Yes it are an update
I have my computer back. Well sort of. I have it back but its keyboard isn't fixed. So I don't have a t or a g key. You cannot grasp how weird it is. It breaks all my automation. I do stuff, but it's really hard to type at length. The parts are in the mail. I hope they get here soon or else I shall surely go mad from these shennanigans.
Thesis stuff kind of ambles along. Damn you Dr. Matt Hills for making me rethink damn near everything but you probably know Who fandom better than I do so I shall defer to you, and also research must be Moar Focused. Perhaps I shall start a blog that's all about my awesome thesis about Who Fandom and all shall read it and, I don't know, tell me not to quote them. It really is a Most Interesting Research Concern. Hey, biichan, lizbee, calapine & nostalgia_lj, would you so some BNF'ing for me? I need to interview Oppressive Old Skool Fen. violetisblue you can come too. And any other self-identified Oppressive Old Skool Fen on the f-list, you're fabulous even if you're not namedropped on the anonmeme. It's a bit of a long interview but it's interesting and for a good cause and you'll have ages to fill it out, and I at least will not quote you without permission because I'm academically ethical like that. C'mon I'll write you some Moffat/Mad Larry porn.
On other utterly less important issues:
What the hell, Bleach. You have no reason to hold my interest and yet you do. All your characters are so fab, even a couple of the main ones, and you encourage militant shipping in me. Like what do you mean Ichigo/Orihime what kind of strange fail is that. Ishida's a boring fuck. Captain Shorty is hopelessly overrated and Hinamori deserves better. But not Aizen-better because he is Aizen he goes in a matched set with Gin. And Tousen. I kind of adore the three of them all together although presumably not in an OT3 way. I read an amazing fic that just hinted at what a scary scary man Tousen really is and I loved it. I think fandom's missing the point of him something horrible. Also Academy era Ukitake and Kyouraku, who are a lot like Academy era Theta and Koschei the creepy thing being that Jyuushiro is the Koschei half. I do wonder about... well, not enough fic acknowledges the fact that the captains are dangerous and scary. One day I want them all to line up and one by one beat the shit out of Ichigo. All of them. Even Mayuri. Even Captain Tiny. Just to remind everyone what Death Gods damn well means.
And then Aizen and Urahara can team up and beat the shit out of all the captains. Because they could. And that would restore the proper sense of scale in this series.
I shall now go Srs Bsnss.
Computer trouble have kept me away from Adstringendum for a long time now, and now that's it's teoretically possible for me to come back... well, I'm not sure how, or even if I want to.
The problem is that it isn't the game. The game's great. Good people, good times. I had a good long run, some neat plots, awesome moments and interactions... it's been good. But the truth is still that I never really felt like I belonged there, not the way I did in Deities or in Untold Tales, let's not even mention Vegas Rage. With only a couple of exceptions (... you know who you are), all my characters' relationships feel emphermal, shallow. It's perhaps not surprising considering the characters I play... I love Jotaro, I love him to bits, but he's just so introverted, so self-possessed that forming a real connection with him is a chore.... and the format is not something that lends itself to that sort of gameplay. And, yes, part of it's the format and the multifandom premise, which I'm not used to. And part of it's the game community, who are all involved with fandoms I don't know and deep in the LJ RP scene and just, not the type of people I normally hang with and know how to talk to even if I really want to. And at large... it's been a great experience, but not the kind of experience I'm missing.
I don't know what to do, because the few connections and plots I am invested in are dear to me. I don't want to cut short Jotaro's complex relatsionship with Ollie or Saul's weird and adorable friendship/romance/bussiness arrangement/WTF with Carmen, and especially not now when there are loose ends. And a new game... feels a bit like cheating on Ads, although maybe if I found one that's more logs- and plot-based... I've been eyeing theskytides. And then, perhaps if I'm going for a new haunt, I should find one where Jackie and/or Ekko hang. Good RP partners don't come cheap...
