Times Like These

[nozenfordaddy]

I'm having a moment, a day, a week.. whatever, where I feel like dropping half my pups and picking up a half dozen new ones. Though I don't know who I would drop if I did it.

Maybe the pups I have aren't doing enough to keep me interested and excited and I'm not sure how to change that. I suppose I could tag more things and have more threads and just do more but just too afraid of new people to splash out and tag all over. I'm not like a lot of the people I play with, my pups don't speak to me, they don't fight for space or get loud particularly - they all just exist in my head. If I can't tag one I don't tag any, and how active they are depends often on the people and plots of their lives so when the majority of people I play with are slow things just trickle along.

I could just pick up new pups to add but I'm almost at where I feel like I max out at keeping their personalities straight. They're all plodding along in various threads living their lives slowing day by day and... I'm bored.

I wish I knew what to do about it but I don't, maybe its just my yearly RP burnout cropping up, or maybe I need to start cutting pups that aren't clicking in the village and see if new pups will do better.

I don't even know anymore. *sighs*

Comments

[propernice.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I get like that too. I mean, I think I had like 20 pups once and then dropped a ton and...now like, Juliet and Laura - they're happy and content and I love them a lot but happy and content is boring, you know? So then I want to play new and different pups, and they never work out.

I regret putting up an OTA post today.

Anyway, to cure boredom, I'm trying to write up a Die Hard Plot with Simon coming to the village temporarily. WRITING RIDDLES IS HARD.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

*laughs* yeah, I just finished a SOTPs post to try and get my malaise under control. I just don't feel it at all right now and there are other pups I'd like to pick up but I don't know that, that would fix the problem you know?

We need pups who are having an inappropriate relationship again :P

Die Hard plot would be much fun - I did love Simon like whoa.

[propernice.livejournal.com]

YES, YES WE DO.

I would love to have a pup involved with one of yours. ~twirls~

I have a very rough outline of a Die Hard plot where Simon takes various people hostage and John has to solve riddles and disarm bombs to get to them. Ending with a bomb strapped to Erica that eventually explodes somewhere, probably the forest. It's just coming up with the riddles and how many people it would involve that's hard. Plus it has to happen before Christmas, because dammit, John is going to have a GOOD CHRISTMAS THIS TIME.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

LOL We should discuss, do we even have pups that might work? Cause I do not believe we do.

Aww but he never has a good Christmas. :P

[propernice.livejournal.com]

Erica is bound and determined. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? This Christmas is going to be good if she has to murder people to make it so.

I don't think we have any pups that go together. Which makes me sad face all over the internet.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

It is pretty sad, got any you're thing about cause I have a list lol.

[propernice.livejournal.com]

Who ya thinkin?

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

I reserved Sam Axe today - because I am slowly making my way through Burn Notice and I sort of love him.

I am listening to the audio book of Ender's game and whenever I do that I want to app Dink (though he'd be hard as hell to play).

I reserved Beast from X-men but I'm still contemplating.

I'm a little in love with Harvey Specter on Suits (again hard as hell to play).

There are others but I'm not remembering them.

[propernice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no idea who any of these people are which is sad for me, lol.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

I am only sad that you don't know Sam, he's a gold chain wearing, sugar momma shagging, former Navy SEAL who doesn't like to get too far away from the bar. I love Bruce Campbell and yet never watched Burn Notice, then they made a movie - The Fall of Sam Axe - which was like old school Bruce Campbell B-movie fuckery.. it was brilliant. So now I'm working my way through the show and it's really very good, no idea why I didn't watch it starting out.

Dink Meeker is a minor character in Enders game and I love him only because he has the best monologue of anyone ever: I be crazy too little buddy, but when I be craziest I be floating in space and the crazy she floats off me and into the walls where she stays until there are battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out the crazy. - Please keep in mind that he was like 12 when he said this.

Beast is a mutant who is a genius and apelike in his abilities/strength/agility etc and then later tries to cure himself and ends up looking like a big blue gorilla...

Harvey is like.. the slickest slickster to ever slick.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Blech, I get like this. With me it's a schedule thing - since my class schedule made my RP time scarce and I needed to buckle down and practice, I had to kind of distance myself from the part of my brain that gets the pups to "speak" to me -- unfortunately it leads to me not caring as much and makes my writing suck monkeyballs and dropping threads all over the place like a jerk. :[ And if my canonmates are ridiculously super active I feel like I need to drop -- it helps that most of my canonmates at present are cool with slow and don't post all the time, but I miss being really involved in an RP.

I can't believe you're afraid of new people. :P I'm intimidated by you because you play some awesome pups. Not that I'm new, just saying that if you hadn't tagged me first I would have stayed scared!

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with slow, but when 75% of your threads are in slow time or get dropped you start to feel stagnant, or I do, like I'm on pause all the time.

I have serious agoraphobic tendencies, and new people/situations scared the bejesus out of me. Don't be intimidated, seriously, it's all gum and duct tape holding shit together behind the curtain.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of a self-perpetuating thing with me. I start tending toward slow out of necessity and then I never feel like tagging. I need to kick my own ass a bit more on that front.

I would never have guessed that! I intimidate pretty darn easily.

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

*nods* I can see that, I always tell new people that if they're having trouble keeping up with the threads they have then they should consider dropping pups or not posting new threads (even if it there's a cool plot or they're suddenly loud), finish what you're doing or get them to a fade point and end them - then post. Otherwise you end up with a gajillion threads and tags and pups in threads from two months ago and today and it gets confusing to tag.

Which makes it harder to tag. And then you get overwhelmed, and frustrated and you don't tag anything because you don't know where the pups are mentally anymore or where the thread was going to begin with... And you get stuck.

I fake it pretty well. :P