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Ha ha ha guess who underwent a test battery and might have both OCD and adult ADHD

Fuck. I really hope these new meds help.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Jennkryst I find religious discussions with you lot even worse than constantly being reminded Mummy exists, so I opted not to include it.

Typical atheist denying the divinity of the Aten.

@saosmash Can't say I agreed with all his decisions, but I can say that I respected his truly independent legal reasoning.

@Goblin said in TS - Danger zone:

Got a problem with the perfect model type looking women though. Doesn't do much for me. Quirky, cute, actual human looking... Yeah, definitely.

Unfortunately, they're a lot harder to find if you have a specific look in mind. Models tend to be catalogued according to all sorts of categories.

But your point about this:

@Goblin said in TS - Danger zone:

at no point do I think of my character as a first person extension of myself

has got me thinking. I certainly don't think of Rinel (the character I can RP as relatively effortlessly these days) as an extension of myself. I certainly draw on certain aspects of myself to make her. But she is a lot braver than I am, a lot more innately confrontational, a lot less diplomatic... also, she is a religious librarian in a fantasy quasi-medieval world and I'm a lawyer in this one.

The point is that while we don't have a whole lot in common, I certainly feel what I've recently learned WoD players call "bleed"--feeling my own emotions that mirror my character's, when she's feeling strong ones. It's usually but not exclusively limited to sad scenes, but I do wonder whether my distaste for TS comes from the concern that I get too immersed in the character (and therefore would be at risk of breaking the taboo).

I wonder how many people who are into TS see it as a fully external thing vs how many experience at least in part as a personal thing.

Yeah, if you're a spice afficiando it's worth learning the Thai for spicy. Usually you'll get the real deal.

I, for my part, can enjoy white people spicy, but have no interest in heat past what the humble habanero provides (and usually that is more than sufficient).

@farfalla

RINEL HAS A CANE

Just started episode 2 of Another Life. I like it. I like that there's a nonbinary person on there who, as someone said earlier, just happens to be nonbinary (at least I'm assuming binary on account of the whole beard shadow thing. Maybe gender norms are more flexible in the future HERE IS HOPING). The characters are interesting.

I'm just genuinely enjoying it and wondering where it is going to go, which is a pleasant thing.

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

There is no one-size-fits-all for consent in fiction, what's important is to know your own limits/boundaries and enforce them to your own level of comfort. No one can force anyone to RP anything. I repeat, no one can force anyone to RP anything. They may try, but your keyboard + mouse + mental well-being are in your hands, literally

Well, you did warn us you aren't in the business of holding your tongue...

I don't really agree with what you're saying here. I'm pretty sure I understand where you're coming from, and, yeah, ideally we'd live in a world where people don't have baggage. But what you're saying here is pretty reminiscent of Nancy Reagan's line about how only you can choose to let words hurt you.

RP is frequently a place where people expose vulnerabilities they wouldn't elsewhere. That means that they're more, well, vulnerable. Maybe you think that's unwise, but people are frequently unwise.

And besides, nobody can coerce you to do anything, right? If someone has you at gunpoint, you don't have to do what they want. You can always just get shot. In RP, the potential consequences are much less dire, but I think it's sort of dishonest to pretend that people aren't hugely coerced at times by OOC considerations.

Also I wrote this immediately after waking up and my head is full of spiders

Oof. I can't stand it when my hands start going numb. If I don't have benzos in my system at that point, I'm going to have a full-blown attack.

I know I can't stay on clonazepam forever, but the thought of going off it is terrifying. I can go to work three days a week now. I'll lose 90% of my regained functionality if I lose the klonopin right now. Here's hoping I can stay on it long enough.

I wouldn't wish panic attacks on my worst enemy.

@magee101 said in TS - Danger zone:

@Rinel I don't think you'll be able to get a reasonable disccusion because @Tinuviel just doesn't like TS, is what I get from most of their quoted answers I see in this thread.

I don't TS either. I just don't find @Tinuviel 's arguments on the matter compelling.

There's a really excellent chocolate called Madécasse that has intense flavor. But, like most robustly flavored chocolate (did I really just unironically type that), it's quite dark. Milk chocolate can be wonderful, but you aren't going to be able to taste the underlying chocolate unless you're eating chocolate with a really high cacao percentage.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

I believe this conversation has exhausted its usefulness. Thank you.

@insomniac7809

100% an improvement over the comics, yeah. I'm looking forward to that plot arc in season 2.

If my parents had attempted to log everything I did as a fifteen year old, it would have made me resentful and mistrusting. They did not like me talking to strangers, and by "did not like" I mean "were paranoid beyond reason about." But I did anyway--not in roleplay settings, but on various forums. I kept that hidden from them for a while. I'm glad I did. Some of my most meaningful relationships arose out of those forums, and I'd be much worse for not having those people in my life.

I'm also not autistic. My mother has worked in criminal defense since I was born. My parents were open and honest with me about why they didn't want me talking to strangers, and as a result I didn't do things that could endanger me, even though I violated their blanket prohibition.

Initial blanket prohibition, at least. At some point I explained what I was doing and why, and they mostly relaxed, though I still will get "is that a real friend you've met in person" questions from my father from time to time.

tosses in two cents; leaves

@The-Sands

He reprised his role as the Trickster for the Arrowverse Flash as well. There are all sorts of shoutouts to the 1990s show.

ETA: Somehow my brain didn't register the first part of your comment. Carry on.

And yeah, I'd love to see a reference.

@Derp
You're unironically better coming down to Louisiana for law school, then, if you can't take the obviously preferable route of going in Spain. The civil law is a strange beast.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This so very much. I am terrified about taking mental health breaks from work--even when I really do need them.

I'm terrified of what might happen if you don't take them, knowing your profession and occupation.

Well, it's... complicated. I have panic disorder with agoraphobia, a happy gift I received after the bar exam. I can drive without much issue to about a half mile distance from my house. Beyond that, I'm at real risk of getting a panic attack that renders me non-functional for most of the day. I also have pretty severe depression, which isn't terribly surprising given that I'm under self-imposed house arrest.

I also do, for as new an attorney as I am, very good work. So I am given particular allowances by my bosses, who happen to be my friends, who founded our firm when we all said to hell with the public defender office. I come in three times a week for half days and telecommute the rest of the time. Nobody else has that luxury. So given that I spend so much time at home already...

Basically, I hate myself for having mental illness, and the fact that I am winning legal fights against much more experienced attorneys is barely enough to convince me that I'm anything more than an awful, lazy person who deserves nutrient paste and a small room and not much else.

/TMI

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

It's funny. I often read more about people mocking the so-called "great white outrage" than I read about any actual "great white outrage". I did a number of searches on YouTube and Google with things like "wheel of time casting (insert one of the following: outrage, controversy, angry white people, uproar, screaming, and racism)" and came up with nothing. In fact, all I could find as the opposite, about how they BETTER force diversity into the series or there will be major problems.

Go look at places like Dragonmount or Facebook WoT fan pages, not random media articles.

@Derp

It sounds like a lot of your problem is color matching, which is hard for newbies but trivial for people with some experience. If you have a Sephora or an Ulta near you, you can honestly walk right in and ask for help--Sephora in particular is especially good at helping you find matching foundation and concealer.

Honestly the only interest I'd have in a WoT setting is if it took place after the events of tbe series. Sanderson's slapdash writing left a ton of holes that are great starting points for metaplot.