Wonderings, pt2
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sorcyressAbout three and a half years ago, I got both thoughtstreamy and desperately inquisitive, and made the abovelinked livejournal post.
Today I was in a similar mood, and came up with similar results. Ayep.
As I said before, Discuss. Leave comments, thoughts, and further questions. Thank you!
Is "tigga, please" racist? Is it wrong that I laughed even though I think it might very well be?
How many relationships does someone have to go through before they're expected to have a pretty good idea of what rules they have? Should you just count ended relationships? How badly does poly confuse the issue?
Just how bad is my liking of Lady Gaga anyways? What does it mean that in the Lady Gaga/Amanda Palmer omgdramas, I'm siding with the corporate drone mass-market pop machine who's so filthy rich she has sex in a bed made of money over the independant, feminist, true-to-art ARTIST!? Does Lady Gaga have a bed made out of money? Do you think she has sex in it? Would YOU have sex in a bed made out of money?
Also, still, why would people want to have sex in the thinking chair? Is fame really that addicting? Is the chair that comfortable? Where will you do your thinking then?
How long can NewToy energy last before someone pops? Is NRE more or less intense if you haven't gotten into the other person's pants? What if you simply haven't gotten into their pants *yet*?
Why do I automatically label some people as "competition" and get irrationally jealous over them, while others in the same or similar positions I ignore entirely? Why do I ask questions I already know the answer to? Why can't people just be more up front about what other people mean to them?
Why don't people say "I love you" every day to the people they care about? Is it weird that my arguments against Valentines Day echo a sentiment from the eleventh episode of Middleman? Are there still people on my flist who need to see that? When's a good time for you? What exactly would be "DubDubcon"?
Why are fire engines red? When do I get to see my mom next? When do I get to see my dad next? Should I just make a post pointing out that, yes, Dad and eventually the rest of the family are moving to Chicago, so I can stop having that conversation with people? Should I do the same with Marc and Florida? Is it even my place to post that Marc's moving to Florida? Is it dramapotential to be asking questions like that in a public entry?
DID @HORRIBLETURN ON TWITTER JUST MAKE A NEXT TO NORMAL REFERENCE?!?!?!?! Is there *anyone* in the world besides mom who will get how awesome that is?
Is the sex still amazing? Do you manage to not stay up that late? Is this Henry? Can he join us for dinner? Does Henry have homework? Surgery? Rabies?
Why is the most boring song in Next to Normal sandwiched between one of the funniest and the one that I use to introduce people to the show? Why must Plot be boring?
Are you okay with boys dancing with other boys? Are you okay with girls dancing with other girls? Does it matter which there is more of? Is it rude for two leads to dance together? Is it the obligation of the experienced dancers to dance with the beginners?
What the hell is that noise? How often do you wash out your trash cans?
How do I build a space of my own within a two person dormitory? Is it possible to build one that I can have light inside, while the outside lights are off? What about sound?
Is it wrong that I don't like to listen to quiet music in the background as much as LOUD AWESOME MUSIC I CAN SING TO!? Does cranking the speakers occasionally make me a dick?
Why are so many of the lyrics in this round of "guess the song lyrics that I absolutely fucking adore" really depressing? Have I just been drawn to more emo music? Or have melancholic lines been jumping out at me more than comedic?
Was Mozart crazy? Flat fucking crazy? Should I stop tossing Next to Normal quotes into here? Is Lady Gaga crazy? Man, why am I so hooked on the Gaga anyways? Am I technically misspelling her name every time I don't write it "GaGa"? Is it wrong to find lyrics that make me go "yes, exactly this" in an inconsequential pop song of hers? On a scale of one to oh dear, how bad is it that I am trying to learn the dance from Bad Romance?
Is it true that a Dragon*Con group cosplayed as all the outfits from Bad Romance? Can someone show me pictures? When I go to Dragon*Con, should I bring some of my cosplays? How did I get so many cosplays without being anything even resembling a cosplayer, anyways? Now that I finished my Daria cosplay, what should I work on next? Does anyone know where I can get a polka-dotted sleeveless dress and a spiked belt? What about the gown and hood of a Doctor of Literature?
