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Re: Is My Dad Insane?

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Originally Posted by thejadefalcon (Post 4173123)

*drink sprays through nose* WHAT? No! Just NO! I haven't been to FF.net for months. Regardless of my signature, my fics are plagued with Mary Sues. I'm rewriting all of my stories to get rid of them. Anything on FF.net is probably still infested though. I'm rewriting fifty (large) chapters of one fic and the rewrite is even larger than the original. For example, the original prologue was three pages. The new prologue is twenty pages and it doesn't even cover the amount of time that the original one did. But, trust me, my profile on FF.net is something I won't dare to touch for a while.

Ok ok, I won't read them. =p

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It depends if I'm familiar with the fandom, because Mary Sues classifications differ between them. But I should be able to help. Your typing seems good so I could probably beta read your fics too if I have time (I don't tend to bother if it looks as though the beta reading will take a month of a single paragraph which is surprisingly common).

Well, during this past half year I've taken an extreme liking to anything Japanese, so that includes anime. Currently I'm writing a fanfic for Love Hina and since I'm introducing new characters don't think it can be called a canon-fic, just you know. ;)

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That's not believing in God or aliens, isn't it? To be honest, I think people who believe that Earth is the only planet with sentient life on are pretty arrogant. No offence, but its a statistical impossibilty. There's this equation somewhere that says that, in our galaxy alone, there are likely 10,000 sentient species.

While it does mean that I don't believe in God, it also means that I exclude the possibility of the existance of any such entity (atheists are the ones who completeley reject it). About the aliens... I do believe there to be aliens, I find it, like you, arrogant not to. Agnosticism doesn't have anything to do with aliens. =p

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Ok ok, I won't read them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Flames of Darkness is the one with the least Sues, but it doesn't make much sense in places. I'm going to rewrite that too. *is dead* I have over 110 fics to write. *is really smegging dead*

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Well, during this past half year I've taken an extreme liking to anything Japanese

Sorry. The only ones I'm even vaguely familiar with are Pokémon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh! and those are the English translations which, as Japanese is total babble, don't have enough time to say most of the plot. Therefore it's sometimes a bit wacky. Well... regarding the latest Pokémon movie, Heroes, wacky doesn't begin to cover it. :lol:

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Agnosticism doesn't have anything to do with aliens.

*sighs* I always get them mixed up. I'm a Christian (Protestant), but I find I sometimes doubt. I mean, if God really existed, he'd do something even if it's just smiting us all for buggering up his planet. :lol: That's why I hate Creationists. What proof is there for intelligent design? Darwinism has proof. Creationism doesn't even mention the dinosaurs (neither does the Bible). So I'm half Christian, half not.

*looks up*

*embarrassed* This thread's gone a bit off-topic, hasn't it?

Re: Is My Dad Insane?

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Originally Posted by thejadefalcon (Post 4192789)

Haha, well... they're Japanese. =p
Anyway, I'd think they'd be some standard that would describe a Mary Sue pretty good, no matter the universe. I made a couple a litmus tests and one said he was a Mary Sue while another told me he was the complete opposite, so I wanted to check it with someone who'd know his stuff. ;)

Other that the wacky haircolours, Love Hina doesn't differ very much from reality, so I guess you wouldn't have any greater trouble in judging him.

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*looks up*

*embarrassed* This thread's gone a bit off-topic, hasn't it?

I would believe so.

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Put yourself in his shoes, you know he don't hate you right?

Even if he is trying to win you back, it shouldn't matter, judge him on the way he thinks only about you, not your mom or what happened in the family.
People know they can't go back in time, but if an xbox does make you happy treat the money as such.

You should draw the line as in if he beat you, or through you out to the curb, and things like that.Remember, don't get caught in the same guilt trap in 10 years from now, mabye that is a good lesson he will teach you, take heed.

If he tells you how to live, it more than likley is somthing that he knows from the way things happened to him.
I guess I would call him and keep in touch throughout the years, but don't feel obligated to live or visit.

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Well, the thing is, that even though you hate him, that does not necessarily mean that he hates you. In addition to the fact that you said he always thinks he's right (a lot of people are like that, by the way), maybe he thinks that your hatred for him is unfounded, and he thinks that over time you will forget the 'error of your ways' and learn to love him again.

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if an xbox does make you happy treat the money as such.

