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Interrogating the Text From the Wrong...

Meme time! Stolen from svgurl.

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

Go!

Oh yeah, that was the other thing.

I got a couple of people telling me last Friday about this second review at PSGR. It was suggested to me that the reviewer may have had prior issues with butthurt. Well, I dunno about that but I vaguely remembered the name and, oh look, here she is. So I'm not sure if it counts, but my one and only history with Mallory seems to be that I wouldn't allow her to use my blog's comments as a platform for her to attack ~Jem [h]. Scandalous, I know.

Still, all publicity is good publicity, and inspiring strong emotions is what the artist in me likes to do. Honestly, apathy bothers me more than a negative reaction.

The one thing that interests me about Mallory's review, however (she had one good point about something, but I kinda forgot what it was in the midst of all the, "Do it more like I want!" foot-stamping), is that she's jumping off from a fundamentally flawed platform. I've said it before and I'll say it again:

I don't maintain this site for other people.

I maintain it for me. I blog for me. I create layouts that please me. I add and discard content according to what I think reflects, well, me. The reason I work so hard on the backend when I could just use WordPress? Because sk.log amuses me. The reason I use my own art in my layouts? Because it was made… by me. I could go on but I think you get the point; this is a personal domain. It's about me, not about you. Sure, you visit and I try and make your stay comfortable but, ultimately, my content is me (and, to a lesser extent, my interaction with you).

So here's a protip: If you have an opinion on my site, and it's starts with the assumption that the primary reason it exists is to please you… you're wrong.

In other news; I got my first Sharpie marker! These things are so lulz. I'm totally going to keep it in my bag and use it to graffitti on the walls of public toilets…

… or maybe just write on blank CDs. Something like that.

Mirrored from v-s.net. Comments are preferred on the original.