Did anyone actually catch that reference? Is it bad that I want Magus to cosplay as Blue Avenger? Is it actually possible to make an Omaha Nebraska Brown cosplay, or does her normality negate the potential for an actual costume? Did anyone catch *that* reference?
Should we turn on a light? You know, with the stairs? Where can I get a spiral staircase for my eventual home? How hard is it to fill a room with ticking clocks? Would the sound drive everyone else insane? Would that effectively make it the best mineplace ever?
And is it bad that this question, once again, makes twice forty-two?
~Sor
MOOP!
Today I was in a similar mood, and came up with similar results. Ayep.
As I said before, Discuss. Leave comments, thoughts, and further questions. Thank you!
Is "tigga, please" racist? Is it wrong that I laughed even though I think it might very well be?
How many relationships does someone have to go through before they're expected to have a pretty good idea of what rules they have? Should you just count ended relationships? How badly does poly confuse the issue?
Just how bad is my liking of Lady Gaga anyways? What does it mean that in the Lady Gaga/Amanda Palmer omgdramas, I'm siding with the corporate drone mass-market pop machine who's so filthy rich she has sex in a bed made of money over the independant, feminist, true-to-art ARTIST!? Does Lady Gaga have a bed made out of money? Do you think she has sex in it? Would YOU have sex in a bed made out of money?
Also, still, why would people want to have sex in the thinking chair? Is fame really that addicting? Is the chair that comfortable? Where will you do your thinking then?
How long can NewToy energy last before someone pops? Is NRE more or less intense if you haven't gotten into the other person's pants? What if you simply haven't gotten into their pants *yet*?
Why do I automatically label some people as "competition" and get irrationally jealous over them, while others in the same or similar positions I ignore entirely? Why do I ask questions I already know the answer to? Why can't people just be more up front about what other people mean to them?
Why don't people say "I love you" every day to the people they care about? Is it weird that my arguments against Valentines Day echo a sentiment from the eleventh episode of Middleman? Are there still people on my flist who need to see that? When's a good time for you? What exactly would be "DubDubcon"?
Why are fire engines red? When do I get to see my mom next? When do I get to see my dad next? Should I just make a post pointing out that, yes, Dad and eventually the rest of the family are moving to Chicago, so I can stop having that conversation with people? Should I do the same with Marc and Florida? Is it even my place to post that Marc's moving to Florida? Is it dramapotential to be asking questions like that in a public entry?
DID @HORRIBLETURN ON TWITTER JUST MAKE A NEXT TO NORMAL REFERENCE?!?!?!?! Is there *anyone* in the world besides mom who will get how awesome that is?
Is the sex still amazing? Do you manage to not stay up that late? Is this Henry? Can he join us for dinner? Does Henry have homework? Surgery? Rabies?
Why is the most boring song in Next to Normal sandwiched between one of the funniest and the one that I use to introduce people to the show? Why must Plot be boring?
Are you okay with boys dancing with other boys? Are you okay with girls dancing with other girls? Does it matter which there is more of? Is it rude for two leads to dance together? Is it the obligation of the experienced dancers to dance with the beginners?
What the hell is that noise? How often do you wash out your trash cans?
How do I build a space of my own within a two person dormitory? Is it possible to build one that I can have light inside, while the outside lights are off? What about sound?
Is it wrong that I don't like to listen to quiet music in the background as much as LOUD AWESOME MUSIC I CAN SING TO!? Does cranking the speakers occasionally make me a dick?
Why are so many of the lyrics in this round of "guess the song lyrics that I absolutely fucking adore" really depressing? Have I just been drawn to more emo music? Or have melancholic lines been jumping out at me more than comedic?
