my partner thinks I "need more friends"

mostly I'm here because it was easier than arguing with Mari [[ooc: this an Amenta RP blog and full of lies, likes and follows are ooc.]]

[flameofcertainty]

sometimes i feel kind of bad for blues

like, it’s not like i’m the happiest purple, but at least we have options. there’s not really such thing as being bad at purple (i guess if you’re really disabled but if you’re that disabled you’re not gonna be any better at the others). and there’s enough variety in purple jobs that it doesn’t super matter what sort of thing you’ll like, you’ll at least be able to find something tolerable

and other castes at least kind of have that, like they don’t have as much variety but they have some, journalist and wedding photographer and copyeditor and architect and programmer and data analyst and secretary is a lot of variety, if you’re a disabled grey it’s hard but you can still be a coach or a judge or a sex worker some places or a porn actor basically anywhere or i think i read physical therapists are sometimes grey but that might be fake?, and if you’re a green there’s loads and loads of academic subjects you can study and loads of different types of art green, writing romance novels and composing music and sculpting and acting and painting are pretty different, and if you’re orange – i guess if you’re orange and you hate people you’re kind of out of luck unless you wanna be a vet or a med tech, but there’s still a lot of variety for anyone but that

but then blues have like five jobs! you can be a politician or a judge or a diplomat or a real estate person or one of those people who sits on boards of things, and i’m probably missing some nuance but five jobs feels like not very many

and i guess those are all pretty different? but it’s still, well, five jobs

i don’t know. i’m not blue. maybe they like it? or maybe when i say ‘you can be a politician or a judge or’ it sounds like as ridiculous a category as if someone said ‘you can be a purple who makes things in some way or a purple who deals with people as part of their job or’ and technically it’s true but really not a useful categorization any more than lumping cooks and tailors and construction workers

i’m curious if blues have thoughts on this, i doubt any of them read my blog but i’d be super interested in hearing from you

[castofthedie-blog]

we have five jobs and then everyone who's not blue is always slightly on edge around you, even if they pretend they don't care

[yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus]

Congrats on the job! Did your husband and boyfriend find jobs? Does Miolee do jobnames or something else?

Husband is a programmer, boyfriend is a doctor.

Miolee does “additional names” because of how many different countries Mioleens come from. So we’re keeping our surnames and I get to give the little one a Meti surname! I’ve been arguing for Little-toes myself– it was my name– but my husband thinks Wiggles is better.

[steel-and-toe]

oh wow I did not even consider what meti names for babies must be like that’s precious

[castofthedie-blog]

awwwww

[castofthedie-blog]

brother's having his second baby :D

[castofthedie-blog]

yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus just got a swap into Miolee, try asking them!

@yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus?i assume you’re not (a) voan (b) blue but all I know is that you have to pass a background check of some kind, i don’t follow politics

[yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus]

You can’t get into Miolee because Miolee hasn’t cleaned yet. Lots of people want to get into Voa, maybe you could arrange a swap with Anitam or something?

[castofthedie-blog]

trying to do a chain of blue swaps sounds like it's even less likely to work, i'd have to arrange a swap into anitam, then miolee, and then back again

[tidalwave-shiningsky]

what kind of government would be worse than anarchy?

A foreign occupation that wasn’t letting people have any kids probably would be. A government that let reds walk around but punished people for ending them would be. That kind of thing.

[worstblueintheworld]

One where we consciously and deliberately found the worst people and put them in charge?

[castofthedie-blog]

which is different from what we have now how exactly?

[seeingtheforestfromthebees]

“Why is the Red Discourse so horrible” Because decent people don’t want to talk about reds and pollution day after day so only the weirdos are left.

[castofthedie-blog]

yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus just got a swap into Miolee, try asking them!

@yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus?i assume you're not (a) voan (b) blue but all I know is that you have to pass a background check of some kind, i don't follow politics

[castofthedie-blog]

i've said this before but i'm so glad i don't live in a permission country

[castofthedie-blog]

pretty sure your country needs to be doing cleaning (and not doing it incompetently, you need a good track record)

oh. that makes sense. i think voa's discussing it, family's been arguing, but there's not been a formal announcement or anything

[castofthedie-blog]

so how do you even swap into miolee

[tidalwave-shiningsky]

Most countries aren’t allowing Mioleen swaps for blues, because they don’t want dumb evil scum in their blues. Maybe you should just figure out how to handle your life instead of running away from it and leaving poison in your place.

