dragonlady7

yay!! a community!
Livejournal is such a weird kind of omnipresent thing. it's frequented mostly by whiners and angst-ridden semiliterate adolescents... and as such is tremendous fun to knock...
and yet, I'm horribly, horribly addicted to it, and get a large part of my intellectual stimulation from the sizable minority of worthwhile humans on it.
Notice I didn't specify whether I were a whiner, an angst-ridden semiliterate adolescent, or a worthwhile human. I figure that's a judgement call you all can make individually. ;p

Pleased to see a Something Positive community; I love the strip, but must confess that I am, as with almost everything, not a faithful reader in that I read every day-- I don't. Like with most things, I'm a binge reader. I go a couple weeks without reading it, and then I go back and read every new strip since the last time I had a good binge. It's like... Christmas. Or a really good bender.
Actually I don't drink like that, because I lack the attention span. Isn't that pathetic? I lack the attention span to be an alcoholic... or even a good binge drinker... too much damn effort to get another drink, so I don't. But it takes nearly no effort to click, so you've got me...

A good webcomic binge late at night eases the pain of now having to rely on dial-up, on a shared phone line. Eek.

I must say it takes balls to make a comic strip out of your life, as the creator of S*P claims to be doing. I inadvertently started a flame war by criticizing another friend's use of her own life ("fictionalized", she said. ha, all that means is that she took out the parts that made HER look bad.) in a publicity flier, as I found it insensitive-- most of my friends sided with me, but I got clobbered by some fans of hers (she's a singer-songwriter)... Thing is, I wouldn't have had a problem with it, if it had been funny. In my critique I even suggested a new version for her, that would be funny. because I know funny wouldn't be so hurtful. But she took it all so seriously, I felt it was inappropriate. (Not to mention, it wasn't any fun. If you're going to piss somebody off, at least make the PROCESS entertaining. The aftermath was great, but it's messy to have to derive your entertainment from flame wars.)

Anyhow, love the comic... astute observations of real human behavior, very funny. As a onetime bi-curious experimental-type who of late has been rather monotonously heterosexual, I get the "for a lesbian, you sure suck a whole mess o' dick" quoted at me somewhat gratuitously often. *sigh* if it makes them happy...

anyhow, pleased to make this community's acquaintance; i get that it's not too busy yet, but these things have funny lives of their own. we'll see how it goes.
now if you'll excuse me, i have a tree frog loose in my bedroom, and some hunting to do before the little Houdini bastard kills himself in my clutter. Goodnight! ^.^