ALSKDN IVI that is a good subset! but not quite what I was getting at. eue WOULD BE GREAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THO

YEAH eue LIIIKE, if someone has always wanted to RP aaa.. character with a really overbearingly protective sibling, because they'd like to play out that kind of development
someone else might have a character who would fit that, or be willing to play that, and they can make the situation together >u>

JUST AS AN EXAMPLE

(e) OGMLKNASD YOU'RE QUICK

(e X2) OH GDI I EDITED THE WRONG FUKKEN POST

henlo its me again.

I don't understand the stigma around 'searching for ___' threads, I used to see them a lot on sites like the original Impressive Title forums and then FH and A'K before it died out when people got all "GOSH U CAN'T JUST DO THAT."

But... Sometimes its hard to constantly run to my same 3 friends and be like "hey so i've had an idea." or "please interact with ___ theyre so lonely rn plspls". I'd be totally down for more threads like I attempted to do on my personal a few weeks ago where I was like, hey you can plot drama or romance or anything with these chars (list) because I feel like i'm stagnating.

Theres always been a problem with cliques on TEF but recently, especially on the fawn-players front, theres been a lot of inter-clique playing (e.g someone needs a player for x, and for y, and for z, but suddenly its all the same player using different characters.) and it's just sort of... saddening...

There's also been lot of my own characters I've been like "I WANT TO PLAY THEM YEESSSS" but then I think "wait... he struggles to make friends...." and then i've immediately shelfed them because without a dedicated clique there's no point, I might as well log in and not connect at all.

I've never wanted to host a big plot, like Dag's is the best example of, but sometimes I've had moments where i've super wished I had somewhere to ask for help with a plot, such as when my characters get injured and I desperately need someone to heal/help them.

Anyway I didn't mean for this to sound like a pity party for the me, but I know I heckin jump at the chance to link characters together through family or bonds or olden friendships and i'd love a blog where its organized and without stigma to help people come out of their shells and attempt to plot with others.

TO QUICK IVI-

THAT'S A GOOD POINT- I've always tried to work around it, but I know I would have preferred to write it out with someone else.
omg sad that he flopped.. come back bby..

IT SHOULDN'T STOP YOU, so that's good. I think it stopped me because iiii.. often get ideas for characters and the idea is more 'i'd love to explore them in this situation with someone else's character' than 'i want to play this personality'? because i usually bring in characters that are old/already pretty developed SIGH. MAYBE THAT'S A MISTAKE

(tefc died for like 500505050 hours here SIGHAKLSDN)


jACKlo-
IDK IF THERE IS A STIGMA? maybe there is- idr anyone here being like 'no wtf' at least! in 5 years of being here i've seen MAYBE TWO? 'looking for' blogs go up AND THEY WORKED OUT AFAIR
i think people have been shy about doing it because it feelsbadman not to get any bites when reaching out like that. and if not that, maybe a lot of people feel like asking for a certain type of scenario makes the situation too artificial. WHICH I USED TO THINK.
but i get the thinking and i think it's ok to enjoy spontaneity !! i mostly do with TEF too, or i used to but i've been having trouble getting my losers into anything much lately unless i cOOK UPPA SUMTHING

I PERSONALLY can't say i'm 100% on there being cliques on TEF. BUT THAT'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER STORY and i only know why i personally seem to gravitate towards certain people and just assume others have similar reasons smh
AND THEN i think with fawn players people like to pick who they trust. eVERYONE HAS PREFERENCES IN HOW FAMILY UNITS ARE PLAYED SO Y'KNOW 3: yanno.. u kno

NOT TO SAY YOUR FEELINGS AREN'T CORRECT, just offering my own on the matter. >u> i understand what you're saying totally, and i see how things can give off the impressions you're gettin. AND YOU COULD BE RIGHT

AND THEN THAT'S WHY I THINK THE BLOG COULD BE NICE?? you can see who'll be willing and happy to give you what you want, or who isn't interested in that sorta thing. i'm not sure if there's a better way of helping people get depthy..
anyone someone helb me if you have gOOD IDEAS. or even bad ideas. any ideas

Draak-
i'm so sry your timezone is so intense i've been blessed with north american livin

I FEEEEEEEEL YOU. finding someone who both oocly and icly has the patience to deal with a character who needs it is holy grail. sometimes my bad-friend-making-assholes get close to making a friend then ruin it and just
my dumb child
I haven't been able to figure out how to help them other than making friends for them myself, story-wise. sometimes that makes them more open to other friends!?!
or i throw them in friend oc's faces and a h a ha a h .. sometimestheystillhatethem

Draak-
THAT'S WHAT I'VE HAD TO DO TOO, sorta bend the character to move them on. i'd rather play them a little ooc for a bit than just not play them at all so s a c r i f i c e s
the snowballing bit is also super true. AND SUPER FORTUNATE. corvus you gotta make friends with someone who has 34000 friends of their own then you'll be gold ok go on

sIRARVIS-
u caught me
jk tho it's complicated BUT IN DEPTH it's not that i disagree i just have a bit of a take on it that's not worth going into on this blog >u>
if someone wants to open that can of worms in another feel free ahue

littleswan-
I generally feel the same! spontaneity is a personal preference of mine too in most cases. BUT THOSE SPECIAL ONES WHERE I WISH I COULD DO A CERTAIN THING IS OooOoOOboy

that last bit is totally what i mean though for sure. eue just finding a way to put two fitting characters together if that's what the person wants

yeah I feel ya, there's so many different people and ideas here that are all doing different things, it's hard to figure out how you can wrangle some of the chaos into something that you can work with a little bit haha

