I want--

No.

I need more space in which to be my fictive selves, without fear that I'll have to one-to-one mesh the orthocosm onto any particular paracosm or syncosm.

@literorrery

I'm confused at the parsing of this, but I think you're saying: you want to interact within your own stories, not anyone else's?

@emanate Not exactly.

I do a ton of creative work. I only externalize a small fraction of it because storycraft is hard. Embodying characters -- other selves -- is easy, but finding spaces outside of MUCKs to do that is difficult, and MUCKs have an expectation of synchronicity that I can't meet at my day job. I'd make character-based Masto accounts, but there's always the risk of the orthocosm demanding it be analyzed through one or more character lenses, and sometimes I don't want to do that.

@emanate I have no end of stray thought suited to Jules or Taneh or Valentin or any number of headmates, but no real place to _put_ those thoughts at present because they're not big enough to encompass in a story and the standard model of in-character interactions assumes that I'm able to stay focused on those thoughts and devote constant blocks of time to manage. I'm looking for something more like a forum with an expectation of continuity but high potential latency.

@emanate I'm not going to put a limit on how others want to interact with those thoughts, or even assume others would choose to do so at all. It's more that I have this ongoing sense that I have thoughts that are going to _spill_ if I don't put them somewhere, but right now I don't feel like I have anywhere to put them.

@literorrery @emanate Could you, perhaps, host your own forum? Or simply create accounts for them all here on Mastodon.

@Rosemary @emanate Considered both. Not quite sure what the right approach is yet. There's a sense that "creating a forum" is yet more screaming into the void, since it's out of the flow of other people. (( I may not be able to ask others to engage, but I can do myself the favor of not isolating myself. )) I did consider making Masto accounts, but I already juggle four of them. More might make things rather hard to sustain. And one with different faces forces people into an all-or-nothing mode.

@literorrery @emanate You could have a single account for them all, and preface each message with something indicating who's talking? We've seen that done, and we do it ourselves when we can't have separate accounts for one reason or another.