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How much of you is barbelith?

  
 
NotBlue
20:49 / 08.09.03
How much of you is barbelith?

Who am I?

Eternal/obvious question, but how much of that for you is answered by you barbelith definition of yourself/your existence as posted herewith?

Me, not much, but a (very) little bit - your go...
 
 
Char Aina
21:00 / 08.09.03
not a lot.

the actual word barbelith and the myriad images and sensations it conjures up in my head are more important than the site in terms of who i am. that is not to devalue the site, just a measure of how little i have become a part of the board.


real life still holds my hand as i hang over the chasm of an internet friend circle.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:31 / 08.09.03
Some people might say far too much. I'd say very little... barbelith seems to have woven round my life and got its little claws in but to the point where a new separation has happened. Though a significant part of my existence has been effected by the board it doesn't define me and never has.

I do, I really shouldn't admit this in public, sometimes go out dressed as Anna de Logardiere would dress and not in my 'real' form. She's just a bit more garish than me, at first my favourite coat belonged to her but it's slowly worked its way in to my wardrobe. On Friday I wore a giant tulle skirt to 'laces party... that was definitely Anna's skirt, I might have worn it pre-Anna but never been entirely comfortable. Luckily she quite enjoys the attention, she's not so much a split personality or an alterego as a character I step in to when I need a boost. She's got it going on, me- not so much. Of course the problem in claiming that barbelith defines Anna de Logardiere is that she existed long before I ever encountered this place, it simply allowed her a name (which I suppose can certainly be counted as a form of definition).
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:21 / 08.09.03
A lot less than I would've thought. I like that certain people see me a certain way, and perhaps in the past I lived up to type a bit more, but I think over the past couple of months the idea of appearing a certain way here has detached from my need-to-do list.

So yeah. I'm me. Always have been, really. Barbelith is merely part of the textual version, to a diminishing extent, I guess.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
23:52 / 08.09.03
Well, Spyder is the real me. My daily life is Spyder's fictionsuit, just like some of the characters Spyder writes. But Spyder existed long before I started on Barbelith. So I guess barbelith is my release. I can be the real me without care who sees it. So... I am as I put here. The rest is just one of my masks.
 
 
Rage
05:23 / 09.09.03
It's hard to answer this question as myself. Leo?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:46 / 09.09.03
Since I only exist here, everything. My alter has a life, of course, and there's ultimately not a lot of him here - he created my concerns and my character, and now he's gone.
 
 
Quantum
09:11 / 09.09.03
Barbelith-the-site is a place I hang out to chat to interesting folks, and as I don't fictionsuit I can't say it defines me much.
On the other hand it does shape my thoughts more than I expected- when I think of something worth sharing it often pops into my head with an orange banner above it and I start to word it as a post..
 
 
gridley
15:11 / 09.09.03
At times, as much as 16%, at others as little as 3%. Right now, maybe 9% or 10%.

You would have to splice in a lot of frog DNA to clone me from my Barbelith scrapings.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
16:26 / 09.09.03
My barbelith persona is a carefully contrived channel for my otherwise untapped reserves of niceness.

irl I'm Naomi Campbell's prettier but even bitchier sister who is bitter that she works in a newsagents rather than modelling stilettos and furs.
 
 
Rev. Orr
22:43 / 09.09.03
And once more I must fight, manfully, to avoid proposing.
 
 
gingerbop
21:00 / 11.09.03
I think im much the opposite of Anna. Gingerbop doesnt care what she wears- nobody can see her. Lauren screams for pink miniskirts, and denim hotpants, and Dr martens, and patterned tights, and every so often yearns to shear off her hair. I suppose gingerbops a bit of a slob. Both start jumping up and down when something of interest happen, and both are a mix of intelligent and dippy.
 
 
NotBlue
19:20 / 15.09.03
So Xoc, IRl you ARE richard blackwood :-)
 
 
6opow
20:01 / 15.09.03
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Slim
21:42 / 15.09.03
Since most of you annoy me I'd say pretty much none of me is Barbelith. I sometimes visit for information purposes.
 
