Let me second Erik's advice, especially if you tend to bleed through. Being able to just shoot the breeze on other topics, to vent, or to blow stuff up (3xFlare with crits in CM or Praetorium is very cathartic 
) in a purely OOC way helps a lot. There's nothing wrong with saying, "Tonight, I'm going to take a break and just be OOC." You can write it as your character just doing some mundane adventuring with some random other adventurers.
Also, having an OOC friend network helps in a couple of other ways. One, you can make light of things going on in RP. While that seems kind of counterproductive (the scene gets serious and you crack some jokes about it in an OOC channel?), that helps produce some valuable detachment. I make fun of L'yhta all the time. Two, you have some people you can talk to about non-RP things -- computers, the game, other FFs, SportsBall, or what have you -- and you get to know them in a non-RP way, so any IC drama with their characters doesn't seem so devastating (since you know you're all friends OOC).
) in a purely OOC way helps a lot. There's nothing wrong with saying, "Tonight, I'm going to take a break and just be OOC." You can write it as your character just doing some mundane adventuring with some random other adventurers.Also, having an OOC friend network helps in a couple of other ways. One, you can make light of things going on in RP. While that seems kind of counterproductive (the scene gets serious and you crack some jokes about it in an OOC channel?), that helps produce some valuable detachment. I make fun of L'yhta all the time. Two, you have some people you can talk to about non-RP things -- computers, the game, other FFs, SportsBall, or what have you -- and you get to know them in a non-RP way, so any IC drama with their characters doesn't seem so devastating (since you know you're all friends OOC).
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