Posts made by helvetica

@Juniper excuse me, I said relatively sane

Not a peeve per se, but one of the things I do regret not really doing is engaging with the generational aspects of L&L/fantasy theme yet (in a non-kinky way, SORRY). Even though I closed out my big char on Arx with a kid to contribute to whatever imagined future for her situation, it was kinda just something I tossed in at the end cause it was on my bucket list.

Playing on Concordia did show me that it’s fun as hell to play the royal parent of young adult children* in L&L games.

*if you can manage to get relatively sane players for those characters

+1

I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

@ten The Black Body in Ecstasy is a good read on that subject. Obviously it centers Black feminism, but a lot of the discourse can be applied elsewhere.

@Jennkryst Fetishization versus empowerment/ownership of desirability is a moving target, mostly dependent on the individual parties involved. I have book recs.

Sad for the staffer who had to write that superheroes don’t lactate. No matter what the story behind that ruling was, sad for them.

Ya’ll need descs for folks using screen readers.

As with the entire char app process, it can also be a great early warning that someone is fucking crazy.

@Testament You know what, that text was unclear and the pic ended up being way bigger than it so it was like almost hidden? And I saw your response, and I decided to just let it ride because it would all sort itself out

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Roz I believe it was Auspice a number years ago who was able to actually get an extended conversation with Jill to the point where they almost explained what they do and why they do it.

Sorry to the banned.

@Snackness said in RL Peeves:

@Aria Everything about this is deeply weird.

Now imagine for a moment someone is cold, they’re wearing this, and that’s not where their nipples are in their bra so now it looks like they have like a million nipples.

Mild Bummer Peeve: Introduced idea of Thing to Do, got undermined with this “ok, but” attitude and the moment passed. Which is what it is… like, if someone isn’t interested in doing what you’re doing, that’s life. Except the vibe shift almost took permission away from other people to show interest? I know that gatekeeping was not at all the intention. Which is all me overthinking the sentiment: this was disappointing and getting that momentum back during a hard work week didn’t happen as naturally as I would have liked.

I would like the record to reflect that I just threw what I felt was some well-earned shade. I didn’t come for anybody’s neck. That said, people are on these streets making @bear_necessities and I agree on things.

@mietze What I mean is, the “well on my game, we do x” approach is starting to come off as self-serving.

ETA: like an advertisement for a game

ngl, I am finding the Game Ads tone that some of this convo has taken to be a little off-putting.

re: The distinction between IC and OOC inclusivity… yo, word, everybody is entitled to their fantasy. Structuring any setting along lines of racial, gendered, or sexual hegemony in this day and age would be a choice. (Although, I guess that Pern game has stuck to its guns.)

But also… I don’t want to play in some kind of pre-established utopia. I’d rather play fighting for one and building one. Having no adversity and no socially structured limitations on a game sounds boring as fuck.

I did arch an eyebrow when Concordia opened up with a total lack of significant social strata for PCs. No commoners, no lesser nobles, no house leadership – some of which did change in later iterations of the theme. It significantly alters the type of stories the game can tell. Which is fine. (It also alters type of headaches staff engages with, valid.) But that is an OOC limitation not backed up by lore, so the game-running strategy for that issue is admittedly different.

@tsar

@Roz Well, WoD has certainly made up for lost time, now.

@Snackness I know there’s a joke here somewhere to make fun of ovulation guy but I just don’t have it in me to make it.

@Snackness

lol I just signed back into msb and typed “ovulation” into the search. And. There’s a lot going on.