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Posted 12 years agoI feel like artificially inflating my self-worth, so here we go!
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1. We all know what we call you, what about the folks at home? What's your name?
It varies tremendously. I have my furry name, my writing name, my gamer name, and my real name, and I go by all three of my real names depending on the person.
It's pretty hilarious when I'm Skyping with a five-man gaming group, and everyone in the call calls me something completely different.
2. How tall are you?
6'0".
3. Natural hair color?
Dark brown.
4. What about eye color?
Brown.
5. What orientation are you?
Mostly gay.
6. Are you single, taken, or undecided?
Single. Passively looking.
7. What do you do in your spare time?
Playing with equations and IDL scripts, gaming (mostly LoL these days with my lulzy e-gang), reading/writing, or just chilling in my second home (the physics undergraduate lounge).
8. What's your job?
Student.
9. What's one thing you like about yourself?
My strong sense of intellectual curiosity.
10. Alright, now what about something you dislike about yourself?
I can be too trusting; unanswered questions bug me to no end; and, when my train of thought is repeatedly interrupted, I can get sort of snappy.
11. What's some things your friends noticed about you when they first met you?
They say I'm smart and funny. TYPICAL RESPONSE I KNOW.
12. Of what faith/religion are you(if any at all?)
Atheist, but I'm not a jerk about it. If religion makes you happy, go for it. After all, that should be the point.
13. Do you drink?
No.
14. Do you smoke?
No.
15. What are your fears?
That I'll get stuck doing research I don't like.
16. What are your dreams/goals?
To become a professor and publish scientific papers. Also to find a stable partner, but that's likely years away.
17. Ever had any crushes/ex's in the past/present?
Yes, though I've generally been known to keep to myself.
18. Who's your best bud?
In person, everyone from the physics department. Srs, these guys rock.
Online, some nerdfag I play League with. We have a little too much fun sometimes.
19. Alright, you got the cravin' for munchies, what'cha reachin' for?
Pita and hummus. Or popcorn.
20. Favorite drink?
Dihydrogen monoxide!
21. Favorite color?
Blue.
22. If you had any super power, what would it be?
At the moment I'm honestly leaning towards immortality, so I could keep learning and researching forever. I am not going to live nearly long enough to explore all the fields of math and physics I want.
23. Favorite movie?
Don't really have one!
24. Least favorite food?
Coleslaw.
25. Quick! You have only one meal left before you die!!! What is it?
Shrimps.
26. What do you drive/wish you drove?
Something that transports me from point A to B.
27. Most disliked bug?
Mosquito. Those kinky bastards love sucking my blood.
28. Most hated pet peeves?
Artificial perception of knowledge. (If you claim to know theoretical quantum mechanics and astrophysics but can't even solve Laplace's equation, I'm gonna throatpunch you in the spleen you scumbag.)
29. Dislike in life?
A lot of cultural norms. Mores and folkways if we're being technical.
30. Most annoying?
People who ask stupid, dumb, idiotic, asinine, absurd, contradictory, poorly-formulated questions in class every single day. Seriously, **** you, you **** ******** **** ** *******ing *****. :( :'(
31. Most disliked TV show?
Don't really have one!
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1. We all know what we call you, what about the folks at home? What's your name?
It varies tremendously. I have my furry name, my writing name, my gamer name, and my real name, and I go by all three of my real names depending on the person.
It's pretty hilarious when I'm Skyping with a five-man gaming group, and everyone in the call calls me something completely different.
2. How tall are you?
6'0".
3. Natural hair color?
Dark brown.
4. What about eye color?
Brown.
5. What orientation are you?
Mostly gay.
6. Are you single, taken, or undecided?
Single. Passively looking.
7. What do you do in your spare time?
Playing with equations and IDL scripts, gaming (mostly LoL these days with my lulzy e-gang), reading/writing, or just chilling in my second home (the physics undergraduate lounge).
8. What's your job?
Student.
9. What's one thing you like about yourself?
My strong sense of intellectual curiosity.
10. Alright, now what about something you dislike about yourself?
I can be too trusting; unanswered questions bug me to no end; and, when my train of thought is repeatedly interrupted, I can get sort of snappy.
11. What's some things your friends noticed about you when they first met you?
They say I'm smart and funny. TYPICAL RESPONSE I KNOW.
12. Of what faith/religion are you(if any at all?)
Atheist, but I'm not a jerk about it. If religion makes you happy, go for it. After all, that should be the point.
