Identify Identity
Who are you?
I called you Geist that whole weekend; it was only afterwards you became Nick. I fell for the face of a ghost, the voice of a ghost, the mind of a ghost. I knew Geist, and I met the body of Geist. Did I ever know Nick?
Once a girl fell in love with a ghost. Online: that never would've happened. It was meeting you that did it. It was making the ghost real.
Where do the metaphors end?
The ghost is you. [Who are you?]
[Who did I fall for? The boy or the ghost?]
There's something about typing words that make them true, even if they weren't already. How do I remember what was true before? It's hard to write the truth when the truth keeps changing. It's hard to find the truth when it's only what I think it is. It's hard to know what's ever true at all.
Are my words really what I believe? Did I mean what you read? Your perception is your truth, no matter my intention. Where's that line between life online and life outside, that division between metaphor and reality? Is the Usagi who writes these words any different than the Bridget who types them?
Truth is only what I think.
Damnit, I want to know what it is I think.
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Powerful. Very
Powerful.
Very explicit.
It's an interesting change for you -stating things rather than alluding to them. I like it.
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"It's either broken or it's French."
Thanks.
Thanks.
The first part is a reaction to M.P.D. that led into what I'd been thinking of a lot recently: when what I type becomes real, and I don't know if I really meant it at all.
That's really
That's really interesting...
Also, what does M.P.D. stand for? I think the 2 a.m. bedtime is catching up with me, too.
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"It's either broken or it's French."
Multiple Personality
Multiple Personality Disorder.
That makes
That makes sense.
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i've never heard of that,
i've never heard of that, but i'm pretty sure i have it! :)
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"Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty, is the face in the mirror looking back at you, you walk around here thinking your not pretty, but thats not true, i know you..."
It's a very interesting
It's a very interesting disease.
You know the movie "Me, Myself, and Irene"? That's about M.P.D. Plus, parts of it were filmed in Vermont.
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"It's either broken or it's French."
(as you know) I have a
(as you know) I have a similar problem: I merge truth and fiction (maybe because I don't know what is real?) for the purposes of writing, and then I cannot remember what is actually real.
I create my own reality.
Except you are brave enough to type the whole story.
Mine? That will have to wait until I go insane.
Which, actually, seems fairly imminent.
~SnowStars
that happens to me
that happens to me sometimes. i'll write something fictional then i will read it over, correct mistakes, re-read, then suddenly it all becomes real. like somehow I stepped into my work. but not really. its all in my head.
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Last night in my bed, I stared up at the stars in the sky and thought, "WHERE THE HELL IS THE CEILING?!"
hahaa i love that quote...
I really wish I could relate
I really wish I could relate to this, because it sounds like such an interesting phenomenon.
But I can't remember that ever happening to me. I feel like my characters are my children, and love them as such, even though they're all immensely flawed.
They're not versions of me. They're my scions.
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"It's either broken or it's French."
trust me. you don't wish you
trust me. you don't wish you could relate.
it messes with my mind so much!!
yeah i know that feeling
yeah i know that feeling too. its like your characters do what they want to do. not what you tell them to do. you can't control children just like your characters will do whatever it is that their background makes sense for them to do.
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Last night in my bed, I stared up at the stars in the sky and thought, "WHERE THE HELL IS THE CEILING?!"
hahaa i love that quote...
*accidental duplicate
*accidental duplicate
A non-writer wouldn't
A non-writer wouldn't understand, but it's totally true -characters will develop, independent of their creators.
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and they pull their writers
and they pull their writers right along with them.
Umm... *raises hand*
I beg to differ - I am not a writer, and I totally understand that. It's funny seeing it happen in books - look at Harry Potter, for example (thank the GODS it ended, though it was cool) - Harry was completely different by the end, and so was Jo. You can look at her writing style for evidence. In the first book, she describes everything BUT her characters in detail, and it seems immature for her, but in the last one, her main and titular character dies in his own head.
Fun fun fun. *polishes palms*, as Garrow would say. Although it's from glee.
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Are you sure you're not a
Are you sure you're not a writer? Have you read your own posts? :)
You should have put a spoiler warning in that comment...
:D
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... Crap.
Nope, I haven't - just wrote them, never read. :D
And yes. Yes I should have. Shit.
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http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/
Ah...another loophole. Well,
Ah...another loophole.
Well, I think everyone who cares about the outcome of Harry Potter 7 has read it already. So maybe a spoiler warning isn't quite necessary. :D
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"It's either broken or it's French."