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theoriginalriffles · 12 days ago

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also if we're flipping this and saying why DIDN'T he say that: why would canonically POC living in America Lance and Hunk not have connected the Keith vs. Allura Galra race thing to Earth racism??? even once???

“He would not fucking say that” except its the badly written source material so he did, in fact, say that

#that part!#also want to clarify this is not me bashing allura for that SHE ALREADY REDEEMED HERSELF #just pointing out what couldve been...#rifflestalks

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dailygihun · 2 months ago

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day 6 || this era lasted like 2 minutes but i love it anyway

#daily gi-hun #art post #redhead gi-hun my beloved #i know i barely ever draw him w/ red hair its not on purpose i swear #god this era of gi-hun in general is just so. hes exquisite to me okay #all eras of gi-hun are exquisite jsyk but while we r on the topic of this one #ppl kinda misunderstand this gi-hun lots i think. it was esp bad in 2021 i remember when he turned around before getting on the plane #hes not healed. like. At All.#if im being honest i dont even think this couldve been the START of a healing journey for him #other people have pointed this out before but like. what was he gonna do in america #that guilt would still follow him there. the trauma and ptsd would still be a huge part of his life #and its not like there are readily available resources for dealing with the trauma of going thru a death game #yeah he'd get to be with his daughter but ga-yeong is very perceptive and i think she'd notice the changes within her dads personality #which could even put a different kind of strain on their relationship thats different from the kind that existed before #gi-hun could only rlly distract himself for so long. i feel like even if he did go to america it'd just be a matter of time before he >#> couldnt take it anymore and went back to stop the games OR. something.. Worse.#its just not the kind of person gi-hun is. to forget like people want him to. thats just not him im sorry #there was never a world where he got on that plane and left it behind for good #anyway whatever i dont think we should shame a guy for trying to stop mass murder #yea we can debate all day about the effects his self isolation had on other people but i will NOT back down on him being right for TRYING #(side note: you can acknowledge gi-huns isolation had negative effects on other people [ie his daughter] WITHOUT VICTIM BLAMING HIM)#squid game #seong gihun #seong gi hun #squid game fanart #my art #doodle

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goofyjelly · 5 months ago

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me? finally working on my spock "TOS rewrite of SNWs 'Charades' episode, but this time i make it angsty and also its canon compliant now" WIP? More likely than you think.

#I am... so normal...#ive been meaning on finished this fic for (checks calendar) literal months at this point #dont get me wrong. I love Ethan Peck #I think hes great #i have a ***few*** things to say to the writers of SNW though #AND THAT IS *NOT* ETHANS FAULT #Mr Peck was NOT in the writers room (i assume)#i think if they wrote it Good he could act it Good. plus i think he does a good job w what hes given. (but who knows)#I just have a few issues with the writers...#just... a *few*#and its been said a billion times already ik ik #BUT DO THEY KNOW WHO THE VULCANS ARE??? Like-#*exaggerated inhale*#just because his physical body changes doesnt mean his ENTIRE UPBRINGING AND CUSTOMS go OUT THE WINDOW #it couldve been so interesting to explore how the absence of Vulcan telepathy would feel to a Vulcan. how having that ripped away would #be like having one of our sense just ripped away from us.#THEY COULDVE EXPLORED HOW HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO ADJUST TO A LOWER LEVEL OF STRENGTH IN A FULLY HUMAN BODY #okay half of this is valid and the other half is just the angst lover in me #and idk where that line is drawn #BUT STILL #what was i saying #oh yeah #im writing a tos spock angst fic #also no romance in this one cus- omfg #ANOTHER THING ABOUT THAT EPISO-#I need to be put down #goofy jelly thoughts #star trek #star trek tos #spock

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constantvariations · 8 months ago

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I don't think anything will ever be funnier than Banesaw's first of his only two sentences being, "Finally, I get to kill a Schnee," knocking Weiss unconscious in a single hit, then just chucking her into the next room so Blake can save her

#rwde #forever giggling and exasperated by this train sequence #this could have been avoided if it had been BLAKE fighting Banesaw and far more interesting too #they (presumably) had HISTORY. HE WANTED TO DRAG HER BACK INTO THE FOLD. THIS COULDVE BEEN PERSONAL #and literally NOTHING came out of a white fang member meeting a schnee so what was the FUCKING POINT SHAWLUNA #YOU DIDNT EVEN TRY #also im like 99% sure banesaw is just yatsuhashis model w a mask #anyway wtf was that train plot eh? was the purpose solely to cause chaos and destruction? wtf was the goal?#seriously early rwby schemes feel so random. reminds me of mcu thanos oddly enough #the way both cinder and thanos bip bopped between destruction for destructions sake and Big Smart Plan with Big Purpose is uh. Bad #and for the exact same reason: there was no structure or forethought in the writing process #also both were written by shitty men. i will fight the russos in a parking lot with nothing but my teeth #they absolutely shouldve been fired after civil war. absolute dogshit #do not ask me abt my mcu opinions i will never stop screaming #edit: forgot banesaw opened for roman at the white fang recruitment meeting so he has FIVE lines not two #two out of five lines are abt members of rwby yet neither amt to anything. yeehaw