Was Mozart crazy? Flat fucking crazy? Should I stop tossing Next to Normal quotes into here? Is Lady Gaga crazy? Man, why am I so hooked on the Gaga anyways? Am I technically misspelling her name every time I don't write it "GaGa"? Is it wrong to find lyrics that make me go "yes, exactly this" in an inconsequential pop song of hers? On a scale of one to oh dear, how bad is it that I am trying to learn the dance from Bad Romance?
Is it true that a Dragon*Con group cosplayed as all the outfits from Bad Romance? Can someone show me pictures? When I go to Dragon*Con, should I bring some of my cosplays? How did I get so many cosplays without being anything even resembling a cosplayer, anyways? Now that I finished my Daria cosplay, what should I work on next? Does anyone know where I can get a polka-dotted sleeveless dress and a spiked belt? What about the gown and hood of a Doctor of Literature?
Did anyone actually catch that reference? Is it bad that I want Magus to cosplay as Blue Avenger? Is it actually possible to make an Omaha Nebraska Brown cosplay, or does her normality negate the potential for an actual costume? Did anyone catch *that* reference?
Should we turn on a light? You know, with the stairs? Where can I get a spiral staircase for my eventual home? How hard is it to fill a room with ticking clocks? Would the sound drive everyone else insane? Would that effectively make it the best mineplace ever?
And is it bad that this question, once again, makes twice forty-two?
~Sor
MOOP!
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a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 02:28 am (UTC)Q 8.4: Please add me to the list of people who did not know your family would be moving to Chicago. Will they have enough bookshelves there so that all the books can be shelved properly, instead of being in dual rows like they are now (or were as of last year, anyway)? Does "The Empty City" go wherever they go, or is that term only applicable to MD?
11.1: This seems to be a common phenomenon. On a somewhat related line of thought, I often wondered why so many musical artists seemed to be utterly unable to distinguish their good/decent songs from their totally crappy ones.
15.1: I suddenly have the urge to make a list of Song I Like To Turn Up Really Loud That You Wouldn't Think Of As Songs To Play Loud, starting with "Requiem" from 2001 (the spooky one heard when the Monolith first appears), "Prophecy" by Philip Glass, and possibly something from the Alan Parsons Project (early albums).
And it's past bedtime, but I think I was done anyway. (Hey, I feel special -- I got here before there were already fiftyleven other comments! Go me.)
Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 02:51 am (UTC)8.4: Well, Mom's been getting lots and lots of books onto her Kindle. I think the plan is to get rid of as many of the books as is reasonable, and move the books and shelves to Chicago with. I don't know if we'll have enough bookshelves for singlestacking. I kinda like the doublestacking, it saves space.
11.1: Next to Normal is a broadway musical, so not your traditional musical artist. And the song isn't terrible --it's just very much OH HEY THIS IS A CRITICAL PLOT MOMENT, WE NEED A SONG!
Because they are so very awesome in every other way, I forgive them.
15.1: I would love to hear this playlist.
...did you just say "first"?
~Sor
Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 09:38 am (UTC)*totally Goes W*
(i'd also like to point out that W has started using the word "love" in my direction but i think it was clearly defined in the way that we mean it in our heads oslt... And there's still a part of my brain that doesn't quite believe it when she does because i know that W doesn't "do" love like other people (and almost certainly not as intensely as i do, though i think the same level of devotion is there) so it makes it tricksy for me to sidestep the negvox when they whisper insiduously, "W doesn't really love you... she doesn't DO love, remember??")
Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 10:09 am (UTC)You know, speaking purely hypothetically.
Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 10:11 am (UTC)Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-04-08 11:43 pm (UTC)~Sor
Re: a few scattered answers of varying relevance
on 2010-03-31 02:53 am (UTC)I think it's because they're too close to it. The ones that everyone else regards as crappy probably still have something in it (that everyone else might not even notice) that the artist likes. There's also that it seems to be pretty much just random chance what people will like or not like in music.
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on 2010-03-31 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-31 02:40 am (UTC)yes
longer answer:
some time i want to actually take the time and answer every one of these questions.
