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Tbh this has been on my mind for MONTHS
Human codes… but they’re not actually codes??
A small group of humans is discovered by some curious aliens. Both sides can assume that the other is sentient. The aliens are trying to translate the humans’ language to their own, and the humans are trying to learn the aliens’ language. But since humans are tricky, they’ve decided that they don’t want the aliens to know their language, so they can have secret conversations.
So they go a little crazy. With written words, they randomly use lowercase and capital letters, even using numbers and symbols, and use a lot of slang, occasionally using words incorrectly on purpose. They’ll jumble the words a bit so that only human brains can guess their meaning (that thing where if you use all the letters and put the proper letters at the beginning and end it’ll be comprehensible), and even use additional or unofficial languages (commonly known words like ‘hola’, ‘si’, ‘oui’, etc, and piglatin, in which you typically take the first letter or syllable of a word, place it at the end, and add ‘ay’ to the end).
As for spoken words, they will do a bit of the above, mashing languages and slang, perhaps mispronouncing a few things, and quoting memes, vines, movies, and even singing parts of songs to throw off the aliens. Perhaps they will say something with a somber meaning in a joyful way to throw off the meaning, or even just naturally (‘I wanna die!’ ‘Mood’), or vice versa.
Additionally, there would have to be a TON of body language. Maybe even sign language, should they know any. Gestures and expressions, eyebrow wiggles and poorly-hidden grins. Ah, the beauties of communication.
#I’m sure there’s more#please add more#aliens#humans#humans are space orcs#haso#humans are space fae#humans are space raccoons#humans are space orcs prompts#humans are weird#humans are insane#humans are terrifying#language#communication#lingustics#? I hope this counts as linguistics??#I’ve had this in my head for an unwritten fic I’ve abandoned before its birth#just humans being clever little pricks#aliens: hello humans! we wish to communicate! please speak as you naturally would!#human: ouldshay eway unray?#other human: *offended look* Bethany. I made BISCUITS *subtle gesturing to alien food*#another human: if I stay there will be trouble~ and if I go there will be double~ so I gotta gotta know~ should I stay or should I go#alien: are we sure these are all the same species? because I’m fairly sure they’re all speaking different languages
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okay we've seen geralt react to tiny milek but can we also see little ciri react to baby milek 👉👈?
Not quite a baby anymore, but I'll come to that one day!! But they are siblings 🥺 (in all versions of that universe honestly)
#geraskier lovechild#ciri#the witcher#milek is BUNDLED UP#he is wearing aaaalllll the layers#ciri reacting to baby milek is a whole ass comic that shall come one day because she feels very insecure#like she doesn't belong after Mileks birth#especially because I think Geralt found her on his own and for a long time it was just them and suddenly there is Jaskier and a child#and she only brings danger into their lives and to be honest - she's a bit jealous - and SCARED#geralt is n o t the only one with abandonment issues#but first something cute :)
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imagine if, one day, sonic runs into one of tails’ parents
nothing really happens, there’s no epic showdown between the kid’s parent vs his new guardian. it’s just a normal conversation
let’s just say the parent is a journalist/reporter or something (i’m just gonna say it’s his mom)
him and tails are in spagonia for something. the kit is off talking with prof. pickle at the university and sonic is just walking around.
suddenly, a fox runs up to him, asking if she can interview him for some news site and of course he agrees. the cameras get set up and the interviewer begins speaking
“hello, this is ______ prower reporting to you from spagonia. im here with sonic the hedgehog!”
sonic stops listening until he gets asked questions. it has to be a coincidence, right? another fox with the surname prower? he realizes that this could be the kid’s mom. he doesn’t say anything about it, he just keeps it in mind
sometime in the middle of the interview, tails returns and sonic calls him over because who is the the hero of mobius without his partner? who is sonic the hedgehog with his little brother?
