You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Post Is About You

[robotnik2004]

Or, The Airing of the Grievances

OK. At least four people on my friends-list have had this coming for a while, so don't you all go thinking I'm talking about Matt. Here is the deal. If you keep a LiveJournal, and then you fall in love, and that love is requited, that warrants a post. A real post. Not three weeks of working it in sideways through cryptic sorta-kinda mentions that nobody but you and your new cutie will understand. Not just starting to talk about it like it's old news and everybody knows what you're on about. Not maintaining complete radio silence. Try to see it from my point of view. You post about games I'm never going to get to play in. You post when your world is crashing down around your ears. You post about what you might possibly like to have for lunch, or about the last ten songs on your iPod, or about how many words you wrote last night on Sekrit NaNoMo Projekt Q. When something good happens—when the best possible thing happens!—when love blooms!!—do me a favor, and justify the existence of LiveJournal by tapping out the news. Love warrants a post!

I'm also a little hurt by the feedback to General Mud over at 20x20. Well, maybe just Jeremiah's feedback. The game is a funny little experiment, and I don't expect it to set the world on fire, but a comment from a friend that makes it clear he's read and thought about some other game, yet doesn't even get around to acknowledging the existence of the one I actually wrote and posted about, kind of hurts my feelings.

That said, I am happy to see 20x20 getting lively again. And with so much of the excitement surrounding peaseblossom's RPG =/= art manifesto, why isn't she a full posting member?

Edit: Squeaky wheel gets the grease, I see. You are all very kind. But I wasn't complaining about the absence of comments on General Mud, I was miffed (not seriously) by one particular comment, Jeremiah's, which seemed to go out of its way to avoid offering feedback. And I know Jere's online gruffness well enough to know that I shouldn't take it personally, but what can I say, writing is an ego-centric activity.

Comments

[mizalaina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my bad. I've been meaning to mention that Jane and I are running away together to raise miniature horses in Saskatchewan, it's just that I didn't want people to feel obligated to give us presents.

Pete's not reading this, is he?

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

I love mini-horses!! We have two at work (I work at a zoo), Starbuck and Quickstep. If I don't work with them for a week or two, I'm always amazed again when I see them at how cute they are! :)

[foogie.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not.

Consider yourself lucky. Homewrecker.

[foogie.livejournal.com]

P.S. That _is_ a miniature horse. It's hard to tell because it's next to a kid -- but, keep in mind, children are very, very small.

[mizalaina.livejournal.com]

Drat! He's here! Quick, pretend we were talking about something else!

[justsayneigh.livejournal.com]

Not so much presents - as things to do. Saskatchewan (for all its vastness and fields of rippling wheat and blistering cold) looks like a very dull place to live. Maybe we could have a few normal sized horses so that Alaina and me could gallop off into the sunset together? (And since it is Saskatchewan and quite flat, that would take an eternity). Romantic enough for ya _o_? (tee hee - I agree about Love - it's worth screaming from every hill top. Again - problems with the Saskatchewan location....)

[mizalaina.livejournal.com]

I agree, we do need to ride off into the sunset, so that either requires normal sized horses or a big bucket of steroids for the miniatures.

Either way, I want mine to be a Palomino. Can I have a Palomino? Please? Pretty please? I promise to feed it and brush it and clean up when it poops on the rug!