Friday WAYWRN Challenge: MC Does SW&D - YOUR WINNER ANNOUNCED

[SpooPoker]

Originally Posted by artoftime

Live and let die?
Ignorance is bliss?
I don't know if one's convictions, especially on aesthetic levels, survive here if they are not SF approved on some level.
There is a definite critical mass that ensues here... particular preferences end up accessorized.
Some distinguished looks are achieved if one is open to critique and can take the snark.

It depends on what you want to take from the experience. Do you want to say "**** you, this is what I wear, who I am, and I am not changing a god damn thing", or do you want to put it out there to the world that this is your general template and are malleable to any advice given. Thats the two distinct personalities I see on WAYWRN, and the best ones are the latter. Look at bleachboy for example.

There is a lot of groupthink, and while that may not permeate ones deep rooted preferences (i.e. I dont really like cuffs, but was receptive to some feedback and am slowly mixing them in my arsenal), it may help hone the unpolished stones out there. I look back at my early posts, just a year ago - and see the mistakes I made, and think I have made some improvements based upon some good advice. I still retain my personal style and who I am but with a more groupthinky edge

 

[Odd I/O]

Originally Posted by aeglus

I don't disagree that most fits aren't really that great but like I said before, the picture waywt thread is not the thread that the regulars use at all. I mean no one even looks at that thread.

Originally Posted by niidawg3

Yeah i found it. Even poasted in there ... lol.



Which thread is this?

 

[SpooPoker]

Congratulations to aeglus who took it home with 143 combined votes!

 

[EZETHATSME]

Congrats, aeglus - well done!

EZ

 

[EZETHATSME]

Originally Posted by Odd I/O

Which thread is this?
In SW&D there are two threads with pictures of fits. http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=164384 is the most popular one with more info. http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=164389 is the other. EZ

 

[SpooPoker]

I think AR_Six is going to combine those and his PM'd fits into one cross posted poal like this on Tuesday. Thats when their deadline ends.

edit - Im a dipshit, I thought you meant their SWD does MC threads.

 

[UrbanComposition]

w00t! Congrats to a well deserved win.

 

[deveandepot1]

CONGRATS.
I can't wait to see the SW&D does MC thread.

 

[fritzl]

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

"**** you, this is what I wear, who I am, and I am not changing a god damn thing",...

...and think I have made some improvements based upon some good advice. I still retain my personal style and who I am but with a more groupthinky edge

this is a good line, the latter not so much...

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

If one has a strong enough affirmation in their particular preferences, they should not have to justify them, even on an aesthetic level.

Lots of people are confidently ignorant and inarticulate...

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

Lots of people are confidently ignorant and inarticulate...

Clever people always question their strong believes ,others think they're gospel...

 

[Holdfast]

Congratulations aeglus. Nice one. Looking forward to hearing your theme choice for next week!

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

I think AR_Six is going to combine those and his PM'd fits into one cross posted poal like this on Tuesday. Thats when their deadline ends.

edit - Im a dipshit, I thought you meant their SWD does MC threads.

FWIW, I'm looking forward to that, too.

 

[F. Corbera]

My condolences, aeglus.

 

[SpooPoker]

Dont be bitter, F.

 

[james_timothy]

Originally Posted by LA Guy

Bringing this back to the difference between MC and SW&D, the root of a lot of the tension between some MC and SW&D posters seems to stem from neither group respecting the social currency of the other. "Coolness", which is valued by the posters in SW&D, is derided as childish and immature by MC posters, while signifiers of bourgeois success, which seem to be valued by a large contingent of MC posters, are mocked by some SW&D posters. The reactions of the MC posters are particularly acute, and numerous posts have insinuated that SW&D posters must either be financially dependent on others, have "creative jobs" (this seems to be a negative thing), or be otherwise unable to succeed in the milieu in which the MC poster works.


Yes! Exactly.

I love it when endless threads create nuggets of great analysis like this.