Originally Posted by Martian

I do want to make one thing perfectly clear, here -- I'm not losing any sleep over how you choose to fuck up your life. I bowed out of that particular aspect of this discussion over a page ago, when it became clear to me that you weren't really interested in anything anyone here had to say. My sole issue with you now is how you're choosing to address my community, and my friends.

Yes, I'm speaking on behalf of the community. My community. The one that I've been a part of for better than half a decade. The one that I've been a part of through all kinds of hardships, including some that didn't look all that different from your own. Maybe to you this place is just a bunch of random internet screennames, but for those of us who've been here for years and who've gotten to know each other it's not the case. We are friends, we are lovers, we are close in ways that you're clearly not grasping. And if you knew that, if you understood the dynamics of this place and who we are, you might understand that I'm not the one who will sit around passively while you shit all over this space that we've worked hard to turn into a friendly, welcoming and intimate little corner of the worldwide web.

I don't get you. You're not hostile like this in chat. I don't even care if you like me as a person. Universal approval is not and has not ever been my goal. I just don't get why you're being so adversarial with the rest of the group. Why even start a discussion if you're not interested in having it?

The bottom line is that this is the way things work around here. If you can be respectful and approach things with an open mind you'll fit in. If not then please, don't feel like you have to stick around on my account.