Damn. Knew I forgot to post something. Yeah. Xbox makes me happy. :lol:

I think I will try contacting him. Maybe. Possibly. Now I just need to find his mobile number. *searches*

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Originally Posted by thejadefalcon (Post 4141633)

I’m highly confused. On both Christmas and my birthday (January 4th), I received £100 from my dad, giving me £200 total. I’ve got nothing against this in itself as it enables me to buy an XBox 360, but I don’t understand why he’s given it to me.

For starters, I haven’t seen him in six months. I used to visit him once a week every Sunday, but that got changed to once a fortnight because of my school and his work. He then said that if I didn’t want to go to his house a particular week, I should phone him and tell him. Two weeks pass and he doesn’t show up. Pretty much instantly, I figure out what’s happened. He thinks that he said if I did want to go to his house, I should phone him. Although my mum would be prepared to make me up on this as she also heard him, I can’t be bothered to call him and say that he’s remembering things differently because, in his mind, he’s always right. So I haven’t seen him in six months.

The last few times I saw him, I don’t think I made much of an effort to disguise the fact that I hated him. Why? He left my mum and I when I was seven and lied to my mum about it. “No, no, it’s not because of another woman,” he said. Two days later, she sees him with that bitch. I’ve got nothing against Melanie, said bitch, in her own rights, but I hate her because she was the one who took dad away. I’ve never talked to anyone about this, but I think it’s a pretty normal feeling. And then, even though he left ten years ago, without even a word to either of us, he had the balls to try to tell me how to live my life. As far as I’m concerned, he lost all right to be a parent to me the second he walked out of our house.

Last of the things I can currently remember is that, about two months ago, he split from Melanie. He sold the house they live at together and moved into his father’s house with one of his brothers, Alan. This has disgusted almost everyone in the family. Granddad hadn’t talked to dad for three years because of an incident between my dad and my great-grandmother (my granddad’s mother, I believe) over something to do with Megan, my dad’s second child with Melanie. Don’t ask me exactly what happened because I’m not too clear on the details, but something happened regarding Megan and dad went over to nan’s house and swore and yelled at her about it. Granddad found out and told dad that if he ever wanted to be welcome at his house again, he needed to apologise. Dad never did. Granddad passed away in his sleep four months ago.

So the fact that dad is now living in granddad’s house, and in his room, has caused most of the family to want no contact with him. The only two who talk to him, as far as I know, are Alan, though he doesn’t have much of a choice, and Roy, their other brother. Kim, their sister, hasn’t talked to dad or Roy since my nan’s funeral (granddad’s wife) about seven years ago because of a mix-up over who was supposed to get the flowers. Auntie Kim, to my knowledge, doesn’t seem to care that neither of them want to talk to her. On top of this, dad never told us that he had moved house or anything. I learned from hearsay from the other family members. You can see why I hate him.

So, is this money because he’s insane? Or is it a bribe for something? I’m confused and I don’t like being confused.

You're young, not everything makes sense, in fact, little does, esp about relationships that you cannot control. I have no idea what it's like not to have my father around to talk to whenever I want to, it must be hard.

As for the money, IMHO, he gave it to you [sanely] because he wanted you to spend it on something you wanted. Since he's not around all that much, as your post indicates, he probably doesn't know what your interests are, so he gave you money instead.

I'd just be grateful he remembered you were alive, a hug now and again and everything should be good. Good luck to you, Jade.

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You're young, not everything makes sense,

Yeah. I truly panic when something doesn't comform to logic. That's why I hate most fanfiction. *mutters* Bloody Mary Sues.

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Well i would say that even though he knows that you hate him, you're still his son/daughter so he'll love you no matter what.

ANd as you said earlier, contact him. He must be feeling pretty low right now and even though its his own fault (no offence), you should still get over this and tell him. I mean my parents split up because my dad started seeing another woman and i hated him for ages. Eventually though, i just had to accept that he wasn't going to get back together with my mum, so i just go to his house every weekend. It keeps everybody happy. WHat if he had an accident and you hadn't seen him in ages.

Anyway, enough of me rambling on. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

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you're still his son/daughter

Son. Why is it that, even though I always have 'male' somewhere on a profile, people still ask if I'm a woman or not? It's weird.

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even though its his own fault (no offence)

Why would I take offence? I've said that it's his fault about a billion times.