continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

Comments

Re: Channeling questions

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think anyone should feel guilty about doing this stuff when they were children. At 9, I belonged to a friend group who had convinced each other we were trufax pegasuses (pegasi?) every night. We'd talk about what had "really" happened last night each school day. We had a leader, and I'm sure she got a major kick about being looked up to. But no one got hurt, to my knowledge, and we grew out of it. That kind of confabulation is absolutely normal in children.

In adults, it's not. And tbh, I don't think Andy does it for all the same reasons we did it as children. Sure, he likes fantasy, but he really likes power and hurting people. He's got enough knowledge and imagination to have learned how to run a cult, and his conviction that he is a fundamentally more valuable being than others allows him to use them, break them, and throw them away with impunity.

Re: Channeling questions

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I didn't mean that we felt guilty about it now-- in fact, said friend, whom I've known for almost three decades, came in from out of town for a surprise visit tonight, and it was wonderful-- just that the guilt we would feel at the idea of hurting someone is what separates childish confabulation from whatever it is that Andy does.