tails doesn’t recognize the reporter, but she recognizes him, sonic can tell
and so the hedgehog makes a big show of looping his arm around the kit and going on and on about how incredible he is (maybe he even adds in a little thing about being the kid’s legal guardian idk), leaving a very embarrassed tails and a very uncomfortable reporter
the two leave the interview early (sonic doesn’t want tails to hear the reporter’s name) and continue on with their day
(or if you want something more like sonic going mental at one or both of his parents, maybe something involving cps happens like they try to revoke his custody over tails after finding the parents or something. idk cps laws very well. just an idea)
#graveyardtxt#this follows the headcanon of tails being abandoned by his parents at a young age#just a little something i thought of#as much as i like the idea of sonic going ballistic towards his birth parents#i also like the idea of sonic being able to subtly say “look who you missed out on’’#sonic the hedgehog#miles tails prower#unbreakable bond#the brothers ever#ideas ideas
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I finally finished reading the fourth volume of svsss in full, and thing is--the first time through I only read the bingqiu content because I was ravenous for more of their happy ending.
Turns out that was a perilous mistake.
Because I started reading the airplane extras. And I swear to god. MXTX is trying to kill me
What do you MEAN demon lord Binghe was sitting on his big fucking throne. All stoic and forbidding. Surrounded by his demon generals who don't know shit about human courtship. Asking them what he should do, fully demoralized by constant rejections from sqq, only to have airplane tell him to act more pathetic and needy. Which is already hysterically funny and insane, UNTIL LBH'S RESPONSE IS THIS, KILLING ME INSTANTLY:
LUO BINGHE. WHY DOES HE SAY IT LIKE: "I already tried that, didn't work--nothing works :/ not mean, not maidenly, not housewife, not spicy, not capable disciple. Is doubling down on clingy really all it will take? What's a born hater with only one love in his life to do????"
The dichotomy of him sitting there like 'how can I reach the unfathomable depths of shizun's heart?' A HEART HE'S ALREADY WON OVER, MIND and then in the Holy Mausoleum solving the puzzle without blinking and being like 'oh yeah you just have to hit the acupoints, no sweat.' Literally the comedy writes itself I'm so--
How am I supposed to be normal about this. MXTX understands the juicy quintessential queer joy of a person with the world's power at their fingertips wishing only for love. Willing to do anything to earn that love, when unbeknownst to them it's already been freely given. Totally not screaming and yelling and clawing at the walls
And that's not even touching airplane's uproarious account of events. The way he's like 'lol what's next, lbh and sqq are best friends now? smfh' only to see lbh TACKLE SQQ LOVINGLY. FOR SQQ TO BE BASHFUL ABOUT IT BUT SO SO FOND OF THE LITTLE SCAMP. This when we've been experiencing sqq's constant inner monologue of 'I'm so cool and so dignified about my role, truly the epitome of propriety and poser-level fortitude.' Meanwhile, in their universe:
Airplane constantly flaming???? Sqq and lbh in his observations????? His absolute bewilderment and confusion????? Legendary. No notes every single second of this shit was hilarious.
Airplane's comment that sqq + older adolescent lbh traveling together was just watching a couple in their honeymoon phase. OR the fact that lbh is exceedingly petty and refuses to share their food in the wake of airplane's interruption of their time together, until sqq relents sheepishly and insists airplane eat what's left (ONLY AFTER PLACATING LBH WITH MORE FOOD FROM HIS PLATE, SOBBING)
Watching airplane salivate over Mobei-Jun and acting like that's totally normal behavior. Finding out mbj and airplane got together first. Finding out sqq encouraged airplane. LIKE THIS. WHILE HE IS STILL IN DENIAL ABOUT HIS OWN FEELINGS:
Mobei-jun clearly thinking their arrangement is a forever thing, heartbroken his human abandoned him with all the hapless fury of a scorned wife swept away by false promises of fidelity. Airplane writing demons to be the type to beat up their crush lovingly and still unable to connect the dots about mbj's feelings. Mbj letting him go and respecting his wishes, only relenting when there's indication airplane was poorly processing his own feelings and didn't actually want to leave. Mbj caring for him and listening to him as soon as airplane voices what he needs directly and with clarity. None of these gays are functional and it's everything to me
Unrelated, but I physically can't hold this information in anymore:
I'm still reeling from younger lbh having his sexual awakening from the image of sqq wrapped in the immortal binding cables. Condemn me as you like he was so, so real for that.
