tommygirl: (carrie - sex & city)
So there is another wank/drama going down in fandom. All I know about it is from what I've seen on my friends list, so I have no real opinion either way. I don't know the site in question (really, am I a part of fandom? I live in a bubble where I just watch tv and think about pretty boys). I feel terrible about these poor girls who got the C&D, mostly because I would be freaking out if I ever got something like that (I used to run a humor site for Nsync so uh...yeah), but at the same time, I'm not feeling really compelled to hate on Jensen.

So I will stay in my corner with the shiny pretty boys and watch Generation Kill

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I need to do some writing. I keep saying that and then get distracted by random things. Ugh.
tommygirl: (sga - sheppard - oh please)
So from [livejournal.com profile] ladybug218, I discovered a post on the fun that is FanHistory and such and am seriously appalled and freaked out.

I'm the first to admit that I live in a fandom bubble most of the time and rarely, if ever, get involved in wank and drama that's going on, but this one has me rather upset.

I don't know the people involved personally, but I don't think there should EVER be a situation where you out a fannish person unless there is some huge legal ordeal...and even then, you don't out them PUBLICLY.

And then I followed the link to the post on [livejournal.com profile] fanthropology, how to maintain fannish privacy, which seems to miss the point entirely, and I was freaked out even more because this person seems to think of it as justification for what she's doing.

Of course, when you post something to the internet a large degree of privacy is lost. Your words/actions can be seen by many more people than you originally intended. Most of us understand that concept and accept that risk, but the idea that the only way to protect yourself is to basically not participate in fandom is utterly ridiculous. That's a bit of a paranoid way to go about things - though given what partly_bouncy did, I get why she'd be paranoid that people were like her.

Personally, I think the best way for the majority of us to protect ourselves is to stand up against the small minority of people out there who don't understand boundaries, who don't fathom the request for personal privacy that most of fandom is okay with. Because while we're full of wankers and drama queens, most of us wouldn't take the fandom dramas into real life. And those that would? Should be dealt with.

I read [livejournal.com profile] ithiliana's response on the issue and I agree that more people need to stand up as a whole and say this sort of behavior will not be tolerated. It's one thing for a person to live his/her real life with everyone knowing of their fannish interactions, but a lot of us don't want that sort of meshing, and no one - BNF or regular joe schmoe - should have to be outted by anyone else.

I think, though, what really bothers me about this whole situation is that it could be motivated by the whole OTW debacle. That a person's dislike of the organization could make them think it's okay to attack someone else.

I'm personally ambivalent to OTW at the moment - I've read intriguing posts for/against it - and that's not really the point of this post. The only reason I mention it is to make my ambivalence on the group clear so that it doesn't look like I'm taking sides on that account. I have no vested interest in OTW or the people opposed to it. All I care about at the moment is the idea of someone going too far and making fandom less than fun for people. And it appears that's exactly what has happened.

So that's it. partly_bouncy is wrong and if she doesn't realize it, then maybe more people need to make her aware of that. If someone doesn't want his/her personal information attached to his/her fandom information, an outside force should not get to take it upon themselves to share the information with the world and then hide behind ridiculous reasoning that the internet isn't private. There is a bit of room to play with that most of us, until now, have respected, and I think we, as members of fandom, have to protect each other in these situations, not feed the flames.

ETA: it's been suggested not to link to pb's livejournal or fanhistory as she earns revenue with hits. And really, I'd rather not see her inappropriate behavior rewarded.
tommygirl: (jensen & jared - do do)
Before I go shower and procastinate further on my writing, I just want to say one thing regarding the current SPN wank.

I don't care. I know I write RPS of Jared and Jensen and this is possibly hypocritcal of me, but I don't really care to get involved in their (real) personal business. Be happy, live a good life, vote Democrat (er...how'd that get in there?), but really, that's about it.

And I still love Jared and his contagious smile and his laugh and how much he loves Jensen and his fans.

And I adore Jensen.

So that's it from me. I promise you won't hear anymore from me on this topic.

