Today, today...

[firstlight]

1. So. I seem to have become General Help Person at the workshops; I fix things! I answer questions about jobhunting (even though I'm not good enough at it to have a job myself yet)! I teach basic computer use! I type up documents! I... get mistaken for a secretary by visitors!


2. The people who viewed Pez's flat today wanted to know if the Tezmobile was included.


3. Writing is just... *stares unhappily at fic* I have a new one on the go which might end up being one of the many things I'm writing for challenges/exchanges this autumn, so I'll not say too much about it, other than that it's weirding me out a bit and that it promises to be no less of an uphill struggle than anything else I've written this year. Brace for impact? Something like that.


4. Two people today were talking about how they'd be really uncomfortable if they found out someone was gay and probably would avoid them, as though this was a totally acceptable thing. I'm glad the supervisor was disgusted with them, anyway. But it was just one of those Moments. All the environments I've lived, worked and studied in have been really tolerant; I don't think I've heard things like that before from people in person, really, though of course I know those sorts of views aren't nearly as rare as they bloody should be.


5. Recent conversations & events prompt this, in a loose sort of way: I don't require all of my friends to be friends with each other. I don't require anyone to pick sides if I don't like someone. No lines have been drawn. I don't mind, so long as peace is maintained here.

That is all.

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[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

2. *giggles*

4. I avoid people who tell me they're homophobic. :x

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Nice when you have the option...

[firescribble.livejournal.com]

4. I get that a lot and it never stops surprising me how homophobic people are. It's hard to come up with something to say to that. Often it happens at work where I can't start a discussion. It makes me want to start wearing rainbow coloured jewelery or something, just to get them off my back.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Why do people suck? (Supervisor keeps winning my respect on stuff like that, though. And in general, actually, this one. BUT STILL. PEOPLE. ARGH.)

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

1. Ha, maybe Job Centre will hire you.
2. People who view my apartment look at the landlord and say "I thought no pets were allowed?"
4. You know, I work with a bunch of Brits and have noticed that homophobia seems more common with them. Is there any truth to this or do I need a bigger sample size?

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

1. I actually think they might ask if I wasn't moving soon. X_o must be a soul-destroying place to work, though.

2. XDDDD

4. I'm shocked by that actually! Like I say, I've barely experienced homophobia here.

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

2. The story is: they told me cats were ok when I moved in, I had no problems until January when I had to deal with a massive roach problem and they decided it was somehow the cat's fault and tried to tell me I was in violation of my lease. I had to write a letter citing county and state law. It was fun.

There's a reason I'm moving in less than a week.

4. Its mostly with the older guys, and its not too overt but sometimes they say something that makes me pause.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's shit. -_-

Heh, I would've thought it'd be more of a thing with older guys regardless of nationality, really.

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

4. People are like that all around me, but I basically tell them to go pound sand. I don't have time for people to care about who I sleep with behind closed doors.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. -_-

[crystalusagi.livejournal.com]

1. That is because you're so handy, you handy person. XD ♥

2. Heee. I would want her too. So cute.

3. *braces for impact?*

4. People are retarded sometimes. T___T This includes my parents. Alajdifj.

5. Yeah, it's impossible for everyone to get along with everyone anyway.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

1. I fake it well.

2. She only looks cute!

3. 8)

4. ;;

5. Exactly. ^^;;; And I don't really wanna force my views on other people. My friends are welcome to come to their own conclusions about this stuff.

[kedi-kedi.livejournal.com]

2. The people who viewed Pez's flat today wanted to know if the Tezmobile was included.

XDDDDDD that's Tezmobile for you, always whoring herself at the best of times.

And in regards to 3. Gambatte ♥

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yeah. It was a couple, and the guy looked 'round the flat while Tezmobile distracted the girl.... XD;;;

Thanks. ♥

[crypticmadness.livejournal.com]

1. That happens to me at school. -__- The teachers seem to think: Oh! Good student, quiet in class, she must be the person to send all the bad students to for help!

2. I want! :D Oh, and the flat too, I guess. :P

4. Luckily for me, my friends are usually either pro-gay marriage or neutral. (^_^)b I think I influence a lot of them, though. (^ ^;)

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

1. XDDD Apparently it doesn't end once you leave school.

2. *laughs* Tezmobile whores herself out to visitors, seriously.

4. That's good. My actual friends are very tolerant, and for one reason or another a huge number of them are gay or bi. I think it's mostly a product of the kind of place I went to uni and the course I studied. XDDDD (Archaeology, but for some reason that seems to attract a lot of people who're quite comfortable and open about who they are, and who're generally pretty open-minded. Especially at the sites I picked.)

[fandaban.livejournal.com]

4. *facepalm* Oh, people. I've overheard a similar conversation once. Two girls were talking about how if they found out one of their friends were gay, they wouldn't want to be friends with them anymore. Throwing away a friendship, even one that has been developed over many many years... because of someone's sexual preference? That makes absolutely no sense to me.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

It seems amazingly shallow and short-sighted. Ehhh. Well. People...

[love]

2. Tezmobile. ♥

5. Probably have an inkling, and hey, fine by me, I know I don't get along with a certain BNF that some of my other friends love. *chuckle*

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

2. Yeah. This flat. Even the cat has a screenname.

5. *edit*. But yeah, I mean, it doesn't really matter to me. If someone is interesting to talk to they're interesting to talk to.

