Comments | strangecreature: *flings words like confetti*

strangecreature

flings words like confetti

Dec 08, 2010 19:09

So we did a prompt at writers' group last night... You could write about going to a ten-year reunion and either running into the person who had bullied you, the person you had bullied, or the date you ditched at prom. Just a little twenty-minute free write. I figured I might as well throw it on here, since this one's seriously unattached to ( Read more... )

writing, fic, fic: original fic

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

snakewhissperer December 9 2010, 19:01:07 UTC

hmm. I couldn't figure out the role the MC was playing (bully? prep girl? victim?) until the end...interesting perspective.

strangecreature December 9 2010, 19:47:22 UTC

Thank you kindly! :) (I suspect most bullies don't really think of themselves as bullies when they're doing it, so I was trying to hang on to that grey area mentality.)

snakewhissperer December 9 2010, 20:04:52 UTC

I suspect most bullies are retards who couldn't know a thought if it came out and bit them, but that's a whole different thing.

strangecreature December 10 2010, 01:51:58 UTC

But nobody just wakes up and goes "Today, I shall be an evil fucker!", do they...? Everybody justifies the things that they do somehow. Just sometimes the logic is a little more, uh, tortured reaching that conclusion. (Not to belabor this or anything! Sometimes I just fling thoughts around for the sake of doing so. *g*)

snakewhissperer December 10 2010, 03:31:47 UTC

my gut instinct reaction is above, but in retrospect and thinking with my mind..you're right. But evil is subjective anyway. you can call Saddam hussain evil but 'm sure his family loved him.....or maybe feared him. I'm not sure. But if you look at everyone who was 'evil' they had twisted, warped reasons...but reasons none the less.

and if i may quote you my favorite webcomic, Digger...Evil always has reasons and justifications. Good seldomly does.

strangecreature December 10 2010, 14:30:42 UTC

Man, if we had've had this conversation back when I was in junior high/early high school, I would've had exactly the same gut reaction as you and probably would've shown you a bunch of my, uh, creative writing about particular folks at school which could've gotten me in a fair bit of trouble, post-Columbine era. It seems like there are very few people out there who'll admit to having been a bully in school though, which makes me wonder if they ever clued in.

Ahh, I was meant to look that one up, wasn't I? Thanks, I'd forgotten! *bookmarks*

Back to all threads