13. Do you drink?
No.
14. Do you smoke?
No.
15. What are your fears?
That I'll get stuck doing research I don't like.
16. What are your dreams/goals?
To become a professor and publish scientific papers. Also to find a stable partner, but that's likely years away.
17. Ever had any crushes/ex's in the past/present?
Yes, though I've generally been known to keep to myself.
18. Who's your best bud?
In person, everyone from the physics department. Srs, these guys rock.
Online, some nerdfag I play League with. We have a little too much fun sometimes.
19. Alright, you got the cravin' for munchies, what'cha reachin' for?
Pita and hummus. Or popcorn.
20. Favorite drink?
Dihydrogen monoxide!
21. Favorite color?
Blue.
22. If you had any super power, what would it be?
At the moment I'm honestly leaning towards immortality, so I could keep learning and researching forever. I am not going to live nearly long enough to explore all the fields of math and physics I want.
23. Favorite movie?
Don't really have one!
24. Least favorite food?
Coleslaw.
25. Quick! You have only one meal left before you die!!! What is it?
Shrimps.
26. What do you drive/wish you drove?
Something that transports me from point A to B.
27. Most disliked bug?
Mosquito. Those kinky bastards love sucking my blood.
28. Most hated pet peeves?
Artificial perception of knowledge. (If you claim to know theoretical quantum mechanics and astrophysics but can't even solve Laplace's equation, I'm gonna throatpunch you in the spleen you scumbag.)
29. Dislike in life?
A lot of cultural norms. Mores and folkways if we're being technical.
30. Most annoying?
People who ask stupid, dumb, idiotic, asinine, absurd, contradictory, poorly-formulated questions in class every single day. Seriously, **** you, you **** ******** **** ** *******ing *****. :( :'(
31. Most disliked TV show?
Don't really have one!
Eighth in SoFurry's Wintertime Story Contest
Posted 12 years agoWith "Diverging roads." I'm pretty happy about that, considering that it was a sexless hour-long quickwrite, tagged for the contest in retrospect after submission. I'm sort of thankful for that last part, as I've always been terrible at writing for prompts...
On Physics
Posted 13 years agoI am, for the first time, taking a physics course that is not explicitly designed for physics majors, and I have to say that I am, for the first time, seeing why so many people dislike physics.
Strictly speaking, that statement is a misnomer, because I feel that there is very little physics in this course. The book simply presents equations and the problems provide multiple sets of numbers to plug into them, hiding them behind unit conversions and clever wording to make the act of plug-and-chug seem difficult rather than strictly tedious.
The text is purely designed around two things: memorization and calculation. Not around the real fun of physics, which is understanding and explaining physical phenomena. For example, when it teaches special relativity, it presents the Lorentz transformations for time strictly in terms of t, which is fine and dandy for simple calculations, but it fails to mention the more physically-important form, written in terms of ct. Therefore, one of the key concepts of special relativity--the concept of Minkowsky space (x, y, z, ct) and by consequence Minkowsky space-time diagrams--is lost... and thus the theoretical concept (and beauty) of the spacetime interval as anything but an equation is lost.
When the book presents proofs, it's as if it deliberately presents them to be confusing, by consequence of leaving out the "difficult" details--for example, not citing the trigonometric identities used to simplify the equation of a standing wave from the sum of two waves. With traveling waves, it simply says "wt-kx travels to the right and wt+kx travels to the left," without giving any mathematical justification as to why (okay, that might be a little too picky, but it still bothered me because it's encouraging memorization rather than understanding). In doing so it ironically makes actual understanding of the material more difficult... so all you can do is memorize.
In two chapters of waves, there also has been no mention of the d'Alembertian wave equation, so when someone asks, "Mathematically, what is a wave?", well, there's no answer anywhere in the textbook. Consequently, there is no way to tell if an equation satisfies the wave equation and there is no proof for superposition.
Perhaps I'm spoiled by my excellent education the past two semesters (the fact that I know all of these things is sort of testament to that). But to me, this "physics for chemists and engineers" class is boring and superficial.
Strictly speaking, that statement is a misnomer, because I feel that there is very little physics in this course. The book simply presents equations and the problems provide multiple sets of numbers to plug into them, hiding them behind unit conversions and clever wording to make the act of plug-and-chug seem difficult rather than strictly tedious.
