So I recently dipped back into The Secret World forums and found that they will be holding the 3rd installation of what they refer to as The Tournament of Secrets. Basically it's a writing competition based off of The Secret World, an MMO still in closed Beta that is set in modern day.
The idea behind it is that all the old legends and myths are true, as are most of the conspiracy theories. Your character is a member of one of three secret societies; The Templars, The Illuminati, and The Dragon. Each secret society uses the others as it sees fit in attaining it's own ultimate goals. The Templars(Europe) are about tradition and "defeating the unholy", The Illuminati (America) are about attaining power, and The Dragon(Asia) are about maintaining greater balance through chaos (mainly by keeping the other two at eachother's throats). The continents mentioned aren't exclusive when it comes to membership. There are members of all 3 factions from around the globe, but they definately hold power on their own respective continents. However, recent events have unfolded and ancient evils have begun to surface that are a large enough threat to make all 3 factions form a sort of uncomfortable alliance of sorts. They still play their machiavellian games at each others expense, but they do cooperate a bit more on the surface atleast.
Having done a little reading on the structure of the 2nd competition, I decided to do a retroactive entry of sorts to stretch my creative muscle. Since I had tested as a dragon, I decided to stick with it for my story character. So over the past few days I've been coming up with the personality of Kelly Green, a call boy from Southern California. Part of the competition involved writing up a sort of Bio for the character so that they could be written into the other contestants stories (which I've included most of at the bottom of the introductory story). As the competition progressed, characters would be picked off(non-lethally) and storylines would begin to take dominance, so that remaining contestants would have to follow another writers previous line, at least that's what I think was go
You say Hannah Montana, I say Ferry Corsten
You say Owl City, I say Above & Beyond
You say Jonas Brothers I say Markus Schulz
You say Justin Bieber, I say TIESTO
You say Taylor Swift, I say Aly & Fila
95% of teens these days listen to the same formulaic,crappy pop over and over again. If you're one of the 5% who still listens to real music, thumb this up, then copy and paste it to at least 5 videos. Don't let the spirit of Trance die"
That was the top comment. Thumbed up by 13 people.
I think I heard the spirit of trance die a little more.
Why is it that fans, and sometimes artists, feel the need to validate their own art/likes by bashing on the art/likes of others? Why do we let our own insecurities voice themselves like this? I'm pretty sure I do it myself on occasion, though over the past 10 years I've made a point of trying not to.
Of course I made a comment on the comment... couldn't resist. >.>
Does that invalidate everything I just said?
Oh look! A distraction! O.O