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*eyes beadily* Meanies.

You people had me fooled initially, however the narcotics have alerted me to your true objective in making your audience wallow in spilt tears at least once a month! You suckered me in with the Charlie Wahh!. Followed by the noseplugging sob-me-2x thanks to Lost/Found Kitten Wah!!. And now...now you've targeted His Holiness (whoops, forgot that ass prefix), The Sexiest Moor Alive with the wahh around the corner and THAT, my friends, is pushing me so far!! I swear, if you touch Lockheed and Juggy, I WILL...I'll...slink back on to the HMS_STFU, but I'm taking my C/D comics with me!

Damn you. You know I can't wait for this shit.

Props to all players with a lil' extra for Forge, Illyana, Dazzler Muns!

p.s. Likes trainee abuse, wants more.
pps. Likes emotional abuse of student body, wants more.
ppps. pleasantly surprised with the Forge/Paige UST, wouldn't mind more.
pp-oh whatever. Loves Cyke. Marry me, not the redhead. Bring the Moor.

Current Music: Chocolat soundtrack

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From:

redhawk.livejournal.com

wangst?

Not familiar with the term. I presume it's a variant on plain-Jane angst.

Redhawk,
Haroun's player.

From:

moonlight69

It's a combination of 'wah' and 'angst', and although it's more often than not used in a derogatory context, to designate someone who angsts for the sake of angsting, in this case, I'd gather that's not how they mean it. :)

From:

redhawk.livejournal.com

Ah.

No, this isn't angst-for-angst's-sake. All my angst is done with a purpose in mind. In this case, he'll pay, and pay heavily, but at the end of the day he'll quite literally be a new man.

Redhawk

From:

rexlapinii.livejournal.com

Actually, the way I've heard it is it's a combination of "wank" and "angst," which sort of defines its own derogatory context right there . . .

From:

vazjr.livejournal.com

2nd attempt to coherency. No wank is intended to you whatsover and I'll edit OP accordingly. I have much respect for these characters and the players behind them and their plotlines. I only wish to give accolades to you all for putting one of the best RPG's out there. Please pardon my ignorance of wangst as a derogatory synonym for wank.

From:

redhawk.livejournal.com

Understood.

Man, the word "angst" just gets stretched all beyond its boundaries sometimes.

Angst is a Dutch and German word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe a more intense feeling of internal emotional strife.

A different but related meaning is attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). Kierkegaard used the word angst (Danish, meaning "dread") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being. Where the animal is a slave to its God-given instincts but always confident in its own actions, Kierkegaard believed that the freedom given to mankind leaves the human in a constant fear of failing its responsibilities to God. Kierkegaard's concept of angst is considered to be an important stepping stone for 20th-century existentialism.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst is broadened to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others (possibly including God). Still, the angst in alternative music may be more accessible to most audiences than the esoteric tradition of existentialism. The term "angst" is now widely used with a negative and derisive connotation that mocks the expression of a common adolescent experience of malaise, possibly brought on by the physiological changes of puberty, in "whiney", melancholy music. See emo.

Redhawk

From:

vazjr.livejournal.com

Just to specify further, I don't consider your game to be so subpar as to use angst (in it's emo-adolescent-whiny connotation) just for the sake of something to write about. I KNOW, and expect by now I suppose, that any conflict is for the sake of real character development and not just to make the character TEH intriguing/mysterious/insert adjective here. And I do understand that it would be very frustrating to have your characters superficially viewed that way. Once again, pardon my ignorance about it and thanks for the explanation. I'm not a writer, not a player, just a fan.

From:

redhawk.livejournal.com

It's cool. Sweat it not.

I know what you meant. And I'm glad that you like the Moor and you apparently really liked Maverick.

Just wait until Upgrade rolls around. We're trying something new, apeing a new set of genre conventions.

Redhawk