let's see if i can year in review 
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let's see if i can year in review
let's see if i can year in review
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i mean i've only been in the game for a little over a year now, so
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this will technically be my only year review
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i think i'm settling into my characterization. i mean i'm always working on it, but i feel like it was much harder in the very beginning than it is now
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there are a few early interactions that i can look back on and not be super happy with, or that i would have changed, but i do recall being much stricter with how batman sounded
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idk if i've loosened up with that over time, or if i've just gotten better at being consistent with it, but i do definitely feel like things come a little bit easier than they did before
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i also think that has to do with sort of falling into a better place with how i want to write my rp, because i fought with myself for a long time on writing quality and that was just really zapping my motivation in general
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if you take a look at my application sample i think it's very well written, but i hemmed and hawed over that fucking sample for like an entire month before i was happy with it
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and if i took that sort of extreme quality control with all of my writing for every tag that i did i wouldn't get anything out
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so, i've tried to take a very strict rule of just writing what i feel or hear in my head, which is why most of my tags are pretty fast, because i'll just type and then maybe reread it once over to change some tenses or a few words and then bang it out
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i sometimes worry that i don't write enough, because my rp has turned into something that isn't quite prose quality writing and is more a descriptive action ala d&d type descriptions but
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when i write batman i think about comic panels a lot, and not text on a page, and how do i easily describe what's happening that's easy to understand and focus more on dialogue
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WHICH IS ALSO HARD BECAUSE BATMAN but
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i'm getting off track
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i'm still bad and dropping stuff, and i'm still absolutely awful at tagging my name on threads so people who wanna read my stuff can look it up easily but
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idk if i'll EVER be good at that
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i've always been bad at it
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it's something i've got to work on
chrismas creep
oh fuck
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you just hit the nail on the head for a thing about my own rp that I've been having trouble figuring out
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which part! i'm curious
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but to continue, i'm very happy with my current cr and i'm always looking for more ways to get more, new cr
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describing your rp as "d&d type descriptions" or comic panels
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and the ways i've been the most successful have been putting up open logs so that people who i haven't already established myself with have an opportunity to even interact with me
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so, i definitely want to do more of those. because i don't see batman as like a prolific network poster. which is. why i don't have him post on the network like at all ever
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but maybe i need to reexamine that. maybe that's a shortcoming as a writer more than it is sticking to strict characterization
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i'm a big slow burn cr person so any really big stuff that i'd like to do with batman i don't think i've really reached the point of feeling the proper sort of impact for yet
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especially concerning his secret identity and stuff like that. that's always the big one
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if something is going to happen, i'd like for it to have some sort of lasting effect or repercussion
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i think one of my least favorite things about rp is that, inevitably, things go back to the status quo in order to maintain the current structure of a game
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so, when i can make the world change, or have a character make a lasting effect on that world, in some way, those are the sorts of opportunities i'm looking for
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which is hard! because players have different ideas of what they want for their characters, and that doesn't always match up with another person and the cr just isn't compatible in that instance
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for all of the cr that i've had, i think i've only had a smaller amount of personal interactions that have helped to foster a relationship between batman and other characters. having him show up and be enigmatic and mysterious only works in small doses
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i need to be able to have him connect with other characters on an interpersonal level so that when things do happen, there's a reaction more than oh no /everything is the same a week later
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that's something i'd like to work on
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if i had to say a prime example of what i do like and where it's going, would definitely be both persephone's cr, and gwen's cr.
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i think those two characters have a clear path of development that you can look at over the year that i really enjoy
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ANYWAY
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i'm also very happy with justice league stuff. and that ties back into more cr opportunities, because that was the point of it in the first place
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i definitely feel you on wanting that sense of progress and shift vs episode reset
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and also an opportunity to, again, change the world of the game in some way that has a lasting effect
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right. it's very hard to have tragic events happen every month and then it's like. everything is fixed and nothing is different and it just sort of happens ad nauseam
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and like i don't want to be critical of the game or to make it seem like i'm unhappy with it or anything, but i'd say one of the things i AM most critical of is like
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character a commits a crime, goes to in game jail for like... a couple weeks, comes back out and can just go back to whatever they were doing
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and that's a tough one, because what the hell do you do in that situation that doesn't drastically affect the way player a can play their character
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but idk it's just something that i think about
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I'M GLAD I HAVE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO HAVE THEIR CHARACTER FIND OUT WHO BATMAN IS, THOUGH
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yeah i liked the thing of folding that inequality into the game lore of native resentment, bc
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Of Course
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MY GUY ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME THAT GWEN KNOWS ONE DAY SHE TOLD BRUCE TO HIS FACE HE NEEDS TO JERK OFF MORE.
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BECAUSE THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON FOR ME EVEN KEEPING HIS GODDAMN SECRET IDENTITY is to build up that want to know
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i think my goal for 2018 is to keep building on character relationships so that they feel like bruce and/or batman has had some sort of lasting influence on their lives
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rather than just being some guy that they interact with sometimes and could give or take tbh
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but again, i've only been in the game for a little over a year, so that's the sort of thing that will just sort of
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happen with time
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pencil me in for impactful cr thanks
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ALSO JUST AS A GENERAL DISCLAIMER
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I LOVE FEEDBACK. ESPECIALLY HMD STUFF. EVEN IF IT'S NOT GOOD! if you're not happy with me in ANY regards, i'd love to know, because that is the only way i can get better!
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i will never ever ever hold that sort of thing against you
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i have 99 problems but rp ain't one
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i cannot possibly care enough to hold a grudge over happy fun times where i play a man who wears a leather bat costume
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so, if you think personally i can be better at something, or hell, even if you just don't want to play with me ever, just let me know and i will do everything i can to work on that
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and i don't want anybody to think that anything has come up in that regard, but i do know that some people are a little anxious about telling other people these sorts of things on the interweb
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so i just want to reassure people that they don't have to feel that way with me, if the necessity to say something ever comes up
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i agree with you re: slow burn. it's what i'm craving so much for my guys, especially barry for similar reasons you are with batman. if i can help with anything, lmk! and for what it's worth, even though i think we've tagged once so far (my fault tbh), i find that you writing shorter tags actually challenges me to be more succinct, which i like.
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bogans ah i'm glad! sometimes i read longer tags and i have a sort of knee-jerk reaction that obligates me to write more than i feel is necessary, and i think in the end that detracts from the quality of my tag, so i try to fight that urge
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but i'm glad to hear you say that! AND ALSO I WANT ELEKTRA CR
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oh dude, don't fall into that hole. i did and i look back at those tags and go "the fuck was i thinking." i feel bad if i write smaller, but then, if that tag makes sense, if it moves it along, then it's big in quality even though it's small in quantity.
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look at our thread, it went from big to small to big to small. and it got to where it needed to do. 
job done!!
job done!!
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2018: batman becomes one of elektra's bitches, dw.
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2018 batman has small murder child with elektra not at all similar in any way to talia and damian
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elektra wayne and bruce natchios. i dig it.
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only if barry is best man.