Roleplay Nazi and Free Thinking Hippy

Ok, so I'm both.

In my inner circle of friends, the ones who have seen me roleplay and have been fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to play with me (both online and tabletop) know that I am borderline fanatical about character and storyline. With online roleplay I'm fanatical about grammar and punctuation. I realize that accidents and typos happen but if you can't manage to hit spell check or proof your posts, I can't be bothered.

I'm also pretty hardcore about post length. I don't expect everyone to be me. I'm a writer first and roleplayer second. Even I get writer's block occasionally. However, if you can't give me something to work with, I can't give you anything and the cycle perpetuates itself.

My boyfriend likes to laugh at me since this is only one of two areas where I show any signs of my family OCD condition. While my mother and sister are germaphobes (something I have a healthy dislike for but not to the point of actual compulsion) I skipped the rampant perfectionism they have. Mostly...

I think it all stems from my firm belief that the English language is getting raped by text speak and internet abbreviation. I'll use LOL, trust me, but the art of actual conversation is falling by the wayside to anyone but verbose literary types and executives trying to sound important. I've tried to start the "Bring Back The Art of Conversation" Campaign. It's slow starting. But the Facebook group is up now. Maybe more people will join the revolution! Viva la revolution!

So now onto the free thinking hippy in me. Last night I had a nice conversation with a friend of my boyfriend's where we discussed unethical business practices and the two party system. If it were up to me, we'd banish corporate & private agenda funding for campaigns and the whole party system altogether. I think it's ridiculous that people mindlessly support an idea instead of listening to an individual and making a decision. If everyone just expressed their beliefs without putting a party stamp on it, I think we'd find more honest politicians and perhaps the honesty can return to politics.

I'm a tree hugger and I'm proud. I promote the environment. And I'm a Nazi. Not a real one, just an English or "post" Nazi.

Is it sad that Seinfeld put Nazi into our language for use without anyone getting offended? I mean, the soup Nazi was comic relief. Now I use the word Nazi and think of that and not what it originally was...hmmm

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