#email interaction

[winn-wynn]

If Hogwarts used Emails

From: Percy Weasley <percy.weasley@s.hogwarts.edu>

To: Filius Flitwick <filius.flitwick@hogwarts.edu>

Subject: CHARMS-ASGMNT 3

Dear Prof. Flitwick,

I hope this message finds you well. I am currently working on assignment 3, which is about the history of Weathering-Modifying Charms and whether or not they should be regulated. I also remember you writing down mobilicorpus, which is the spell for moving bodies of those who found themselves unable to walk. I was wondering if you meant mobiliarbus, which the spell to move plants and trees, which is closer to the subject?

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or suggestions you have to offer.

Thank you and have a great night!

Percy Weasley

W8008569

From: Filius Flitwick <filius.flitwick@s.hogwarts.edu>

To: Percy Weasley <percy.weasley@s.hogwarts.edu>

Subject: Re: CHARMS-ASGMNT 3

whoops typo yeah it's supposed to be mobiliarbus

-Flitwick

Sent from my iPhone

[missingn000]

hey all! i wrote a what-if character study & action fic for if king fought sanji instead of zoro during the raid on onigashima. i'd really love if you gave it a read! thanks so much!

link

playlist

happy reading!

[handweavers]

i've been so fucked up for months i haven't been able to go downtown to pick up my work from last spring from my school's textile studio and they always have a cutoff date like if you don't pick up your old work by x date they toss it and they're pretty strict about that unless you arrange with the studio tech beforehand, and the studio tech doesn't like most people she's pretty curt with most students. not rude but just keeps things professional and a bit distant, a very serious person. but i know she grew to like me over the past few years/warmed up to me a lot and we'd chat a lot about different textile things and she would say really kind things to me a lot which felt rare and special, and she let me have special treatment with some of the equipment because she trusted me to use it properly. and i haven't seen her in nearly a year and i expected her to have tossed my work out when i didn't come to pick it up last fall and emailed her to explain why and dropped off the face of the earth, i made my peace with losing that work and accepted it, it is what it is, i will survive, etc.

but she emailed me earlier this week and said she didn't have the heart to toss my work and has kept it safe in her office for me if i'm ever able to come pick it up and if not she's going to keep it as an example piece to show other students when teaching weaving because it's too lovely to get rid of and my heart swelled like 10 times its size bc she didn't have to do that and it meant so much to me that even a year from seeing her last she was still thinking about me and being kind to me. and i emailed her back and picked it up today and saw her and we chatted for a bit and it was so nice. I love her I miss my school's textile studio and weaving in there and talking craft with her... sigh

[pseudophan]

i know it would only be an unnecessary pain in the ass for him if i did but it does bother me not to respond like THANK YOU SO MUCH to my gp's messages to me through the healthcare online portal thing. he has a tendency to sit and answer messages and prescription refill requests late as hell in the evening because that's when he finally has the time and it feels so wrong to not reply even if it's entirely unnecessary and he neither expects nor wants that

[goddess-of-frot]

One thing about the "mutuals can ask for pics" type of post is it feels like theres no way to not sound like a dweeb asking, "Erm, is this where the cock pics are", they may not cost money but the real price is finding a normal way to ask that isn't "Re: Your post where you offered mutuals hole pics"

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm still thinking about it, so---if you're a local, I highly encourage Rough House Theater's "House of the Exquisite Corpse". It's lovely, arresting, from the performances down to the smallest touches. I still can't get over the ripped umbrellas hanging upside down in dreamlike suspension from the ceiling; the way each "station" is wrapped in plywood and decorated in its own meaningful pattern and design.

But first, let me step back. "House of the Exquisite Corpse" takes its name from the old Surrealist parlor game, at the heart of which is the idea that you can collect a disparate group, then smash their ideas together and create something from the smithereens. This is something like what Rough House has done, which is pick a theme ("Superstition") and then let the artistic groups loose to create short scenes built around that theme.

(I want to call them tableaux, because watching the performances I was struck by how it felt like something out of time---as though we were 17th century courtiers in Paris ushered into a candlelit ballroom, or early 20th century farmers in Minnesota, paying our penny to see what the circus brought to town.)

The set-up itself does a wonderful job ushering you into a time-outside-of-time---you step into a space divided from the rest of the space by black sheets, chunky headsets dangling from wooden ladders suspended just over your head. The emcee is carrying a clipboard and speaks into an old-school broadcasting mic---which you can only hear if you're wearing the headsets.

It is, you'll discover, the central conceit of the performance. From there, you're directed from station to station by silent ushers, carrying flashlights so they can point you forward. Unless you are wearing the headphones at each station, you can only listen to the absent, ambient music echoing around the room.

Not only are the stations set up to wrap you in a specific soundscape, but they play with your vision too---most stations have you peer through holes or cracks in the wall, though one station had us line up in front of mirrors and watch the reflection of the performance, while another station placed shards of glass at every peephole, so you watched the scene and the character's experience of the scene in a strange double-vision. A couple of the stations used tricks of the light---strobe effects that made the puppets' movements seem even more uncanny or imply violence; a haze of smoke or fabric to disguise the human "prowling" in the puppet-shape of a tiger.

(I always like when I can tell an artist is reacting to something I've seen before, and the Rousseau "The Dream" vibes in that scene were exquisite.)

I will say that “A White Bird in the House is an Omen of Death” was my favorite, not in the least because it featured a whole choreographed song (feat. a lovely articulated owl puppet, plus some very effective shadowplay work). However, “Through the Looking Glass” was beautifully up my alley, from the unique staging---this was the station where you watched the performance in a mirror---to the creative puppetry, and a meditation on loveliness that had some bite to it. “Broken Mirror” was more traditional in its puppet work, but it also had the most elaborate staging, a fully-realized world in miniature.

