sundries, Christmas edition

[rm]

Right now the weather says the severe weather won't start until about 3pm here. If things aren't too backed up in the morning, I have hope I will get out and get to Patty.

Holiday gifts included Final Draft, marzipan, and some cool clothes.

The Tron kinkmeme is hilarious. It's more prompts and people agreeing with prompts than stories right now, but what people want seems to fall into a few categories:

- all non-con all the time (see: Clu/Tron)
- Alan has guilt (about whichever character they have him sleeping with this time)
- Daddy issues (it's not just the incest requests; it's also in a lot of the Alan requests, and in the Quorra/Flynn requests)
- Crack (largely involving the MP3s (played by Daft Punk)).

Weird, weird shit. V. funny, if you're kinda strange like me.

Here is another excellent example of the world I grew up in/around and perhaps I should just point to it forever more when people say "why do you feel inadequate?" People like that were normal. If you weren't them, if was your fault. I'm getting better, but it's still hard work.

Okay, time to sleep. I have to get up early and hope the weather cooperates.

Comments

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

What you don't realize is that these "kids" aren't happy, they do this to please their parents. They aren't able to be who they are. They are and will be cookie cutter copies of the previous generation. You are you, genuinely, through and through. And what's more, you have been able to grow your creative wings. I'd argue it's more than enough. What you have is better.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I'd say most people "realize" that. There's awareness and there's grokking. The grokking is very hard, especially when one is raised in the same bubble as these extraordinary hothouse children.

Hell, I was raised a million miles away from that bubble and I still feel Geek Inadequacy because I do not have the full set of in-depth hobbies that a dozen of my friends have in total. One builds robots, one costumes like a mad thing, one composes, one does kink education...

And I look up from my writing and think, "Man, why can't I be accomplished like those* people?" I can't imagine what it would be like with actual external pressure to do so.

* By which I mean all of them. At once. Plus what I'm doing.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

My hope is an outside affirmation will help with the grokking part. I think we all have a sense of not being "good" enough in some way or another. I think the kindest thing we can do for one another is provide affirmation that the other is good enough. I'm sure you are accomplished in your own way.