Comments | katie_m: A winner of a day

katie_m

A winner of a day

Nov 12, 2015 20:47

Had a good cry in my boss' office today. It was the best! I am not humiliated and mad at myself for professional self-sabotage at all! And frankly the issue, while thorny and somewhat upsetting, was not at all worth crying about, so what the hell, self. UGH ( Read more... )

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minnow1212 November 13 2015, 03:35:39 UTC

Oh, huh, that doesn't stand for "yes/no" like it's a choose your own adventure story, huh?

I hope tomorrow's workday goes better and that you have a nice restorative weekend.

katie_m November 17 2015, 02:06:56 UTC

It does not! Although someone else suggested that when I was telling them this story.

barkley November 13 2015, 03:42:04 UTC

That sounds like an awesome work day!! (or, you know, NOT AWESOME.)

Hahahha, this is what I thought of Y/N:

I kept scrolling past all these fanfics featuring a character named Y/N. So at first, I thought, "Awww, bless. Someone's being creative in their naming." But then there were new installments of Y/N's story all the time. So I thought maybe it was one big long story written by a fan of Snow Crash and instead of Y.T. (yours truly) they named their character Yes/No. An homage as it were.

But then the evidence started mounting, and I decided this could not possibly be the work of one person....

iamrosalita November 17 2015, 00:04:28 UTC

It took me a really long time to figure out Y/N. I thought it stood for Yes/No, but that didn't make any sense!

katie_m November 17 2015, 02:07:56 UTC

Oh thank goodness it wasn't just me. Characters have weird names sometimes! We didn't have this kind of explicit self-insert fic Back In My Day! How was I to know?

thepouncer November 13 2015, 03:53:24 UTC

*offers tea and cookies*

I haven't seen Y/n, but I have seen [character name]/Reader, which is good because it gives me advance notice to avoid the story. I have become so snobbish! Misspelling in the summary? Skip. All sorts of specific content tags? Skip.

katie_m November 17 2015, 02:11:16 UTC

Oh god I have been eating so much sugar. I have got to detox or something, all I want is sweets.

I haven't seen Y/n, but I have seen [character name]/Reader, which is good because it gives me advance notice to avoid the story. I have become so snobbish! Misspelling in the summary? Skip. All sorts of specific content tags? Skip.

Well, don't call it snobbish. Call it "sensibly managing your time, which you are more aware is limited than is the average teenager." I am 100% sure I do not want to read explicit self-insert fic, so why waste everybody's time?

(I am getting pretty ruthless about backing straight out of stories if the first couple of paragraphs makes me wrinkle my nose a bit writing-wise. Glad you're having fun! Your story may be quite good and I am missing something by giving up on it so soon! But life is too short.)

kirbyfest November 13 2015, 21:21:58 UTC

Now I think we should create an assassin named Y/N, and request her in Yuletide.

katie_m November 20 2015, 01:23:31 UTC

Well, we'd just have to write original fic featuring the deadly Y/N, upload it, and request it next year...

troyswann November 13 2015, 23:09:11 UTC

Aw, man, that sucks. I'm sorry. Sympathies.

Last week I basically did that at a joint meeting of the College Councils, so I very much get how that feels.

But, on the flipside, there should probably be an assassin named Y/n, and it would be brilliant.

katie_m November 20 2015, 01:24:59 UTC

Thank you. Somewhat hilariously, my boss has completely avoided discussing the subject. I'm like, damn, I have a breakdown in your office and a meeting a couple of days later on the topic and you don't check in with me?

Except I don't want to actually say "dude, I need you to take an interest," because do I really? Most of the time, no.