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I am going to delete all the dumb, aspergers worthy discussion threads.

this is not the place for talking about butts and farts and shrimp. take that to your plurk or rpanons.

"No kidding. This breach of privacy can be argued on the fact that the people posting the caps were given permission to be in the private links. So the fault isn't on Anticirclejerk or the ACJ mod, but the component that decided to make the screencap." - Anon

the best trek 4 hours ago
Yeah go back to whiteknighting your creepy friend.
a hero to us all

IF YOU COMPARE THIS COMMUNITY TO CYBERBULLYING, YOU'RE A PIECE OF SHIT. HTH.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Social Justice Warrior. Middle class white women trying to counteract their liberal guilt by starting as many petty disputes on bigotry that the people they're "championing" never wanted in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

* as possible

[(Anonymous)]

Yaoi series in general. Why the hell would you play from something when you're obviously only in it to smut it up with your characters' SO in game?

Re: KINGDOM HEARTS

[(Anonymous)]

English trailer for the new game was released.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, I had no idea she was so...

So...

What the hell.

Re: NAMI

[(Anonymous)]

the reserved jade apped, but wasn't accepted because yukina and nami are bros and the mods are on nami's side

da

[(Anonymous)]

dont know who the other jade apper is, but yukina's jade is actually pretty good from what i have seen. unless we can see both apps for comparison.

Re: NAMI

[(Anonymous)]

see this is her problem. she automatically thinks that all crit is pointless because she believes herself to be flawless and incapable of doing dave wrong. maybe if she took the crit and gave herself a moment to think why someone would say that, then she wouldn't be fucking up so badly.

but this is really the problem with alpha kids and homestuck rping in general. no one is really sure how the beta kids would react to the alpha kids because they haven't met in canon yet. so everyone is going to be fucked in the end, if their idea of how the interactions would go down is wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would they try to counteract their own guilt with disputes and is this an actual group of women or is that what people say?

[(Anonymous)]

easier to understand definition in case you're dumb:

slacktivists who start fights over EVERYTHING offensive and raeg at you but never do anything BUT fight on the internet

-1

[(Anonymous)]

nami's insecure

[(Anonymous)]

wow you're really stupid

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Why the fuck would you advertise the fact you suck at playing your character enough to be rejected from a game?!

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

One day, most of the people complaining now will realize that. Then there will be another horde of young and/or immature people complaining, but most of them'll learn too.

One day, I hope everyone will have the self-confidence to love themselves. :)

da

[(Anonymous)]

I've known her for a while. She gets heavily invested in her RPs, upsets very easily, can't handle any amount of negativity, and lashes out when she's unhappy. This is pretty much the perfect combination of events that would lead her to explode.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, anon. :) I agree, and who knows? Maybe there will be a time when more RPers will remember that.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, this is a new thing I've heard about. No shame in asking about things you don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhhh, okay. I like this definition much better. It makes more sense than the one about middle class women. Thank you, but I'm not dumb.

Re: irrational rage day

[(Anonymous)]

“When people dis fantasy - mainstream readers and SF readers alike - they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien’s innumerable heirs. Call it ‘epic’, or ‘high’, or ‘genre’ fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate.
Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious - you can’t ignore it, so don’t even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there’s a lot to dislike - his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien’s clichés - elves ‘n’ dwarfs ‘n’ magic rings - have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was ‘consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.

That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulps - via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabinski and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and I could go on - the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations.

Of course I’m not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mine - that would cut my social circle considerably. Nor would I claim that it’s impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in it - Michael Swanwick’s superb Iron Dragon’s Daughter gives the lie to that. But given that the pleasure of fantasy is supposed to be in its limitless creativity, why not try to come up with some different themes, as well as unconventional monsters? Why not use fantasy to challenge social and aesthetic lies?

Thankfully, the alternative tradition of fantasy has never died. And it’s getting stronger. Chris Wooding, Michael Swanwick, Mary Gentle, Paul di Filippo, Jeff VanderMeer, and many others, are all producing works based on fantasy’s radicalism. Where traditional fantasy has been rural and bucolic, this is often urban, and frequently brutal. Characters are more than cardboard cutouts, and they’re not defined by race or sex. Things are gritty and tricky, just as in real life. This is fantasy not as comfort-food, but as challenge.

The critic Gabe Chouinard has said that we’re entering a new period, a renaissance in the creative radicalism of fantasy that hasn’t been seen since the New Wave of the sixties and seventies, and in echo of which he has christened the Next Wave. I don’t know if he’s right, but I’m excited. This is a radical literature. It’s the literature we most deserve”
—
China Miéville

[(Anonymous)]

The reason I was depressed at the time was because I had been shipped to a boarding school far away from anyone who knew me and I had a developmental disability that caused me to have serious problems interacting with people face-to-face, so I ended up with zero friends and more than a few bullies. Of course I had a history of borderline depression, but it was a dark couple years for me. I roleplayed because it was my escape, and I have a feeling a lot of people do that as well.

I'd never say it's easy. It's not. For some lucky few it can be, but for someone with low self-esteem? It can seem impossible. It sucks. And I'm not going to say I had the hardest time of it either, because there's always going to be someone who has it worse and who would have a harder time realizing it, but no matter what, it's never completely impossible. It might take years of therapy to accept, it might take hard work, it might take all the blood, sweat, and tears you can muster--but it's not impossible.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really glad it worked out for you, anon. And I'm really glad you feel more confident now. :) I think everyone has their own 'trial by fire' story; it can be really brutal, but you learn from it. It sucks that it happened, but it sounds like you came out better for it.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

insecure to the point where she pretends she's so superior to everyone else. every single one of her plurks are her going on about how she's so amazing and she's so loved and so great. it's embarrassing. although she has to be joking it's to the point where it's not even funny, just sad and pathetic. anyone (her ex-friends who dumped her) or anything that makes her feel inferior for any reason causes her to flip out. she has serious issues.

Re: FATE

[(Anonymous)]

I fucking hate the elitists in this fandom. It's completely put me off apping a character all together.

Re: KINGDOM HEARTS

[(Anonymous)]

I'm disappointed in the amount of reaction I saw.
I saw all of three comments about the trailer then everyone stopped talking about it.

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

When a shit rper apps into your cast and you have no choice but to tag them or you'll be called out for being a douchebag. Then you sit there hoping they'll just drop and go away because they don't listen to crit.