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In Which I Cause WF To Strangle Itself TO DEATH.

Volpone said:
See, why'd you have to ruin it by preemptively insulting people? Now you just look like a dick. I was sorry to hear this. I may have had my differences with G and her personality regularly annoyed the crap out of me, but I respected her as a person and her accomplishments in her life and was sorry to hear that she'd died.
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I couldn't recall who here legitimately had a beef with her. Certainly not you.

Probably only K1A and Skrain in the end.

Welp. To G's memory.
 
Garamet frustrated the crap out of me. Because she was "you can lead a horse to water..." When I first came to WF I had an extended PM discussion with her about being less snarky and more constructive and it had an effect--for a short time. Then she was back to her regular self and I decided I had better things to do than try to convince her that she could accomplish more by not being a dick. I forget how many times I nudged her with the Dagoba tree analogy: you only find what you bring with you. But, on consideration, I wonder if that was why she posted the way she did--if you set things up so someone has to disagree with you, then it doesn't hurt. Of course they're going to disagree, you were a dick to them. Now if you reach out sincerely and genuinely try to reach an understanding and you get slapped down, then it could be that there's something wrong with your line of thinking. Meh. I don't know if any of that makes any sense. But I did have to get it off my chest. That said, she did what she had to do to pay the bills (the medical transcription gig) but she never gave up on her dream of writing sci-fi. And she did the best she could with the skills and abilities she had. And she did OK, all told.

PS: I like to think I won't dance on the grave of anyone I know exclusively online.* There's 2 or 3 that will be sorely trying, but I hope I can stay classy.

*Now the fuckers who backstabbed me IRL and killed my plan to run a paintball business, I will literally piss on their graves if the opportunity presents itself. But I'm not driving 13 hours each way just to do it. And truth be told, they probably did me a favor. Because instead of slaving away for less than $2 an hour to build a little business in rural Wisconsin, I've lived in Hawaii and Oregon and have a TARDIS and an A-Team van and a cool retro motorcycle and a bunch of other stuff I wouldn't have gotten if I'd have gotten my zoning variance. This post brought to you by tequila. Why didn't Hitler drink tequila? Because it made him *mean*.
 
Oooh. The relevant grave was apparently filled May 10, 2019. But fuck, I don't want to wander around a cemetery, trying to look nonchalant whilst looking for a grave to piss on. When you think about it, it is almost a better insult that the guy isn't worth the trouble of pissing on his grave. Yeah, he fucked up a nice little dream I had by stabbing me in the back. But instead I made an even better life while he died in the shitty little town I left as soon as I could. Big turd in a small bowl.

Funny story: I didn't grow up anywhere, really. There's, like, 3 towns that are too small to mention, with a 4th town smack-dab in the middle that is so small it doesn't even count. Wide spot in the road. Well when I was a kid, the Big Shit town was the one in question. Population 1982. They had a Dairy Queen that was open in the summer and everything. Flashing read light on top of the stop sign of the most relevant intersection. Well at some point someone wanted to open a McDonald's or a Wal*Mart or something. But the Movers and Shakers of the town were like "that'll take away from my business, so let's band together and kill it." And they did. So it opened in the next largest town, which also added an Indian casino. And the Movers and Shakers of Big Shit Town didn't take into account these things people call "cars." Or "roads." Or the idea that, if you wanted McDonald's or a 3# bag of Gummi Bears, you could get in your "car" and drive 15 minutes down the "road" to get what you wanted and Mom & Pop in their store/restaurant would still lose out while the town lost out on the tax dollars too. So today Big Shit town (population 1982) is still around population 1982. But quite a few less Mom & Pop stores. While, if someone asks me where I'm from, I have a better shot of them having an idea of the area if I say "Town #2," Because the only people who care about Big Shit Town these days are the increasingly elderly Movers and Shakers who jealously guard their ever dwindling pie.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Fuck. I liked Garamet quite a bit despite having political differences. Sorry to hear.
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I never knew anything about Garamet. I didn't know she was an author or where she came from and in fact, until today reading the post at WF I didn't know she was a she! I feel so embarresed about that.
I went back to read old threads. What a person! I really did enjoy reading her posts and interactions.
 
I read her posts regularly. She had a way of trolling that was like pulling on a loose thread til your whole sleeve came off.

I didn't realize how accomplished she was. RIP.

Now I'm hungry. thing I'll make a bacon and sausage omelette with cheese and toast with melted peanut butter.
 
One thing I'll miss was winding her up by conflating George Takei and Sulu. I'd point out that because George Takei was a closeted gay when he was playing Sulu, clearly Sulu was a closeted gay and she'd get all riled up by it. Want to annoy Garamet? Point out that Sulu sucked dick to get that helicopter in The One With the Whales. Good times, good times.
 
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