Posts made by Rinel

@Ganymede said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Not to unnecessarily politicize, but the fact that a few French oligarchs came out to fund the project but no American capitalists came out to donate to fix these relatively small churches is telling about the state of culture and religion in the United States.

I strongly disagee. France is perhaps the most stridently secular country on the planet, and I'd be surprised if those oligarchs have been to mass since Christmas. The fact is simply that the US does not have a monolithic religious history like France does, and the US hasn't been around long enough for any one church to acquire that sort of status.

The only American building I can think of that comes close to Notre Dame in terms of representing the nation is the Capitol. Maybe the White House, or the Statue of Liberty. But any comparison is going to fail. That cathedral was built closer in time to the fall of Rome than to America's founding.

@Sockmonkey

Exactly. They did it in Black Panther without a hitch, and while BP had some awesome female fighters, there were way fewer of them to choose from. Didn't stop Shuri from going up against Killmonger, though, which was a great part of the film.

I'm relatively confident it stems from a deep cultural unease about watching a man hurt a woman--so you end up with these silly women's league scenes like in Infinity War with Black Widow and Proxima whatever fighting in a ditch.

@bored

***These are useful little buttons***

@Coin said in Game of Thrones:

Oh my god, your level of investment in something you don't like makes me snicker. I hope you find joy in something.

I used to like it. That's what makes it so frustrating.

And I find joy in telling people their opinions are wrong.

There were some good parts to Endgame, but the first half was remarkably disappointing.

As was the decision to repeat IW's "look now it is the ladies' turn to fight" idiocy. Especially unforgivable given how much of a non-issue women fighting was in BP.

@Coin

Bad. It's bad. The plot is completely off the rails, the only constant to character action is their reliable inconsistency, the choices being made make no sense, dialogue is uniformly terrible, and the entire thing has been slouching toward the finale borne entirely on the capital of goodwill it accrued when the showrunners were adhering remotely closely to the source material.

Martin is a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex, but he's a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex and who has at least one creative bone in his body. The show was at its height when the showrunners served as much needed editors for Martin's tendency to ramble and be creepy. Now it's nothing but dick jokes from Tyrion and utter silence from Varys, because the writers aren't good enough to write characters who are geniuses.

lol this show is so bad

@Testament said in RL Anger:

Not really RL Anger, more like RL Sad. Broke up with my girlfriend today. It was mutual. Nobody cheated. Nobody lied. Nobody did anything wrong. Said how great each other was. She wants kids and it's not something I really want myself. Couldn't figure a way out and ignoring it wasn't going to make the issue go away.

It was a great relationship, nothing horrible. No arguments. Just....didn't work. And I'm left at a loss.

I'm sorry. I had to do the same thing two weeks ago. I still love her. Pretty sure she still loves me. Things just weren't working out. I was with her for six years. It's been rough.

But hang in there. Both of us will get through it.

jesus

@Sparks

***spoilurz***

@Auspice

I agree one hundred percent with you. I know this is what upvotes are for, but I don't think upvotes are enough.

I don't really feel the Magicians finale fits the trope. I'm going to steal from a reddit comment that summarized how I felt about it much better than I could:

HUGE SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE AND ALSO A LOT OF WORDS:

***SERIOUSLY THESE ARE BIG SPOILERS***

@Roz said in Game of Thrones:

I'm really enjoying the season but WHY does the show insist on trying to get me to find Tormund's behavior towards Brienne endearing or comedic???

Sort of amusingly and I guess unsurprisingly, I view the season as pretty much lazy writing that's coasting on the capital built up from when the show was sticking more closely to the books. But I'll be damned if I don't ship the hell out of Tormund and Brienne.

He's just such an amazing idiot.

@Tinuviel said in I've Discovered An Amazing Thing About MSB Tonight:

I swear to god if you've just discovered how to post gifs...

In fairness, there's an enormous "GIF" button that does absolutely fuck-all.

@Ganymede said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@saosmash said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

Like, sorry for double post, but to clarify, my point was more that manic pixie dreamgirl is one of those tropes that is definitely popularized based on its relevance to MEN, and I don't doubt that dudes playing lesbians often think they are being "chic" about this, but I've seen female players fall into the same trap.

My transgender friend fell into the same trap, and it was pretty fucking annoying. Like, yeah, I accept that you are a woman, but grown-ass women don't traipse about yammering about dress cuts and purses in polite company.

I mean, often.

Shit.

So I don't personally go for the thigh-high stockings and bows in the hair and hyper-feminine expression thing, but in defense of those who do: trans women, especially those who transition later in life, have missed out on a whole lot of life as a woman. There's a lot of grief/anger/other-emotions-as-appropriate about that, and sometimes people go over-the-top in experiencing what they feel they missed out on in a way to handle that emotion.

I remember a lot of my gay male friends being extremely flamboyant and stereotypically "gay" when they came out. It subsided with time. I don't know if you used the past tense when talking about your friend because she grew out of it, but I think it's pretty likely that she will if she hasn't already.

There seem to be a vastly disproportionate number of us Louisianans in the hobby.

@Pandora said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

Hurricane Isaac had me grilling the meat in my powerless freezer in my backyard in 109 degree New Orleans weather while standing on a ladder because my house and yard were fucking flooded.

Wait. Were you in LaPlace? I don't remember NOLA getting that much water.

Also I feel like a lot of people are assuming posters on the Hog Pit thread who were defending this concept are necessarily going to be taking part in it. I, personally, have no intention to do so, so if you're frightened of my insufferable and abusive self leading to the destruction of various MUSHes, you shouldn't be.

Mostly because I'm, y'know, neither important nor influential. But just in case.

I don't know. I can't speak for "everyone," but the romantic RP Rinel had with Wynna was so incredibly good that Rinel taking up celibacy after Wynna's death was in no small part me OOCly not wanting to even try any other relationship with that character. It just wouldn't feel right. And it's the late night study sessions and comfortable talking that I have the fondest memories of, not the early budding romance.

I think this is just a huge YMMV thing.

Welp. This is going to go well.

The bias I've seen in MU* dom against women playing men is interesting to me. My non-MU* RP history has basically consisted of most of my RP acquaintances saying "lol dude why do you keep making female characters are you gay or something." And concern about that sort of judgment, or the judgment @surreality was making earlier about men RPing lesbians (although Rinel is bisexual, that tends to get erased when your character is in a gay relationship), was enough of a concern to me that I purposefully used gender neutral terms to refer to myself and my SO in OOC channels.

Turns out I'm a bisexual trans woman. So. Joke's on them. And me. Mostly on me. Anyway, the point is that I've mostly played who I am, even if I didn't know it at the time.