Unless it's with a mun who's not around very much and the thread won't get finished (ie: someone who doesn't tag for a couple days at a time), I nearly always go from the bottom of my inbox (oldest) to the top, skipping memes for later. The exception to this is three or more person threads, which take priority simply because they move slower and can tie up your rping for weeks if they're important for development, so you don't want to be the one slowing them down if you can help it.
And don't be afraid to talk to muns. If you're doing a friendly nonsense thread with someone and there's a bunch of other plot threads that need your attention, ask them to plot out the end with with you and move on. A lot of the time I find that if a thread is waning, the other mun can tell too and you just need that mutual conversation of "are we done? okay cool."
Lastly, if there's a thread you just really don't want to tag anymore for whatever reason, don't feel badly about dropping it after notifying the mun. Rp is, first and foremost, supposed to be fun so if you're not having fun on some level, I kinda feel like that's 'doing it wrong.'
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Unless it's with a mun who's not around very much and the thread won't get finished (ie: someone who doesn't tag for a couple days at a time), I nearly always go from the bottom of my inbox (oldest) to the top, skipping memes for later. The exception to this is three or more person threads, which take priority simply because they move slower and can tie up your rping for weeks if they're important for development, so you don't want to be the one slowing them down if you can help it.
And don't be afraid to talk to muns. If you're doing a friendly nonsense thread with someone and there's a bunch of other plot threads that need your attention, ask them to plot out the end with with you and move on. A lot of the time I find that if a thread is waning, the other mun can tell too and you just need that mutual conversation of "are we done? okay cool."
Lastly, if there's a thread you just really don't want to tag anymore for whatever reason, don't feel badly about dropping it after notifying the mun. Rp is, first and foremost, supposed to be fun so if you're not having fun on some level, I kinda feel like that's 'doing it wrong.'
Hope that's helpful o/