Much to my own bafflement, some people feel intimidated by me, so please let me offer some reassurances in that I am a highly socially anxious individual who sleeps with a half dozen plushies on their bed, who personifies their executive dysfunctions as an incompetent and dysfunctional board of executives, who calls their ADHD moments of when their their thoughts are going all over the place "brain zoomies", who randomly posts the songs that they have stuck in their head as "Ziggy Brain Radio", and who is far more silly and sassy than these rules might actually imply.[^9]

I do not use the RP Thread Tracker quite as intended. Most notably where the Archive and Queue is concerned.

• Any in character post tagged with "; partnerurl / partnermuse & my muse / 000" is intended to be added to the tracker — Havu (lanternlit) is helping to make sure everything actually gets tracked.
• Only active threads are in the front most view, so I can keep tabs what I currently have going on — anything else is either marked as Archived or Queued for storage purposes.

Threads Inactive For Longer Than 2+ Months

• Threads that have been on "their turn" for 2+ months are sent to the Archive for storage until it is replied to — these threads are still accessible through the public view's dropdown menu to access Archived threads.
  • I do not consider these threads dropped unless I have updated the title to mark them as such. If you have outright dropped a thread, please notify me directly. This can be done through discord, tumblr IM, and/or the tumblr inbox.
• Threads that have been on my turn for 2+ months are potentially sent to the Queue list for storage if they're stuck in drafts due to low muse activity — again, they're still accessible through the dropdown menu to access Queued threads.
  • These posts are not actually queued on tumblr, however, as I never queue in character posts. It is just a functional way of setting them aside in the tracker so as not to overwhelm me when I know I'm not going to be replying to that post for a while, and it should automatically release it from being marked as queued when I do eventually get it posted.
  • Likewise, these threads are also not dropped — some muses, or even just some verses for that muse, are simply slower than others, and so interactions may go months without being replied to if I have little to no muse for them at the time.

Completed &/or Dropped Threads

• Threads are able to reach a natural conclusion at the end of a scene, and rather than trying to force its continuation, I prefer to simply switch to a new thread itself and continue with a new plot point, while maintaining the development established in the prior thread. These threads will be marked as complete in the tracker by adding "(Complete)" at the end of the title, as that is the only functional way that the public view makes my marking them for anyone else to see.
• Threads that are outright dropped and/or otherwise ended will be marked as such in the tracker by similarly adding either "(Dropped)", "(Ended)", or another suitable descriptor for why the thread is no longer being continued to the end of the title.

I very rarely drop threads myself simply due to a lack of interest, so this is not something you need to worry about, even if it takes me a long time to reply to a thing. I will get to it eventually, or I will reach out and let you know that I need to drop it because I'm unable to find a way to continue it.

If you lose interest in a thread, I would appreciate it if you would please just let me know so I can mark it as dropped &/or ended, rather than letting it sit as being archived and still waiting for a potential reply to come in. I'm an avid reader of work-in-progress fics on AO3 — I will wait literal years for a continuation, and that includes roleplay threads (it's something I've regularly done in the past on my old blogs).

If you're never going to reply to something, I'd rather just know rather than being expected to assume — assumptions make asses out of people, more often than not, and again, I'm neurodivergent AF and disabled, so my assumptions are always going to lean to a far kinder "they're probably just busy/too tired/brainfoggy/etc" side of things rather than "oh, they've lost interest and I should move on from that thread" that most people seem to assume.

Tracking Completed &/or Dropped Threads

• Threads are able to reach a natural conclusion at the end of a scene, and rather than trying to force its continuation, I prefer to simply switch to a new thread itself and continue with a new plot point, while maintaining the development established in the prior thread. These threads will be marked as complete in the tracker by adding "(Complete)" at the end of the title, as that is the only functional way that the public view makes my marking them for anyone else to see.
• Threads that are outright dropped and/or otherwise ended will be marked as such in the tracker by similarly adding either "(Dropped)", "(Ended)", or another suitable descriptor for why the thread is no longer being continued to the end of the title.

One of my conditions is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and as such my actively can vary drastically, as I have very little energy at all on a daily basis. I also tend not to follow first as a result, because I refuse to follow anyone without properly checking out their blog first, reading their rules and whatnot.