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14 years ago
Because in essence I just kiiiinda sorta realized I have one. >.<
Y'see, many of my stories get inspired by art, which means in a lot of cases I'm essentially writing about anything from generic characters to fursonas, probably with changes because I drop and/or add details to suit my own preferences, tweak species, normalize colors, etc.
So I guess in light of that and my seeming inability to stop, I'm just going to start apologizing for the big ones as I release stories where it's blatantly obvious.
Segue to starting on that, I guess my first official apology goes out to
grisser for essentially stealing Vinnie from him for Glass Box. Admittedly, I said as much at the time and I added more to the character than Grisser ever probably had in mind in his one-off image, but still, I even cropped his pic for the icon without asking and for that, well, *holds out a large paper fan*, I'll be waiting should you ever find it all. Please don't sue me. >.<
And again, (official) apologies to
rrowdybeast specifically for the bull-wolf. I've always tried to hold off on fursonas as much as possible, but well, the dancing pic tripped something in my brain where before, if I'm being honest, I didn't have much interest in the design. I guess it's a testament to your ability to express emotion, which is something you've always excelled at and should be proud of, but doesn't excuse me adding something very, very similar, or at least something that can be assumed to be very similar in absence of my having gone into excruciating detail. I figure you for more of a baseball bat kinda guy, so, *holds out Louisville Slugger*, please don't sue me, either. >.<
That's about it for released material, actually. So far, at least.
DAY-LATE EDIT:
Just a thought on my own character, John (whom I just realized is a potential target for people drawing horrible things happening to if they're ticked at me (side note, contacted Grisser about Vinnie today and it went well, now considering whether I value my life enough to contact Fen)), I guess you could say I figured out our relationship at this point. To wit, it's kind of like Lan and MegaMan.exe from the MegaMan Battle Network games, only without all the fancy programming or unbeknownst to us being my twin brother. So I guess not really at all in all technicality, but in the sense that he's kind of my face online without actually being me and being his own entity.
So I guess an avatar that's not supposed to represent me in any way. ...Shut up! It's probably weirder for me than it is for you!
Like I always said, or at least have been saying, I generally see the avatar as a reflection of the self, so the idea that it's not is rather alien to me. So I guess you can say that my previous avatar, a net against the sky with the word Netsky in PC Senior font (don't bother downloading it, BTW; it's nowhere near complete and won't have the proper characters when it is) represents me perfectly in this place in that I took the wrong name and needed something to reinforce the right one in people's minds, as well as that I'm pretty well anonymous here.
I COULD just make an account under that name, mind you, but to be honest, I think Fen might be onto something with his changing accounts and I feel that a move would be the opposite of what I need to define myself at this point, ironically. I've been distancing myself from things I signed up for as Netsky, either intentionally or unintentionally, because to be honest I used it to sign up for things that simply didn't end up interesting me and in some cases I don't want hanging around my neck, and while I have signed up for things under it since beginning that move, such as Inkbunny, honestly, this is my #1 spot for my activities and the only place I've ever posted anything to. I mean I'm still going to prefer people to think of me as Netsky, but for the time being, making an account move, although I've been considering it, means losing everything I've done here and continue to do here, including the loss of PM convos with some truly great people as I went back to fix my mistakes. I guess you could say that while I'm Netsky, I still need to establish myself under the Jesse Cheetah name and finally define myself before I can properly take on the (renewed) Netsky identity. Because by that point I probably won't even remember any of my Netsky passwords.
Which is entirely not the point I set out to make, but I guess that's what journals are for. I dunno. I offered Fen a nice Ash bat, and John is there to provide a face, so I guess 1 + 1 = however many pieces Fen ends up wanting to draw from the resulting impact and I can sit back and feel bad for John while catching flying fish. It's nice to have a patsy. :P
Another day later:
Honestly, now that I've had time to think about it, I didn't actually describe Dunc in enough detail for it to really come off as Fen's character, at least without having put up a link to the pic that inspired him and the specific scene. There are more canine-bovine hybrids out there than his and while he's the image I have, that's not really the image I gave. At least not in the text. So I guess I've just been doing more overreacting. I've been doing that a lot lately, but then I've got a lot splitting my attention at the moment, so I haven't been giving myself much time to actually park myself and really judge in my harried time.
