Genetic_Drift

*grabs his spatha and armour* By my Word, I will to the Lady be true and faithful, and love all which she loves and shun all which she shuns,according to the laws of the Gods and the order of the world. *starts looking about for lands to conquer* (Boy, those Anglo Saxons had a gift for oaths, eh?)

Nephylim? You're organization intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Are there minion positions available? Chase

I was raised catholic, but I got a healthy dose of "don't give a hoot" about religion in general from my father, who wasn't about to waste a good sunday in church since he worked 2 jobs and had precious little free time. In my late teens when I realized I was never going to be the good christian my church wanted me to be (I didn't hate and look down on all the right people) I stopped going. I still had questions, and missed feeling spiritual. By sheer coincidence one evening (some long time later), I was with a friend, stopped at a convenience store, when he came back out and started telling me about the people he'd been talking to inside. They were Asatru (norse pagans), and I was stunned. In my limited experience I never realized that there were still polytheistic people in the world, much less in texas. My world changed that night, even though I never spoke to, or even saw those Asatru folk. I owe them a debt, even though they don't know it. I didn't become Asatru, but I embraced my welsh blood and started reading what I could of the ancient religion of that land (there was precious little, sadly). So I'm a modern day pagan, flavoured with the welsh tales. It helps satisfy my need to be spiritual, but sadly it seems like too many of the pagans that I tried joining together with were either young people rebelling and trying to be "edge-y", 20 somethings that found it a good way to (*ahem*) "meet" younger people still rebelling, or people that were generally going through the motions. Not everyone was that way, of course, and I met some who were genuine leaders and inspirations. But too many of them were not authentic, and so it's been a long time since I've tried to connect with fellow pagans in my aea. Chase

Reading stuff like that makes me glad I gave up carbonated drinks and dairy drinks like smoothies and shakes long ago. In case you're wondering those drinks with aspartame or sucralose in them (diet drinks) aren't much better. Some of the chemicals in them are really not good for the body at all. If only I could go completely unsweetened tea instead of the 50/50 sweet/unsweet mix, I'd be completely satisfied with my drinking habits.

call queue unbridled customers demand action apathy wins out (sweet leaping gazelles, I'm tired of taking calls about the mail server *sigh*)

I'm not afraid of anything really. But two things stop me from posting. 1. It's nowhere near done yet. 2. I want to be comfortable with it not being "trashy" when it is done. *laugh*

Hmmm, that's good thinking! I'm probably not inclined to write anything with a hard 'x' to it, that's just not my style, but I can still edit certain scenes for comparison. Thanks!

Well glad I'm not alone in the preference for written smut. Yay us! (Your explanation makes sense to me.) But don't get me wrong, I've started to write some stuff that I hope turns out to be suitably hot, and they're only scenes in a larger story. So hopefully the story will continue along just fine. But they're not essential to the story. I could have the written word version of a fade-out in a film and still get my point across that my characters have been intimate. I just don't want someone to come along later and say to themselves "this was unnecessary and pornographic". I can't explain how I draw that line, but it's important to me to be on the right side of it. More thinking required.

I'm trying to work out in my mind what kind of story would require explicit sexual activity. Don't get me wrong, I have few objections to well written, explicit scenes (it's crazy, but I prefer my smut written rather than in images in most cases ), though I've never written anything myself that would go past a stern PG13. This is a good topic, and well worth thinking about. At some point, I want to write things that are more risque than I've attempted so far, for no other reason than I just want to. I don't think I'd be comfortable thinking of my efforts as pornographic however. Interesting. I'm going to think about this.

As I understand it, this movie has to do with EOD? I admit to being interested, but I'm not wild about seeing people be blown up in loud and particularly graphic ways (like, the whole opening D-Day shots for Saving Private Ryan were really far too intense). So, honestly, would it be a good idea to give this one a pass?

Glad you like it. *grin*

I have a pic in my profile, but I thought I'd share one here since all the cool kids are doing it. *grin* http://pics.livejournal.com/genetic_drift/pic/00004qyc This is my most recent picture, my hair has grown out even more since then. Chase

Thanks Nephylim, Lugh and everyone else. Good to know. I just wasnt' sure if my inability to stay on track was something I needed to 'fix', but it sounds like "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Chase (Oh, and Chase, yes LOTRO is all I play - Landroval server, yay! Though I used to play City of Heroes about a year back and EQ2 for a while, before that.)

I can manage to lose my temper and shout at people that wrong me or that I'm arguing with, but true revenge? I've never indulged (and I, like I'm sure many others, have had some really harsh stuff done to me). Knowing my own history, I can't imagine seeking true revenge on someone that's wronged me unless it was in some way brutal or egregious.

It's not my fault I have your name, blame my mom. *laugh* I play Lord of the Rings Online. I split time between an elven hunter and a human minstrel. Thanks for your response to my question, by the way.