Posts made by Caryatid

@marsmrsmars My guess is staff hadn't seen or realized that song was linked because holy shit.

I'll be trying it out too, I just have to get through chargen.

Juniper: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cdWQlRMevRbhhaVJRTc0C

Sabine: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46pwclWrtH6f2hkS94UW8D

Coming Soon: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fyE3fM6tFgXuK8CHn8ajw

@saturna I can't confirm or deny ominous foreshadowing, that defeats the purpose!

Presently I play Sabine and Juniper. One of these will be going soon though. ominous foreshadowing

Bring on the hard wipe and time jump. I am there for it. Tessere's elevation (or, really, their return to their former state) was baked into their story and having successfully spent a year working on it, proving just how amazing they are, and introducing luxury brocade... I'm ready. Bring on the dark future.

@Pyrephox said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

You'd be surprised how fast a scene can go from okay to //what the fuck are you on//. And that's without the people who want to go from zero to KINKY SEXYTIMES in two poses. I still remember the time when a male PC I played started a scene with someone at his office; someone he'd been pleasant and mildly flirtatious with, and she started to just strip right there for no discernible reason. When his reaction was not 'let's get it on' but 'you know I work in a cubicle and also WHY?', she was completely bewildered.

Oh no, was that Venice visiting Thomas in his newspaper cubicle? I remember she visited him and it sounds like something she'd have done to fuck with his head and if so I AM SORRY.

@Carex

Projection is a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harbouring hostile thoughts.

I love the things you dream up. Always have, always will. I'd play this in a heartbeat.

@Cobaltasaurus That's a relief! I'm glad she's on the path to recovery. Good girl, Oya.

Sent a little extra because vet visits can run over total pretty easily. I hope she feels better soon!

I haven't TSed in forever but when I did last, I made those logs public. They were fucking amazing too.

"I've got zip ties, I've got fishing line, and I've got certain skills."

I haven't heard anything about you but I suspect I would not given the suspected sources. I do think you are very much more of a frontal assault style operator. I think you genuinely felt remorse over the last whisper campaign you engaged in against someone else.

Having engaged in it, I think you can probably also use that to dictate your response now. What worked then, for the aggrieved parties? What didn't?

I do believe that when you have seen someone do this multiple times, when they have involved you in doing this against others before, and when they are finally now targeting you (it's such a classic pattern, isn't it?)... that is a good time to sever. Hard. Possibly with a machete. Toxic patterns of behaviour exhibited by those who clearly have no interest in altering those patterns are going to continue to cause damage, full stop.

@Ganymede said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

Sometimes, monogamy is the easy route even if I'm not always a huge fan (cause commitment is terrifying).

Monogamy is what I fall back to because I cannot be bothered to be polite or civil to more than one person in the span of a day.

Also, Caryatid's alts are so cute.

99% of my characters are slow and/or reluctant to enter relationships, and are not monogamous-brained (because of my extensive library of horror stories).

100% of my characters are super cute, it's true. Even the deadly ones.

Jackson.

Also I'll cop to re-using Sabine as a name several times. I am one of the offenders.

For me it's the potential for the combination of high adventure with high romance with a gloss of formality and ritual, and the (admittedly slim, usually) potential for actual political maneuvering to better one's position. Does it usually work out that way? Not so much. But the hope remains.

Lordy, lordy, Ganymede-adjusted Alucinor. It's like she's baiting me.

Unfortunately it does look like Marsilikos doesn't really work for my availability and goals. It has some nice people and the RP is solid so I am officially vouching for it in that regard though.

@tek I'm on Arx? It's not a rejection, I'm just already there.

My personal experience with one of the staffmembers of Ithir was being subjected to skeevy creeping, manipulation, and gaslighting so he could always have his way. Another of the staffers is someone whose personality and methods of interaction I do not get along with. I'm not putting myself through any of that again.