I'm looking to shuffle my game load before the new year rolls in, because I think a lot of my burnout is probably coming from having too much on my RP plate. A lot of tags file right on into my inbox and then I can only find time to get through them once and a select few twice a day, which feels a lot like a chore. This time last year I know things were going a lot more smoothly and quickly for me, so I kind of have to examine the differences between then and now, and how to smooth those over.
even though he's really pining for Merlin cuddles
wow, accurate though, rude. how could you tell he's so subtle--
Annnd you basically put the biggest problem into words there. He is a butt of the highest order because even if he can't control all the crazy shit that happens in life, he can control how people see him reacting to it, and he likes to maintain being a butt of the highest order as such. "IT'S RAINING FIRE FROM THE SKY" "Wow guess we should've moved into a cave..." Which is fine a lot of the time, especially when I'm in a mood to just toss him around at various people! And it helps that I know there's more going on in his head than he bothers bringing up, which I try to include in brackets, though I don't want to seem like I'm hamming up an otherwise superfluous fun conversation thread at the same time. Plus lbr he's not always the brightest and sometimes he's just not thinking about stuff at all.
SO YES it gets to "well what else can you do with him" when I do get motivated enough to be timely. I know he is teaching a lot of hand-to-hand at the Citadel since Perce left, and that is also a thing I could try doing more with. I'm trying to figure some stuff out on that for when I return from the great hiatus-that-ate-us. Like wow I should look into who he is actually teaching and chat them up about a thread or some assumed CR. Or he could make a smarmy post telling people to come and learn how to punch other people in the face when they get caught flirting with their betrothed daughter the night before her wedding while also probably calling Arthur terrible at advertising. idk I have time to work on it.
signs up for the guard and immediately- actually I won't joke about that because I have a real Murphy's Law thing going. I think that could be helpful, though! Even though he'd also kind of "Arthur r u crazy i am barely responsible for my own sword."
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wow, accurate though, rude. how could you tell he's so subtle--
Annnd you basically put the biggest problem into words there. He is a butt of the highest order because even if he can't control all the crazy shit that happens in life, he can control how people see him reacting to it, and he likes to maintain being a butt of the highest order as such. "IT'S RAINING FIRE FROM THE SKY" "Wow guess we should've moved into a cave..." Which is fine a lot of the time, especially when I'm in a mood to just toss him around at various people! And it helps that I know there's more going on in his head than he bothers bringing up, which I try to include in brackets, though I don't want to seem like I'm hamming up an otherwise superfluous fun conversation thread at the same time. Plus lbr he's not always the brightest and sometimes he's just not thinking about stuff at all.
SO YES it gets to "well what else can you do with him" when I do get motivated enough to be timely. I know he is teaching a lot of hand-to-hand at the Citadel since Perce left, and that is also a thing I could try doing more with. I'm trying to figure some stuff out on that for when I return from the great hiatus-that-ate-us. Like wow I should look into who he is actually teaching and chat them up about a thread or some assumed CR. Or he could make a smarmy post telling people to come and learn how to punch other people in the face
when they get caught flirting with their betrothed daughter the night before her weddingwhile also probably calling Arthur terrible at advertising. idk I have time to work on it.signs up for the guard and immediately- actually I won't joke about that because I have a real Murphy's Law thing going. I think that could be helpful, though! Even though he'd also kind of "Arthur r u crazy i am barely responsible for my own sword."
I could apologize for tl;dr-ing but :I