#90 · 3:52pm May 3rd, 2020
I wrote a (non-pony) thingy for a laugh and sent it to my mother (because I have no audience for anything non-fanfiction related) and she said it was good but worried about the "anxiety" and "sense of invasion" in it and asked if I was okay.
I wrote it for a laugh, damnit!
This is only noteworthy (to me at least) as it seems to continue a theme where people are reading far more into what I write than I think about when I'm writing it. 99.9% of what I do is done for shits and/or giggles, with no real intention behind any of it. But then it meets with readers and pow!
Death of the author and all that. It's Last One Out all over again. I didn't think it was that sad! I thought it was melodramatic enough to be funny!
...maybe this all says more about me than I care to realise...
I for one would like to read the non-pony thingy. I like your style.
It might just be that your sense of humor is different than other people's, but if you're worried you should see a shrink
But of course,the sentence "the curtains were blue" does not actually mean they were blue,the author merely recalled a repressed childhood memory of almost drowning in blueberry jam and added it as a memetic message that anyone with latent physic ability should be able to pick up due to the selective evolutionary pressure focused on our brains caused by the herculean mental fortitude neccesary for modern society.
The less message a story has the more room is left open for personal projection and interpretation. You leave people with just enough to speculate but not enough to pull an obvious message or moral, leaving us to fill in the blanks. In a way, this is one of the best types of literature xD. It can be whatever we want. It’s like play-doh. Pony and tea flavored play-doh.
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Seconded, if belatedly. I'd recommend Wordpress. I've posted things there and had over 4 people read them! So if you want them available but where no one will find them, it's perfect!
...Also it has a very nice user interface and less onerous TOS's than some other sites.
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I tend to favour Tumblr for my stuff-no-one-wants-to-read. Because...
...I forget why. But I do.
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Eh I don't think tumblr existed when I made my wordpress... or at least I wasn't aware of it. But it also works for that purpose. :P