Posts made by Pandora

@Tinuviel I think the argument, such that it is, isn't for invalidating anyone's enjoyment in a problematic author's work, because all that's going to do is piss off people who want to enjoy what they enjoy. The point, and this is where I roll my eyes because I don't respect the idea at all, is to promote the idea that these works should be erased from the future. Not lauded, not awarded, not recommended. Thus, the future is bias-washed and only works by clean, wholesome, stamp-of-approval artists are available for sale and promotion.

They do this in the People's Republic of China; it works really well to get everyone on the same page - you know, or else.

At the rate we're going, if the Cancel Cartel gets its way, every artist that's ever existed is going to be canceled at some point for breaking some sacred rule they haven't come up with yet. I can't get behind it; this is definitely the product of people with too much time and wifi on their hands.

S.O. got this for me when the base game went on sale due to the new expansion & I find myself unexpectedly addicted to the fun hunts and collecting all the cute little pets. If anyone is interested in playing, I'm only rank 4 so fairly close to the beginning; gimme a shout.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Favorite Youtubers?:

@Pandora There are 3 secret societies but if you don't go Illuminati you are doing it wrong.

Quoted for damn truth. I've literally only done the intros for the other societies to see their bases.

@nyctophiliac So, when I see someone say they don't like video games, I go into full-on panic mode of 'I must fix this disturbance in the force.' Have you ever checked out Secret World Legends? It's free to play now so there's no monetary commitment to try it. But you play someone that's been inducted into one of 3 secret societies and you work your way through this massive, globetrotting collection of conspiracies involving aliens, supernatural creatures, ghosts, paranormal stuff, etc. with some amazing writing and quests that sometimes require you to do some paranormal investigation online/off-game as well (there's a working in-game browser too). From tentacle monsters to haunted carnivals to cursed Native American burial grounds and yes, even Bigfoot, Secret World Legends has it all.

(This is not a paid ad.)

The fantasy: I'll be able to look past all the things I don't like about people's characters and enjoy playing with them anyway.
The reality: I can't pretend to like characters for more than a few weeks/months before my inner voice is like 'fuck this place, let's go play video games instead.'

The fantasy: That fun and fairness are equal-opportunity & I'll have a great time anonymously.
The reality: I get more/better RP opportunities when I play games where I know people & I feel pigeonholed into certain roles when I play with people I know.

The fantasy: I can fake it til it's fun.
The reality: It hurts to try sometimes.

@silverfox said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

So, I didn't read the last four pages, and while I adore you all, I don't think it'd be a good use of my time.

ANYWAY, I wasn't trying to equate authors = RPing, though I get totally why it was read that way and feel it's a valid conversation (again?) for other to take on.

I was focusing on how it's fun to do terrible things to characters.

Excuse me as I go over here thanks.

My bad for the derail( @Ghost made me do it). I agree, doing terrible things to other peoples' characters is awesome when there's a good vibe & I wish more people were open to letting their train going off the rails for a while.

@nyctophiliac Tati I checked out Vivianna though, and while her OTT cheerfulness is grating, as someone that spent several hours wrestling my giant afro into its this is a professional & appropriate hairstyle! disguise for a job interview today - I'm subscribing. Thanks for this one.

@Kanye-Qwest
I posted mine really quickly and am now going back to read everyone else's entries (I didn't want mine to be influenced by what anyone else posted) and I am lowkey throwing shade your way for Brad not making your list. Contrapoints did though, so I'm half-tempted to go try and sit through one of her videos, but someone I staunchly disagree with on all-the-things swears by her so I feel pre-biased.

Pierre XO - Avant-garde multi-discipline artist and philosopher. He's thoughtful, well-spoken, and more fair than I could ever be.

Blaire White - My problematic fave - her words. Conservative transgender political commentator. I'm not conservative but I agree with a lot of her stances, plus she's the kind of funny I'm into.

James Charles - Beauty guru with 1000 palettes-worth of personality and charm & I just want him to be happy.

Brad Mondo - Hairstylist and video-reactor & honestly just the loveliest person on Earth.

