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Um... No, No I don't have a damn charming sona.
6 years ago
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Um... No, No I don't have a damn charming sona.
Sorry to bother you with another journal, but I thought this might amuse you.
When I checked my shouts this morning, I found this gem by
which reads:
"You have a damn charming sona <3."
Wow! What a complement! It meant so much to me. It would have meant even more... if only I had a sona.
But I wasn't about to let that thorny little detail get in the way of thanking Mramor for leaving the shout.
No.
So I went to Mramor's page and was about to leave a shout... but something told me to look around first and see if I could find out what motivated this particular furry to look me up.
What did I find?
Mramor had just set up a shinies tipping system on her page. In fact, she even had a submission- a screen grab of the shinies system to let us all know that she was open for business and that the first tippers would be offered artwork in return. I appreciated Mramor's ingenuity and ambition and I was about to leave a comment mentioning just that- but then I began thinking to myself: "It's just a bit of a coincidence that she sets this up on the same day she leaves a shout on my page.
Hmmm...
I looked at the shouts that people left on Mramor's page. All recent. Some hours old. All thanking Mramor for her glowing complement.
So I went to all their pages to read the shout that Mramor left for them.
Guess what shout Mramor gave each and every one of those furs:
"You have a damn charming sona <3."
Yes, darlings. She left them the exact same pasted comment she left me.
I know what you are thinking.
"Dreamwindow", you say. "So what? Its totally natural. Like you've never done it before?"
Yes. Yes, I've done it.
Ok, Story time!
I was in fifth, no sixth grade. It was the night before the school Valentine's Day party.
I had to fill out 24, no 25 Valentine's cards.
It's not like I wanted to go to the party.
It's not like I wanted to give anyone Valentine cards, never mind fill them out.
But God forbid I not show up and have to come in the next day and have the class watch and giggle as the student who got the short straw had to get up and give me a baggie of Valentines that he had to collect for me- all happening right in front of the teacher's desk.
Been there, done that.
So I had to fill out these cards. What do you think I did? I put the same message in each one.
It was not: "You have a damn charming sona <3."
I mean, I didn't want to get beaten up or anything.
So I picked what I thought would be the least offensive generic comment I could think of:
I wrote: "You're a real cool kid!"
I didn't add a happy face. No one did that in those days.
I wrote it 25 times. In fairness, I hand-wrote each card. There was no copy and paste back then. And no email, texting, etcetera. I licked every envelope myself.
So one could at least argue that effort was made.
I passed them out thinking no one would be the wiser. What I did not anticipate is that all the other students would compare cards. Oops.
Yes, they actually got up in front of the class and began reading their Valentines.
"Look what Alex wrote me, one said proudly. 'You're a real cool kid!'"
A wave of disgruntled whispers dispersed across the classroom, followed by icy stares at me.
Sheesh, it's a friggin' card. What the hell do you want? Shakespeare?
I shrugged my shoulders, huddled at my desk, and thought about all the years I had ahead of me to disappoint every person who enters my life.
Yes, I have done it. And I am not above doing it now. But my motives for doing it are less... self-serving than those of Mramor.
You see, as I checked all the pages where Mramor left the shout: "You have a damn charming sona <3.", I couldn't help but notice that they all had something in common. Can you guess what it is?
All these furries have given out shinies. Including me. And I don't mind saying that I've given out a lot of shinies. Mramor found furries like me by perusing people's pages and making a list of people who give shinies. She then leaves a shout, hoping to attract people to her page where they just might leave shinies. Which is what I almost did. Still might do.
She worked hard to market herself and deserves any consideration she receives. But as a person who has been there and done that- and been burned by doing that... I have learned that putting one over on others, especially fellow furries, especially me, does not motivate me to hand over those shinies. Before bullsh*tting me, at least scan my page and find out if I have a sona first. Sheesh!
Love, -D.
9/9/19
Sorry to bother you with another journal, but I thought this might amuse you.