And no I will not be taking any comments about how luo bingge couldn't bear to see luo binghe cherished in ways he never got to have and all the haunting implications of that. I will also not be taking any comments about luo binghe's instinct to look for sqq in that alternate universe, only to be shaken to the very core to be unable to find his shizun anywhere. The unspeakable and latent horror of his relentless mind likely piecing together what happened, but unable to say it; to suspect what is true, and live with the harrowing confusion of his double's actions. To blame himself, to assume that he had let his anger get the better of him in that world and result in unspeakable folly...
I also refuse to talk about how heartrending it is to hear Tianlang-jun weakly say "In the end, I really can't bring myself to hate humans." The implication that the foolishness of that hope and bright-eyed fondness--the very thing that put him through such unspeakable agony--couldn't be beaten out of him entirely. To discover that his faith in Su Xiyan hadn't been misplaced, to the contrary: his beloved hadn't scorned him at all, but rather fought to the miserable end to protect the fruition of their genuine feelings of love when she couldn't protect tlj or herself.
How MXTX has sqq deliberately draw parallels between their situation and that of ygy+sj and tlj+sx; desperately wishing it might not be too late for them. The concept of breaking cycles of abuse and harm pervasive throughout the newly devised story, how it evolves for the better only when love takes the place of power, pride, and domination. How the moment sqq chooses vulnerability instead of saving face, the genre shifts to the so-called "cringe" girly genre where most if not every character is more fulfilled, more true to themselves. How the "male-oriented" former genre was aimlessly sensationalized and sexualized, how it was a sustained performance of aspirational toxic masculinity. How men objectify other men without end. All of the unspoken gendered implications that come with that.
Anyways. Going to go put my head in a sandbox and try to process everything I just witnessed because even a second reading is not enough to find a modicum of closure.
#svsss#bingqiu#moshang#i swear to god this series is just 'gay man who doesn't know shit inflicting his delusional reality on everyone else and inciting chaos'#and literally it's slapstick levels of hilarious every single time; mxtx never change#also i fully agree that we did not get NEARLY enough mobei-jun and sqh/airplane content#the amount of mental illness to mental illness communication going on there was astonishing#mobei-jun being afraid of his uncle and bringing sqh because that's the only person he trusts fully (WAILING NOISES)#sqh having a tantrum but running away because for the first time he was honest about his needs + his dissatisfaction with catering to other#how that reflects his narrative compulsions and how he felt forced to warp more creative story paths for the sake of survival as a writer#how sqq's restoration of much of his original intent--as well as mobei-jun's acceptance of his needs--helps airplane begin to heal#how his happiness begins; how just like sqq he wanders in such confusion and denial before he's forced to realize what truly matters to him#SHREK VOICE: STORIES HAVE. L A Y E R S#it feels like modern day shakespeare and when i say that i don't mean it in a hollow elevating sense i mean it more like#mxtx just hits that perfect balance of poignance but also hilarious concentric circles of botched communication and brainworms#okay but real talk for a minute? .........;-;#the way lbh constantly struggles with such a crushing feeling that he'll be abandoned over any little mishap/thing/problem#really hit me where it hurts??? if only because its so clearly an anxiety that stems from original goods' upbringing#the way it becomes even more heartrending when you think back to all the sect leaders clamoring that he should have been killed as an infan#that he should have been aborted as a fetus--insisting right in front of him that his birth was a mistake and a disgrace#over having demon blood in his veins. like my god that scene is so viscerally upsetting i struggle to read it#the way its so easy to see the demons as a manifestation of otherness in precipitated form#how both sqq and sqh are influenced by human rhetoric without evening meaning to--assuming the worst against their better judgment#how both sqq and sqh both struggle with their own otherness in different ways and only find solace when they begin to accept who they are#how their lovers (lbh and mbj respectively) both are willing to navigate those confusing waters with them#how both demons love them as they are--accept them as they are despite how difficult forgiveness of perceived betrayal is for them#ty mxtx for changing my brain chemistry#as i get older i have such a fondness for the messiness of thematic queer self-discovery and growth into self-acceptance#that and how youth can so easily be defined by perfectionistic self-harm and the violence of repression
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John: I don't want to kill Yellow! Could you imagine wanting to kill a part of yourself?!
