The Golden Tether

Genothyst · Patron Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

Zex, you're throwing a fit at Alis for no other reason than the fact you probably take personal offense. You're seemingly angry (though I know you're going to say "lulz who's angry?? I'm not angry I'm too cool to even care ^_^") because Alis has stormed in here and accused everyone of writing like shit and then laid down some sort of rules that everyone has to abide by in order to roleplay to her standards. In reality, it looks more to me like she posted some rather helpful tips (and frankly I don't understand how you could get anything much else from it) and you got all on the defensive.

Your "nobody's perfect" excuse doesn't hold a lot of water. Just because we aren't perfect doesn't mean we cannot choose to try to improve -- nor try bestowing some of our helpful hints to others who just may be trying to as well.

And also, rewording and insulting parts of her post was just plain immature. Do you really think you're so much better than everyone else that you're entitled to tear her down and insult her just because you personally don't want to listen to what she has to say? That's so arrogant.

Zexnon · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:20 am Post subject:

Alis Dee · Patron Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Australia

Olleander · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject:

Alis

Firstly, I found your rant absolutely hysterical.

Countless times I have encountered people who griped, incessantly about that lack of flowery prose.

And maybe this is just me, but I'm a unpublished homo erotica writer, so I find using flowery prose pretty much gets me through any of the sex scenes I choose to write.

This rolls over into my RP time, I like using large adjectives and synonyms, hell, sometimes when I cant think of the exact word I want to use I type it into MS Word of go to dictionary.com and use the thesaurus option. (Mind you, I *know* how to correctly use the word, but sometimes when you've said that SAME EXACT WORD twenty-seven times in one post, you want a little variety)

From what I saw, you were mostly nitpicking over bad grammar and punctuation. (Both of these offenses can be applied to myself, my editor is forever calling me up at 2 am in hysterics because she's just added fifty two commas into a chapter only to find seven pages where I didn't even put in periods.)
(Here I must also point out that my editor is BRITISH, and tends to go into hysterics at 2 am because I've misused an English word, and then we fight over it's correct usage, until I point out that)

a.) I'm American

and

b.) As an American, I reserve the right to completely and unequivocally MASSACRE every English and Semi-English speaking language known to man because

c.) The American language is based in over (roughly) 100 different languages, and so

d.) OF COURSE IT ISN'T GOING TO BE PERFECT

It is HERE that I would like to point out that I noticed you are Australian, and that I'm 90% sure that a good 80% of people on Furcadia are AMERICAN.

And so, please refer back to a-d

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Zadkiel · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject:

Olleander...I have two things to say in response to your post.

1.) If you are a man, I love you but not in a gay way.

2.) If you are a woman, I love you but in a friendly way.

That is all, carry on. Laughing

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Xxys · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject:

Alis Dee · Patron Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Australia