The text is purely designed around two things: memorization and calculation. Not around the real fun of physics, which is understanding and explaining physical phenomena. For example, when it teaches special relativity, it presents the Lorentz transformations for time strictly in terms of t, which is fine and dandy for simple calculations, but it fails to mention the more physically-important form, written in terms of ct. Therefore, one of the key concepts of special relativity--the concept of Minkowsky space (x, y, z, ct) and by consequence Minkowsky space-time diagrams--is lost... and thus the theoretical concept (and beauty) of the spacetime interval as anything but an equation is lost.
When the book presents proofs, it's as if it deliberately presents them to be confusing, by consequence of leaving out the "difficult" details--for example, not citing the trigonometric identities used to simplify the equation of a standing wave from the sum of two waves. With traveling waves, it simply says "wt-kx travels to the right and wt+kx travels to the left," without giving any mathematical justification as to why (okay, that might be a little too picky, but it still bothered me because it's encouraging memorization rather than understanding). In doing so it ironically makes actual understanding of the material more difficult... so all you can do is memorize.
In two chapters of waves, there also has been no mention of the d'Alembertian wave equation, so when someone asks, "Mathematically, what is a wave?", well, there's no answer anywhere in the textbook. Consequently, there is no way to tell if an equation satisfies the wave equation and there is no proof for superposition.
Perhaps I'm spoiled by my excellent education the past two semesters (the fact that I know all of these things is sort of testament to that). But to me, this "physics for chemists and engineers" class is boring and superficial.
In Review
Posted 13 years agoThe craziness has died down a little bit and a lot has happened recently, so I figured I'd give some updates like I did last semester...
(Warning: this post contains personal information that you do not care about if you follow me strictly for stories.)
1.) I have yet again somehow scraped out another 4.0. I feel like a particular class I took this semester is probably the most difficult class in the curriculum, so that makes me feel somewhat hopeful for the future. Also recognized in some weird fellowship thing where I eat vegetable soup with librarians and chat with them about books concerning Cubans and African-Americans and African-American Cubans and get $2000/year.
2.) I have a definite research plan, and if I can figure out how to do multivariable minimizations in IDL and Perl, I should be able to present at a few research conferences in March or so. This might prove to be impossibly difficult, depending on platform/software limitations (gotta work with the dated code of NASA's SSP model), but we'll see.
3.) Santaday! Newtonday! I gave and received, and some notable mentions:
(a) Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. 1155 pages of table. Pure, genius, awesome table, with all the integrals and series expansions you'll ever need. It also functions as a weapon, pillow, and engineer-deterrent. And by virtue of being a nearly three-inch thick book, the Tome of Table adds +5 to scholarly appeal when equipped to your bookshelf.
(b) Kindle PaperWhite, which unsurprisingly, has encouraged me to read more. Currently chunking away at 11/22/63.
4.) I've had lots of ideas floating around in my head for stories recently, which all things considering, is unsurprising. It seems that when writing is detrimental to my GPA, sleep, or social life, I want to write; when I have nothing to do, I get lazy.
5.) I've considered setting up a Twitter for this identity, as well as a blog for my dabbling in physics, both for me (to immortalize things I've learned so that I don't forget them) and for others (for knowledge and amusement). I've learned some pretty interesting things and have a few rants to go on. I plan on looking into options sometime in the future for this and considering what kind of identity I should use. (The #1 concern at this point is if WordPress or some other similar software can use LaTeX input... if not, then, oh well.)
(Warning: this post contains personal information that you do not care about if you follow me strictly for stories.)
1.) I have yet again somehow scraped out another 4.0. I feel like a particular class I took this semester is probably the most difficult class in the curriculum, so that makes me feel somewhat hopeful for the future. Also recognized in some weird fellowship thing where I eat vegetable soup with librarians and chat with them about books concerning Cubans and African-Americans and African-American Cubans and get $2000/year.
2.) I have a definite research plan, and if I can figure out how to do multivariable minimizations in IDL and Perl, I should be able to present at a few research conferences in March or so. This might prove to be impossibly difficult, depending on platform/software limitations (gotta work with the dated code of NASA's SSP model), but we'll see.
3.) Santaday! Newtonday! I gave and received, and some notable mentions:
(a) Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. 1155 pages of table. Pure, genius, awesome table, with all the integrals and series expansions you'll ever need. It also functions as a weapon, pillow, and engineer-deterrent. And by virtue of being a nearly three-inch thick book, the Tome of Table adds +5 to scholarly appeal when equipped to your bookshelf.