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rinofwater · 4 days ago

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So outside of the bond quest events and main story, the characters in Azuma get pretty shallow characterization, huh?

#guardians of azuma #goa #goa spoilers #idk if it counts as spoilers but better safe than sorry lol #i didn't notice it as much when i still had main story stuff to get through but damn interacting with these characters day-to-day is boring #and like every game like this is going to reach a point eventually where you run out of new stuff and it's the same lines over and over #that's the nature of being constructs of humans who couldn't create infinite conversation possibilities after all #but that's not the problem happening here #the daily conversations are at the level of idle small talk at best #the hangout feature (which couldve been real nice) does nothing to put these characters in context (especially not for the low-level hangou #just a five second silent cutscene and an 'i liked this/i hated this'#great you wanna elaborate on that? no?#i ask you about your family and i dont get to learn more about your family or your aversion to the topic?#why even bother then? if thats the feature that means we dont get interesting chats then i wish they'd have just dropped it #and dont even get me started on the fun facts on everyone's profiles #this stuff would've formed the basis for the daily convos in other games but now it's just a little blurb #that you might get a little more context on through events if you're lucky #like murasame's apparently scared of birds? that's sure never come up outside of his character profile from what ive seen #and with ulalaka so intent looking out for him and her having her little bird there was certainly opportunities to at least mention it #even if it's not a little skit maybe a line like 'yeah i tried to get him to slow down but he went running when he saw plenty :('#or however normally cool calm collected murasame actually reacts to birds but now i just have to guess because its not in context #a small detail to get hung up on as an example maybe but small details like that are what make the convos in other games more entertaining #like jones has 4-5 daily conversations on why he hates tomato juice but is trying to aversion therapy himself anyway in 4 #that's way more interesting than reading a little fun fact #it's just wasted potential and that's disappointing #like the game is trying to rush you through to the dating/marriage phase and discounting the value of the little everyday buildups #hell i started dating kaguya and at the bare minimum i would think she would get some more romantic lines mixed in to the normal list #but nope she's still saying the exact same things she was before i started dating her but with one extra line in there to summarize one of #her character events (not adding any interesting comment on the event just summarizing it)#if i just wanted a dating sim i would go play a dating sim

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rapidpoisoning · 5 months ago

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i went to the library with a friend and they stabbed their boba drink a little hard & the cup shattered into shards in their hand and they just stood on the carpeted floor while the tea pissed out of their hand for like a full two minutes like completely immobile just drinking out of the shards of cup like it was the intended drinking experience

#like they couldve at any given point walked seven steps in any direction and been on tile floor instead #but they straight chose to let that poor carpet soak the everliving shit out of that drink puddle #i didnt know what to do i just stood there also #it felt like i was witnessing someone shitting themselves on the bus #like..... what do you do then #i was shellshocked #shitpost #mypost #ive just been rotating the situation in my head #eldrich and incomprehensible

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necromycologist · 2 months ago

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screaming and kicking and biting as i am dragged into the big black whole called giving a fuck about jean moreau

#home cooked hijinks #aftg #I DONT WANNA!!! I GOT TOO MANY WHITEBOYS WITH PROBLEMS TO WORRY ABOUT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!#however. the neil/jean parallels. the kevinnection. his endless suffering.#like he was past the point where he could even think of fighting back he wasnt a rebel he was a survivor. ? normal guy i think #just. hrmm. rotates the hypothetical thinly dodged Worse Timeline where neil joins the ravens as a kid.#the weird echoes of what couldve been. They Are A Pair in some weird way that feels very incorrect but also quite true.#because if neil is part of any set its with kevin and andrew.#hes Not defense or at the very least he isnt anymore in the same way kevin isnt a raven anymore. rikos john gaius swag tbh. i digress #neil lowkey hates jean and jean seems to hate him too #but out of the corner of my eye. i can somewhaaaaat glimpse the awful codependent situationship that couldve been.#worsetimeline polycule wouldve gone insane for sure. sorry i mean. goodbye

