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Different Likings and Doing it Right
11 years ago
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Been thinking about things a lot recently, about personal choices and preferences mainly. Now, I've established that I love taking the road lesser-traveled when it comes to creating things, and what I identify as. So naturally being a plant fits like a glove, fitting both of these qualifications easy. But sometimes, naturally, I wonder if there might be something else or not, if I couldn't have started another way as another character.
Lately I was asking myself this again when a good friend was teasing one of my likings, egging it on really. It's no secret this planty really likes things of the djinn/genie nature, and sometimes I find myself wondering about if I went down that route. I had a strong thought of doing so once or twice, but another friend kind of beat me to the punch, and I'm really against stepping on anyone else, "biting their style" really. ^^; So kinda begrudgingly that one was shelved, even if I do wonder a good few times now and then.
Also, my rather latent liking of things aquatic, hence the number of related forms to indulge my merphilia, sometimes I ponder if I went that way as well.
I guess in the end I often question if my even being planty really matters or makes any impact whatsoever to anyone, and if I couldn't just change and no one would really care. But recently I received a note rather unlike any I've ever received, and wow did it make things feel a whole lot better. I won't bore with the contents, but the gist was that they'd been a long-time watcher, and were generally telling me I was doing the whole leafy thing justice.
To think my choices were actually impressing upon anyone, or inspiring them with their own ideas was a tremendous confidence booster for me. I'm not a visual artist, so I can only express myself through my writings, and how I choose to be depicted, so to be able to be memorable for taking these two slightly less direct routes and still making any difference whatsoever makes me reconsider if perhaps the role I picked just so happened to be the one I was best suited to anyway.
I estimate there's not much of a point to this journal, just some stream of consciousness rambling I suppose. ^^; Just wanting to read my own words, and get up some fresh journal content to affirm that I wasn't gone or any such silly thing.
Lately I was asking myself this again when a good friend was teasing one of my likings, egging it on really. It's no secret this planty really likes things of the djinn/genie nature, and sometimes I find myself wondering about if I went down that route. I had a strong thought of doing so once or twice, but another friend kind of beat me to the punch, and I'm really against stepping on anyone else, "biting their style" really. ^^; So kinda begrudgingly that one was shelved, even if I do wonder a good few times now and then.
Also, my rather latent liking of things aquatic, hence the number of related forms to indulge my merphilia, sometimes I ponder if I went that way as well.
I guess in the end I often question if my even being planty really matters or makes any impact whatsoever to anyone, and if I couldn't just change and no one would really care. But recently I received a note rather unlike any I've ever received, and wow did it make things feel a whole lot better. I won't bore with the contents, but the gist was that they'd been a long-time watcher, and were generally telling me I was doing the whole leafy thing justice.
To think my choices were actually impressing upon anyone, or inspiring them with their own ideas was a tremendous confidence booster for me. I'm not a visual artist, so I can only express myself through my writings, and how I choose to be depicted, so to be able to be memorable for taking these two slightly less direct routes and still making any difference whatsoever makes me reconsider if perhaps the role I picked just so happened to be the one I was best suited to anyway.
I estimate there's not much of a point to this journal, just some stream of consciousness rambling I suppose. ^^; Just wanting to read my own words, and get up some fresh journal content to affirm that I wasn't gone or any such silly thing.
I think your being a plant is amazing. It's creative, it's outside the spectrum of "normal", even for furries. I've seen "closed" or "exclusive" species that are "original" or "creative", but still look like just another oddly colored canine. I think you have made a big impact and, as these comments show, have opened up ideas and possibilities to people they didn't consider. I think if you were to make some sort of change that removed the plant part, a lot of people would be upset.