20 (000) questions

[cleolinda]

So there's this thing called Formspring (formspring.me, not .com) where you can sign up to let people ask you questions, or ask them yourself; you can leave your username, but you can also ask anonymously. Enough people were doing it on Twitter that I finally broke down and thought, Okay, sure. I'll probably get some trolls or inappropriate

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[beckyh2112]

Your answer about being a certain type of Southern girl really cemented something in my head - because that's me. It's taken me years to admit that the people who read my fanwritings, no matter what those writings contain, are fans of mine.

I'm still almost-painfully people-pleasing. Does my boss need someone to fill more hours at work? Sure, I can do it! Never mind any plans I might have made, I would be letting people down at work if I didn't come in. Which almost inevitably leads to needing mental health days now and then because saying no to more hours even though they're stressing me out? Crazy talk! Telling my boss 'the way you have this set up so I am the only person doing this and it is insanely stressful, PLEASE get me some sort of helper!'? Also crazy talk!

So, yeah. I need to work on that.

[cleolinda]

I remember some boy in fourth grade cornering me and sneering, "You LIKE compliments, don't you? You LIKE THEM." "No, no, I don't, I don't!" What the hell?

[beckyh2112]

Seriously. That is so messed up.

I remember being told at a young age that I shouldn't 'fish for compliments', which seemed to mean 'do not show your new, shiny thing you just made to people' in the context.

Still have no idea how to handle compliments. 'Thank you!' seems to work when it's about something I've made, but if it's about something like the fact that I look nice dressed up or whatever, I have no idea how to respond. And 'thank you!' only works when I've had a day to process the compliment; like, my instinctive response isn't 'thank you!', it's 'crap, what the hell do I say? did I deserve this? are they right that I did this well? I so could have done this better, crap, I should tell them...'

[cleolinda]

I just say "Thank you," regardless, but often in a tone that says, "It is so sweet of you to say that," rather than, "Thank you, because it is totally true."

[jdotmi]

Well, there just went a half hour of my life reading that... and looking for other people I read on there...

That there has TVTropes levels of danger brewing. Some day, people will link to Formspring and the replies will be XKCD strips about civilizations devoured by the beast.

Hi, you don't know me

[vlexor]

But I was really gobsmacked by the douchiness of the Jon Stewart question asker.

What an ass.

People are just looking for some way to criticize, aren't they? (rhetorical.)

Anyway, just thought I'd say your journal is entertaining and so are your answers to questions.

Re: Hi, you don't know me

[cleolinda]

Heh, thanks. I was kind of blown away by that myself. There's a reason I don't allow anonymous comments here, and it's because it makes my life so much easier and happier.

[maudelynn]

who was the weirdo that asked about vodou dolls?
Oh, wait that was me :P

Here's mine
http://www.formspring.me/maudelynn

I say answer all the rude questions with this

[cleolinda]

I should have used that as my answer to "What kind of super power would you want to have?"

[laurelin_kit]

I'm intensely curious about the weird questions you've turned down. People are so WEIRD about people with internet fame. It's like they can't distinguish between distant celebrity and ONE OF THEIR OWN that happened to strike it big.

[cleolinda]

They haven't really gotten weird yet--right now they're just "none of your business" questions, like do I have a day job and if so where, why do I live with my family and not on my own, etc. The kind of thing where, if I haven't told you before, there was probably a reason.

The "Did you seriously just compare yourself to Jon Stewart?" question was assy, but I didn't turn it down.

[laurelin_kit]

Yeah, I saw that one. They were seriously looking for something to bitch about.

[cleolinda]

Huh. "Has anyone proposed marriage to you?"