Alright, alright, already

[serai]

Clearly I should keep my fucking mouth shut when it comes to random opinions about things. Which I'm gonna do now.

Comments

[abby-normal.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Okay, what'd ya do now?

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I appear to have come off insulting in my last post, and since I'm not interested in tying myself in knots in order to prevent somebody, somewhere in the known universe from taking umbrage, I gotta learn to just shut the fuck up. Which is kind of frustrating, because isn't the whole point of places like this the opportunity to voice one's thoughts and opinions?

Whatever. I'm gonna go eat.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh, and ICON LOVE!

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I got no problem with speaking your mind, hon. Just, I'm one of those writers who used "bairn" in a fic or two, 'cause I just like the word so much, and I felt a little embarrassed to say anything.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Maybe people just need to learn how to not take things so damned seriously. I read through your last post, and the comments, and I don't see how anyone could have been insulted, so -- really. That's just my opinion, though (and I need to work on it myself). And since I only now got to see your last post because of this one, another opinion: I don't like faunt, or bairn, though if I had to pick one or the other then I would go with faunt. Not that I write much with young hobbits in it, but there you have it.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that mean that everybody gets the opportunity to voice their thoughts and opinions? Or is there something going on outside that previous post of yours? Because all I see happening there is people discussing something in a civilized way.

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

I dislike the words faunt and bairn and so wouldn't use them. Baby and child are enough. I have no problem with you saying what you feel -its your lj so why shouldn't you?

[elanorgardner.livejournal.com]

Did someone take umbrage outside of the post and comments themselves - i.e. email or IM or something? I just thought it was an interesting exchange of opinions, at least what I saw in the post itself.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My first impulse on that kind of reaction is "Oh, grow up, fer gods' sakes!" But the Sacred Cult Of My Feelings has taken over the world, and you can't just point out that whining is for children anymore.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Thoughts and opinions are one thing. Whining and puling are another. And it didn't happen here, but outside the post.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh no, pissing people off is fun. It's the "you've hurt my feelings!" crap that I can't abide. Here, lemme pick up my flea-sized violin and play you a dirge. I'd have thought that anybody reading my LJ would get the idea that I don't even own a pair of kid gloves, let alone use them.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

What? This is about the bairn/faunt/child/rugrat thing?

Jeez, man.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

And it didn't happen here, but outside the post.

Oh right, that explains it then :)