Like for me I still have a couple issues, my biggest one is that I want to actually have my plot a thing you can read and look at, but I also want it to be partially shaped by other people. How do I bring it back if it gets derailed and how do I incorporate rp into my own writing without erasing the way someone wrote their bit or embarrassing someone that doesn't want a bunch of people to see their writing? And also what do I do if I can't find enough "actors" for my scenes? Also what if I want to have something along the lines of a big f**k-off huge monster? Is it more proper to just pretend there's nameless bystanders or can I ask for a few names to throw in? I also started having another weird thought of the character's known behaviour...Atiq is as far as I know one of the neighborhood pillow/soft-bois, does his patient nature appear to clash with more action-y characters? Like I get really super anxious over a lot of things and overthink every tiny detail so boy are you not alone XDD

I solved some of my issues when by coincidence the second deer I brought to the forest just happened to fit in well with what I wanted, so I have a second "actor" I can fall back on when I need a space to fill or some plot moved along that isn't currently moving. It also helps that I have an outline of major things I want to see and I've figured out which ones I have control over and what ones need a few extra people, and some wiggle room to allow for the random rp that happens between.

Talking with people and brainstorming different ways you can meet your goals is the best solution to me. Like most people don't want to hinder you, most would want to help you. I'd definitely like to see you succeed and I'd try to help if you want/need, I'm all about people creating and sharing stories ^^
Also practice on smaller scales can help a little too, tiny short plots involving a handful of people can take some of the nerves away.

you'll get to what you need, it might take some time and some puzzling out but you've already got a good handle on creating complex world's and scenarios so I know you can do it c:
And sometimes I'm good for brainstorming if you ever need a sounding board or something, doesn't bother me <3 XD

One thing I remember we used to do when someone wanted to do a plot type thing, it was usually in the form of multi-chapter posts on the site. Someone would make like a "hub" post for their story and then call for volunteers to offer up their deer to be in it. Then after that it was sort of a surprise to see how your deer participated in the story, sometimes someone would specify what spots they needed characters for, sometimes not. but all of us weren't that great at finishing them lol ;u;


And yes that's true. Sometimes I enjoy the juxtaposition in my own stuff, my fear is disappointing someone who wants to try because I have a personal plot reason I can't give them my character's full-nature. Not like, hiding something that would put them at an unfair disadvantage (I've been really careful to make sure that I don't hide anything that would have a major impact on interaction), but just some backstory or bits of personality that aren't here yet. Which the best policy to fix that is to show and not tell, and in private I usually speak up and reveal something if I think it might hinder what the other person wants so we can work something out. It's hard to be both mysterious and accommodating but luckily that's what talking it out is for XDD

oh man, if only you knew how often I picked up and dropped plots on here about 8 years ago
it's FINE <3 The cool thing is it's not locked forever unless you want it to be, you can restart, rework, and combine to your heart's content because there's no deadline except what you set for yourself. And if other people are involved, I feel like we all kinda burn out like this sometimes so most people would be understanding if you asked if they still wanted to pick back up,which I still have to do for a group rp I started but then irl stuff kept pushing it back >w>;

I guess we just all have our own story worries and if we voiced it more we might find we aren't alone XDD <3

phantom-
GAAAAH THAT'S SUCH A COOL CONCEPT. I remember reading through a few plots like that.
Someone do it
do it again do it rn

I think it's good to keep some secrets >u> keep 'em guessin. PLUS WHEN EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE and there's nothing to learn it's a little less exciting isn't it

REALLY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR ME IS STARTING NOT EVEN FINISHING CRIES. well it's finishing too after i've started sometimes ahue..

Draak-

ASK
MY
DEER BLOGS
I LOOOVE THOSE THINGS Q>Q 'ask my oc' in general makes me so happy. I'VE WANTED TO DO THAT FOREVER but i think i worried people wouldn't be interested and ichickenedout

hey you two, you know what might be a cool thing to bring back? World-Building Wednesdays(or whatever day XD)

you talk about some random aspects of your characters/their world/etc to share some development and thought process, and all the "ask my deer anything" posts from ye olden days are encouraged as well. Could even post a mini questionnaire for people to fill out for their characters and encourage them to add new questions, that way anyone can ask whatever or answer how they choose c:

_{and Draak I have been interested for like 5 millenia I just keep MISSiNg you every time XDD}
sometimes I have the same fear I think everyone does ^^ That's why I liked when we would do stuff like this, it turns out we're all nerds that like to talk about stories lol <3

About this whole thing: I love you for posting it thank u sm <3

Nacci is probably the only character with an actual direction I want him to be going in (well not want I'm just gently nudging him there you get me). This kinda gave me a boost and tapped me on the shoulder like "hey, Noah, you should probably post something about that???" idk I have this feeling in the back of my mind that my plots aren't good enough. I'm bad at plotting. But hey, I just wanna have fun so. If anyone would like to plot with me/get me in on some big juicy business just hmu!! I'm starving for rp right now. Might actually post something in a bit maybe?? Who knows.

ALSO OC QUESTIONNAIRES SOUND GOOD? YES? YES.