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Post by swankivy on Oct 1, 2010 22:46:41 GMT -5
Your Stuff
Do you have a possession, tool, or space that you're protective of? Something you don't ever share with other people? If so, do you ever have to defend your stuff from other people taking it, using it, or invading it? How do you go about it?
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Post by synesthesia on Oct 1, 2010 23:09:06 GMT -5
My apartment is my cave.
My territory.
I don't want anyone in it.
So, part of this means being rather messy...
If I ever by some fluke get a mate, I may have to stop being this way, or my mate will have to live ELSEWHERE.
I love my space so much. Especially since when I was younger I hardly got any privacy. so I'd probably react a bit like Weaver, only slightly more polite if someone invaded my space.
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Post by otakursed on Oct 2, 2010 16:48:59 GMT -5
Can't really think of anything I'm incredibly territorial about, though I'll definitely take no small umbrage at anyone belittling my collection of anime and its assorted omake  |
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Post by SHO! on Oct 2, 2010 21:05:28 GMT -5
My apartment is my cave. My territory. I don't want anyone in it. So, part of this means being rather messy...
Jeeeeeeeeez... could I just copy/paste this? People that know me know that I call my house "The Cave", and it's messy, and I don't have guest in the Cave. But I think it's less about territory and more about imprisonment (explanation for another time, though I don't mean prison in a literal sense, I've never been).
Other than that... Hmm, could a slight OCD awareness of my surroundings be considered territorial? I keep my DVDs in alphabetical order and get irritated when people don't put them back that way. An instinctual order is also ever present over my books, magazines, toys, VHS tapes, CDs, comic books, etc. and if someone moves something and doesn't put it back "correctly" then I will as soon as it appears they won't pick it up again anytime soon. Also, when I work on my projects, visit people for extended periods, stay in hotels, etc. I like to "square off" my possessions and mark a territory and a place for what I consider to be tidy areas for everything to be stored on that temporary basis. |
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Post by swankivy on Oct 3, 2010 21:16:31 GMT -5
I'm pretty territorial about my apartment too. I like people to come into it, as in I like people and visitors, but I don't like to share long-term and I don't want people moving my things around. I don't like messes, so if people drop crumbs or stain my things I get really annoyed, and I am very, very organized when it comes to documents, supplies, and tools.
I'm a pretty open book when it comes to what I think, but there are some things I don't want people to read, and that would include my daily journal. It's mostly boring, but sometimes I say things in it that I don't want to share with others. When I was a teen, I'd write in a code language so my mom couldn't read it--because I'd determined through experimental lying in my journal that my mom DID read it. So I'm protective of information sometimes too.
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Post by Corinne on Oct 23, 2010 9:01:18 GMT -5
I'm not really protective of anything in particular. I just want people to respect my things and not break them or forget to give them back to me when I've leant them something. It really irks me when my stuff disappears because someone borrowed it. I'm not especially territorial, though.
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