Livejournal is not a functional state at the moment, therefore I must once again use Truth for Emotional Waste.. which, to be honest, is what it was originally intended for anyway, and what I'm about to say is kind of important, and it's something I've been trying to say, but haven't fully been able to because of my penchant for tact and politeness even in this forum where I'm supposed to be able to speak freely (and that is one mother of a run on sentence). Therefore, I present to you, the Imperfectionist's Manifesto.

There's something that I and a lot of other people need to get straight here. As a complete package, I have a lot of flaws, as most packages wrapped in human skin do. These flaws include but are not limited to--hypocrisy (yes, I admit it! I am guilty of hypocrisy! And if you can't admit that you are also at times guilty of hypocrisy, then you are an enormous hypocrite), bitchiness, emotional... ness, paranoia, and pigheadedness. These are common flaws, although more often nowadays one must replace emotional with apathetic. However, in addition to these flaws, if I am your friend (and a lot of the time even if I'm not, really), I promise this: I will always help you when you need. I will do everything I can to help you. I will support when you need it, even at the risk of dropping whatever seemingly important thing I may be previously engaged in (i.e., homework or a video game, just to cite two examples) to provide that support and attention. I will probably not always be happy to see you if you've pissed me off, but I will be pleasant if you've been pleasant to me. I will appreciate whatever you have to submit for my attention, be it writing, or art, or a character profile, and I will read it in a timely fashion, often dropping what I'm doing to do so. I will commiserate and sympathize. I will listen. I will try to understand. I will try to separate the jokes from the seriousness, but being imperfect, I'll likely fail a lot.

I will not tolerate being ignored. I will not tolerate discourtesy from people who say they are my friends. I will not tolerate being made to feel unimportant. I will not tolerate being discussed behind my back in an 'inordinately cruel' manner.

I'll make mistakes. I'll have losses of restraint, because I'm an emotional person, that's who I am. When I'm upset, I'll show it. I'll sulk, I'll be moody. But I'll also do all those things for you outlined above. But that's who I'll always be, and you know what? I'm okay with that. And if you're not, then I have two words for you.

FUCK. YOU. Fuck you, okay? Fuck you. I don't need you, I don't want you, I don't want you to ever fucking talk to me again if you can't deal with that. I don't want to fucking know you exist.

If you can understand that, however, then we'll be great friends.

Thank you and goodnight.