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[Cayla]

Thats very good Iris , your not a bad coder.

what do you think about joining illiterate roleplays?

I don't mind at all honestly , I can happily write one liners.

[Dalliance,]

what do you think about joining illiterate roleplays?

sometimes its nice not to have to write so much, but they can get boring,
depends what the plot is

[tempest,]

what do you think about joining illiterate roleplays?

Well, it depends on how illiterate roleplays. If every post is like "he walked", "she nodded" and "he sniffed looking for rabbits" it is just too boring for me. If each post is at least two or three lines length then I might think about joining it.

iris, I like your coding. c:

[Cayla]

You know the hardest part of coding is trying to make everything fit and still look decent. I personally like to make everything level like ;

being awesome
is so cool

instead of:

being awesome
is so cool

or at least try to fill the open spaces with something.
I don't know if any one feels the same way?

[rosesgreedy]

You know the hardest part of coding is trying to make everything fit and still look decent. I personally like to make everything level like ;

being awesome
is so cool

instead of:

being awesome
is so cool

or at least try to fill the open spaces with something.
I don't know if any one feels the same way?

lolololol. who doesn't feel that way? i've been trying to do that for the past, like, three hours. x3

[Cayla]

lolololol. who doesn't feel that way? i've been trying to do that for the past, like, three hours. x3

Ha ha , I know how you feel - I don't have the patience , though i't seemed like a job well done after three hours.

[minho]

what do you think about joining illiterate roleplays?

no. nope. no no no. there has been a time where i would search for one, an illiterate roleplay, and only get this "she smiled softly. "i like you" she said softly."
how many times can they use the word softly??? how many times can they go without putting punctuation within the quotation marks?? or when you're like ""we should probably get something to eat," he suggested nonchalantly." and they only give you "she nodded." i want some communication, please.

what is your opinion on the differences of literate? (length or writing)

both. i don't care what your sentence structure is like, how wonderful your grammar is and the word choice. if you go about describing the world around you by maing something long, i don't care either. if someone gives a long reply with descriptive words, it paints more of a picture and gives you something to use. rather than "the tree was beginning to blossom, the apples falling to the ground to claim their rightful spot." vs "spring was upon the small town. when fall and winter came they left the trees with nothing but dead leaves. now the trees blossomed; leaves were a bright, healthy green. even the apples started to turn a deadly (but lovely) shade of red. around their trunk the ground was littered with the delicious fruit. nature was once again taking over the world."
personally for me i want something long and descriptive. if i go to an illiterate role play, i just can't find it there. c:

[Artesian]

what is your opinion on the differences of literate? (length or writing)

Length is not an indication of literacy. Not at all nada nope. The only reason why length might be considered an indication of literacy is because people who aren't very good writers usually can't write long posts. Usually. Literacy is simply good writing, and sometimes that ends up being long in a given situation, and sometimes it ends up being short. I don't generally do roleplays with length requirements because of that, because I really hate having to write 600 words that basically is just my character saying one simple line of dialogue. It's bloat, it's fluff, and it's the kind of stuff that any decent editor would remove for conciseness, and it wastes my partner's time if it's not completely relevant.

what do you think about joining illiterate roleplays?

I generally don't, but that's only because the people who generally join illiterate roleplays are not people I care to write with (maturity, investment in emotional realism, simplistic plots, etc). But I am very very fond of really relaxed 1x1s with people I trust to write well, with Chatzy or Skype, where you can write short posts and bounce the dialogue or action back and forth rapidly. I adore those, probably because I have a thing for roleplays that actually GO somewhere. And most literate ones, unfortunately, do not. When you can write 15,000 words and not finish a simple conversation, that's a problem.

Here's one of my Chatzy roleplays, with Whysper (purple stuff is mine, green stuff is hers, black stuff is stuff I added afterwards, when I moved bits around to make it flow better):

----Loki completely ignored every one of them, continuing on his way back down the path they had taken. He would not speak to them, not at this moment. His body was more tensed than usual, his eyes terribly hard and face stoic as he gazed piercingly at anyone who dared cross his path.
----Clint called, “Hey!” and hurried up past the others, wincing at the pressure on his knee, then placed himself almost directly in front of the Asgardian. Loki all but snarled at Clint when he stepped in front of him, though he quickly schooled his expressions once more. He was almost vibrating with tension by the time Clint spoke to him.
----“I can't protect you if, you're wandering off like that. Stay within range, all right?” He considered that 'within range' could mean two entirely different things. Within range to help, and within range to, well, you know. Still, he took his promises seriously, and he'd told Loki he'd be safe, and wandering off without any weapon whatsoever while his distinctive looking brother called him by his name – did the man have any sense of under-cover operations at all – was not safe.
----A bitter laugh came from Loki, sending a chill down Clint's spine, a terrible grin spreading over his lips for a moment as he spoke. “Your words do not convey clearly your intention, Agent Barton. Do you wish me to stay close so that I can be watched as a mother watches her child, or do you simply wish to be able to kill me quickly?”
----“Both,” he responded automatically, not bothering to lie. “Though the mother and child thing sounds a little creepy,” he added.

That's a very slightly edited version of the original, and it reads like a proper fanfic. Most roleplays that I've tried to convert into readable material moved at too much of a crawl to allow it to ever read like anything but a roleplay.

Anyway. That was a really long answer but length expectations are a pet peeve of mine. 9-9 *jumps off podium*

[deer,]

questions are a little off topic guys

guys , just want to know - whats the best piece of coding you've made?
ohh my favorite. well that's a little hard for me i pick ...
i mean i don't think i have a favorite piece of coding cx

[coriander.]

so um... i just did some REAL coding. for the first time.
and let me tell you, i am done with eeeeverything right now.
it took me two hours to fix a huge problem i created but...
now that it's done... i'm super proud. c: take a look? x