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Subj: Re: Taking the 5th on comments... Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 07:42:54 pm EST (Viewed 273 times) | Reply Subj: Re: Taking the 5th on comments... Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 06:36:27 pm EST (Viewed 3 times) | ||||||
Quote: Case in point is this very board. Many of the early posters used their real names as alter-egos for the superhero avatars they names after their poster handles. But it must be a little weird for, say, Lisa to look back on ten year old stories about how big a slut she is. It'll be weirder when her son Christopher reads them.It depends how it's presented - she might choose to explain that it's a character based on her named Lisa Waltz, like the ones on TV. Quote: Back in the early days quite a few posters wrote their girlfriends in as romance interests too - Donar, Banjoooo, NTU-150, and Finny all did it. I don't think that any of those posters ended up with those girls, so it was a bit tricky thereafter.That's always a danger, and why it's easier to stick with fictional representations. Quote: I'd prefer to be sure before trying it these days. I'm aware of at least one partner who was offended by something that was written about them in a story on the board (long ago).Which is why we'd need input from poster-Jay on the subject, I suppose. This whole discussion reminds me of the old Cosby Show. There was Bill Cosby, but with a different last name, because his real wife and family didn't want to be involved. Then there was his fictional family. It was such a successful show, people believed that's what the real Bill Cosby was like. But while it was based on his life, it was nothing like reality at all. He literally changed everything to keep his real life completely separate from the fictional one, and to protect his real family. But that's show business, and actors - I wouldn't expect the average person to do that. The average person often believes "hey, that's almost like me!" is too much 'like me', and not at all like me is a personal slight. It takes some getting used to. Quote: Also I think writing oneself into fiction tends to become very self-indulgent - "Mary-Sue-ish" as Kirk would call it.I guess I feel more like a director than a character or a star. Like movie directors, if I put myself into a story at all, I'd probably be the guy who gets killed in the first scene, or contributes some minute fact to the story or something (I was run off the road in my car in one of my friends' comics I helped write, for instance). And even then, to avoid the appearance of hubris, I'd probably give myself a different last name, or one that's similar but not the same. | |||||||
