emlion wrote:
lol i wish i could play people like a violin.
it'd make my life so much easier.
if i could control people i'd have stopped many things happening to me in the past.
i am really not sure how this became so inflamed.
i will say the reason why i said what i said.
there was a thread that was something like "post an unflattering picture of yourself". you posted a picture of yourself that was not unflattering, and you captioned it with a self deprecating comment, and i thought to myself "there soon will be many people drawn to the opportunity to tell emlion that she is very pretty without looking like a creep", and i was right.
it has happened on a few occasions (as far as i can interpret), and each time, there was a choral response.
i wondered if you were actually "externally composing " the sentiments of your replies with the words you said. every time i read the (almost) "love song" replies to your captions that you are just plain, it reinforced my idea that you were playing your audience like one would conduct an orchestra. i thought you had a sense of the resonances of peoples reactivity to your lead, and i thought you were playing them like instruments in a way.
anyway, i will concede i was wrong, because anything in the world of humanity is poorly resolved by me. even though i think i am pondering what is important, i mostly have no idea how to perceive the distinction between what is important and what is not important.
Some people are very photogenic. It's possible that she is pretty, but just normally so. I, otoh, am not very photogenic, which doesn't mean I'm ugly. When I want to post a pic of myself somewhere I have to hunt long and hard for one that doesn't make me look like a complete dork. Even if not, and she is drop-dead gorgeous, it's irrelevant. She had something very bad happen to her and this is the haven, she deserves support when posting here, not some idiot saying it was hilarious. I would say this about anyone.