Hello, Dot Org. I'm Aaron. A few know me already from the dot com sister site. I didn't know this site existed until the unfortunate crash that happened over here and a few of you made your way over to our site and made a temporary homes until this site was recovered. Been curious for a bit so I thought I'd make an account and at the very least say hi. Writing-wise, I'm a 1st POV Lit Fic writer. It's slice-of-life oriented. Abrasive, dirty, dark, with dry humor and subtle traces of irony. I've got a convoluted weird book series in mind that follows to high school friends after graduation. It's more bleak than it sounds. Looking forward to meeting other food-blender... I mean... Lit Fic... writers and learning from them, too, like I am over there. A.C.
Welcome, Aaron! How very good to see you here. Unfortunately, there's no "ban the person above" thread ... maybe we can start one!
Yes, we need bans and baseless lies. I'll take a stroll around and see what this place has to offer for fun and silliness. I'll leave 9000lbs Of Silent Bright Orange Death back at Dot Com Land. No need to scare the natives. I don't see signs of helicopters or rabid raccoons or clandestine transmitters anywhere. I guess that means I have to be reserved and well mannered for a bit. /cues up Joy Division on iPhone, puts ear buds in then grabs backpack. Point me in the direction of the Lit Fic Tribe, will ya?
No, please don't be reserved! And Bright Orange Death is welcome, too! There's always room for more fun. I'm not sure there is a lit fic tribe, but I'm sure you'll get to know in time the consistent posters, who always make great contributions. Make yourself at home. You might want to post your work in the Workshop. Here, it's a two-for-one deal - you need to do two critiques for each one of your own you post. See you in the forums!
we'd really rather you didn't tbh.. we've had that game before, it lasted about a day before it got nasty ...its a slightly different culture on this side of the fence and not everything translates that well that aside we've got as few lit fic peeps you'll probably find them in the by the genre board, or the workshop of course..
Well that's a bummer, BSM. I suppose then that I'll be on extra polite manners over here then. And I'll leave 9000lbs of Silent Bright Orange Death parked across the street, too.
I think I want to read . Welcome to dot org. I've been a member of dot com for quite a while but zero posts, didn't know about the refugees until the apocalypse was over. Ye got way too many flashing lights over there, can't make head nor tail of it. All those banners and badges too! Not sure I have the energy to keep up, or start all over again getting to know lie of the land. Also, as my dad liked to say (often!) "you can't be true to two." But now you've dangled a bright orange deadly carrot so I might have to muster 10 posts and bed in.
as a safety officer i feel compelled to point out that his fork truck should have a beeper... generally speaking 9000lb objects shouldn't be silent I'm fun at parties as you can doubtless tell
9000lbs Of Silent Bright Orange Death is a running joke over on Dcomland about my line of work. When I first joined Dot Com, we somehow got discussing people not paying attention to what they're doing, and I want on a mouth froth about people at work walking out in front of me on my forktruck. The way I described mine was... 9000 pounds of silent bright orange death (working third shift in a shop, my sense of humor is.. shall we say.. a bit odd). It became a running joke over there and my niche. My Toyota forktruck is literally 9000 pounds and orange. It's 36v electric, hence the silent part. And working in a shop with the ambient noise, it's even more quiet. But I take safety seriously. I have to. I transport caustic and toxic chemicals. I've got a horn and I'm not afraid to use it. But appropriately, I might add. I'm a moderator over there. (Yet another reason to mind my P's & Q's over here. I enforce the rles there, I should know how t obey the rules over here.) The whole 9POSBOD remains with the persona. Now, I battle spam bots riding in on "9000lbs of Silent Bright Orange Death" screaming The Ride Of The Valkyries at the top of my lungs and swinging the dreaded "ban hammer." Just add a middle age bald guy with a beer gut and a five 'o clock shadow to the mental image and there you go. A.C.
In the UK that'd be required to have an electric beeper to counteract its silence - a bit like the reversing beepers you get on trucks and such. Then you'd have 9000lbs of bright orange annoying beeping death Being the admin here has definitely made me more aware of how I behave on other forums, including dcomland
I do have a back-up klaxon. Back in the VERY noisy areas of the shop, they do have loud beepers for when the trucks drive forward. However, it's still not prevented a few accidents because they didn't hear the other forktrucks over their own beepers and came around a blind corner to.. hi, there. Sometimes the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
One of the places I teach at is located in a large factory complex. The forklifts there play constant music to make people aware of their approach. The tune changes a couple times a year, but for a while they were all driving around playing the E.T. theme music. Vurry weird.
