@aerianyx said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It always feels so melodramatic to think of or call something I am dealing with 'suffering'.
It is absolutely suffering, period, end of story. @Auspice and everyone else are 100% right on this.
Updated since I 
Scrappy enough to want to put this here.
Is it weird that I didn't even think about doing @actions or anything? I'm not sure I'll ever really fully adjust to Arx's staff doing things and being a part of building the story.
Thanks for this- it's given me some ideas. Maybe I can stop spinning my wheels now.
No, I'm afraid I didn't. I'm a novice at these things unfortunately.I was guided step by step how to find the hog pit after almost a year of knowing it existed but not being able to figure out how to find it, and I don't recall the process. I'm afraid this restricted reading place puts me in the same boat again. Now I know it exists but haven't the faintest idea how to access it.
This is what I love about elementary school. If I can distract them quick enough then typically whatever it was that was controversial doesn't manage to get home. Like last year when one of my kids did a passion project in 9/11 that I failed to review all of the slides of before she presented... and informed us all that 9/11 was a government conspiracy.
We went to lunch five minutes early that day.
I'll see if I can dig it up again, I think he passed it to me the other day. It's been a rough year for him and Chey, so I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
I have lost so many poses this way. I forget I have a thing copied and up copying over it when thing three suddenly happens.
Dryer's English has me doubting everything I know about grammar and thinking I am typing everything wrong.
However, I now know it is master's degree definitively so I can stop sweating about that one.
I really liked it!
*As an aside, I did not like Wonder Woman. I was going to hear a story of female empowerment... and got a love story instead. Dislike so much.
When you're having a hard time but someone amazing comes around and just cuts through all the muck and helps you dig out from it. I don't deserve it but I appreciate it so. much.
I just finished Bad Blood and good LORD the damage a charismatic person can do!
@moth
What are some of your favorite things?
@paris Ugh, this makes me so mad!
It drives me mad when adults/teens stare at my brother (he's a quadraplegic with no use of his hands and wrists, and some limited use of his arma) but don't bother to actually try to speak to him.
It also bothers me when they go to pet his service dog despite the vest that asks them politely not to. Even worse is when he asks them to stop they then DON'T look at him or apologize or anything. It's like he isn't even there.
Worst of all is when kids come and are completely enthralled by him and his service dog WANT to talk to my brother, but their parents pull them away and whisper for them to leave my brother alone but don't speak to him themselves. Brother LOVES answering every question for every kid that wants to ask. He video chats into my classroom every year to speak to my kids about having disabilities and it's the highlight of his year. Adults can be serious jerks though.
Making things in Jave is so much fun. They're so weird and sometimes they fail hard, but it's so. much. fun.
I never USE any of the things I make in Jave, but I really like making the pretty ASCII pictures and then showing them to people.
@moth
I suggest anything by Brandon Sanderson then!
Maybe start with Elantris or Warbreaker to get a feel for his writing before diving into his longer books.
Waking up with a headache.
I'm so sad I never actually got to RP out assassination attempts at Andrew. 
Or accidentally get him killed.
@Cupcake said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
If you feel you're being ignored or only minimally acknowledged in a scene, is there a healthy way to assert yourself to remind others that you're present?
So I was going to reply in the way that everyone else did, then I stood back and looked at myself.
I have someone I have decided to completely disengage with. I'm avoiding them quite on purpose because having them around me puts me into full bitch mode and I don't LIKE being in bitch mode. Thus I've missed out on a few scenes I wanted to go to because avoiding this person was more important to me. There were two times though, that the scene was important enough to my character's story I felt that I HAD to be there. In that case, I went.... and ignored their poses. Purposefully. If they joined my place, I found an excuse to leave. If someone paged me about them, I asked them to please not page me about them.
I don't even know what I would do if they paged me and asked what was up. When it comes down to it, they're not the problem. The way I find myself reacting to them is the problem.
So. TLDR, that's a really good question. I dunno.
I'm seriously annoyed at how much I enjoyed the prequel books by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston - The First Formic Wars.
Ender's Game and it's related books form the backbone of a good portion of my adolescence. I have signed copies of the Shadow of the Hegmon from one of Card's visits to BYU. My first Mu was Ender's Game based, and I still run the FB page for the old game players. (The kids of some of the last admin/wiz are old enough THEY are reading the books now.)
I am also aware that Card has gone absolutley fundamentalist and I'm ashamed of many of the public statements he has put out in the last 15 years both as a fan and as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I had convinced myself that the prequels were going to carry that particular taint with them.
But I needed something to read and listen to when caring for my brother last weekend and so I decided I would give it a try. I was hooked before I had even left the parking lot of my apartment. I even bought the physical books when I went book browsing with my niece and nephew.
And gdi, they were amazing. They are NOT Ender's Game. They aren't the Shadow books. They are closest to the Speaker of the Dead ones, but even those are a far cry.
These were just... amazing. I cared deeply about every character. It cut me apart when they died. I couldn't figure out the angle of anyone, which the older I get, the harder it is to surprise me. I was expecting a different resolution than I was given. Now I'm irritated that the third book is done and my libraries don't have the ebook or audio book for the first book of the following series, The Second Formic War. I have to wait till tomorrow and go buy the danged thing. (I own physical copies of all the other books. I'm committed now.)
They were just.
So.
Good.
