Posts by Emma Hart
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And I should add that the t-shirt is excellent, and will apparently ensure that your toddler wipes clean if dirtied.
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Robyn: apologies for not being more user-friendly.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. There's a list of people killed since the last one (ie since this time last year) here.
I'd recommend some Healz after reading that.
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dark purple spheres/crystal wine glass line
Has someone perhaps missed the figurative meaning of 'purple prose'?
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Caution extreme geekery below (apologies for the threadjack)
Pff, I'm just surprised it's taken this long.
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And I should note that PAS is about the least aggravating and damaging environment for these conversations that I've ever run across.
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I suppose I'm a total TV Tanker than, given that I stand at the pointy, all-too-visible end of a team of people who make a programme.
Sort of half-tangentially, I think telly decides who the Tank's going to be a lot of the time. So Jay Bennie ended up being the Tank on this one, because he's a gay issues go-to guy. So the Face Out Front becomes the Tank even if they're not actually directly involved with whatever it is that's gone wrong.
"Have you told your healers you love them lately?"
heh, my book has a section on Things I've Learned About Sex from Role-Playing, which includes a shout-out to the importance of Clerics, and how under-appreciated they are.
I also try to make a point of thanking other people for tanking for me. Team-tanking can work really well - Tag-Team Wrestling, basically. But I've also seen it used really cynically: you're losing, so you tag someone else in, who tries to make your opponent start all over again from square one until you wear them down out of sheer frustration, even if you're wrong.
But it is nice to know that I can rely on another PAS luvvie to take over for a bit if I need to take a break.
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I've noticed a slight but significant deterioration in the manners of theatre audiences over the last decade or so. There seems to be less recognition that the people on the stage are people, that they can hear you, and see your cellphone and your camera flash, that they need to concentrate on what they're doing and perhaps it might be nice to not behave as if you're in your lounge at home.
Sometimes, though, it's well amusing. Last year the Big Gay Musical at the Court was La Cage aux Folles. As we were waiting for curtain up, the people in the seats next to our group were leafing through the program and discovering that this show they'd paid to see was about *gasp* Teh Gayz. They sat in stony silence through the first half, and left at half time - squeezing past the gay couple in our group they'd been sitting next to for the last hour.
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I'd probably be more offended if Laws made any sense whatsoever.
Indeed. I struggle to find him genuinely offensive any more. The desperate attention-seeking has become so obvious I think it's probably just time he took a time-out until the sugar rush wears off.
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Ben: Ren writes several times on the politics of online gaming. She plays tanks a lot, so she writes from a tank-y sort of perspective, where you get annoyed because other people seem to be sitting back and doing their nails while you get creamed. In the comments on that thread of hers, a few people do point out flaws in the tank analogy.
But are there Healz? Yeah, there are. I recovered some serious hit points from the Big Gay Collab, and a few more today from this. I think at least around LGBT issues the importance of Healz is recognised, perhaps not so much with other areas of activism.