This is really minor and probably not important in the long run, but I think you have to be careful when you write stutters. Just going "T-this" is enough as opposed to "T-t-t-this" when writing it down, as I am assuming you were also the one who wrote the stuttering girl from the Halloween plot, and at both times (including Xion's current post) it comes off as overdone and very unrealistic, as if the person is doing it on purpose rather than because they really are stuttering. It's really minor though, but it's just something I noticed.
... you really think so? I find this a little surprising, because I base the way I write stutters off of real life experiences. I had a good friend in high school who had a stutter, and I based Molly's speech patterns after him. If you've never known anyone with a stutter, it's actually quite realistic to get stuck on a single letter for quite some time. My friend's stutter was pronounced to the point that he would sometimes have to stop himself after stuttering the same letter, say, twelve times, and restart the word. Molly has an actual stutter, so that's where I draw her more pronounced stuttering from.
For Xion's, I drew on my own experiences of talking through chattering teeth, but hers might be a bit overdone actually.
Oooh~ okay that makes more sense. From how I understood Molly's post, it was more like the stutter was formed from fear rather than an actual trait of theirs, the former which I've seen before and it never really sounded like that. I've never heard of anyone with an actual stutter so I cannot state how accurate that part is, it was just my understanding of how the stutter came to be that made me think like that.
OH. No no, that wasn't fear. |D I can see how that would come across as odd and really forced then. Yeah, she's got an actual stutter, has had one all her life. (though there was of course no real good way of putting that into any of the threads.... so. |D I can see where the confusion came from.) A real stutter, I think, is probably not something I'd try to attempt without having heard one for myself. 8|a I don't even know how representative my friend's stutter is of other stutterers -- who knows, he could be totally atypical! but my intention with Molly was to mimic him, so I can at least promise I'm not just pulling that out of thin air.
you have a point with Xion, though. I'll keep it in mind, at least. o/
oh and do you want me to rescreen your comments. I figure it's prolly not necessary since lmao this is hardly a big deal but I leave that up to your preference.
I was thinking about dropping her for most of December, is why. I only recently made the decision not to, and that might not even hold! That was what was up, basically. :[ I held off on telling the whole cast about it because I didn't want to unnecessarily spook everybody when I wasn't certain.
But for now I AM trying, so I will be around again, but probably less than I used to on the whole, yeah.
Oh jeez. Ok, thank you for letting me know, I'll go change it. >> ♥
Hey anon! Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. Don't worry at all! I don't find this rude. In fact it's really very polite and I appreciate that!
What I can tell you is that I saw the anon concerns on anon comm ... a few days ago or whenever that happened to be, and I've already started tagging out again and will be putting up a post I think tonight! (Hopefully tonight. But if not, tomorrow for sure.) I've made a whole bunch of event plans, too. Going forward my hope is to try and steadily tag 2-3 new posts a week. Not a lot, but I found that a lot of my problems were coming from tagging too much and then not being able to handle the flood. So hopefully slow and steady will work out a little better for me!
I'm sorry it seems like Luceti is second priority. It's really not - but I will say that for a few months I was feeling major, major burnout with Xion as a character. I even told most of her close CR that I was dropping, at one point! That ended up not happening, but that was THE major reason why I suddenly vanished off the face of the planet as a player. I got a second wind sometime back in February, and things have been a little slow going to start, but hopefully I can pick them back up now that school's more or less out.
(Though I'll warn you rn that if I disappear for the ENTIRE month of May it's because of finals + dissertation craziness.)
I hope this helps assuage some of your fears, anon. I really do love Luceti and I am absolutely making an effort to get back out there, tag people I haven't tagged before, and be steady about it. Thank you for coming to talk to me. ♥ If in the coming weeks you think I'm still off or not around enough, come talk to me again and I'll see if I can fix it!
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For Xion's, I drew on my own experiences of talking through chattering teeth, but hers might be a bit overdone actually.
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you have a point with Xion, though. I'll keep it in mind, at least. o/
oh and do you want me to rescreen your comments. I figure it's prolly not necessary since lmao this is hardly a big deal but I leave that up to your preference.
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But for now I AM trying, so I will be around again, but probably less than I used to on the whole, yeah.
Oh jeez. Ok, thank you for letting me know, I'll go change it. >> ♥
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What I can tell you is that I saw the anon concerns on anon comm ... a few days ago or whenever that happened to be, and I've already started tagging out again and will be putting up a post I think tonight! (Hopefully tonight. But if not, tomorrow for sure.) I've made a whole bunch of event plans, too. Going forward my hope is to try and steadily tag 2-3 new posts a week. Not a lot, but I found that a lot of my problems were coming from tagging too much and then not being able to handle the flood. So hopefully slow and steady will work out a little better for me!
I'm sorry it seems like Luceti is second priority. It's really not - but I will say that for a few months I was feeling major, major burnout with Xion as a character. I even told most of her close CR that I was dropping, at one point! That ended up not happening, but that was THE major reason why I suddenly vanished off the face of the planet as a player. I got a second wind sometime back in February, and things have been a little slow going to start, but hopefully I can pick them back up now that school's more or less out.
(Though I'll warn you rn that if I disappear for the ENTIRE month of May it's because of finals + dissertation craziness.)
I hope this helps assuage some of your fears, anon. I really do love Luceti and I am absolutely making an effort to get back out there, tag people I haven't tagged before, and be steady about it. Thank you for coming to talk to me. ♥ If in the coming weeks you think I'm still off or not around enough, come talk to me again and I'll see if I can fix it!