Instead, I will prod you lovely darlings to write me the Jared/Jensen version of Move Over Darling like I mentioned in my last post!
tommygirl: (supernatural - hugging)
Happy Supernatural Day, my darlings! I hope it is fabulous and does not break our hearts (oh Sammy, oh Dean). Alas, I won't be watching this one (or the last two that aired) until this weekend, so if I'm avoiding livejournal tomorrow, it's because of that.

Tonight the Flyers play and they MUST win or they will have been swept by the Penguins. And that would make me sad.

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I hear there is wankage between Twilight and Harry Potter fandoms, which just makes me roll my eyes. I happen to like both Harry Potter and Twilight and neither are the most well written books in the history of the world. But they both have highly addictive storylines that sucked me in.

I guess I'll never understand why people have to put down those that like things that they don't. It's one thing to be vocal about your hatred of a book/show/etc, but to make it seem like anyone who likes it is a moron serves no real purpose. Life is way to short to be worrying about things like this. Lordy.

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I feel like there was something else I wanted to mention, but it's completely disappeared from my mind. Is this a sign of getting old?
tommygirl: (charmed - brothers1)
I step away from the computer and fandom for twenty-four hours and not only does Britney go crazy, but some asshat decides to plagerize an entire journal. I didn't know [livejournal.com profile] thamiris, but wow the balls to do something like this. I understand witty posts aren't always easy (if you read my journal, you know that *rarely* does my brain work enough for such things), but that doesn't mean you can steal someone else's thoughts. It's just...I think the fact that he took her posts/comments/user info bothers me more than the fic - it's simply creepy.

On the Britney topic, just oh Britney. Seriously, my friends, it's really sad when Kevin Federline is the sane, good parent in the mix. These poor kids. I'd really like to see Britney get her act together enough that maybe she can be a good mother. It's just sad.

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Barack! I loved his victory speech in Iowa last night. I sorta love all three of the lead democrats at the moment, but wow, that was such a great speech. Wouldn't it be nice to have a President who could formulate words again without coming across as an idiot and/or ass?

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I'm falling asleep as I type this, but I want to get my [livejournal.com profile] yuletide fics reposted and do some reading...this may or may not happen. Such is my life as a sleepyhead.
tommygirl: (firefly - brain quote)
First, thank you to whoever sent me the mix tape! It says it's from Dean Winchester, but he's not nearly as thoughtful as y'all on my friends list! ::huggles::

So those plans to do some writing last night? After taking my meds, I fell asleep and when I woke up, I ended up watching Flash Gordon from this week and Blade Trinity. That means today I really need to suck it up and write. Stupid sinuses!

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Upon glancing at my friends list it seems there is a lot of fandom wank stuff going on. It's times like this I'm glad I'm on the fringes of fandom in general. I have no idea what's been going on and don't really care except that I hate to see people on my friends list get hurt in any way. And it makes me wonder about people, just like hate memes and other drama do - is someone's real life just that sad? Or is there something in the "anonymous" nature of the internet that makes people think it's okay to be a complete ass to one another?

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And thanks to [livejournal.com profile] mahaliem I have passes to the MOMA that will be used this Friday! I'm very excited...it's been awhile since I've been there. And it comes the day after my visit to the King Tut exhibit! Woo-hoo! It's museum week for me.
tommygirl: (supernatural - dean (tommygirl))
The drama going on continues to unfold around us and I'm still not sure what to make of it. My journal will continue to remain unlocked as much as it has always been over here. Quite frankly, if my journal ends up getting deleted because I've posted a few Sam/Dean stories where they are CONSENTING ADULTS and have clearly marked it not for children, then I'm not sure I want to be posting my stuff here anymore.

Livejournal is going to have to do something to work with fandom at some point, as I'm guessing the collective we (all fandoms) make up a hell of a lot of their revenues. I can't imagine they want to alienate us all away from using their product.

That said, I went around over at greatest journal and tried to friend those of you on my friends list that I found there. So if you're wondering who dastardlyspoon is, it's me. And feel free to friend me over there if you wish. While I'd hate to ever leave livejournal after so long, dude, greatest journal gives me SO MANY icon slots!

