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Dear Bitch Co-Worker,

I have a specific spot in my workspace where I have asked people to place the files that are returned to me for processing. This particular surface is distinctly different from my main desk and is marked with a sign saying RETURN POLICIES HERE with a big arrow pointing to the spot. I frequently have multiple piles of policies on my desk, each with a different thing I need to do for them, or need to keep track of their count, and when you just slap down your pile on top of them it is very easy for me to lose track of what I'm doing with that particular pile or how many items are in it.

Why then, after I indicated to you EXACTLY WHERE to put your return policies, the spot that has a HUGE SIGN WITH AN ARROW, do you insist on putting your returns back on my desk stacks? Is it some subtle way of just fucking with my day? Are you just that much of a ditz?

No love,
Me

PS - I also don't appreciate it when you hand a policy back to me and it's completely pulled apart, paperwork out of order, and I have to waste time putting it back together properly because you couldn't be arsed.

@tek said in RL things I love:

One of the kids I work with drew me a picture of Angelica Schuyler catching a flying Pikachu

SHOW DON'T TELL.

Please?

@Sunny said in Tulpas or Roleplaying?:

I actually used to be a lot more fussy about this myself. Lots of tabletop gaming has made me less worried about first/third person in reference to my own PCs, because that's just how conversation flows. 'I can't believe you did that!' at the table isn't in any way implying that anybody thinks anyone is their character, or anything. Put through that lens, what used to worry/bother me on this line (oh noes, am I having separation issues?) doesn't really, any more.

I think there's a difference between the immediacy of engagement in tabletop versus sitting around talking about the things your characters did/are doing on a MUSH, though. When you're "in the moment" and playing tabletop, it makes sense, especially since part of the structure involves projecting personal action. But in a secondary conversation while talking about some characters, using the first person pronoun has on occasion gotten me weird looks, and because of those instances, I try to curb it.

Every now and again when discussing my characters with someone, I find myself slipping into first person. When I realize what I'm doing, I try to halt it immediately - I just feel it's embarrassing and the person's going to think I don't have a grasp on reality. So I try to make sure I focus on remaining third person when discussing my characters.

Oh my stars and garters, they are making a film version of Margaret Mahy's The Changeover FINALLY!

Cast includes Timothy Spall, Lucy Lawless, and Charlie Heaton amongst others. Stranger Things fans, take note, that last one is Jonathon's actor. (who I suspect will be playing Sorry for those in the know.)

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/timothy-spall-supernatural-thriller-changeover-1201766596/

@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:

I'm about to passive-aggressively lure people into my tent for post-parent death BDSM rp...

...because I'm a very sexual person and prefer my rp to involve, naturally, domination and submission elements, especially in Transformers settings.

Thanks for the water I ended up spitting all over my monitor.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

'You have the tastes of a lonely fat girl. I bet you even like Star Wars. Dune is better.'

...I told her she's an adorable little hipster and someday she'll be a real person.

Oh trust me, lonely fat girls love Dune too!

Jackass.

@Zyrus said in The 100: The Mush:

Jumar was ICly unreasonable about his issues. OOC I was aware he was provocative and angry about his opinions on Grounders, and would be a bit grating to those whom prodded him about 'getting over it', instead of being understanding. The only PC whom was really bad in interacting with him was Cole, because the two had very different opinions on Grounders. This had nothing to do with me being a 'shitty player' or not, this is people thinking that the character was shitty..

Jumar was frustrating and antagonistic as a character and that's okay. He was meant to be, and the sad part is, if you had been decent to be around OOC, I for my part would have happily RP'd with you more in that tone of dealing with an antagonistic personality. But your behavior OOC is what drove me (and a lot of others, I think) away from you, and I don't think it's a matter of you missing social cues and not understanding why it was happening - you just don't give a shit.

Admittedly, junk food is not the descriptor for episodes like "...and the Heart of Darkness", but more or less, it is what it is. Or perhaps fair to say, individual performances in the show can actually be pretty hefty.

@Wizz I absolutely love The Librarians. I want to be Cassandra Cillian when I grow up. Less the brain grape.

Actually, he was a big part of what made an otherwise fun environment go seriously sour. He had a habit of shredding apart anything that other people enjoyed, beyond the point of just not liking it to insulting it (it's okay to not like things, BUT DON'T BE A DICK ABOUT IT), used to passive-aggressively snark at players and staff on channel, and was, imo, generally unpleasant to be around. I only rp'd with him when I had to, and when I realized he was making me reactionary and falling into bad behavioral habits, did my best to keep my contact to a minimum.

I've been reading the series to get a feel for it. I can't decide what I want to play, an angel, or a hunter. I did notice on the wiki there don't seem to be a lot of characters, how busy is it?

I've always harbored a secret desire to be the harper who rediscovers rock n' roll.

@Songtress said in Threads of Pern:

And I've often thought Pern was bad /Sci-fi Fantasy, at times. I mean if you look at from a modern perspective its horribly, jsut /WRONG/ on a bunch of level (Sexist - any more who rides a green dragon is becomes gay' (kind of wrong. I think Anne actually said it).

Just think, a whole new generation to tell the tent peg story to!

Mirrim was featured in a few of the books as a secondary character - she was the rejected child of a rider who basically had so many strong female role models that it gave her kind of identity crisis...she was bossy and bitchy and often misunderstand but generally well meaning (no personal self-identification there or anything) who was in the stands during a Hatching when out popped a green who proceeded to Impress her after no woman had Impressed anything other than a gold in like, 500 years.

There was also a Pern "choose your own adventure" novel she was the protagonist for, which I adored. She wound up hooking up with T'Gellan who became weyrleader of Southern; she was a greenrider, so she was not weyrwoman and she was totally cool with that.

@Songtress: Is this the part where I tell you my favoritest character in Pern is the stroppy, hysterical, bitchy first greenrider in a million years Mirrim? Because it's Mirrim.

@Songtress: Aww, gosh, you're makin' me blush!

I uh, may have been a gold player once. It was actually my first ever Pern char, I didn't really have a grasp on the OOC culture of Pern games and my IC knowledge was based on the books rather than how game Pern had developed. I made a lot of assumptions, a lot of mistakes, and I don't know if I would go gold again. Maybe. I like leadership roles, but being a goldrider can actually be a lot of work!

That being said, I think greens are fucking awesome. They're the most dexterous and speedy of the dragons, they do most of the heavy lifting when battling Thread (along with the blues). I actually love the greens and blues a great deal.