I keep going back to how enormously creative so many of these artists were, in ways I simply can't ignore. “Step on a Crack” didn't necessarily work for me, but I can't stop thinking about it---its trippy setup, the inhuman knit masks the creator used; the spines dangling, neon-colored, from the nearest tree as the protagonist recited lines about loving his mother with increasing, feverish and horrible energy. The glimpses I got during “An ill fate befalls those who pluck from fruit in their dreams” of the puppeteer's face---how she shut her eyes and turned away, as though she too was affected by the puppet's horror.

[sallymew4]

stageplay shouteru is a whole other beast

fun little extras below cut vvv

look. they are holding hands

[lulu2992]

sorry i'm so shy, i got into fc5 recently so i'm a bit of a baby fan, and even more of a baby-very-deeply-and-madly-in-love-with-John fan, but after seeing your analysis on his death scene, I looked a bit closer and I'm inclined to agree that John pulls the key off of himself, for two reasons:

first, it's so slight, but dep adjusts their grip on the key immediately after he cough wheezes, they're still holding onto it, but they attempt to slack the cord by untwisting it slightly, John grips their wrist tighter in response (sound cue),

second/third, dep's hand moves towards John and you don't see dep's grip on the key change, but you do see dep's fist move out rather than in, and I imagine that natural movement would cause most people to pull something away at something by curling their wrist in a little + you hear the grip sound cue again and dep's hand goes towards him and his body doesn't follow it before the key is ripped off. John is also the one who pushes off of dep's wrist as he releases them, and dep automatically rebounds their arm back to its held position instead of pulling back if they were exerting any more strength against him rather than just holding him up to the position that he had propped himself in.

These realizations have been devastating the me community

I agree! It’s because of some of the details you pointed out that I started questioning who ripped the key off John’s neck after years of believing it was the Deputy.

But thanks to @vvvyzt, who posted this GIF, I think we can now say that it was in fact John who did it!

It’s been two weeks and I’m still thinking about this a lot...

[hinotorihime]

i've found that a good way to gently prod people about getting back to me is to frame it as "oh i'm just checking to see if you got my email/the information i sent you/the documents i sent you to sign [or whatever], do i need to send them again/is there anything else you need from me?" it gives them a built-in face-saving out for why they've been procrastinating—and, sometimes i find out that they actually didn't get everything they needed from me!

[kiyomitakada]

i need to follow more of you. i would be following all of you if not for the fact that my irls know my main so i can never change the description in case they're online and they notice and therefore that main blog is forever stuck in age-in-bio-is-under-eighteen so half of you would block me on sight. i am aware this is a ridiculous problem to have.

[cosmogyros]

THIS IS AN ANTI-AD

Do not buy from Marcus Pork. He is incredibly fucking annoying. To put it mildly.

A few weeks ago, I went to his website and put one t-shirt in my shopping cart, then saw that shipping would be free if I ordered two. So I pressed the back button to see if I wanted to add a second one... and immediately got an email from him. Subject line: "You DAMAGED my feelings"

I was a little taken aback, but thought "Okay, that's kinda cute and funny, haha. I get this company's vibe."

I ended up buying it, and then immediately received this email:

A discount is nice, but I mean, I literally JUST placed my first order, so I'm not about to use the discount right now.

But then... I proceeded to get a new email from him EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A WEEK, hassling me about not having used the discount yet - let me repeat, the discount that he only offered me AFTER I'd placed my first order with his company.

Look at the dates:

At first the tone was amusing, but the joke-negging and joke-deprecation rapidly got old. I was genuinely starting to feel harassed.

And on top of this, the company somehow got hold of my OTHER email address, too - maybe because it's linked to my credit card somehow? - and sent the same kind of "playfully rude" hassling messages to me there as well:

They all have this kind of content:

Listen. I love rudeness and inappropriateness. I am not an uptight prude. But this shit got so annoying that, when I received the notification yesterday that my delivery had arrived, by that point I frankly wasn't even looking forward to it anymore. I still haven't gone to pick it up because I've lost all enthusiasm for the shirt. I don't know if I'll even want to wear it... I feel like every time I do, I'll remember feeling harassed and disturbed by this flood of marketing emails. I am strongly considering returning my purchase and explaining that the company's supposedly funny but actually predatory marketing techniques have left a bad taste in my mouth and made me not want to support them anymore.

I'm sure some folks love this kind of vibe, and that's great, more power to you. But for me personally, someone who has dealt with a lot of negging and sexual harassment in real life, it is NOT funny and honestly makes me feel kind of gross. I've never experienced any company emailing me every single day for over a week following my purchase from them, let alone with such a weird entitled attitude.

So I'm certainly never going to buy anything else from Marcus Pork Sr., I may return the one thing I did buy, and I'm going to advise everybody I know to avoid this creepy fucking company. They took a gamble on a marketing strategy that would make them stand out, and I see what they were going for, but in my opinion they failed, hard.

[its-all-papaya]

what if i..... unanon my lestappen... what then...

[daddy-long-legssss]

i told my therapist how stressed and burnt out work has been making me and she was like ‘have you thought about taking a leave of absence or stress leave?’ and i’m like ‘well my team is already stretched so thin, it feels unfair to do that to them.’ and then she said ‘well hypothetically if something happened to you or heaven forbid you died and you physically couldn’t do your job anymore, what then?’

and i thought well damn.

[greencheekconure27]

I hate it when I spend two days mentally gearing up to make an important phone call and then nobody picks up. What am I supposed to do with my script and my time and my especially prepared "phone call voice for strangers" now? What do you mean " just do something else"?

[chocosvt]

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