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At some LARP events, people sometimes want to play courtesans or serving wenches or something, and if they're playing a animal-like race they might strip down to their "naked" costume. A good event will keep that poo poo confined to one specific tent or something though, Maelstrom has the "Chamber of Delights", a beer tent and a kind of casino tent where you gamble in-game money, and people stay away from those if they like. I played a dryad/anthropomorphic tree sapling who had 0 interest in sex and didn't really understand it, so I had an in-character reason not to visit it too. At most events, animal races are usually mostly humanoid, e.g. the Wemics in Maelstrom are to cats what humans are to monkeys. That means no cat ears, tails or fursuits, just cat-like make-up and bonuses to certain crafty skills or using certain weapons, and no cat-like behaviour like playing with balls of wool or eating out of a saucer - it'd be like a human peeling bananas with their feet. Primarily I suspect that was written in so that there wouldn't be any creepiness in the middle of the field. Other systems are less well-run though; I went to Lorien Trust once and there were fursuits everywhere.
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You could probably do an animal-themed strip club pretty easily and have normal business if you went light on the furry stuff. The whole "sexy kitty" and "bunnygirl" outfits are pretty mainstream after all. Full on bodypaint would weird out a lot of people though, plus wouldn't that stuff rub off pretty easily?
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I'm just picturing the joy of a bouncer in a full-body fursuit trying to eject a dude. Aren't those things pretty heavy and not exactly friendly to the full range of motion?
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Mar 30, 2012 09:41
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teh winnar! posted:and where would you put the tails without resorting to straps or spirit gum? Think carefully about this. The product does exist.
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Konstantin posted:You could probably do an animal-themed strip club pretty easily and have normal business if you went light on the furry stuff. The whole "sexy kitty" and "bunnygirl" outfits are pretty mainstream after all. Full on bodypaint would weird out a lot of people though, plus wouldn't that stuff rub off pretty easily? There's that "pony play" thing too with all the leather stuff. I wonder how many bronies would go for that.
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Konstantin posted:They can always try what GameFAQs did with LUE. For those of you unfamiliar with that particular drama, LUE (Life, the Universe, and Everything) was a GameFAQs board. Their forums are almost all bad, but LUE was the worst. It was a 'general' forum, but you needed to have a certain amount of posts and your account had to be a certain age to post there. The idea was that this would promote better discussion, and it had a more 'relaxed' moderation system. This worked about as well as you'd expect. I know this post is a bit old but whatever. If you're talking about the off site board I'm thinking of I got banned from it about a year ago. After finally getting banned I got a job after being unemployed for 4-5 months, got into college, and got a girlfriend. I guess that happens when you don't spend all day on that site. I think I logged somewhere around 4000 hours give or take some.
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Stottie Kyek posted:There's that "pony play" thing too with all the leather stuff. I wonder how many bronies would go for that. Watching My Little Pony is a form of masochism in itself 
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Mar 30, 2012 13:00
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I've never seen it. A friend did and said it was sorta okay for a kids' show but nothing amazing. I'd personally rather watch Duckula or Bananaman. There's some fantastic and horrifying post somewhere that accounts the life of a sad loser, detailing the entire process right up to the point of his bronyhood. It's disturbingly believable.
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Corridor posted:I've never seen it. A friend did and said it was sorta okay for a kids' show but nothing amazing. Fake Edit 
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Starter Wiggin posted:I asked. Oh god, why did I ask. I guess only the bouncers are in full costume, the strippers are in ears and tails. I think the worst part about this is that it might just be a feasible idea if it were open in just the right area. But what a people-watching goldmine that would be 
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Corridor posted:There's some fantastic and horrifying post somewhere that accounts the life of a sad loser, detailing the entire process right up to the point of his bronyhood. It's disturbingly believable. Really interested in this, anyone got it?
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Danilh posted:Really interested in this, anyone got it? I should have clarified, it's not a real person. Someone just outlined how such a person might hypothetically become a brony. In a really detailed and distressingly plausible way.
