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[bolstafir]

welp
looks like we found the new october

[Immediate kill bill sirens at the lack of sunrise tbh.]

if you're not stocked up on supplies do it sooner rather than later
before the other shoe drops and it gets too dangerous to go outside
last time the sun didn't come up it it came with everyone's running water all turning to blood and nobody could sleep while monsters were prowling around anywhere you could get food and attacking your place if you ran out of incense
just because it's quiet now doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way
be careful

[About ten minutes later, the post gets edited with an addendum:]

also i guess if you can't fight and end up needing shit, lemme know

[Look he can't just offer help publicly and not act at least a little grouchy about it. Who do you take him for, Ruby?]

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[bolstafir]

ah
yeah it's pretty hard to avoid anything that he could possibly hurt himself with

[Unfortunately. He knows how it is; Deerington had taunted him with an accident-proof room, last January--all the furniture with rounded corners and floors that resisted stains from spills and absolutely n o t h i n g breakable within.]

it sucks a lot, but the best you can really do is keep an eye on him and stick close together
maybe just totally empty out a room he can stay in for a bit if it's getting really bad

[sparklehorror]

[Mabel pauses to stare into the middle distance a little bit. They do indeed have a room nobody uses. They call it the cursed room because that's where all the scary crap went down and the last time Dipper went in it he had a paleblood explosion. Cool cool cool.]

we've got a blood bond so we can keep track of each other and it helps a lot
a LOT a lot
i was a beast last month and they got me back that way
it's just
we were all together then, so it wasn't so hard

[bolstafir]

yeah i get it
some of my family never made it over from deerington
it's a weird thing to get used to
and particularly shitty timing now
just take it a day at a time, yeah?
no one's saying its all gotta be okay right now

[sparklehorror]

[The little bubble that indicates a response is being typed pops up a couple of times, and then goes away for a little bit. Eventually:]

even taking it one day at a time
and even though the rest of us still have each other
what do you do when it's a SUPER bad day??

the person i'd usually ask is
the one who left
he waited thirty years to see somebody important to him again
so he'd know for sure
but now he's the one whose gone

[bolstafir]

[It's a strange experience, to be asked that question and realize you don't know the answer to it anymore. Less than two years ago, the answer was alcohol. He dodged his pain with booze and scraped himself off the pavement when it was time to get going, and then repeated the whole cycle for well over a decade himself.

It's not necessarily a bad solution for the short term--not everyone who drinks will end up having the same trouble as him, after all--but he's also unsure who he's talking to. Of the last few people who were announced leaving, only one of them is older than thirty, which suggests ... he's talking to one of Stan's kids, isn't he? So obviously that idea's out the window.

So if he needs to give a good answer--a real answer, he needs to dig into his own vulnerabilities. It's not something he likes to do, especially with a near-stranger and having been unprepared to talk about anything more personal than how to keep the monsters at bay for a month, but...it's important, isn't it? Family is the kind of topic he can't just turn his back on.]

when it's that bad? i'd go hunt monsters until i was too tired to be pissed or sad
or i'd go out and find the greasiest fast food place i could and stuff my face until i felt better
(or sometimes worse, but for different reasons)

finding reasons not to think about it usually made the worst days easier, anyway
and if there's days you can't do that, maybe find something to do he would've liked
my niece and i set off fireworks one time on her birthday, in honor of her sister who didn't make it here