Arthur fixated on killing Larson because of his own self hatred over Faroe's death: ........... No that would be crazy.
#arthur lester malevolent#john doe malevolent#malevolent#malevolent podcast#suicide ideation#buddy it's the queue you gotta let me go#Thinking again about SupposedToBeWriting's Oh I love you so much It scares me half to death#and John watching an alternate version of himself get brutally murdered by Arthur who thinks it's another Arthur#that never came back after abandonning Faroe at birth#malevolent s4 spoilers#malevolent spoilers
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A few people by now voted for the first option in the poll with the reasoning "i dont think any of these people have parents" and like. luo binghe:
#luo binghe: im an orphan. my parents abandoned me at birth. my adoptive mom died. im alone in the world and even the man i love forsook me-#tlj: appears#luo binghe: .......... ...... .....i would like to go back to being an orphan actually.#luo binghe#svsss#svsss didnt happen poll#mxtx#danmei novels
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#poor vizier mhelob abandoned on the doorstep of the cryptek temple at birth
get back here and explain this. I am putting on my reading glasses. I am an absolute monster to this man when I play mechanicus and I need to know if I should feel bad about it.
This is from the official artbook, I guess it was just supposed to show model influences for his design but it just comes off as looking like he’s their bastard son or something. I jest but like…HE COULD BE. FOR REAL.
#replies#it started off as a joke but I fear it’s no longer a joke in my mind#deadbeat dad Orikan gave birth to that thang and then abandoned it and never thought about it again…
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#moonlight#moonlight wc#tree’s roots#squirrelflight’s hope#the sisters#sisters#ghost#I have so many mixed feelings about her#like misandry to the next level what the hell#but she was RLY cool to squilf#but then she told squilf to abandon her son(s) simply for being a boy#which like. dude. cmon#but either way feelings aside her death was not fucking justified bramblestar I’m looking at you what the hell#‘they’re in our territory they have to leave raaaugh’ dude she’s gonna give birth any second now GIVE IT A MINUTE.#Jesus Christ like. love when women are killed simply for the crime of existing in wc
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I have so many feelings about luo bingge hes supposed to be the ultimate power fantasy clearly to the extent that even he does not recognize how fundamentally empty his life has become. he was very open-hearted until Shen Qingqiu pushed him into the Abyss, at which point he reforged his fundamental worldview into the same one Shen Qingqiu ascribes to, which is: there are two types of people in the world, those who get hurt and those who do the hurting (optional type 3: women and children who are mostly innocent of either, by virtue of having someone do and/or receive the hurt on their behalf), and the only way to move from the first category is to place yourself firmly in the second. he does, I think, try to make himself better than SQQ, by maintaining his position only by hurting people who have already done harm (for whatever his threshold of "harm" is), but he definitely does not reject the worldview. because that would require him to be vulnerable! and look where that fucking got him the last time he tried it! it got him in the Abyss is where it got him!
which does not leave room for things like "love" or "care", but does ensure that he is extremely secure in his position (power fantasy) and that he will always have people to do whatever he wants (power fantasy) and that he will have every single one of his physical needs taken care of (power fantasy) and that because he is the most powerful person in the entire world, he will never be hurt again (power fantasyyyyyyy). which, given the entirety of his childhood and young adulthood, is understandable! I dont think he's ever been able to dream something more for himself than "I'm warm and I have enough to eat and no one hurts me." I doubt he thinks there is anything more than that. from all possible angles he has more than achieved his wildest dreams. what could there possibly be to be unhappy about? If he's discontent, that's just because he's gone too long without a conquest (a conquest of what type? take your pick).
