#unemployment problems

Just ordered some clothes I’ve been looking at covetously for months as a “Congratulations, you got your master’s!”/early birthday gift to myself, and am now hyperventilating looking at the $150 bill. 

Somebody please hire me and start paying me money soon?

clavisa:

imaginarycircus:

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OMG. I sound 300x crankier than I actually felt. I’m just having coffee and things (insomnia means me sleep hours are usually FUBAR.)

That hat is just not for me.

You know. I actually like Edward more now. He’s a bit a weirdo (like I’m not) and goofy. The kind of nerd who will correct you on minutiae. He’s very nearly obnoxious. Do you know who else was an obnoxious awkwardly spoken goofball when we met him?

Maybe he won’t change in this short arc. IDK.

Thoughts about plotting WTS:

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I completely agree that the videos are going slowly compared to the RP, I think partly because they only happen twice a week, whereas there’s RP going on basically all the time. Maybe if there was a Domino video every day or something from a different character (although I recognize that this would be ridiculous to fund/plan/plot). 

The other thing is that, unlike LBD, the audience can’t really know the storyline in advance because in this case there isn’t one. So it’s hard to RP in anticipation of a storyline you know has to happen in some form (eg the Wickham arc in LBD). 

The other thing is that Sanditon RP got started really before *any* Domino vids had happened, which I don’t think anyone was anticipating, whereas LBD RP didn’t really get going until the series was very well-established (I’m thinking fan-made accounts like Lizzie!MrsBennet, Charlotte!MrBennet, Jane!Darcy, Mr Bearcy, Mr Bennet’s tumblr, etc). So in this case the tone had already been set by the LBD videos and the RPers were able to match that tone and work with it. But in this case, the first set of Domino videos had been shot but not aired at the point when people were starting to RP. Which means that if they look like they are entirely separate of each other, it’s because they are. And from that perspective, it’s a surprising miracle when stuff actually fits. 

I actually think it works out a lot better this way (and I do think the creators were expecting us to start RPing as soon as they hinted that RP was a thing, although maybe not with the intensity and volume that we did…).  This way we get a sense that Gigi is coming in as a stranger to a town where all kinds of things are already happening, and she’s slowly trying to feel her way around while life bustles on around her.So Gigi knows that Operation Juice Bar isn’t a success yet, but maybe she doesn’t know it has anything to do with the Save Sanditon organization and the Save Sanditon Scoops petition that was circulated.  And that’s… kind of like real life?  I mean, despite the fact that Twitter is running at a ridiculously fast pace right now, and we’ve created this whole backstory about the founders of Sanditon and their zany adventures, the kinds of videos people are actually posting on the Domino portal thingy are essentially vlogs, like Gigi’s. “This is what’s going on in my Sanditon right now, just to let you know,” sort of thing. 

I don’t know what I’m saying. Blah. Going back to building fake family trees.

clavisa:

genderific:

clavisa:

rosieramblings:

imaginarycircus:

I don’t understand the sequined beret, especially with that shirt. I spent the entire video glaring at the hat.

What is that thing she made at craft night? It looked like a knitted square? Is it a pot holder? Who would knit a pot holder? (I knit. I have never knitted a pot holder.) (TBF I was not wearing my glasses so maybe I just couldn’t see what it was.)

Denham. He’s um… yeah. Wow. IDK. He kind of made me laugh. He really doesn’t give any fucks. Which makes all his sarcastic tweets even funnier.

Your comments on the beret/hat got me thinking about this old saying from my mom’s side of the family who comes from the backwoods and hills of VA and West VA.  We use it to signify when someone is wearing an ugly hat.

“You need two of those hats—one to wear on your head and one to shit in.”

When said in the appropriate backwoods accent/dialect, it’s even better.

I’ve used knit dishcloths before, and they’re pretty effective because the yarn gives them some mild abrasion which is good for scrubbing. So that’s what I figured it was. 

Agreed about the hat though…also I thought it was see-through for most of the video but I couldn’t figure out how Gigi was being backlit. 

Clearly you folks do not follow @SanditonStyle on Pinterest.

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…genderific, that isn’t you running those pinterests, is it? :)

Nope, one Sanditon pinterest is enough for me :)

clavisa:

rosieramblings:

imaginarycircus:

I don’t understand the sequined beret, especially with that shirt. I spent the entire video glaring at the hat.

What is that thing she made at craft night? It looked like a knitted square? Is it a pot holder? Who would knit a pot holder? (I knit. I have never knitted a pot holder.) (TBF I was not wearing my glasses so maybe I just couldn’t see what it was.)

Denham. He’s um… yeah. Wow. IDK. He kind of made me laugh. He really doesn’t give any fucks. Which makes all his sarcastic tweets even funnier.

Your comments on the beret/hat got me thinking about this old saying from my mom’s side of the family who comes from the backwoods and hills of VA and West VA.  We use it to signify when someone is wearing an ugly hat.

“You need two of those hats—one to wear on your head and one to shit in.”

When said in the appropriate backwoods accent/dialect, it’s even better.

I’ve used knit dishcloths before, and they’re pretty effective because the yarn gives them some mild abrasion which is good for scrubbing. So that’s what I figured it was. 

Agreed about the hat though…also I thought it was see-through for most of the video but I couldn’t figure out how Gigi was being backlit. 

Clearly you folks do not follow @SanditonStyle on Pinterest.

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Sorry for the hockey spam, everyone

but… playoffs.

Good screaming or bad screaming?

GOOD SCREAMING. We’re down 2-0 in the series. less than 30 seconds left in the game, we’re down a goal and shorthanded and ALFIE SCORES LIKE THE HOCKEY GOD HE IS. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA