Aslaug's Axe Shed

It’s time for one of those “I’d better post something” updates. Occasionally, Bastion tells me to post more often on this blog, but I always feel it’d be a little silly to post without having anything to say.

Result: I usually post only when I’m extremely happy, very upset or at the verge of exploding with rage.

I also realize that may not exactly present the most sympathetic picture of me as a person at times, and I am fully aware that some people might wonder if I’m some ultra-neurotic git with enough hang-ups to be the centerfold for the International Hangman’s Association.

I used to be, years back … but I am not anymore. As those few of you who have ever met me real life can attest to, I may be a loon but at least I’m a loon who tries to be friendly and in a good mood in general.

But many of my posts here have been rather … irrate. And the story which is currently being posted, called “Defiance”, is nothing short of vitriolic.

Let that be a word of caution, or even an outright warning. That story is only going to get progressively more ugly, and I have removed my kidskin gloves and burnt them this time. I usually try to not step on people’s toes and I normally always attempt to at least respect people’s religious sensibilities, but in “Defiance” … I don’t. It turned my own stomach to write at times, not because I felt it was wrong but because I knew how some people will no doubt read it when or if they do.

Nonetheless, it is necessary for me to stress that not only do I stand by what I write … but the creators of the characters I have borrowed for that story … Kellan M’eigh and Silver Coyote … have not only said they were okay with what I’ve written. They have expressed repeated and whole-hearted support of what I am trying to say.

As I specifically told SC in an Email, I’d write that story if he was the only creature out there reading it! Because he GETS it. He understands exactly what it is I’ve tried to say and do with it, and I hope he’ll chime in on my forum as it progresses, to add his voice to the debate I somehow don’t doubt will spring up.

I am not trying to attack anyone with that story. I am trying to blast some ideas and some IDEALS that I find distasteful or even downright loathsome in some cases.

I’m trying to ask the difficult questions.

SC got that right off bat … and by chapter three, he would send me back page after page of Email-response to every chapter, where he poured out his innermost. I won’t repeat what he’s been saying here. That stays between him and me … but this story has done some good for at least one person and that’s why it has to be written and it has to be shared.

If you are offended, then that saddens me, but it’s one of those things that sometimes can’t be helped.

However, when all is said and done, I hope you will all remember that for all the outpouring of heavy emotion on this blog and in some of my stories, that I am still just one person, and that I, to highlight another “Defiance”-point, am just as fallible as everyone else out there.