But he is never satisfied with what he has, and he has no one who will treat him as a person to be loved rather than a lord to be appeased. which is by design! someone who treats him like a person is someone who is close enough to hurt him, and as long as there is some new power to be grabbed there is some avenue by which he is not yet all powerful, and therefore some way in which he can still be hurt.
which means that meeting SY!SQQ shakes the very foundations of his worldview, because here is a Shizun who cared for him. Hurt him, yes - in most of the ways that his own SQQ hurt him - but cared for him nonetheless, and is currently trying his best to care for him entirely and hurt him not at all, and who expects the same of Luo Bingge Binghe. This world's SQQ rejected the premise that avoiding harm necessitates harming others, and this world's (weak! vulnerable!) LBH also rejected this premise and somehow managed to live by it? symbolized very blatantly by having somehow managed to hold on to his mother's guanyin pendant. and this LBH is satisfied, he's happy despite having almost nothing at all, only one spouse and not even a quarter of the treasures LBG has and he fucking shattered Xin Mo, he hasnt taken out hardly any powerful enemies and there are still people in the world who can hurt him and somehow he's the one who got the genuine security and the loving relationship even though he's done nothing at all to deserve it -
And confronting all of that is going to require he internalizes that he did not deserve what SQQ did to him, and that the relations of power he thinks of as an immutable foundation to the world are not only not inherent but are actually wrong, and that all the security and safety he has acquired over his lifetime will not be what actually makes him happy, and actually being happy requires taking on the risk that he will be hurt again. which has got to be terrifying to him, but theres no way he can un-pop that bubble and go back to not remembering how it feels to receive a loving touch.
#svsss#aiden.txt#it is significant that LBG never figures out abt TLJ or ZZL! doing that might allow him (a) people on his own level to relate to and#(b) to start to heal from his first trauma (being abandoned by his birth mother). airplane cant allow that in pidw!! its not edgy enough!!!#good god the cycles of violence... bingge vs. bingmei extra Relay (Fiona Apple) amv i make up in my head save me...#good god when the monster is beneath it all a hurting child...
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gender swap of resident evil guys
adalene, chris(tine) and leona
#my art#albert wesker#chris redfield#leon kennedy#resident evil#resident evil fanart#genderswap#anyways f!wesker unlike wesker - knows jake but abandon him when she gave a birth#and anyways jake or f!jake would be still with jake's dad#and christine and leona are still have muscles even as a women#anyways i fckn finished this art
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so i love the whole “not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster” thing that was introduced but
it makes me really (worried?) interested about what they’ll do about Tyson if we get season 2
are they going to make it more of a “Percy’s mad at Poseidon for having a kid with someone other than Sally” thing?
my biggest fear with their treatment of Tyson is that they’ll have him do something genuinely bad that’ll make Percy’s discomfort with him be justified, and with how the show is I’m really worried that they’ll take that route
it just wouldn’t make sense for Percy to give Medusa a chance but then feel uncomfortable with having a cyclops for a brother unless there was some other reason behind it
#pjo#pjo disney+#percy jackson#tyson pjo#if the writers mess with my boy tyson istg#istg writers you better not have tyson do something bad#and it’s not like they can take out percy being uncomfortable with calling tyson his brother#to be fair i haven’t read som in a while#but iirc that’s an important part of the plot so??#also poseidon being more clearly in love with sally in the show makes tyson’s entire conception more awkward#like you can’t still be in love with a woman and then have a cyclops kid with someone else poseidon…#not to mention tyson was straight up abandoned pretty much at birth iirc#god they’re gonna have to change a lot for season 2 aren’t they…
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#gerald robotnik#my au#punk au#sonic au#ivo robotinik#dr eggman#shadow the ultimate lifeform#shadow the hedgehog#shadow robotnik#maria robotnik#Gerald’s golden child is Maria#his least favorite is his biological son whom he abandoned at birth Ivo Robotnik
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if i had a nickel every time garth got really really mad about people choosing to be pacifists instead of actively fighting the danger/evil that exist around them, i'd have (at least) 2 nickels, and that's not a lot but it's interesting that it has happened twice
#is this how the meme goes#garth of shayeris#teen titans#tempest#aqualad#no cos he was SO ANGRY that the titans chose “peace” he was like F*** UR PEACE YOU'RE COWARDS THAT CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING#(in the very original teen titans series)#which i realised is like SO similar to his reaction in tempest when he meets with the idylists (is that how u spell it i forgot)#being born prince of a pacifists nation and abandoned at birth and becoming the very anti-thesis of it (probably unintentionally) is just s#sdfgksjdfhgsghsfgh#dc thoughts#mypost
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you’re not wrong at all but i guess im just used to mcs having absolutely no backstory, feelings, or definitive character traits. the plot just happens to mcs, mcs don’t make the plot happen. even though expectations are higher for blades its still choices with all the limits and misses opportunities of any other book. i cant really think of an mc that feels like their own character before the book and plot starts, besides maybe cop mc in the first book and th:m mc
Just wanna start off by saying I’m so sorry that I never actually responded to this! I could’ve sworn I had already posted, but found this fully typed up sitting in my drafts just now 😵💫 But yeah anyway…
See I don’t normally have a problem with “blank-slate MCs” though. I actually prefer them because I can use my imagination to create a backstory and (ideally) give them the traits I want through my choices. My main problem is that the few choices we are allowed to make usually just don’t matter beyond like a slight variation in dialogue as a result. And even bigger than that, there isn’t much diversity in the options we’re given to begin with.
