Now I'm cracking up at the idea of people saying "I have a lot of emotions about this!" :)
I'd say though that 'feels' are pure in their intensity, but also much more muddled than 'feelings'? For me, 'feels' often indicates having a bunch of emotions at once, particularly in that way that fiction can provide where, say, you're simultaneously excited because there's a new episode of your tv show, fascinated by its plot twist, and very upset because the plot twist makes a character you like sad, even if you think it's good for the story as a whole.
Ahhhhh, yes, yes! It's not just "A cute picture of Robert Downey Jr.," it's a gifset where an interviewer asks him "Now that you've turned 48, what are your long-term goals?" and he says "Honestly, to make it to 49" and there's this crazy mishmash of sympathy and sadness and respect all at once. Or to go fictional, yes, "Wow, Sherlock's death was very well-executed, and now I FEEL SO BAD FOR EVERYONE but it was really oddly satisfying BUT AUGH." So yeah, "pure" still feels right for that knife-blade intensity, but at the same time it's like...a whole lot of different pure knife-blades.
Wow, fandom sounds like SO MUCH FUN when described this way, doesn't it?
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Date: 2013-05-18 03:19 am (UTC)I'd say though that 'feels' are pure in their intensity, but also much more muddled than 'feelings'? For me, 'feels' often indicates having a bunch of emotions at once, particularly in that way that fiction can provide where, say, you're simultaneously excited because there's a new episode of your tv show, fascinated by its plot twist, and very upset because the plot twist makes a character you like sad, even if you think it's good for the story as a whole.
Ahhhhh, yes, yes! It's not just "A cute picture of Robert Downey Jr.," it's a gifset where an interviewer asks him "Now that you've turned 48, what are your long-term goals?" and he says "Honestly, to make it to 49" and there's this crazy mishmash of sympathy and sadness and respect all at once. Or to go fictional, yes, "Wow, Sherlock's death was very well-executed, and now I FEEL SO BAD FOR EVERYONE but it was really oddly satisfying BUT AUGH." So yeah, "pure" still feels right for that knife-blade intensity, but at the same time it's like...a whole lot of different pure knife-blades.
Wow, fandom sounds like SO MUCH FUN when described this way, doesn't it?