the previous one about not quoting correctly – but I consider it karma for being a jerk.

tsar looks over at RightMeow. She thought to herself o k a y.

RightMeow

@tsar At least you spelled it right.

Pavel

@tsar said in What's your tell?:

@RightMeow said in What's your tell?:

Double post - I was going to correct my error in the previous one about not quoting correctly – but I consider it karma for being a jerk.

tsar looks over at RightMeow. She thought to herself o k a y.

Mixing tenses? Fuckin’ rude.

Panic

Resurrecting an old thread because I am plagued by someone telling me once that they knew a character was me because I posed about thighs. I had forgotten about it, but now that I’m getting back into RP I think about it every single time I pose and wonder if I have a thigh fetish.

mietze

@Panic well I’m going to be disappointed if I have a scene with you and you don’t include a thigh or a ham in it.

Pax

The verb “cant”.

shit-piss-love

The character has obvious character flaws and/or an unpopular perspective.

sao

@Pax omg I am always canting my damn head

hellfrog

i cant

KarmaBum

@Panic IT WASN’T A CRITICISM

Panic

@KarmaBum I KNOW. But I think about it still to this day, while I tap my thigh thoughtfully.

tsar

@Panic said in What's your tell?:

Resurrecting an old thread because I am plagued by someone telling me once that they knew a character was me because I posed about thighs. I had forgotten about it, but now that I’m getting back into RP I think about it every single time I pose and wonder if I have a thigh fetish.

lmao i was wondering why people were suddenly asking you this everywhere (2 people is everywhere) today and now I understand the context

dvoraen

@Panic said in What's your tell?:

@KarmaBum I KNOW. But I think about it still to this day, while I tap my thigh thoughtfully.

But are you wearing thigh high stockings, just to get an extra use of the word thigh in there?

KarmaBum

I’ve tried three times to write out how this is actually a good thing because it stuck in my mind!!! But it always winds up sounding like a back-handed compliment. The POINT is - I figured it out before you outed yourself and still opted to play with you, so COMPLIMENT!

In return… if a character is on drugs and emotionally unavailable, I am probably driving them. Bonus points if they’re a doctor-type.

Pavel

@KarmaBum said in What's your tell?:

if a character is on drugs and emotionally unavailable

That’s just me, though.

Coin

I mean, I still don’t think I have one.