tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-02-28:480381 an interesting monster megwrites 2010-08-07T11:53:53Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-02-28:480381:187943 2010-08-07T11:52:43Z 2010-08-07T11:53:53Z public 0 I post this because I want not only to share it, but I want to keep it close in my mind, in my heart as both a writer and a human being. It is true, it is right, and I hope the day never comes that I forget it:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><b>You know the thing about turning history into myth? It makes people believe that<i> these things never happened, these things were never true</i>. Take it one step further: suddenly we become replaceable, interchangeable, lives and memories and stories and histories (hair and skin and blood and bones) fodder for your plagiarism, convenient backdrops for your stories- a book of myths in which our names do not appear**.<br /><br />Turning us into magical unicorns, orcs, a handy spice rack with which you can ~flavor~ your realities and imaginations, all while erasing ours- this is <i>respect</i>? Please. Look me in the eye. Say it again. I'll warn you right now, though:<i> I</i> am not that inscrutable.<br /><br />- <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://glass-icarus.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://glass-icarus.dreamwidth.org/'><b>glass_icarus</b></a></span>, <a href="http://glass-icarus.dreamwidth.org/242317.html">only our life, our life and its forgetting*</a></b></blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=megwrites&ditemid=187943" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments