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Wow! Baby's first flame!

(Yeah, I totally didn't mean to actually post this at the community. Oops. I think I've managed to take it down before it inspired too much wank. I think it's funny, myself, so 500 people don't need to go defend my honor or anything.)

ETA: Ah, now we have a random anonymous "get over yourself" added to the fray. I'm mostly just shocked that it took--what, two weeks?--for the negativity to start showing up.

ETA 2: And this one's just odd: "whats with that cleo whore and that other bitch??" The weirdest part is that it's an otherwise positive comment.

Date: 2004-06-20 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoiryu.livejournal.com
ARE YOU CERTAIN YOU DON'T WANT ME TO CHARGE IN SO THEY KNOW JUST HOW AWESOME AND SPECIAL YOU ARE?!

Date: 2004-06-20 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
*thinks*

*still thinking*

Yeah, I think I'm good.

...THIS TIME. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Date: 2004-06-20 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fanofall.livejournal.com
That's really kinda funny. Since, like, the ENTIRE WORLD thinks you're hysterical, and you have OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE PROOF that other people who don't know you think you're hysterical, that one guy MUST be right.

Hee!

Date: 2004-06-20 10:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Well, someone else later posted and said, "This didn't really work for me, not my sense of humor, didn't think it was funny, sorry. --[Name]" I can deal with that--that's honest and polite and I can respect that. It's the "You should be put down" shit that's creepy. I was a bit on the fence about it, but now I am DEFINITELY using "Cleolinda Jones" as my pen name for actual published books.

Date: 2004-06-20 10:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fanofall.livejournal.com
Hee!

Yeah, I can see why.

Date: 2004-06-20 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fanofall.livejournal.com
Hey, random thought: Do you think that people who put stuff like that in their comments don't actually realize they're threatening bodily harm? I mean, with the serious turn for the worse that the English language has taken lately, isn't in conceivable that people are using idioms whose meaning they don't understand, such as "put down"?

Or do you think they really are intending to make terroristic threats? Because if so, that shit's SCARY.

Date: 2004-06-20 10:37 am (UTC)
ext_36172: (Default)
From: [identity profile] fba.livejournal.com
Someone on my flist got very defensive when he admitted to not finding Ti15M funny and was mocked for it. Not everyone finds the same stuff funny - WHO KNEW!

Date: 2004-06-20 11:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawleygriffen.livejournal.com
He's used to being a wronghead, anyway. ;-)

A bit of mocking's good for the soul.
Well, my soul.
If I had one.

Date: 2004-06-20 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Heh. You know, I'm surprised as many people like it as there are. I am totally not offended by the idea that OMG SOME--MANY!--PEOPLE DO NOT THINK I'M FUNNY! Hell, I could have told you I'm not that funny myself and saved you the trouble. In fact, I even said in the intro, "I don't think this one's all that great." It's the idiomatic threats of bodily harm I'm not down with. There are plenty of things I've read that people loved but I didn't think were the shit--so I just moved on. It's not all that hard.

Date: 2004-06-20 09:44 am (UTC)
luminosity: (SPPoC! -  waterorbreeze)
From: [personal profile] luminosity
Hey, an anonymous flame to boot! You've *arrived*, baybee!

:)

Date: 2004-06-20 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiedyeddress.livejournal.com
LJ is such a negative place so often it pains me.

Well, I think you are hilarious!

(BTW Hi! I added you just recently) :)

Date: 2004-06-20 11:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Hi!

And yeah, LJ has a lot of negativity swirling around, but then it also has a lot of generosity and friendliness--it's all human nature, and I think it just tends to get amplified on the internet, where everyone is nearly anonymous, really, and can say anything they want. I'm no ray of light myself a good bit of the time, so I don't have a problem with that. I'd just like a moratorium on the pseudo-death threats.

Date: 2004-06-20 10:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlofabyss.livejournal.com
I know that this has nothing to do with anything, but I really love your Galadriel icon. A lot. And yeah, I love all of your icons, but your Galadriel icon is the limit! I love me some Cate Blanchett...

Date: 2004-06-20 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Hee. Cate's one of my favorites, too.

Date: 2004-06-20 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kotszok.livejournal.com
Haha! You can be proud of yourself! No true author is complete without stupid flamers who don't know the difference between "helpful criticism" and their own ass. (If that made sense, I'm pretty sure I screwed up that oh so very funny and witty line somewhere along the way)

You know you're way over it and so much better! All of us faithful minions and followers know. There's what? 5 million of us? lol Keep tight!

Date: 2004-06-20 11:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gsalinas.livejournal.com
The post I just made will probably get lost in the 1000 or so, but I just wanted to say I didn't think it was particulary good. But you know....just not my thing I guess, but the jokes were kinda obvious and pretty much amounted to a plot summary with cursing. So if you're into that kinda thing, fine. But it didn't make me laugh. Sorry.

Date: 2004-06-20 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Hee. I think you just wrote "All the Negative Feedback in Fifteen Seconds."

Date: 2004-06-20 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zombiequeen.livejournal.com
I agree with fanofall. Maybe your anonymous flamer was using the phrase "you should be put down" not to mean "you should be euthanized," but to mean "you deserve a scathing put-down." Except he or she couldn't think of one.

It's much like the fine shade of difference between "I think your stuff is sh*t" and "I think your stuff is THE sh*t."

Well... I still like you, Cleo. :D

Date: 2004-06-20 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cellardoor28.livejournal.com
aw, its like moveis in 15 minutes has finally come of age. bless its ickle heart!!!

(btw, is it wrong of me that when reading through the bit with the flame i was totally distracted by mad icon love for this (http://userpic.livejournal.com/12724181/1155632)?)

Date: 2004-06-20 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cellardoor28.livejournal.com
phew! theres a relief!

(pssst. speaking as your dealer, the bird is ready to fly but its wing is a bit broken, so im trying to get a healthier one. comprende? hey, i quite like this black market kind of stuff :p)

Date: 2004-06-20 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Gotcha. The electric pickle barks at midnight, etc. ;)

Date: 2004-06-20 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] punkiejeannien.livejournal.com
dude, so i didn't see the post, but if someone is nutty enough to actually say something like "you should be put down"... perhaps they should be put down. *shakes head*

i think i almost wrote *shakes heads*...

Date: 2004-06-20 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seraphina-pyra.livejournal.com
*shakes head* dear me, where do these people caome from? lol
I hate the way people aren't willing to sign a name to their insults, I mean they could just leave a fake name and it would be ok, but signing it as anonymous is just cowardly.
I think you are very talented and your movie parodies are very funny ^_^
Pyra

Date: 2004-06-20 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tecno-fairy.livejournal.com
oooh, looks like you've got yourself a couple of wierdos! Quite how that person failed to deduce that 'Cleo' and 'Cleolinda' could be the same person...

*backs away slowly from the crazy*

I think laughing at them and inviting others to mock them openly is definately the best course of action here; I can appreciate that not everyone shares the same sense of humour, but if something doesn't make you laugh, there's no need to get nasty...

oh well, there's always one, isn't there? Soon you will have almighty hoardes of squeeing Cleo fangirls to defend your honour and good name all over the internet! You will be invincible!

Date: 2004-06-20 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Now, really, we should all try to be mature about this. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Read your POA parody..

Date: 2004-06-20 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I saw your parody linked by Mugglenet.. I just have to say that's one of the most hilarious things I've ever read!! I love it soo much.. Good work!!

- Katie

Date: 2004-06-20 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edda.livejournal.com
I got all bouncer-macho over there. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. It was more like just laying my hand on Hor-Caller's shoulder, rather than threatening them or anything.

I KEEL YOU, HOR-CALLER!!

Sorry. Really.

Date: 2004-06-20 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
I shudder to think what you'll do when you see the "you should be put down" comment. ;)

Date: 2004-06-20 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edda.livejournal.com
Oh, I was pretty mild. Everybody else had pretty much done the Smackdown O' Doom before I got there.

I really feel all, like, protective-jealous, like a crazy trailer-park boyfriend, when somebody flames my friends. The internet: so accessible, yet so frustrating in its remoteness.

Date: 2004-06-20 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waterbathnew.livejournal.com
Hey! I also got the link from mugglenet.com *waves back* and I think it was really funny. I loved it. Keep up the good work! Oh and I have this friend that is also a writer that, by your sense of humor and hers, you could totally get along with!

oh and about the thing with "Bitch, Please" do you guys know Whatevia? that's like her motto.

http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm12.showMessage?topicID=268.topic
it is really funny.

Date: 2004-06-21 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shrwhyte.livejournal.com
Someone told you that you should be put down? OMG awesome.

Date: 2004-06-21 07:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vivian-shaw.livejournal.com
Yep, you've made it. I remember my first anonymous Stoopid Flamer encounter. It gives you a lovely little frisson of superiority.

Date: 2004-06-21 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walzergrl.livejournal.com
it doesn't count if 50 people defend you and no one sides with the flamer. if just one other person had taken the moron's side... maybe. but i'm with that other person who said he's a 12 year old from mugglenet. everone knows 12 year olds aren't flameworthy. i'm afraid you're still a flame virgin.

Date: 2004-06-21 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walzergrl.livejournal.com
EDIT:

1) i didn't realize until i read these comments that you were taking put down to mean euthanized... when i read it i thought (s)he just meant put in your place or ego-checked or something equally lame.

2) apparently a couple of people did choose to back mr/ms anonymous up, so i guess you've been flamed.

Date: 2004-06-21 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Really? Others backed him up? I hadn't checked back since I initially posted the link (which I kinda wish I hadn't now).

Date: 2004-06-24 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] walzergrl.livejournal.com
no... i meant what the people in comments were talking about. i.e. i'm a moron. i should've just deleted comments.

Date: 2004-06-23 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thefirespirit.livejournal.com
-hug from a total stranger-
There are some people in this world who don't deserve to be given free speech, just try to ignore them. I love you Cate Blanchette/(sp?)/Galadriel pic btw.
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