I think if those problems didn’t exist, Blades MC was allowed to react to whatever happens on a deeper level, and our so-called friends showed more concern through their actions, then the story would be a bit better for me. However, I will say that I also think that’s the bare minimum, especially considering the fact that the writers already gave MC a partial backstory but decided it wasn’t important to have that affect present MC and the story for whatever reason.
Doing that worked in a series like TRR/TRH because, in the grand scheme of things, that MC’s backstory didn’t really matter and the plot was a little more cut and dried. But with Blades, the stakes are incredibly high and everyone is basically questioning the meaning of life and existence itself, what morality means in a world where things are a lot more gray than previously thought, and the roles they play in that world. So although I usually don’t mind it, I don’t think keeping Blades MC’s background from affecting anything significant really works.
Not sure where I’m going with all this though because none of it really counters your point. You’re right that it’s still Choices after all, so our expectations should be a bit lower even for a book like Blades. But it still sucks because I feel like PB really didn’t have to push too much further to make it an outstanding story. They were the ones who gave themselves all this material and then just didn’t follow through :/
#choices bolas#choices blades#blades of light and shadow#choices stories you play#playchoices#like MC is an orphan for crying out loud!#there’s plenty to do with that#even people who get adopted into loving homes have a lot to unpack when it comes to figuring out their identity#and reconciling why they aren’t with their birth parents — whether they died/gave them up/abandoned them/etc.#so that should heavily affect how Blades MC views the world the writers created#and how she interacts with it and her ‘found family’#I just hate how the only two character arcs PB normally uses for MCs are novice who becomes semi competent#and ‘mom friend’ who fixes everything for everyone 🤦🏽♀️#choices#choices app#choices ask
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I boarded the babydog over the weekend purely so he'd have the experience. He had an amazing time and the boarder raved about him to me, her friends, her neighbors, Zaku's breeder, etc.
When I dropped him off he immediately jumped into her arms, then followed her to her truck without so much as a backwards glance at me. When I picked him up he leaped into my arms, then immediately turned and ran back to her. Rubbed against her legs, gazed up at her adoringly, etc.
If he missed me at all he is giving no indication. When we got home I let him and Kermit out in the yard and Zaku immediately raced off to do squirrel patrol. Now we're inside and babydog is working on a chew on his bed in the corner of the room, not near me.
He is being such a teenager right now. XD
#meanwhile kermit saw me get zaku out of the car and looked at me like Wait. He's BACK??#shocked and betrayed#when I leave kermit in the care of my roommate-- a person he likes and has literally known since birth#he acts like I've abandoned him in a gutter in the rain at midnight#hides in a crate and mopes until I return#exact opposite energy#zaku terv#shenanigans
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The circumstance of someone's birth should have no bearing on the life
Early in our marriage I thought the day would come when she’d explain everything about her past, but she insisted that all that mattered was the present, and though I couldn’t refute this notion, living in it constantly was unnerving. A diary entry, 1981:
The circumstance of someone’s birth should have no bearing on their life, and any insistence on the importance of those accidental facts is violence, ignorance. A person can be understood only through the life they choose, the people they choose, the things they do, and not the things that are done to them.*
— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 21, 2023)
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