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This is actually my first time posting in a community. I just wanted to get some feedback on this story I wrote. It's not the first story I wrote, but it's the first that has been posted in a community. Maybe a comment or two?
This was written for our school paper. The editor assigned me to write a story about love. Since the whole school, including the children, are going to receive this paper, I planned to make it child friendly. It was supposed to be about a bratty student who turned out to have leukemia, but since it sounded a little too sad for a child, I changed it to something inspired by children's riddles - Humpty Dumpty. This story narrated in a child's point of view shows her determination to save Humpty Dumpty after feeling sad for his miserable end, that "he couldn't be put together again..."
( Here it goes... ) |
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Dec. 31st, 2009 @ 03:12 pm
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There's, what, 8,000 Dean Winchester muses... are any of them written in-character? |
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There will be some JRock and JPop performers at Animation On Display Convention again this year, as well as the opportunity to do JRock/JPop karaoke. Here's the details:
A.O.D. Convention
January 30-31, 2010
@
Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco Japantown, California
Events include:
- Masquerade-Costume Contest
- Artists Alley & Dealer's Room
- Panels (Writing for Animation; Stop Motion Animation; Careers In Videogames; Comiket, Doujinshi, and the Touhou Phenomenon; Cosplay Photography for Beginners; Criticizing the Job of an Anime Critic; Developing your own Iconic Manga Character; Dilbert: The Animated Series; From Fan To Pro: Using your hobbies in your career; NicoNicoDouga, MADS, and the Vocaloid Phenomenon; Otaku at work: Why you don't have your dream job; South Park Panel; 1960's cartoons; Your Otaku Business; etc.)
- Charity Auction
- Anime Games (Trivia Game Show)
- Video Gaming Room (includes Tournaments)
- 24-Hour Video Rooms (showing the hottest new anime, as well as oldies)
- Board Games galore (Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Zombie Mayhem, Risk, Apples to Apples, Star Trek)
- Anime & Pop Karaoke
... and more to come!
Special Guests:
Cristina Vee Valenzuela (voice actress for anime & video games)
Tony Oliver (voice actor for anime)
Carl Macek (creator of 'Robotech')
David Vincent (voice actor for anime & video games)
Kyle Hebert (voice actor for anime & video games)
Ken Pontak (writer)
AnimeMyu (SeraMyu - live action 'Sailor Moon' Musical performers)
David Nereus & Jakol (a.k.a. Vex Mode) (anime music spinners)
Phuong-Mai Bui-Quang (aka P.M.B.Q.) (comic artist & writer)
Ian McConville and Matthew Boyd (webcomic artists)
Tommy Yune (character designer for video games)
Maganda/Tommy Pedrini (musicians)
Cost:
Until January 15, full weekend - $25
At the door, full weekend - $30
At the door, Saturday ONLY - $20
At the door, Sunday ONLY - $15
NOTE: Children under the age of 10 are always free!
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Dec. 30th, 2009 @ 06:32 pm
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You'd rather RP with other people besides me? Fine. Even if you don't, you still don't want to RP with me (even though you don't say that. You're always "busy", although I can clearly see you aren't.) Fine.
When I say I'm thinking about killing the character off because all of her connections to people are weakening or severed altogether, you try to tell me not to, and to make her disappear instead (which...wouldn't that be worse?). No. That's not so fine.
If you don't give me the time of day RP-wise, you have no right to tell me, or even suggest to me, what I should do with my character.
I have decided not to kill that character off, because some people have told me that they want to help me liven her up some more, which I am grateful for. But I still don't want to RP with you. You can guilt-trip me all you want, but I got really tired of you ditching me, for people infamous for stirring up OOC drama. Ditching me in general was bad enough.
Our characters are supposed to be adoptive brother and sister. No, I don't think they should spend every single day together. But I don't see the point of them having that relationship, if it's never RP'ed out. It's like you want to keep it that way to make your own character seem shinier, being the awesome older brother and all, even though you can't take even five minutes every week to RP their relationship out.
But, yes. I am the bad guy here, and you're the only one trying to keep them together. Go die in a fire. |
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Hey guys. Wrote another short story, it's the third one or so that I've posted here. You guys have been tremendously helpful in the past and even if this isn't good it's certainly a step up from my earlier stuff IMO.
I will award any readers/critics with free hugs and internets as well as my thoughts on anything you've written.
Details:
-5,000 words
-Some harsh language
-Fairly darkish tone
If you don't like reading in the LJ format feel free to read it in PDF form here: http://disc.420chan.org/lit/src/Julian%20and%20the%20Worm.pdf
( Read more... ) |
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A quick write, non-beta or whatever, just going with an sudden idea in my head.
Might include material that might offend some people. I use a mixture of British and American english, so my grammar and spelling might not be work out for some people.