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It showed up in PYF Fandom Lunacy thread, though the PYF Brony Insanity thread is lovely in its creepiness and contained a copy of the post. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3474221&pagenumber=1#post401874248
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Earlier I posted about Jack the Vampire Mage. Other strange Neo-Pagans I've known include The Scoobies, the Womens' Mysteries Group and Lyme Disease Lady. The Scoobies Jack was actually one of the Scoobies. They consisted of Jack, Jack's best friend Sam, Sam's girlfriend Sara and (sometimes) whoever Jack was dating. I've described Jack earlier as smelling of cloves, BO and weirdness. Despite all being great friends, Sam and Sara were relatively normal, albeit a bit geeky. if you met them, you'd expect them to read fantasy, play D'nD and so on, but you'd also expect them to have no trouble holding down a job. They both dressed okay, bathed regularly, could make polite small talk, etc. At Neo-Pagan events, they struck me as a tad woo-woo/flaky, but not in any outstanding way. One day after an event, I found a wirebound notebooks. No name was on it, so I started flipping through it, trying to figure out who it belonged to. Suddenly I was peering down one hell of a rabbit hole. Sara had written a very detailed account of how she, Sam and Jack all had Speshul Magic Powers and how they kept the world safe for mundanes by dispatching nasties who came through other dimensions. Them! Personally! Saving the World! On a regular basis! There was a lot of stuff in there about how they were all evolving and I think stuff about power animals and how they were starting to become telepathic and I don't even know what else. It's been years since I read through it. I saw no non-awkward way of returning the notebook, so I never did. Unfortunately, I chucked it during a move, otherwise I'd share excerpts. I was very uncomfortable with that level of deep delusion and pretty much avoided talking to them as much as possible during the remainder of my time around them. Womens' Mysteries Group I wasn't part of this group, a friend was. Notably, one of the members was very tired all the time after giving birth to a baby. So the group agreed the baby must be a psychic vampire and they cast a protective circle around the poor mite so it couldn't leach energy from Mom. Lyme Disease Lady Someone I know whose big claim to fame is she had Lyme Disease. She will talk about it all the time and how it prevents her from doing anything like holding down a job, but somehow it never gets in the way of anything she really wants to do. But she's another one whose magic powers keep the world safe. She went around telling people that 9/11 occurred because she didn't renew her wards. Poison Cake fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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Poison Cake posted:But she's another one whose magic powers keep the world safe. She went around telling people that 9/11 occurred because she didn't renew her wards. HEY, THANKS A LOT YOU STUPID WITCH! YOU hosed WITH AMMURRICA AND NOW YOU GONNA GET THE BULL BY THE HORNS!!!  Hahaha what the hell kind of hubris do you have to have to take credit for that event. "Because I slept, America wept. Sorry, my bad, I forgot to renew my wards. All those people in New York? Yeah, I guess I should apologize but I'm just so tired keeping America mostly safe." 
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Wow, this whole thread has been quite a read. Sadly I don't have any tales of fandom dementia. By the time all that stuff really started to hit when I was in highschool I was in the punk crowd and nearly graduated., getting drunk as hell at shows with friends and chipping teeth in mosh pits. Granted I was watching Anime then, but it was the adult geared stuff like Wicked City, Demon City Shinjuku, 8th Man After etc. So when all the kiddies were running around going nuts over Sailor Moon, Rayearth & DBZ (Although DBZ was fun as hell to watch with friends). I didn't really understand it and didn't pay much attention. It wasn't until years later that I discovered all the wonderful little "worlds" that people "inhabited" when I got back into Anime a few years ago. Mostly from stuff like this. Word of mouth from friends, internet stories of terror and loving around with a few people on AIM back in the day. Although there was one fat goth chick I knew who tried to hang out with us who did the whole cat ears + tail thing. But at the time I just chalked it up to the whole "I'M DIFFERENT YOU"RE ALL THE SAME TEEHEE" mentality those kids had. Out of all the stories posted I feel for George the most. The guy isn't a washout or a drunk who refuses to do anything. He's an honest Dad who loves his daughter and is trying very hard to make things work. And all this girl does is verbally bratslap him constantly and drain him of precious money that they need to survive. I still can't believe she's still living with him. He's certainly a better man that I am, because she'd have been out on her magical anime princess rear end a VERY long time ago. And I can't even imagine the cost for that 2 week Japan trip. Rupture Farms fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Mar 31, 2012 |
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CuddleChunks posted:Because I slept, America wept. Oh God. Just imagining how many people out there have uttered this phrase boggles the mind.
