Ah. It becomes clear. Not that I'm the original poster, but I'm not subbed to soulbonding, so I would have no idea the poster's been--how did you put this?--"wailing" for a while. :)
I think my problem with soulbonding--since the only one I can speak of accurately is myself--is that I'm both a slash writer and a member of the real vampire community. And in BOTH communities, we get a lot of people raving about fantastic experiences. The fourteen-year old who claims to be Dracula and wants to "turn" everyone. The fourteen-year-old who wants to cross Harry Potter and Final Fantasy, and uses lots of sexual interaction between Mary Sue characters to do it. They're actually more similar than you think--both tend to be delusional, and really need thwapped with some large blunt object so they will calm the hell down.
Coming from a place where the status quo is nine delusions for one honest process, it's beyond easy for me to be judgemental. I looked up soulbonding pages on the net and everything I saw was written in fractured Japanese with sprinkles of English, had big fluffy graphics, and was generally irritating as hell. I probably gave up long before I should have, but now I have this hotbutton in my head that says "soulbonding=kawaii catgirl" and I really didn't want to reinforce that any further.
I suppose it doesn't help that I view myself as insane, for many, many things that I believe in. I suppose if I came from a place that said, it's normal to be this way, and these behaviors are perfectly acceptable, I might be better off.
Again, not speaking for the original poster, just myself.
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Re: I am hijacking D's journal.
Date: 2005-08-09 09:58 pm (UTC)I think my problem with soulbonding--since the only one I can speak of accurately is myself--is that I'm both a slash writer and a member of the real vampire community. And in BOTH communities, we get a lot of people raving about fantastic experiences. The fourteen-year old who claims to be Dracula and wants to "turn" everyone. The fourteen-year-old who wants to cross Harry Potter and Final Fantasy, and uses lots of sexual interaction between Mary Sue characters to do it. They're actually more similar than you think--both tend to be delusional, and really need thwapped with some large blunt object so they will calm the hell down.
Coming from a place where the status quo is nine delusions for one honest process, it's beyond easy for me to be judgemental. I looked up soulbonding pages on the net and everything I saw was written in fractured Japanese with sprinkles of English, had big fluffy graphics, and was generally irritating as hell. I probably gave up long before I should have, but now I have this hotbutton in my head that says "soulbonding=kawaii catgirl" and I really didn't want to reinforce that any further.
I suppose it doesn't help that I view myself as insane, for many, many things that I believe in. I suppose if I came from a place that said, it's normal to be this way, and these behaviors are perfectly acceptable, I might be better off.
Again, not speaking for the original poster, just myself.