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I propose Stranger, because it seems to be pretending to be a real workplace rather than actively being nonsensical. I find that's one of the simpler ways to distinguish Spiral and Stranger: Spiral is normal going mad, Stranger is the abnormal pretending to be normal

Im starting to get convinced my workplace doesnt actually exist. Ive NEVER seen anyone work yet were required to be here 5 days a week. Not one person is ever at their desk bc all my coworkers are always socializing for 8 hours in the breakroom but its NEVER work related topics. If i ask for help i get told to read the handbook but when i pull up the pdf it ALWAYS crashes and no one seems to have a copy. It seems more like a frat house some days than a working office. I rarely have any work to do and it just feels off to me. I know its a legit well known company but something feels off. Either thats just how working in corporate is or something weird is going on

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rb and put in the tags what the prev person is to you

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HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF JURGEN LEITNER'S DEATH! 🎉🎉🎉

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Who needs a ritual when all you have to do is wait?

The Magnus Archives fanart, the Rituals.

The Watcher’s Crown, Everchase, The Scoured Earth, The Unknowing, The Last Feast, The Risen War, Extinguished Sun, The Great Twisting, The Silence, Sunken Sky, The Awful Deep.

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Just woke up from a nap and realized several months have passed. Still need that rotting Queen Mother to sign her name in the book, but realized I'm much too lazy to go after her myself. Also the book is still in the archives.

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What a wonderful exploration of the values of tragedy, Frank. Tell me, have you ever considered serving as an Avatar of the End?

What's your take on tragedy? Not necessarily the genre itself, but its permutations through literary history. Obviously the progression from Greek tragedy to Shakespearean tragedy is pretty clear, and it's the one a lot of people point to. But there's also a version of it in, say, Chinese television, particularly period fantasies. I find that Chinese tragedies, while preserving the structure and character construction of tragedy, tend to end on a more hopeful, bittersweet, or even ambiguous note (for example, Chinese Paladin 3). What do you think?

I guess this is a big question, and I don't think I have much to say.

I read a bunch of these Chinese dramas when I was a kid, and while I loved them, I'd be hard-pressed to describe any of them in the way you've outlined. I don't recall any "tragedies with hopeful or bittersweet ends." All of them had grim endings, as sad and awful and terrible as they were. The fact that I can recognize these endings as "tragedies" might say something about them, but I don't know if I can say anything with any confidence about the contents of those tragedies. For example, I definitely remember reading a long and gloomy Chinese-style tragedy with a sad ending and a lot of talk about how the characters were tormented by a terrible, horrible evil, but I'm having trouble remembering what happened.

I have some vague thoughts about why the Chinese take the "grim" route to tragedy. I am less familiar with Chinese literature than I am with Asian literature in general, so this is less of a definite answer than a kind of general observation. I can imagine several reasons why people might like to tell stories about grim endings, and I don't know which one or ones would be most interesting in this case.

One reason might be just that they have a strong sense of dramatic closure. If a story closes in a way that is satisfactory, then it's satisfying on a very deep, intuitive level, even if it does so in a way that seems "wrong." A story in which every episode leads to a happy ending, which then leads to a happy ending, which then leads to a happy ending, seems less like a story that satisfies an intuition of "what this story should be," or of "what this story'should do.' "

A second reason might be that endings in which there is a kind of catharsis to "cleaning up the mess" are satisfying in themselves. I don't have a sense of what this would mean for the genre, if it did exist, but I suspect it would look something like "having a character get his comeuppance for all his (or her) sins" or "having one of the characters' wishes be granted." Some genres are just really into that, and one way to go is to do it in a very graphic fashion (e.g., the ending of the movie The Ring), which is just too far for me in the case of "tragic" stuff.

A third reason to write in the "tragic" style is that some people just seem to like to make sad art in ways other than "telling a happy story." I feel like many of the people who write (or consume) such art don't mind how the tragedy was resolved. They don't seem bothered by whether or not the suffering was eventually relieved. And that's fine, but there's a subset of people (often the same subset) who love sad art without any interest in its satisfying resolution. They find the story satisfying just because it's about someone suffering, without caring whether the person goes on to suffer other things and be a "better person" in a meaningful way. I wonder why some people do this?

I have no idea what to say about any of this. I do think you're onto something there about how "tragedy" is a genre that's just "a thing people do," and we should perhaps be less bothered by people doing it, or at least less bothered by doing it while trying to justify it by "realizing" that sad stories need to have "realistic" endings.

All of this is a bit more interesting than the question you asked, but I don't know enough to say much interesting about it.

