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jovian12:

except I lied and I’m doing this too

http://kevan.org/johari?name=jovian

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=jovian

NOW I’m going

This looks interesting

http://kevan.org/johari?name=jacquerel

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Jacquerel

I don’t really know much about what other people think about me

as you may have heard, I am an idiot. Not only did I leave this particular final submission for a month before finally answering it, I half answered it, deleted the message and then accidentally closed the tab my reply was written in so now I can’t remember what the number was. Oh, and then after I’d just about got back up to where I was before I closed the tab I managed to close it a second time, just to try and prove to everybody how incredibly smart I am.

So I guess this last one is a mystery round where if you think you are the one person who I had yet to answer a request for opinions from you can try and guess if I’m talking about you or if your message didn’t go through and I am talking about someone else. Or maybe you forgot you sent a message at all, given that this has been a month delayed! Fortunately, like several others, I think I am going to find this one difficult to keep anonymous because damn how do you even give your opinion about someone without making it clear to anyone who also knows them who you are talking about? I would have assumed that anonymity was the point of whoever came up with this thing’s idea of making people send in numbers anonymously, but half of you seem to have liked the message about yourself as soon as you read it so maybe that isn’t something you actually care about

And if it was something you cared about then probably you’d better unlike your post fast because I just told everybody

OK so now I’ve got my own stupidity out of the way here’s my promised delivery of thoughts: I think you are pretty great (I said and believe this for everyone who asked but hopefully that doesn’t diminish the meaning, it’s still true, I think all of you are great (plus it is an easy opening line to use)) and also that you are great at what you do.

As far as I’ve seen you are a very loyal and responsible person who will shoulder a hell of a lot for her friends even if not asked to do it. It’s hard not to respect that, not that there’s any reason to not want to respect that, so I do. You seem to have natural leadership skills and are generally pretty good at getting people to do what they should be doing with a minimum of fuss, although obviously nobody can manage that all of the time as some people refuse not to make a fuss. 

Basically, although I think I’ve heard you saying you doubted it yourself on a couple of occasions, I’d be hard pressed to think of a more preferable benevolent overlord than yourself. You are fair, have a good sense of justice, can generally be relied upon to detect your own biases and engage in very little nepotism. You are also pretty capable of handing the difficult split between being essentially someone’s boss and also being their friend, which some people just can’t manage at all. You are both interesting and amusing in conversation (please tell me more about weird bugs).

Also you share my taste in terrible puns, that is another very large plus point as far as I’m concerned. Everyone should love puns.

Ok so that was the last one and so if that wasn’t you and you were expecting it to be then I probably didn’t receive your message or you only sent it to me in a dream. If anyone else wants to hear me rambling about them then feel free to send me a number of some description and I’ll try and answer it before a month has passed.

Reblog (because I posted this at 2AM yesterday then buried it in a pile of other reblogs)

Can’t blame people for not asking though considering how long I took to do those numbers (I’m writing the last one right now, it’s only a month since it was sent in >_>)

it turns out it really doesn’t take long at all for my desire for getting some messages to outweigh my desire to give out personal trivia on the internet

hit me

(PS: the image links to the askbox but it’s quite possible that if you have or are going to reblog this then you didn’t know this and forgot to change the click through link at the bottom of the reblog/edit pane, in which case clicking the image links to someone else’s ask box.

So you might want to check that)

It’s the head of one of the generic minions from my forum adventure, which evolved from a faction I made for a different website which in turn evolved from an idea I had for a mod for the game Cortex Command which grew from a character design I made up when I was in secondary school after watching too much Neon Genesis Evangelion.

A lot of stuff has changed since then (like the backstory isn’t almost directly ripped from a bunch of animes) but the head design is pretty similar to when I first drew it except his mouth isn’t constantly clamped shut and the eye is a bit different. I don’t think I have held onto any long-running character concepts that aren’t missing at least one body part.

Anyway seeing as that one was drawn up a good five or six years ago and I am still using it, I couldn’t think of anything else to better represent myself. Secretly they are my favourite characters despite (or perhaps because of?) the fact that they exist solely to die in numerous incredibly stupid ways.

Ok uh, one of the reasons I took a while to respond to this one is because I am not actually sure entirely what to write (the reason for the other two I hadn’t written yet is that I am a lazy piece of useless). I mean, we’ve been on several shared websites for years but I don’t think we really interacted very often in any sense greater than an acknowledgement of the other’s existence. I mean mostly I was on that site for roleplaying and I’m pretty sure we never did that.

Still! I have seen you at the internet equivalent of a distance for a fairly long time so I guess I can cough up some opinions even if I can’t vouch for their accuracy.

You seem to be the kind of person who puts their heart into projects and cares enough about their success to keep them going for a good while. Hell, I guess this must be true because it takes a certain kind of person to start a message board and keep it going even (perhaps especially) with a smaller community. If you get enough people it starts taking care of itself to a certain extent so I’d say it might actually be harder with fewer people around, even if they don’t tend to bicker as often.

You’re polite and agreeable and it seems like you’d be pretty easy to get along with, that one board we were on before had some problems with its staff and you were one of them but as far as I can remember you weren’t one of the perpetrators and looked like you were doing your thing pretty responsibly. Same on your own forum, it’s always sort of tempting to just shut people up because you’re an admin but I haven’t seen anything like that, which is good.

Also you play world of warcraft so you must have good taste ;) Even if the rest of the internet doesn’t agree

Man I don’t know this probably isn’t very accurate or meaningful at all, sorry :( I did my best!

