This is one of my favourite songs anyway, but the video really gets to me.

Sometimes, seeing friends - honest-to-grace companionship and laughter - hits me so hard it hurts.

(In other words, slash be damned, my only 'ships are friendships. And proud!)

I'm not used to being blindsided by my own characters doing something unexpected. Hardly ever happens. (I suspect I'm no good at thinking outside the mould.) In reacting to someone else's post in co-operative storytelling/RP, I'm quite used to staring at a text input box for a while, wondering how the damned critters would realistically react to whatever it is.

Guess it's no surprise that I admire other people who can spring an unexpected but somehow wonderfully apt twist, then. I wasn't intending to name examples, but say instead of succeeding at something tricky but within its capability, a charrie particularly prone to wild twists of luck critically fails and knocks itself out in a terribly funny way. See, I'd just never have thought of that. Mine would have just missed or something (granted, that'd be more in character for the one of mine in question, but still not as funny).

I'm happy whenever I get the chance to learn surreptitiously, because even on my own I've been steadily discovering that the way out of "argh, I don't know/can't seem to write what happens next" mode is usually to take a step back and see where I've made a bad assumption; and throwing in something off-kilter fits in well with that.

I can get no sense out of my monk. Someone said (I paraphrase, but this is how he interpreted it) "Weft's the scariest thing I can think of and I trust him", and not only is he now preening, for a few special moments he doesn't even want to kill things.

In other news, it's mid November, the Christmas-Winter-Yule party's scheduled to start at the beginning of December and we're still mid Halloween party (you know... the one where the unmasking was going to take place on 31st October and all). I'm glad people are taking their time and enjoying it, but daaaamn. XD Still, I'm enjoying it too, and I lack the capacity to stamp my foot and herd them all outside. (It doesn't help that I'm currently working on Christmas pages at work. It's giving me a false idea of how close the day is, succeeding where the entire retail industry has failed.)