[castofthedie-blog]

id be leaving someone who actually wanted to be blue, seems like a good deal to me

does someone who isn't tidal know anything about this

[castofthedie-blog]

so how do you even swap into miolee

[castofthedie-blog]

opinion meme! post one popular opinion, one unpopular opinion, and one uncontroversial opinion!

vika's thing with the spaceship was the best scene in long winter, we shouldn't separate schools by caste, spring sucks

[castofthedie-blog]

idk how old you are but if possible you should totally wait until Voa does red cleaning and then give them half-ex-red grandchildren :D

this solves exactly 0 of my problems, congratulations

[castofthedie-blog]

actually ive thought about it and i was too generous, it solves nothing and creates at least two more. good job, anon! please stop giving me advice

[castofthedie-blog]

idk how old you are but if possible you should totally wait until Voa does red cleaning and then give them half-ex-red grandchildren :D

this solves exactly 0 of my problems, congratulations

[starfireskyglass]

I watched Ezio Telvaran fight a duel today.

[not-brighter-but-stranger]

….I’m sure this is all sorts of important political stuff for you but it’s also kind of really awesome.

(I don’t suppose someone got video….)

[starfireskyglass]

Oh, it was definitely awesome. 

Somebody in the audience might have had the presence of mind to catch it on their everything, but it wasn’t me. I’m going to try to describe it as best I can while it’s still fresh in my mind. This will hopefully also satisfy the several people asking me who he fought and about what.

To understand this duel, you will need some background information. 

First, Ereith finished red cleaning not long ago, and we integrated our ex-reds into all the other castes, blue included. One of them married the princess. 

Second, the King of Ereith has not fought a duel in well over ten years. Definitely not since his son died; possibly not since the days of the last civil war. He was known for being very, very good when he was younger, but he’s old now - not much younger than forty - and if you’d asked me yesterday I would’ve doubted he was still capable of holding a sword.

I would’ve been wrong about that.

There was a state dinner this afternoon - I get invited to those once in a while, because of my work with the immigration project - and someone made a snide remark about the princess’s new husband. I didn’t actually hear it; you can assume it was the sort of thing somebody might say about an ex-red blue who married a princess. The King, however, was sitting a lot closer than I was. He asked the commenter to repeat herself, and got a loud, sneering “You heard me” that turned half the heads in the room.

“Are you sure you want to go there?“ asked the King. By this point things were quiet enough that I could hear the conversation clearly.

“Who’s going to stop me? You? Your granddaughter? Her new toilet?”

“Suit yourself, then,” said the King, and he stood up. Silence fell on the room like an axe. I heard a few distant whispers from people who couldn’t see him clearly, and then nothing, until he spoke again.

“My granddaughter’s husband is not without flaws, as anyone who’s heard him try to sing can attest. But he’s a clean blue Erethani, as good as you or I, and anyone who wants to dispute that can come here and say it to my sword.“

The other blue stood up. I didn’t recognize her, and I still don’t know her name, but she had a familiar bearing. I’ve known a few people who stood the same way at that age - five or six, old enough to have gotten used to winning, young enough to still feel invincible. They either grow out of it or they pick the wrong fight and die.

She drew her sword, and the King drew his, and they saluted. She was laughing; he wasn’t. She had a confident stance, moved like someone who does this every day, opened with an aggressive attack - he barely had the strength to knock her blade aside - I blinked and missed him putting his sword through her throat. I’ve never seen someone move that fast in my life. If someone did get it on video, we should teach it in advanced fencing classes.

He made a few more remarks which I was too stunned to catch, and then everyone had to leave so the dining hall could be decontaminated. It’s not even the first time I’ve seen a royal feast broken up by a duel to the death; it’s just the first time I’ve seen the King fight one.

Red cleaning in Ereith is a complex subject I don’t want to get into right now, but I suspect this is going to be the final word.

[axiomaticantecedent]

Hoooooooooooly wow

[castofthedie-blog]

can we do politics like this? it'd reduce number of people with garbage opinions saying them out loud, at least

[castofthedie-blog]

why don't you just have a kid by yourself? use one of those mild spring gamete banks

i live in voa, do you know how hard it is to get them to relax on the "two per couple" thing?

[castofthedie-blog]

just let your family set you up with someone for coparenting, you can still date on the side if you really care about romance

i don’t care about romance, i care about not coparenting with some asshole