...didn't know we had BNFs though! XD I guess there are people who're well known for writing one school or whatever.

[love]

2. You guys take screennames to a very interesting level. ^_^

5. *edited* ^_^ I want more fame. This is so bad of me, but I do. No one throws my name up in conversations, apparently. Must change that. I once answered a quiz with "I'd rather be infamous than obscure."

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

2. Hey, at least we're not the owners of sanadamannequin...

5. *laughs* I think a lot of people probably feel like that. Just not many say it! I think I'm happier sliding quietly through a lot of the time. I'd like my writing to be known more than myself, at least at this stage. Though obviously I'm getting a bit more open - this used to be a totally locked journal.

[love]

2. Oh god that's a whole 'nother level. That's _exalted_.

5. (ETA: Ah, I would too. No one talks about my writing very much, unfortunately. I never get brought up as an example to others. T_T) ^_^ I'm moving in the opposite direction--beginning to lock more and more things! I used to be 100% public.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

2. Seriously. I mean. How many mannequins does that woman own now? XDDDDD THEY'RE TAKING OVER.

5. I have no idea if people talk about my writing. Or what they say if they do. Sometimes I wonder.... XDDD The only case I encountered recently was where someone thought it was lame that I only wrote Rikkai & mostly D1 within that because they wanted longish fic of the sort I tend towards for other schools. Bzuh.

Of course there's stuff I specifically lock - anything too detailed about my health, and anything detailed about work. If I had work. *wry* But general fangirly stuff used to be SO firmly locked, since a few RL friends of mine from uni read this. Then I decided I don't really care...

[love]

2. More mannequins than humans, at least. *laugh*

5. Be assured, readerofasaph drags your name up at almost every possible occasion. ^_^ There are other people who talk about your fics too, and I see you recced all over the place.

^_^ Whereas I'm beginning to realize just how much information about me actually points to me and not just some random person on the Internet. It actually has to do with being more visible IRL (I've met a large portion of my fandom contacts).

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oh, I suppose she's talked to people about my fic in chat while I've been there before, actually. ^^''' It's a sort of weird feeling. But then I am SO CURIOUS. I love to know what people are saying, even if it makes me nervous as fuck. I mean I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think I'm crap as well. XD

Haha, oh dear. Yeah, I think most of that for me is moderately locked. Though I've met a lot of people IRL too. Everyone within striking distance of London and quite a lot of people from when I've travelled in the US & Japan.

[love]

*pats* So far I haven't seen a single person call you crap.

Being in New York, London, or Tokyo means being socially accessible. ^_^ At least, that's my conclusion. I never had to worry about things like this when I lived in Malaysia. (Then again, I had to worry about OTHER things, sexual orientation being one of them...)

ETA: On second thoughts, I still have to worry about sexual orientation here, but not so much. And it's far outweighed by the benefits of a reasonable salary with reasonable hours, as well as friends to hang out with!

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

*amused* Nonetheless, I'm sure they're out there.

Yeah, that's true. Those places... when you live in them they end up feeling like the centre of the universe, too, I think. XD

...I think that's something you have to worry about to some extent everywhere. Obviously some places are FAR worse than others. But we're not at a place where it's a total non-issue in any country.

[love]

*chuckles* Probably. But very rare, I should think.

XDDDD YES.

Sadly, you're right. I wish you weren't, but you are.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

^^;;

So many people I've talked to lately have been kind of, "you're moving... outside London?" They leave the bit about how there's nothing but wilderness and cannibals out there strictly implied, but you can hear it. XD

[love]

*giggling* London's a very expensive place to be, though. How far are you going? I still live within Tokyo, but mostly because my workplaces are in the middle of Minato-ku and Chiyoda-ku (walking distance from the Imperial Palace), so I can't move too far away because I refuse to take more than half an hour on the train. I often envy my friends their cheap rent and large apartments, but at the same time, I love actually being IN Tokyo (never mind that I don't take advantage of it).

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. We're out in the suburban sprawl already anyway though, and tbh it has all the expense and not many of the benefits... and through university housing here was so expensive that I lived south of the river, and had to take an hour+ bus journey every day for lectures! We're moving to a large town on the far side of Essex, which is much closer to my mother (much further from my father but that's his own damn fault), and it'll still only take us an hour by mainline train to get to The City.

In my first year at uni I lived in a house on Gower Street, which is right near SoHo and Bloomsbury and all sorts of interesting places. That was pretty awesome, at least in terms of location!

[love]

Living in the suburbs sucks, IMHO. Expensive and yet not quite city, and really it's like being stuck in purgatory forever and ever. (No offense. ^_^;;;)

Ooooh. That sounds AWESOME. I like my place, and it would be considered so central as to be almost perfect... if it wasn't 15-20 minutes from the train station. *grumbles* (New place is 7 minutes, whee!)

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And London has really damn rough suburbs. Both the place we're in now and the place I lived in for the couple of years before this are fairly horrible, in the shootings and stabbings and theft, oh my, sort of way.

It was really cool, except for the bit where the church of scientology was in between me and my local supermarket. XDDDDDD *had to evade them every day*

[love]

Mmm, that's something Tokyoites can be thankful for--violence is almost zero.

*laughs* They're really annoying that way.