Yes, different expectations. I started RPing actively in a group of people with which we tended to have many stoylines going on at the same time. I learned to keep track of my characters and letting others know when something was up with them, and people would extend the same courtesy to me, because when there are fifteen things happening, plus real life, nobody could follow and poke at everybody else.
My post contained one line, one very brief paragraph, about a situation that honestly helped stuff that was bad even worse. Did I blame anything entirely on it? No, it had started days before it. Just another brick in the wall. Was I aware that it might upset Ana? Maybe; if she paid attention - which, considering that she dropped a major plot move at a time when it was abundantly clear form my journal that was dealing with a lot already, I was NOT sure was the case at all (and no, during these two weeks, I have NOT been active. I've been struggling to keep with my comm requirements and barely doing that, only exception being one fic that I treated myself to when I had accomplished something. It wasn't even plot-moving one.) Did I aim to upset her? No. Could she have asked about it in other ways, such as e-mail, where nobody would have had to have been the wiser about it? Yes. Did she pay even this much consideration when she made her post? I don't see that.
I only bring up the past because it basically repeats itself. I was willing to put it away and work with what I have before me. Willingness to make suggestions, and write out reactions to what is happening? Is a sign of interest. And you know I have; I may have reasons to not post it for now, but that's separate from unwillingness to play it out. Consider it and you'll see what I mean.
'the only people it affects are the people that want it to affect them' - but will it be what I consider in character if my muse has no reaction? no.
Yes, well, there are good reasons why I avoid that kind of RP situation like the plague. And why I try to contact the people I RP with almost as soon as I see that it is, or might be, interesting to play with them.
I don't tend to see a reason to ask where things are if I'm not aware there's movement in an area. Really. I have a lot of muses, you have a lot of muses, and most of them do not have anything remotely like common spheres of interaction. I don't know when it's time for the ones that do to move forward. I'm not psychic. You know when you want to move your people. I would assume that if it might or you want that to include mine, you'll let me know.
I don't necessarily want to know how something will play out. But I do want to know as much of the premises in advance as possible. Being dropped in the middle of a thread, ic, information that my character should have known and would have acted differently if s/he knew? That's what I don't enjoy.
I am. I just thought that not listening and not explaining my stance when the effort was made, when I don't have the energy to initiate it properly - that would have been passive-aggressive.
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My post contained one line, one very brief paragraph, about a situation that honestly helped stuff that was bad even worse. Did I blame anything entirely on it? No, it had started days before it. Just another brick in the wall. Was I aware that it might upset Ana? Maybe; if she paid attention - which, considering that she dropped a major plot move at a time when it was abundantly clear form my journal that was dealing with a lot already, I was NOT sure was the case at all (and no, during these two weeks, I have NOT been active. I've been struggling to keep with my comm requirements and barely doing that, only exception being one fic that I treated myself to when I had accomplished something. It wasn't even plot-moving one.) Did I aim to upset her? No. Could she have asked about it in other ways, such as e-mail, where nobody would have had to have been the wiser about it? Yes. Did she pay even this much consideration when she made her post? I don't see that.
I only bring up the past because it basically repeats itself. I was willing to put it away and work with what I have before me. Willingness to make suggestions, and write out reactions to what is happening? Is a sign of interest. And you know I have; I may have reasons to not post it for now, but that's separate from unwillingness to play it out. Consider it and you'll see what I mean.
'the only people it affects are the people that want it to affect them' - but will it be what I consider in character if my muse has no reaction? no.
Yes, well, there are good reasons why I avoid that kind of RP situation like the plague. And why I try to contact the people I RP with almost as soon as I see that it is, or might be, interesting to play with them.
I don't tend to see a reason to ask where things are if I'm not aware there's movement in an area. Really. I have a lot of muses, you have a lot of muses, and most of them do not have anything remotely like common spheres of interaction. I don't know when it's time for the ones that do to move forward. I'm not psychic. You know when you want to move your people. I would assume that if it might or you want that to include mine, you'll let me know.
I don't necessarily want to know how something will play out. But I do want to know as much of the premises in advance as possible. Being dropped in the middle of a thread, ic, information that my character should have known and would have acted differently if s/he knew? That's what I don't enjoy.
I am. I just thought that not listening and not explaining my stance when the effort was made, when I don't have the energy to initiate it properly - that would have been passive-aggressive.