"And all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall."

[greygirlbeast]

Cold out there. Cold and sunny. I think spring's decided to skip this year.

Here I sit, with my sour stomach and shakey hands and ringing ears, and the day ahead of me. And there's really not a lot to say about yesterday.

I spent the entire day looking for a story for Sirenia Digest #64, and I think I found something called "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash." Today I have to begin making a story from the idea, stone and mortar and what have you.

It could be an awfully prophetic title. I didn't see that yesterday.

I think I might have drawn the cover for the Crimson Alphabet chapbook yesterday.

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In 1998, I wrote about the fire in The Dreaming #28, "Dreams the Burning Dream." This afternoon, Spooky and I will be ringing a bell at 4:45 p.m. EST, the exact time the first alarm bells were sounded a century ago. I'm a little disheartened that there's no official observance being held in Rhode Island, despite its history of textile mills, etc.

But it's not as if the dead hear bells the living ring. It's not as if the dead hear anything at all.

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Huge thanks to Geoffrey who seems to have secured permission for me to quote Radiohead's "There, There (The Bony King of Nowhere)" in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. I'm still waiting to hear from R.E.M.'s management.*

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Some unexpectedly good rp in SL last night. I really don't do SL anymore. And, for that matter, I think SL all but destroyed any desire I ever had to rp anywhere. You can only be fucked over so many times before you simply cease to care. Anyway, thank you Blair, because last night was awesome.

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Thanks to all the people who donated to the the Kickstarter project yesterday. We have 12 hours to go, and the project is 207% funded. I'm amazed. I was worried we wouldn't meet our goal, much less meet it more than twice over.

Gonna go write now.

* Actually, I just did.

Comments

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

This and this. I was heavily into text roleplay (MUSH and MUD) before SL.

Though I tried, I could never get into text-based rp. I need a visual interface.

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

Really? I came to SL much later, and for me it was always the other way around. After having a basically limitless playground to rp in, SL felt constraining and the visual aspect seemed (for me) to interfere with my fantasy. The group couldn't suddenly run into a snowstorm, or a monster couldn't attack from nowhere, because all that has to be set up and prepared for first. Those kind of things. It was like we had to start playing by physical rules, and that was a bummer.

Although I am totally with you on chatroom rp, tigging, and journal rp. Those things drive me buggy. Give me a MUSH game any day over those.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

tigging

Tigging?

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

Roleplay via email.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Roleplay via email.

Ah. Okay. Then "tigging" ≠ roleplay.

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

I agree. It's more like... well, something. But I don't consider it real roleplay, despite its popularity in some circles. I tried it once and that was quite enough.