26th June, 2008
Interrogating the Text From the Wrong...
Thursday, 11:18 am in Bloglife
Meme time! Stolen from 
svgurl.
Name a character and I’ll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.
Go!
Oh yeah, that was the other thing.
I got a couple of people telling me last Friday about this second review at PSGR. It was suggested to me that the reviewer may have had prior issues with butthurt. Well, I dunno about that but I vaguely remembered the name and, oh look, here she is. So I’m not sure if it counts, but my one and only history with Mallory seems to be that I wouldn’t allow her to use my blog’s comments as a platform for her to attack ~Jem [h]. Scandalous, I know.
Still, all publicity is good publicity, and inspiring strong emotions is what the artist in me likes to do. Honestly, apathy bothers me more than a negative reaction.
The one thing that interests me about Mallory’s review, however (she had one good point about something, but I kinda forgot what it was in the midst of all the, “Do it more like I want!” foot-stamping), is that she’s jumping off from a fundamentally flawed platform. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
I don’t maintain this site for other people.
I maintain it for me. I blog for me. I create layouts that please me. I add and discard content according to what I think reflects, well, me. The reason I work so hard on the backend when I could just use WordPress? Because sk.log amuses me. The reason I use my own art in my layouts? Because it was made… by me. I could go on but I think you get the point; this is a personal domain. It’s about me, not about you. Sure, you visit and I try and make your stay comfortable but, ultimately, my content is me (and, to a lesser extent, my interaction with you).
So here’s a protip: If you have an opinion on my site, and it’s starts with the assumption that the primary reason it exists is to please you… you’re wrong.
In other news; I got my first Sharpie marker! These things are so lulz. I’m totally going to keep it in my bag and use it to graffitti on the walls of public toilets…
… or maybe just write on blank CDs. Something like that.
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You’re first experience with a sharpie? o.o
Whoa. Guess in Australia they aren’t so commonplace. -
I agree with the above comment. Sharpies are everywhere here in the States, so I’ assuming they just aren’t as prevalent over there and not that you live in a hole.
By the way, I’m surprised that people don’t take the lack of a “you” or “visitors” section as a hint that this is, y’know, a site for you.
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We just don’t have the brand; we call them Textas or markers instead.
The novelty comes more from hearing people on the ‘Net and TV talk about “Sharpies” (and only knowing what they were through context) for years and finally actually seeing one in the shop.
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Well, of *course* you have markers! I still remember when I was young. I don’t know if there were Sharpies or not, but we always used Marks-A-Lot brand and I had never heard of sharpies until a few years ago.
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Oh, for the meme, I’ll start you off with a really easy one. Loki.
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Heh. :P
Loki…
- … loves Turkish food.
- … feels a vague sense of disgust regarding modern heathens, despite recognising he needs them to survive.
- … is deathly afraid of being underground or tied down.
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Mallory is infamous in ‘respectable’ (though, I use that word loosely) web circles for the amount of butthurt she manages to generate, and the grudges that she holds to this day (I had a ‘run in’ with her back in 2005, and she still ‘hates’ me for it). “Terrible Twos-esque” behaviour coming from a twenty-something is quite alarming.
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Yes, I was indeed starting to get that impression…
I mean – don’t get me wrong – I can hold a grudge and start drama with the best of them but I get bored of it when the lulz run out and I can’t imagine doing it all the time; it’s too draining.
I almost feel honoured in managing to raise her ire. It seems I’m in fairly good company…
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Ahhhh, so curiosity got the better of me and I had to go through my archives to see what it was I’d said apparently to piss her off. Turns out all I said was “oh. my. gosh.” …
http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/web-stuff
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You standards Nazi you!
Don’t you know it’s people like you that are keeping Mallory from her rightful e-popularity!
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