you, in the back, with the dog.

[jacktellslies]

i forget who you are, sometimes. part of me always thinks you are the people i stole or who stole me from open diary, or the people i found early on; that you are all crushablepink, and randiriel, and wireworkelf, and poetic_frog. you aren't, though. and i'm cryptic, sometimes because i worry i'm just going to say the same thing over and over for a while, so i might as well maintain an air of mystery somehow, or because, between reading just enough victorian poetry and still believing just enough in the fae etiquette, i feel that it is crass to say what one actually means, or just because i prefer myth and metaphor and lies to most anything else. so sometimes i forget that you don't know what i mean, that there are big parts of the story that you've never heard or just lost. i understand that what is to follow is terribly egotistical, however, that is the thing for which the wonderous platonic ideal of communication that is livejournal was created. so, realizing that i am a tricky masked thing, and that many of you have not known me for as long as i like to think, i thought i'd ask: are there bits of me you need to know more about in order for this all to make sense? keep in mind that i may not answer you, as openness and honesty really aren't my style, but i will try.

Comments

[ratherunlikely.livejournal.com]

I think, perhaps, that I enjoy the lack of sense.

♥

[faileascreutair.livejournal.com]

I don't think you would be quite who you are to me if you weren't such a mystery sometimes. And that is perhaps the thing I like best about you, the way in which you craft your words to hide your meanings. *smiles* I've always been very fond of puzzles.

I just dropped a carrot down my shirt

[iwantyouhere.livejournal.com]

you're a literary goddess. Like Henry James, you're not supposed to make sense all the time.

[brni.livejournal.com]

but you never knew who i was/am, nor i you, only hints, glimpses of shiny surfaces and hints of shadow. you are indeed a tricky masked thing; moreover, you are a tricky masked thing with a fabulous hat.

else i wouldn't be reading here...

masks

[brni.livejournal.com]

"they help you to become something else, or maybe realise part of yourself to an extreme degree so that you release it and go with it." - peter gabriel

[randiriel.livejournal.com]

I like to think I know quite a bit about you, and I feel the more apropos question, in my case, is "is there anything you feel that I should know about you?"

And you do not need to make apologies or excuses for being veild or secretive...people who only (or mostly) know you through LiveJournal/OpenDiary would not be here if they did not enjoy it.

Just be you, and we'll all love you for what you are, and what you write of yourself.

[cynical-ghost.livejournal.com]

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give
him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde

So, being who I am and doing what I do and always having one mask on at least, I don't mind the mystery. Give as much reality as you want to. I'll puzzle out the rest as I can.

[synergistica.livejournal.com]

your perspective on everything that is around you always makes me smile... I love your journal and I love that it makes me think, opening my eyes and my mind.

Your words make hum-drum things seem the most delightful of fairy-tales, inspiring me to notice the small things in life in different ways than I would have otherwise, and I have deeper appreciation for the larger things.

Your writing enriches me the great literary works enrich me. I heart msdreadful. :)

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

thank you so much, miss!

[crushablepink.livejournal.com]

i just need to know the dirty details.


or maybe i dont- generally when im confused, i ask, otherwise im all good.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

ok. keep asking when i leave things out again, then. *gives you cake*

[poetic-frog.livejournal.com]

thing is, i like knowing what i know of you, and know you will tell me anything else i may need. i've spoken of you before to the gf, and she finds it strange that kid has an auntie penny that she's never met, but i tell her that you're just the fairy godparent, so it's okay.