Thanks for that post Kat. I'm not sure I'm dissatisfied in exactly the same ways as you, but I am dissatisfied.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 9:21:14 pm PST #4783 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2003 9:41:06 pm PST #4784 of 10001
brillig
Lots of the conversations here have moved to the surface. We are all hiding in corners where we feel safe and unthreatened and, well, unchallenged.
Not true of Bitches, IMO. I don't hang in Natter because it does move too fast, but that's my problem, not Natter's. Substantive things do get brought up in the show threads, between episodes, and some of those conversations get fairly gritty. I've seen Bureaucracy get very challenging--sometime's it's the most invigorating thread on the board.
Hil R. - Feb 18, 2003 9:46:58 pm PST #4785 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Not true of Bitches, IMO.
Really? I've felt that that's more true of Bitches. So many people have said that Bitches is their "safe space" that I'm really reluctant to bring up anything too controversial there.
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2003 9:48:23 pm PST #4786 of 10001
brillig
I'm really reluctant to bring up anything too controversial there.
Really? I thought "safe space" meant they felt safe in bringing up matters. I've seen some fairly amazing admissions in there.
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 9:50:02 pm PST #4787 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought "safe space" meant they felt safe in bringing up matters.
Safe space also moved the politics out, so YSMV.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 18, 2003 9:50:17 pm PST #4788 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Wrod. I think it's open for nearly anything. Occasionally people have asked things like, no politics, and that's seemed to work; but still I feel it's pretty much default to anything.
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Hil R. - Feb 18, 2003 9:53:04 pm PST #4789 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Really? I thought "safe space" meant they felt safe in bringing up matters. I've seen some fairly amazing admissions in there.
Ah, I think we're talking about slightly different things here. Or maybe two sides of the same issue. What I mean is that people treat it as the place for those admissions, and the community feel in there is very anti-conflict. I don't feel comfortable in there bringing up something that I know some people will disagree with, and I don't feel comfortable disagreeing with something that someone else posted, because it seems like that would be disturbing the "safe" conflict-free atmosphere.
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2003 9:53:52 pm PST #4790 of 10001
brillig
Safe space also moved the politics out, so YSMV.
honestly baffled Is this the "no war talk, please?" thing?
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2003 9:55:53 pm PST #4791 of 10001
brillig
I don't feel comfortable in there bringing up something that I know some people will disagree with, and I don't feel comfortable disagreeing with something that someone else posted, because it seems like that would be disturbing the "safe" conflict-free atmosphere.
Or it could help clarify a matter that someone else can't articulate.
P.M. Marc - Feb 18, 2003 9:57:21 pm PST #4792 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That was me being cranky and wondering if I'd wandered into natter by mistake.
I mean, it was largely a me thing. Bitches is bigger and less intimate, and my illness is making me pouty.