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xxplastic-cubexx · 3 months ago

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i think they just wanna get rid of charles atm which is why they decided to change it it’s rlly sad to see how much we fell off aghhhh i miss you krakoa i mourn you everyday

if she only comes back to be a mother/wife i'll actually be so annoyed please dont play these games with me marvel

#snap chats #i know i said i missed lilandra but not like this dont bring her back like this if this is the case PLEASE #not with lilandra.......... you put respect on her name.... like what in the regression of having a lady chara only be a wife/mother #'krakoa was for lovers' just becoming my mantra at this point ...#im p sure the common assumption with this event was that charles would end up in space just.. didnt know lilandra would be here..#charles ik lilandra is like. your healthiest relationship but i need yall to have a schism im so sorry #i at LEAST need her to be upset and have her and charles be separate for a minute. a while even.#give her SOME agency before she gets stapled to his side...#just for her to catch up on what shes missed and figure out how to navigate things yk what i mean #like if i found out my husband couldve brought me back this entire time and i couldve been with my daughter id be pissed #only NOW bringing her back when shit hits the fan BROTHER.#charles ill ACTUALLY need you to backseat i want the focus all on lilandra and her thoughts and feelings and how shes gonna fix shit

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lightlysaltedchip · 6 months ago

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re-reading kinou nani tabeta is so hard, i always get the urge to drop everything and start production on an hour long video essay explaining how yoshinaga fumi learned to write romantic love by writing for nanitabe and how that inadvertently influenced the progression of shiro and kenji's relationship, not to mention shiro himself coming to discover the depth of affection he had for kenji in vol 7 and how that enabled him to open up and change to become a much more happy and content person

#idk im sure someone will make a video about them at some point #probably #but its still interesting to think about #i just remember that interview w YF #the one where she said she considered ending nanitabe at around vol 6 or 7 #and its just crazy to think how it couldve been over so early #we wouldve missed out on all the growth and happiness shiro experiences #and kenji wouldnt have had a chance to thank shiro for taking care of him #not that ending it at 7 would be bad #its just that they have more to go through yk #anyway this is what reading vol 1-23 and dj 1-9 during the weekend gets you #that 'cooking as a demonstration of love' hits you really hard #kenjis almost 60 and theyre still at it ;-;;;#man theyre so in love ;;;;;;#kinou nani tabeta

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skunkes · 1 year ago

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is anybody sooo stressed out

#im running out of time but also ive Been running out of time. ive already reached failure levels for my age #talkys #and im only getting olderrr #can someone tell me how to get a 6 fig job real quick #so i can move out and transition #also go back in time so i couldve started soonwr #i cant believe it. ill be 30 when his term ends. i dont want to be 30 and pre t.#its jst gonna get harder and harder to Find Someone.#its so embarrassing to not have any experience at 30......#but like even if he loses its not like id have any chance anyway ykwim #if he lost id still be a loser who cant move out and go on T. just like i am now and have been for Ever. idk what to do #idek where to start.#and i lose drive to do so every day anyway bc whats the point of moving out if i cant go on t and find love

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chiimeramanticore · 5 months ago

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waow

#before anything else i must warn this is going to be. unorganized thoughts mostly #in the last year or so ive tried to regain confidence that i am in fact plural and am not just faking it #or mistaking other symptoms for DID. shake off the denial y'know. as is so signature for this damn disorder #a diagnosis probably wouldnt even make me feel more sure lol. and also getting diagnosed for this specifically is like #the final boss of psychiatry to put it lightly lol #but when it quiets down in headspace ur always gonna feel like. maybe its over. whatever that was #it was just me and brandy for a while #but guess who had a godawful night and then a godawful morning and split a new alter ‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥#he hates it here! he might hate me for creating him! im not sure !#hell im not even rly sure if im juno or brandy rn lol. my mind is just so messy today #i woke up.. when did i wake up. like 9:30 i think and its 1pm now and i haven't gotten out of bed #i don't even remember all that time passing . i couldve sworn its only been like an hour. two at most #on the one hand this has all been kinda terrible and mentally exhausting but at the same time. hey cant say im faking now LMAO #the other hand is brandy. the other hand is absolutely brandy. i am tired lol #im only posting this here so i can just like. process it i guess #ive had a weird time finding an outlet to just spew random thoughts into since leaving twitter so. sorry #idk if anyone's expecting this of me but i always kinda feel like i need some level of professionalism on this account #keyword some. i know this is tumblr #but idk if these very open posts are. annoying? weird? uncomfortable? entertaining somehow?#i know I know theres no point in worrying abt how others percieve you . knowing that hasnt stopped me from doing it lol #i dont remember where i was going w this. maybe i didnt have a goal in the first place #idk if you read this far i dont rly need u to act like u didnt see it cuz like. wouldnt have posted it otherwise #but idk why i am posting. idk what i want out of anyone who has read all this #maybe just. interact w this post in some way idk. it's actually kinda grounding for me if you can believe it #bleghh im thinkin of cheating on my weed break just to treat myself after all this. weed + a long walk would fix me

