Daily Entertainment.

[muji]

Something came up in yesterday's DE that concerned me a little: Have you ever been tagged by someone and then not tagged back/not wanted to thread with them because you didn't know their canon? Why?

For those that have not: do you have a preference to play with characters from canons that you are familiar with? Why or why not?

For mods: Can I make a 'daily entertainment' tag inna backroom?

Comments

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

I've dropped just a couple of threads in the last three years, but it's certainly never been because I didn't know the canon and never after just one tag. I do think most people are interested in interacting with characters from canons they're familiar with and I'm no exception to that, but I also think it can be equally fascinating to be approached by a character that's unknown to both my character and me. I never plot lock posts, so as far as I'm concerned, anybody's always been free to tag any of my characters. If I need to have a private thread, I'll simply do it in private and link it. If I didn't feel willing to welcome tags from anybody from any canon, I'd stick solely to single-fandom games.

But as far as tagging out, well, I hardly do that anymore. I've had an unfortunately long string of threads dropped on me so I'm often concerned that people just won't enjoy threading with my characters and have a tendency to stick with people who I know do enjoy it. Slow's pretty much a requirement these days for me and most players I know, so as long as everybody involved is on the same page about it, I don't mind a fairly slow-moving thread at all. But I won't prod anyone to post to a thread -- I don't consider it my job -- unless they've specifically asked me to help them remember. And even then I don't want to come across as pushy. All that said, I'll still happily tag anyone if I can see a good reason -- either in the entry post or in the profile -- that my character would have to approach them.

The only people I'm really not interested in tagging are characters with extremely minimal profiles. The community information says that our profiles should have a basic description with any unusual characteristics, so it always gives me pause when someone doesn't have any kind of physical description. And I've seen a few profiles within the past several months with no actual mention of the name of the canon. That's almost guaranteed to stop me in my tracks.

[wakeupnew]

Word on your last point; it's really, really difficult when you don't know anything about a character or a canon, you go to the profile to check it -- and there's minimal information, no physical description, and no mention of the canon's specific name. I've had that happen a couple of times now.

By the way? I've wanted threads with any of yours for ages and ages, so if you ever see any of mine in -- feel free to tag, seriously. I never seem to be around when any of yours have been posted in. I can't promise I'll be incredibly fast with slowtimes, but it's rare that I drop threads altogether. :D

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

*beams* That's so nice to hear! I suppose I should make the confession that some time ago, back when he was probably within six months of joining the game, I came so close to tagging Tycho with Faye twice and then ended up not doing it, once because of the timing and once just because I got a little case of the aforementioned yeah, I don't know if his player would really be too thrilled about that thing.

I'll make a deal with you, though: you feel free to tag mine whenever you have a good opportunity, and I'll feel free to tag yours. I think that'd be great.

[fighting_mad]

Well, it's long past now, but for the record, I would have been totally thrilled. *grin*

Your terms are acceptable! :D