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on 2010-03-31 02:43 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2010-03-31 02:46 am (UTC)Lady Gaga is a singer/songwriter who exudes confidence and sexual awareness and acceptance. She is well tied-in with the music industry, but has pulled her weight working in gay clubs, much the same way that Bette Midler did. Her voice is good, and from what I've heard un-autotuned.
On the other hand, Amanda Palmer is a singer/songwriter who exudes confidence and sexual awareness and acceptance. She is not as well tied-in with the music industry. Her voice is good, and from what I've heard un-autotuned. She is also older and more experienced than Lady Gaga, and gets to have sex with Neil Gaiman. How cool is that?
What's wrong with liking both?
I would not have sex in a bed of money, even if I had one. I don't think it would be that comfortable.
Sex in the thinking chair is probably a fetish for some people. You can't explain fetishes.
Nominally, fire engines are red for visibility. Some fire engines are yellow because research has shown that yellow is more visible than red.
I'm OK with boys dancing with boys, girls with girls. What is the female equivalent of a boi? When there are clear roles of lady/gent, lead/follower, etc it is probably a bit rude for someone not comfortable with one of the roles to be forced to take it when a partner of that role is doubling. While I don't think anyone should be obligated with dance with anyone they don't want to, I think it's a good idea to teach less experienced dancers by dancing with them. Of course, my main background is contra.
I line my trash cans, so I don't wash them that often.
How big of a space do you need? One option would be to bunk the beds, take the lower bed, and hang drapes around it so you're in your own little 3'x6' cave and you can put lights in there and everything. If you loft your bed, you can put a desk under it and still hang drapes. It's a small area, of course. If you are adventurous, you could probably move in room deviders and make yourself a cubicle. Sound is harder to block; headphones work.
I usually only crank the speakers when I know others aren't around. I definitely have a set of music I crank to work to that is not quiet background music.
relevant observation
on 2010-03-31 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-31 02:50 am (UTC)I think the length and quality of relationship matters much more than the number. A million one-night stands don't give you any idea of how an actual relationship should generally work, even though technically such a thing counts in a sense, and a first relationship that lasts a reasonable length of time is enough to teach you an awful lot. I don't see why only ended relationships should count; if a relationship is ongoing something must be going at least relatively okay in some fashion. Poly is its own extra set of rules, like an expansion pack for a game or something. It's an extra layer(s, depending on the number and configuration of partners) of complexity.
how bad is my liking of Lady Gaga
Ehh. She's just the latest in a long line of pop "performance artists" who don't have anything original to present to the world. (Of course the problem is the world, not just her; originality is not what pop culture wants very often. The current period seems to be an awful lot like the '50s, when popular music was basically repackaged by being performed by a different group (most frequently, white singers performing music originally written and popularized by black ones) but otherwise very little changed from popular song to popular song.) Her music is bland and boring, if catchy and danceable, and would only have been original maybe 15 or 20 years ago. I suppose one could see it as the introduction of fully electronic music to the world at large, finally.
Personally I can't stand the corporate ad-mongering. I recognize that advertising pays for a lot of things that I otherwise really like, but blatant product placement just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it doesn't age well at all. (As an example, Leverage (USA shows in general, really) has a similar problem with Hyundai, although they're not nearly as blatant about it.)
Would YOU have sex in a bed made out of money?
Never. Money is filthy, as in dirty and germy and gross. Fresh, unused bills...maybe, but why, other than just because you can?
Why can't people just be more up front about what other people mean to them?
Because that would mean first having to admit to themselves what said other people mean to them, which requires perhaps too much introspection for some people.
How do I build a space of my own within a two person dormitory?
Tape a sheet to the ceiling. My roommate freshman year did this with his bed and created a private area. (It was more to block the light from my lamp than for outright privacy, but still.) Light inside but not outside is easy, just use something solid or thick cloth. Sound is much more expensive and difficult to block off than light (think room within a room within a room for maximum sound blocking - you have to decouple the interior from the exterior). Or just buy your roommate a pair of earplugs.