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pkmoth · 10 months ago

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having swap au thoughts. *slaps roof of claus* there's so much mental illness in this guy. im gonna blow up everyone in the room and then myself

#what if you felt unbearable guilt because your brother went missing in the two seconds you were separated #and you feel like there mustve been Something you couldve done to prevent it #if only you had stuck together. if only you hadnt let him tag along on your basically-a-suicide-mission in the first place #but none of those things happened so you go through three years blaming yourself #continuing to search for him because maybe hes still out there. and maybe exhausting yourself on an aimless search is a way you can atone #and then you're pulled into this big destiny adventure so your searching is put on the back burner #you're so busy doing important things and meeting new friends and there are points in your adventure where your heart feels lighter #and maybe you open up just a little about the crushing guilt you feel. and your new friends say it wasnt your fault #maybe you start accepting that your brother is really gone but you have to keep living your life #saving your brother was a far out dream but saving the world is something you have the power to do #so you try your best. so you dont fuck up this time #your guilt becomes the fuel keeping you going #and then at the end of your journey #you find out one of the biggest obstacles on your journey #the human chimera that you felt kinda horrified at and a little bad for even as you fought them #is your brother you've been mourning and agonizing over not being able to save #so um. The Guilt is even worse now #now he doesnt just feel responsible for his death. he Now feels responsible for him becoming this Creature Thing under porkys control #and in a lucas dies scenario. hoogh i cant imagine how claus would feel after that.......#however the thing that spurred this post was thinking about the lucas lives postgame scenario (it just got a bit out of hand lol) so.#your brother is alive and back home again and youre so unbelievably glad #but the guilt still creeps up every time you see how much hes Changed. physically and mentally #you had just started to accept the fact youd have to live without your brother but somehow having him back is almost just as painful #things cant just go back to how they were before. youll never be the exact same happy family as you used to be #its strange adjusting to having lucas back and its strange trying not to step on each others toes with their trauma #you cant help but be clingy because you couldnt bear it if he disappeared again under your watch #but nobody wants to be watched all the time especially when youre recovering from your brainwashed identity as an army commander #FUCK I REACHED THE TAG LIMIT I WANTED TO RAMBLE MORE AUGH. THEY MAKE ME SO ILL. i swear its not all angst theres some lightheartedness in it #mother 3 swap au #mothfics

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today-i-am-thinking-about · 7 months ago

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bill autopay

#had a bit of a scare bc i got an email saying i was late on my rent and they were gonna have to repossess the house if i couldnt pay #and i was so confused bc id given them a debit authorization form? for them to withdraw automatically? so i paid manually and told them that #and they came back like sorry... we dont know what happened... well look into it... i thought id misunderstood what a debit authorization is #of course if id checked my bank account i couldve seen that the money hadnt come out and asked them before i got a late notice #but if i set up autopay on something i never check it bc thats the point of autopay... set it up and forget it...#i do everything like this. appointments go in the calendar with a reminder set and then i forget about them until its time #this is probably a bad habit tho bc i did just find out my internet had been charging me for 'free trials' id apparently forgotten to cancel #whatever... let me live my fiscally inattentive life in peace mom...

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asterbats · 5 months ago

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i think for the shitty scorpion family, their entire dynamic is definitely toxic (heh) but also neither dusk nor bruno is an inherently terrible person? its just that they’re a) horrible together longterm as they are and b) people who should not have had kids.

