Let's start this with an edited version of the rant I posted when I originally closed the page.

I started this page for fun, and it's spiraled into a big, scary, monster of un-fun-ness, especially by people who are taking it WAY too seriously and smearing its name.  The last thing I wanted (or expected) was to have such a stigma develop.  This is about having fun and really being in tune with your creations, people.  This is NOT about taking whatever character appeals to you and acting like their actions are vital to your continued survival, especially when they're just characters from video games and not even something you created. 

This is not a medical condition.  This is not something requiring treatment.  This is NOT MPD.  If your SBs routinely take control of your body during offline situations, then you need help.  You have a problem. 

All this is, is a word that describes the intimacy between a creator and his/her creations.  It's a bit deeper than that, but really, that's the way I see it, and that's  really what this page is--my views on a fairly flexible concept.  I see now that it was wrong of me to make it into something with a 'clique' structure and for that I'm sorry.  I'm also sorry to those of you who DID and DO know what it's all about.

I still believe all that.  I still think little girls creating harems of angsty gay men that torture them so is disgusting, especially when they have to drag soulbonding into it.  I still think this is more about having an intimacy with your own or someone else's creations, and that this intimacy does not mean that the creations take over your life to the point where they control you, like a helpless marionette. If you are a marionette to your soulbonds, you aren't soulbonding.  You have a disorder that needs treatment.  It is not NORMAL to be controlled by a conscious that is not yourself.  Further, it is not HEALTHY. If YOU do not control YOU, then there is a problem, and while I certainly can't stop you, I'd appreciate it if you would not call your disease Soulbonding.  I find this concept flexible, and all things here are my opinion. But of these opinions, the opinion that Soulbonding is not in any way an uncontrollable disease is surely the strongest.  If you disagree, that's OK.  I won't hate you, or think less of you, but I will say that I severely disagree with you labelling an instance where your characters--or characters created by someone else--take over your body and make you do things as Soulbonding, because that is not what it is.

And honestly, the only way I can plausibly see a character causing you angst as an SB is if it is your own and you're having problems developing him or her properly.  While I'm more iffy on the subject of SBs causing a person emotional distress, I am not so severely against it as long as that angst isn't derived from a VOICE IN YOUR HEAD TAKING OVER YOUR BODY WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.  But that is a gray area.

What REALLY pisses me off are the aforementioned harems.  And they DO exist, I see them in livejournal all the goddamn time.  I really could care less if you spend all day having sexual fantasies concerning Vincent, Sephiroth, and Cloud.  But you do NOT say that you are SBing them and they are forcing you to watch as they screw each other, and Oh God won't they PLEASE STOP because you have HOMEWORK TO DO.  You are giving everyone who honestly subscribes to this concept a bad name.

If you think all of this is poppycock regardless, that too is fine.  Yes, I have seen the Soulpuppetry site, I think it's funny, though I agree that the concepts are a bit different (since my main focus with Soulbonding is on characters I have created, not characters from books and video games and whatnot, but that belongs in the 'what it is' section).  Don't take this too seriously you guys.  This is meant to be fun, and it's because of psychos and angsty fangirls that all the fun has been sucked out.  SBing is meant to be a joyful experience, not something that ruins and tears down your life.  I seriously do not like the 'serious and angsty' tag that's been given to it because of you punks I'm talking about, although really I don't think the previous site was in any way serious or angsty.  Which is why I am forced to think it is all you. =P

Do I care if you disagree with me?  Yes, because I'm not a bitch.  I am open to discussion, that is why there's a forum.  However, if you are an angsty fangirl, I will probably have trouble being persuaded by you.