therealljidol | Voting

A few words from me:

A house divided.

Divided between two topics to be precise.

That is what we have here, and the reason that this poll exists - to determine who will advance and who has reached the end of their journey.

It has been an absolutely incredible journey so far, and it is showing all the signs of just getting better - as the writers themselves seem to be, pulling out some absolutely stunning work this week.

But loss is the nature of the beast, and we will be losing 2 contestants from each tribe, for a total of 4. Which means, when the poll closes and the results are formally announced, we will have reached our Top 15. Thinking back over the course of the season it seems unreal that we have actually reached this point, and yet - here we are, with further to travel.

So let's get to it.

As always (but apparently some folks did not know this) vote for your favorites, selecting as many of them in each poll as you like.

The poll will close on Saturday Feb 28th at 7pm EST. So read the entries and make sure that your favorites get to stay in it!! I've said it before, and I'm sure I will say it again, word of mouth is the best form of advertisement. If you see something you really enjoy, and want to see more of it, make sure other people go to read it too! (and as always, comment on the entries! Feedback is always a good thing. Also - don't forget to tip your waitress!)

Good luck to everyone!

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please, no more. I had ONE objective. Anything else that is a result of that is other people reading into my objective. My ONE objective was not out of guilt. It was not out of anything except what I believed to be the right thing. You continue to pass judgment. Please for the love of everything that is good in this world, just let it be what it is and not what it isn't. If you want to find personal meaning in my gesture that goes beyond that - if you want to ascribe guilt if you want to ascribe anything to my motivations, go ahead. But my intention was just to do what I did and nothing more. If you can not see how you are being judgmental of my decision, then that's okay. But in my eyes, everything you have said back to me is a judgment. There were never any birds. There was a poll that I believed reflected something wrong and I wanted to make right that wrong. If you persist, I will not respond.

I think we are having a language barrier here, and that is the only reason I am pressing this after you have asked me not to.

I have said more than once that I am not accusing you of having an *objective* or *motive* beyond what you said - but only that it *would* pay off, assuming you were going to play Idol next season, which you have now told me you were not.

I was watching both that entry and the polls last night. They had edited you out long before the vote changes became significant -

rm was still well ahead of the pack.

What they did was shitty. But when

rm was still a good 30 votes ahead of the 2nd place contestant, they started voting for everyone else. So I just don't think it's fair to you to take responsibility.

Not to mention that people in the community had mentioned voting with dummy journals. For all we know, when Gary weeds out those journals, she would have been safe on her own.

...Would it kill you to say "that was a nice thing to do"?

Not at all. It was a nice thing to do. But from the moment I made my first comment, it was being misinterpreted and passed along to others, so I ended up wasting my time explaining that instead of really getting to elaborate on what I was trying to say.

I fail to see how it was misinterpreted. It seems to me like everyone understood your intentions behind it.

So I'm accused of accusing Kassi of ill intent. And supposedly defaming her character in my journal.

And I should sit down and shut up, while you say everyone knows *my* intentions?

It just would have been nice if you'd approached this initially from the "that was generous" angle instead of the "how are you going to use everyone's sympathy to your own personal gain" one.

Also: And supposedly defaming her character in my journal

lol what are you talking about?

The initial thought was how you *could* rather than *would*, but on a second reading, I can see how that could have been interpreted.

And you're right, I should have lead with that. And if I'd known it was going to spark such a reaction, I would have chosen my words more carefully, but I didn't think friendship, or anything of at value, was at stake.

There was a discussion of the situation in a~~n obviously not~~ filtered ~~enough~~ entry in my journal, which was after I was unceremoniously lj-friend-dumped. But I bet whoever felt the need to bring that up to Kassi gave a pretty unbalanced view of what I had to say about her and the situation. God forbid someone mention that I said what a good person I thought she was.

hmm. If the post was so complimentary why did you see fit to filter it?

I didn't say it was complimentary - I said it was balanced.

Then I really can't imagine why you are so surprised at losing lj friends over it.

I haven't, at this point.

Oh really? Because I thought when you said this:
I didn't think friendship, or anything of at value, was at stake.
and this:
which was after I was unceremoniously lj-friend-dumped
that you were being honest. My bad.

If you re-read my comment, you will see that I am referring to the comment I posted to Kassi, initially, in this thread. And that the later comment conversation I had about the situation, in my own journal, was after Kassi had unfriended me at the same time she was apologizing for putting words in my mouth.

As trite and ridiculous as it might sound, God knows what's in my heart and God knows what's in yours. Since you seem sore that I unfriended you, it was a direct response to your mentioning multiple birds which was a direct metaphor for multiple agendas. Your laughter post in your lj was told to me by four people. It's none of my business what you do in your personal space, though.

As an observation, I think that you are feeling upset that a comment you left that insinuated I had multiple motives (two birds) was interpreted as you judging I had multiple motives, which I think when everything comes down to it, semantics or not, was the truth of what you commented. If I step outside of my person and enter yours to get a feel for what you might be going through based purely on speculation, it appears that you may feel defensive in all of this. If so, I can understand your need to continue to comment back to my husband (he makes me feel defensive often and if he were persuing a subject with me in the way he has with you here, it would cause me to feel defensive).

I have no idea what you actually DO feel, though. As a human to another human, that's what I feel though. It's okay. I don't mind that you have your opinions, as I said before. If I remember correctly, I unfriended you as soon as you assigned multiple reasons for me to make the decision I did. Do with that what you will.

I wish you the best, I truly do. I just don't feel safe having someone on my friends list who may compromise my character or my person by way of looking for anything that isn't just simply on the surface.

I hope that this clarifies everything. Again, I wanted to step in to explain why I un friended you and provide you with some things to think about, if that's something you'd like. If you would like to continue to speculate about me, go a head. Do it here, in your journal, or anywhere else.

But, again, God knows what's in my heart and he knows what's in yours and at the end of the day, that's what matters.

I don't think it's trite at all.

I never meant them as reasons, and I definitely got defensive when you said that I meant your depression, when I didn't. And when you unfriended me, I supposed that what you *believed* I was saying had hit a nerve, and it went from there.

I actually think your husband is being very low-key, so I can't complain there.

I wish you the best as well, and I wish I'd talked to you about this differently, but there it is.

Take care.

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