Capsule Replies

[kajarainbow]

Thinking of starting up a file of capsule replies to comments that annoy me just a little, so I don't have to waste time typing them up every time. Like this example, a reply to a comment that a particular artist must've been on drugs:

"It takes less drugs to come up with stuff like this than most people think. You just need a really, really weird mind. I'm saying this as someone who's been accused of being on drugs when I was just saying what was normal for my mind.

Not to say that they aren't on drugs. Sometimes they are (not that I find anything wrong with that). It's just not the case for every single work you happen to find really bizarre."

Comments

[rolodexaspirin.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure it was Dali that said this... Hold on, let me check.

Yeah, it was Salvador Dali.

"I don't do drugs, I am drugs."

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

Precisely! Might have to steal that (with attribution to Dali, of course). Thanks for the awesome quote. :)

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I've never drawn anything good while on drugs. They're too distracting.

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

I can see that!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I've drawn some interesting stuff while in chemically-induced states. Mostly just piles of crazy stuff in the sketchbook that I finish up sober.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Yes. I am perpetually indignant on behalf of Lewis Carroll especially.

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

Nothing like shortchanging creators' fevered imaginations, huh?

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

'zactly. Discounts the inherent weirdness of human brains.

*points, palm open* See?! I'm not the only person who gets annoyed by that!

[masstreble.livejournal.com]

I like everybody here. You all have rocked my world.

[sophia-anieri.livejournal.com]

In that context, I generally think that "You're on drugs" is meant in a humorous manner. Not to imply that the artist really is on drugs, but to comment on how off the wall the art seems.

Regardless, good thoughts!