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Fannish Goals for today:

-Finish [livejournal.com profile] iamentheos's first prompt
-Post some recs
-Finish the last of the first kiss drabbles (so if you want one, go here)

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I ended up signing up for [livejournal.com profile] spn_harlequin because Nan is evil and posted really interesting and ping-worthy prompts. So yes, another challenge. [livejournal.com profile] larah33 and [livejournal.com profile] ladybug218 are going to make a community that's all about pestering me - I see it now. Heh.
tommygirl: (firefly - brain quote)
So things are going all crazy and wanky, it seems. The whole thing seems bizarre and while I think trying to catch real predators is important and that livejournal has to cover its own ass, well, fiction is still fiction. That said, I understand why people are locking things down and such. I don't think I'm going to quite yet. I've never used any of the inflammatory keywords in my userinfo, but we'll see how things goes.

For worst case scenarios, I am dastardlyspoon on greatest journal and thankfully, I have my own domain, so I could always just go back to primarily posting there.

Also, if it comes to it, and I need to lock down, I will give ample warning.

But again, we'll see how all this plays out.

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The Tuesday Ten

1. Ever performed in public? Sung in a choir, done karaoke, school plays, play-plays, etc etc?

Yes, I was a dancer and theater geek from the time I was four. I loved performing in front of people - singing, dancing, acting. I sometimes miss it now and think about getting involved in community stuff, but no time.

2. Your best subject at school is/was? History and English

3. Your favourite dessert is_____? (It would be polite to share recipes here :) )

Strawberry frazier from Miel

4. Pick a superpower, ANY superpower! Whatchu pick?

Invisibility

5. Whats your worst habit that you're prepared to admit to here on LJ?

I bite my nails. The minute they grow at all, I bite them.

6. How often do you visit the: Dentist/Doctor/Hairdresser/Beautician

Dentist = every six months for cleaning (more if issues), doctor = all the freaking time, hairdresser = every six months or so

7. What's that ONE word you can just NEVER say properly out loud?

coupon

8. Your fave new purchase is? My new mattress topper

9. Ever faked your folks signature?

My mom's iss bloody impossible and my dad's was chicken scratch, but I tried

10. Do you prefer cold or hot weather? Winter Vs Summer!

Winter. I can always bundle up, but god, I hate being sweaty without a good excuse for it. Hee.

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SPN Fandom: Don't forget to participate in my first weekly Supernatural Hiatus Fandom Frenzy question. And please feel free to pass it onto your fellow friends as well.

[livejournal.com profile] schmoopfest is still taking prompts until Friday. All fandoms, all pairings, just bring the schmoop.

Now, I'm going to try to finish the first ficlet for [livejournal.com profile] iamentheos since I didn't get to it earlier like I had originally planned.

Ciao darlings!
tommygirl: (charmed - chris (know me))
In making the rounds on my friends list, I stumbled upon this little gem about making Supernatural fandom BNF free. And the problem I find with things like this - if you're really trying to to make a change (which I do think in a way this person was attempting - as she makes some good suggestions for newbies) - focus on the solutions rather than calling people out by name and implying things about them. Because even though she didn't "hate" on anyone, going a negative route won't garner positive results.

1) Fandom is what you make of it. I do believe that. Sure, there are things out of your control. Wank and craziness is going to happen from time to time, but for the most part, each of us decides what are online life is going to be. If you want more feedback on your stories (and I do agree that we all love comments), post it around. Sign up for challenges so you're interacting with more potential readers. Do something about it. If you want a bigger friends list, don't just friend people, but start conversations with them. And decide what you want out of your friends list ahead of time. For example, for the most part, I think of mine as a reading list...sure, I've made great friendships, but it's a list of journals of people who share my interests, produce fic/vids/recs/icons that I enjoy, and individuals I can have random conversations with via comments.

2) On that note, I really have to ask - are BNFs honestly that unapproachable? Because the list from that post? I've chatted with most of those girls at various points via comments or emails and they were all quite willing to talk back. Is it just a fear of reaching out to people? Because that's not the BNF's fault, but yours.

3) You've got to be reasonable. The more good stories you write, the more comments you're going to get. Most of these BNFs are classified as such because they produce a lot of really enjoyable fic. But I'm sure if you took the time to ask any of them about things, they'd tell you the earlier stories didn't start out with tons of comments.

