On Modern Evil and perpetual failure.

(This post is in reference to this.)

I would probably have communicated with you in some way, but food for thought:

That feeling you think you would have had if W:PS disappeared totally from ME with no warning?

I had that years ago when you moved all your blogging and posting off ME and onto DC.

I’m basically holding a grudge against you for it, except that every time I look at my website and every time I click a link to read a post you made and every time I look at your site, I am reminded that it’s not so much a grudge as a continually ongoing offense. Same with Zoe and Marie; it’s not just you.

So the fact that I built a site intended to be a “community” site for me and my friends to post on that now every single one of my friends has forsaken for their own (or totally faceless sites run by people they don’t know) is a constant thorn in my side. And if/when each/any of your sites stops being interesting or starts polluting my site (a la Iain’s spam comments, which you may note no longer appear on ME) that’s just too much, you’re gone.

Sorry if that upsets you. You’ll always be welcome to post ON MODERN EVIL if you so choose, just let me know. It’s all this goddamned posting in other places and feeling like you’re owed the right to appear here anyway. It’s a privelidge, something I spent dozens of hours programming into my site, not the normal order of things or a natural right.

Gha. At this point I hardly care. Look at the front page. It’s a disgrace. One, maybe two posts a day actually ON Modern Evil, most of them ME24. What’s the point? The site nearly boils down to an easy set of links to posts my friends made so I can keep up with their blogs. Which, if you consider to be the case, means that if I lose interest in reading a blog (becuase 7/8 of the posts are not worth reading, for example) it has no place on my “personal set of links”. And anyone who thinks differently can refer themselves to the name of this blog.

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Teel

Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.

2 thoughts on “On Modern Evil and perpetual failure.”

  1. I don’t feel like I have the right to appear on Modern Evil. From my original comment, “But that’s about all I have to say about that – it’s his (Teel’s) website, he can make whatever choices he feels are best for it, and who am I to complain?” My feelings being hurt would not have been because I was taken off ME, but I would have been annoyed that you hadn’t let me know first. Did I just one day stop posting at Modern Evil and move everything elsewhere without telling you that was what I was going to do, and why? I seriously don’t remember the circumstances. That doesn’t sound like something I would do though, and if it was, it was probably around the time you were not my favorite person (October 2001-ish, I think, and the period right after that).

    But that lack of communication making me annoyed would be because of a specific between me and you thing. It has nothing to do with me feeling my site should be allowed or “priviledged” to be on Modern Evil. I appreciate it is there, I like that it is a handy resource people can use to find my recent posts easier. But I FULLY acknowledge that it is your site to do whatever you please with it. If you wanted to start selling cigarettes cheaply from it, or turn it into a web-based roller derby (I don’t know, just popped in my head), then whee, okay, whatever. Do what you feel like doing.

    Oh, and I do still post at ME. Not as often as my own personal blog, where most of what is going on in my life and my thoughts on things go, but when a review comes up, I immediately thing “that belongs in reviews”. When my weight adjusts, I go right to F50lb2Hell (or whatever the ackronym is for that). But I like the stability that is offered me by having my own site, with my own copies of things, so that if you decided to pull the plug on ME one day and just say screw it to years’ worth of my posting, I wouldn’t lose all that. I don’t think you’d ever do that, but… I have trust issues with just about everyone that is not related/married to me.

    Um… ultimately, I don’t have much else to add past what I already said. Which is that my wish would be to remain on ME, because it is beneficial to me and to people I like. But if you choose to take W:PS off the list, then that’s okay too. It’s your website, and you can decide what it should be and who should be specially invited to play there. You’re a hard working busy guy with a lot on his plate, so I don’t want to stress you out or anything. Just make whatever decision you want, and I will live with it. My only beef was with what seemed like a lack of the sort of communication about it I would have liked, but that may not have even ultimately been how it would have played out. When I read all this it was first thing in the morning when I turned on the computer, and I reacted with more emotion that I might otherwise have, for better or worse.

  2. I don’t feel like I have the right to appear on Modern Evil. From my original comment, “But that’s about all I have to say about that – it’s his (Teel’s) website, he can make whatever choices he feels are best for it, and who am I to complain?” My feelings being hurt would not have been because I was taken off ME, but I would have been annoyed that you hadn’t let me know first. Did I just one day stop posting at Modern Evil and move everything elsewhere without telling you that was what I was going to do, and why? I seriously don’t remember the circumstances. That doesn’t sound like something I would do though, and if it was, it was probably around the time you were not my favorite person (October 2001-ish, I think, and the period right after that).

    But that lack of communication making me annoyed would be because of a specific between me and you thing. It has nothing to do with me feeling my site should be allowed or “priviledged” to be on Modern Evil. I appreciate it is there, I like that it is a handy resource people can use to find my recent posts easier. But I FULLY acknowledge that it is your site to do whatever you please with it. If you wanted to start selling cigarettes cheaply from it, or turn it into a web-based roller derby (I don’t know, just popped in my head), then whee, okay, whatever. Do what you feel like doing.

    Oh, and I do still post at ME. Not as often as my own personal blog, where most of what is going on in my life and my thoughts on things go, but when a review comes up, I immediately thing “that belongs in reviews”. When my weight adjusts, I go right to F50lb2Hell (or whatever the ackronym is for that). But I like the stability that is offered me by having my own site, with my own copies of things, so that if you decided to pull the plug on ME one day and just say screw it to years’ worth of my posting, I wouldn’t lose all that. I don’t think you’d ever do that, but… I have trust issues with just about everyone that is not related/married to me.

    Um… ultimately, I don’t have much else to add past what I already said. Which is that my wish would be to remain on ME, because it is beneficial to me and to people I like. But if you choose to take W:PS off the list, then that’s okay too. It’s your website, and you can decide what it should be and who should be specially invited to play there. You’re a hard working busy guy with a lot on his plate, so I don’t want to stress you out or anything. Just make whatever decision you want, and I will live with it. My only beef was with what seemed like a lack of the sort of communication about it I would have liked, but that may not have even ultimately been how it would have played out. When I read all this it was first thing in the morning when I turned on the computer, and I reacted with more emotion that I might otherwise have, for better or worse.

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