pulling a Kurt
Earlier tonight I made a rookie mistake I've been waiting to make for a few weeks now: posted a reply on one LJI account while logged into another. This is also not the first rookie mistake I've made this season. So the jig is up.
dont_be_first and crafty_callie were related experiments brought to you by lossfound, aka the_day_setup (Season 8), mc_lji (Exhibit A, self-shitcanned), acalculatedname (Exhibit B), and - at one point (I can't even remember which season, it was the one running '08-'09) - part of the srs_bidness empire.
A number of you already knew / figured out that I was dont_be_first, and this was 100% by design. DBF was supposed to be a controversy-driven smokescreen for crafty_callie. Callie, in turn, was intended to be a much more interesting meta-character and experiment as time went on.
I wanted people who might possibly recognize my writing style to know that I was DBF... so that no one would know for a while that I was also Callie.
Callie was supposed to establish herself as Callie, then abruptly become not-Callie as quickly as possible. What we've seen from Callie the last few weeks was the start and situationally rushed ending of what I've been calling Phase 1, the "obvious" phase. During Phase 1, Callie, a patently mediocre-to-terrible LJI contestant, began casting her finely-honed image of "nothing special" as the LJI readership skimmed her and shrugged her off as 100% harmless.
Then she would have started gaining unexpected attention - first with her kayfabe public meltdown as Callie, which we've already seen in recent days, and then by essentially shedding her entire Callie-skin wholesale and abruptly "transforming" into something or someone who is obviously not Callie at all. That would have been Phases 2, 3, and/or however many additional phase-metamorphoses I could have gotten away with before being voted out.
Not-Callies #1, #2 and however-many-else would have taken things to dark, highly surreal and unexpected places. That's all I can really say about that at this time, besides the fact that it would have been great fun.
In addition to all the folks who have been good (or not-so-good) sports about the DBF thing, I must sincerely apologize to, and simultaneously applaud, crochet_all_day. She just happened to be the first person to actually say something even mildly critical to Callie. I had been waiting for that to happen for weeks. After she did that, I wrote and asked if she might be willing to play along with some really weird shit that I wasn't able to fully explain, but which I knew would leave her looking just fine in the eyes of LJI.
Deb was an absolutely great sport and never took anything "Callie" said personally (I kept sending her apologies with every nasty word). I can't imagine what she must've been thinking this last week or so, though!
Cheers and good luck to everyone in Season 9.
dont_be_first and crafty_callie were related experiments brought to you by lossfound, aka the_day_setup (Season 8), mc_lji (Exhibit A, self-shitcanned), acalculatedname (Exhibit B), and - at one point (I can't even remember which season, it was the one running '08-'09) - part of the srs_bidness empire.
A number of you already knew / figured out that I was dont_be_first, and this was 100% by design. DBF was supposed to be a controversy-driven smokescreen for crafty_callie. Callie, in turn, was intended to be a much more interesting meta-character and experiment as time went on.
I wanted people who might possibly recognize my writing style to know that I was DBF... so that no one would know for a while that I was also Callie.
Callie was supposed to establish herself as Callie, then abruptly become not-Callie as quickly as possible. What we've seen from Callie the last few weeks was the start and situationally rushed ending of what I've been calling Phase 1, the "obvious" phase. During Phase 1, Callie, a patently mediocre-to-terrible LJI contestant, began casting her finely-honed image of "nothing special" as the LJI readership skimmed her and shrugged her off as 100% harmless.
Then she would have started gaining unexpected attention - first with her kayfabe public meltdown as Callie, which we've already seen in recent days, and then by essentially shedding her entire Callie-skin wholesale and abruptly "transforming" into something or someone who is obviously not Callie at all. That would have been Phases 2, 3, and/or however many additional phase-metamorphoses I could have gotten away with before being voted out.
Not-Callies #1, #2 and however-many-else would have taken things to dark, highly surreal and unexpected places. That's all I can really say about that at this time, besides the fact that it would have been great fun.
In addition to all the folks who have been good (or not-so-good) sports about the DBF thing, I must sincerely apologize to, and simultaneously applaud, crochet_all_day. She just happened to be the first person to actually say something even mildly critical to Callie. I had been waiting for that to happen for weeks. After she did that, I wrote and asked if she might be willing to play along with some really weird shit that I wasn't able to fully explain, but which I knew would leave her looking just fine in the eyes of LJI.
Deb was an absolutely great sport and never took anything "Callie" said personally (I kept sending her apologies with every nasty word). I can't imagine what she must've been thinking this last week or so, though!
Cheers and good luck to everyone in Season 9.