Bad Taste

[Brinnie]

I just read a few of the poems and stories done by people I know from the board. I discovered something, I think. The fun loving people here tell a great story with lots of description and good time sexual fun. The sour ones here tell dark stories with poor descriptions and poorly concieved plots centering around hatred and forcible sex, rape, pain, and humiliation.

Has anyone else ever associated a board persona to an author's persona? What did you discover?

 

[annaswirls]

I just read a few of the poems and stories done by people I know from the board. I discovered something, I think. The fun loving people here tell a great story with lots of description and good time sexual fun. The sour ones here tell dark stories with poor descriptions and poorly concieved plots centering around hatred and forcible sex, rape, pain, and humiliation.

Has anyone else ever associated a board persona to an author's persona? What did you discover?

hmmm I am still trying to figure out to which category I belong! I never can figure out how people see me anyway.

I think it is hard to make that generalization, but overall, I think you are on to something as a general trend. Even the perkiest poet sometimes puts out something dark and dismal-- I think I put out my share of both fun lovin and darker work. That might have to do with my rapid cycling personality disorder eh hem.

Okay, self diagnosed, but those who know me will provide testimony.

Brinnie--do you feel your work matches your onboard personality?

Another question is-- how well does your on board personality match your real life one?

 

[Angeline]

I don't think I fit either category. I'm not necessarily into sharing sexual energy or being dark or sour. I just write what comes into my head, which usually has little to do with being here aside from a place to write. I do find though that reading others' poems here often sets my imagination spinning in its own direction.

Anna, your question is an interesting one. I think the best stuff I read here is written by those who appear (from their posts) to just be real, not have any particular agenda if that makes any sense. The people who are here mainly to write and be around other writers are not--I think--into trying to disguise themselves.

 

[Sins666]

I just read a few of the poems and stories done by people I know from the board. I discovered something, I think. The fun loving people here tell a great story with lots of description and good time sexual fun. The sour ones here tell dark stories with poor descriptions and poorly concieved plots centering around hatred and forcible sex, rape, pain, and humiliation.

Has anyone else ever associated a board persona to an author's persona? What did you discover?

No, but I am doing a study on the length of someones location field and value to the forum. The problem is that there is a good majority that do not even bother to fill out the field. But those that do seem to think the longer the better.

 

[WickedEve]

hmmm I am still trying to figure out to which category I belong! I never can figure out how people see me anyway.

I think it is hard to make that generalization, but overall, I think you are on to something as a general trend. Even the perkiest poet sometimes puts out something dark and dismal-- I think I put out my share of both fun lovin and darker work. That might have to do with my rapid cycling personality disorder eh hem.

Okay, self diagnosed, but those who know me will provide testimony.

Brinnie--do you feel your work matches your onboard personality?

Another question is-- how well does your on board personality match your real life one?

I see you as a bright, pulsating green with a dark matter center.
I wonder what readers think of me when they read the poetry I write. I have poems about serial killers, hicks, my kids, my Master... it's all over the freakin' place.

 

[CharleyH]

I just read a few of the poems and stories done by people I know from the board. I discovered something, I think. The fun loving people here tell a great story with lots of description and good time sexual fun. The sour ones here tell dark stories with poor descriptions and poorly concieved plots centering around hatred and forcible sex, rape, pain, and humiliation.

Has anyone else ever associated a board persona to an author's persona? What did you discover?

Intriguing question, Brinnie.

I personally have this thought: a poet feels. A poet feels toward events, life questions, sex in different ways with different people or scenario's. Authors sometimes tell, or show, but POETS FEEL in words of pain or anguish, violence or joy, pleasure or ecstacy.

Poets feel - they do not write.

Edit to add: and then there is EVE - who looking at this new sexy AV of hers, just SHOWS OFF her sexy body - she needs no words, really.

 

[Brinnie]

No, but I am doing a study on the length of someones location field and value to the forum. The problem is that there is a good majority that do not even bother to fill out the field. But those that do seem to think the longer the better.

I am doing a study on how certain people wind up with the vBulletin 3 skin as default while others end up with the Imagize.

 

[BooMerengue]

I have BlueSaint 3 (liquid). I don't know why. I thought a bluesaint sounded cool.

*shrugs

I'm now trying to analyze why I picked liquid.

 

[Sins666]

I am doing a study on how certain people wind up with the vBulletin 3 skin as default while others end up with the Imagize.

Probalby something do with what they had before the skins or some such nonsense. PHP and vb are prickly bastards.

 

[sandspike]

You are what you write

I just read a few of the poems and stories done by people I know from the board. I discovered something, I think. The fun loving people here tell a great story with lots of description and good time sexual fun. The sour ones here tell dark stories with poor descriptions and poorly concieved plots centering around hatred and forcible sex, rape, pain, and humiliation.

Has anyone else ever associated a board persona to an author's persona? What did you discover?

You already know the deal. Some live in the dark some in the light. Some
have a half empty glass, others are just getting started. I don't know that much about the stories, but read any six poems of any poet and two will tell you,
which cocktail has the cherry.

 

[CharleyH]

I am thinking Brinnie is afraid to answer to her own thread.

Edit to add: UR2S4me.

 

[CharleyH]

Bump for trouble IF she comes back

Edit: pink fonts are so 80's! HINT: Black is back.

 

[bogusbrig]

There is nothing wrong with bad taste in itself, it can prove to be a very effective way of renewing and regenerating an artform. Look at Dada in art in the twenties and punk rock in the seventies and no doubt there are many more examples that don't immediately spring to mind.

Good taste and politeness can prove to be the death of an artform. Bad taste can usher in a breath of fresh air. So keep throwing a hand grenade into the bourgeois politeness of good art and writing I say.

As to whether someone just can't write or draw or play music, simply because they are useless at it, well....that's another matter.