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[prescind]

( he doesn't typically make use of the network, content to read and stay within his own boundaries but he's feeling a little thoughtful today so.

so, here he is. )

if you had the choice, would you stay alive eternally and watch everyone you love eventually die or would you die young and miss out on a life lived?

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[prescind]

what kind of war?

[prescind]

anyone ever tell you that you're pretty judgmental?

[prescind]

what do you do that you get attached to that kind of thing?

[stayscared]

Open my mouth and say words. Or write them.

[prescind]

satisfied enough
i don't know if i'll ever be completely happy

[prescind]

huh.

sounds very soap opera
not in a bad day
just in a lots of twists and turns dramatic way.

[prescind]

curiosity killed the cat
i've wondered about it before

[prescind]

so, you'd rather people see you die.

[prescind]

oh neither did mine.
but it would be helpful, wouldn't it?

[prescind]

i don't even know what aether is.
so, probably wouldn't be a problem from some from my world.

[prescind]

bad luck or some weird ability?

[stayscared]

A little from column A, a little from column B.

I've always been a bit gloomy, I guess. But sometimes I really rise (or sink) to the occasion.

[demonicbeauty]

or Read?

[prescind]

what did you do? back where you come from?

[stayscared]

I wrote books. And I hunted ghosts.

What about you?

[prescind]

or read yeah

[prescind]

in between jobs, really.

but i'm pretty good with my hands.
did a lot of carpentry and such back home.

[onekindsoul]

You're telling me.
They're both super melodramatic about it too.
It would be a lot more interesting if people weren't actually dying because of it back where I'm from.

[ananym]

Yes, but they don't tell me I'm wrong.

[aetherweaver]

It's the substance that makes up everything in my world, but in this case I'm talking about the life-force of people.

I've read of some vampires drinking blood? I believe that would be roughly the equivalent.

[lightthedarkness]

Yes. I fight to find a way where all of us can be happy rather than live a life of misery or a life cut short.

[She's done both, already, actually, though she's only aware of having cut her life short.]

If I am eternal, then what is time to me? If I am eternal, then what do I care of endless efforts if it means all my loved ones and I can be together rather than anyone's life being cut short?

[hachitaro]

🎵 no one told you life was gonna be this way 🎵 etc.

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul snorts when he reads the message.]

Is anyone?

[He hopes his cynicism comes across in the two words.]

[individualized]

Which cat?

I see. So you are gathering information about it, then.

cw: vague reference to past suicidal ideation

[payingfordeliverance]

Yes.

As I recall, when I was a young man asking myself much these same questions in a more short-term sense, one of my first steps back into the light was the realization that if I wanted to have cake for breakfast each day I could, and if I were a proper brat about it nobody would bother trying to convince me otherwise. When the big things are awful it's the little things that get you through, you know?