...herp derp

[demotivate.livejournal.com]

This may seem sudden but in light of circumstances that have been building for a while, I feel that I must leave Sing. Lain, Carolina, Arthur (who hasn't intro'd yet) and Hanna are going home. Psi and Chi can stay with Maine if Chelsey prefers. NPC Lev will be taken over by another mod at the team's discretion.

Er.

I promised myself I'd never do one of those backpedaling drop posts, but you can definitely thank Vic for smacking me a good one and having me change my mind. I'll be staying around, though my role on the moderation team may change.

As some know, I am a full-time grad student in addition to holding several jobs. The combined stress was taking its toll on my ability to stay involved with the game, but I am working now with my fellow mods to arrange a better solution. I never wanted to leave anyone holding the bag and I definitely have some big plans for the game itself. If I can continue to be involved creatively I would be honored if you all would still have me.

So, my biggest apologies to the playerbase at large. I know this break in composure isn't, er, very flattering, but thank you everyone for being sympathetic and helping to ensure Sing stays on track. ;3;

Comments

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

Stay classy, Michael Bay. This is what Hollywood gets for validating the author of the Got Milk commercials and assuring him he's totes a real auteur.

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

VIC

YOU'RE STILL PLUNGING YOUR SWORD INTO HOLLOW BOY HERE, RIGHT

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

that icon. so appropriate.

I hope so but I somehow doubt it. she is WAY too perky about the whole process :(


They also prooobably don't offer MFAs in Nonfiction, unless you are for some reason going to the LA branch of Emerson College anyway.

which would be hilarious

My school is actually surprisingly good, especially because there's a pretty heavy focus on Actually Getting Published. I get junk in my inbox every week from my department about HEY HEY SO AND SO NEEDS SUBMISSIONS *shove*

It's just. You have to pay an arm and a leg and several internal organs to go here, and they do not help you out at all.

[im-sorry-dave.livejournal.com]

Eees okay. I understand RL trouble's and shit.

BUT SOOOON

/brandishes ring hand

But life has been too hard on you bro

too
fuckin
hard

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

I FEEL SO CONFLICTED because I wouldn't even be IN Transformers fandom if it wasn't for those movies, but

but they're so


argh


at least the first one was funny :\

[judgments.livejournal.com]

all night long

[demotivate.livejournal.com]

Sob, thank you. I'm sorry for running out like that so quickly. I should have given it way more thought in advance.

I told Lainie I'm going to make a So You're a Mod of Sing guide.

[descens.livejournal.com]

Get back in bed, Twosix.

[demotivate.livejournal.com]

Way harder than I would like, in fact. But HEY BIG GIRL PANTIES AND DEALING WITH IT TIME, right?

[bastione.livejournal.com]

NO U

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

I DIDN'T HAVE IT UPLOADED BEFORE AND THANKS TO THIS CONVO I WENT AND DID HAHA

God, I'm sorry. I'm lucky that my professors this semester have a degree of ambivalence to their subjects. Except for the staunch narrativist who is so optimistic I feel really bad mentioning ludology.



And oh lord, if you can imagine that swapped with cinema you have a good idea what USC is like. "YEAH WE HAVE A CAREER AND INDUSTRY RELATIONS OFFICE. AND HERE ARE THE CONSTANT EMAILS LOOKING FOR INTERNS AND SET PEOPLE. Oh wait you're critical studies what do you do again."

We have a Coffee Bean on our ground floor and buildings named after Lucas and Spielberg. That's the kind of film school it is. I want to go back to the squat little place where I did my undergrad. It didn't look like much and it was harder to get caffeine on an overnight editing session but god damn at least no one was peddling a Hollywood dream on me for private school prices.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

Mine are all hardcore passionate. My damn workshop professor actually wonders why we don't all write for four hours a day, every day, and is constantly asking is if we have a regular writing session time yet

and I almost want to scream WELL I DO IT'S JUST 90% ROLEPLAY NOW FUCK OFF 8| NOT ALL OF US CAN JUST CONTEMPLATE THE UNIVERSE ALL THE TIME

because then I'd be told that maybe I am not cut out for a writing career sob



I miss my undergrad too, but that's more a function of it 'being in Maryland, not Massachusetts' and 'a nice small school where I knew everybody'

[im-sorry-dave.livejournal.com]

I never put on big girl pantied for life because

i beat it into submission

Or deal with it

those usually work.

