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“The greatest writers have persistence.”- Gina Nahai
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This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: leave
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This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: leave
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Personal request: could you please put a post like this in a Journal, or on your own page somewhere?
I'm 45 years old, 46 in December. I've been Twopaw IC and a Furry for more than 30 years, and I've never understood where this kind of attitude comes from. I don't think you're trying to be dickish but yes, I see it and I just want to duck and cover and run and hide!
Please understand: not everybody can handle this as a joke or even levity. It doesn't even include a link to what would otherwise be a response to the Prompt. Hell, I want to see what you'd like to add. That much I'd relish, if you accept my veracity by this point.
-2Paw.
I'm 45 years old, 46 in December. I've been Twopaw IC and a Furry for more than 30 years, and I've never understood where this kind of attitude comes from. I don't think you're trying to be dickish but yes, I see it and I just want to duck and cover and run and hide!
Please understand: not everybody can handle this as a joke or even levity. It doesn't even include a link to what would otherwise be a response to the Prompt. Hell, I want to see what you'd like to add. That much I'd relish, if you accept my veracity by this point.
-2Paw.
I'm sorry, Vixyy; I was disappointed. I wanted to respond to the prompt, and I'm still feeling vulnerable. It's not XP_Author's fault. I'm not coping right now. I mean, I'm trying...the words aren't there. I'm frustrated and I'm not sure what to do. Well, I know one thing I need to do. I'll reply to XP_Author in just a sec.
-2Paw.
-2Paw.
Yeah, you're right. And I have a huge amount of trouble convincing myself it doesn't just happen to me. <hug!>
I think I still want to write a Prompt response; the idea I have is still whole and partly sparkplugged. I'm gonna, I want to and I'm going to write it. Thank you kindly, Vixyy, and XP_Author too.
-2Paw.
I think I still want to write a Prompt response; the idea I have is still whole and partly sparkplugged. I'm gonna, I want to and I'm going to write it. Thank you kindly, Vixyy, and XP_Author too.
-2Paw.
XP_Author, I apologize for my response earlier. I'm not in a good place right now, and that's something I've got to deal with; I can't make it anybody else's burden and I shot off my mouth at you, however much I tried to reduce it to some genera of calmness and reason. I don't suspect we've ever met and I can imagine what something like this might feel like coming from a near or total stranger.
Right now it's easier if I just keep my mouth shut. I'm going to react far too easily and while I think I'm thinking straight I genuinely don't know if I am or not. I don't know if I can trust a lot of my judgement right now. I hope you can forgive my behaviour. Facing uncertainty with the few means of communication I have severed or frayed is difficult, not that I imagine that's any great profundity.
Have a good one, and thanks for what patience you've spared with me.
-2Paw.
Right now it's easier if I just keep my mouth shut. I'm going to react far too easily and while I think I'm thinking straight I genuinely don't know if I am or not. I don't know if I can trust a lot of my judgement right now. I hope you can forgive my behaviour. Facing uncertainty with the few means of communication I have severed or frayed is difficult, not that I imagine that's any great profundity.
Have a good one, and thanks for what patience you've spared with me.
-2Paw.
I'm sorry you found it off-putting (this is not sarcasm or flippancy). As someone who is nearly 40 myself, and has been in the fandom for almost 25 years, I have reached the point where I refuse to change for other people anymore. That said, this was not meant to offend, and I'm not going to make something of this. I was going to just nod and move on with my life until I saw a little conversation had popped up from this.
Humor is subjective, after all. I am also not offended by someone not liking what I have to say. It is simply a fact of life that people are different. It is one of the unfortunate, yet glorious things about people. Everyone is different.
Humor is subjective, after all. I am also not offended by someone not liking what I have to say. It is simply a fact of life that people are different. It is one of the unfortunate, yet glorious things about people. Everyone is different.
I don't take it as sarcasm or flippancy in the least; I feel like I crossed a line more than anything you did or intended to do and that we're reasoning together, at least after a fashion, is something I'm grateful for. I won't insult you by saying I know where you've been but I get the feeling we might've faced enough of the same sort of thing that I've found myself come to a minding of my own I recognize by your own description, at least by basic context.
I don't know if I can handle writing it today but Vixyy has always been a patient friend, and more than that the open door for a Prompt response is always open. She's never remotely forced me to respond to the specific prompt but has simply been happy to know that I can manage it and often do. And that environment has enthused and encouraged me to push past the biases I struggle with and write.
So it's not crawling from the wreckage for me, it's belly-landing and fixing the engine and taking off. I don't want to give up and that I think is the most important thing. Look...again, I know we don't know each other at all, but if I'm not out of line in positing it: thanks for reaching out to me, and for at least affirming that I did not fully fuck up, that this was a mostly appropriate to human goof, not a deliberate unkindness.
I can do this. I know I can do this.
-2Paw.
I don't know if I can handle writing it today but Vixyy has always been a patient friend, and more than that the open door for a Prompt response is always open. She's never remotely forced me to respond to the specific prompt but has simply been happy to know that I can manage it and often do. And that environment has enthused and encouraged me to push past the biases I struggle with and write.
So it's not crawling from the wreckage for me, it's belly-landing and fixing the engine and taking off. I don't want to give up and that I think is the most important thing. Look...again, I know we don't know each other at all, but if I'm not out of line in positing it: thanks for reaching out to me, and for at least affirming that I did not fully fuck up, that this was a mostly appropriate to human goof, not a deliberate unkindness.
I can do this. I know I can do this.
-2Paw.
So this is what I started writing for this week's prompt, but after running late it also ended up incorporating next week's prompt just because it worked out well: /view/54256430/
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