How's My Driving
Comments? Concerns? Critiques?
If you'd like a space to discuss my character with me, here it is. I'm fine with both 'face-on' comments and anonymous. Anon-commenting is on, screening is on, IP logging is off.
If you'd like a space to discuss my character with me, here it is. I'm fine with both 'face-on' comments and anonymous. Anon-commenting is on, screening is on, IP logging is off.
I'd like to explain a few things, but please don't see this as me making excuses or minimizing what you've said. There are just a lot of things going on ICly and OOCly that do not make everything all right, but will hopefully explain a few things.
My biggest issue has been availability, either physical or mental. I don't know if you follow me on Twitter, but between the holidays and my house deciding to have the basement flood, a mold infestation, new boilers put in, and now our roof needs replacing and possibly before the winter sets in for real...which involves a lot of work, time, and effort. I don't know how long you've been following, but you'll be able to see times when something happened with the house--end of November, middle of December, etc etc.
This has affected stuff in several ways. First and most obviously, it results in thread-drops. Honestly, it had very little to do with the content of the thread, especially the mid-December pings just stopped for awhile. I don't know if you read Sookie's Christmas gathering posts, but Karla pinged into one thread and responded to pings for one night. After that, she's nowhere. The makeup thread with Warren and the trip to Hawaii (light, happy threads both) also got dropped. It was just an incredibly draining and chaotic time. In fact, had the D&D thread not been crazy and chaotic (and a huge laugh, which I greatly needed), where pinging didn't matter, I don't think I'd've been able to play in that, either.
Furthermore, this interruption really put a damper on other things I had planned for Karla. For the most part, all that got done and posted were preplays--which meant the big and melodramatic stuff, leaving the smaller issues to fall the by wayside. There was an entire trip to Kaeleer that got discarded and several other threads with people. One thread where she is called out and has to recognize what she did was the heavily-SP'd thread between Dinah and Momoko, which you can read here (again, you can see the giant gaps of time between my pings).
Lastly, there've been times when I've had the time to ping, but just not the mental energy to do so--this is especially true for deep and emotional, intelligent threads. They take a lot of work and mental stamina that I have trouble mustering. A lot of times, I look at the pings in my inbox and just kind of sit there wide-eyed trying to figure out where to start and who's been waiting the longest for pings and oh-god-I-really-need-to-answer-that-but-I-can't-I'm-gonna-play-more-Skyrim-because-then-I-don't-have-to-think. What doesn't help that perception is the fact that I will clutch to class threads and easy pings, things don't don't require much brain to respond to, to offset the deep, heavy threads. On the one hand, not having those at all might free up some energy for the deeper threads, on the other, having only heavy threads gets damn tiring on its own. (cont.)
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