#intimigate

I was suggesting that you could simulate what a Bell or even another one of your characters would say when you think your current answer is not long enough/intimidating and then just take that into account. Re: Bells, they tend to put everything in a specifically Bellish way that might not be always entirely tactful but it might help with things.

You seem to be good at doing acceptably long answers with Bells; maybe if you did that with anons/easily intimidated people, it might help?

On the intimidating thing: I used to find you intimidating, but then I realized that you say exactly what you mean. This was a huge relief. Many people seem to use terse replies to convey unspoken irritation. Also you're writing is beautiful and it's easy to be nervous around people you admire.

On the one hand, the celebrity thing and the terseness can make you seem intimidating. On the other, you say "*waves pompons* tell culture!" and when I send you e-hugs you say "*purr*". That adds up to "adorable and not-intimidating" I'm pretty sure.

This probably doesn’t generalize, but: My ask was more about glowfic and story worldbuilding than AUSJ worldbuilding; I used to limit my AUSJ asks before somebody else anon. asked if you wanted them limited and you said no; I had not liked that I was asking more than most other people before that. I feel similarly about the Make My Characters Talk To Each Other and Talk To Effulgence Characters threads; I engage with those more than everybody else and often I feel like it’s too much.

I used to find you intimidating Because Celebrity, but now find you less so. On the instances when we’ve interacted in a realtime context (usually dead Mafia IRC channels) you have seemed somewhat more so but that’s probably still Celebrity. I sometimes get the feeling you’re annoyed with the quantity of worldbuilding stuff I ask about (from your terse replies) but I do not think this is usually true, especially after reading the #intimigate tag and seeing you mention Tell Culture several times.

I don't find you intimidating online or in person, but I suspect I might if we were interacting one-on-one and I felt the need to Contribute Equally? Tell culture is good and helpful.

again primarily as a datapoint: i find you somewhat intimidating (mostly because you're really well known and multiple people who I super respect and/or are legitimately intimidating refer to you by name, but also because you have a large, popular, & fairly successful project going on in the ausj series) but mostly not (because when we've interacted you've never seemed dismissive in any way)