When I checked my shouts this morning, I found this gem by
which reads:"You have a damn charming sona <3."
Wow! What a complement! It meant so much to me. It would have meant even more... if only I had a sona.
But I wasn't about to let that thorny little detail get in the way of thanking Mramor for leaving the shout.
No.
So I went to Mramor's page and was about to leave a shout... but something told me to look around first and see if I could find out what motivated this particular furry to look me up.
What did I find?
Mramor had just set up a shinies tipping system on her page. In fact, she even had a submission- a screen grab of the shinies system to let us all know that she was open for business and that the first tippers would be offered artwork in return. I appreciated Mramor's ingenuity and ambition and I was about to leave a comment mentioning just that- but then I began thinking to myself: "It's just a bit of a coincidence that she sets this up on the same day she leaves a shout on my page.
Hmmm...
I looked at the shouts that people left on Mramor's page. All recent. Some hours old. All thanking Mramor for her glowing complement.
So I went to all their pages to read the shout that Mramor left for them.
Guess what shout Mramor gave each and every one of those furs:
"You have a damn charming sona <3."
Yes, darlings. She left them the exact same pasted comment she left me.
I know what you are thinking.
"Dreamwindow", you say. "So what? Its totally natural. Like you've never done it before?"
Yes. Yes, I've done it.
Ok, Story time!
I was in fifth, no sixth grade. It was the night before the school Valentine's Day party.
I had to fill out 24, no 25 Valentine's cards.
It's not like I wanted to go to the party.
It's not like I wanted to give anyone Valentine cards, never mind fill them out.
But God forbid I not show up and have to come in the next day and have the class watch and giggle as the student who got the short straw had to get up and give me a baggie of Valentines that he had to collect for me- all happening right in front of the teacher's desk.
Been there, done that.
So I had to fill out these cards. What do you think I did? I put the same message in each one.
It was not: "You have a damn charming sona <3."
I mean, I didn't want to get beaten up or anything.
So I picked what I thought would be the least offensive generic comment I could think of:
I wrote: "You're a real cool kid!"
I didn't add a happy face. No one did that in those days.
I wrote it 25 times. In fairness, I hand-wrote each card. There was no copy and paste back then. And no email, texting, etcetera. I licked every envelope myself.
So one could at least argue that effort was made.
I passed them out thinking no one would be the wiser. What I did not anticipate is that all the other students would compare cards. Oops.
Yes, they actually got up in front of the class and began reading their Valentines.
"Look what Alex wrote me, one said proudly. 'You're a real cool kid!'"
A wave of disgruntled whispers dispersed across the classroom, followed by icy stares at me.
Sheesh, it's a friggin' card. What the hell do you want? Shakespeare?
I shrugged my shoulders, huddled at my desk, and thought about all the years I had ahead of me to disappoint every person who enters my life.
Yes, I have done it. And I am not above doing it now. But my motives for doing it are less... self-serving than those of Mramor.
You see, as I checked all the pages where Mramor left the shout: "You have a damn charming sona <3.", I couldn't help but notice that they all had something in common. Can you guess what it is?
All these furries have given out shinies. Including me. And I don't mind saying that I've given out a lot of shinies. Mramor found furries like me by perusing people's pages and making a list of people who give shinies. She then leaves a shout, hoping to attract people to her page where they just might leave shinies. Which is what I almost did. Still might do.
She worked hard to market herself and deserves any consideration she receives. But as a person who has been there and done that- and been burned by doing that... I have learned that putting one over on others, especially fellow furries, especially me, does not motivate me to hand over those shinies. Before bullsh*tting me, at least scan my page and find out if I have a sona first. Sheesh!
Love, -D.
9/9/19
I think that at the time, if those kids had shown you more sympathy and maybe realized that not everyone has the time or inclination to create 25 unique Valentine's Day cards, things would have played out a little different between you and Mramor. I say give her a shinie (what's a shinie? is that a new feature?). Some FA members just want a little validation and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.