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on 2010-04-02 08:15 am (UTC)I did this with a couple of quilts and some stick on hooks my freshman year of college; it made a decent baffle for both sound and light, though only big enough to go around my desk (which was the important part, since it was the light from my monitor and sound from my keyboard that my roommate was complaining about).
Let see how this worked, and I think I answered all I could
on 2010-03-31 03:37 am (UTC)I don’t think there is a number, per say because each relationship teaches something new. No all relationships count and poly almost always adds to the confusion.
I know I like Lady Gaga because I can sing and dance (read: grind) to them with much easy. I would not have sex in a bad made of money because I like my beds soft and I don’t think that money esp. if it has been wrapped and layered would not be soft. Plus that whole gross nastiness of money. So many germs
People are always looking for new and different places to have sex. So many things are addicting, so why not fame. Do your thinking after the sex or to come up with new ways/positions/places to have sex.
The NRE depends on the individuals, context, the relationship. It can last a few days, weeks maybe even months. It depends on how much you want/need to get into their pants. Then you have a goal.
Because some people are or were competition? Or that you feel as if you are better/more appealing than some but at the same level as others. Because you don’t like the answer. Because we hate revealing the intimate parts of ourselves.
Once again we don’t like feeling vulnerable. Nah you are not the only person feel that way. I don’t think I have gotten that far only through the first 6ish episodes. Over the summer. I think.
Go look at that poem about that. When you come back to Maryland? I don’t hold all answers. I thought you already made that post. As with Florida, well you should discuss it with him and then take that plan of action. And maybe just a little. We will see.
I dunno. Haven’t seen it. So no.
I feel like I can’t answer any of these questions.
Or these.
Sure why not. I do this all the time. Meh. Depends on the complication of the dance because some may see it as an attempt to not let the new/inexperienced/non lead dancers in or trying to be clique, so I think do it, but not all the dances everytime. But that is just me.
That was me, trying to sneak in, but you have now figured out this plan so I went home all dejected. I wash out my one at school at the end of the semester and before I move in so 3 times a year. But I also have a plastic bag holding the trash inside it.
Well If you have a bunk bed take the bottom, use a blanket, like a fort, have a lamp that shines into your space. As for sound no ideas.
I only listen to quiet music when I am writing a paper and I cannot afford to be distracted by singing along. I love having loud music to sing to. It makes you someone who likes loud music, not a dick.
Because that is the luck of the draw. Maybe? Possibly
We are all a little crazy. Maybe if no one is getting them, but if it makes you happy, go for it. Gaga, crazy? Probably. I dunno, don’t care. Go for learning the dance. Dancing is fun.
Don’t know about this, but good luck in your search
Nah. You can have lots of wants, but acting on all of them is probably not a good idea
Light? Only if you need it. The stair store? Depends on how many batteries you have and if you can handle duplicates. I would drive me insane unless they were all at the exact same rhythm.
Meh
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on 2010-03-31 03:58 am (UTC)What does it mean that in the Lady Gaga/Amanda Palmer omgdramas, I'm siding with the corporate drone mass-market pop machine who's so filthy rich she has sex in a bed made of money over the independant, feminist, true-to-art ARTIST!?
That you're not siding with the person who thinks it's "ironic" to fund the KKK and have disability fail and then complain that we just don't get her edge. Amanda Palmer is flat on my "Go Fuck Yourself" list for those shenanigans.
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on 2010-03-31 05:57 am (UTC)It takes a deliberate misreading of her words to get anywhere close to that sentiment. She was saying exactly the opposite, in fact: that neither product placement nor donating money to the KKK can be hip, edgy, or "ironic".
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on 2010-03-31 07:03 am (UTC)Nothing about a organization that inspires racial and ethnic terror and has a history of violence against said people is ironic.
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on 2010-03-31 03:32 pm (UTC)So, yes, Amanda Palmer was saying the opposite of what you claimed, and paraphrasing her the way you did is...also not ironic.
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on 2010-03-31 06:02 pm (UTC)(frozen) no subject
on 2010-03-31 11:24 pm (UTC)But "bite me" is wicked classy.
