#open posts

[torrentstucktrolls]

"It certainly is quiet in the Cathedral tonight. I don't suppose anyone would want to engage in some conversation.

"...Would it help if I said I had wine?"

It's communion wine, but they don't need to know that part.

[sweetestapplepie]

hey chat is feeling like shit all the time normal??

let me see

I... ate, a whole meal 1h ago.

I showered, in the last 24hrs, and I don't feel dirty

I went in the sun for... 20 min? today,

I talked to people, and I hugged people, not too much as to make me stressed, but enough for human connection

I did move my body a bit... I walked around a lot today

So I don't see anything wrong... tell me if I missed something that might be making me feel this way lol :3

[psychxpxthy]

"So— when we die. Yeah?"

"What if we're judged on, like, how well we did at bein' human. I'm not talkin' 'bout bein' a good human or anythin', necessarily — moreso, how well'd ya fill the role of a woefully unaware apex predator that's evolved such a massive throbbing ego that y'ain't even consider yerselves animals at all anymore? How well'd ya blend in to the fifty shades of beige it means t'be a Sarah or a Michael? Didja participate in all the tiny, inconsequential squabbles humans define their lives over, despite it not meanin' a damned thing fer their survival?"

"Dude, I am so fucked if they ask 'f I was Team Edward 'r Team Jacob."

[memexng]

Please reply to other RPers’ opens.

When you reply to other peoples’ opens, they feel more obligated to reply to yours. Repeated attempts to get others to interact through opens and small ideas can seriously ruin another’s motivation. It takes at least five minutes to reply to that person’s open, and in the future they may reply to yours. People post small opens because writing a lot wears them out, or they had something in mind, but wanted to be vague so that someone didn’t feel pressured into a certain situation.

Just be the one to reply to one, any single one you see, because that person might be one of your new favorites. And who knows, you might find a new type of thread that you enjoy writing, whether it is something dark or something tense.

Spread the joy of answered opens, and someone will do the same to you.

[travelers-never-sleep]

Open starter call!

I'm excepting starter posts if anyone wants me to write one, or to send me one!

[magicisanima]

           { ♥ } “No? What do you mean no?”

[racingtoaredlight]

Weekend Coup Open Post: Turkey Edition

So, about an hour and a half ago, my phone lit up with a BBC news alert saying that the two main bridges that cross the Bosporous in Istanbul have been blocked and that fighter jets were circling low over the capital city of Ankara in Turkey. There was almost immediate speculation that a coup was underway and that the military was actively seeking to take control of the government. The main national broadcast center has gone black and all social media has been blocked. The main international airport, Ataturk International, has been closed and flights are being diverted elsewhere. 

Turkey is a professedly secular country and the vast majority of the public has traditionally been wary of any one religion, particularly Islam, from gaining political power. Turkey’s military, one of the largest and most powerful in the region, has preserved this status by occasionally undertaking coups in order to remove the national government from power. The last such coup before today was in 1997. 

Current President Recip Erdogan has been in power in some capacity, he was previously Prime Minister, since 2002. During his time in power, greater emphasis on Islam in society has occurred and Erdogan has repeatedly changed the constitution to his advantage. He has also quarreled with the military repeatedly, attempting to undermine its historical authority by politically emasculating its leadership. Recent terror attacks in the country, along with the success of Kurdish rebels against ISIS near the Turkish frontier, has aggravated the strained relationship between Erdogan and the military as well as the rest of the political establishment. A coup, in retrospect, was almost inevitable at this point.

As someone pointed out earlier on Twitter, successful coups move fast, otherwise they are not successful. A new, temporary governing council has already been declared by the military, but it is still not clear who is leading this coup and whether it is the entire military establishment--reports that the Army’s commander-in-chief is being held hostage at his headquarters in Ankara could indicate something--or just a faction within it. There are dire implications either way; the military if acting as a whole must be trusted to restore democratic governance as soon as possible, as it has in the past, or, if this is only a faction of the military and the remainder is loyal to Erdogan, we could be witnessing the start of a civil war. I don’t think I need to explain just how traumatic this would be in this part of the world, especially given that Turkey, as a member of NATO, is a key U.S. ally in the region. 

The next several hours are going to be very interesting. We’re going to open blog this in the comments. I suggest following these Twitter accounts: @CNNTURK_Eng, @lrozen, @ForeignPolicy, @BBCWorld, @AP, @Stratfor, @AlArabiya_Eng, @SkyNews, @mrubin1971. If you have any further suggestions or just come across any singularly interesting tweets, leave ‘em in the comments. 

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