i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!
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"Can you promise me one more thing ?
When I die, throw this scarf away for me.
Forget about me, and be free..."
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Being on the renheng/renfeng train for me is so weird and even now I’m still not sure how I sit in regards to the lore as it is rn (especially coming from a game like D2 where resurrection without memories of the past life, responsibility for crimes, burying your loved ones since you outlive them, etc is absolutely a thing that’s explored).
Like culturally I don’t believe vidyadhara can sustain itself without the understanding that you are not who you were. They live forever! They’re a finite population! They do not reproduce, if one dies that’s it! But they also have things like hatching rebirth where they become a new person more or less with no memories of their previous identity (with some exceptions).
Their avg lifespan is 700 years but there’s a whole thing with an npc who molts every few months instead bc she suffers from rapid growth. She forgets who she is every time! What do you do with that?
There’s another npc who clocks the same xianzhou woman every lifetime for 4 lifetimes (up to 2800 years if we go by max). Because she never dies she is 100% aware of who he is and just chooses not to tell him until the MC gets involved this time around. Each time he has no idea he’s going after the same person and is intensely jealous of his previous persona. What do you do with that?
We have our disaster couple here where the conflict right now is bc of previous aggressions. Like what do I do with this? I haven’t been this invested in anything in a long while
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never. never ever. put yourself through watching grave of the fireflies again. never make that mistake because it will infact break you even more than the first time because you know what's happening and it's all so hopeless
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i am saying words at you. cause i want it that way
shocking. tell me why
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TEDBECCA “and i'll dream each night of some version of you that i might not have... but i did not lose”
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Good fucking lord these two final Raven fic chapters are 19k total
This will either be my Darkfic Masterpiece Finale, the magnificence of which will never be equaled until we have the Much Happier Official TRT Finale, or it will be my Darkfic Downfall as I crash and burn and my squishy body is aerosolized within a massive smoking crater though fortunately the damage will be limited since it's a Darkfic and thus its audience is much smaller
i'll resurrect it's fine
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I JUST REALIZED DARREN'S BRACELET SAYS FAG
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something about how instead of javi it was supposed to be nat.. and instead of nat it was supposed to be lottie. nat and javi not wanting to be sacrificial lambs to the slaughter but it’s inevitable for either. lottie wanting to provide sustenance and offering herself for the platter but is denied. and it’s an awful reoccurrence for her, being refused when she is so willing. lottie watching the people she cares about die when she knows it should’ve been her. it never should have been javi or nat but her.
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