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[29 Nov 2009|11:16pm] |
DEAR INSANEJOURNAL,
I would really love to get my notifs soon after the comments are made, not three hours after the fact, as now I'm missing Important Things unless I refresh everything obsessively.
NO LOVE,
ME.
Anyone else having this problem?
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| i siriusly love this :D |
[29 Nov 2009|05:36pm] |
DO I NEED TO THRASH AMERICA?
This quote in my inbox made my morning. I think I need it on an icon.
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| got behind in friending! |
[29 Nov 2009|02:38am] |
I was really behind in friending people from AM but I think I've gotten most everyone I would likely to be plotting with/talking about the game with on a more-than-once basis, so if you've clicked over to figure out who this is because the contact list isn't handy, HI! This is Jessi at AM (Lily, Druella & Owen).
Everybody else, nothing to see here. :P
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[29 Nov 2009|12:03am] |
So Lily ripped Alice's face off, and it's a small thing compared to the Epic Drama and not even close to the one Lily RAWR attack on the former Hermione, but it's pretty significant to me, as sometimes even I forget she can be a hot-headed snot who overreacts, so I'm always HEY NOW STOP THAT and kind of want to hide when she does it.
Also, I realize this is kind of silly and whatnot, but it keeps happening and I don't get why and I'm still assimilating WHAT ALL IS GOING ON IN CRAZY TOWN and needed a five minute break, so: I REALLY DON'T GET WHY CHARACTERS KEEP CONFUSING DRUELLA WITH WALBURGA AND VICE VERSA.
ETA: OH MY GOD REGULUS CONFESSED TO LILY *FLAILS*
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| fandom ramble; |
[26 Nov 2009|04:30am] |
So I caught wind of this post/essay/meta on Lily tonight.
What struck me most was not the content itself (though it makes me happy, because I love Lily and it's annoying to see people tear her apart rather than embrace both her humanity and flaws alongside her strengths), but that fact that 1) it's necessary for fans to defend against such a wide range of misogynistic bashing of female characters (I can remember Anti-Narcissa essays back in the day that made me SEETHE) and 2) I can only recall a handful of essays that cover a somewhat sane positions on canon/interpretation, but I can think of comms full of the Lily-bashing/female-character/any-character bashing. I'm sure the reality is not so uneven, but in my mind it very much is.
Ultimately, it always comes back to this - why do some fans, fanfic writers, roleplayers, etc feel the need to tear down everyone around a character just to make their own more sympathetic? We may not always agree with the creator, but we were still provided with toys to play with that have depths we can explore simply by logically assessing the canon. Is is that people are insecure about their ability to rewrite characters as they are in canon, is it just laziness, or is it speaking to a need to make their character one hundred percent right?
For me, something that has always put me off a fic or a character bio is the moment they make someone the convenient villain to get what they want, without any thought for how it demeans their own character to do so. Be it tortured!Sirius or ignored!Andromeda or beaten-by-Ron!Hermione or delicate-flower!Draco or whatever, in the end it always feels like it's taken away from or trivialized that character (Sirius escaped to save his life, rather than it be because he was not being treated as a person with opinions and feelings of his own, Andromeda ran away because her family didn't love her and Ted was the only one who did, instead of it being she changed her purist mind for one man and retained other prejudices, etc) rather than make them sympathetic and layered.
Ugh, and I should so be sleeping, family things to do in a few hours!
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| oh my god what are you people doing; |
[26 Nov 2009|03:01am] |
[ as of 3 a.m. EST. ]
FIRST COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: MALE.
EVERY OTHER COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: FEMALE.
We need some testosterone up in here, plz. *DYING*
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| am is my drug of choice; |
[25 Nov 2009|07:51am] |
Three hours ago an old character grabbed hold of my brain and I made the hold (yes, goodbye for the moment Hugo, maybe if I can be awesomely active with my four I'll still app him in a few weeks).
Eight minutes ago I submitted the completed app. No, Louis is still not done. HE WILL BE THOUGH. I just want to be sure he isn't going to infringe on Cassie's niche in the game too badly because I think they are more than a bit alike and wah I am an anxious and fretful person.
So, anyhow, I've potentially unleashed Owen Gibbon upon the world again. This is the character I'm actually embarrassed to be "seen with" and yet I'm playing him again. Craaaazy. It's not that he's going to be mean or violent or visibly purist or anything, he'll be a perfect gentleman and nice to everyone and protective of children and constantly sending little trinkets to the ladies that catch his attention, whether they're single or married. It's that he's such an ICKY PIECE OF WORK underneath it all AND I DON'T LIKE HIM AT ALL. I want to slap a warning sticker on him so characters don't get taken in by him, because otherwise it's likely a lot will because he just SUCKS PEOPLE IN. AND I JUST FLAIL.
But, umm. Yes. Provided he's accepted, hide your females.
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| *flail*; |
[22 Nov 2009|05:17am] |
IN ALL MY RP YEARS I'VE NEVER CHALLENGED A HOLD SOMEONE MADE BEFORE ME. Actually, I don't think I've ever been challenged after making the primary hold, but if I was, it must not have panned out. It's really nerve wracking, I don't know how people do it regularly.
So, PB suggestions? I need a PB for Neville Longbottom, age 21. He's an alternate timeline Neville, so there is another Neville already in play, PB'd by Daniel Cudmore. Originally I was aiming for a blonder PB, but with Daniel being dark-haired it won't work to have a dark-haired Neville and a blonde-haired Neville, at least to me. I'd like my Neville to look different, not just because even the dopple characters need different PBs, but because his life was very distinctly different. Someone thinner, serious and nervous looking, but with the potential to not be either in some icons, would be good.
Also, Megan. NOW YOU REALLY NEED TO DO GINNY.
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| jumping on the bandwagon; |
[21 Nov 2009|10:46pm] |
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Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal.
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