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I like you, don't get wrong, although you do have a tendency to annoy me at times. However, this is something I've been wanting to bring up for a while and while I can't really call you out to your face, I've finally decided to at least say something because it's been driving me up the wall. Yes we play some of the same characters and our characterization of them are markedly different and while I may not be perfect, I'm a damn sight more IC than you are. The characters in question are respectively.
A) emotionally cold and calculating. He doesn't do public displays of affection and he's certainly not going to change his mode of speaking to someone because it /hurts/ their feelings he calls them the same name he has for over a decade. You have to /read/ between the lines here. He's never been someone who really deals well with pointless social chatter.
B) reserved as hell. He has occasional lapses but for the most part, he doesn't let himself be swayed by emotion. He chooses his words and actions carefully and he follows orders, whether he agrees with said orders or not. He was trained to do his job by a man who wouldn't tolerate half the outbursts I've seen you make icly.
I've even shown your profile to people who are in the fandom and don't know you personally and the reactions have pretty much confirmed that you can't handle this character in a remotely ic way, but you're always right so it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
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Can we just get over this mush and on to business? We have a universe to save, an alternate dimension to prevent.
I think there's a reason my possible marysue character is turning evil. Just cause you "good side" people have too many love affairs.
This is just irritating the bejesus out of me, and the fact that the villian character I am supposed to co-conspire with is absent EVERY TIME I have available net.
Doesn't help that my computer crashed this week. Just makes me more mad.
[[duly note: this RP comm IS NOT on LJ - maybe that's why it sucks]]Current Mood:  bitchy Current Music: New Divide - Linkin Park |
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This is an old one, but still annoying. It happened to my best friend on her RPing board (which we are now trying to revamp and revive, so that may have been what reminded me) and just made us both boggle. I'm typing this out with her on the phone.
( In which I abuse brackets a lot. )Because of all this drama right in it's opening days (and the copious pornage) the board never really got off the ground. Cynic ended up getting really put off the board and it all just died. That said, we're actually trying to get it back up again, revamping the backstory (and adding a wiki to it, if I have my way) and just making it better than before and a lot more coherent. Hopefully it'll work out this time.
And we're not telling them about it either.Current Mood:  tired |
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Not even sock-puppeting this one. All that needs to be said can be said just by copy-and-pasting the question I just got from an applicant.
"Does the writing sample have to be something I wrote?"
Thanks everybody. G'night. Be sure to lock up on your way out. |
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In somewhat surprising news, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has endorsed anti-discrimination measures in housing and employment on the basis of sexual orientation, in Salt Lake City. The law passed unanimously.
It certainly doesn't absolve them of their previous (and continued) stands that are harmful to the LGBT community. Part of the statement also seemed passive-aggressive (equating gay marriage to "violence" against the institution of marriage). Still, this is a step in the right direction, and will hopefully benefit the SLC LGBT community, and lead to broader acceptance in Utah.
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I'm sweating blood revising a novel, and I'm strongly questioning my opening scene (along with everything else, but that's what revisions are for, right? <g>). How horribly cliche is an opening scene with the main character getting out of bed? Is it unforgivable? Completely hack? :) |
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Hello anime/cosplay fans!
I recently attending Zenkaikon, an anime convention near Philadelphia. I wrote a general convention report, and then a separate cosplay report that I thought might interest some of you (both with pretty cosplay pictures, of course).
Cosplay Report: Link
Convention Report: Link
Did anyone else attend Zenkaikon '09? |
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 01:20 pm
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Dear RP Partner I've Been Trying My Damnedest to Ignore,
Stop making all your female characters so over-sexualized no matter how OOC it is for them. Please, I beg you. Not every woman you play has to be a sex symbol because more often than not, they are so very very far from it. People have tried to correct you both gently and not-so-gently but you refuse to listen to them and it makes me rage a good deal. So for the sake of my blood pressure, either kindly realize that not all women need to be over-sexed or stop playing female characters all-together.
