Now, as I expand to explore LiveJournal, DreamWidth and InsaneJournal, amongst other "journal" venues, I take my lessons with me. I take my consistencies with me and yes, I take my bluntness with me. On addressing this, I will lay down a few things that as I see them, are truths.
On these journal venues, I find a different, even alien, atmosphere. The diversity is much less apparent. Here, I have encountered the things that had once been rare on AOL: The sex-obsessed whoremongers. The liars. The god-complexes with standards reached only by erasing all sense of creativity. The skinny-bitch cover models -- to quote Foamy -- that look like chemo patients. Even, to an extent, an obsession with "Canons" and a most disturbing double-standard between canon characters and original creations. A sort of "class system", if you will, wherein canons with cover-model portraits are first-class citizens and original creations are second-class citizens. And worse, non-human-like, non-covermodel-like characters are a third class of citizens.
It disturbed me then and it disturbs me now.
At this point, I can imagine many of you already screaming "Well then, go back to AOL already!" or "Fit in with us!" To both of you crowds, I have this to say. AOL has pretty much shattered, going entirely to the whoremongers and photographic tripe. And no, I will not relinquish what creative ability I have (though I myself would not call it masterful to any extent -- such things are very relative) to become another dime-a-dozen, cheap B-novel writer whose writings are either sold at Wal-Mart knockoffs for two bits or simply used as pet litterbox lining. These things are ultimately forgotten. I believe Leonard Nimoy worded it best when he said in his second autobiography:
"Some work simply fills time and space. Sure, it will please the bosses and pay the bills but ultimately, that work is forgotten. Meaningful work endures."
Thus, I too, have some standard by which I operate. These standards might seem impossible but I do not believe they are. If they were, few, if any, would be roleplaying or writing -- individually or collaboratively -- today.
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On these journal venues, I find a different, even alien, atmosphere. The diversity is much less apparent. Here, I have encountered the things that had once been rare on AOL: The sex-obsessed whoremongers. The liars. The god-complexes with standards reached only by erasing all sense of creativity. The skinny-bitch cover models -- to quote Foamy -- that look like chemo patients. Even, to an extent, an obsession with "Canons" and a most disturbing double-standard between canon characters and original creations. A sort of "class system", if you will, wherein canons with cover-model portraits are first-class citizens and original creations are second-class citizens. And worse, non-human-like, non-covermodel-like characters are a third class of citizens.
It disturbed me then and it disturbs me now.
At this point, I can imagine many of you already screaming "Well then, go back to AOL already!" or "Fit in with us!" To both of you crowds, I have this to say. AOL has pretty much shattered, going entirely to the whoremongers and photographic tripe. And no, I will not relinquish what creative ability I have (though I myself would not call it masterful to any extent -- such things are very relative) to become another dime-a-dozen, cheap B-novel writer whose writings are either sold at Wal-Mart knockoffs for two bits or simply used as pet litterbox lining. These things are ultimately forgotten. I believe Leonard Nimoy worded it best when he said in his second autobiography:
"Some work simply fills time and space. Sure, it will please the bosses and pay the bills but ultimately, that work is forgotten. Meaningful work endures."
Thus, I too, have some standard by which I operate. These standards might seem impossible but I do not believe they are. If they were, few, if any, would be roleplaying or writing -- individually or collaboratively -- today.
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