#{Message Board; (Answered)}

[ceescedasticity]

Been reading a lot of Batman fic lately and it's weird to me that— Okay, not that weird. I think I get it, just—

"It is good and empowering for kids/teenagers to go fight bad guys if they feel it's necessary" feels like a significant underlying assumption of much of the source material, like "[these particular kinds of] aliens exist" and "magic is real" and "vigilantism is a good idea". These are things you need to suspend your disbelief about in order to enjoy the source material.

I understand why someone might find the kid heroes thing harder to suspend disbelief on; you can reframe it into a statement applicable to the real world which is a problem if a lot of people believe it ("it's fine to endanger kids/benefit from their labor if they agree to it"). But—

In the setting, "being able to fight bad guys" is often equivalent to "being a person with power and autonomy". In the setting, "It is acceptable for kids/teenagers to go fight bad guys if they feel it's necessary" is equivalent to "kids/teenagers should have power and autonomy". Is this something you want anyone concluding in the real world? No, of course not. But this is fiction.

I don't know, it feels like getting hung up on Aragorn's tax policy, to some extent? Or going to a burger place and complaining the menu is full of burgers?

[lith-myathar]

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[corvidaedream]

i really like how excited the dragon age fandom always it to hear about each other's little guys. most enthusiastic fandom wrt other people's ocs.

[agaypanic]

why did I find THE ring from my Pinterest board in his jacket pocket??? -🧛

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every time you check in i feel like im watching a reality show like WHAT??!?!

might have to get your nails done bbg

[themyscirah]

Blah blah if I don't respond to anything for a few hours it's bc im on an airplane atm

[yeoldesoapboxofannouncements]

On A Scale Of 2,386 To 30,417 How Would You Rate The Color Pizza?

While I'm Not Sure What This Pizza Color Is, I Shall Choose, 14006!

This Number Feels Oddly Right!

[fluentisonus]

why IS "john" abbreviated as "jno." btw

[thecensusbureau]

Good day, Bureau!

Or should we say, previous Bureau.

As you know, we have eyes everywhere, and understand where your current Island status is. As well as every action that your role within the Federation has done to protect and serve the society we have so graciously made...

And to say that we are disappointed is an understatement.

We trust that you remedy this issue immediately.

You, the new Bureau, and the current Island Manager would need to keep yourselves in check first, however. Don't think that we have not seen what you three have been doing.

Or lack thereof.

We had noticed that the rest of the staff have fled off to a new Island despite the life on Quesadilla. This simply won't do.

So, Cucurucho, with your knowledge of what we have done with several Islands already, better fix this.

Otherwise, be prepared for another notice for an Island Reset.

Sincerely and formally, the @officialboardofdirectors.

Cucurucho sits at their desk, paws dragged across their face.

Fuck.

The Board of Directors have made themselves known again. And they're threatening an Island Reset if Cucurucho doesn't do anything. This is bad, really bad.

Cucurucho really needs to talk to the Bureau soon. They mull over it for a few minutes, before getting up and leaving their office with a panicked expression.

They don't respond to the email sitting on their monitor.

[ask-codeearasure]

Hello! Could you do 7, 9, 12, 21 and 22 for the Character Ask Game for Epic please?

So I have no idea about the ask game but I'm going to take the wild as fuck guess that you mean this and jump right in. Sorry I'm at work so be patient.

For 7, what the fandom does that I like, generally is the action art. I'm talking like him just being a plain badass. I like that.

9, could I be roommates with him?.... I have no clue. I don't know enough about him, but the whole "bruh" thing that I don't even know is cannon or not for him would get on my nerves real quick.

12, my head cannon for him?... Well looking at his general style. He is into Visual Kei.

21, I have not written for this character so I can't really say anything about him. Something I generally hate though is the very thing that turned off any interest about him is the way the fandom just made the whole "bruh" thing his entire personality. I genuinely cannot find anything the fandom does with him that isn't just "bruh".

22, same as the 21 but just as a reader.

Hopefully Sarco sees this ask so they can give you their answer. Sorry if my answers aren't as interesting as theirs.

-- Ouija

[fuckyeahrevresbo]

I'm lonely.

I've been in this city for about 20 months now and... I guess it would be disingenuous to say I haven't made any friends. There's some coworkers (mostly former coworkers now) I get on with, and I've even had them over a couple times to chat and play a video game. But it's very rare, and I'm once again in the position where it's an I always need to be the one setting everything up situation. Not once have they ever suggested hanging out first.

