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More notes for further development when I have more time -- PLEASE don't take any of these at face value or read personal jibes into them, they're really just half-formed thoughts I want to make public in case they'd inspire someone in the meantime! There are NO hidden messages fnord in this post.
The Story of a Bear Flash -- how well it exhibited both the Neke and Bottom worldview -- descing bottom w/o resort to sexuality stereotype -- Neke's maddening combination of haughtiness, caution, and moral PRECISION -- meanwhile, the thing about Bottom is not so much that it's relentlessly sexual, as much as it believes the world is very "low-stakes" and Top believes it's very "high-stakes" -- the bear cub assigns light-hearted consequences to its friendly play, while the mommybug assigns more serious ones; compare Roque and Rezeya?
Cog-psych aspects of bringing Neke from private roles as aloof dommes to public roles as aggravatingly unflappable antagonists; how own anti-authoritarian streak motivated N'kenge, as a comforting way to indulge urge to bat a member of a smug elite around :) Plus the implications of how the Neke were successfully played, OOCly and ICly, in a way that got their superior air to be ACCEPTED as part of the terms of debate, despite hints they were in not such a strong position -- winning conflicts through exceptionally good PR and hitting emotional and social hot-buttons, very Messian...
Need to add more specific instructions to theme-test question -- more left-brained people might interpret the task as "prove your character has a connection to Theme N because that is a requirement" when we just want proof of their ingenuity and critical thinking skills on a random but relevant topic...
Also need a more formal announcement to Tekalalmuck that the new app guide draft is up (under "Getting There" on the wiki) and it's open to discussion
Would be neat to put up a wiki page devoted to comparisons and contrasts of various Warp pairings -- even I feel now and then that, say, Up and Top or Charm and Bottom are not always clearly ideologically distinguished. (e.g., maybe Charm and Bottom are about bliss, while Charm is about a specifically selfless sort of bliss, while Bottom is more about impulse; while Top and Up are both about responsibility, social cohension, discipline, and self-improvement, Top sees this as coming from Romanticist notions of the self, tradition, and honor; Up sees them as coming from Rationalist notions of efficiency, materialism, social science, and study of concrete results)
The Story of a Bear Flash -- how well it exhibited both the Neke and Bottom worldview -- descing bottom w/o resort to sexuality stereotype -- Neke's maddening combination of haughtiness, caution, and moral PRECISION -- meanwhile, the thing about Bottom is not so much that it's relentlessly sexual, as much as it believes the world is very "low-stakes" and Top believes it's very "high-stakes" -- the bear cub assigns light-hearted consequences to its friendly play, while the mommybug assigns more serious ones; compare Roque and Rezeya?
Cog-psych aspects of bringing Neke from private roles as aloof dommes to public roles as aggravatingly unflappable antagonists; how own anti-authoritarian streak motivated N'kenge, as a comforting way to indulge urge to bat a member of a smug elite around :) Plus the implications of how the Neke were successfully played, OOCly and ICly, in a way that got their superior air to be ACCEPTED as part of the terms of debate, despite hints they were in not such a strong position -- winning conflicts through exceptionally good PR and hitting emotional and social hot-buttons, very Messian...
Need to add more specific instructions to theme-test question -- more left-brained people might interpret the task as "prove your character has a connection to Theme N because that is a requirement" when we just want proof of their ingenuity and critical thinking skills on a random but relevant topic...
Also need a more formal announcement to Tekalalmuck that the new app guide draft is up (under "Getting There" on the wiki) and it's open to discussion
Would be neat to put up a wiki page devoted to comparisons and contrasts of various Warp pairings -- even I feel now and then that, say, Up and Top or Charm and Bottom are not always clearly ideologically distinguished. (e.g., maybe Charm and Bottom are about bliss, while Charm is about a specifically selfless sort of bliss, while Bottom is more about impulse; while Top and Up are both about responsibility, social cohension, discipline, and self-improvement, Top sees this as coming from Romanticist notions of the self, tradition, and honor; Up sees them as coming from Rationalist notions of efficiency, materialism, social science, and study of concrete results)