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james castle
Devil in Cell-Block D
Joined: 30 Jul 2004
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Yeah, I also have to tap out. You clearly have very strong opinions about what people CAN and CANNOT do with characters that you LOVE. Great. It comes off as immature fanboy/girlism but to each his own.
In terms of the system stuff, let's just leave it at you being a fan of Criminal Minds and me being not a fan of that. I think that says it all.
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Katerine
Flying Blind
Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 45
Location: USA
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Hi guys (mainly Francesco and james),
I just wanted to quickly say I'm sorry for being so... repetitive... in here. I am often repetitive, I know, and I know it could be tiresome. I didn't know that it came across as trying to pound an idea into your heads, but apparently it comes across that way as well. I apologize for that as well.
That's not actually the real reason I've been repeating the same things over and over, though, so I just need to explain. The real reason is...
As of a few years ago, because of, well, this:
| Katerine wrote: | | I'm going to take a moment to talk about myself... hope that's ok... I've struggled with depression for most of my adult life. And in recent years, especially right around (ironically) the time of Bendis' run, it took a turn for the worse. Everything I ever did wrong in my life was constantly in the back of my mind. And then, suddenly, I couldn't hold a thought in my head. I couldn't compose a rational sentence. One of my biggest joys in life... doing what I'm doing right now and posting on the Internet... was lost because I couldn't make sense of anything. It was... scary. Really scary. Still is. |
...I am not as confident in my ability to communicate as I used to be. Especially not in writing (that is, I was never confident in my ability to convey my meaning while speaking, but I used to be confident that what I write adequately conveys my meaning. Not anymore).
Sometimes (like, ironically, in the above-quoted paragraph), I can look at what I wrote, and know that I did, in fact, manage to come up with the right combination of words, to convey the meaning that I need to convey. Cut, print, moving on.
Other times, not so much. There are times when I look at what I've written, and I think it might communicate my meaning, but I'm not completely sure. So I have to try again. And again. And again. Sometimes several times in the same post. Apparently, this is worse with some subjects, then with others. Namely subjects where communicating involves certain words (like, say, "escapism" and "immersion") that I'm not even confident mean the same things to me that they do to the reader. So, on top of everything else, I have to try to define the words to make sure we mean the same things. All while working with a vocabulary that's increasingly limited, because stress decreases my vocabulary. 
I should have explained this at the outset, but I didn't even really realize it until yesterday. But when I write like that, what I really needed to see wasn't agreement, but rather a clear indication that I did, in fact, succeed in communicating my meaning. Without that confirmation, I tend to assume I failed, and I have to try again.
None of this is your fault, and I'm sorry for having you sit through all of that. But it's also not really something that I can help, short of stopping all communication with other human beings altogether.
I wasn't trying to pound anything into anybody's heads or to force anybody to agree; quite the opposite, and I'm sorry if my behavior stressed anybody out. That wasn't what I meant to do at all. I really... I just wanted to communicate, and to know that I was communicating. That's all. |
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Francesco
Underboss
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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| Katerine wrote: | | ADWD is sluggish, which is weird, because, unlike book AFFK, it has most of my favorites. |
The first part is sluggish because it only deals with the half of the setting that had been ignored in the previous book. Later in the book the stories merge chronologically and it flows better. |
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Francesco
Underboss
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don't worry! don't feel sorry for anything, in the end we're just people fooling around in a forum.  |
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james castle
Devil in Cell-Block D
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Francesco wrote: | | don't worry! don't feel sorry for anything, in the end we're just people fooling around in a forum. |
Agreed.
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