- Location
- U S of A
Named characters are an excellent source of ablative plot armor
Petals of Carbon Steel -- You're a Pilot, Not an Ace. Try your best.
- Thread starter Gazetteer
- Start date
- Original Sci-Fi
- Location
- Earth
I know the plan is hopeless, but it's where my heart is.
I really enjoyed Petals of Titanium, and I'm looking forward to doing our best to make the best of whatever terrible mess this unfortunate series of events inevitably turns into.
The opening does read as in media res to me as well, but worst comes to worst we're either blessed with momentary foresight and have a chance to avoid the future, we're a doomed protagonist and we can (maybe) save someone more important with the last vote, or we're justifiably paranoid and having stress related dreams before the quest even starts. I imagine it's the last option.
[X] She
[X] Plan: Mercury's Revenge
I really enjoyed Petals of Titanium, and I'm looking forward to doing our best to make the best of whatever terrible mess this unfortunate series of events inevitably turns into.
The opening does read as in media res to me as well, but worst comes to worst we're either blessed with momentary foresight and have a chance to avoid the future, we're a doomed protagonist and we can (maybe) save someone more important with the last vote, or we're justifiably paranoid and having stress related dreams before the quest even starts. I imagine it's the last option.
[X] She
[X] Plan: Mercury's Revenge
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
- Location
- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Or the narrative doesn't perfectly follow the temporal perspective of the viewpoint character? We OOC have no reason to believe that we IC have the slightest hint as to what's coming.
- Location
- Earth
Totally fair. I tend to consider IC and chronological explanations first, but there is, as you've said, no reason to believe that that's necessarily the case.
Raiseth
I Find Your Lack of Memes Disturbing
- Location
- Russia
Besides, it'd be a short quest indeed if we die in the start of it.
Unless
@Gazetteer was a deep cover for @Omegahugger all along, and we'll play Owusu from then on.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
You definitely did not say that, agreed. I'm more commenting additionally that we'll see if he appears as such.
But how else will we make Enemies in High Places? It is never too soon to officiate your position as The Cursed Squad.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'll give this another day, although the vote has definitely been slowing down. Gives me time to work on some stuff ahead of the vote being finalised.
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- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
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- Location
- At the end of the world
[X] He
[X] Plan I'm in this for your Revolution
-[X] A Reformed pirate
-[X] Practical
-[X] Conniving
[X] Plan I'm in this for your Revolution
-[X] A Reformed pirate
-[X] Practical
-[X] Conniving
- Location
- At the end of the world
Let it be male protagonist. It's actually quit rare to find good quest where male gender was chosen for protagonist by questers. Usually it's always she or some weird they, I can't completely empathize with them.
I don't actually remember where it is, but I vaguely recall that we did statistical research about this once upon a time, and it turned out that where gender was up for a vote, protagonists for quests are mostly male. This being said, the female protagonists remaining in such quests are overwhelmingly queer; questers on SV overwhelmingly like dating other girls. Anyone who discovers that I'm wrong is free to remind me that my memory sucks by smacking me across the head.
One other thing: I would advise you remove the third/last sentence of your post. I want to make it clear that I am not making this request of you in my capacity as assistant administrator, but purely as a member of SV. While I personally understand that you may not completely understand or empathize with why people are located in atypical parts of the gender spectrum, and while I personally don't think you actually mean harm, referring to non-binary people - some of whom are members of SV who may very well be reading this quest - as "weird" is not necessarily very mindful, and I would ask that you reconsider.
Should you be willing to delete that part from your post, I'd similarly be more than happy to delete any reference of it from mine.
- Location
- At the end of the world
I mean no harm to anyone.
But I wouldn't remove my words just because they might be perceived as not politcorrect (is that right term?), it's a pity when people seek negative context anywhere they look. Anyway, thanks for your advice, even so I didn't agree.
10ebbor10
DON'T PANIC
- Location
- Present
“I’m Sorry You Were Offended” Is Not Really an Apology
Consider these five steps to get good at saying sorry when you aren’t even sure you did anything wrong.
www.psychologytoday.com
You're saying that whomever feels slighted by your previous comment is the person in the wrong. That their feelings are invalid, that they're misinterpreting your actions and they're the ones at fault.
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- Location
- At the end of the world
Ugh. Psychology, again... No, just no. I had enow of this at my university. 🙁“I’m Sorry You Were Offended” Is Not Really an Apology
Consider these five steps to get good at saying sorry when you aren’t even sure you did anything wrong.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It was not a very nice sentiment to read from where I'm standing either and I would like it if you wouldn't refer to non-binary identities as "weird" in a thread I'm running. I think it was understood by everyone that you didn't intend harm, but like... you can still apologise for an accidentally ignorant comment and move on without having intended harm. It comes across as very poor form to dismiss concerns like this as "seeking negative context", instead of considering your own words more carefully. I'm not really interested in continuing this as an argument here, and obviously I can't make you change anything, but I have multiple people who are very important to me who you have called "weird" for how they describe themselves, and I'm glad that Kei said something here.
I'd appreciate it if we could all leave it at that for now, though.
- Location
- At the end of the world
I completely agree. Though now I am interested who is non-binary people, never ever met one (well maybe met but didn't knew).
MacroDaemon
Lachrymose Lapis
[X] She
[X] Plan Heart of gold
-[X] A Reformed pirate
-[X] Compassionate
-[X] Conniving
[X] Plan Heart of gold
-[X] A Reformed pirate
-[X] Compassionate
-[X] Conniving
- Location
- Sealed away in a pure maidens heart
Was just gonna tell you to Google it, then I got curious about what resources are out there and found this. It's short and sweet, hope you enjoy!
Understanding Nonbinary People: How to Be Respectful and Supportive
Nonbinary Defined
- Location
- At the end of the world
That's something, I suppose.Was just gonna tell you to Google it, then I got curious about what resources are out there and found this. It's short and sweet, hope you enjoy!
Understanding Nonbinary People: How to Be Respectful and Supportive
Nonbinary Definedtransequality.org
Hm, definitely didn't met anyone like that. How does it even work, is the reason wholly biological or psychological? Though no, don't answer. This is wrong thread for such discussions.
Thanks for information.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
[X] They
This conversation was a pretty good case study in why we should have more enby protagonists, so I'm switching votes here in the final hours.
This conversation was a pretty good case study in why we should have more enby protagonists, so I'm switching votes here in the final hours.