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what Ruby truly needs instead of a cat that goes minew

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Spidrift wrote:Which industry would that be? The one that Amber is strenuously leaving behind her and that she knows Ruby despises, or the one where Amber is a total newbie with no hiring powers or likely influence?
Or maybe at a certain comic book store where the current part timer is getting back into what she really wants to do?

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Ruby thinks she's a no non-sense person, but in truth she really is a cloudcuckoolander. ;))

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I think there is a big chance that Ruby would seek a new job

the 3 most likely places are.........................

Pixie comics

where she got Minew

or replacing Gary in his old job, as he will get a new job (to increase roles of the secondary characters of that place)
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Derfman wrote:
Spidrift wrote:Which industry would that be? The one that Amber is strenuously leaving behind her and that she knows Ruby despises, or the one where Amber is a total newbie with no hiring powers or likely influence?
Or maybe at a certain comic book store where the current part timer is getting back into what she really wants to do?
Or, possibly hire Ruby there to handle things like the business management, expanding the business, and the accounting. Jung could help her get jobs with a couple of people to do things like that. . .maybe even see her get hired for a certain band...
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how you know Ruby knows other keyboards besides the computer ones?

is supposed to be a secret
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I was thinking that Ruby could get hired to help the business side of the band :p
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they've only had one gig, it'll be a while yet before they have a business side at all, much less one that will require help in managing.


Spidrift wrote:Which industry would that be? The one that Amber is strenuously leaving behind her and that she knows Ruby despises, or the one where Amber is a total newbie with no hiring powers or likely influence?
i really don't think amber is strenuously trying to distance herself from her former career. she still maintains contact with friends & co-workers, speaks fondly of her time in the industry, and never displays any significant embarrassment about it beyond acknowledging & trying to avoid the unfortunate stigma that happens to be attached. my impression of amber has always been that she's simply decided to move on to bigger and better things. and there's no reason to think that she wouldn't still have & be willing to use some old connections to help her sister out.

as far as ruby despising pornography & never ever ever wanting to be a part of that industry: well, yeah. the idea of someone as up-tight and repressed as ruby getting an office job at a porn production company just has funny written all over it (particularly if it's a company that specializes gay porn, which she is trying oh-so-hard not to like).

would ruby ever take such a job under normal circumstances? hell no (just like she'd never ever ever let herself be seen purchasing smutty comic books). buuuut, if the job-hunt goes badly enough, and her personal funds run thin enough, and she starts to feel like a moocher, well...


the only real obstacle i see is the external one of SDB being limited to a pg-13 rating, which'd make a sex-comedy angle a bit difficult to pull off. but then again, there's no reason giz & shouri can't be subtle about things, maybe treat it more like an office-comedy, just with one quirky difference.

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mmmm behind scenes worker in finances and such for the gay superhero thing, might be possible

but the 2 most likely would be either at Pixie comics or at the pet store
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the comic book shop's actually pretty likely, as it'd give her lots of opportunity to interact with lots of the ma3 cast. giz & dave & co. do enjoy their crossovers, after all.



i still think an office job in the porn industry is the funnier idea though. just imagine the look on the poor performers' faces when she points out how much money they could save just by reducing their lube budget & using cheaper ropes in the bondage scenes.
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We haven't seen much of Ruby's job search yet, therefore we haven't seen her getting desperate about it, therefore we haven't seen her getting desperate enough to do anything really wacky and out of character.

As to Amber's attitude to her porny past - well, she was seriously worried about Zii judging her for it, and she hasn't told her parents about it yet. And Ruby is the quintessence of judgementalism on that subject. So she may discuss the subject when Dillon brings it up, but I think even she might know better than to try to drag Ruby too far into that subject. Maybe.

As to the idea of a job in the comics shop... Well, maybe. No reason why not. I'm just not getting the feeling that's going to happen, somehow. I'm not sure why not. The rhythm of the plot just seems wrong.
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amber is clearly aware of the social stigma attached to working in the sex-industry, and of how judgmental people can be about it. so it's only pragmatic that she wouldn't want to advertise, & would be concerned about the impact it would have on her relationships with people who don't know, if they were to find out. she may even have a somewhat exaggerated perception of just how judgmental people would be, due to the way her own sister treats her.

but i don't ever get the sense that amber has internalized those views herself, or that she is ashamed of what she's done. once she knows that a person isn't judging her (ex: gary or zii) she's completely open about the subject with them.
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That's plausible enough - but then, it makes Ruby the epitome of that judgementalism, from Amber's point of view. Which should make it unlikely that she'd point Ruby towards any contact with the business.

But then, I guess Amber did offer to set Ruby up with a date with a guy from her past... She can be a bit of a dingbat sometimes. It's just possible that she's realised since then just how innocent Ruby is, what with Ruby's outburst over her "first kiss" and all, but I'm not actually sure that Amber is at all good at understanding people, outside of her narrow and peculiar range of experiences. Ruby definitely included.
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