non-creative writing such as software documentation
How much software documentation have you written?!? I picked that one because it's one I like... but doesn't scratch the itch to write songs. Nonfiction writing is still creative.
Anyone who is driven to create can and usually does find multiple outlets for that drive.
1) There are people who aren't driven to create? I thought it was a basic human drive, like sex. That anyone who doesn't have it is considered weird and broken by most people, and that evolution had pretty much removed people who don't have it from the gene pool, so the lack only shows up in the occasional mutation.
2) "Find multiple outlets" is not the same as "any of these outlets will do for any particular inspiration. A person usually lusts after several other people... but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to say "well, this one is closed to you--just switch to someone else."
The drive to write fanfic cannot be fulfilled by suppressing it and choreographing dances instead.
3) (Deep breath; this is where you write me off as a total wingnut and decide I'm not worth replying to anymore. Or that you'll continue to bicker with me, but have concluded that I'm an utter waste of bandwidth and any goal I support is at best, of dubious value, because if a crackpot like me can be in favor of it, it must have serious problems.)
Conflating sexuality with creativity is a central issue in my religion, and I'm content to discuss it for days.
I know what I want to write. I know who I want to fuck. And I know how closely those two drives are connected, how much my creativity and sexuality overlap.
Maybe for you, they're not, and they don't. That's not my concern. I don't get to define your sexuality... and you don't get to define mine.
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How much software documentation have you written?!? I picked that one because it's one I like... but doesn't scratch the itch to write songs. Nonfiction writing is still creative.
Anyone who is driven to create can and usually does find multiple outlets for that drive.
1) There are people who aren't driven to create? I thought it was a basic human drive, like sex. That anyone who doesn't have it is considered weird and broken by most people, and that evolution had pretty much removed people who don't have it from the gene pool, so the lack only shows up in the occasional mutation.
2) "Find multiple outlets" is not the same as "any of these outlets will do for any particular inspiration. A person usually lusts after several other people... but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to say "well, this one is closed to you--just switch to someone else."
The drive to write fanfic cannot be fulfilled by suppressing it and choreographing dances instead.
3) (Deep breath; this is where you write me off as a total wingnut and decide I'm not worth replying to anymore. Or that you'll continue to bicker with me, but have concluded that I'm an utter waste of bandwidth and any goal I support is at best, of dubious value, because if a crackpot like me can be in favor of it, it must have serious problems.)
Conflating sexuality with creativity is a central issue in my religion, and I'm content to discuss it for days.
I know what I want to write. I know who I want to fuck. And I know how closely those two drives are connected, how much my creativity and sexuality overlap.
Maybe for you, they're not, and they don't. That's not my concern. I don't get to define your sexuality... and you don't get to define mine.