Whiney time now.
Sep. 18th, 2006 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynOkay. I've whined about this before. I know I'm getting on people's nerves, or at least I suspect I am, but I'd kind of like to let it out again.
"Oh! What a great character! You play the character well! I'll have to tag the character!" means absolutely jack diddly. Because it generally doesn't produce any actual tags, see. I can understand "I'd tag if I wasn't being eaten alive by my own plot" and "I'd tag if I wasn't being eaten alive by RL". RL takes precedence, and I did make that mistake once of scheduling things so that Foliage Census, Island of Gratuitous Mayhem, and the World Without Magic stuff came to a head at approximately the same time. I know of the brain-eatey.
But if I have to whine and cry and generally act like a childish brat who doesn't think she's getting enough attention in order to get tags for a supposedly beloved character, I have a hard time working up the enthusiasm to give him any freaking entry posts at all, never mind working up the plots that I'd been desperately hoping to run.
(This is the point where the more sensible parts of my brain chime in with 'idiot, if you started the plottage, you'd get the tags without whining'. Only I'm currently deep in doubt about even THAT.)
I want to run the plots and make people happy and interested, and I'll do it in a heartbeat- but I'd kind of like just a little bit of attention outside of the big plotfoo.
Without, um, having to whine about wanting attention. Oy, my head.
(Edit: the fact that the minimalist posters are getting more tags than any of my characters, even after I've whined, does absolutely nothing at all for my sense of being any good whatsoever at this.)
"Oh! What a great character! You play the character well! I'll have to tag the character!" means absolutely jack diddly. Because it generally doesn't produce any actual tags, see. I can understand "I'd tag if I wasn't being eaten alive by my own plot" and "I'd tag if I wasn't being eaten alive by RL". RL takes precedence, and I did make that mistake once of scheduling things so that Foliage Census, Island of Gratuitous Mayhem, and the World Without Magic stuff came to a head at approximately the same time. I know of the brain-eatey.
But if I have to whine and cry and generally act like a childish brat who doesn't think she's getting enough attention in order to get tags for a supposedly beloved character, I have a hard time working up the enthusiasm to give him any freaking entry posts at all, never mind working up the plots that I'd been desperately hoping to run.
(This is the point where the more sensible parts of my brain chime in with 'idiot, if you started the plottage, you'd get the tags without whining'. Only I'm currently deep in doubt about even THAT.)
I want to run the plots and make people happy and interested, and I'll do it in a heartbeat- but I'd kind of like just a little bit of attention outside of the big plotfoo.
Without, um, having to whine about wanting attention. Oy, my head.
(Edit: the fact that the minimalist posters are getting more tags than any of my characters, even after I've whined, does absolutely nothing at all for my sense of being any good whatsoever at this.)
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Date: 2006-09-18 05:30 pm (UTC)I've done that. To my knowledge, no one noticed, but then perhaps people just didn't say anything about it.
Personally, I try not to bother people by tagging them a lot, which can lead to me eventually not tagging them at all. I just really don't want to be that person people dread getting tags from and I think in some cases, I've become that. So I try to avoid it.