4) I'm all for commenting on more fic that you read. I personally do my best to comment on all the stories that I enjoy, especially the ones I end up reccing, but I'm not always great about it. However, I find it rather insulting that if I leave feedback for a better known author, I'm fawning all over them.

And I think that's my main problem with the entire post that [livejournal.com profile] impertinence made. She talks to fandom as though it's comprised of idiots. I'm a grown woman. I know what I like, what I don't like, and I don't need to be scolded into doing anything because a particular person isn't getting what they want out of fandom. And really, that's how that whole post read. A few good ideas, but they were lost in this tirade of how everyone in fandom needs to do this and that.

You want an example of how to do it: [livejournal.com profile] dragonsinger created a community for Lesser Known Fen, where people could post recs/pimp journals of people who create really great things in fandom, but don't always get recognition. There were no demands, no bitchery...she just went about making a positive. That's what you do. (The community is [livejournal.com profile] littlenamefan if you're interested!)

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Anyway, I'm hoping to get caught up on massive amounts of reading and writing this weekend. I really would like to do some more with my Dean Winchester Crossover 'O Doom so that I could get it to Steph at some point.

Oh, and Steph and I are at it again. We've begun plans for a challenge idea, but we're gonna wait a few months until both our lives are a little less crazy. So expect more on that to come soon. But really, she and I...are we the best people to have these ideas? We're great at ideas, bad at follow through most of the time.

Hopefully there will be more fannish fun stuff coming later, but for now I'm hoping to finish up the work week.

Ciao!
tommygirl: (firefly - brain quote)
So here's the thing. I'm a pretty laid back person, pretty "whatever floats your boat" type of thinker, especially where the Internet is concerned. I don't think fandom should be stressful or filled with drama and I try to keep my experience limited to people who share those sentiments.

But just to be clear, one way to get immediately on my bad side never to return from there is to start attacks on people, especially hiding behind "anonymous." You have a problem with someone, you go to them. Privately. You don't involve the whole fucking fandom/internet.

I try to be a good friend and kind and do what I can for fandom, but I'm hardly a perfect person. I hold a fucking grudge and can be quite a vindictive bitch. So if I find out people on my friends list are running or participating in hate memes where they're bashing other people (whether I know these people or not), I will ban you from my journal. That's how much that sort of thing pisses me off.

And now I will return to writing my spn holiday story. I will finish this...even though all I really want to do is find good Tony-centric fic for NCIS.
tommygirl: (blade trinity - king)
I am alive. It seems my plans for a very quiet vacation were thwarted by friends, family, and the boy, who managed to get me to sit through not only Fast & the Furious, but Too Fast, Too Furious this evening. Tomorrow we do the final Tokoyo Drift one - lucky me. I tried to get out of it, claiming that since my stitches came out this morning - I'm all good - that I should get to pick such things, but noooo...

He's lucky that I'm a sucker for the promise of cute boys and nice cars.

**

tomorrow at some point, I must finish up my SPN Holiday story. I've started it and I'm liking it thus far, but it needs to get finished. I don't want my person to end up with nothing - I've had that happen to me and it's a sucktastic feeling.

**

I've barely made a dent in [livejournal.com profile] yuletide fic. I really need to work on that. And dude, I'm so far behind on all the good SPN fic out there once again...add to it all the holiday challenge stuff and I might not get caught up on fic reading for quite awhile.

**

So SPN has a wank - incest/slash is the devil and woe betide the lack of gen/het and women should stay home and raise their kids so they wouldn't grow up to read/write the porn of two boys together.

First off, totally wrong fandom to try this in as this fandom has huge amounts of GOOD gen fic and a decent amount of het fic as well. Prior to being broken by [livejournal.com profile] poisontaster's amazing wincest, I always found a lot to read...I never found myself thinking, "Those damn wincesters are discriminating against me.

And if I couldn't find fic, I would write it myself, or force one of my lovely friends to write it for me.

I guess it all goes back to my belief that fandom is whatever you make it to be.

