Posts made by saosmash

I have played bigoted characters before. It was in an acknowledged way that recognized that bigotry OOC, though, written into part of his concept. I wanted him to be able to work towards development on-camera and eventually change over time, and in some ways he grew; in other ways I'm not sure it ever got addressed in part because the game in question ended but it was an important part of his arc.

I think that one of the most important things about playing any kind of asshole who has the capacity to be hurtful to other characters is to double down on being nice OOC while you're doing it. If you can't do this, you shouldn't be playing an asshole in my opinion.

That said, if you're going to give people a lot of IC shit for things your character is bigoted about -- race, sexuality, whatever -- you absolutely should not be flinging it at them in metaposes. It must be respondable. There should be a very clear IC/OOC divide about where the stuff begins and ends. And if someone really is OOC uncomfortable with it, keep it out of their face.

I have no need to force someone who deals with this shit OOC on a day to day basis to deal with it in a game if they aren't up for it. It's all about being sensitive to the collaborative nature of what we're playing here.

I personally think the initial response was pretty mild; it's the continuous doubling down that has brought out the wolverines.

Um, I sit down and they immediately spring forth fully formed in my brain?? I am so unhelpful to this line of conversation despite the fact that character creation is one of my favorite things to do.

@derp I have never been to a jail that didn't smell at least a little bad. The dress out room always reeks the worst if they have to put you in there.

Hang in there! There is nothing I am expected to do more as a public defender than somehow be in multiple places at once so it's like your professors/intern employers are just giving you a little foreshadowing.

I love audiobooks but I'm very aural anyways -- I used to study in law school by reading cases out loud to myself; I am a weird outlier and should probably not be trusted.

@arkandel Let's see.

The first series of hers that I picked up was the Broken Earth trilogy, and this is a very hard series to read -- especially on audiobook which is how I do a lot of my reading -- because of just ... horrible things happening to very young children kicks in the pants. It's one of the most effective uses of second person narration that I've ever experienced and ordinarily I would run screaming from second person almost immediately because wtf. It's postapocalyptic fantasy and it's basically epic.

The second series of hers I picked up is so dramatically different from Broken Earth I can't even-- IDK, but this is the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms series, and it's a series about gods and people and they're at times dark, and like sexy and weird and interesting. I didn't actually finish reading the last book yet but not because it wasn't awesome, but because it didn't have an audiobook and I am a slave to three hours a day I spend driving a car.

I just started The Killing Moon, and I'm not that far into it yet, but so far it appears to be weird telepathy and dreaming stuff, with neat worldbuilding, and it is also wildly different flavors than either of the earlier two.

Jemisin is a really versatile writer with an amazing capacity for capturing character, dense worldbuilding, and voice. Also it's N.K. Jemisin but I'm not gonna go back and fix my typo because I have now written an entire separate post.

In addition to plowing through all of the First Law and associated books, I have been devouring everything N.J. Jemisin ever wrote and she's basically like ... amazeballs.

RL things of today I love:

Cats that love pets so much they stand up or jump to get to the hand.

General best practice may be, in future, to choose between getting down in the mud in a thread and being the mod who mods it. I don't wanna pick on Auspice here, I just think it may be an appearance thing that will save everyone from dumb drama in the long run.

In that case, I'll just leave a polite note here that this game was not for me, that I left because I felt my friends and I were not welcome as new players to Vampire and people who came in with hooks to each other, and that while I think there are fun players on the game and even staffers who I enjoyed, I have to disagree with @Auspice's assessment of Luxor. F&L is extremely active especially in the Vampire sphere and there is no doubt play to be found there.

I don't think the only information available in an ad thread should be positives.

@rook The theory isn't so much the issue with them for me so much as how they worked in practice when I played on the game -- i.e. not as advertised. It sounds like the experience is different now per others so they may have improved.

@auspice I'm glad to hear that F&L is being better towards Vampire newbies than it was when I tried it.

@darinelle I'm upvoting for your bubbly, not for your husband getting you sick. That was clearly just rude.

@darinelle Last night was pretty amazingly epic. I was going to make a post about it earlier today before this but i was trying to get a motion response out on a deadline and uh, too little sleep.

@ganymede Oh no. I'm so sorry.

Ehhh I feel like @scar wins this contest.

@scar Oh no. Your poor pants. Your poor bike.

@auspice I'm kind of at "boob emergency" stage of buying a bra right now because everything I own keeps STABBING ME but I'll definitely keep an eye on amazon/zulily/whatever for the future. Thanks for the headsup.

@auspice Holy shit these bras are even cute!

But seriously. My good bra broke and all I have left are these inferior substitutions all of which stab me in different ways. ALL.

Ugh. How hard is it to make a bra that doesn't twist its hooks out of shape or poke out underwires or. Whatever.