I was generally a shorter poster. 1-6 lines. If I could get by with less, I did, because I wanted to keep things snappy.
As I drew closer to the end of my Mu* career the less I could cope with people who took a half-hour + to pose their three massive paragraphs I ended up only responding to a little of.
I think that was more me just having more on my plate than before though.
Thred Necro!!
I’m reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and it is like a mash up of the most upsurd scenes where the GM is basically of the mindset, “Fuck it. Roll and let’s see what shit can happen.”
We still don’t fully understand why she said racist multiple times, but we were able to meet and talk about her kid and his progress so I’m going to call it a win?
One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.
It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.
We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.
See, Norwood had plenty of people interested! Fucking can happen at ANY age!
Edit: I feel slightly dirty writing this.
I love me some negativity consequences. I remeber a prp where Norwood was 100% sure he was doing the right thing by killing the bad guy. But since the fight had ended it ended up being viewed as straight up murder. I went “oh damn” to have my straight laced do-gooder suddenly having ‘murderer’ on his soul. It was awesome though because it spun a whole other prp where Norwood went on a redemption arc. It also made him more thoughtful of what was righteous. More gray, less black and white.
Or when K’vvan kept lipping off to leadership because he was an asshole and got eviserated. Led to massive RP chances and him slowly becoming an asshole that some people were okay with. He never did become someone people generally were chill with, but there was some growth.
My little sister has had 2 first trimester miscarriages, and it has been really difficult for her. She announced last night she made it through the 1st trimester last night with baby #3!!
And a special warm hug for me, she said they are planning on the name Juniper because she always loved my online tag. 
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Aw, I feel so warm and fuzzy now.
And not completely because Tez is burning the place down.
Yeah, it went the way we were hoping. She has said goodbye to her parents until she is after 18 (or they can prove to us they are clean and stable and that relationship can be reopened therapudicly).
Now it is a long journey of waiting for them to decided any appeals and/or the judge closes the books completely and clears them for adoption.
It is a lot of mixed emotions. I’m so happy to have her away from the confusion of visits that don’t go well. I’m so sad she can’t go back to healthy parents though. That is the purpose of foster care and it wasn’t achieved this time.
We got a verdict.
Termination of parental rights.
We tell the child Friday, and goodbye visit is the 24th.
I’m slowly trying to build the girl up to it by dropping hints like “Caseworker doesn’t want to see us at home.”
“Caseworker wants me to come home for the visit this time so both of us are there.” (Often just one of us is home for them because the other is at work.)
“It feels like this visit is going to be different.”
“I can’t wait for you to come to my middle school!!”
My first game was called Ansible Moo. It was based off Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game books. Every character was under the age of 12, though there were a few staff played teacher characters.
My best friend at the time who got me on it dropped off less than six months later because her parents didn’t like it. I hung on, got addicted, and it became a core part of me.
I’ve run the FB page for the game for… a long time. In the last year I reconnected with another player who brought me into the discord server run by the last admins of the game. (First serious online boyfriend played there and I went to their wedding as a plus 1.) It has been awesome reconnecting.
I think about this reply and insane amount for a forum post.
Because, see, even though we started the trial in April, added days in June, then again July, and had witten closing submitted the 13th of August… we still are sitting in limbo.
Today is October 5th. I have no doubt that we will hit 60 days in this case of the Judge working on her decision.
In that time the department fired the company contracted with for mom visits because they allowed mom to question the girls about a sexual disclosure from the youngest. Now they are providing visits on a shoestring basis - when the director of family time/caseworker and another worker with a therapudic license. It was suppose to be a stopgap for a week or two. We are moving into visit 8 with this.
The youngest has lost her foster placement and been moved.
Three of the 4 kids have had birthdays.
Bio-mom has gotten and lost 3 jobs.
Eldest foster mom is on FMLA from stress (not only the case, but after the Evergreen shooting a kid brought a gun to the school she is a nurse at and the administration didn’t act promptly.)
I feel like nothing will ever change, and since we know parents will appeal I can realistically see it just… continuing.
Written closing arguments are all submitted and now it is literally in the Judge’s hands. All we do is wait now.
Running from a game that involves some kind of play you have tried before and don’t enjoy is a rational thing to do.