#last art was definitely more of a dark humor vibe but one thing that i thiiink kinda comes through is that like.#both of them are projecting their own bullshit onto their kids. bruno has an extremely toxic idea of what it means to be an alpha #and its really just a way hes excused his own semi-suicidal tendencies and horrible self worth. but bc castor is like him he tries to make #him the same way #while dusk is incredibly emotionally stunted and was always punished for wanting intimacy. shes not gonna be affectionate with her kids #at least coming IMMEDIATELY out of her bad situation. shes been given zero time to process her trauma and now shes a mom #and shes just not emotionally suited for that #none of this is an excuse for their actions obviously. both castor and cecil suffer for years to come over thid #this #and this is all castor backstory. hes the most important player here no matter what #part of his arc is about unlearning all of this and breaking the cycle #and yknow im well aware the audience is likely gonna hate these guys and thats completely understandable. but their shittiness fascinates me #like. its specific shittiness. its shittiness that couldve been helped if those two werent at the literal worst point of their lives #castor never sees his bio family again but. i always figured that if he met his parents again as an adult. hed be pissed at them ofc #and give em a piece of his mind. but theyd probably done some introspection by then and they could probably somewhat repair their rel #relationship #<- not canon info jsyk but idk…#yeah though. also dw i have other shitty parents that dont get redeemed at all LMAO #i am very anti ‘’you need to forgive blood family no matter what’’. hell castor still doesnt. i am doing au musing rn #starfall lore #<- sure #would anyone be open to more character rambling stuff like this btw…

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connormoving · 9 months ago

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like i wouldnt mind like. Not having new linear games post 5 its judt that sims 4 wasnt even supposed to Be The Sims 4 it was a last minute pivot and the base code is so outdated and was broken On launch so like. i just wish we could have the final actual sims game be like. one that was always intented to be a major sims release AND be intended to be so long term . yk

#i dont even want like. Ooh major graphical updates whatever if sims 5 was announced and they looked photorealizstic id hurl i wouldnt play #it #my ideal would ig be sims 4 with a touch more realism style wise. if this makes sense #like its a bittt too cartoony for me but i like the like. Clay hair or whatever SJFNFJ. and i think having it be simple in basegame means #you can customize it easier + itd run better on more pcs #so im fine eith that. i would nottt want it more cartoony #i also like. I understand the sims is like. an all ages game i do sometimes wish that the animations in 4 were a bit toned down #like i dont mind silly goofy wacky stuff i think its fun and like. The sims has always been a bit sillay yk. but the overexaggerated #animations r sometimes like -_-.... to me. but thats personal preference #IDK. the tags that show up when i type idk r so funny. do i ever know anything. sources say no #BUT ya i just rly wish like. if this is what they wanna do i wish theyd give us One more full game give it lots of time and love and rly rly #focus on having it excel at like. being this partnof the sims #since they wanna have like. Other sims games that have online features and multiplayer and everything. they could use that to make sure that #ts5 was Rly solid as a foundation and as like. ykwim..... they could plan updates for the future And dlc or whatever and i just think itd be #a better move than trying to make sims 4 happen #bc i judt dont think With all the updates in the world. sims 4 wont ever be like. what it couldve been. yk. i just dont think you can make #it work without Fullllyyyy just starting over.#and at this point with like..so many modders and stuff and everything and how much dlc there is thatd be impossible Esp if they keep #releasing new stuff which. They will ^_^#idk. im excited for some other lifesim games im keeping my eye out #but i rly do love the sims and i just wish that it could be as good as it could be. It has such a huge budget and team and like. if ea would #stop just trying to make as much money as possible off it i feel like they could make Such an amazing game. not to put down indie gamedevs #at all the games jve been looking at look Incredible like.. yk. but the fact those games are so good eith FAR smaller teams and budgets is #like. imagine what we could have if the sims had that amt of care and time put into it.#but whatever whatever whatever. sorry im just rambling #again ik what i would want from my platonic ideal of a sims game isnt what everyone would eant #but idk. i feel like another good step might be like. making the other sims games more available and updating them so they run better on #modern pcs. but i dont think thatll ever happen DNDNFJFNFN.

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phobiaexists · 2 months ago

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I’m in love

#okay so like #i havent really had much thought into how i wanted to interpret jane until i got back to her ref.#but like.#what if her name is the point.#everybody but nobody knows this ladys deal. everyone but no one knows its her who comes and goes and leaves behind supplies.#they know her name and who she is in the moment when she tells them but as soon as shes gone.#“oh hey! hows it going jane? how have things been out there?” “oh… you mean… that lady? uhh yeah… names not really coming to me though.”#shes open about what she does in the realm and as open with the survivors as she can be but nobody seems to remember her clearly #as soon as shes gone. and she just lets it happen lmao.#they know jane is johns wife when shes around.#but then theyre left with only having a feeling john was married to someone before becoming a monster but #not knowing who exactly it was again once shes gone.#i just want her to be somewhere between. yeah shes clearly a person. some regular lady. but also clearly somethings wrong here.#“how come it feels like we dont really know who you are once youre gone? i couldve swore i was thinking about you but it felt like i was #thinking about someone that i dont even know whether if they were real. is this the spectres doing?”#“i dunno lmao. anyway about business.”

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