Posts made by Tinuviel

I have been home all day. What do you mean you couldn't deliver my package as nobody was home? Ugh!

@popes I disagree entirely. You want to play whatever you want, play a game that allows it. Or make one.

Are we seriously debating the idea that there are assholes everywhere?

@Ganymede said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

So you either think of me as fat or as fashionable as a Trump.

Not usually, just three law textbooks in a pantsuit.

@Waller said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

law professor woman who wears men's suits 24/7.

To be fair that's how I imagine @Ganymede. Not just any suits, but the suits of men she's beaten.

@mietze I'd argue it's not even an accurate representation of how we feel most of the time.

@Ganymede said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

@Tinuviel said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

One piece of advice I've gotten regarding writing cultures or identities that I am not is: Write the characters, but not the stories. That is to say, write about a black guy, but don't write about being black.

I know too many black people to be comfortable with omitting mention of them being black.

That's not what I meant. Being black is a fine thing to mention. The struggles a black person faces aren't really something I can accurately write or play, given that I've never faced those issues.

One piece of advice I've gotten regarding writing cultures or identities that I am not is: Write the characters, but not the stories. That is to say, write about a black guy, but don't write about being black.

I feel that I could roleplay any kind of character, but I could not reasonably roleplay out a story about their identity or their race (or whatever else) as I don't have their experience.

@TNP said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

Good-bye 300 baud!

Hi, Australia here. When do we get that?

@Auspice said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

what the TS-stalkers go for.

Often, aye. They want the "experience" of banging the PB rather than the character. Which is weird, but whatever.
The only time I've really, really seen pushback against characters that are LGBT+ is when those characters are tropes, as @Derp mentioned. It's easy to assume, from the peanut gallery, that this pushback is because they're not het-cis, but it's usually that they're hilariously stupid concepts - the lesbian Asian teenager 'archetype' exists for a reason.

Of course, some people are going to hate anything different, sexism and racism are still a thing as well as various types of queer-phobia disguised as seeking realism, or other such things. It's going to be something you run into if you hang around any hobby long enough. Ours makes it feel more... personal, I suppose, because identity is such a key part of our experience as RPers versus model train collecting, for instance.

@Ganymede I would add, too, that there are simply not enough hours in the day for some of us to invest in staffing, and/or PRP running, or whatever else. If the perks have a tangible effect on the game-world (character advancement or whatever) then I see that as a punishment for those of us that only have time to play.

I'd be okay for donors to get some sort of perk, like an extra alt slot or something, but absolutely nothing that actually impacts the game. Extra IC money, or gear, or skill points or w/e. And they should not get any more input on game decisions than an ordinary player. The last thing one wants is to foster the mentality of "I pay you, so do what I want."

@Ganymede

@Wretched That'd be a very different version of Willkommen

@insomniac7809 said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

taximeter cabriolet

Fairly sure that's a wine...

@faraday said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

Allowing more flexibility hurts nobody

So long as it's only "allowing more flexibility" and not a new paradigm.

@Auspice Nah.

@Three-Eyed-Crow Aye, most of them are real-time, like "traditional" MU RP. But there's also capacity, since scenes are set places, that you can log in to the web client and pose as if you were on a forum.

That bit kind of makes me roll my eyes.

@faraday said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

Folks can side-eye it all they want, but it's not doing anything that MUSHers haven't been doing for years.

Just because people have been doing it for a while doesn't mean it's not worthy of side-eye. I hated WoD timestops as much as anyone.

@silverfox said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

Or is that just a me problem?

It isn't just a you problem. I give serious side-eye to it.

@Auspice