Best posts made by hedgehog

@Seamus

The The - Love is Stronger than Death

@Gingerlily

Share your secrets with me, wise one. I've felt like a non-entity forever, now. Some of that is burnout and frustration, but I would be lying if the burnout and frustrations weren't tied into perceived reactions/non-reactions from other people. Y'know, that lovely old feedback loop.

@Cupcake

In the Nursery - Angelchrome

@lotherio I could recommend a good thematic soundtrack for you:

https://rhysfulber.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-nature

@Macha

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSV_YpZURlPUdOVTZyfkQPE9WIxBgLUE

"The Voice Inside My Head" - Assemblage 23 https://youtu.be/da7StUzVh3s
"Psychonaut" - Fields of the Nephilim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dUyc1wR-h0
"Who By Fire" - Coil/Leonard Cohen http://youtu.be/VteYF3P_9W0
"Sumerland" - Fields of the Nephilim https://youtu.be/LYwYfPnjL78
"We Take Mystery (to Bed)" - Gary Numan http://youtu.be/X6nmepWa3fE
"Ghosts" - Japan http://youtu.be/7zzLU1ato2w
"Mirrors Fade" - ∆AIMON https://youtu.be/Qy2TvMugKnI

@Macha

Conjure One - Twilight

@skew

I've done that sort of slight metagaming with telepaths I've played before, and it's fun. I'm currently kind of utilizing your suggestions right now, and they're helping. Thanks so much!

@Zobi

Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight

@Rick-Sanchez

The Akashic Brotherhood having nothing to do with the astral plane was another good one. Or 'Bruja'. Who were not witches at all.

@Macha

Leaether Strip - What's Hell Really Like

@Ganymede

As well as piskeys, clurichan, boggarts, river hags,. But they tried to rectify that Sluagh thing by making them...vaguely slavic. Scandinavian Trolls are not giants. Ljosalfar are more interesting than Sidhe. Why are there no dwarves/Dokkalfar?

So many questionable decisions.

@Derp

The KLF - America What Time is Love

@Rick-Sanchez

It had so much promise, but has degenerated into that or tea parties. Or unseelie who are just rapists and orgiastic bores. With Oirish and Cockney accents.

@Derp

Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

@Thenomain

I'd suspect that you lived around Northwestern too, with this. Now I'm just sad to know that college students are privileged dicks everywhere.

@TNP

Skinny Puppy - Deep Down Trauma Hounds

I've experienced an odd twist on this, where people have come into the shop my character owns, a public on-grid hangout, while he was there, and then completely ignored him. I mean, I get it - in real life we don't necessarily talk to the guy who owns the record store (unless he's also the one staffing it) but due to the nature of the MU* beast, it's pretty dickish.

At the same time, however, I have learned of the joy of puppets, and if I want to be elsewhere, or am not in the mood to pose ':stands at the counter, going through paperwork while potential customers mill about the store, doing their own thing.' a bunch because I know that the people hanging out are going to just keep to themselves? My character ducks out the back door and lets his employee run things.

@Macha

Killing Joke - Money is Not Our God

I'm a big fan of a more judicious use of brevity. I've always had a bad tendency to glaze over when confronted with giant walls of text in both descs and poses, so I appreciate when someone is able to edit themselves gracefully.

For example, it's perfectly acceptable to me to write, 'Jane's expression turns regretful as Robert voices his opinion, and she looks down at her hands, contemplating the way the light plays off of the gold and diamond rings on her fingers. With a quiet sigh she taps her manicured nails against the tabletop, a nervous gesture, then focuses her brown eyes upon Robert again, her gaze steely. "How /dare/ they bring the child into this?" She asks the attorney, her voice cracking. Clearly there's a degree of protection she feels for the little girl, regardless of how it undercuts her carefully cultivated cool demeanor.'

I prefer poses be about 4-5 sentences, unless it's rapid-fire conversation. I like description to a degree - it's okay to say, for example, Elizabeth wears a series of gold and diamond rings on her fingers', but annoying as fuck (to me) to read a very specific detailing of the cut and clarity and provenance of each piece of jewelry, when it's not something that would be immediately noticeable upon first perusal of the character desc. It's rarely something that is of much import to a scene, and, well, if they're all Treasures or Wonders or enchanted artifacts, then that's something that you can throw into a +view. But I am digressing.

I like to see poses that: have an idea of the time and place/space in which they are occurring; show a behavioral quirk of the character, be it a nervous gesture or a tic or reflection of a flaw; don't delve into thought-posing or meta-posing overmuch (but I still buy Telepathy to react to those anyway); resolutely refuse to veer into second person; and provide actual meat to react to - unless, again, it is rapid-fire conversation. I hate feeling like the setting and space and anything else that I have striven to provide for others is completely fucking ignored by their need to showboat and be the center of attention, rather than actually collaborative.