Virtual Promiscuity
I'd say the customary "If I were-" but I know I'm traditional, and partially crazy, but that's not the point.
Virtual promiscuity. Role playing as a character, and having that character be slut. Having that character in a relationship, only to run off and frolic with another character, played by another person- somewhere far off.
It's the makings of breaking the bonds that hold people together. If it's okay to fuck around online as someone else- it'll eventually be okay for me to fuck around for real, as myself. And it's not all right- it's just as slutty as being a real whore with bits and pieces, fucking around in a life that has consequences.
But Darrian, don't your characters sometimes do things you wouldn't, or aren't necessarily acceptable? Not really. Only if it's for plot devices, will they fuck around- they've never once gotten themselves into a situation where once the thread's over they go, "Oh. Suppose I shouldn't have done tha'." Then again, maybe it's just because I don't find any part of me slutty enough to need, in a form, to validate my sexuality with a stranger I've never spoken to, for the sheer explicit overtones of the conversation. Fuck this, kids.
I'm being a prude, so what? I value the warning signs of prostitutes? What the fucking *hell* is wrong these days with averting yourself to those with no respect for themselves nor the consequences sleeping around in the heat of moments? Fucking. Hell.
I don't even know how to articulate how god damn disgusting it is to come up on half the things that've been going on. Jesus.
Kids suck. End of story.
~Darrian
Virtual promiscuity. Role playing as a character, and having that character be slut. Having that character in a relationship, only to run off and frolic with another character, played by another person- somewhere far off.
It's the makings of breaking the bonds that hold people together. If it's okay to fuck around online as someone else- it'll eventually be okay for me to fuck around for real, as myself. And it's not all right- it's just as slutty as being a real whore with bits and pieces, fucking around in a life that has consequences.
But Darrian, don't your characters sometimes do things you wouldn't, or aren't necessarily acceptable? Not really. Only if it's for plot devices, will they fuck around- they've never once gotten themselves into a situation where once the thread's over they go, "Oh. Suppose I shouldn't have done tha'." Then again, maybe it's just because I don't find any part of me slutty enough to need, in a form, to validate my sexuality with a stranger I've never spoken to, for the sheer explicit overtones of the conversation. Fuck this, kids.
I'm being a prude, so what? I value the warning signs of prostitutes? What the fucking *hell* is wrong these days with averting yourself to those with no respect for themselves nor the consequences sleeping around in the heat of moments? Fucking. Hell.
I don't even know how to articulate how god damn disgusting it is to come up on half the things that've been going on. Jesus.
Kids suck. End of story.
~Darrian