But dude, could we keep the "women belongs in the houses with the kids" stuff out of it? I have stay at home mom friends and I have working mom friends and both sets are equally good at being parents...and women don't work out of a sense of "greed" usually. It's called eeking out a living and having a purpose in life aside from raising children.

Grrr...

Now I shall go read lots of Sam/Dean doing bad things...maybe while Nathan/Peter watch! Because I'm a feckless sort.

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And that's all for me this evening. I need sleep. Tomorrow is packing up to be so much fun, what with the promise of more Fast & Furious viewing in my life.

Ciao darlings!
tommygirl: (jensen2)
How the hell did I get pulled into this Smallville drama? Oy. Oh well, I guess it will make for an interesting friday.

Does this mean that you guys will send the only known cure for the sinus headache of doom - Jensen Ackles? Do what you must to get him, but really, without him, I will surely die of my headache.


**

So Supernatural last night - repeat, but god do I love Sammy in this episode. And Dean at the end still makes my heart wrench.

**

Today I am hoping to finish my beta work on Steph's [livejournal.com profile] yuletide fic. Here's to hoping that work slows down a tad and my headache 'o doom goes away. Stupid caffeine withdrawal. I could never handle coming off any hardcore drugs, people. I'm nearly passed out from the pain of just a headache. I can only imagine what I'd be like in withdrawal of hardcore drugs. I'd just die. And yes, I truly am a big baby in the face of pain.

I would also love to actually do some writing. Wouldn't that be magnificent?

Go awaaaaaaaay, headache.

Alrighty, ciao darlings. I must go beat my co-worker, Mike, over the head because he's blasting Little Richard and making my JC bobblehead dance.
tommygirl: (arrested development)
Wow! Smallville fandom has exploded today. I could only catch up on things via caps and such, but hello insanity. My gut is to trust [livejournal.com profile] svmadelyn, not just because she's on my friends list, but I know how much she does for fandom and how she wouldn't call bullshit on someone unless she thought there was reason to. And it seems there is reason to - what with journals disappearing left and right, IP address stuff, etc.

Seriously, at this point, if there was proof to substantiate the claim, wouldn't you provide it? (And I also believe that if Madelyn was provided proof that she was wrong, she *would* apologize).

But really. Damn. This puts a whole wrinkle in my plot to try to collect Patrick Swayze posters to help [livejournal.com profile] iamtheenemy through the ordeal of a horrible lazy eye injury. Drats, foiled again.

Yes, I'm a terrible person.

But not as terrible as someone who fakes miscarriages and accidents to get attention. That's disturbing.

And way too time consuming for someone like me. God, stories to keep straight, posts to keep making that involves logging in and out of livejournal repeatedly? No way. I nearly give up on the internet every time that stupid "database error" message appears on my screen - sandwich or battle lj? uh sandwich.

Anyway...

::huggles her friends list:: I love you guys and thank you for not bringing the crazy.

And to any of my friends list who were caught up in this or duped, ::more huggles::

Seriously, I used to think the Nsync fandom was *insane.* I think I'll go watch some Supernatural reruns and think happy Sam/Dean thoughts.
tommygirl: (hp - smirky draco)
It's Monday and I had a pretty crappy weekend. I also had a pretty weird dream last night where I was in the middle of the Rent, but Roger got AIDS from a bear bite. My sister wondered if I had been watching Colbert Report before bed, but nope, my subconscious just has a weird fear of bears, I guess. So weird dreams, crappy weather, and bad weekend, but there are no bosses in the office today and my co-worker and I have decided to ingest a whole lot of sugar for lunch (milkshakes from Wawa that she's picking up and this chocolate brownie cake from Shoprite that I'll pick up). Needless to say the day might shape up to be a decent one.

Also in the plus category, the stories for Multiverse 2006 are up. Not only did I hear from the person I wrote for, who thankfully enjoyed the story, but I got a great story of my own, Three Men and a Jail Cell, which features John Cricthon, John Sheppard, and Mal Reynolds. I haven't read any of the other stories yet, but I hope to get to those later today. Definitely wonderful.