Now there’s one more to go! That said, I know one guy sent me like three asks and none went through though and he had to PM me on IRC. I’m not really expecting that I’ve missed anyone because I can’t be that popular but if after I do this last one it wasn’t you then poke me and I’ll do more

EVENTUALLY

We have a long and twisted past actually no we don’t I made that up, but it’s a shame that we do not because we have actually been in fairly close internet proximity for some time and despite knowing that you were a fairly cool guy it’s only recently (when we both started using IRC) that we’ve really been in actual regular contact.

Well ok actually also you were on that shitty flash chatroom we used to use too and we also had some good times back then but then there was a fairly large gap of nothing. The point is I talk to you now more than I used to which is good, and it is unfortunate that I didn’t do this earlier because we’ve known eachother for longer than a fair few of the other people I’ve been writing these for and thus I should have had the opportunity!

Also now that I think about it, making an IRC channel for our forum was actually your idea in the first place and it was an excellent one so GOOD ON YOU.

Both the communities we share value (or try to value) originality and you already seem to have a natural tendency to shy away from making human which is pretty good in my books, humans are lame. I am a big fan of your tiny artwork even if you maybe aren’t quite so much, it is a shame there is not more of it! 

Like many people I met on the internet you don’t seem to have an incredibly great deal of self or social confidence, I don’t know if it’s just me though but you seem to have slowly been advancing out of your shell for a while now which is also good. Although I always thought that was a terrible metaphor.

I’m pretty sure most shelled animals really don’t enjoy being removed from their shells? In fact often it kills them completely?
Why would anyone think that this made a good example for something you want someone to do, that’s basically asking someone who already has low self-confidence to go and kill themselves.

whoever makes up these metaphors should be more considerate 

I seem to have made a habit of keeping you waiting I am so sorry :<

I think you are a pretty cool person (although maybe that goes without saying, there are very few people I dislike and as far as I’m aware none of them follow my Tumblr) and I enjoy your sense of humour.

You are generally a pretty great person to be playing games with, you are helpful and interesting and don’t usually slack off if you’re meant to be doing something and also you seem to be more patient with new people than some other guys are which I think is a very good quality for anyone to have. Possibly something I could do with a bit more of :V

I like a lot of what you write and I think most of your ideas are pretty neat. That’s about it I think, like many people I need to talk to you more because you are worth talking to and I don’t do it.

I’ve got one more of these to go but  I am an idiot I keep leaving these until 7:00 AM so who knows when I will actually answer it??? Hopefully tomorrow (technically today because it is 7:00 AM but it doesn’t really count as today until I go to sleep so it is still tomorrow).

Ok well I wouldn’t say this guy is the person who I met earliest on the internet and I am still in contact with but he is a very close contender and I would definitely say he’s the most significant. That fact alone might make it hard for this to remain particularly anonymous to a couple of people following me but most of you don’t know him (of course saying that just makes said people even more likely to guess who it is).

Earlier I said “There is actually much only one person I speak to privately on a one-to-one basis on a regular basis and that is because he has discovered the secret of saying hello to me first” and this number is that guy. He also said specifically that this should be incredibly awkward so here we go. 1635 is pretty much the greatest best person I know and you are all allowed to be totally jealous (in fact maybe ordered to be?)

The fact that this is the case is honestly something I find a little odd because not long after we first met we became mortal enemies to the extent of which he actually enacted some kind of campaign against me so that I would be removed from the position I held at a message board (it didn’t work), but then at some point that I can’t even remember suddenly we agreed totally about everything and became the world’s greatest crime-fighting duo. I honestly don’t know when this happened any more because it is hard for me to remember a time when we weren’t just talking constantly to each other (it has been years) but I know it did happen at some point!

In fact throwing all anonymity out of the window for the one or two people who would already have guessed who I am talking about, we are now co-leaders of that same board. Technically he’s a lower position than me but I’d definitely just call him a partner rather than a subordinate. Technically we have three staff members in order that there is not going to be a problem in which there is not a majority on what action should be taken but I honestly take pity on the third guy because as far as I can remember very few situations at all in which we didn’t basically agree pretty quickly and exactly about what needed to be done, so even if the other guy objected he wouldn’t be able to get his say.

We think along the same lines and can often tell what the other person is talking about despite the fact that we are being so vague nobody else would understand, we seem to be able to mesh our individual plans together without consulting each other at all, you are one of the most reliable people I know and poke me into doing things that I would otherwise forget to do and you put up with the fact that often it takes me a ridiculous amount of time to get things done for you even with the poking without any kind of complaint.

I could talk to you or ask you for advice about pretty much anything and wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me that I have spent more time chatting to you than I have with people in real life, considering that my Steam window with your name on it is one of the staple fixtures of my task bar.There are so many people that I have known over the years and now have no idea what they are doing and the idea that when I am 25 or something I may no longer be spending this long talking to you is something I honestly find sort of scary.

I am pretty certain we’ve both influenced each other’s personalities and mannerisms to a pretty great degree in the time we have known each other. If it was not for 1635 I would not be the person I am today and I feel like I would probably be a lot less pleasant to be around.

So yeah, everyone else should be more like 1635 except you can’t because he’s already the best and that’s impossible. Keep being the greatest.

Was that awkward enough? <3

there is still one more but it’ll probably have to wait because I am already up past what I wanted to be, sorry ):