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Poison Cake posted:Sara had written a very detailed account of how she, Sam and Jack all had Speshul Magic Powers and how they kept the world safe for mundanes by dispatching nasties who came through other dimensions. Them! Personally! Saving the World! On a regular basis! I mean, you knew them better than me, obviously, but if they were as normal-seeming as you say it is entirely possible that the notebook was meant to be fiction. My ex has a full-length screenplay somewhere with me, him and all of our friends as superheroes who save the world on a regular basis, but none of us actually BELIEVED any of that stuff. It was just fun to think about. But if you found a copy of it, it seems like you'd automatically assume that I ACTUALLY think I can slow the flow of time.
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showbiz_liz posted:I mean, you knew them better than me, obviously, but if they were as normal-seeming as you say it is entirely possible that the notebook was meant to be fiction. My ex has a full-length screenplay somewhere with me, him and all of our friends as superheroes who save the world on a regular basis, but none of us actually BELIEVED any of that stuff. It was just fun to think about. But if you found a copy of it, it seems like you'd automatically assume that I ACTUALLY think I can slow the flow of time. That's a drat good reason in itself to make up the characters in any fiction you write (or at least bother changing the names).
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showbiz_liz posted:I mean, you knew them better than me, obviously, but if they were as normal-seeming as you say it is entirely possible that the notebook was meant to be fiction. My ex has a full-length screenplay somewhere with me, him and all of our friends as superheroes who save the world on a regular basis, but none of us actually BELIEVED any of that stuff. It was just fun to think about. But if you found a copy of it, it seems like you'd automatically assume that I ACTUALLY think I can slow the flow of time. Jack was definitely a data point here. I posted about him earlier, but he thought he was a vampire and a mage who could control weather, that kind of thing and they were VERY tight with him. Honestly, I don't think I would have batted an eye if he'd said he kept the world safe from mundanes in a conversation, it was exactly the sort of thing he'd say. It also fit in with some flaky stuff Sam and Sara had done at events. Like in the middle of a quiet ritual with everyone sitting in a circle, they're suddenly rolling around on the floor. Afterwards, they'd explain that there was a psychic attack and they'd staved it off. By the time I found the notebook, they'd almost entirely dropped out of public events, so it doesn't surprise me that they'd gotten deeper and deeper into that mentality.
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Man, this thread really brings me back to high school. I knew a girl (we'll call her Witch) who made up a person because of her insane obsession with Inuyasha, and ended up creating this super perfect dude (modeled after Sesshomeru) and pretended he was a real person. After about a year, I finally caught on and realized he was fake, Witch had some serious issues, and I was an idiot. She had been pretending he was a real person for three years prior, and continued acting like he was real to my other friend, Watermelon, for another five years before finally admitting to Watermelon he wasn't real. The only reason I knew this was cause I got a message out of the blue after several years going "Oh my god, Themata, I HAVE to talk to you right now, it's extremely important!!" and so we met up for the first time in ages, and she told me how Inuyasha girl finally admitted that Mr. Perfect was not real. I was like, "yeah, I told you that like four years ago but you didn't believe me." Apparently they had been on a lot of other horrible adventures together much like uglynoodles and Denise. Watermelon wasn't exactly of a normal mind either. She wanted to marry anime guys because she thought they were hotter than real people. Watermelon was also friends with Willow, who made up a half white/half Japanese Mr. Perfect herself because of her Inuyasha infatuation. Witch and Willow didn't know each other, but I was friends with all three of these people.  I also listened to a musical a year ago I really liked. I didn't like musicals cause I associated them with Witch, who loved them, and so in turn I thought musicals were poo poo. After listening to said musical though, I decided it was time to let go of that old association and be mature about it. Then at the end, one of the main people who voiced it spoke up and introduced themselves. It was Witch.  There is probably a lot more if I start digging back into my memories, but I don't know if I want to do that, but reading all of the OP's posts made me totally sympathize with her.
