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[inchesofevil]

[welcome to late night shitposting with duncan, mother's day edition]

Okay so, hypothetically speaking

If you were born in 2024, and you wanted to try and see if your mom existed in a parallel universe in 2016


Would that be creepy?

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[helladoomed]

yup

[inchesofevil]

Even if you don't plan on ever actually interacting with her?

[crapbearer]

don't let her dad hit you with a car

that never ends well

[driftsintobuffetline]

Beat me to it.

[inchesofevil]

Is there a story there, because it sounds like there's a story there

[heymcfly]

wait what??

[driftsintobuffetline]

Nope. Provided the quest wasn't, like, Oedipal in nature.

[inchesofevil]

Wow no. Mostly I'm just curious whether my parents exist here or not?

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[4thdimensional]

I wouldn't call it creepy, more of a natural curiosity. It may be worth looking into, but I can't recommend contact with her.

[He is definitely squinting at his friends' posts above. He wouldn't phrase it like that, but...]

[inchesofevil]

Yeah no I can't imagine interacting with your parents in the past ever really turns out well. Every time travel story I've ever read makes it clear that's just courting disaster.

[lastnerv]

if theres enough chance something is creepy that you feel the need to ask others about it then the answer is usually yes

[inchesofevil]

Ouch man

Creepy is decided by common consensus, you know? Maybe I'm just not sure what common consensus is on this particular subject.

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[resoundingpledge]

Isn't that just curiosity? Like looking up if the place you lived in exists here . . .

And especially with the holidays this week, it's a little hard not to think about.

[inchesofevil]

Right, exactly! It's impossible not to be curious!

And I know for a fact that my hometown exists because it's a major US city still on the maps here, and my parents both grew up there too, so...you have to wonder, right?

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[heymcfly]

be careful with that stuff
especially when it comes to mothers

[inchesofevil]

Yeah I mean I wasn't planning on trying to contact her or anything, that stuff never turns out well in fiction and I can't imagine it being any better in real life.

[dualismum]

A bit, yes. Since she wouldn't be your mother, just an alternate version of her. It's like looking for a stranger simply because they look like someone you know.

Plus, she'd be a child so that's even more awkward.

[inchesofevil]

Okay, point. But still, don't you think there's some kind of connection there that makes it different from just another stranger?

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

oh good people've already warned you about the car thing!!! also don't become your own dad. or step on butterflies!

no wait. i think you only have to worry about that last one with actual time travel.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but yeah maybe a bit weird. how do you even explain that!?

[inchesofevil]

Dude she's like 12! I'm not going to become my own dad!

I wasn't exactly planning to go talk to her anyway, I'm just curious whether she exists here or not.

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[dicktate]

i was born in 2014 and went to my house to look for myself last year.
if someone as beautiful as me does not exist, she will not exist.

[inchesofevil]

Maybe your parents just live in a different house in this universe.

[incogneto]

Depends on your reasons for seeing the one in the parallel universe and not the one from your own.

[inchesofevil]

Mainly on account of I'm stuck in a parallel universe and she's not.

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[bassriff]

[Honestly, this has crossed her mind once or twice, too. Not that she's even sure her mother would still be alive in 2016, or what year exactly it was when things went bad back home - or that she can even remember her mother's name, but--]

i wouldn't try it