Tag: response

What do you do if you’re talking to someone and they’re creeping you out? Like I talked to his person and within the first 10 he talked to me on how being stabbed would be like, send me a shortened link that had a video on someone stabbing a friend? And asked me how she felt being stabbed by her friend (it was a film) I’m getting real bad vibes but I don’t wanna be mean? He even asked me my age within 10 mins too?

If they’re creeping you out, the best option is to stop talking to them. I know that social conditioning says to just not say anything, and be nice and let them talk, but when they’re sending you videos like that right off the bat?

Run, and don’t look back.

If he keeps messaging you, don’t worry about appearing to be mean, block him. Your safety is more important than toeing the social line. Please, please, watch out for yourself before worrying about whether or not you seem mean to someone who is creeping you out.

Also, his asking you your age that quickly sends up red flags to me, when combined with the rest of it.

And anyone who’s following me – if someone is creeping you out when you talk to them, either in person or online, listen to that feeling. Don’t tell yourself that you shouldn’t be mean, or you should be polite and keep talking to them because maybe they’re just awkward. Watch out for yourself, and do what you need to do to get away from that person.

If you’re online, block them. If you’re in brick-space, have a signal you can send a friend or reliable relative or a responsible adult you trust. If they’re supposed to be a date, make sure someone – or multiple someones – you trust have pictures of you that day, have a picture of the person you’re meeting, know where you’re supposed to be going, and when you’re planning to be home.

Be safe. Trust your instincts. Watch out for yourself and each other.

alyyks
replied to your post “On the road shortly, shall not be on tumblr tonight even when I get…”

hope the road is good!

It was, for the most part. I would like to, as always, do things to vaporize a majority of the drivers (and more importantly, their cars!) on the local highways, but got home in one piece and with the car in no more pieces than it already was.

Also got @elegantmess-southernbelle home safe.

And now I am enjoying having air conditioning and access to running water that won’t make me regret drinking it, and my bed, and my cat, and refrigeration for my food (speaking of which, I need to go remove the stuff from my cooler, including the tea which got missed when dropping off em-sb).

alyyks
replied to your post “Star Wars: All Her Daughters: The Butcher and The River”

oooh, lovely. (they are so angry and intense, it just drips from them)

*beams* Thank you!

From the moment I gave them their names – and those two lines of that song are what gave me that pair of names – they also carried with them a lot of the rage at injustices that I don’t have the tools to do anything about directly. All I have are words, and a computer, and an internet connection.

So Butcher and River have the memories etched in their skin, they have the tools to turn the people they hate most into goo, they have the tools to make their rage burn across a galaxy. And it’s a rage and a hate of two people who know too well that they have nothing but themselves and what they can steal to make themselves heard, and that the system they’ve been conscripted into is broken and does nothing to help them.

They use that system and a veneer of calm that no one thinks twice about to get what they want, and then they paint their rage in blood and fire and explosions and bodies. Bodies of slavers, political leaders, the ruins of facilities used to exploit and oppress others… they’re probably quite cheerfully kill Jedi, too, if they didn’t have Anakin Skywalker as their mental image of what a Jedi is, even before they met him.

(Hello, Force visions and weirdness.)

And just. I want to write them in all their rage, all their fury, all their violence. They earned their names with it, and it is something they’ll never let go. Until they are killed – and I don’t think they’re going to die of old age, not these two – they will hold onto that and use it to lash out and try to make the Republic change.

alyyks
replied to your post “So, for anyone not wanting to see a very long post that starts image…”

I support all of this /cheers

especially the vaporized goo

*grins* I have no idea how they’re getting from point A (end of the last snippet) to point B (beginning of the next snippet), but I do know that there will be lots of trouble and mess to clean up after point C (the end of the next snippet). Next snippet will be up shortly.

I. Really, really want Palpatine to be vaporized goo.

alyyks
replied to your post “*buries face in hands, trying very hard not to break down laughing*…”

the thought is fantastic and terrifying.