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on 2010-04-01 01:56 am (UTC)I'm dropping out before I get pissed off. Unlike white folk, I don't have the privilege of acting like racial shit ain't racial unless I say it is.
Bite me again.
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on 2010-04-01 02:42 am (UTC)(I'm still not going to bite you, though.)
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on 2010-03-31 08:04 am (UTC)Being a privileged white girl, if the people of an othered1 group are feeling hurt and angry about something that I never realized or thought about, I tend to accept that they are much better poised to see the discrimination than I am. Does this mean they're always right? No more than any group is always right. But when it comes to hurt feelings, I'm gonna trust the people speaking from experience.
One of my personally biggest problems with the recent Amanda Palmer things is that she pays enough attention to realize she is being criticized for her poor handling of sensitive topics, but takes no steps to apologize, or fix it, or really acknowledge that she has hurt people. In a way, this has made me more unimpressed than the initial controversies, simply because this is what affects me directly --I don't want people to assume that you can't be of a privileged set and also not an ally, because all their experiences with the privileged set are with them being hurtful, and unwilling to learn what they're doing wrong.
That being said, you are not welcome to continue this argument in my journal.
~Sor
1: Not sure if this is the correct terminology or not. Take it to mean any group not of the privileged class (the non-white, non-male, non-cis, non-hetero, non-well off, etc)
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on 2010-03-31 03:35 pm (UTC)That being said, you are not welcome to continue this argument in my journal.
Sorry — I didn't see that until after I'd replied to the comment above. I'm not sure it's permissible to post a long argumentative response and then say "No responding!" but OK.
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on 2010-03-31 04:15 am (UTC)Not very hard
Yes. *smashes all the clocks around just so you can't do this* Waaargh!
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on 2010-03-31 04:40 am (UTC)Yes, sorry. As for when, I dunno. I'll probably get around to it eventually though.
On fire engines.
on 2010-03-31 04:52 am (UTC)Magazines are read too.
Two and two are four.
Three times four is twelve.
Twelve inches make a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was also a ship that sailed the sea.
Little fishes swim in the sea.
Fishes have fins.
The Fins fought the Russians.
Russians are called Reds.
Fire engines are always rushin', and that's why they're painted red.
(You're on your own for the other answers.)
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on 2010-03-31 05:09 am (UTC)Yes, yes, no, depends on how frequently, yes (though not all the time).
Is it bad that I want Magus to cosplay as Blue Avenger? Is it actually possible to make an Omaha Nebraska Brown cosplay, or does her normality negate the potential for an actual costume? Did anyone catch *that* reference?
No, it's possible (probably), indeed!
What the hell is that noise? How often do you wash out your trash cans?
Squirrel, not that frequently (use trash bags).
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on 2010-03-31 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-31 09:26 am (UTC)Probly not enough for certain governmental agencies who claim to have the safety and health of minors in their best interests and want to remove them from their birth homes for kickback moneys </cynic>
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on 2010-03-31 02:51 pm (UTC)I suspect the best metric is "time in relationships" -- though at least some variety (in partners) is kinda mandatory for the rules to be generalizable.
>Why don't people say "I love you" every day to the people they care about?
No idea. I do, for fairly close values of "care about".
>Are you okay with boys dancing with other boys? Are you okay with girls >dancing with other girls? Does it matter which there is more of? Is it >rude for two leads to dance together? Is it the obligation of the >experienced dancers to dance with the beginners?
Yes. Yes. Nope. Not really. Yes, with metrics depending on the experienced/beginner ratio and the comfort level of the experienced dancer.
>And is it bad that this question, once again, makes twice forty-two?
Yes.
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on 2010-03-31 04:00 pm (UTC)Who is this "Blue Avenger"?
DubDubCon would be AWESOME; I don't know about DubDubcon.
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on 2010-03-31 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-04-01 12:45 am (UTC)I <3 Lady Gaga. Delia's favorite song is Pokerface (which she call Ma Ma Poker face) and she got really excited when I was watching a Johnny Weir interview and he said something about Lady Gaga.
