You could not possibly have missed my point more. ^_^ My point is that you
were discouraging his enthusiasm, and dampened enthusiasm leads to dampened
creativity. The really good don't get that way, for lack of motivation; the
untalented don't work to develop their potential at all. Sure, that's a
stereotypical argument, so there probably would still be *some*, but do you
really want the primality of the fandom to go from kindness to commerciality?
At 05:04 AM 1/4/03, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/4/2003 4:59:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>JAKJ_at_j-a-k-j.com writes:
>
>
>>*beats you both off with crooked sticks* Do not discourage people who
>>have vivid, active imaginations. It's called "being a deep person," or
>>even, "having a good spirit." If there weren't people like that, there'd
>>probably be no artwork past fifth-grade quality in the first place...
>
>
>Okay, so I can't draw because I don't automatically associate toy car
>racing sets with hot anthro skunkettes?
>
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Received on Sat Jan 04 2003 - 03:00:43 CST