I recognize how you meet new people. Just go to the same place consistently, do the same activity consistently. After a day at work, though, I don't feel much like going anywhere. Don't feel much like spending money at a place consistently (and most places you can go cost money). And I'm still about the only person I know who masks in public regularly, and I don't really like going places if I don't at least know people are vaxxed. Getting more and more difficult to ask about that, especially given the... political climate where I live.

I can still do things online with my friends back home. It's fun, I enjoy it. Have all these board games up here though that don't get played. I had hoped at least since I lived in the same place I'd see my cousins more often. It is more often, I guess, more often than the once or twice a year before, but it's not exactly... common. And it's unfair of me, but now I'm annoyed at one of them. Messaged her and her sister separately about getting together for board games. Got told by her (still haven't heard from her sister) that it's difficult because their schedules don't line up. I said to her they could come over different times, doesn't have to be together. I know her sister usually drives them, but I can drive, as I told her. And now I hear that she's meeting my roommate to do some activities on Saturday while I've got an online game. I don't begrudge them that per se, they're allowed to do stuff without me, but there's something about meeting my roommate in person for stuff and brushing aside my offer. I'm sure it's not like that, but... I'm lonely.

My roommate will occasionally play a board game with me, but in the evenings he's more inclined to watch a movie. I like watching movies on occasion, but...

Brought three board games back from my last trip home. Bought another one a couple weeks back. Feels like I've been overly optimistic. Feel that way every time I open grindr too.

Do I just go back home after this? Been telling people who asked I wasn't sure. There's something nice about being out here. And much as I complain about my current job, I don't want to have to try and find another one. But I'm nearly 20 months in. And I'm fucking lonely.

I need more people who message me first. Who hit me up to chat before I message them. Who ask if I want to hang out before I have to ask them. Mentally, I'm better than I was ten years ago, even five years ago, but there's still a little voice ready to enumerate all my faults and mistakes and to tell me I'm not wanted. If I'm always the one who has to make the plans, to remind people I exist and want to see them...

I take all my breaks at work alone now. The other coworkers I used to go on break with have left. The one that's still here... well, at first I might have said it was because they were on us to follow the break schedule. But she takes all her breaks with her other friend now, despite his break being scheduled later than mine. Even when we were down to just the three of us, she took break with him and asked our supervisor to get someone to cover while they went, whereas before she got annoyed with people taking breaks in a way that didn't provide coverage.

Yeah, I can give people a smile or a laugh or some fries, but do they actually want to hang out with me? Rationally, I know they do, but tonight's a bad night, and I'm lonely.

And how do I tell people that part of me feels unwanted because people don't message first without it sounding like a guilt trip? I've been guilted before, and it feels awful. I don't want people to feel guilty, and I definitely don't want them to feel like they have to reach out to me as an obligation. Just want... I dunno, assurance that I'm not just there, not just a warm body to fill a place.

I'm lonely.

[corvidaedream]

sometimes i get very passionate about my job and how important it can be to give an accurate history of a moment in american history that's frequently referenced but which the general public in america has a lot of misconceptions about

and other times i spend an unproductive day trying to explain outdated tax law to a child who isn't equipped to understand, but who is very intent on asking "why?" repeatedly and i think maybe i understand why this protest specifically gets misrepresented and glossed over in schools.

[kuratm]

(From Deuce)

❛ o-oh... a perfect score, huh...? ❜ don't mind her, she's getting a little flustered from this bomb of an info. ❛ a-ahaha...oh, deuce, you're really too sweet...~ ❜ and just like that, she moves right in and gives him all the smooches over the face.

are you sayu's type? .... ACCEPTING!

[roseband]

oof i just realized since i have a newer phone now and outlook app works on it, not only can i work on teams off my wrist, but i can do EMAILS off my wrist

[yeoldesoapboxofannouncements]

So there’s a limit? How’d you hit it? Is it a limit per day or smthn else?

If Thou Look Back At Previous Answers, Thou Will Find Thine Answer!

(this)

[doctorho]

Do you know anything about the status? Livelihood? Wellbeing? Of a user Wincestisasincest, author of Waves on the Shore?

I feel like I remember you guys interacting.

I hope they didn’t fall victim to fanfiction author badluck 😔

No worries if you don’t know. I am just scouring.

hi!! first of all sorry for taking forever, in my head i totally answered this already and i don't know what happened.

unfortunately i also don't know what happened to wince!! you are correct we used to interact (i was a huge fan of waves on the shore and still am honestly, i think about that fic regularly)

unfortunately i have no news for you :( but i hope wince is out there somewhere thriving and living the life outside of fanfic circles!!

[gayashawol]

man… the silence is almost demotivating me from making more stories…