The watercooler: a place to chat

[Chita]

Oh. MY. GODNESSSSSSSSSS!!!
THIS WEEKEND I FINALLY GOT TO SEE ANASTASIA THE MUSICAL LIVE.

It was just SO beautiful!! The songs and characters and the drama and the story and the stage!! I literally heard the chords that play in the beginning and spent the first 15 minutes trying not to cry from the shock after hearing them so many times on spotify...

Sorry for fangirling, but I’m still in so much hype

[kainatarma]

I've just noticed Wattpad's new logo.
No offense but... Man, a logo does job to represent a thing because this shit looks plain and amateur as the fanfic Wattpad flooded with

[VibrantFox]

i does look pretty...simplistic but at the same time logos are hard

[kainatarma]

I don't know, but in my opinion the new one doesn't have a defining "character"
Also I prefer the old orange color

[VibrantFox]

could be to do with the fact that a lot of companies have been simplifying their logos to simple two color, bold and simplistic designs (twitters bird being sharper, facebook cutting down to just the white f on blue, tumblr's t and deviantart's negative space design)

there's no denying how painfully bland it looks versus the old logo but maybe with enough feedback they could makes changes and find a happy inbetween

[silverraven0]

I've seen the word before, but I just learned what yiff mean on reddit today. _(:з」∠)

(I lead myself to urban dictionary)

I learned something new every day.

[ISNEKO]

Super cool of Activision Blizzard to lay off 800 people while they announce profits.

[Rodimus13]

gaaaaah computer issues and hubby needs a new one and I haven't spent that bonus yet and he won't let me just BUY a flipping computer for him right now he's making me wait! GAAAHH... It could be here by the 14th if he'd let me order now

[silverraven0]

A question : is it appropriate to use apostrophe when making something akin to quotation marks (but it's not to quote someone words) on a sentence? I was wondering if using apostrophe is the correct one or not since I've been using it instead of quotation marks.

Choose one you think is the right one :

1. “M’kay,” he nodded against Liam’s “arm pillow”.

2. “M’kay,” he nodded against Liam’s 'arm pillow'.

dun wanna make new thread since its just a simple question

[Kann]

Just finished drawing my buffer for the time I'll be away from home while having lower back pain AND slight food poisoning. I'm mostly fine now, but my pain probably will be visible in those pages... XD

[kainatarma]

I choose the second, simply because it distinguishes which is the direct speech and which is not and I thought it is the correct one.
Also that can be used in direct speech, "Like 'this' direct, yo."

(WTF am I talking, sorry)

[kainatarma]

I hope somebody would finish the proposal or me I'm too lazy and stupid. I abandon my work, my novel, my art; I don't feel passionate in everything I do lately.

[vothnthorvaldson]

I have the worst memory. I forget to do stuff, I forget important deadlines, and more than everything, I forget what I learn.
But this evening, I was playing Skyrim for the first time since very long, and I needed a console code I haven't used for even longer (5 years?) and I remember it with zero problems. This is so frustrsting...

[Rodimus13]

nope- I'm done. I'm tired my child is sick and he had a 20 min meltdown and is still on edge because he can't go to school AND he will miss his class extending valentines...

I want to be done and just call in a sub for my class tomorrow and friday.... but kids are using sharp things in the cooking lab.

[tired_programmer]

I hope somebody would finish the proposal or me

I wish somebody could do my thesis instead of me

[faeriesandents]

Making a romance novel. This is a first. Hope it goes well --'

[kainatarma]

Realizing that and having your story posted here is a hell of a work. You have to please your reader, force yourself to do something you can't, dealing with all the hassle and technicalities. You have to gone through desire to be noticed, confined in petty struggle for stats and recognition. You hate this place, you don't stand a chance, you want to quit.
Yet, you have moral obligation to readers to finish the story and don't wanna disappoint them.

Realizing that you can just spoil your readers how the story end, thus finishing it for good.

[Sibernethy]

I use a water cooler jug as a money jar, actually.

[tired_programmer]

Maybe some rest could help?

[Rodimus13]

I wanted to share this... I made a candy bouquet for the hubby and a car one for my son because I wanted to (I got all crafty!)

So my husband, worried I was feeling left out, derided to Build A Bouquet...

(The main character there is called Build-a. Punny! I don't deserve my husband- he's too awesome)