The Gathering
Aug. 23rd, 2007 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solabarDistinct lack of enthusiasm for the event....
Maybe I am getting old? Perhaps it is the weather killing my mood. Could be that the LT as a whole is going in a direction I don't like (promoting PvP over PvM). I think things like decisions about background (often not made by the background team), canning certain plots with no adaquate reason and lots of people I know not being there anymore have dulled my enthusiasm quite a lot. It's just not the same as when I started all those years ago.
I am also not sure if it is LARP, The LT or Just the LT main events that have me thinking like this. I am almost of an opinion that it is just the main events. Despite the fact that I really do enjoy ritual marking, writing plot and interacting with People on an IC basis. I just detest the politicing OOC and the One-Upmanship of certain people.
Staff should all be on the same team. They should look for compromise or alternate suggestions not stamping thier big boots about because that is the way they think it should happen.
I think I might be feeling a bit meh about the camping side of things too. I haven't pitched a tent once this year. Although I will have to for the G because I am going to be there later on Friday, having cleared the last of the stuff I still want out of the house.
I have decided I am gonna try and enjoy it as much as I can. Perhaps it will rekindle my enthusiasm for the whole thing, but I also decided that if I am not enjoying myself once my shifts are over I am off.
This is (dependant on factors such as visa's) likely my last year of the LT anyway. Certainly as staff, unless they want to keep me on on the basis I will help out at events I am able to make. So I want to go to say goodbye to people if nothing else.
Bah! I have posted another meh post on my LJ again! :D Right I am gonna post a happy one today too!
Maybe I am getting old? Perhaps it is the weather killing my mood. Could be that the LT as a whole is going in a direction I don't like (promoting PvP over PvM). I think things like decisions about background (often not made by the background team), canning certain plots with no adaquate reason and lots of people I know not being there anymore have dulled my enthusiasm quite a lot. It's just not the same as when I started all those years ago.
I am also not sure if it is LARP, The LT or Just the LT main events that have me thinking like this. I am almost of an opinion that it is just the main events. Despite the fact that I really do enjoy ritual marking, writing plot and interacting with People on an IC basis. I just detest the politicing OOC and the One-Upmanship of certain people.
Staff should all be on the same team. They should look for compromise or alternate suggestions not stamping thier big boots about because that is the way they think it should happen.
I think I might be feeling a bit meh about the camping side of things too. I haven't pitched a tent once this year. Although I will have to for the G because I am going to be there later on Friday, having cleared the last of the stuff I still want out of the house.
I have decided I am gonna try and enjoy it as much as I can. Perhaps it will rekindle my enthusiasm for the whole thing, but I also decided that if I am not enjoying myself once my shifts are over I am off.
This is (dependant on factors such as visa's) likely my last year of the LT anyway. Certainly as staff, unless they want to keep me on on the basis I will help out at events I am able to make. So I want to go to say goodbye to people if nothing else.
Bah! I have posted another meh post on my LJ again! :D Right I am gonna post a happy one today too!
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Date: 2007-08-23 09:24 am (UTC)I found that, for me, I was mainly going to events to help others, rather than for me, and once I stopped doing that, there didn't seem to be enough draw about them.
In my case I think that 17 years LRP was enough, so I'm having an indefinite break.
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Date: 2007-08-23 09:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-23 09:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-23 09:54 am (UTC)Random hit and run posting
Date: 2007-08-23 10:37 am (UTC)A few years ago I found plots were something very restricted, now plots are easy to get involved in, at a faction level at least. The dynamics of factions change as people change, so some factions may improve whilst others backslide and those situations again could reverse. So it may not be that things are generally getting worse or your old age but time to find a better faction dynamic or group dynamic.
as for the not knowing many poeple, I am finding the opposit, that I am finding more people I know there, but thats just a personal view.