20 (000) questions

[cleolinda]

So there's this thing called Formspring (formspring.me, not .com) where you can sign up to let people ask you questions, or ask them yourself; you can leave your username, but you can also ask anonymously. Enough people were doing it on Twitter that I finally broke down and thought, Okay, sure. I'll probably get some trolls or inappropriate questions, but you don't have to answer anything you don't want, so why not. It'll probably take me a while to answer them, though--if I mention it on Twitter, I might get, like, fifteen questions the first day or something...

So, one day later, I have answered 72 questions and still have 33 in my inbox. That... that happened. And some of the unanswered ones are really good ones; I'm just having to parcel the answers out between other things I'm doing, and sometimes needing extra time to think of good replies. I mean, "Best song ever" is gonna take me a while. (Also, three people have already asked about my favorite books; I just haven't answered that yet.) So far I've been asked about dolls, The Secret Life thereof, pasta, poetry, podcasts, my creative process, BPAL, Aromaleigh, my preference re: Spike and Angel, pop-culture vampire throwdowns, snacks, unobtainium, how I actually feel about Twilight, and head-squishing. The newest answers are on top, but they're not really dependent on chronological order, I don't think.

By the way: I reserve, and have already exercised, the right not to answer questions I find to be rude or invasive. No one will see your question unless I answer it, so don't bother trolling if all you want is attention.

Comments

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I remember some boy in fourth grade cornering me and sneering, "You LIKE compliments, don't you? You LIKE THEM." "No, no, I don't, I don't!" What the hell?

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Seriously. That is so messed up.

I remember being told at a young age that I shouldn't 'fish for compliments', which seemed to mean 'do not show your new, shiny thing you just made to people' in the context.

Still have no idea how to handle compliments. 'Thank you!' seems to work when it's about something I've made, but if it's about something like the fact that I look nice dressed up or whatever, I have no idea how to respond. And 'thank you!' only works when I've had a day to process the compliment; like, my instinctive response isn't 'thank you!', it's 'crap, what the hell do I say? did I deserve this? are they right that I did this well? I so could have done this better, crap, I should tell them...'

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just say "Thank you," regardless, but often in a tone that says, "It is so sweet of you to say that," rather than, "Thank you, because it is totally true."