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There is a rule: There is to be no calling out anyone by name in Rants, Chatter, or on the Meme itself. This only produces an atmosphere of animosity and it is no longer tolerated. If you see any names being ranted about, please link ( Read more... )
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thank-you five times... PLUS ONE
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You drink when
-- something racist happens
-- there's a ridiculous portrayal of homosexuality in general
-- kink is played for laughs
-- Alvin does something stupid and isn't called on it
If you want to get blitzed in about two seconds, drink every time you have to wonder why we're supposed to believe that they're married. Mandy Moore was about 25 when this was filmed, and they're supposed to have been married for 9 years at this point. LOL NO. Also she's a designer successful enough to have her own assistant and, IDEK, an atelier full of gorgeous fabric and she's not working her ass off? She's always off somewhere. I just don't know.
Also, Amanda Abbington has been in it for about 2 seconds so far. I am disappoint.
Still, Martin is very lovely.
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Their hug on the landing before they went to their separate rooms was kind of cute, I was hoping they'd meet up in the morning all unable to keep their hands off each other and just energized and bouncy, and then they and the other couple have a lovely brunch. And then next weekend maybe they get together to do something date-y, like, IDEK, they go to the Notting Hill farmers market or something. They walk on the embankment, they go to a play. They go on a date. I want a lovely episode of the two couples wooing each other and then I want them to stay friends and sometimes have sex and sometimes not and that would have been lovely.
It would be fine too of course if they're like oh hey this is a one-off, thank you, this was fun, good night and good luck.
But... based on what you said I'm thinking well, it'll probably be neither of those things.
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The only two things that counteract that are:
1. The OP not responding
2. Getting fewer comments on an update of a WIP than I have on previous updates, especially if there's a logged in user who's consistently commented before
I know there are tons of reasons that these two things can happen that have nothing to do with anyone disliking what I've written, but I still get kind of paranoid.
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For John/Sherlock, at least six comments.
For other pairings, at least four.
If it's multiple parts, four per update.
I'm okay with less, but when it gets that many I feel it's a general "well done, fic" marker.
I've never packed my toys and gone home, but I'd probably abandon a WIP that wasn't getting any comments, or that was only getting one per update. If someone started a wank on my fic, I might still finish but I'd probably leave it anonymous because I'd be too embarrassed to claim after that.
On AO3 with the kudos system, I have no idea how to measure "my fic has done well" there. I look at the kudos count in utter confusion.
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I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WITH A UNION REP. DOES EVERYONE IN THE US HAVE A UNION?
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No.
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Now I'm an adult and after a few shaky starts and attempts at medication, I can finally consider myself a healthy, content and well-rounded person. There's only one problem: after spending my teenage years and early adulthood in a fog of mental illness, it seems like I missed out on the "learning empathy" part of development.
I know that there are other anons on this rant meme who have had problems with mental illness, and lots of anons who either are now or who used to be bad at social skills. I recognise that empathy would be a good thing to have. So do any of you crazy nonnies know how I could improve my empathising skills? I've definitely made progress in the past year and can fake it to the point where nobody can really tell the difference, but it's still... well, fake.
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Can you not empathise without the ability to read facial expressions? That's interesting. I'm bad at judging affect, which is another thing I've been working on recently.
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