Journal, Diary, & Blogging / Love is in the Air
1) How I started:
To My Motley Crew,
I had a great time this past weekend being someone else —you know, being flirty and carefree for four or five hours at a shot. Hope the rest of you enjoyed your alter egos as much as I enjoyed watching and listening to you explore these strange people you created.
Matt, It was hard to believe that this was one of the first times you role played. I like how our two characters are virtually at antipodes to each other. My Isla has an ample bosom she likes to flaunt; you would prefer my bosom well strapped in a corset. It was amazing how you managed to stay in character, like 90% of the time. and having your accent sound so genuine made me wonder how many southern belles got into your family’s gene pool.
As for Ryan playing a stout English professor, that was hilarious. Knowing how you hate the English, it was hard not to laugh when you were using a high and mighty English tone. Talk about playing against type, especially since the professor seems to eat everything that’s ever been laid on the table in front of him.
Jeff, you had a great influence on the rules, and that made it a lot better than it would have been otherwise! After playing D&D for the past few years, I find that the Home-Brew Rules are much more enlivened and entertaining. Though this could have been involved and somewhat ponderous, your rules still managed to be simple and concise. Let me not forget your player character, our Russian friend Petrov, who is entirely believable the way you play him. It’s funny how you can separate yourself from your own character to play him so well. I can tell that you’ve had massive amounts of experience in role playing. Jeff, waiting for a joke? You don’t get a joke. That’s the joke.
I know that the Munchies were a great hit. Maybe next time we can expand munchies beyong the “name brand.” I was thinking about actually cooking something next time: maybe some baked nachos for the Martinez-types or garlic bread for the ry(an)-bread types or meatballs for the meathead-types. Let me know what your stomach is thinking…because if my food kills or maims any of you, I’m going to be sorely pissed if we have to continue the game from your hospital bed.
Now, on to the Irish Festival. Ryan, no excuses about not being able to take me because I intend on getting fully Irish loaded to better explore Isla’s Irish character. Yes, I’m going to peel a few layers off Tracy.
Tracy
2) Response from love interest was:
Thank you kindly for the generous praise. And no southern belles in my ancestry that I’m aware of, but I’ve always dreamed of being like Scarlett O’Hara.
Only, y’know, in a manly sort of way.
Wait, that doesn’t make sense. Forget I said anything.
3) Response to love interest was:
Matt,
Having talked with you at length during Homebrew about “Gone with the Wind,” I understand your reference to Scarlett O’Hara. While Ryan and Jeff might rag on you for comparing yourself to Scarlett, I understand why you identified with her situation and emotional state instead of Rhett’s. In the beginning of the movie, she was manipulative and non-deserving. What she accomplished throughout the rest of the film made her stronger and well-deserving of our admiration.
If this film were to be remade today, we might be treated to Scarlett saying things like, “I have fantasized about making mad passionate love with you…and, Rhett honey, I give a really good blow job.” Of course, we might have lost the memorable reply, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
In the first part of the story, Scarlett enjoyed the attentions of men, toying with them like a kitten with a ball of yarn; later she despised them, which made her immune to Rhett’s charms. By making her face her sexual situation of having experienced only a young man who didn’t know what he was doing and an older man who wouldn’t let her enjoy it, she needed to experience physical love with a virile man who was as passionate as she was. Then she might have been able to say, “Let’s cut the bullshit…I like you! How about you and me go on a date. Maybe you might get lucky.”
She eventually lost her innocence dealing with death, disease and abandonment. She learned to carry other people’s weight, all for the love of the man she could never have. We talked about her triumph over defeat, specifically following her rape scene when she states ”...I will never go hungry again.” Blah, blah, blah! I am just saying something that sounds intelligent and witty with sexual undertones.
Wait, that doesn’t make sense. Forget I said anything.
Tracy
4) Love interest replies:
Are you hitting on me?
5) I follow up with:
“Are you hitting on me?” Rhett asks. ”Why?” Scarlett responds. ”Does it hurt?”
Seriously, Matt, Is that all you got out of my email? There were brilliant aspects in it on many different levels that I thought would twinge your funny bone. If you only saw that (whether intended or not), then you’re moving too fast. Yes, you are good looking, a real Rhett Butler in waistcoat and boots; but isn’t it possible that Scarlett O’Hara can be flirtatious and funny…and not be hitting on our southern gentleman?
After all, Rhett and Scarlett are just characters from “Gone with the Wind” talking to each other in an updated version of the movie. Let your mind be at ease: it was not a proposition. By the same token, I hope putting dirty words in Scarlett’s mouth didn’t sound sacrilegious to you, perhaps even ruining the ambiance of that particular scene. I like my version better. Believe me, women in those days still managed a few dirty words.
Re-read the last paragraph of my flirtatious and funny email. Don’t the last two lines look familiar to you? If not, look at your email which precipitated my response. It was written in the same spirit: a little funny, a little crazy, a lot off the wall.
Tracy
Also a Deviant Miscreant
6) He replies:
Not to worry. My whole motivation was the idea that responding to such an intentionally eloquent, florid and loquacious missive with a short one-sentence email that seems to miss the point struck me as very amusing. Honestly, I did find it very funny, but while I’m perfectly capable of comprehending those sorts of things, I always seem to fall short when attempting to compose anything along those lines. Besides, I’m one of those folks who really takes the old adage “brevity is the soul of wit” to heart. It’s like the Hemingway aesthetic, only without all the Pulitzer and/or Nobel Prize-worthy elements.
