Subject: Re: I am in awe of your techiness... OuO
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Posted on: 2017-07-25 04:46:00 UTC
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Hi there,
Amateur radio is awesome, it's something I've wanted to get into myself in the future. Not enough attention gets paid to the radio these days, makes me feel nostalgic.
I appreciate the robot!
I'm a little cautious of the Internet: I just don't like giving away more to the open Internet than I absolutely need to. I might've mentioned this over the chat, but when I give data away, I view it as something of a transaction, whether that transaction is communicating with someone, communicating with someone on another person's behalf, or saying something publicly to the rest of the world, and when I make that transaction I prefer it to be an informed, conscious choice, rather than accepting private enterprises and data giants hoarding our data and information so it can be monetized as just a fact of using the Internet. I'd be happy to show you how the applications work if you're interested.
I do have plenty of characters that I've used for role-playing, and for my own writing (which I don't think I'll discuss here), but for this I'll probably have to make new ones, since I want to keep my different lives on the internet separate. One of the things that actually fascinates me about fictional characters is that they're actually in some ways a huge reflection of ourselves, and a ton of our own hopes, dreams, our self-image and how we view ourselves. Whether we mean to or not, lots of our psychology ends up getting wrapped up in our own fictional characters. So when I read about other people's fictional characters and start analyzing them, in a way, I'm reading about the people that write them, and the more naked their egos are in the stories they write, the easier it is to see through the story into the person writing it. Wish fulfilment characters actually are pretty fascinating because even if they're utterly disgusting to read about from an entertainment perspective, they're amazingly honest in terms of what they say about the person who's writing them.
At this moment I'm on the fence about writing missions myself, since I'm the type of person that prefers to build up, rather than punch down. If do write a PPC mission, it will be against my own Mary Sues that have never seen the judgement of the Internet and were written long ago, or ones I will write specially for the purpose of deconstructing them later. Best thing about that approach will be that it'll allow me to make them tailored to the kind of parody that I want to write, without needing to search through a lot of other people's badly written fanfiction to find something specific first. I think there are a lot of ways in which I could give back to the writing community besides that as well, although I'll have to stick around and see what you guys could use of my skills.
Two of my favourite continuities are Harry Potter and Star Wars, which have no shortage of fanfiction at all. I have other more esoteric favourites, but I'll let them come out as time goes on, or possibly over more private protocols.
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