I've actually not watched Happy Tree Friends, and I've not seen My Little Pony since the 80s- but I'm sure that there's a name generator out there somewhere. I seem to remember that Spike was the dragon.

Yeah, I get what you mean about people being able to put their own interpretations onto pitches, but I would argue that that's what makes them worse. Like... I just don't think that miscommunication is a good thing, even if it does spur people onto their own creativity. And I think it's because we have two different ideas about the purpose of writing or any kind of art- a lot of people are in your camp, where the entire point is to spur people to have their own ideas, their own creativity. But I see the point as, "Having something to convey and conveying it properly so it can be understood." For me, authorial intent is the be-all-end-all. So if there's a good book but people are taking away a message that the author didn't intend- to a lot of people, that's a good book. To me, that's a failure.

On the subject of writing about people with various personality disorders- that might be a good story, but I'm probably not the person to write it, because I don't think I'd ever write it the way that you, and other folks, would want to read it. In meatspace, I've dedicated my professional life to helping neurodivergent people, after a lifetime of dealing with neurodivergent issues myself. So I am just unable to simplify people to their disorders. I just can't do it, because I'm so /in/ it, you know? I think that may be part of our miscommunication. We're used to using these terms to mean different things. I think this happens a LOT.

So when you talk about narcissism, you're talking about cultural, literary narcissism, and I'm talking about the DSM qualifications to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder that you have to overcome when you seek treatment for it. The same would be true for psychopathy and sociopathy. I'd have to figure out exactly what you were talking about and cater to it, and I just don't think I'm a good enough writer to do that. Because it's going to be different from what I'm used to.

This was more about finding a place to post my dark fetishes- which is something I've had trouble with. So it's like... "I'd rather it wasn't so gay" - yeah, man, that's what literally everyone says about your life growing up in the bible belt. And that's a surface level thing that I don't even think about anymore. That's a non-issue, but people are still going to bring it up, not as a "bad" thing, but just as a "this isn't to my tastes". But there are actual, objectively "bad" things in my head. And the darker it gets, the fewer venues there are to talk about that kind of shit. I've been on the discussion forums here, even though I haven't used the site THAT much, and I know that I'm not the only person who has fantasies that they know they wouldn't live through. But I know we're not /supposed/ to talk about that shit. So... I thought this might be a place to talk about that shit. So communicating it effectively is important to me.

Also, I'm bad at names in general. I don't want the pets to be the only ones with names because I'm not a great writer- I've never tried to write creatively- but I know that it's going to get confusing and boring to be like, "Cupcake's master" "Spike's master" "Twilight Sparkle's Master" over and over. It'll get repetitive and hard to differentiate and I know I don't come here (or anywhere else) to read boring, confusing shit. I want the upper class to just have normal people names. I really liked the "pet" suggestion and thought it'd be fun to have the pets all have kind of stupid pet names.