I feel many shades of meh over this whole affair. I shall consider it.
... is absolute love and if you're not in it you're really missing out. That is all.
Also, what is Dreamwidth, should I care and how do I get one?
Thesis stuff kind of ambles along. Damn you Dr. Matt Hills for making me rethink damn near everything but you probably know Who fandom better than I do so I shall defer to you, and also research must be Moar Focused. Perhaps I shall start a blog that's all about my awesome thesis about Who Fandom and all shall read it and, I don't know, tell me not to quote them. It really is a Most Interesting Research Concern. Hey, biichan, lizbee, calapine & nostalgia_lj, would you so some BNF'ing for me? I need to interview Oppressive Old Skool Fen. violetisblue you can come too. And any other self-identified Oppressive Old Skool Fen on the f-list, you're fabulous even if you're not namedropped on the anonmeme. It's a bit of a long interview but it's interesting and for a good cause and you'll have ages to fill it out, and I at least will not quote you without permission because I'm academically ethical like that. C'mon I'll write you some Moffat/Mad Larry porn.
On other utterly less important issues:
What the hell, Bleach. You have no reason to hold my interest and yet you do. All your characters are so fab, even a couple of the main ones, and you encourage militant shipping in me. Like what do you mean Ichigo/Orihime what kind of strange fail is that. Ishida's a boring fuck. Captain Shorty is hopelessly overrated and Hinamori deserves better. But not Aizen-better because he is Aizen he goes in a matched set with Gin. And Tousen. I kind of adore the three of them all together although presumably not in an OT3 way. I read an amazing fic that just hinted at what a scary scary man Tousen really is and I loved it. I think fandom's missing the point of him something horrible. Also Academy era Ukitake and Kyouraku, who are a lot like Academy era Theta and Koschei the creepy thing being that Jyuushiro is the Koschei half. I do wonder about... well, not enough fic acknowledges the fact that the captains are dangerous and scary. One day I want them all to line up and one by one beat the shit out of Ichigo. All of them. Even Mayuri. Even Captain Tiny. Just to remind everyone what Death Gods damn well means.
And then Aizen and Urahara can team up and beat the shit out of all the captains. Because they could. And that would restore the proper sense of scale in this series.
I shall now go Srs Bsnss.
Computer trouble have kept me away from Adstringendum for a long time now, and now that's it's teoretically possible for me to come back... well, I'm not sure how, or even if I want to.
The problem is that it isn't the game. The game's great. Good people, good times. I had a good long run, some neat plots, awesome moments and interactions... it's been good. But the truth is still that I never really felt like I belonged there, not the way I did in Deities or in Untold Tales, let's not even mention Vegas Rage. With only a couple of exceptions (... you know who you are), all my characters' relationships feel emphermal, shallow. It's perhaps not surprising considering the characters I play... I love Jotaro, I love him to bits, but he's just so introverted, so self-possessed that forming a real connection with him is a chore.... and the format is not something that lends itself to that sort of gameplay. And, yes, part of it's the format and the multifandom premise, which I'm not used to. And part of it's the game community, who are all involved with fandoms I don't know and deep in the LJ RP scene and just, not the type of people I normally hang with and know how to talk to even if I really want to. And at large... it's been a great experience, but not the kind of experience I'm missing.
I don't know what to do, because the few connections and plots I am invested in are dear to me. I don't want to cut short Jotaro's complex relatsionship with Ollie or Saul's weird and adorable friendship/romance/bussiness arrangement/WTF with Carmen, and especially not now when there are loose ends. And a new game... feels a bit like cheating on Ads, although maybe if I found one that's more logs- and plot-based... I've been eyeing theskytides. And then, perhaps if I'm going for a new haunt, I should find one where Jackie and/or Ekko hang. Good RP partners don't come cheap...
I feel many shades of meh over this whole affair. I shall consider it.
... is absolute love and if you're not in it you're really missing out. That is all.
Also, what is Dreamwidth, should I care and how do I get one?