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    mietze @RightMeow
    last edited by mietze 5 Mar 2024, 21:53 3 May 2024, 21:52

    @RightMeow if i’m not sure what to do/where to go regardless of if i’m the asker or askee, often times i just admit that. it doesn’t happen often for me as i’m good at brainstorming, but sometimes i do ask people if there’s anything they would want in particular just because, well, if i don’t know them or they don’t have asps or prefs or anything set i mean i can fling a lot of ideas out there but having someone say no i don’t like that again and again is kind of a bummer too so it never hurts to ask.

    but i think it’s also okay to say “this is a little awkward but i hadn’t gotten to that stage yet because i was fretting about asking, so let me think about that for a minute, is there anything that YOU don’t want other than the no-brainers?”

    i think anyone that is so hung up on people asking them in exactly the right way the first time upon meeting that they will never scene with you ever again probably isn’t a loss for you. in fact, steering clear of folks like that might be the recipe for happiness on the game so you don’t have to play walk on eggshells. most people aren’t like that. maybe they’ll have a brief moment of annoyance, or laughter because accepting used up all their momentary energy so they need to think too, but they’ll get over it. if they cannot then it would have been only a matter of time before you got yourself disinvited from sceneing with their august person anyway.

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      spiriferida @RightMeow
      last edited by spiriferida 5 Apr 2024, 05:46 4 May 2024, 05:45

      @RightMeow

      My usual strategy at that point is to look at whatever info is available on their character, brainstorm 2-3 locations our characters could conceivably overlap, and offer all of them as suggestions.

      Then once we’ve picked a spot and the scene starts, it’s just a matter of picking something that brings the characters into contact ASAP. Either that’s posting a starter the other person can directly respond to, or responding to their starter in a way that gives them something to work on. A scene can still be shaped a couple poses in - you’ve almost always got more time to figure out what you’re doing than the 30 seconds before you have to answer that question in your scenario. You’ve just got to break it down into smaller steps.

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        ten
        last edited by ten 16 May 2024, 17:15

        you know, it’s hard to want to play somewhere when all it seems to attract are actors that want to play damaging stereotypes (keep playing up the Slavic accent for yuks, I see you.) and use wildly outdated and offensive language in their (as yet unapproved – but, seriously) descriptions.

        they | them

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          Floof
          last edited by 16 May 2024, 23:51

          The urge to disappear forever when the Interesting Conflict Dynamic was not actually that. As ever, I am my own biggest peeve.

          Playlist

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            Coin @Floof
            last edited by 17 May 2024, 00:30

            @Floof hug

            In Occam I trust.

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              Jennkryst @ten
              last edited by 17 May 2024, 08:27

              @ten Whale ah dooo deeclayuh!

              Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
              She/her

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                Pavel
                last edited by 17 May 2024, 09:33

                Anyone who uses typed out nigh-incomprehensible accents in the year 2024 should be fired into the sun.

                He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                BE AN ADULT

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                  Artemis @Pavel
                  last edited by 17 May 2024, 22:41

                  @Pavel I ardently agree

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                    Kestrel
                    last edited by 20 May 2024, 08:12

                    People who are consistently always nice to staff.

                    … And only to staff.

                    we see you

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                      BloodAngel @Kestrel
                      last edited by 20 May 2024, 15:58

                      @Kestrel suck up

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                        bear_necessities
                        last edited by 20 May 2024, 22:34

                        Believe it or not, but you don’t actually have to touch a woman in every single scene you’re in. It’s weird, creepy, and gross.

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                          Prototart @Pavel
                          last edited by 21 May 2024, 00:35

                          @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                          Anyone who uses typed out nigh-incomprehensible accents in the year 2024 should be fired into the sun.

                          och 😢

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                            Pavel @Prototart
                            last edited by 21 May 2024, 00:45

                            @Prototart alt text

                            He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                            BE AN ADULT

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                              Gashlycrumb
                              last edited by 21 May 2024, 01:17

                              cf9f45ef-37e2-4219-a3e1-22318befc4d4-image.png (Portrait of Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh. An oddly hairless man. Like a monkey ready to be shot into space.)

                              "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                              – A. Bertram Chandler

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                                catzilla
                                last edited by 21 May 2024, 23:15

                                Seeing cool new characters that look like they might be fun to RP with but not wanting to instantly PM them and come off creepy/overexcited/stalkery/etc.

                                spaghet

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                                  Snackness
                                  last edited by 23 May 2024, 02:14

                                  Casual cruelty on public channels 😛

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                                    Coin @Snackness
                                    last edited by 23 May 2024, 12:44

                                    @Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    Casual cruelty on public channels 😛

                                    examples please

                                    In Occam I trust.

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                                      Rathenhope @Floof
                                      last edited by 23 May 2024, 16:02

                                      @Floof ditto

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                                        allthecookies
                                        last edited by 24 May 2024, 02:47

                                        Jill guest still making the rounds!

                                        Annoying? Yes. Impressive?

                                        … in a way, yes. It’s been fucking 20 years.

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                                          Buttercup @allthecookies
                                          last edited by 24 May 2024, 13:41

                                          @allthecookies

                                          This is some torch being tossed down is it not?

                                          Like one day you’re brought into a room and told this is a sad job but if you don’t do it the aliens will descend and destroy us all.

                                          One of those mysteries that means very little that we will never have the satisfaction of solving will be the niche Jill the Guest mystery.

                                          AriaA allthecookiesA 2 Replies Last reply 24 May 2024, 13:53 Reply Quote 5
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