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[nny]

Sometimes it worries me, how much and how deeply people think about milliways_bar. I think about it a lot, but it's not so much thinking as daydreaming about Crowley in an undone bow tie and open collared formal shirt (damnyousophie) or trying to figure out how good Aziraphael would be with a sword.

I don't ponder the metaphysics behind the bar. And I think it might be something to do with the fact that I created it. It's not something I need to think about because I know the reasoning behind it. And I'll let you in on a non-secret. There is none.

Milliways was a drunken idea that turned out to find its audience. It was in the right place at the right time, and it's grown to ridiculous proportions because of it. I'm proud of what we've done, and I'm proud of what I consider to be some sterling roleplay that I've taken part in, and I'm proud of the amount of control us mods have managed to maintain over something so sprawling.

But theories? No. I'll never come up with theories. Because it is a game. A game that I made. I can't take it that seriously because I know that I'm really not all that bright. Or possibly... possibly bright isn't the word. I'm not deep. I'm not given to that much introspection. When I get introspective I have a tendency towards getting lost inside my head, and coming back to myself to realise that it's gotten dark outside and I've got nothing done.

In 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe', aptly enough, there is the Ruler of the Universe. And if you've read it, then you know how I view myself (sounds arrogant, I know, but bear with me). I say what it occurs to me to say, what seems right at the time. I do what it occurs to me to do. I don't think about it too much beyond that, because I'm too busy enjoying myself playing.

If you choose to put the pieces together into a puzzle, that's entirely your perogative, but everyone's puzzle is different. Everyone has a varying number of pieces, and everyone has parts of a unique picture, and it will never be finished.

And the significant thing? There is no box. There is no limit, and there is no image as a reference. You can make of it what you will.

Personally, I like how it looks fragmented. That way I can see a little of everyone's picture at once.

Comments

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I reckon it's the way of created material - as the creator, you're not going to have meant even a quarter of the things that other people read into it. And that's a good thing; it means you've made something that's got importance for others, meaning for others. Which is pretty cool, really, even if it is a bit weird when you know exactly how much of it you did mean. You get to have the fun anyway, and that rocks.

Um, which I'm sure you already knew, but eh, rambles live on.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I guess I'm growing into the idea of it, but it always pissed me off in school, how much we read into things. Partly because, I think, teachers see their personal interpretations, or those of certain scholars, as the only view. My 'maybe the author put it there 'cos it SOUNDED GOOD' never seemed to go down well.

[minkhollow]

I think that might be why I find Becca's 'hey, what if the Landlord were just Benny from Rent?' suggestion funny, when I'm not busy going 'um. NO.' at it. Because the thought that that's all there really is to it... is actually kind of plausible. It doesn't have to be some big thing, and it might not be.
And this prolly makes no sense as I am le tired, but hey.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

That's my point, though. Speculate as much as you like, you'll never be right. Because there is no Landlord. So it can be anyone or no one. There is no definitive truth on the matter, and everyone is equally as right or wrong about it.

[campkilkare]

OOC the Landlord is simply the sum total of our decisions for what will happen to our characters. Simple enough.

That doesn't explain how the bar works from a story-internal perspective, though.

It's like--do you watch Firefly? There's no explanation--none whatsoever--about how the engines work. They run on pure narrativium. That's fine for the show. If you're writing fanfic, you may need to come up with an explanation for your plot.

And to be honest, a lot of the speculation happens because if it isn't discussed 'truths' everyone 'knows' build up anyway. Part of my recent RP decisions were made because of an IC comment that made me say, "Wait, really? That's not the kind of setting I want to be playing in."

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*nods* I have a great amount of respect and awe for the people who put effort into visualising how it all works, how it gets put together. But it's never been that important for me. It's the characters that matter. Although my demonic bunnies have somehow become an integral part of the bar :D

You know what I miss? The danger.

[ashen_key]

You know what I miss? The danger.

Yes. I don't think it can come back, though. Sadly.

[rimestock.livejournal.com]

I have nothing worthwhile to contribute, here or anywhere else.

I just wanted to say, Nny, thank you.

Thank you for creating the game in the first place, from a bout of drunkenness or whatever else might ever have caused it.

Thank you for the conversation in tapedeck's LJ one morning when I was bored at work that led to me exploring your journal and finding Milliways in the first place, and eventually joining.

Thank you for this, too, because the level of introspection of this particular post doesn't matter. It's still beautiful, in its own way.

So.

Thank you.