(b) Kindle PaperWhite, which unsurprisingly, has encouraged me to read more. Currently chunking away at 11/22/63.
4.) I've had lots of ideas floating around in my head for stories recently, which all things considering, is unsurprising. It seems that when writing is detrimental to my GPA, sleep, or social life, I want to write; when I have nothing to do, I get lazy.
5.) I've considered setting up a Twitter for this identity, as well as a blog for my dabbling in physics, both for me (to immortalize things I've learned so that I don't forget them) and for others (for knowledge and amusement). I've learned some pretty interesting things and have a few rants to go on. I plan on looking into options sometime in the future for this and considering what kind of identity I should use. (The #1 concern at this point is if WordPress or some other similar software can use LaTeX input... if not, then, oh well.)
Three Things meme
Posted 13 years agoTHREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1) Orvayn
2) --
3) --
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1) Orvayn
2) --
3) --
I go by exactly three names on the Internet, but I don't typically link them to this one.
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) intellectual curiosity
2) work ethic
3) empathy
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) I don't like people. Especially jive turkies.
2) I'm easily distracted.
3) I'm generally bad at organizing or cleaning unless I'm doing it to procrastinate doing work.
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1) Fortran (It yells at me.)
2) Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds (I will conquer you one day, vile fiend.)
3) heart arrhythmias
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1) giant whiteboard (Right now it is has various electromagnetic and thermodynamic equations/derivations scattered on it.)
2) iPhone, to Google random things
3) desktop computer (Built it myself a while ago, though now it needs an upgrade...)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1) pants
2) skin
3) hair
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS/SINGERS:
1) Bach
2) Dvorak
3) Mahler
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1) Bach Cello Suite #2
2) Mahler 5
3) various tracks from the Skyrim and GW2 soundtracks
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1) Thai and Indian food
2) applying for the Goldwater scholarship
3) Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics (hnnng)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1) Enough commonalities that we could entertain ourselves for extended periods of time.
2) Someone who can deal with dating a theoretical physicist. (It's likely I'll require regular dates with the largest nearby whiteboard.)
3) A friend.
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE IN NO ORDER
1) I own art by all my favorite furry artists.
2) I have had heart surgery.
3) I pay nothing for college.
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THEOPPOSITE SAME SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1) brain (I guess that's physical?)
2) general body shape
3) ...face?
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1) get up without either hitting the snooze button or feeling like a zombie
2) invert a matrix by hand (Using Guass-Jordan elimination. I can do it using a cofactor matrix...)
3) play Jax in League of Legends
THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO:
1) explain complicated things fairly easily
2) hum along with music I don't know
3) play just about anything by ear on trumpet (and maybe piano)
...and procrastinate by doing memes, apparently.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1) music analysis and composition
2) gaming
3) writing
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1) take a break from school to recover my wits
2) finish undergrad so I can get to the real stuff and move somewhere
3) go get food
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1) professorship
2) government-employed scientist
3) industry-employed scientist
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1) Italy
2) France
3) California
THREE KID'S NAMES:
1) Marty
2) Gertrude
3) Jefimenko
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1) publish a lot of scientific papers
2) influence a lot of young people to get into the sciences
3) publish a book
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY:
Orvayn
Orvayn
Orvayn
...wait.
1) Orvayn
2) --
3) --
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1) Orvayn
2) --
3) --
I go by exactly three names on the Internet, but I don't typically link them to this one.
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) intellectual curiosity
2) work ethic
3) empathy
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) I don't like people. Especially jive turkies.
2) I'm easily distracted.
3) I'm generally bad at organizing or cleaning unless I'm doing it to procrastinate doing work.
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1) Fortran (It yells at me.)
2) Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds (I will conquer you one day, vile fiend.)
3) heart arrhythmias
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1) giant whiteboard (Right now it is has various electromagnetic and thermodynamic equations/derivations scattered on it.)
2) iPhone, to Google random things
3) desktop computer (Built it myself a while ago, though now it needs an upgrade...)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1) pants
2) skin
3) hair
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS/SINGERS:
1) Bach
2) Dvorak
3) Mahler
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1) Bach Cello Suite #2
2) Mahler 5
3) various tracks from the Skyrim and GW2 soundtracks
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1) Thai and Indian food
2) applying for the Goldwater scholarship
3) Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics (hnnng)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1) Enough commonalities that we could entertain ourselves for extended periods of time.