Isn’t it?

Anakin is going to need someone he actually listens to remind convince him that no, he really isn’t allowed to use two clones that are already likely to face a firing squad over war crimes as proxies to free the slaves of Tatooine.

(Which might involve finding someone to keep an eye on sit on Butcher and River if they hear that conversation.)

Obi-Wan is muttering “How is this my life?”, while Padmé is patiently trying to explain to Anakin – and Rex, possibly – that, no, that is a terrible plan, you can’t just go slaughtering every slaver from here to Nal Hutta, not even by proxy.

…

And mostly unrelated, but just went through my head, Butcher should never be allowed anywhere near Palpatine. That is a disaster waiting for a target.

32 & 44

For this set of questions.

32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why?

The Child (who has no actual name). Who is – in a very literal sense – the person one universe revolves around. And she is a creepy little angel-ghost-something who has a very firm idea what the life of the people she attaches herself is supposed to be, and makes it happen. Makes them live, alters their memories, the memories of everyone around them.

(Also, she’s part of a set of snippets that aren’t likely to go any further than they already have, either in scope or location, not without a good deal of research and consultation with other people. For reasons I’m not going to get into on tumblr.)

44. Something you like about your OCs in general

Experimenting. Hopefully growing as a writer and a person as I grow the characters, which means in some cases keeping only the barest bones of them because when I first created their stories, I did not do anywhere near enough research to do them justice, even as side characters.

10, 11, 29?

*tilts head, and looks at the questions* This is going to be difficult. Let’s see if I can figure out the first two questions enough to answer them.

(Also, I ended up making a list of OCs, and am currently quietly boggling at it. I keep forgetting how many people I made.)

For this set of questions.

10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design?

As in how they look? Alaric and Tofa of the Mountains – start from a raven, elongate the torso, add an extra set of limbs, possibly a collarbone, or at least an extended ribcage and fun with keel/breastbone. Lengthen the neck, lengthen the tail. Longer talons on the hind legs, make the forelimbs more like hands, with shorter, blunter talons, and give them teeth and a raptor (dinosaur, not bird-of-prey) face.

Then make them about eight feet tall at the shoulder, turn most of the feathers to scales (the wings retain feathers, along the back including up the back of the neck, and across the top of the head).

Intelligence, language, culture – and all the trappings that come with that. And that’s just one of three different species of dragons on the world, each with a variation in appearances that’s as diverse as the humanity with which they share their world (which is to say, as diverse as our own world).

11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?

Not that I can think of off the top of my head. Most of my OCs have sharp edges that dim their cheerfulness or make it dangerous.

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

Anne Morris. Although she probably wouldn’t go alone, she’d drag at least her partner with her, because Padrig is as much a curious adrenaline junkie as she is. And if either her cousin or half-brother are home, she’ll drag one or both of them, provided she could actually convince Audrey to come along without informing her of where they’re going. She is, after all, a bit more respectable than her hoyden cousin Anne.

godoflaundrybaskets
replied to your post “*stares at the window, and makes rude gestures* Just had a blue jay…”

Blue jays are complete jerks! At least your cat is getting some entertainment?

She tends to duck, and then fixate on the bird as they fly off, so, yeah, probably. And the blue jay hasn’t actually been the worst, that was the something I couldn’t identify that actually hit the screen and clung to it for a moment a couple days ago.

thelittleemma
replied to your photoset “@elegantmess-southernbelle and I were throwing around thoughts on who…”

Steve’s Irish Catholic, also. Something very totally not the standard for 1940s America. Plus it’s not historical inaccuracy, it’s racism. Feel like MedievalPOC has already been tagged in this somewhere.

Not in this particular post, actually, though I do follow them, and their posts actually have informed some of the arguments – and the wording of those arguments – with the couple of people who’ve made racist arguments against Steve Rogers being recast as black (and why it’s been him both times that seems to be the focus of their ire I can only speculate, and won’t do in public).