Sandbox Discussions

[Bluelantern]

Glam's speech to Lorica is pretty spot-on about what they wanna do. It's not exactly that what the YG did was the worst thing per se, but Glam doesn't actually know that it was right, they just acted impulsively without considering alternatives or possible consequences (just like they accused Al of doing on the phone). If they had looked into stuff, if they had researched, if they had asked, if they had talked, there were lots of really obvious things they could've done that they didn't do and that's what they want to change.

So while they don't really endorse some (or a lot) of what they said in the heat of the moment, the general feeling and resolution there is something like "think before you act," in general, regardless of whether they feel really justified in doing it.

(Unless I completely misunderstand what you meant you're not liking.)

Huh, hard to explain, but I think my issues are:
1)Glam is assigning too much blame to themself.
2)They are not assigning enough blame to other people, or at least underplaying their role on this.
*2.1)When Piggot said "You are not negotiating from a position of advantage" (or something like that) I think that marks her a person that can't be trusted to play fair. Which doesn't create a healthy mental enviroment to anyone. Like, that by itself would make me label her as "someone that probably should be removed from power at earliest convenience".
3)They are downplaying his own suffering over the matter, which is sort of... unstable? I mean, I think they needs a degree of being certain that they should or should not stick to something, which also includes realizing that his own rights are valid and should be respected.

And... I don't know maybe there is a deal of bias, because I think that Glam suffering is a bad thing?

[DanielH]

I occasionally misgender people accidentally, but Glam's gender is behind multiple major plot points. Please be more careful.

[Bluelantern]

I occasionally misgender people accidentally, but Glam's gender is behind multiple major plot points. Please be more careful.

Argh, fixed.

[DanielH]

You still have “him” in 1 and 3.

Also, like singular “you”, singular “they” is grammatically plural. Thus, even for one person, “they are” is correct. Except in the word “themself”, which does go singular (like “yourself”).

It’s amazing how complicated even one of the simplest parts of English can get. No wonder a lot of people claim it’s one of the most complicated languages.

[DanielH]

On a different topic, in this thread, why don’t sea beasts risk injuring sirens? Have we seen this setting somewhere before?

Also, I don’t think the thread’s been announced yet?

[Aestrix]

You have not seen this setting before, and Kappa and I just kind of suck at announcing things. This turned out to be kind of a good thing, because we just backed up about fifty tags.

To answer your question:
Sea beasts were made by a siren to kill humans, the siren that made them built them to never hurt sirens.

[DanielH]

That doesn’t sound like it would be common knowledge in-setting, even among sirens; is it? Also, is there more reason to kill humans than their being rude?

[Aestrix]

Sirens know perfectly well that the sea beasts won't hurt them. Where sea beasts came from isn't super well known, but it's generally thought that sirens had something to do with it, what with sea beasts coming from the ocean and suspiciously not attacking sirens.

Sirens have some legitimate grievances but some of them have historically taken it a bit far.

[DanielH]

Thanks. That’s about what I was expecting, but I’m glad to know it.

(That spoiler tag doesn’t appear to work)

[Aestrix]

Fixed, sorry about that.