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[leahbobet]

cristalia: I fear well-adjusted people who have never had the codependent fear of being left thing will never get this story.
ringwoodcomics: ahhhh everyone's had the fear. :-)
cristalia: I just have seven critiquers going "I don't get why she killed him if she loved him"
ringwoodcomics: mmmm they are not very imaginative are they. ):<
cristalia: Or aren't doing much self-inspecting.
ringwoodcomics: No kiddin'.
ringwoodcomics: They do not do a lot of love stories? I mean stories that explore love.
cristalia: I guess not. They keep wanting me to make it like he was going to kill her, or he cheated on her or something.
cristalia: That is mundane, people. And easy.
cristalia: And cheap.
ringwoodcomics: No kidding.
ringwoodcomics: Keep it as is.
ringwoodcomics: That removes all complexity or.. yeah.
ringwoodcomics: That's dumb, to be blunt.
cristalia: It is.
cristalia: This is a story about totally plausible fucked-uppedness and being ruled by your fears or not.
ringwoodcomics: (i admit slightly kneejerky response to all that.)
cristalia: (ohh?)
ringwoodcomics: (that perhaps the chat room does not want to read a story wherein a female character does something unreasonable without having some 'accepted' motive for doing it.)
cristalia: (oh, this was 'shop, not the chat people)
ringwoodcomics: (ah, good.)
cristalia: (but yeah, I see that.)
cristalia: (like...it's more palatable if she was striking out against being victimized somehow, not acting on her own steam)
ringwoodcomics: (ed zachary.)
cristalia: I deem that crap.
cristalia: Or well...not exactly, but in a story what's meant to make people uncomfortable it's a little counterproductive to pull punches that way, retreat into the mundane.
ringwoodcomics: I consider ghost stories to be largely feminine in nature, and the way she acts and.. I don't know, allows herself to be tormented by it, is quite feminine.
ringwoodcomics: Doing the victimization thing is a copout.
cristalia: 'tis.
ringwoodcomics: yeah. retaliation for cheating or abuse or something makes it conventional and easy.
ringwoodcomics: which is sad, that responding to cheating or abuse with murder is 'acceptable,' but there it is.
cristalia: It was not a justifiable action and shouldn't be justified.
ringwoodcomics: that is why she is being haunted.:-)
cristalia: It was wrong. Or she wouldn't be haunted.
cristalia: Yes. :-)
ringwoodcomics: hee.
ringwoodcomics: you are not haunted by ghosts who say "good job!"
cristalia: LOL
ringwoodcomics: that'd be awesome.
cristalia: *can't breathe laughing*
ringwoodcomics: *etched out in steam on mirror" "hey man, good job"
ringwoodcomics: "thumbs up from the afterlife"
cristalia: *dead*
cristalia: *affirms you from beyond the grave*
ringwoodcomics: i imagine it in beavis's conversational tone of "hey man, how's it goin?"