I am absolutely positive your life will take a turn for the good, or at least tolerable.

If it doesn't I will totally come over there and like, hit it with a rolling pin or something.

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

YEAH I just set it out there on my first day of grad school that a) I basically live online, all you see IRL is just my hologram, and b) I find everything I do pretty much worthwhile, including this. Once I mentioned I ran a game (didn't give the name, ffff) that was inspired by Ray Kurzweil, I think everyone got a sense of what my area of expertise was and where not to fuck with me.

:C BUT THEN I HAVE PEOPLE IN MY COHORT WHO ARE LIKE if it's not a fancy latte and a Salon podcast and The New Yorker it's not academics. I just console myself with the reality that they're a dying breed and what they study will soon be covered under the history department.

This semester has been enough to indicate I probably don't want to be a professional academic, but I won't tolerate a single damn person telling me I'm not qualified as a theorist. I'm the only one in my cohort working as a critic professionally, tyvm.



I went to a public university for undergrad, so it wasn't as though I was at a small school, but the film program was so tiny and intimate and above all, emphasized practice, not ten dollar words to describe everyday ideas. But the larger scale of the film program here and how marginal crit studies is certainly hasn't helped with alienation, hurrrgh. Every week I contemplate dropping out and just being a professional critic, but try getting a decently paying position in that when they can get an 18-year-old to do it for a free game a couple times a month.

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't be as turned on by that as I am.

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO I'm an oldschool fan, very much grew up with it, but I went into the first movie with an open mind. Actually I'm grateful to them because they revived a lot of interest in G1 and IMO that means us nerds who were playing around with these things at recess when we were six totally won. :>

I have an AU where Springer is headmaster partners with Indiana Jones and I keep wanting an excuse to bring them into a game somewhere.

[descens.livejournal.com]

/SMACKS

[bastione.livejournal.com]

/CLANG

:| That is abuse.

[descens.livejournal.com]

............It hurt my hand more than it hurt you.

[tallwhite.livejournal.com]

That is a brilliant idea. I've asked Vic and Mouse to help with apps, cause they asked before if they could.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

I need to read Kurzwiel god damn it. I am a Bad Transhumanist for not having done so yet. He's... next on my list, though my current thesis is about the American fandom experience... but at some point in my writing I really, really, REALLY want to do a long piece (or series) about transhumanism as a legit expression of human nature, especially since like... the ideals it represents goes back as far as the Chinese.

But i'm so terrified that neither of these things are going to be taken seriously. to do a proper nonfiction book on the fan convention as an american institution I would need money and - [/babbles]

(PS part of the reason I joined this game was that I was like TRANSHUMANIST PHILOSOPHY!? /SLAMS INTO)

And god, yes. I had wanted to be a teacher, but now I'm just like oh fuck it all. idk.

ahem

this is the same reason I ended up not going into lit / theater criticism orz. It's still something I may want to do but there's moar monies in nonfiction writing / publishing industry. And the latter thing is a dying breed too...

/babbles

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

YOU DID TOTALLY WIN. I went into it going MEH but my best friend had the sense to expose me to the G1 movie before I saw the Actual Movie and now

well

/stares at Starscream account

/STARES AT IT

I admit that I really like Animated and Beast Wars as well, though. 90% of my toy collection is Animated. They're just so nice looking, stylistically. And the show actually had Real Plot.

... [/slowly. apps. AU indiana jones]

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

You scared me.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry. :(

Are you alright?

[descens.livejournal.com]

I think I can survive. I do have your skeleton.