I don't know if I should respond, but I am doing so anyway.kalatashDecember 30 2004, 00:18:41 UTC
I have things to address in both the original post and your response, Ilfar, so I'm just responding to you to see if you get it. Heck, before I'm done, maybe I can have another person online who hates me. Anyway, my points:
1- I am the person in Vis' post who "showed some real talent, originality and ability" and has become a poser. Mostly just to answer the mental question of 'Who is this guy?'
2- I am not doing this to be 'part of the group'. I did it because I wanted to do it, not so I can go up to others and go "Oh my god! We are, like, so alike!" I was debating not doing it because others seemed to be doing it as well.
3- I have never done anything just to get attention, which is what I consider an attention whore to be trying to do. Of course, motives and results are two different things, so maybe I became one accidentally.
4- The character in question is quite happy in her current condition, and trying to convince her to commit suicide or an abortion is out of the question.
5- I am also mentally stable, thank you very much.
6- In response to an earlier LJ post, I knew 15 seconds after I said "I wanted to do it right" that I had made a horrible, horrible word choice. "Doing it right" is an answer for how to do it, not a reason to do it. And I'm sorry if I am not "doing it right" as you see it, Vis, but I am trying. As for why did I start it? Well...
7- I guess the main reason is I never considered any of my characters as anything besides bachelor/ettes. But I had a character of mine who somehow got a significant other, and wanted to do this. Maybe it was a moment of weakness on her part or mine, but it is a decision that I made. I didn't think about what others were doing when I made that decision, only what I felt like doing. And why haven't I changed my mind?
8- I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE retcons [retroactive coninunity]. It has already happened and I can't change that. The only way to stop that would be an abortion or a miscarriage, and I'm not planning on either. Unless someone attacks her, violently, that is.
Re: I don't know if I should respond, but I am doing so anyway.ilfarDecember 30 2004, 01:22:51 UTC
I agree with number 8 there, although there are ways to make sure you don't need em... Forethought and a lot of planning is one. (Pot to kettle, I am black! Planning is booooring, sometimes ya just wanna do it!) ;)
I have a friend who's just had a baby, and while I agree the end product is worth it, I'm VERY sure practically all those pretending to be preggers are not fully aware of the implications. Course, that goes for just about anything people RP, it's just that this fad is a little sicker than most :P
I don't know you, so I won't judge your character. I will say, though, that your timing, and wording on that statement, could have been a fuckload better. :/ Whether you wanted to or not, you're now going to be pretty much linked with everyone else who's 'pregnant', and viewed in the same light as them no matter what your arguments.
1- I am the person in Vis' post who "showed some real talent, originality and ability" and has become a poser. Mostly just to answer the mental question of 'Who is this guy?'
2- I am not doing this to be 'part of the group'. I did it because I wanted to do it, not so I can go up to others and go "Oh my god! We are, like, so alike!" I was debating not doing it because others seemed to be doing it as well.
3- I have never done anything just to get attention, which is what I consider an attention whore to be trying to do. Of course, motives and results are two different things, so maybe I became one accidentally.
4- The character in question is quite happy in her current condition, and trying to convince her to commit suicide or an abortion is out of the question.
5- I am also mentally stable, thank you very much.
6- In response to an earlier LJ post, I knew 15 seconds after I said "I wanted to do it right" that I had made a horrible, horrible word choice. "Doing it right" is an answer for how to do it, not a reason to do it. And I'm sorry if I am not "doing it right" as you see it, Vis, but I am trying. As for why did I start it? Well...
7- I guess the main reason is I never considered any of my characters as anything besides bachelor/ettes. But I had a character of mine who somehow got a significant other, and wanted to do this. Maybe it was a moment of weakness on her part or mine, but it is a decision that I made. I didn't think about what others were doing when I made that decision, only what I felt like doing. And why haven't I changed my mind?
8- I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE retcons [retroactive coninunity]. It has already happened and I can't change that. The only way to stop that would be an abortion or a miscarriage, and I'm not planning on either. Unless someone attacks her, violently, that is.
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I have a friend who's just had a baby, and while I agree the end product is worth it, I'm VERY sure practically all those pretending to be preggers are not fully aware of the implications. Course, that goes for just about anything people RP, it's just that this fad is a little sicker than most :P
I don't know you, so I won't judge your character. I will say, though, that your timing, and wording on that statement, could have been a fuckload better. :/ Whether you wanted to or not, you're now going to be pretty much linked with everyone else who's 'pregnant', and viewed in the same light as them no matter what your arguments.
"Good intentions" very rarely are in the end :P
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