article: EUOLogy #11

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, I think i've made the freak accusations over this issue before. *nod*

[Mistress of Darkness]

/me laughs

See, now I always imagined a character for myself to be in the show and solve all the problems.

I'd probably still do that if we had cable.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Hmmm. I'm still too embarrassed about the kinds of things and people I used to (and still sometimes do) pretend to be. I even managed to convince my sixth grade teacher to let me stay in from PE and write an alien-fantasy story on AppleWrite.

[JP Dogberry]

See, I thought I was the only one who imagined weird stuff happening all the time. Of course, I do it INSTEAD of writing. I could probably channel it into good, like in NaNoWriMo, but generally I'm lazy. Also most of my ideas are more suitable for B grade action movies.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

what scares me though, is when it becomes less pretend and more real. That is, where the imagined ideas become less a good idea, less a metaphor, and more the way you actually understand life.

Which is why falling in love with characters scares me. it's transferring them into something real for you. I did this sort of thing when i was off my mission for a bit. It was seriously messed up. I couldn't really be happy about what i was doing because true inner joy comes from reality. when you try to derive it from a fantasy that isn't real at all, you get mental problems.

So, no problem at all with rampant ideas. those are a mark of creativity and intelligence.  But behaving as though those ideas are real (and this is very different from daydreaming), that's going to hurt you.

[JP Dogberry]

See, I don't behave as though they're real, I just gett a bit too lost in them. As for the falling in love with my character, it's not that big a deal, when you consdier this: To the degree of knowledge I actually know anyone real I may be interested in, I've basically made everything I know about them up, and they are, in reality, completely different to what I imagine.

Ok, Ok, I have a way hyperactive imagination.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

So, you have four attributes to explain to us, but these articles will only take up 3 parts? Will one have 2 of them in one? That is my only guess.

[EUOL]

That's what I was thinking, Gemm.  I wasn't certain if I could fill an entire column with each of the last two, so I figured I'd put them together.

We'll see, though.