Things you have that others might find useful. At least as far as plots are concerned. Though I'm sure nobody would turn down pie if you had that as well.
I would lovelovelove for someone to start a gay-straight alliance or similar support group, because despite the impressive lack of homophobia on the island itself, there's still a lot of these kids who could use the help just in dealing for themselves. (And/or with the fact that Fandom is ten times more accepting than their homes and families might be.)
Selfish reasons ahoy, of course, but I know it ain't just my needs-it-but-would-have-to-be-dragged-there-so-bad-choice-for-setting-it-up girl.
Oooh, I concur with this. Not so much because my girl needs it, but it would be a good idea.
And I'm actually not saying this for selfish reasons, honestly. Just out of a sense of, y'know . . . having been there. There's only so much an open-minded environment can do if your issues are deep-seated enough.
Oooh. Oooh. That's kind of a ridiculously fabulous idea, she says for not selfish reasons as well. Sam might be out enough to consider organizing it, for that nice shiny college application... *ponders*
None of my kids would necessarily need it, but I think it's a fabulous idea and if there's no one ICly who *would* set it up, I would be more than willing for God to instruct Joan to set it up.
Since we seem to have a lot of people who'd go but wouldn't be likely to start it up, I can offer Gabrielle for that sort of thing -- she does have that wacky passion for helping people, and I figure if she can organize a village to defend against a warlord all by herself, she can totally organize a club if someone gives her the idea.
Even if she doesn't think she needs it. She absolutely would, if she thought it would help people.
Joan can get instructions from God to do stuff. Little things, like getting your kid to sign up for a certain class or join a certain club or big things, like connecting dots between point A and point B in a plot.
After yesterday's meme I have this burning desire to organize some kind of Fandom Amazing Race. I have NO idea how to make it work, but I think it could be a lot of fun.
A few months ago, completely based off of a wacky macro picture that longislandiceme linked me to, I did a Luke's Diner post that had random bananas showing up in it. And then people (Mary at the Arms, Tyler at the gym, Dale at the trooper station, etc.) picked it up and just started running with it for about a week, having random bananas show up in business posts.
It was completely impromptu, and very lightweight but a lot of fun. And I think it'd be kind of neat to do little running-gag things like that every now and again. If nothing else, it's a neat way to spice up business posts on those days when we're having a hard time coming up with stuff.
If someone mentioned to Karla that such things existed elsewhere, she'd definitely help set one up. Though it would be flavored with 'I can't believe your families have issues with this, who cares?'
Though she'd fail at anything that hinted at gender-bending.
I just wanted to say how much I loved that and agree we should keep going with it. I don't have townies just now, but it could run through office and room posts, too.
This was what we were trying to do with the prompts to some extent, but they seem to be something that we're done with. Also, everyone mentioning bananas organically is way cooler than "Prompt: Work bananas into your post."
Honestly, it made me laugh a lot when it happened.
And I don't think it should really have to be a huge structured thing -- if necessary, there could be some general common-sense rules of thumb set up for the sort of thing that qualifies as running gag material, and maybe an OOC note saying "feel free to pick this up and run with it?"
THIS. I love that kind of thing -- I said in the forum that I have a hard time coming up with roomposts for my girls, but I also struggle with establishy townie posts. (This, for instance, is why Robin and Tino hate each other so much. It gives me SOMETHING TO DO.)
So running gags like that are a great way to give something to write about, when you're sitting there going "God, I can't have her clean again."
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