I Regret Giving You My Phone Number Everyday,
KatCurrent Music: Eminem- Crack a Bottle ft Dr Dre & 50 Cent |
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Thanks to the many men and women in service, past and present, living and dead, I was able to stay up late last night and game with my wife, sleep in today, have a nice lunch, and get a few peaceful hours to myself at the office to catch up with work. Not to mention all the other rights and freedoms we all enjoy, of course. A big, heartfelt thank you to them all for making the ultimate sacrifice, and for continuing to protect us all today.Current Mood:  thoughtful |
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I come from the world of fanfic where posting is expected and encouraged and feedback, when offered, is relatively immediate. I'm slowly phasing into the world of original fic, breathing life back into an original story/novel started several years ago. I'm hoping that once it's complete and has been edited within an inch of its life, I will be able to submit it for publication consideration... somewhere.
Haven't quite figured out that part yet. I need to get the thing written first.
My question to you is, if one's goal is publication (not self-publication, but submit-to-agent-type publication) is it allowed or appropriate to first post pieces of said fic online for feedback?
I've heard both ways: that it's encouraged and that the feedback helps you know if you're on the right track and that it's a definite no-no and if you post online, then 'real' publication houses won't even look at you because they consider your work already published in some manner.
I'm not sure what to trust, or where to go for a definitive answer, and the fear of the second possibility keeps me from attempting the first.
Any suggestions or experience in this area would be appreciated. I would very much like feedback on the novel -- have gotten quite addicted to it, actually. But not at the risk of a possible future for the story...
Thanks in advance.Current Mood:  sore Current Music: Dragonfly by Shaman's Harvest |
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 04:01 pm
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No, really, where are all the black characters? |
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Jedi who secretly dabble in the dark side of the force can be fun, but...the key word is secretly. Even if Lucas made the Council full of idiots who kept missing the glowing red flags of AAAAANGST from Anakin in the third prequel, that was likely just because Lucas has gone out of his damn mind.
( This is how you DON'T hide your Dark Side leanings from the Council. ) |
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The NYS Senate apparently has agreed to hold a vote on NY's Marriage Equality Bill sometime before the end of the year. Depending on who you talk to, the votes are either there or not there to pass it, no one is really 100% sure about it.
I am really not too sure this will come to a vote, despite said agreement (words in Albany mean nothing at all). What it basically comes down to is that these children are too scared to go on record supporting or not supporting gay marriage. On the republican side, those that would side with us have been scared off by the vote in Maine and by a pro-gay marriage republican who got more or less got booted out of the party in the 23rd district for not being conservative enough. On the democratic side (the controlling side at the moment) of the aisle, well, all they really want is LGBT money, not to actually get us rights or anything. They will probably hold up voting on this bill, then ask us for more campaign donations 'cause it will happen for sure next session, honestly, we promise.
Meanwhile, the one man in NY who I think truly gives a shit about us, that being Gov. Patterson, is not being vocally supported for reelection by LGBT groups because his poll numbers are so low that it'd be considered a waste of time to support him as he won't make it past the party primary next year (the reasons behind that are another story entirely).
I apologize for the rant. Long and short is that sometime in the next 1.5 months, NYS Senate will vote to allow gay marriage. It's looking like right now anyway that it will fail, but in this state, for the senate to merely function as a voting government body would be a step up.Current Mood:  aggravated |
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 10:24 am
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A while ago, I agreed to start an RP with a friend of mine. Her characters were fun to play with, but a little generic - you know how it is.
Anyway, I was using what I like to call one of my "fandom ambiguous" characters - she does come from a specific fandom, but I don't limit her to RPs from that fandom, if you get me. For now, let's call her "Character A". She was also blonde - and why this is important, I'll tell you later.
My friend was using her new OC, a tall, dark-haired male. He dressed in back, but, thankfully, was not emo - he just disliked bright colours. .. a lot. Let's call him "Character B".
( Click to see what went wrong.. )
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This is a story from ages and ages ago, but time does nothing to diminish the suck.