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Recently I've become aware of someone whose Twitter posts make me think she might be a good candidate for this thread. I had a brief Twitter exchange with a celebrity, which is always a little cool I guess, but I don't get too psyched out about it. It's not like a Twitter exchange is going to turn into a real friendship. Someone who was also following this person responded to me tweet and followed me. So, I figure, why not, I'll follow back. Then I made a couple of posts about my dog (he has cancer) and she responded with normal, sane sympathetic statements, which I was grateful for. I'm debating whether I want to unfollow or just enjoy the ride. Every post is something about how people she thought were her friends really don't care about her. Or about how her mom doesn't understand her mental illness. Or how she didn't win some poetry contest. Then she started constantly pestering the celebrity we mutually follow. poo poo like "Your posts seem really depressed, are you okay?" (this particular celeb is kind of dry, and none of his recent posts struck me as anything but snarky) and lots of one-sided conversation stuff. Finally, he blocked her. Now she's posting her lamentations about how he hates her, and how she's going to change her avatar because it's a picture of her with him. I kind of want to send her a message and say hey, maybe you got blocked because you're a creepy stalker, but I think I'd rather just stay out of it. The sheer volume of her posts makes me wonder what the gently caress she does all day besides bitch and moan on Twitter.
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Poison Cake posted:
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More importantly, is it a real baby, or just another of Sephiroth's astral offspring?
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M_Sinistrari posted:Did anything end up happening to the baby since this gives me that vibe that it wouldn't be untoward for the group to decide to take things a step further if the Mom's still feeling tired after their circle casting. I think the baby was okay, other than having a wacky parent. I lost track of this group, but it was a small town so I'm pretty sure we would have heard about anything untoward happening. My guess is that Mom wised up. I have a slightly different perspective on this now that I'm a parent. I can't imagine that she didn't seem overwhelmed and depressed and I would try to reach out to someone like that if I met them in a playgroup or whatever. And I think most halfway decent people would. A little basic validation from other parents letting her know that being tired with a baby was normal  and suggesting that she get her iron levels/thyroid tested would be a lot more helpful than some stupid "your baby is a psychic vampire!" ritual.OR, it's possible she made bank with the group by playing the "woe is Mom" card. According to my friend, it was that kind of group, where there was a lot of bonding over people talking about their aches and pains, how put upon they were, and so on. After my friend left the Women's Mysteries group, she always referred to it as the "Women's Miseries" group since they seemed to equate one with the other. Poison Cake fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Apr 2, 2012 |
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teh winnar! posted:A friend of a friend does, ahem, "paid companionship" at furry cons. Apparently, the niche of that market makes her amazing bank. I know someone who does this at gaming/geek conventions and makes way too much money doing it. Yes, escort / prostitution for sad, lonely, rich gamers. If you've ever wondered if this happens, it does. It does. =(
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Blinkman987 posted:I know someone who does this at gaming/geek conventions and makes way too much money doing it. Is there any sex involved, or do they just hang out with the person and pretend to be a close friend who's deeply interested in the same nerdy things?
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Anoia posted:Is there any sex involved, or do they just hang out with the person and pretend to be a close friend who's deeply interested in the same nerdy things? The one I mentioned does the former, but there are people who do the latter instead, and those that do both.
