That's terrific.
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Feb 07, 2008 10:26:53 am PST #9739 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Laga - Feb 07, 2008 10:31:20 am PST #9740 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wish I could read the whole book right now, MM.
Susan W. - Feb 07, 2008 10:45:24 am PST #9741 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
MM, is it OK if I forward that to some of my coworkers? I think they'd find it relevant--we're not CS, but we/they are professional compassion-givers who are chronically overstretched and often burned out.
Miracleman - Feb 07, 2008 11:10:48 am PST #9742 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Yeah, sure, Susan. Rock on.
Susan W. - Feb 07, 2008 11:32:07 am PST #9743 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks!
erikaj - Feb 07, 2008 12:20:55 pm PST #9744 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
If you want a beta, I'll do it, MM.
Beverly - Feb 07, 2008 3:06:36 pm PST #9745 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That's fantasic, MM. And I agree with -t, that piece would make a good anchor for the rest of your stories.
Miracleman - Feb 08, 2008 9:37:22 am PST #9746 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Thank you guys.
Erika, I'll probably take you up on it, if ever I get around to rearranging what I've already written and whatnot.
erikaj - Feb 08, 2008 10:02:05 am PST #9747 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
cool. Let me know.
Strix - Feb 08, 2008 5:08:52 pm PST #9748 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Because there's only so long any one person can maintain empathy in the face of a tidal wave of fuck you. After a while, you have to shut it out. You can't stand against the tide, you give up and find yourself floating in the hateful undertow, another bottomfeeder living on scraps and loathing.
And I'll hate myself again. And try to float up to the light and the air and be a person again.
God grant me that grace someday.
Please?
MM, this is good. What's more, it's relevant to more than anyone who is/has been in customer service. The part I highlighted I marked because I can see myself as a teacher, maybe, if I lose myself, but I can also see other people I know -- therapists, social workers, casemanagers -- recognizing themselves and their own struggles.
People -- most people -- want to be good, And ergo, they want to read about heroes and yeah, Joe Miracleman's fighting-thetshittytbut-still-a-fight fight in the stinky bowels of some megacorporamonster. Cause that monster is always, essentially, US. Homo Sap.