Going through a dramafest and need to vent kthx
Auuuuugh.
OK. I need to vent about AnimeBoston. Warning, I'm going to be extremely shallow and superficial. I'll also use "like" a lot. Also, some parts might sound like I'm criticizing certain people on my f-list because what I describe seems to apply to you in some capacity, but be assured that I am not; I love you all and you have great personalities ^_^.
So, at AnimeBoston last year, I made friends with this one guy from New Jersey whose Artists' Alley table was next to mine. He seemed like a pretty cool guy and we had fun dorking it up about Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged together (since that show is like, such a masterpiece). We exchanged contact info after that.
He started IMing me-- a bit excessively, but it was OK. Found out he was a recent college grad who was going to go to grad school in Massachusetts (but not Boston) soon. Had some conversations here and there, wasn't bad.
A couple months ago, I was planning to get an AA table for AniBos 2009 (as normal), but I don't really know many animu artist-peeps at MIT who'd want to AA and I didn't really want to do it myself. I'd like to actually ENJOY the con instead of sit behind a table the whole time kthx. That Guy actually asked me first if I would table with him. I was like, "Hey, OK, this is great," so we signed up for a nice big 8 foot table.
After that, he started IMing me even more. I suppose that isn't unnatural in itself, but sometimes it'd be a little, like, almost flirtatious. I'm pretty sure he's kidding at this point, since he says he talks to everyone like that.
Here's where I start feeling slightly suicidal. He actually asked me if I wanted to go to a single's event in Boston for Valentine's Day with him. My Sketchiness Alert Meter should have perked up there, but I think I might be an idiot. I didn't exactly come out of the closet to him, so all I said was no, but I figured it might be good to network with him just so that AAing wouldn't be too awkward. So I was like, hey, since he's in town, I'd accompany him for Valentine's Day, sure. But not as a date.
He called it a date. The "best he's ever been on," actually, but considering that we barely did anything and I had to feign a lot of interest (this is my specialty), this tells me something.
I also found out that he actually likes anime dubs, is an American voice actor fanboy, and enjoys OEL manga (including flippin' Dramacon of all things). That officially creeped me out.
And since then he has NOT. STOPPED. IMING ME. And like, he's ALWAYS trying to show me what AMAZING(ly shitty) ceramic art he's been working on, as if I care SO much and think he's any good (there's a REASON I haven't added you as a devART friend, buddy). What's worse is that he's bent on being AS SKETCHY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE with all kinds of fucking sexual innuendo (despite the fact that he's freaking FUGLY and I have no CLUE where his confidence comes from) and asking me if I wanted to smoke fucking weed and go drinking with him. And he keeps asking me to hang out.
I've been ignoring him or answering really curtly to his IMs, but he DOES NOT TAKE A HINT; I can't block him because in the case that he DOES have to ask/tell me something about the AA table, I kind of need to know. But yeah, this is really getting aggravating.
I'm certain that there's no quotequote"romantic" interest involved here, so he's just being overwhelmingly sketchy because that's who he is. It's like, the sum of the sketchiness of all the sketchy old guys at anime club. It's fucking SCARY. I'm really starting to dread AniBos, but like, I can't really tell him I don't want to do it anymore, right? (Plus I... I need the spending money...) I think I led him on too long by pretending I was interested in all of the fascinating happenings he was constantly blabbering about. My plan now is to just go to a huge number of events so I don't have to tablesit with him much, but the fact that there has to be any interaction at all makes me kind of want to cry.
Sorry if you were expecting real problems with real gravity in this post. I'm just... kind of at a loss.
OK. I need to vent about AnimeBoston. Warning, I'm going to be extremely shallow and superficial. I'll also use "like" a lot. Also, some parts might sound like I'm criticizing certain people on my f-list because what I describe seems to apply to you in some capacity, but be assured that I am not; I love you all and you have great personalities ^_^.
So, at AnimeBoston last year, I made friends with this one guy from New Jersey whose Artists' Alley table was next to mine. He seemed like a pretty cool guy and we had fun dorking it up about Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged together (since that show is like, such a masterpiece). We exchanged contact info after that.
He started IMing me-- a bit excessively, but it was OK. Found out he was a recent college grad who was going to go to grad school in Massachusetts (but not Boston) soon. Had some conversations here and there, wasn't bad.
A couple months ago, I was planning to get an AA table for AniBos 2009 (as normal), but I don't really know many animu artist-peeps at MIT who'd want to AA and I didn't really want to do it myself. I'd like to actually ENJOY the con instead of sit behind a table the whole time kthx. That Guy actually asked me first if I would table with him. I was like, "Hey, OK, this is great," so we signed up for a nice big 8 foot table.
After that, he started IMing me even more. I suppose that isn't unnatural in itself, but sometimes it'd be a little, like, almost flirtatious. I'm pretty sure he's kidding at this point, since he says he talks to everyone like that.
Here's where I start feeling slightly suicidal. He actually asked me if I wanted to go to a single's event in Boston for Valentine's Day with him. My Sketchiness Alert Meter should have perked up there, but I think I might be an idiot. I didn't exactly come out of the closet to him, so all I said was no, but I figured it might be good to network with him just so that AAing wouldn't be too awkward. So I was like, hey, since he's in town, I'd accompany him for Valentine's Day, sure. But not as a date.
He called it a date. The "best he's ever been on," actually, but considering that we barely did anything and I had to feign a lot of interest (this is my specialty), this tells me something.
I also found out that he actually likes anime dubs, is an American voice actor fanboy, and enjoys OEL manga (including flippin' Dramacon of all things). That officially creeped me out.
And since then he has NOT. STOPPED. IMING ME. And like, he's ALWAYS trying to show me what AMAZING(ly shitty) ceramic art he's been working on, as if I care SO much and think he's any good (there's a REASON I haven't added you as a devART friend, buddy). What's worse is that he's bent on being AS SKETCHY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE with all kinds of fucking sexual innuendo (despite the fact that he's freaking FUGLY and I have no CLUE where his confidence comes from) and asking me if I wanted to smoke fucking weed and go drinking with him. And he keeps asking me to hang out.
I've been ignoring him or answering really curtly to his IMs, but he DOES NOT TAKE A HINT; I can't block him because in the case that he DOES have to ask/tell me something about the AA table, I kind of need to know. But yeah, this is really getting aggravating.
I'm certain that there's no quotequote"romantic" interest involved here, so he's just being overwhelmingly sketchy because that's who he is. It's like, the sum of the sketchiness of all the sketchy old guys at anime club. It's fucking SCARY. I'm really starting to dread AniBos, but like, I can't really tell him I don't want to do it anymore, right? (Plus I... I need the spending money...) I think I led him on too long by pretending I was interested in all of the fascinating happenings he was constantly blabbering about. My plan now is to just go to a huge number of events so I don't have to tablesit with him much, but the fact that there has to be any interaction at all makes me kind of want to cry.
Sorry if you were expecting real problems with real gravity in this post. I'm just... kind of at a loss.