@fraldarius

[boarwitness]

Stop posting anonymously.

If you have a question you want answered, own it.

[that's it

that's the post

wouldn't it be funny if all the replies were anonymous]

Comments

[appeale]

everyone does.

the only ones who don't are usually sword-wielding psychos

[boarwitness]

[he didn't study the blade while you were partying to be insulted like this???]

There are other people in this post not hiding. So you're already wrong.

[appeale]

just because they're not anonymous right now doesn't mean they don't live behind a curtain

how would you know what they do behind closed doors?

[boarwitness]

What they do behind closed doors is their own business.

But you can't keep up a lie face to face. It eventually comes out.

Just like you will.

[appeale]

you really don't give a shit about how other people have to live their lives, do you? you think everyone should be just like you.

[boarwitness]

I never said that.

[appeale]

you didn't need to say it.

not all of us have the privilege of strength.

[boarwitness]

And you're just giving up without trying.

[appeale]

screw you. you have no idea what i've had to do or how hard i've tried.

you're preaching from the top of a cliff just because you're the one who made it up there. even if i scrape my fingers bloody all you're going to see is that i'm still at the bottom.

[boarwitness]

[o-kay, this is definitely not about anonymous netherwork posts anymore?? but like a true internet warrior, he's officially in too deep to turn back now.]

If you're capable of being this angry just because I said you should use your name to post, then divert some of it into something more productive. You're just howling at the world to no end. I'm out in the open. Why don't you attack me face to face?

[appeale]

[ it's funny—she thinks it might be her Shadow at work, but it doesn't feel the way she thought it would. there's nothing controlling her movements or feeding words to her. there is just an anger she can't snuff out. everything it sets alight is still a part of Rudbeckia. ]

why would i get in a fight i already know i can't win?

i'm angry because everything is so simple to you that you can't even imagine some people need to protect themselves in other ways. honesty doesn't always work out, you know. and being vulnerable is worse.

[boarwitness]

So why did you respond?

[appeale]

because i made one of the anonymous posts you're complaining about and it pissed me off when i saw this so i just commented??? why else.

i mean did "bite me" really seem like i put a lot of thought into what i wrote before i sent it

[boarwitness]

So you kneejerk replied because you were mad that I was right.

[appeale]

just because someone's mad at you doesn't mean you were right you arrogant prick

listen, i'm the one that asked about everyone's shadows. the whole idea was that everyone could speak honestly about their shadows without having to worry that somebody else would treat them differently for admitting to something that's only in their head.

[boarwitness]

[felix, who would simply never speak about his shadow in the first place, saw this post and dismissed it out of hand.]

I would have thought you were the person who posted before me. Interesting that you responded so quickly.

[appeale]

i'm someone who has nothing better to do than sit around on my phone all day

[boarwitness]

Clearly.