I agree; your version of Gone With the Wind would be much more entertaining. It reminds me of the proposed shortened second act of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof where Brick asks Big Daddy, “Are you dying?” to which Big Daddy replies, “Yes. Are you gay?” and Brick says, “Nope.” And curtain. (Oh, if only that had been the version that BGSU’s theatre department had produced. Instead, I had to suffer through three hours of people talking in circles about about things of little consequence whilst I sat in the most uncomfortable wooden seats on campus.)
Oh, and thanks for the compliment. Right back atcha. Well, except for the whole Rhett Butler comparison. Oh, you know what I mean.
7) In search of brevity, I responded:
What?
8) To which, at a loss for words and unwilling to reveal himself further, he came out weakly with:
Exactly.
9) Which elicited from me, the remark:
Oh no you didn’t.
10) Which, in his own cute fashion, he answered with:
No, check it again. You’ll clearly see that I did.
11) All of which then culminated in us getting together on Saturday from 9PM to 4AM Sunday. Not bad for a little email jockeying.
Tracy
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Sounds like you have a great group of friends you can role play with.
I don’t think you are a “needy bitch” as you put it, but I highly doubt he believes you to be,deep down, anything more then just a role playing buddy. He (if you are together) might be trying to take it to the next level, I doubt the success.
For me the Gone With The Wind Scarlet comparison show that though he might flirt and welcome flirting under the surface there is a major amount of distrust not only in others but himself.
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Well, it was cute, funny and entertaining. I’m glad you got your man. Now, for the acorn; I can’t tell right off the bat whether or not this could grow into an Oak or a poisonous weed. It’s too little material for me to decide. But on the brighter side this little ditty was definitly interesting. _
Okay so am I reading this correctly your in a long distance relationship with a guy you haven’t met in person your just chatting to each other through emails?? Cause it’s all abit confusing with the characters in play in this you’ve written or copied and pasted on here…
To be honest it’s all abit hazy, are you posting this up as a writer or are you posting this up asking for advice???
Okay honestly I think if you really want to know if it’s worth giving it a shot or whatever ask the guy you won’t know if you don’t ask.
Are you a needy bitch? I didn’t see that come across at all really, I would put you as a nosy insecure chick to be honest but not nosy enough to talk to him about it.
As for him he sounds like an odd bloke especially that part he mentioned about Scarlett that was a crackup but in this day and age everyone’s quirky in their own way.
I’ve never read anything like this before so I can definitely say this piece is one in a million for sure.
Thanks for the read 10 out of 10 for me.
Amy
I loved this.
I don’t know why.
But it was witty and made me smile.
Nicely done.
Very interesting. Those were quite good ramblings with Gone with the Wind. Anyways, loved the flirting while trying to make it seem like you weren’t really flirting. So….out of extreme nosiness..you should def. state what you did in fact do on sunday. Well, you should keep blogging because I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one.
Honestly, I’m not quite sure how to review this. It’s well-written, and since it is transcribed e-mail correspondance critiquing any grammatical or spelling mistakes seems like a waste of effort, although frankly I didn’t see any immediately obvious errors.
In the notes for the reviewer you write that the male correspondant “sidesteps” repeatedly in an attempt to obfuscate his interest, but the female correspondant seems just as evasive to me.
From the get-go I cannot really figure out what is going on. I can’t say that I dislike the confusion… I have had to get used to it over the years, lol, but I thought that you might like to be aware of it.
This person does not sound particularly natural to me. Like I find it hard to beleive as an e-mail amungst friends. That is due to word choice and the way that it is framed person-by-person. I don’t know, just sounds awkward to me.
Why is this chick going on and on about Scarlett O’Hara to her “love interest.” Like dude, that would turn me off if I were him, but whatev… it could me narrowed a bit, no?
yeah sounds good.
This is an interesting piece, and ‘fairy tale’ is appropriate. The format and organization is logical to any experienced email/Internet user. The ‘narrative’ progresses in a pattern which naturally leads one to expect the outcome stated in 11; long slow steps leading to short, hurried ones. The end (7 – 10) is particularly amusing. I don’t see that you’ve claimed this is an actual exchange. I assume then, since the ‘voices’ of the two correspondents are so similar, you wrote both parts. If you planned on revision at all, I would suggest a focus on making the voices less similar to deepen the illusion that these are two separate people. If in fact this is a real exchange, these two are clearly made for each other, intellectually at least.
I like the way this piece is arranged. You have a very good eye for the “modern fairytale” genre, and your optimism is refreshing in an age of lovelessness of cynicism!
The list format works well here and the piece reads as though it has been written in the letter or epistolary form, which is impressive for what is a probing piece of fantasy blogging.
You care immediately for the girl getting her guy, and it goes to show that it is not such an unlikely happening after all.
A charming read.
Laura
I loved the use of words here but i did get confused when it was one minute a story, then the other minute a conversation between “Tracy and Mat” or is it “Scarlett and Rhett” ?
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