[UA] The Amoromantic Anti-Defamation League

[Daniel R. Lackey]

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> From: Jason Schneiderman <jadasc at ma.ultranet.com>
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> Am I the only one who thinks that one need not be a stone bastard
> to be an amoromancer? Granted, it *helps*, but I think it's perfectly
> reasonable to be a flirt, gain minor charges and the odd
> significant, and not leave the world a decidedly worse place for it?

Well, it helps to be a stone bastard if you follow _any_ school of magick.
I'm pretty sure there's a reason that Greg and John haven't come up with
Nicemancy or anything like that.

Here's a quick examination of Amoromancy According to Lackey.

Minor charge: "Flirt."  [No problems here.  I'm a bit of a flirt myself.]

Sig charge: "Cause someone to become infatuated with you... However, you
can't generate another minor or significant charge from this person for
another three months."  [This is the grey zone.  On the one hand, if you
find yourself a suitably well-adjusted target with very few self-esteem
issues and no hangups over infatuation, love and/or sex -- and as I stated
six months ago on this list, they are all DEFINITELY NOT the same thing, but
they ARE interrelated in my opinion -- he/she/it will probably be able to
shrug it off.  On the other hand, I've so far found only one person who
doesn't have hangups over infatuation, love and/or sex, so you run a serious
risk of hurting someone.  You're not neccesarily leaving the world a worse
place, but you risk leaving someone else worse off.]

Major charge: "Cause someone to fall in love with you... Also, once you gain
a major charge from someone you can never again gain another charge of any
type from her.  Once you capture her heart, it's time to break it and move
on."  [The last sentence is the operative one for me.  That's pretty much a
stone bastard in the flesh.]

Mind you, my opinion is colored by the experience of: (a) being a strict and
ardent managomist (my bandmate has described me at various times as being
"asexual" and "Puritanical", neither of which are true, and anyways he's
a... well, he's a laddie, pure and simple) and (b) having been jacked around
by an amateur Amoromancer for... well, embarassingly longer than I should
have allowed myself to have been.  Which was as much (if not more) my fault
as it was hers.  That was all pretty much sublimated into a GMC I posted to
the list about six or so odd months ago, which was based around my
"infatuation/love/sex" interpretation of the school.  (A couple of people
criticized the writeup for confusing Amoromancy with Pornomancy, but on the
whole I think the principles were valid and I stuck with 'em.)

-- DRL

DRLackey at mindless.com -- http://home.earthlink.net/~jmdreyfuss/
The Finger Pointing Society: http://listen.to/finger-pointing-society/



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