I want to preface this by admitting that the reason that the blog post is so late is that I’m a sick ass bear.

Sick enough that I bailed on the Kara run last night after Opera event, leaving my friends hanging, because I just couldn’t go on. I had the shakes incredibly bad. I went to bed with a heat pad under me cranked to high, and didn’t stop shaking for a couple hours. I slept for about 14 hours, getting up just long enough to call in sick… on a hell day where I had massive commitments to get done. Mrs BBB was left shoveling the driveway this morning so she could get our son to school, while I lay snoring in bed.

So of course, when I finally DO drag my butt out of bed, I see that there have been lots of comments on various blog posts. I have been following the comments on the Hunter tactics post and the Guys playing female characters posts with enjoyment; you have great things to say and I appreciate it. I haven’t updated anything on my hunter because I haven’t been able to play her yet, but I do intend to change up my plans because of you. Plus, yes, I meant the other kind of shot. Sorry.

The most gratifying comments come from those of you that say I’ve at least given you a different reason why guys might play female characters. As far as I know, I didn’t get flamed (yet), on that post, and that gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

But what I did see was something totally unexpected. Someone came to the blog, read the ‘5 lessons learned’ post, and then took the time out of their lives to post a nasty little troll rant about TJ.

To quote the anonymous individual,

That person Temerity Jane is babbling idiot.
I happened on her blog and read it once.
How insecure can a person be?
And how can one write about such useless happenings in their lives?
Yes, of course, I didn’t have to read it. But the great thing about the internet is: anyone and everyone can use it - which is also a bad thing…

Now, I could simply do my favorite thing, and refer the poster to this post of mine, which I think adequately expresses my feelings on the subject.

But I’m not going to stop there. Because I’m sick, and grumpy, and TJ is teh awesome.

The title of this post is, I am not a nice person. And it is quite true. And here is my example for the day;

When I read your comment, Anonymous, even though you phrased your comment in as gentle a way as possible to get across that you don’t like her, it still made me feel good inside.

It made me feel good, because I know in my heart that anyone that will take the time out of their life to post a comment on someones’ blog about how you think such and such is a ‘babbling idiot’, claiming this judgement of yours is based on a single visit and reading of a single blog post, and yet you have developed such an antipathy towards that person that you HAD to mention it here, where it is obvious that I, at least, admire that person… I just know that your life is destined for misery, dissapointment, and solitude. You might have friends now, if you are being thrown together in classrooms with other outsiders, wehether it be in college or high school or work. But in the long run, you are too petty to know true friendship, love or a lasting relationship. You will remain bitter and find ways of blaming this on other people being unable to see the ‘true you’ inside… while the truth is, you are alone because they DO see the true you.

And I am not a nice person, because instead of this making me sad, it instead gives me a feeling of amusment. You annoyed me for 15 seconds… but you will have to live with yourself for the rest of your life. And I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d hate to have to live with an asshat for the rest of MY life.

Is that harsh? Yes. I am not a nice person. I only play one on tv. (sorry, tired joke from a tired bear).

You come in here and tee off on someone I admire for no apparent reason, and I reserve the right to flame your ass.

You want to come in here and flame ME, hey, that’s fine. This is the venue for it. I post something, you flame me for what I write, what MY opinion is. That’s cool with me, I LIKE debate. You want to say nasty things about someone else, you go over there… let them kick your ass. And if you think I’m harsh, I’m pretty sure TJ would kick your ass like there was no tomorrow.

I have allowed my comments to be open to all, anonymous or otherwise, without restriction because I wanted to encourage peopoe to post, and not make you work to speak your mind. Should I change that? Should I make it so you HAVE to have an account to log in and post? It feels like that would be a big pain in the butt, but as far as I’m concerned, if you’re going to be an asshat, you should be man (or woman) enough to stand proudly behind what you say, and not hide behind ‘Anonymous’.

Oh, and for all the readers that came here looking for a fun, lighthearted post… I apologise. I’ll try and be more positive tomorrow.

Crappy trolls…