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[runningstart]

Ssoooo, I know it’s tacky to use a social media site as a confessional and all, but whatever. Most of us –if not all of us- have been through some really heavy crap and that sort of stuff builds up. A buddy of mine helped me set this up, it’s got a filter on here that you can use when you reply so it’ll strip your ID from your comment. Make you anonymous, for those of you who can’t do that yourselves. You non-hacker types, also known as law-abiding citizens. [lookin at you robin]

Anyway. I figure we can use this post to just talk about the stuff that’s really been getting to us. You can say it with your name attached, or without; whatever you want. Maybe you’ll find somebody who’s going through the same stuff as you.

My thing is that I’m [a beat of hesitation, barely there] gonna die back home in about five years, unless I figure out a way to remember this. Or stop it. And that. Sucks.

But like, your stuff doesn’t have to be something like that, you can talk about that hottie you’re crushing on in math class. Just something you wanna get off your chest. Sometimes all you need is just to know that somebody else saw it.



…if you do talk about that hottie in math class you better have pics though.



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[runningstart]

...are you serious? Are you seriously serious with that question. You're asking me if I'm putting too much stock in a premonition.

[beneathbluerafters]

Alright, alright, point taken. Let me rephrase that: are you certain that your information was correct, and couldn't have been misinterpreted in any way?

[runningstart]

Bart told it to me. He saw it with his own eyes so. He wouldn't have said it if he wasn't sure.

[beneathbluerafters]

[ ... WELL DAMN. ]

That doesn't mean he was right. If our worlds are even remotely similar, then there are much stranger things out there than death, and even that's reversible to a certain degree.

[ just... not gonna bring up necromancy here, that seems less than tactful! ]

[runningstart]

Dude- No. Bart wouldn't show up and tell me I bite the dust on a maybe. [Not like that. Not with that empty, hollowed-out look on his face, sitting too-still in the snow.]

[beneathbluerafters]

Even so. Never discount the stranger possibilities.

... Do people's bodies stay the same, when they return? Would a tattoo work?

[runningstart]

I don't think so. I mean, when I went back I didn't remember being here, but when I came back here I remembered everything and I definitely looked the same as when I'd left. I'd even gotten shorter, since I grew while I was here.

It's bizarre. It's like my body didn't even go back at all.

[beneathbluerafters]

[ ... Ok, he's trying to be serious, but he does snicker a little bit, just because haha sucker, you got shorter! ]

That is odd. Perhaps the bodies go somewhere else entirely, and it's just our minds that wander?

I've vanished once or twice, but I don't recall going anywhere. It was like being asleep for a few days at a time.

[runningstart]

[SHUT UP HE WAS STILL TALLER THAN YOU (probably)!!]

That happened to Bart too. It makes me wonder...them lifting memories from people and making body doubles makes more sense than us skipping around through dimensions and time and not noticing any changes in our home universes. Maybe we're all clones.

[beneathbluerafters]

[ DEFINITELY, he's somewhere around 5'1 or 5'2! ]

... That is a uniquely unsettling thought.

[runningstart]

Yeah, not a lot of people are liking the clone theory. Don't lose any sleep over it, anyway. [Even if Wally is sort of serious about it.]

[beneathbluerafters]

By that logic, shouldn't we have a multitude of extra bodies lying around? People disappear and reappear nearly every week.

[runningstart]

Maybe the clones get pureed for raw material. [now he's just being an ass]

[beneathbluerafters]

Repulsive, yet highly efficient!

[ he comes from a place where they use decomposing zombies for manual labour, he's hard to gross out ]

[runningstart]

So clones are unsettling, but people shakes are efficient. You are seriously weird.

[beneathbluerafters]

So I've been told.

Look at it this way, if they're 'people-shakes', then they're already dead and aren't likely to care. It's just using the available resources.

[runningstart]

I mean, you're not gonna hear me argue with that, but there's still some respect for the dead that should probably be considered. Or respect for the mourners. Actually, it's probably more like respect for the mourners.

Now, if the dead guy comes back, well it's anybody's game at that point.

[beneathbluerafters]

If necromancy is involved, then respect for the dead and mourning has already been thrown out the window, don't you think?

Back home, we used it to supply manual labour for the fields, but even then, we at least let them rest for a few years before dragging them up again.