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[nny]

This is purely out of interest, nothing at all to do with my previous tenancy.

[Poll #1573425]

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[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

<3

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hi ho the derry o. :D How's it finaglin', Katymine?

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

Not entirely accurate, as sometimes Lilly makes cameo appearances and sometimes I read threads when people link me to them, but for all intents and purposes I'm gone.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I think the among all the many things that got me out, one of the stronger ones was the guilt about not reading enough of other peoples' threads. When I was there I was there to play, and didn't have the time to keep up. XD Do you miss it?

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

I think I miss the idea of it more than the thing itself, if that makes sense?

I still get gleeful fun ideas, and every so often I will manage an OOM with Lilly-Havelock-Puck, or Lilly and the kids in a strange world, but mostly I have more fun thinking 'ahahaha it would be so funny if...' than actually making the time to sit down and thread. Or read! Game has slowed waaay down, so it's more possible to read stuff, but to be honest - I'm less motivated when I'm not involved in game anymore.

Also, when I do have free time for creative pursuits, it tends to go towards novel or sewing projects at the moment, and I have photography still on that list! and languages! and this dance night with lessons I want to go to, and yeah. Plus, job. Plus, husband. Plus, I still get to talk to my friends from game.

So... I guess the actual RP sort of just fell off the list.

[gramarye1971]

I do intend to get back into playing at some point, but all of my creative pursuits -- fic, RP, even my own outside research -- seem to be indefinitely on hold. *sigh*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, sweetheart. Do I ever know that feeling. :(((

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. I don't know if dressing-room playing on mini_rps counts, but that is to date my only RP experience. I wouldn't mind getting into an RPG, but I've no idea how or if I'd be any good. Or indeed if I could spare the time/cope.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

It does consume you rather, but I think it's... Milliways was intended to be very flexible about that, when I created it. Unfortunately that didn't happen so much with me - I was dragged into more plots than I was comfortable with, and had constant guilt over letting people down - but that's still my ideal RP environment. With overarching story ish, but casual.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I still have characters there, I still play on the odd occasion when someone requests one of mine, but yeah. Sometime I can sit down with you if you're interested and go through all my thought processes on it, because I have many, but don't think airing them here is... um... of interest to very many people. I do play at my other RP game with ridiculous regularity, though.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely interested in more complex thought patterns. :D My email is annysthetized(at)gmail.com if you want to talk it through? I'm interested in other peoples' experiences, because I think mine was kinda unique...

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Iiiiif by regularly I mean 'in the deepest depths of slowtime and plot posts.'

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's totally the ideal.

[agonistes]

It is kind of like an ALL OF THE ABOVE thing. In theory, I'm still around; in practice, I'm playing characters I've played for years whose responses I don't have to think very hard about, with folks that I know, because I am just so burned out -- and, like, busy with a forty-hour-a-week job and not being a failure at being a grownup and ~*achieving my dreams*~ and stuff. I don't have the time and I don't have the stamina any more, but I still love the folks involved and like to play with them on a very slow and patience-requiring basis, and not always in the actual game setting, either.

(I am a little curious as to why you are asking, I have to admit, but if you choose to stay shh about it, I think I will live. <33333)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

See there's the thing, there's that sense of familiarity that a smaller RP wouldn't build up. Smaller RPs seem to have to be arranged a little more, just to make sure there's someone on at the same time as you, but bigger ones... I'm no good at plot!

(NO REASON AT ALL. ¬_¬)

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

I...don't know what that is? Other than a place in a Douglas Adams book.

I kind of fail as a geek

[villainny.livejournal.com]

No, dude, it's nowhere significant. milliways_bar, an RP I made a long time ago which I left due to CIRCUMSTANCES. I have a lot of peeps I met through it.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I still have characters that I love, but I don't honestly have time to play them. The real reason I do still play, maybe once a month if that, is that I want to stay in the friend network around the game.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I think that can be managed, though, without the RP. I mostly have! XD

[sumerianhaze.livejournal.com]

Someone mentioned milliways to me a long time ago (Debi I think) but I haven't rp'd in person or online for a long, long time; and it's quite intimidating, especially if it's at all cliquey, to jump in with a club of seasoned oldtimers. (You know what I mean - I'm not calling you a bunch of geriatrics. Pot - kettle, etc.)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I have that same social anxiety thingy going on too...

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. I would've felt the same if I hadn't had the advantage of creating the place. XD

[sumerianhaze.livejournal.com]

Ah. Did the creation turn against its creator...?

[djcati.livejournal.com]

I said I don't play anymore, but ehhh, I am still technically a member and am not saying I would NEVERRR throw Wes back into crazy shenanigans. But. My attention span has shifted from RP to RL, so dramatically that it is not even as good as it should be. :(

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling with the attention shift. Milliways is a difficult place to play small scale, unless you're doing slowtime threads within a select group, which can be kind of a shame. :/

[silveraspen]

In the sense where "regularly" means "ever more infrequently, but still yes, as my schedule permits." I don't RP online anywhere else, though, so... yeah.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

See, I couldn't do that. That would've been my ideal, but there was the difficulty of having a character inextricably linked. :/

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I fail at, er, something. I've not heard of a game by that name. (Other than the Adams reference)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's only a game I created ages ago; the only reason I mention it so shorthandedly is because I made a load of friends through the game so a lot of people on the flist would've heard of it.

XD

[vikytickytembo.livejournal.com]

I think I got confused. I put down "used to play, but don't anymore", because I used to play at Milliways, but don't anymore.

I play other games regularly. I've moved away from the third person style, though, to journal based/1st person games.

[batyatoon]

HI. *waves at you from the past*

[vikytickytembo.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Where do you play now, out of curiosity?

[vikytickytembo.livejournal.com]

@ capeandcowl:

Pete Cheney: Top 10 shockheadedpete
Flint Lockwood: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs scienceisawesom

@ theposthumans

Kevin 11: Ben 10 (AU) kevinelevin

They all have their threads saved in posts in their journals.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

MAN, IT IS COMPLICATED.

I would like to play more often, and I miss Kassandra, but I do not have a 25-hour day, and there are *handwavey* ...things that happened.

We did make a Milliways BABY, though.