About the lives of three people in an apartment. I know this is done before but I've never read anything about this so here it goes. Sorry for spelling errors and etc.
( The Lives ) |
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When I finished the Eberron campaign, you bitched at me about how it "wasn't the kind of campaign you built your character for". I said straight up it was a travelogue so people could get how the world works, not a deep exploration of one villian group. You built your character for fighting that group; this is not, in fact, my problem, is it? Your failed assumption is not my emergency.
Then you bitched when I told you that your attitude disqualified you for the next campaign. So sad, too bad. It did. You were a jerk, and I am a game master, and I do not need the stress of straight-up jackasses in my game. There's the door, don't let the knife on the doorknow hit you in the prostate on the way out.
Then people decided, since one of our core players is out of action indefinately with cancer of the intestine and liver, to play Star Wars. Which I also run, and everyone said they had fun with the last campaign. (The final session was a fight with long-running enemies that happened the same day of the Battle of Endor; everyone got a chance to be heroic and do great things, including the guy who threw himself into the battle droid, expecting to die along with it, but was saved at the last moment before falling into the reactor core. Really, it was dramatic as all hell.)
Then you sent a 'detailed description' of how I am an 'incompetent game master' to the email list, including things from Eberron and Star Wars, and claiming stuff from my house rules as being proof of it. (I don't care you want to play an Illumian from Races of Destiny; I think the race is stupid as a concept and I don't want them in my game.)
Yeah, screw you. You're a bad gamer, a bad RPer (why are all your characters bisexual nymphomaniacs, anyway?), and that last part shows you're moving to being a bad person. |
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I'm running a one-shot adventure soon, and I was hoping to include some puzzles and such. So I ask, are there any puzzles or other such non-combat encounters that you've used or that you've had your GM use that stuck in your mind as memorable? The game will be a standard, back-to-the-roots dungeon crawl (we haven't had one in a while). |
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So. This isn't a rant, but I know we've all been there with items like this and possibly done it ourselves, so I thought this be a nice prep and laugh from the usual anger we all hold.
Click here for amusement. |
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Our form:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:
Physical Description:
Personality:
History:
Particular Skills:
Other Stuff:
Your application:
My name is Corporal Sparklesue. I am specialized in undercover missions, and covert OPs because of my small height(4'9"). I love to get hyper by eating a ton of sugar and pester the enemy until they go insane and kill them selves as well. I am also a black belt in both Tae Kwon Do, and Poke Fondu. |3 |
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Ok. Not cool.
Yes. I just started this RP. Yea, against my better judgment it's on Gaia, and I feel a bit pressured to play a 'Special snowflake ttly special' character, just to keep up with you all since you do it. But it looked, you know, fun. Plus I really had a character idea I wanted to play.
Perhaps I should have ran when I noticed it REQUIRED an anime picture. While I prefer well written descriptions, or drawing my own art, I shrugged it off and found something I thought fit my manipulative little ice queen.
But uh yea. I'm pretty sure I'm going to drop this now. I don't care if your super awesome Mod of the year. It's not cool to take control of my character. I mean, perhaps if you asked me before, and it was for a good reason sure I might say yes. But for something as simple as agreeing to coffee? Really? This just sort of perplexes me, to be honest. If your willing to control my character for me, in something as simple as going for coffee, I have to wonder exactly what else you would try to do. |
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( mostly about WoW raid stuff, not much about 'rp' rp, yeah, just move along )
Was I right in what I did? No.
Was raid lead right to hold it against me when they can't even manage their own raid? Now that's something we can be sure to debate. It would be one thing to want to help this person, but you'd start that by telling them they have no business in this raid until they learn their damn class! |
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There is something very irritating about GMs who have massive hard-ons for their own PCs.
But then, things can get outright out of hand.
Sure, man, love your PCs as much as you want, but I WILL draw my line when ordered by my GM superior to purposely sabotage the NPC belonging to another PC so he won't shadow his own Pet NPC.
The game is 4th D&D Ed, and I am one of the "minor" GMs, running personal storylines, stuff mostly for character development, you know, rivals\lovers, personal goals, etc. In short, stuff that won't give you a lot of gold or glory but will make people (hopefully) love their character more.
( Butthurtedness, Raging Hard-Ons and Outright Asshatery )
And that was when I delivered my resignation letter.
The End. |
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I've started a new steampunk RP; it's my first time running a game in a long time, and so far I'm very excited about the setting and players who have shown interest. They're people I know will cause zero drama, are superbly creative, and are super nice. The plot's fun and (hopefully) engaging. Everything is coming together for opening day.
Sounds idyllic, yeah?
...And then the WTF rolls in.