2) Someone who can deal with dating a theoretical physicist. (It's likely I'll require regular dates with the largest nearby whiteboard.)
3) A friend.
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE IN NO ORDER
1) I own art by all my favorite furry artists.
2) I have had heart surgery.
3) I pay nothing for college.
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE
1) brain (I guess that's physical?)
2) general body shape
3) ...face?
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1) get up without either hitting the snooze button or feeling like a zombie
2) invert a matrix by hand (Using Guass-Jordan elimination. I can do it using a cofactor matrix...)
3) play Jax in League of Legends
THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO:
1) explain complicated things fairly easily
2) hum along with music I don't know
3) play just about anything by ear on trumpet (and maybe piano)
...and procrastinate by doing memes, apparently.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1) music analysis and composition
2) gaming
3) writing
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1) take a break from school to recover my wits
2) finish undergrad so I can get to the real stuff and move somewhere
3) go get food
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1) professorship
2) government-employed scientist
3) industry-employed scientist
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1) Italy
2) France
3) California
THREE KID'S NAMES:
1) Marty
2) Gertrude
3) Jefimenko
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1) publish a lot of scientific papers
2) influence a lot of young people to get into the sciences
3) publish a book
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY:
Orvayn Orvayn Orvayn...wait.
Motivation
Posted 13 years agoBeen a while since I've posted any stories, and I'm not convinced that will change anytime soon.
The past few months haven't really been great for me as a writer. I had a free summer with plenty of time to take advantage of and actually write something (something I'll never have again); I ended up just making a bunch of small doodles that were all ultimately disappointing. I did produce a few things that I liked, but they were kind of silly and I was basically the only one who liked them. It's probably been five or six months since I've been decently proud of something I wrote, and that was for a school assignment, so I had external motivation to put in effort for that.
Now that I've got classes to deal with again and astrophysics research to dive into, I doubt that I'll be spending any more time on writing than I was in the summer.
I'm still... kind of writing, I suppose. A few days ago I started writing a small story, and it was fun, but I don't have much motivation to write the two or so paragraphs that are left and give it an editing pass so I can post it. I would just rather play video games or learn a new equation or learn more piano skills.
I have friends who encourage me and offer feedback and discuss writing with me, and they've been really helpful over the summer, but I really think this is an internal problem that only I can fix. I'm hoping that the act of posting this journal will somehow motivate me, because writing used to be something that was really fulfilling for me. It just lately hasn't been, for whatever reason. Which is perfectly okay, but a little disappointing.
tl;dr: I'm lazy.
The past few months haven't really been great for me as a writer. I had a free summer with plenty of time to take advantage of and actually write something (something I'll never have again); I ended up just making a bunch of small doodles that were all ultimately disappointing. I did produce a few things that I liked, but they were kind of silly and I was basically the only one who liked them. It's probably been five or six months since I've been decently proud of something I wrote, and that was for a school assignment, so I had external motivation to put in effort for that.
Now that I've got classes to deal with again and astrophysics research to dive into, I doubt that I'll be spending any more time on writing than I was in the summer.
I'm still... kind of writing, I suppose. A few days ago I started writing a small story, and it was fun, but I don't have much motivation to write the two or so paragraphs that are left and give it an editing pass so I can post it. I would just rather play video games or learn a new equation or learn more piano skills.
I have friends who encourage me and offer feedback and discuss writing with me, and they've been really helpful over the summer, but I really think this is an internal problem that only I can fix. I'm hoping that the act of posting this journal will somehow motivate me, because writing used to be something that was really fulfilling for me. It just lately hasn't been, for whatever reason. Which is perfectly okay, but a little disappointing.
tl;dr: I'm lazy.
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves
Posted 13 years ago...have apparently blessed me or something. Saw The Tempest (with 
gofostergo) last weekend, courtesy of my old fancy Artsy high school, and lots of great things have happened in the wake.
1.) I aced all my exams and ended up with a 4.0 GPA for the year, as an Honors physics major. LIFE IS GOOD.
2.) I redeemed myself from a history of atrocious luck by winning
Kyell's guess-the-wordcount contest, so now I'll be getting a mysterious prize shipped to me at some point.
3.)
Pyrostinger reblogged my old Warcraft story today, which was a pretty pleasant surprise. (Anyone looking for MOAR STORIES should read his.)