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An interesting proposition.

You know, If you get pretty existential, The Vast is a surprisingly good foil/partner to the End, like if you get really big picture, The End that comes to us all and will be stopped,becomes so visible that you either can get over it or get very anxious about it.

Interesting point! The sight of the true scale of Infinity tends to either make one terrified of how tiny they are or comforted by it, just as realizing how little time we truly have on this earth can breed paralyzing terror or a freeing drive to enjoy it to the fullest.

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15th march on other sites is just like 'its mid march I guess??' but on Tumblr it's all 'hey remember when we all teamed up to murder a politician? We should do that again' as if we were all personally there to kill Caesar

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Have some tea.

Do you know how humans hunt? They don't pounce at a thing, jaws open. They walk after it. Hours, days, weeks. Because they know, eventually they'll catch up.

Its prey runs in leaps and bounds. It knows it is much faster, much stronger than this thing following behind. And still its heart beats in its fragile ribcage and its eyes dart wildly, never daring to look behind it. Because it knows, too.

"Right. Your place. Okay." Liam nods, though he still looks.. apprehensive. -liam0fterminus

Take a seat. I'm sure I have some chrysanthemum tea somewhere...

[M settles herself into a couch and grabs a handful of sunflower seeds. She pours them both a cup of tea and cracks a sunflower seed between her teeth.]

You have two choices.

We can interview some of the Archivist's Corruption friends, see how they felt about that Sloan fellow dying. That should make for a light snack.

[M watches Liam through cloudy gray eyes.]

Or, if you're Hungry for something more... We can go straight for the head.

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"Right. Your place. Okay." Liam nods, though he still looks.. apprehensive. -liam0fterminus

Take a seat. I'm sure I have some chrysanthemum tea somewhere...

[M settles herself into a couch and grabs a handful of sunflower seeds. She pours them both a cup of tea and cracks a sunflower seed between her teeth.]

You have two choices.

We can interview some of the Archivist's Corruption friends, see how they felt about that Sloan fellow dying. That should make for a light snack.

[M watches Liam through cloudy gray eyes.]

Or, if you're Hungry for something more... We can go straight for the head.

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Welcome to the Gambling Den

I know the outside looks like a mausoleum, but the inside is quite lively.

We've got roulette, mahjong, even a little Minority Rules for the team players. Enjoy yourselves, and don't forget to bet big.

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No one is quite like you, just as no one is quite like me. But yes, I have been touched by the same Death as you.

Why don't I show you around my place? We can talk there.

A boy who looks about 19 stumbles into the Archives. He's wounded, including some injuries that probably should've killed him, but he's still very much alive. "Hello?" -@liam0fterminus

Well, that’s two wounded children in one day, wonderful.

Hello, I’m the Archivist, do you need some help to stop bleeding on my carpet? I have a first aid kit, and it is getting a lot of use lately.

What happened?

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[M looks the boy up and down, her lips pressed into an appraising line.]

My, look at you. Skin and bones. The Rot has just lost one of theirs—something that doesn't happen much among Avatars these days. What say you we go snack on their lingering fear? And then, if you're up for it, we can hunt for bigger game.

A boy who looks about 19 stumbles into the Archives. He's wounded, including some injuries that probably should've killed him, but he's still very much alive. "Hello?" -@liam0fterminus

Well, that’s two wounded children in one day, wonderful.

Hello, I’m the Archivist, do you need some help to stop bleeding on my carpet? I have a first aid kit, and it is getting a lot of use lately.

What happened?

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I will have to say trying to kill an immortal queen is a little pointless but if you End her. It might work. Just keep your head open for new ideas! -Smiley

I should have been more precise. The Queen Mother of the West has absconded with her death's name and evaded Terminus for far too long, especially now that she is feeding more people her Peaches.

I intend to put her name back in the Book of the Dead. Whether she dies is something I am not entirely concerned with.

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I love me a good goth aesthetic but sadly I am more grunge so whatever happens will happen ig. Am a bit busy with the whole Eye Schenanegarie. -Smiley

"Whatever happens will happen" is very End of you, I will say. But no rush to decide. We are never in a rush. In the meantime, would you like to help me kill an immortal queen?

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I was the one who had the massive identity crisis and ended up being like. Really End aligned? -Smiley

Ah. Yes, I see. Your lamp is dim but steady. Now it's your decision. Do you step into inevitability, or does inevitability take you?

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Hello M. I was uh. told to talk to you? -Smiley

Hello. What's your story, then?