What's your tell?

[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.

[ten]

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

[Testament]

@Roz The first one, if only because a number of different sites, like this one, will italicize the word. Like so. Also, Ares does it, and that’s been all kinds of helpful for me.

I used to use double spaces when I was real young, because I actually thought that’s how you were supposed to do sentence structure. It wasn’t until much later in life that I was told that’s not how that works. I realized that I wasn’t sure if believing that I had been told that in school was legit or if it was the Mandela Effect at work.

[tsar]

Wait no I changed my mind, I think turgid is @Jumpscare’s tell! In the TS they aren’t having, lol.

[SpaceKhomeini]

1. Upon realizing this is someone I know and actually want to talk to, the inevitable page of some 10+year-old unfunny inside joke that I will send them

2. Constant abuse of italicized or otherwise emphasized text

3. I’m probably playing an abrasive trainwreck

4. Numbered/bullet point lists