: A Very "Boring" Wank
It's small now, but threatens to explode.
ZanneChaos posts about how she doesn't understand why 'muses' get such a bad rep.
SarahtheBoring immediately jumps in with So you're saying that people who don't have outside forces in their heads, dictating stories, have no creative impulse. Nice generalization! Got any others?
Incidentally, creativity, or creative impulses ARE NOT MUSES. Not to all of us. To some of us, they are exactly that: creative impulses. Muses are outside entities - angels, fairies, gods, fictional characters or the like - who live in one's head and dictate stories to one. They are NOT flashes of inspiration or creativity. Those are - gasp! - flashes of inspiration or creativity.
Muses necessitate outside intelligences speaking into one's mind. If you think that's necessary for creativity, I'm sorry for you. I can be creative allllll by myself.
Then later:
Okay, more calmly: I hate the muse business because it romanticizes schizophrenia, which I don't think should be taken so lightly. If you have voices in your head telling you what to do, for the love of all that's good and holy, seek professional help. If you don't, don't fucking joke about it.
Not to go all Jerry Springer, but my best friend has "muses." They tell him to kill himself. Isn't that Creative and Special? Now you're telling me that if I don't have demons in my head like he does, I can't be creative? Fuck that sideways. I enjoy being sane. I enjoy being creative. You can do both.
Yes, I'm pissy about it. I think it's horrific to cutesify a serious mental disorder.
People point out that muses aren't *real* "voices in the head" and she *again* goes off:
So you're pretending to have schizophrenia? EHEHEHE LOL KAWAIII.
Sorry, I don't consider that fun.
I don't "confuse" it. I merely point out what exactly it is you're playing at. Everyone thinks it's so cute and cuddly when you are, actually, talking about outside influences beaming thoughts into your heads. I'm merely wiping off the bullshit.
As I said, it threatens to explode.
It's small now, but threatens to explode.
ZanneChaos posts about how she doesn't understand why 'muses' get such a bad rep.
SarahtheBoring immediately jumps in with So you're saying that people who don't have outside forces in their heads, dictating stories, have no creative impulse. Nice generalization! Got any others?
Incidentally, creativity, or creative impulses ARE NOT MUSES. Not to all of us. To some of us, they are exactly that: creative impulses. Muses are outside entities - angels, fairies, gods, fictional characters or the like - who live in one's head and dictate stories to one. They are NOT flashes of inspiration or creativity. Those are - gasp! - flashes of inspiration or creativity.
Muses necessitate outside intelligences speaking into one's mind. If you think that's necessary for creativity, I'm sorry for you. I can be creative allllll by myself.
Then later:
Okay, more calmly: I hate the muse business because it romanticizes schizophrenia, which I don't think should be taken so lightly. If you have voices in your head telling you what to do, for the love of all that's good and holy, seek professional help. If you don't, don't fucking joke about it.
Not to go all Jerry Springer, but my best friend has "muses." They tell him to kill himself. Isn't that Creative and Special? Now you're telling me that if I don't have demons in my head like he does, I can't be creative? Fuck that sideways. I enjoy being sane. I enjoy being creative. You can do both.
Yes, I'm pissy about it. I think it's horrific to cutesify a serious mental disorder.
People point out that muses aren't *real* "voices in the head" and she *again* goes off:
So you're pretending to have schizophrenia? EHEHEHE LOL KAWAIII.
Sorry, I don't consider that fun.
I don't "confuse" it. I merely point out what exactly it is you're playing at. Everyone thinks it's so cute and cuddly when you are, actually, talking about outside influences beaming thoughts into your heads. I'm merely wiping off the bullshit.
As I said, it threatens to explode.