 
Dances with Gophers
21:43 / 15.09.03
Dances with Gophers was born on the Canadian Praries as the result of a Gopher pissing on my laptop (I was using it at the time). The short lived nickname was given to me by a colleague, I kept it as I have a fondness for the little critters and it's appropriate for use on the lith they spend a lot of time underground. It also reflects my online persona as I tend to scurry rapidly between websites and occasionally pop up to post something when I feel the need.
 
 
bjacques
22:10 / 15.09.03
I've been bjacques for about 12 years now, so there's not much barbelith in me, but life has certainly gotten more interesting since I read the comic. Lately I've been trying to tell the tactical media types
 
 
bjacques
22:12 / 15.09.03
That's weird. It's the second time today I've lost the post after the link. "...we're in a movie, so talk less and act more."
 
 
Linus Dunce
22:28 / 15.09.03
Testing what? There's already someone out there with Haus in his name, you know.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:35 / 15.09.03
Yeah, sorry to barge in - that is a defunct suit of mine. Tom and I were trying to work out some problems with my primary suit having been deleted (see the Policy for details), and I went into that one to check the suit number. Normal non-existence shall be resumed.
 
 
Linus Dunce
22:41 / 15.09.03
No problem. If you still have the bonnet up, feel free to delete this and my previous post.
 
 
Dances with Gophers
23:10 / 15.09.03
So theres a bit less Barbelith in the Haus than there used to be!
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
01:29 / 16.09.03
Wait, I'm in a comic book. Can I be in both a comic bok and a movie and some how manage to keep my continuity?
 
 
Not Here Still
19:10 / 16.09.03
Barebelith fits around me and I define Barbelith around myself, not the other way round. And no-one notices me either!
I'M GOING TO WRITE IN CAPITALS NOW

BOLD NEXT!
 
 
Lionheart
03:35 / 18.09.03
Hmm.. it seems that Rage wants me to describe to all of us viewers/listeners/old-school readers how much of her is Barbelith and how much of her is...uhm.."outside".

Well, currently we've seen Rage enter and leave the board on a few occasions but she didn't stay on here to build up a persona. Thus I'll be working with my memories of her previous forades into Barbelith-land in its prior incarnations....

I remember Rage coming off, from the written page, as somebody who has her own firm beliefs and who is emotionally involved in her discussions. In those old days I didn't really see that much of her posts so my perceptions of her were very limited and, I believe I can safely say, reflected the posts of somebody searching/trying to figure out how the world was interacting with them. It's a hard-perception to explain.

Today's Rage is a more mature Rage. While her Barbelith posts do come off as being childish at times (and not "childish" in a good way. I'm using the term "childish" to describe the negative behaviour of kids bickering over other people's actions without knowing the other people's motivations and/or the behaviour of kids on acting purely on emotion and ignoring otherstuff) and come off as hostile at other times, her real life persona is different. She's a person who is totally hyper and yet has the ability to sit down and talk and listen at will. She has a lot of energy and is like an open faucet of ideas and philosophies. She also underestimates some of her abilities. For example, she claims that she has no direction sense and yet somehow she manages to travel all over the continental United States without getting lost or stranded. She claims that it's hard for her to just sit down and listen and learn and yet after a conversation she'll suddenly make a reference to something spoken which reveals the depth of her listening and remembering. A small problem with her (and here is where I reveal my prejudices) is that she's vain. That she places vanity on a higher level of importance than comfort/survival. A great example took place in the middle of last February. Rage was in New York. The temperature was below zero... and she shaved her hair. And was wearing a short skirt. Not the smartest thing to do in the middle of a bitter cold winter.

So basicaly Rage is quite different from her Barbelith “persona” (is there one?) She comes off, in real life, as somebody who wants to do something and yet doesn’t realize the full potential of her abilities.

Uhm... yeah.

Monkey Out.
 
 
Rage
23:53 / 20.09.03
Thanks. (the skirt thing was about losing my pants, though!)

Hope this didn't kill the thread.
 
 
Lionheart
16:35 / 22.09.03
Thread Killah!
 
 
bitchiekittie
16:38 / 22.09.03
shutcho mouth, boy.
 
 
Lionheart
20:19 / 23.09.03
Meat eater!
 
  
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