Y'see, many of my stories get inspired by art, which means in a lot of cases I'm essentially writing about anything from generic characters to fursonas, probably with changes because I drop and/or add details to suit my own preferences, tweak species, normalize colors, etc.
So I guess in light of that and my seeming inability to stop, I'm just going to start apologizing for the big ones as I release stories where it's blatantly obvious.
Segue to starting on that, I guess my first official apology goes out to
grisser for essentially stealing Vinnie from him for Glass Box. Admittedly, I said as much at the time and I added more to the character than Grisser ever probably had in mind in his one-off image, but still, I even cropped his pic for the icon without asking and for that, well, *holds out a large paper fan*, I'll be waiting should you ever find it all. Please don't sue me. >.<And again, (official) apologies to
rrowdybeast specifically for the bull-wolf. I've always tried to hold off on fursonas as much as possible, but well, the dancing pic tripped something in my brain where before, if I'm being honest, I didn't have much interest in the design. I guess it's a testament to your ability to express emotion, which is something you've always excelled at and should be proud of, but doesn't excuse me adding something very, very similar, or at least something that can be assumed to be very similar in absence of my having gone into excruciating detail. I figure you for more of a baseball bat kinda guy, so, *holds out Louisville Slugger*, please don't sue me, either. >.<That's about it for released material, actually. So far, at least.
DAY-LATE EDIT:
Just a thought on my own character, John (whom I just realized is a potential target for people drawing horrible things happening to if they're ticked at me (side note, contacted Grisser about Vinnie today and it went well, now considering whether I value my life enough to contact Fen)), I guess you could say I figured out our relationship at this point. To wit, it's kind of like Lan and MegaMan.exe from the MegaMan Battle Network games, only without all the fancy programming or unbeknownst to us being my twin brother. So I guess not really at all in all technicality, but in the sense that he's kind of my face online without actually being me and being his own entity.
So I guess an avatar that's not supposed to represent me in any way. ...Shut up! It's probably weirder for me than it is for you!
Like I always said, or at least have been saying, I generally see the avatar as a reflection of the self, so the idea that it's not is rather alien to me. So I guess you can say that my previous avatar, a net against the sky with the word Netsky in PC Senior font (don't bother downloading it, BTW; it's nowhere near complete and won't have the proper characters when it is) represents me perfectly in this place in that I took the wrong name and needed something to reinforce the right one in people's minds, as well as that I'm pretty well anonymous here.
I COULD just make an account under that name, mind you, but to be honest, I think Fen might be onto something with his changing accounts and I feel that a move would be the opposite of what I need to define myself at this point, ironically. I've been distancing myself from things I signed up for as Netsky, either intentionally or unintentionally, because to be honest I used it to sign up for things that simply didn't end up interesting me and in some cases I don't want hanging around my neck, and while I have signed up for things under it since beginning that move, such as Inkbunny, honestly, this is my #1 spot for my activities and the only place I've ever posted anything to. I mean I'm still going to prefer people to think of me as Netsky, but for the time being, making an account move, although I've been considering it, means losing everything I've done here and continue to do here, including the loss of PM convos with some truly great people as I went back to fix my mistakes. I guess you could say that while I'm Netsky, I still need to establish myself under the Jesse Cheetah name and finally define myself before I can properly take on the (renewed) Netsky identity. Because by that point I probably won't even remember any of my Netsky passwords.
Which is entirely not the point I set out to make, but I guess that's what journals are for. I dunno. I offered Fen a nice Ash bat, and John is there to provide a face, so I guess 1 + 1 = however many pieces Fen ends up wanting to draw from the resulting impact and I can sit back and feel bad for John while catching flying fish. It's nice to have a patsy. :P
Another day later:
Honestly, now that I've had time to think about it, I didn't actually describe Dunc in enough detail for it to really come off as Fen's character, at least without having put up a link to the pic that inspired him and the specific scene. There are more canine-bovine hybrids out there than his and while he's the image I have, that's not really the image I gave. At least not in the text. So I guess I've just been doing more overreacting. I've been doing that a lot lately, but then I've got a lot splitting my attention at the moment, so I haven't been giving myself much time to actually park myself and really judge in my harried time.
