Nightwish- Wishmaster.

That CD is a piece of art.

Continuing this puddle of sithspit.

Story or Series Title: Cruel Trick of Fate
Fandom: Lord of the Jedi
CulpritAuthor's Name: TDWidow
Full Names: Obi-Wan Kenobi (aka Hyarion), Aragorn son of Arathorn
Full Species: Edain
Hair Color (Include Adjectives): Like in canon, I presume
Eye Color (Include Adjectives): Like in canon, I presume
Unusual Markings/Colorations: I presume they both have scars from the battles they've been in.
Special Possessions: Aragorn has a uterus
Annoying Origin: Unknown, Arathorn II and Gilraen
Annoying Connections to Canon Characters: Claim to be two of them, are Mara Skywalker's parents.
Annoying Special Abilities: In addition to the mpreg, there's the matter of Obi-Wan taking Arwen's place in Aragorn's heart
Other Annoying Traits: 0o9iuihjnbhgh6tftrfcc dxfdre4

( Getting his bearings )

( Enter Gandalf )

Holy 70s TV, Batman!  Ebay, here it comes.

I like you, don't get wrong, although you do have a tendency to annoy me at times.  However,  this is something I've been wanting to bring up for a while and while I can't really call you out to your face, I've finally decided to at least say something because it's been driving me up the wall.  Yes we play some of the same characters and our characterization of them are markedly different and while I may not be perfect, I'm a damn sight more IC than you are.  The characters in question are respectively.
A) emotionally cold and calculating. He doesn't do public displays of affection and he's certainly not going to change his mode of speaking to someone because it /hurts/ their feelings he calls them the same name he has for over a decade.  You have to /read/ between the lines here.  He's never been someone who really deals well with pointless social chatter.

B) reserved as hell. He has occasional lapses but for the most part, he doesn't let himself be swayed by emotion.  He chooses his words and actions carefully and he follows orders,  whether he agrees with said orders or not.  He was trained to do his job by a man who wouldn't tolerate half the outbursts I've seen you make icly. 

I've even shown your profile to people who are in the fandom and don't know you personally and the reactions have pretty much confirmed that you can't handle this character in a remotely ic way,  but you're always right so it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

So glad I'm not playing with you anymore.

Can we just get over this mush and on to business? We have a universe to save, an alternate dimension to prevent.

I think there's a reason my possible marysue character is turning evil. Just cause you "good side" people have too many love affairs.

This is just irritating the bejesus out of me, and the fact that the villian character I am supposed to co-conspire with is absent EVERY TIME I have available net.

Doesn't help that my computer crashed this week. Just makes me more mad.

[[duly note: this RP comm IS NOT on LJ - maybe that's why it sucks]]

This is an old one, but still annoying. It happened to my best friend on her RPing board (which we are now trying to revamp and revive, so that may have been what reminded me) and just made us both boggle. I'm typing this out with her on the phone.

( In which I abuse brackets a lot. )Because of all this drama right in it's opening days (and the copious pornage) the board never really got off the ground. Cynic ended up getting really put off the board and it all just died. That said, we're actually trying to get it back up again, revamping the backstory (and adding a wiki to it, if I have my way) and just making it better than before and a lot more coherent. Hopefully it'll work out this time.

And we're not telling them about it either.

Not even sock-puppeting this one. All that needs to be said can be said just by copy-and-pasting the question I just got from an applicant.

"Does the writing sample have to be something I wrote?"

Thanks everybody. G'night. Be sure to lock up on your way out.

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

⌈ Secret Post #1041 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

101.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 185 secrets from Secret Submission Post #149.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - omg i know them ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(it's not a target label, it's what salvation army uses for their collectibles.)
( haunted cocktail shaker update )

Going over to a girl's apartment tonight for coffee and conversation.

Should be fun. I should do this more often.

'Cause we gotta do this at least like once a year.

Poll #1484034
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2149

I SHIP IT / I'D HIT IT?

How about comm shoutouts/bashing (I LOVE/HATE THIS COMM ZOMG blah blah)?

Whatever's decided goes into practice next Saturday, Nov 14th.

I used to work in an independently owned toy store in a very nice upper class town.

A few Halloweens ago a mom was trying to decide on a costume for her toddler. We had two options, both easy pull-overs (poncho style) with a hood and a pocket.

She holds them both up and asks me "What do you think? Is the dragon to boy-ish for her?"

Now, honestly, I loved the dragon costume. It had the cutest little wings. So I'm honest with her: "I don't think so, I would have wanted to be the dragon when I was little."

Her response: "Well, you're goth, so there's no surprise there."

*blink*

Ok, now, yes, I consider myself goth, and therefore wear a lot of black, but I was in my work clothes with were always nice jeans or dress pants and a colorful shirt. O.o

And it's a doozy.

I know what's supposed to be happening here... but....
( -.- )

Dear Random Lady WalMart Shopper,

Whining at the nice man in the blue shirt like a toddler who is past her naptime isn't a nice thing to do. When he patiently explains to you that the coupon you are trying to use is no longer valid because the price on said item has come down yet again (it was some leftover Halloween thing) that is not your cue to start whining louder and harder at him about how it's unfair that they brought the price down AGAIN and now you cannot use your coupon. Like the man tried to tell you, it's actually cheaper now. Continuing to whine will not get you what you want.

After walking away from you as quickly as I could, I was dismayed to hear your voice again down in the food aisles. That woman that you cornered, demanding to know if she worked at WalMart? If you'd listened to her instead of once again whining, you would have heard her say that she is a shelf stocker for another company, but that she could probably help you find what you are looking for since she is there quite often and knows the lay of the land. When she told you that she didn't think they had any sugar free cereal bars, but she'd be happy to help you look, that was NOT your cue to start whining at her about how all the sugar free stuff should be in the same aisle. First of all, that's not how it works at most stores I've been in, and secondly, as this worker already told you SHE DOES NOT WORK FOR WALMART! She was nice enough to help you out, but she didn't have to! Whining and snapping at her was completely inappropriate.

No love,
another random lady WalMart shopper.

Dear RP Partner I've Been Trying My Damnedest to Ignore,

Stop making all your female characters so over-sexualized no matter how OOC it is for them. Please, I beg you. Not every woman you play has to be a sex symbol because more often than not, they are so very very far from it. People have tried to correct you both gently and not-so-gently but you refuse to listen to them and it makes me rage a good deal. So for the sake of my blood pressure, either kindly realize that not all women need to be over-sexed or stop playing female characters all-together.

I Regret Giving You My Phone Number Everyday,
Kat

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