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[Meinberg]

Going a bit off-topic, I do rather like the Core Theory as its own thing. While using it to cut off possibilities is bad, I like the idea of it as an alternate mythos of sorts has some solid possibilities. Of course, then it would be necessary to split the blogs into Core and non-Core Slendy blogs, which might add a greater degree of complexity. On the other hand, the Core Theory seems to be building towards a climax, inherent within its structure. I think that if I do end up making a Slendy blog, it'll be built around the Core Theory, to see what I can do with the narrative structures that arise from it, whilst still innovating where I can.

[Mitternacht]

And 123, I respect you all the more for your admission of that. I know what type of pains it takes to drum a blog up in one direction, only to feel like a change is what's needed.

It is that hive mentality that I originally questioned. I appreciate Caller attempting to elaborate on my statement, and he's partially correct. However, the environment you describe has two main intrinsic weaknesses.

Firstly, what you have shared with us: it does injustice to each individual author, be they individuals, by giving them boundaries in creativity which are unfair to inherit. I can see building off of a few "core assumptions," but this has literally become comment "driven" - it's like listening to 8 people trying to tell what they insist is the same story 8 different ways. Fun in theo...nah, just not fun.

Secondly, and the actual object of my dissatisfaction: when you compile something like this with no real standard of integration, you open yourself to people who are worse than game-jackers. These are people who belong to your universe just as legitimately as the "next guy," but do stuff to mar your work's reputation (such as clutter about a fictional Megaman side-story. This is the Megaman forum, right?). That's not fair to the story.

tl:dr - Different blogs exist so that people can be rewarded for their individual excellence. As a blogger on this forum, I don't want to see unfortunate circumstances for authors like 123. I don't have anything against WE, even though I disagree with its structure. What irks me, as an investor of effort, is the sheer lack of effort by this leech of a guest poster. That's all.

[123]

I have to agree with you, Mitternacht. The problem right now is that the universe is so open it can be taken anywhere and in any direction. Compiling blogs like this is okay-- if you know what you're doing with such a collaboration and you have a solid method of keeping in touch beforehand. Jumping into it and then emailing frantically to try and line up stories-- which is what is being done now-- really makes things feel rushed and unplanned once executed.

Anyway, right now I've got some plans to distance Testing from all this, and hopefully with a little bit of outside help my friends and I can create something truly interesting.

In all honesty, I like getting attention from the other blogs. But I'd prefer to get attention from the passive readers, the audience, as you guys are what truly matters in this. I'm not telling a story so thatcharacters within that story can read it. I'm telling a story so that interested people can read something engaging.

I dunno, I'm pretty much a glory hog. Hence why I posted here in the first place, I guess.

[Das Omega]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a glory hog.

I agree that the current chaotic nature which these blogs are trying to work with seems horribly unproductive. It's interesting to watch the characters interact, but it doesn't work for creating a story.

Which is a shame, as the way the Core Theory goes, I think it could really use a coordinated, planned out story. One which fulfills the narrative that the theory has, but doesn't try to follow the rules of the theory so religiously, like many of these blogs do. Emphasis on the story instead of the comments and less improvised crossovers sorta stuff. I'm trying to convince some friends into something like that, but our lack of free time has prevented anything from getting off the ground.

The chaotic, character driven role play style that the Core Theory blogs currently using would probably work better within a generic Slender Man setting than the White Elephants one. The problems of being unplanned, and having to follow multiple blogs, would still persist, but then we wouldn't have this hive mind attitude behind it, and each author could tell their own story. That the stories all happen in the same setting, and occasionally be crossed over, could be a bonus instead of a restraint if done right.

Just my two cents.

Also, 123, I've always wondered: Do you guys remain in character or not when you email each other?

[123]

Yeah, I'm a fan of the Core Theory for some sort of collaborative blog effort, planned ahead of time. But the way it is now, with people bandwagoning the shit out of it, is just an environment that is impossible to tell a story within.

I've only ever spoken with a few characters outside of the comments and blogs such as M and Jay of Anomalous Data. I remain in character constantly through such emails. However, through other means, I have become acquainted with a few PMs and become good friends. Otherwise, emails between characters are strictly in character.

[Gentleman Caller]

In retrospect, I might have sounded more bitter than I intended with that last post. I have a bit of a communication problem

I suppose I can accept that all those "Core-Theory" blogs aren't tied together. I'm personally not a big fan of Core Theory, and it is easier for me to believe them to be linked than accept that it is spreading to the point of becoming an almost dominant theory among Slender blogs. No disrespect intended to the folks that run Core Theory blogs, but it seems like the more people that use Core Theory, the more they have to adapt to it's originators, hence the problem in referencing other blogs/vlogs in your project. It seems like the more we add to that particular aspect of the universe, the thinner the line between homage and gamejack becomes. I'm not insinuating anyone is gamejacking currently, but you have to admit it is a pertinent risk.

[Maduin]

Yo, A Really Bad Joke's Maduin here.
A few things: no, I am in no way affiliated with White Elephants or other "core-theory" blogs except for character interaction. I appreciate that the entire "sage" business has raised my readership considerably, but I see it's kind of limiting.
This was more an experiment as to how I would fare with this kind of writing (answer: embarassingly badly), but I have a better idea for another story with a different approach once this one is all over (When that will be I cannot tell exactly).
I have one big beef with the "Core Theory" - the multiple culture-based entities that don't overlap. This kind of messes up me/my character encountering the same Slenderman as most my readers, so in case I wanted to stay within this "continuity" I suggested the "internet culture" variant.
In the end I think I feel similarily to 123, in that my story's connection to White Elephants is doing more harm than good, but I'll try to salvage what I can.

[Hints]

Zero's player here

I'm sort of regretting a lot I've done in my blog, things are just so out of control now with people. I've done some stupid things lately on it, and people are taking it as gospel, and expanding on it, with all sorts of super power stuff and an incredible need of suspension of disbelief.

Really shames me how other bloggers are sort of moving away from the stuff that's going on now.

Sort of doubting the entire end to my blog as well, having read some needed criticism. Well, never really meant to tell a story, sort of got drug into it, but maybe I'll find a way out when it's time.

for the record, I didn't know Maduin, i saw his comments but sort of forgot about him, till later. It's a mess now, I think I might've destroyed a lot of mythos work. When I settled on a story, I decided I might throw out some crackpot theories, try to make sense of it all. Didn't expect to be taken seriously.

ho well.
Thanks for reading, I guess.

[Atomyk]

[Hints]

Taking my first step back towards where I need to be. I'm glad I came here to see what people think of the blogs.

It feels real good.

[Player]

I think the thing isn't so much Core Theory itself, but the idea of trying to catalog Slendy and succeeding. I like the inter-connectivity between blogs, but I think it should be done without a cost to each separate blogs story. I think there needs to be a recognition of boundaries, but also a recognition of the whole. Just my 2 cents.

[Hints]

I think I've found a bit of a story arc to work on, now that i've dismissed all the BS. Even edited my old posts, to reflect Zero's newfound bitterness about everything. I think this is a nice shift in the story.

Take care and enjoy your stories, I don't need to post here anymore.

[hinimoah]

slender man