4.) Other personal things that wouldn't make any sense if I explained them here, but I can assure you that they're awesome.
gofostergo) last weekend, courtesy of my old fancy Artsy high school, and lots of great things have happened in the wake.1.) I aced all my exams and ended up with a 4.0 GPA for the year, as an Honors physics major. LIFE IS GOOD.
2.) I redeemed myself from a history of atrocious luck by winning
Kyell's guess-the-wordcount contest, so now I'll be getting a mysterious prize shipped to me at some point.3.)
Pyrostinger reblogged my old Warcraft story today, which was a pretty pleasant surprise. (Anyone looking for MOAR STORIES should read his.)4.) Other personal things that wouldn't make any sense if I explained them here, but I can assure you that they're awesome.
Is being gay a choice?
Posted 14 years agoWhy does it matter? People should have the freedom to love whom they choose--though most people would confirm that you have choice in neither whom you love nor the sex you love.
Why we hate when you ask for sequels
Posted 15 years ago*Orvayn spends four days writing a story that is a sequel to nothing. He posts said story and gets a few comments that say little more than, "Sequel!"*
I don't let it on, but I don't like this.
"WHY," ask thou? It's a genuine question, because I think a lot of people honestly think asking for a sequel is a compliment. But it's not! Why?
1.) Writers are always writing something. Writing "sequel plz" feels like you're implying that I have nothing else to write but a sequel. But the time I spend writing a sequel would be time I could spend on writing another story you could yell "sequel" to, you know.
2.) In a similar fashion, it's as if you question my judgment. It's as if you're saying, "Yo Orvayn, I'm really happy you got all those ideas, and I'mma let you finish, but "Perils" was one of the best stories of all time, and you should really be writing a sequel."
3.) I know my own story. If it would benefit from a sequel, I would write it--or better yet, I would've ended the story where it deserved to end and not cut it off so that it requires a sequel for completion.
4.) Sometimes a story is done. Just because you like the story doesn't mean you would like a sequel (again, if I knew a sequel would work, I would write it). If I posted a story online, the story is its own unit and I usually can't continue it, because most of the time I really have nothing left to say.
5.) It makes me feel like I'm not appreciated. What if I bought you a drink, and instead of appreciating it, you just asked for more? It's like saying, "This isn't good enough as it is. It needs more." It's fine if you think that, but if what you're really trying to say is that you liked the story, say that, and not that you want more of it.
Hearing "sequel" doesn't make me mad, but it doesn't make me particularly happy, either. If you have genuine suggestions for something that I could do in the future, feel free to tell me. I won't inflict any bodily harm on you and I won't say anything negative to you if you do ask for a sequel; just know that it's less of a compliment and more of a demand.
(Also, all the comments to my last journal were lost, along with my ability to respond to them.)
I don't let it on, but I don't like this.
"WHY," ask thou? It's a genuine question, because I think a lot of people honestly think asking for a sequel is a compliment. But it's not! Why?
1.) Writers are always writing something. Writing "sequel plz" feels like you're implying that I have nothing else to write but a sequel. But the time I spend writing a sequel would be time I could spend on writing another story you could yell "sequel" to, you know.
2.) In a similar fashion, it's as if you question my judgment. It's as if you're saying, "Yo Orvayn, I'm really happy you got all those ideas, and I'mma let you finish, but "Perils" was one of the best stories of all time, and you should really be writing a sequel."
3.) I know my own story. If it would benefit from a sequel, I would write it--or better yet, I would've ended the story where it deserved to end and not cut it off so that it requires a sequel for completion.
4.) Sometimes a story is done. Just because you like the story doesn't mean you would like a sequel (again, if I knew a sequel would work, I would write it). If I posted a story online, the story is its own unit and I usually can't continue it, because most of the time I really have nothing left to say.
5.) It makes me feel like I'm not appreciated. What if I bought you a drink, and instead of appreciating it, you just asked for more? It's like saying, "This isn't good enough as it is. It needs more." It's fine if you think that, but if what you're really trying to say is that you liked the story, say that, and not that you want more of it.
Hearing "sequel" doesn't make me mad, but it doesn't make me particularly happy, either. If you have genuine suggestions for something that I could do in the future, feel free to tell me. I won't inflict any bodily harm on you and I won't say anything negative to you if you do ask for a sequel; just know that it's less of a compliment and more of a demand.
(Also, all the comments to my last journal were lost, along with my ability to respond to them.)
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