LIVIA SMASH!
Flame-proof undies, ON.
I'm getting sooooo tired of the same freakin' discussion when the circumstances and the subject HAVE NOT EVOLVED. I may have been a tich impolitic. Tell me when there's NEW NICE STUFF and I will be HAPPY. I will PUT FORTH EFFORT TO HAVE INFORMED OPINION. No new stuff? ... Same old crap? Nine emails like the last twenty-seven emails almost word for word with no change over the last six years?!
Random Order Member: "Hey has anyone noticed that Lord Yaddahooey is on the list?"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "Oh yeah! Lord Yadahooey makes pretty widgets!"
Soul-Crusher Because SOMEONE has to Crush Dem Souls: "Yes, but the widgets are out of Tinsel and Glitter. This destroys my Dream and makes baby kittens cry."
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "But they look like the pictures of Widgets! This one time, Yaddahooey also made cupcakes with heraldric sprinkles! That's like, double the art!"
SCBSHTCDS: "Except that widgets were not made out of Tinsel. Or Glitter. Doesn't this make you all feel lessened somehow to be compared to the Sparkle King? Also, those cupcakes were gaudy."
New And Still Kind Order Member: "Do they know widgets weren't made out of Tinsel or Glitter? Has anyone stepped up to be gently educational without being a soul-crushing EVIL HARPY?"
SCBSHTCDS: "Hey! I resent that!"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "Yeah, they know. They made a choice to use Tinsel and Glitter because if they'd had it, they would have used it. Also, it was more cost-effective."
SCBSHTCDS: "I want to stab you in the eye. But I can't, so instead, I'm going to carefully delineate everything that's wrong with Tinsel, Glitter, Sparkles, Sprinkles, AND those fucking cupcakes, which I did not even GET ONE OF THANK YOU VERY MUCH."
New and Still Kind Order Member: "So that's a no then on the education?"
SCBSHTCDS: "Not until I get a damn cupcake. Dammit. Also, Tinsel. From Christmas trees. TINSEL. Do I need to give the speech about being an educational non-profit organization again?!"
Entire Order: "OH GOD PLEASE NO!"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "I'm going to go write the King and Queen right now about this horrible injustice!"
New and Still Kind but Now Confused Order Member: "So, we're against cupcakes?"
Entire Email thread devolves into discussion about cupcakes, whether cupcakes were period and if that one recipe in that one obscure book could be described as cupcake-ish if you squinted hard enough at the redaction and translated it twice, and what would happen to new people who wanted to make cupcakes. Five hundred emails later, the King and Queen have to state that they will be making no changes in policy regarding cupcakes, because outlawing cupcakes would make the seven year old, (and his Highness) cry.
(side note: LIVIA SMASH! LIVIA NOT SIGN EMAIL WITH MAESTRA WHILE SMASHING. THAT WOULD BE SNOTTY. BUT LIVIA SMASH. POLITELY. SOMEDAY LIVIA GET TO CRUSH SOUL WITH MAESTRA. TODAY NOT THAT DAY.)
That is all.
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SMASH.
I'm getting sooooo tired of the same freakin' discussion when the circumstances and the subject HAVE NOT EVOLVED. I may have been a tich impolitic. Tell me when there's NEW NICE STUFF and I will be HAPPY. I will PUT FORTH EFFORT TO HAVE INFORMED OPINION. No new stuff? ... Same old crap? Nine emails like the last twenty-seven emails almost word for word with no change over the last six years?!
Random Order Member: "Hey has anyone noticed that Lord Yaddahooey is on the list?"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "Oh yeah! Lord Yadahooey makes pretty widgets!"
Soul-Crusher Because SOMEONE has to Crush Dem Souls: "Yes, but the widgets are out of Tinsel and Glitter. This destroys my Dream and makes baby kittens cry."
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "But they look like the pictures of Widgets! This one time, Yaddahooey also made cupcakes with heraldric sprinkles! That's like, double the art!"
SCBSHTCDS: "Except that widgets were not made out of Tinsel. Or Glitter. Doesn't this make you all feel lessened somehow to be compared to the Sparkle King? Also, those cupcakes were gaudy."
New And Still Kind Order Member: "Do they know widgets weren't made out of Tinsel or Glitter? Has anyone stepped up to be gently educational without being a soul-crushing EVIL HARPY?"
SCBSHTCDS: "Hey! I resent that!"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "Yeah, they know. They made a choice to use Tinsel and Glitter because if they'd had it, they would have used it. Also, it was more cost-effective."
SCBSHTCDS: "I want to stab you in the eye. But I can't, so instead, I'm going to carefully delineate everything that's wrong with Tinsel, Glitter, Sparkles, Sprinkles, AND those fucking cupcakes, which I did not even GET ONE OF THANK YOU VERY MUCH."
New and Still Kind Order Member: "So that's a no then on the education?"
SCBSHTCDS: "Not until I get a damn cupcake. Dammit. Also, Tinsel. From Christmas trees. TINSEL. Do I need to give the speech about being an educational non-profit organization again?!"
Entire Order: "OH GOD PLEASE NO!"
Enthusiastic Local Buddy: "I'm going to go write the King and Queen right now about this horrible injustice!"
New and Still Kind but Now Confused Order Member: "So, we're against cupcakes?"
Entire Email thread devolves into discussion about cupcakes, whether cupcakes were period and if that one recipe in that one obscure book could be described as cupcake-ish if you squinted hard enough at the redaction and translated it twice, and what would happen to new people who wanted to make cupcakes. Five hundred emails later, the King and Queen have to state that they will be making no changes in policy regarding cupcakes, because outlawing cupcakes would make the seven year old, (and his Highness) cry.
(side note: LIVIA SMASH! LIVIA NOT SIGN EMAIL WITH MAESTRA WHILE SMASHING. THAT WOULD BE SNOTTY. BUT LIVIA SMASH. POLITELY. SOMEDAY LIVIA GET TO CRUSH SOUL WITH MAESTRA. TODAY NOT THAT DAY.)
That is all.
....
SMASH.