I gave the canned response with polite explanations for why it was an unacceptable app, but what I really wanted to say goes something like this:
( Long, ranting letter is long. ) |
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Recently, I decided to make my first ever forray into the magical world of RPs, prodded by a close friend of mine, and searched for an internet board on which to practise and learn the ropes so that I didn't make a total fool of myself.
I had to search around a bit because most of the RPs were very combat-based, which is understandable in the fandom I suppose, and thus had reams and reams of rules and tables and point-systems and little number/letter thingammers with doodaas and bits which all controlled which attacks you could use and what weapons you had. And all of the FAQs for explaining this ridiculously complex system were littered with technical terms and yet more tables and eventually my brain just threw up.
So I looked for a board that was a leeeetul less high-maintenance and a bit more focused on character interaction as opposed to kicking butt, taking names and earning points so you could get that wildly over-compensating, strangely phallic sword you always wanted.
( That was, I think, my first mistake. ) |
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If you wanted your board to be exclusive, maybe you shouldn't have let in players you don't want to play with or just don't like. Not when you've made such a big deal about getting everyone involved. Belittling them to your special group and ignoring their ideas and feelings seems like a real waste of valuable play time. You think they don't notice how you're pulling other players away from them and pushing threads to continue without them?
What is this, Camp Chippewa?
Now that's an idea for a board if a good Gary Granger and Becky Martin Granger could be had... |
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The first legal same-sex marriage in Latin America took place yesterday in Argentina in the remote city of Ushuaia.
Argentine law leaves marriage rules to provincial and local governments. The province of Tierra del Fuego became the first to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor María Fabiana Ríos (who is, by the way, the first woman elected governor of an Argentine province without first succeeding to the job) authorized it. Mauricio Macri, the conservative mayor of Buenos Aires (which is an autonomous city that acts pretty much like a province of its own) effectively authorized same-sex marriage by refusing to appeal a court order striking down the city's law against same-sex marriage, but marriage opponents got that order stayed until the Supreme Court of Argentina hears the case, so it's tied up in the courts for a little while.
Civil unions are recognized in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, the province of Río Negro and the cities of Río Cuarto and Villa Carlos Paz (both in the province of Córdoba). Marriages from one jurisdiction are recognized nationwide, so any Argentine couple willing to buy a plane ticket to Ushuaia can be legally married wherever they live in the country. Ushuaia is known for having lots of penguins around (and seriously, what's a wedding without penguins?) but there's no word on how the government plans to handle gay penguins.
Mexico City's legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriage, but that won't go into effect until the mayor signs it (he's expected to) so Argentina gets to be first on this.
There's a bill in the Argentine federal legislature which would mandate same-sex marriage nationwide. Even though leading politicians from all the major factions of Argentine politics (right, center, pro-Kirchner left, anti-Kirchner left) support same-sex marriage, the bill hasn't gone anywhere.
Same-sex marriage and civil unions are a very big topic of debate in Latin America right now, especially in South America. Chile is currently in the middle of a presidential runoff in which both candidates are promising to approve civil unions and end other discriminatory laws, and running TV commercials loudly proclaiming their support for gays. For the last several years, Brazil has recognized civil unions nationwide. Last year, Uruguay approved civil unions. This year, Colombia's courts ordered that same-sex couples be treated as married couples under the law and Ecuador's first civil unions went into effect.
Every country in South America except Guyana (a South American country, but English-speaking and therefore not part of Latin America) has repealed laws against homosexual sex.
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Back in the 2000 United States Census, same sex couples reporting their partner as a "husband" or "wife" were automatically counted as "unmarried partners", actively suppressing information on how many same sex couples in the country consider themselves married.
For the upcoming 2010 Census, the Census will no longer do this. Look at the 2010 Census Form Here. For every person after the first, question 2 asks what their relationship to "Person 1" is, if they consider yourselves married, and check the "Husband or Wife" box, that information will now be accurately recorded and tallied in the Census statistics, even if they are the same sex as "Person 1".
We don't have to be invisible, spread this info around.
More detail in this interview from last month. And here's the website of the Our Families Count organization: http://ourfamiliescount.org/
Yes, the Census form is still far perfect. It uses loaded terms when there is no need. Why not say "Spouse" rather than "Husband or Wife", or even "Spouse (Husband or Wife)" if they're afraid some people won't know the word. It miscounts marriages when two or more married couples share a home.
It also still miscounts people who don't fit cleanly into "male"/"female" (trans folks, check the box for whatever you identify as, whether or not you have transitioned legally, the census seeks your understanding of the truth, not your understanding of the municipal records).
Plenty to gripe about, plenty to still work on for 2020, but at least they aren't suppressing marriages by same sex couples anymore.
[Edited: Sorry for the confusing earlier edit, I had gotten apparently conflicting information, but the conflict has been resolved]
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