I act almost exclusively in the capacity of what is considered "casual" now, given the general advanced section as a whole as what I have come to experience as a relatively unrealistic set of expectations. I fall into that unofficial limbo of "high casual", largely because I write at an advanced level, or so I prefer to think, but haven't the patience, time, or really the interest. I do not enjoy sitting down and feeling obligated to write extensively just for the sake of doing it, as I either channel the emotion and moment or I do not. Feigning it results in a degradation of quality, which feels almost demoralizing at times due to the depths it can drag one's artistic muse. This is to ignore the general "expectations" of the advanced section of course.

Short of relegating myself to "casual" status, I spend a great amount of time in the tabletop section because I find that so many roleplays are... well, rather lacking. My particular tastes in genre are anything but fandoms, anime, or schools, not just because I relate nothing at all to any of these, but because they are so prevalent. People are free to enjoy them, but they rub the fur the wrong way. Call me an elitist if you will, as it would not be the first or even the last. I digress too much, thus my real point is that the tabletop section fills a void I find myself in and a continued, perpetual cycle of personal disappointment. As example, I might see a topic that is potentially intriguing, but some half way in, if not at times the first sentence itself, am struck with the core sensation my take and persona would not meld well with it; a portion of this having to do with the fact everyone seems to be obsessing over the epic or exceptional, where whole worlds are always in chaos or where, in science fiction notably, the suspension of disbelief is absolutely derailed by outright impossibility.

I myself write from a lineage of "savage fantasy", having started in science fiction though later abandoning it because it became so cluttered with cliche and obsessed over the technological and mechanical aspects. That and the whole general escalation of stories to the grand rather than the heroic.