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@gabriel_true @forgetmenot It's bothering me so I'm just going to say this. Melodrama and "edginess" when associated to writing is considered an insult. I'm assuming these comments are attempts at jokes but they kind of piss me off. This isn't random chat, this is creative writing. Careful not to blatantly insult people's work here. One of the things that sets me off is people who make light of other people's writing. I know this site is only a shell of what it use to be, but try to keep your shitposting to random chat unless you have something of actual value to say.

@arc From one grown man to another I have nothing, but admiration for your writing skills. You are well read and it shows. However you do struggle with understanding the subtext of another's intentions when they make a comment. They say to take offense is to give offense. I won't take what you're saying to me as an offense. I do wish to state my context of what I was implying when I spoke of melodrama. Your wife made a comment years ago to you about your habit of dark writing. She was joking about you being sad all the time. Personally I can relate to loathing such comments as I too have been subjected to the "sad boi" jest. In fact I earned the nickname "Deathblade" in middle school because my classmates made a note of how dreary a person I was. A quiet loaner who sat alone and loved wearing dark clothes. Rumors amongst bullies were that one day I'd be the next school shooter. Never once crossed my mind, but that didn't stop people from saying that to me and of course it made me feel awful. Where am I going with this story you ask? Simply to say I am an open book. If you're ever in question of my intentions when I attempted to make conversation with you please ask and I'll gladly tell. Because there is definitely more to everyone's tale beyond the cover, dear narrator.

@gabriel_true Yeah, subtext is much harder to read, especially if it's just words on a forum. For instance the comment after yours was took the context more out of place into the world of shitposting. Threads can so easily become de-railed. Other people might see and feel like they don't want to even post something they wrote anymore. There is just frustrating when something get's derailed, especially if it's in a sensitive space like creative writing. I apologize if what I say comes off as aggressive but it's best to nip things like this in the bud asap. Oh man, I didn't know people thought you were going to be the next school shooter! People at my middle school often joked about that the tag line in my yearbook photo should be "the next school shooter" just because I was a mute that was afraid to talk to people. Oof, thinking back to the days where I was weak makes me cringe

@arc I will offer my apologies to upsetting you. I agree I should have been clear on my meaning. Haha, alls well that ends well. Keep up the good work!

@arc Heh, feels like brothers rushing to apologize to mothers after breaking the expensive vase. However, I do sincerely apologize for my ignorance. I understand all too well how it feels to have your writing shunned for no good reason. I will not have it! So am left to question, "Why?". (Please bear with me, I like to be dramatic) I, a writer had made that remark? Was my brain working? Tsk. No matter. Sincerely, Curly's apology. Not as smooth as Gabe I'm sure, LOL

It was sad then but it's definitely a ehh precious? memory to us now. I find it funny, dunno about Arc. This was after we started talking in MO and before we met in person. We had been texting a lot at this point and for some reason, stated somewhere in pt 2, our texts weren't getting through to each other. We were both under the impression the other was ghosting. My "stop writing sad things" was the first thing that made it through during that debacle. Then we talked to each other on here and realized what was happening. Hahaha