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Anoia posted:Is there any sex involved, or do they just hang out with the person and pretend to be a close friend who's deeply interested in the same nerdy things? I don't know enough about the terms in the sex industry to give it a title, but it's a business where they hang out with the guy, they discuss their nerddom (they do genuinely like geek culture, for whatever value that has) and she fucks him over the weekend (I don't know how the amount of times is arranged). They're pretty much tied to the convention circuit. So, kinda like a brothel, but mobile. And it's expensive, but I've been quoted (I did not solicit) just as much from high-end strippers in Vegas, so it's not like it's out-of-line for the girlfriend experience. Blinkman987 fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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Some of the stories here are strangely similar to my university and High School day - instead of anime/DnD/LARPing/furries they were religiously weird people. I'm not saying "lol, religion is just full of deluded people worshiping imaginary friends" - I mean specific people who, if they were into any of those other things mentioned thus far, would have been these weirdos. They would focus on mystical experiences that they had (and no one else could verify). For example: My Mother, the Prophet First some background; I went to a christian high school and, as you might guess, the majority of the students were christians (not all but most). All the parents had to be and even had to sign statement of faith - very broadly written so it would cover most major christian groups. One of the families had two daughers (one my age and one two or three years younger). The oldest girl was into drama (as was I) so I had a bit to do with her during and after school. Our school had mandatory bible classes (every student had to be taking bible as a subject - no exceptions). One semester we were in the same class together and we were discussing prophecy (book of revelation and Daniel specifically). Now bear in mind that this was discussing the various (and there are many) interpretations of these books (what different christian sects and denominations believe now and have believed throughout history). Suddenly the girl puts her hand up to tell the teacher something.  I know that (view x*) is correct. Okay, how do you know this? My mother had a dream that this is how it will all end and its going to happen soon - before the year 2000. And how do you know that your mother is correct? She's a prophet - her dreams come true! God sends her messages in her dreams. (diplomatically) Well that is a great gift she has there... Yes and here is some of the things she has got correct already (proceeds to rattle off a list of "prophecies" - from the mundane to the quite fantastic until the teacher gets us back on track).After that I paid a bit more attention to some of the stuff she would say off-hand and realised that her, her immediate family and some of the other families at the school all thought this about her mother. If her mother had a dream about something they all thought it was a prophecy. And did her mother ever use that to her adavantage. When her youngest daughter went out with a guy she didn't approve of she, very conveniently, had a dream about how the couple should break up (So the girl called it off). After a while I realised that most of these prophecies she had were her "remembering" how last week she had a dream about (whatever major event effecting the school, the area or her family) but now (after said event happened) she understood what God had been trying to say. Teachers and students were often amazed (because, as a christian, she couldn't possibly be a liar). Some, like myself, were skeptical but you can't call bullshit in that sort of environment - people treat it as disloyalty to God (even the christians who don't really think God works that way). Anyway I left the school and the area long ago so I have no idea what happened (but maybe her family is less trusting as the 2000 has come and gone). It was one of the reasons I began to be skeptical of religion - so I should thank her I guess. *It was basically the sort of dispensationalist pre-millenialist stuff you get in those left behind books (don't worry if those terms don't make much sense - they aren't very important to the story but feel free to look them up in wikipedia).
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ElectroMagneticJosh posted:maybe her family is less trusting as the 2000 has come and gone Not a chance. That only means she misunderstood her vision slightly. It's still going to happen, but in 2013! Praise Jesus!
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Larva posted:Not a chance. That only means she misunderstood her vision slightly. It's still going to happen, but in 2013! Praise Jesus! See: The Great Disappointment
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:See: The Great Disappointment Have you been talking to Jo Brand's husband?
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Aw I missed all the chat about Gaia and apparently the thread was deleted or moved? I'm not sure but I can't find it! Cuddle, could you share what happened?
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I was actually planning on asking what happened to the Gaia thread myself. Is it some weird forums glitch, or did some more drama go down?
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It was in my watched threads and became unreadable with only one post unread (and not one made by a mod) and nothingI objectionable that Ifalling can recall, so color me also confused.
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http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/dear-gaia-someone-who-said-they-are-part-of-staff-said/t.79072793_1/ Maybe this has something to do with it.
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the kawaiiest posted:http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/dear-gaia-someone-who-said-they-are-part-of-staff-said/t.79072793_1/
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Obligatory Toast posted:Man, whoever is doing the defense posts of SA is fighting one wicked uphill battle. I can't say I'm surprised by this turn of events. I understand why people are questioning the legitimacy of the account/posts, but that's such a stupid argument.
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