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In other news, I've succumbed again to the wanks 'o past by reading about Cassandra Claire's plagiarism. I'm so glad that I never participated in the Harry Potter fandom overall, that I just sorta read random stories that I liked and didn't care about the who and what of it all. I did read the Draco Trilogy for awhile, but there were a lot of quotes from Buffy that would distract from the flow of the story. I'd be reading and then my brain would go, "I love Xander" and I'd be thinking about Xander while trying to read. I'm a very ADD sort of girl, people.

My thoughts on this whole thing are very limited to what I read because not a part of the fandom and I don't the people involved. The author of this "history" admits that it's quite biased, so we know we're not getting the full story, probably never will.

Anyway...

I didn't know the extent to which she had taken chunks of writing from other people...and wow. It's insane that she thought it was okay. And that so many people defended her over it, that basically inteliigent people defended what she did. It's one thing to unintentionally take a line or two (brains work in strange ways), but to take whole passages from a book and then act as though you don't know the name of the author you're borrowing from? That's a bit weird. Either she had a photographic memory or she was copying right from the book.

The thing about this wank that upset me the most while reading though was the argument that fanfiction is already plagiarism. That's ridiculous to me, though I could see how it could only make fanfiction, on a whole, look worse to those who didn't like it to begin with. Fanfiction, you're crediting the creator of the world all along, and while you're using the characters and that world in your stories, the writing and the story are original. It's not like someone is taking book six of Harry Potter and making a chapter fanfiction out of it. It's not okay to take large chunks of someone else's writing and pass it off as your own. I mean, I have great issues with writing really good description and settings...wouldn't it be lovely to have insta-help from a book in my library...but I don't use it.

And I guess I don't see the benefit. In that why would you want credit for something that's not yours? Wouldn't it eat at you to get accolades on something that you know isn't yours? And how does your writing ever improve if you're stealing from other people whenever you need "inspiration."

Eep. That's all I've got on the topic. The more of these fandom wanks I read from days of yore, the happier I am that I'm not a part of that kind of stuff. Hopefully, I never will be.

**

I'm almost done by Supernatural 50 States story. Well, the first draft anyway. It's going to need a bit of work before I even send it to betas. But I'm slowly getting caught up on things. I'm hoping things will be much easier come September when things slow down a bit in my personal life.

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Finally, I've told Steph that I want a Sheppard/McKay/Ronon story for my birthday. She laughed, but said she might try it. Woo-hoo. I can't believe I'm going to be starting my thirties come August 28th. When did I get old, people? I sure don't act my age.

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Alrighty, off to read friends list, multiverse, and enjoy lots of chocolatey goodness with my co-worker.

Ciao.
tommygirl: (bsg - frak)
I have a confession to make. I've spent the majority of the last hour reading up on the latest fun at fandom_wank, which I discovered courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] telaryn.

So let me state this once: I promise not to fake my own death, or that of anyone outside of characters in fanfiction, on my livejournal. This is, of course, based around the idea that I won't end up witnessing a mob hit or the Chinese government doesn't try to imprison me for invading their embassy. Under those circumstances, I may be forced to fake my own death, but you wouldn't be alone in being duped, livejournal friends, because the whole world would then mourn for Tommygirl. (No, I do not have delusions of my own importance - why do you ask?)

And I realize that it's not a funny thing to those that were involved in this whole wank, especially those who considered this livejournal person to be their friend, but I do find the perpetrator's reasoning to be somewhat humorous, if not condescending and asinine.

So no worries, mis amigas. I won't be dying of whooping cough anytime soon (::knocks on wood::)

As for this person who did this whole "fake death" thing. I teeter between dumbfounded and disgusted. I realize that the Internet provides a bit of anonymity to get away with things that one couldn't in real life, but Jesus, what in the hell possesses a person to treat others this way? It's sick and stupid and I just don't understand the motivation to do such things.

I don't know. I'm a pretty trusting person as far as most things go, mostly because I just don't see a reason to lie about stuff that wouldn't change my opinion of a person. I'm not completely gullible either, but for the most part, I choose to have faith in the people on my friends list...and things like this just make it harder for people to do that.

Oh well. I trust y'all - not enough to hand over my social security number (sorry [livejournal.com profile] dragonsinger, but I'm not falling for that one...again) - and I hope none of you turn out to be raving lunatics.

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