@Kestrel

Cancel Culture is trendy but so damn uncool, man. It's the pastime of people who desperately need to belong to something, anything. If people spent more time 'cancelling' the people in their real, actual lives that ain't worth shit instead of internet-proselytizing about people that don't give a damn about their raggedy ass, the world would be a happier place.

The conversation was very specifically about authors being penalized or side-lined for their works of fiction, not whatever harebrained interpretation of their political views is being flogged this week - so can we just not ruin the thread with this again? Amélie Wen Zhao, Julia Crouch, Phillip Pullman, etc. & so on. Authors writing pretendy shit and getting internet-rocks thrown at them.

@faraday is 100% on point with this one. Like, I get the argument people make about the time/effort/artistry/craft/etc. of novel-writing vs. roleplaying, but I'm honestly at a point in my life where I'm happy adamantly advocating for spades to be called spades. Saying 'roleplaying isn't writing' is not more correct than saying 'roleplaying is not the same process as novel-writing' and if that's what she meant, that's what she should have said, in order to avoid people writing things about written games like 'this isn't writing'.

@TheOnceler Well for one, universities cancel anthologies sometimes based on the fear of backlash over an author's contribution based on things they've written that have upset the internet as well. I mean, If it's too hard for you to go Google authors that have cancelled/delayed their written works due to outcry on Twitter that fictional depictions of what-the-fuck-ever in their novels mean they are flaming bigots to be shunned - that's on you, I guess? Idk. This is a conversation, not a lecture. If you're curious about a supposed phenomenon, go read about it instead of throwing a fit with your hands on your metaphorical hips like a 5 year old.

@silverfox It used to be that there was a difference between an author and a roleplayer in that an author controlled all the characters so no one's feelings were hurt when something bad happened to a character & the author avoided most flak for writing the hurtful, worrying thing - while a roleplayer needed to be at least somewhat mindful of not hurting other roleplayers' feelings lest they lose a roleplay partner.

Nowadays, authors run the risk of getting 'cancelled' for writing anything too far beyond cute bunnies having birthday parties, and roleplayers who play villains are practically paralyzed in terms of their roleplay unless they're willing and able to expose their real, OOC selves in ways they may not be at all comfortable with in order to ensure other players that they are in fact a nice, sweet, caring, nurturing person with your best interests sincerely at heart and that there is no risk of anything bad happening unless you actually want it to happen - and that they're willing to be crucified ICly when you play up the victim angle IC without confirming to anyone that you've gotten all these cuddles and assurances from the villain OOCly, thus leading to the crusade for their OOC head on a platter for being problematic.

Ahem.

@GreenFlashlight said in Le Deuxieme Etat:

@Pandora said in Le Deuxieme Etat:

Someone told me once that a black girl couldn't be a fairy because there's no fairies in Africa (not a racist person, just a stickler for historical plausibility)

It seems to me a stickler for historical plausibility would say no one could be a fairy because there's no fairies anywhere.

Well, I did say historical plausibility, not historical accuracy. But yeah, I do kind of feel it would have been nicer to just let it be, there were no rules against it, this was just someone I respect's opinion. I am a decade+ older now & respect means a lot less to me, I do what I want and make black characters everywhere, because fuck it.

I've never LARPed, someone told me once that a black girl couldn't be a fairy because there's no fairies in Africa (not a racist person, just a stickler for historical plausibility) & that's sort of colored my willingness to do pretendy things outside the anonymity of the interwebz. But this looks very cool and fancy, if a super-long train ride from London.

I want downvotes back, god damn it!

Failing that, I'll accept a Facebook style emoji selection, for those times I want to at you people even if I don't agree or disagree.

@Groth said in Good TV:

The single wierdest casting choice to me is Fringilla because unlike a lot of other characters she has a lot of family and is supposed to hail from what is basically fantasy france. Does that mean all of Toussaint will now be sub-saharan African or what?

Looking at my recent family holiday photos, in which my kid is the only brown kid playing with her predominantly blonde-haired, blue or hazel-eyed cousins, I can safely assure you that one or two black people in a family does not make the entire bloodline black, and I find this statement/query/line of thought vaguely offensive. I'm not calling you racist or anything, but it did raise my hackles in that 'what, we dirtied your entire gene pool by showing up once?' kind of way.