[ SECRET POST #2204 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2204 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

Not cheating, I guess, but I honestly feel that if you can't come up with ideas that satisfy you enough on your own then that's really sad. I get getting drunk for the writing bit since that can be very intimidating, but you're so inhibited that you can't think out of the box without aid? Sad.

*I genuinely don't give a shit how many popular artists have said they get inspiration only under some substance. They're not untouchable.

[(Anonymous)]

You're still yourself when you're drunk/high. Anyway, that's not my issue with this - nowhere in the secret did it say that these people op looks down on do all their creating when they're in an altered state of mind. Some of us are perfectly happy writing drunk and sober, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

I also think it's judgemental to call those who do only write under the influence 'sad'.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Making judgments is sort of what people do. I don't think it's always a negative thing.

[(Anonymous)]

"You're still yourself when you're drunk/high."

Like fuck you are.

[(Anonymous)]

Um, yes, you are. Even the horrible stuff that comes out was there all along, just buried deep. Alcohol and drugs don't create anything that wasn't there to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

If you are talking about the creative output of a person, I agree. But there are drugs who can cause severe damage to your brain and cause mental disorders like schizophrenia or severe paranoia that hadn't been there before. If you don't recognize you're friends anymore and attack them, that's not just a simple case of "horrible stuff buried deep".

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't call the person sad, they said if the person could only be creative at all while under the influence then that was [a] sad [fact]. I'd have to agree with that; given a choice, I think most people would prefer to be able to think outside the box whenever they felt like it.

[diet_poison]

you can't think out of the box without aid? Sad.

Way to bash people who don't have the kind of "natural" creativity you wish they did, or maybe that you have. Some of them probably already feel pretty bad about that.

[(Anonymous)]

Way to be overdefensive. Sad =/= bad.

[diet_poison]

uh, pretty sure in this case yes, sad = bad

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't have to imply contempt or judgment, though. I read it more like 'That sounds pretty sucky [for you]'.

[diet_poison]

Hmm. I definitely read it as "that's just pathetic [according to my opinion]" which has a very judgmental tone to it. That's how I usually see the phrase "that's just sad" used.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you actually ever BEEN drunk or high? Because you're still you. It's still your own thoughts, your own creativity, your own capacity to think outside the box. You just don't inhibit yourself with self-doubt. You go for all the little things you didn't properly acknowledge before.

It's not "cheating". If anything, it's opening your mind to yourself in ways you can't necessarily do while drunk. You're not stealing the ideas from anyone, you're making them yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

A fucking men. Jesus.

[wauwy]

I suspect this person has not.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I never drink to get drunk off my ass just enough to relax, and it's nice while writing. It actually helps me focus on one task or scene because it slows my thoughts down a bit. Also amen to losing some self-doubt and just letting the writing ideas flow.

[(Anonymous)]

Drugs and/or alcohol do not solicit the Idea Fairy to pluck ideas from the nowhere and drop them in your brain. Any ideas you get after having a couple drinks or smoking something illegal are still 100% your ideas. It's not a matter of being intimidated, either. But for me, it's easier to relax from life/work and concentrate on writing if I've had a couple drinks.

Neither you nor anyone else gets to take away the credit for my writing/drawing and say it's invalid because I had a couple drinks.