I don't know, guys, level with me: is it burned out on running shit and the pressure of trying to make it work, or are you over it the entire concept/characters/story, or is doing weird things to fake people just not fun/anything like a priority anymore, or a combination?
I can't speak for Sofie, obviously... for myself I'd say it's about 80% the former, and then muddy 'kinda' for the rest. Like, I love my characters, and I love the other characters in Taxon too, but (and this part is thoroughly my own damn fault for taking on four characters) I don't feel I have the energy to play them all as they should be played.
Like, Paul's a good example-- ICly he is a proactive, leadery sort who I therefore need to post doing leadery, organization things.... but god do I find that exhausting, and not particularly fun. Or: Mayland. In order to move along a lot of the plot stuff that I myself WANT and have proposed, I need to have him making posts that disseminate research or other information, and it's just.... that's not RP, that's an obligation. *faceplant*
And the idea of going ahead and just museboxing it would take away those problems, but the other half of the big problem I have and have always had with Taxon, even back when I was still fairly new, was that it all feels repetitious and just doing the same things over and over, ultimately. So it's like I personally am in a Catch-22: I want plot, I crave it, I crave something big my characters can sink their teeth and actions into rather than just Life in Taxon Day #3,906, but at the same time I've found myself constitutionally incapable of keeping up on my own obligations as player and moderator to make the posts I need to make in order for that plot to happen.
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I can't speak for Sofie, obviously... for myself I'd say it's about 80% the former, and then muddy 'kinda' for the rest. Like, I love my characters, and I love the other characters in Taxon too, but (and this part is thoroughly my own damn fault for taking on four characters) I don't feel I have the energy to play them all as they should be played.
Like, Paul's a good example-- ICly he is a proactive, leadery sort who I therefore need to post doing leadery, organization things.... but god do I find that exhausting, and not particularly fun. Or: Mayland. In order to move along a lot of the plot stuff that I myself WANT and have proposed, I need to have him making posts that disseminate research or other information, and it's just.... that's not RP, that's an obligation. *faceplant*
And the idea of going ahead and just museboxing it would take away those problems, but the other half of the big problem I have and have always had with Taxon, even back when I was still fairly new, was that it all feels repetitious and just doing the same things over and over, ultimately. So it's like I personally am in a Catch-22: I want plot, I crave it, I crave something big my characters can sink their teeth and actions into rather than just Life in Taxon Day #3,906, but at the same time I've found myself constitutionally incapable of keeping up on my own obligations as player and moderator to make the posts I need to make in order for that plot to happen.
TL;DR - mostly the former