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on 2010-04-01 10:08 am (UTC)P5. NRE can be greatly lengthened by time-slicing. See someone only once a week, and the NRE will last much longer start-to-finish than if you see them every day, though probably less time in terms of "experience of NRE while in company with subject of same". Intense is too simple a measure; relationships have multidimensional texture.
P7.1 With some people I say "I love you" very frequently, it's almost like breathing, with others I say it rarely, so it serves as a special reminder. Different people are comfortable with different frequencies.
P12. males with males often gets the females all giggly, and thus I approve of it, and intend to learn to follow some day. Females with females is also just fine. I prefer to dance with females, so I prefer a very slight excess of them at dances. Since many more females can lead than males can follow, this also allows for female-female dancing. Too much excess of females makes them unhappy and they get bored and leave, and I am not in favor of that. I think any experienced dancer should help inexperienced dancers get better by dancing with them, but I think the experienced folks need to have a good time, too, and if they aren't feeling community-minded 100% of the time, then as long as they aren't rude, it's ok to say no.
P13. That noise is either cooling fans, the number 89 bus, or florescent bulbs. I wash out my trash cans if they are too gross and smelly to deal with. This happens most often in the kitchen, and rarely in other places.
P14. It depends on how big a space you need. A refrigerator box could certainly be fitted with LED lighting, a laptop and bedding and lightproofed. Sound isolation requires more material.
P15. No. And it perhaps occasionally makes you a dick. And everyone should be one occasionally.
P19. I am catching relatively few references, but then it is bedtime and I am sleepy, and am unaware of these 1960s sitcoms of which you speak.
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on 2010-04-02 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-04-02 03:57 am (UTC)It occurs to me that you have red hair just as spectacular as Blue's (only longer and nicer). Maybe I should be trying to convince *you* to play Blue!
~Sor
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on 2010-04-05 11:08 pm (UTC)On Valentine's day I woke up, kissed Whimsy and TSOD, called Stephen, ran over to Jess's and then Lilly's houses, texted my far away friends, called my close by but busy friends, and then said I love you to the world!
It's a great holiday. Absolutely amazing.
~Alys
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on 2010-04-06 06:00 pm (UTC)How many relationships does someone have to go through before they're expected to have a pretty good idea of what rules they have? Should you just count ended relationships? How badly does poly confuse the issue?
There's no fixed number. As for "expected to", people have pretty much come to understand that nobody is "expected to" have a good idea of what rules they have. It's more like a person has a set of rules, another person has a different set of rules, and the relationship between the two has its own set of rules. The rules that are applied to the relationship generally approximate a union of these three sets.
Counterintuitively, poly does not confuse the issue, but, by providing comparisons and multiple points of view*, clarifies it.
* Better yet, when you wish to analyze one relationship, and can't do so with its participants, you can often go to your other sweeties and ask for their input. This, to me, is one of the wonderful things about poly.
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on 2010-04-08 05:12 pm (UTC)This has been an issue for me. I can maintain NRE indefinitely, which is what many people think they want, but when faced with the reality, some folks get scared off. Apparently sustained NRE can look like obsession.
Is NRE more or less intense if you haven't gotten into the other person's pants? What if you simply haven't gotten into their pants *yet*?
While anticipation can be delicious, it seems different to me from NRE (though they're both thrilling and fun). And they're wonderfully synergistic, so I'd say that NRE+anticipation is indeed more intense than NRE alone.
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on 2010-04-21 08:16 am (UTC)7.1: Because it would make them uncomfortable. 7.3: Yes, but it doesn't seem likely to happen.
8.1: Some of the ones where I grew up were yellow.
10.2: Hah, no.
13.2: Every few months. It would be less often if the bags fit better.
18.6: The Garment District would be my place to start, maybe Buffalo Exchange for the belt. 18.7: I've definitely seen bachelors' gowns at The Garment District, but doctors' gowns might be harder to come by.
19.1: Yes.
20.6: Mines don't tick, they're set off by weight or contact.