I was playing in a play-by-e-mail Evangelion roleplay back in the height of the popularity of the original series. This game had a very interesting structure which I have never seen elsewhere, before or since, where each player had their own character, but were free to write any character, within reason, in order to expedite scenes. There was the large and necessary proviso that the actual player of any character had veto rights, and could immediately and without question or recourse delete or amend any post using their character without their imput. It was a really great system for the most part, though it required a lot of trust between the various players.
The one big downside of this game was that there were certain players who were there PURELY for the sexing. This puzzled me; this was a game about giant cyborg fighting machines and alien terrors, and the most interesting thing you can come up with is PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS? Seriously?
My character - and I should specify for fans of the anime that this was VERY AU; it used the same concepts and locations, but replaced every character with original characters - was one of the head scientists for the organization around which the game revolved. I always wrote him as a man utterly married to his work, and while most of the other players were roleplaying dates and whatnot, I'd always be advancing some sinister and macabre plot in the background. Finally, annoyed by the tenor of the game as a whole, I decided to give my character a romantic sub-plot.
I had him encounter an adult female NPC who was mostly attached to one of the pilot player characters, and wrote a number of scenes with them gradually getting to know one another and growing fond of one another. My plan was, eventually, I would hav her ask my character out for dinner, at which point my character would utterly shut her down, and never, ever speak to her again; it was one thing to be friendly with someone, but he had no time at all for romantic entanglements when he was working to save the world!
I was planning this in part because it entertained me, and in part as an object demonstration that not every subplot needed to end with PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS. But sadly, it got a little derailed when one of the other players, advancing one of her own subplots, used mine as an NPC (which was totally kosher), but also had him ruminating about going and asking out this NPC girl. This last irritated me mightily, as in having that part redacted, I kind of had to blow the big surprise denial that I had in mind for the end of that subplot. It could be persuasively argued that this is one of the vulnerabilities of this style of roleplay, but it's something which wouldn't have come up if the atmosphere of the game hadn't become so sexualized that this was the automatic assumption.
It just really bugs me when games which are about things which are more interesting than sex end up being little more than vehicles for sex. It's not that I have anything against sexual content in roleplay, it's just that it's often - usually, even - a waste of potential. |
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For those of you who remember the Hedgehog of DOOM
I unfortunately am here to report that the Player is BACK but not with that character.
( Meet... Usagi Uriko... and then regret it )
I weep. I just... fuckin' weep. What makes it even funnier is this man asks for open input on the character and I am warned to NOT RISE TO THE BAIT by my friend (who I raged on about this privately because I have to be Miss Nice Lady). I almost wish we had an approval process... but 'open forum' means... tragedy happens.Current Mood:  cold |
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 12:21 am
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Look, I know you are enthusiastic about joining my roleplay, and that makes me really glad that you are...
but when I ask you not to make profile until I am finished with my own, I don't mean for you to go ahead and start working on yours behind my back. There is a reason I am having the players who have already reserved spots wait - it's because my profiles are going to have key details that pertain to yours. Since all of our characters are starting out as a "team," there is definitely already going to be some history between them, and I want to make sure we are on the same page.
And just to let you know..."reserved" does not mean that you have been "accepted" into the roleplay. That means that you have gotten passed the roleplay samples and have moved on to making the profile stage. I can still deny your entry. Normally I don't after I have accepted your roleplay samples, but in your case I might make an exception. You have already proved to me that you can't follow rules and not only that, but from what I can see in your profile so far...it is completely God-moddish and Mary-Sue. And I really can't have that.
Also...just to add to that...
I asked you not to make your profile yet and you started...not only that but you haven't even been accepted yet and you have ALREADY written an introduction post to the roleplay?! You have no idea what the setting is [since I haven't had time to write it yet] or know ANY details whatsoever and you are already jumping right in! WTF?!
In short...you're definitely not getting in now. Sorry. [Well...I'm not really sorry.]Current Mood: aggravated |
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Title: Writers' Block: The Great Myth
Summary: ... since I began writing, I've heard many different people exclaim "What shall I do? The horrid Overlord Writer's Block doth wound me greviously!"
Down the Rabbit Hole, Alice
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