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[irwins]

[Shaun is not usually one to post things anonymously. He's always been a blogger. He's used to life in the public eye back home. But this... Well. This discussion isn't one he's quite ready to have openly. Not with Georgia around. Not with Becks also here.]

So none of us asked to be dragged to this place, right? But now that we're here, I can't be the only person who doesn't want to leave.

I know that could change. It could change fast.

How do you handle it? Living a life that could get ripped away at any minute?

I know that's always true. I know it real fucking well. But it's even more true and immediate here somehow. So how do you deal with that besides super heavy denial?


[And denial only works so well when there's a quiet voice at the back of your mind, one that hasn't been given a chance to put down deep roots or find its volume, but one that is there and waiting to whisper the worst sort of warnings and worst case scenarios.]

Comments

[irwins]

Makes enough sense. I get it.

I thought about my own death several times a day. Sort of how life works in my world.

[giveaway]

Ok me too honestly but I was hoping one of us might be a normal person with normal thoughts

[irwins]

Nah. We're a collection of traumatized freaks. But we're generally pretty good people, so we got that going for us?

[giveaway]

Trueeeeeeeee
at this point I shouldn't expect anything else lol

[irwins]

Nope. This place apparently has a type.

And we have the dubious honor of fitting that. Yay us.

[giveaway]

There's gotta be someone here who's like weird and normal and happy right? Like statistically speaking. Maybe they're just not as loud as us on the network

[irwins]

There's gotta be. Like some bell curve. Freaks in the middle. Normies in lowers numbers off in the tails.

[giveaway]

Where are the studies people where are they!!!
I mean I don't know about you but I am lowkey interested in how normies are doing here

[irwins]

It's a good question. I mean, you'd think they'd have a harder time adjusting. Or maybe that's just a huge generalization assumption and they handle it better than anyone.

[giveaway]

Once you get settled in here, it's not too difficult to have a normal life. If you ignore the random stuff that happens every once in a while... but like I said before, I think some of us weirdos have more normal lives now.

[irwins]

This world has the sort of normal mine used to. From what I can tell anyway. As far back as i can remember, fucked up weird is the new normal.

[giveaway]

Saaaaaaame. Some of the stuff here is a different weird, but it's still weird so it balances out

[irwins]

Exactly.

Hell. Any less weird it'd probably be boring. I'm awful with boring.