@det.prettyboy; text

[causational]

Hey everyone! I don't post on here super often, but I've been laid up for a week now and I'm going a little crazy. Total cabin fever.

I used to see forums like this on the internet back home, and I thought it might be kind of fun here too, so I thought I'd give it a try, because reading those forums was always a lot of fun.

So, Crowd-Sourced Relationship Advice!

I turned on anonymous posting on here, so you can make a fake username and submit a description of a problem that you're having in your relationships, either romantic or at work or whatever, and other anonymous people can give you advice!

Or you can stay logged in on your real account. Up to you!

Comments

< anon >

[panacean]

Is there anyone here who's made peace with dying?

<anon>

[bastardofipswich]

sometimes i think i have
then i get pissed about it all over again

<anon>

[panacean]

Grieving yourself. An odd thing to suffer through. Are you glad to be here, otherwise, then?

I haven't died yet, but I know it's on the horizon should I go back.

[bastardofipswich]

yeah i mean it beats anything i had back home!

how do you know?

[panacean]

Land of second chances.

[ Eh, fuck it, if John and Rodney are reading this he would have outed himself eventually anyway. ]

Folks from home, from my future, told me as much. They didn't lie.

[bastardofipswich]

pretty much
besides
home sucked

huh
tough break man
or woman
at least you're not dead YET

[panacean]

[ 'home sucked' = hello another teenager. it's sad to think of someone so young dying. ]

Well, all the more reason to put your best foot forward here.

No, not yet.

[ It's having the possibility sit on the horizon that knots him up inside. ]

[bastardofipswich]

[ IF IT HELPS AT ALL, Chase kind of brought it upon himself!! ]

that's the plan! ;)

i figure that means it isn't inevitable
you can find ways to cheat

[panacean]

Even if cheating might cost another person their life? I couldn't do that.

< anon >

[11calls]

Sort of. Like I know it's a distinct possibility, but that doesn't mean that I'm like actively going looking for it. Just that I got my ducks in a row in case it happens.

[panacean]

If you knew beyond a doubt that it was coming?

[11calls]

I think it'd depend on what I was dying for.

<anon>

[somnioergosum]

yeah
the world goes on if you're in it or not so what's it matter

[panacean]

Sounds a wee bit more like resentment than peace.

[somnioergosum]

there are better things to resent than dying

[panacean]

[ Another teenager?? Probably another teenager. ]

Aye? Death seems a rather big one.

[somnioergosum]

[Just barely in chronological terms. But when it comes to maturity... yup.]

oh yeah, if someone else is doing the dying go ahead and resent the fuck out of it
but if you're dead, you're not the one who's going to be left to cry about it

[panacean]

Not normally, no. But you find yourself in a place like this, and it changes things a bit, wouldn't you say?

[somnioergosum]

no
why would it?

< anon >

[inebriety]

I made peace with it and then I keep getting a reprieve, it's very frustrating.

[panacean]

Oh aye, I'd bet that plays havoc with funerary plans.

[inebriety]

I find that I care a lot less about certain things now, funeral plans being one of them. I probably should, my original plans were in place for my world. I haven't done anything here and as far as I know my situation hasn't changed.

[panacean]

So this place is a bit like limbo, then.

Hm. I suppose it's a lot like limbo, isn't it?

[inebriety]

It's more like an unexpected holiday for me. I've been in limbo for a while now and this feels a little different to that.

<anon>

[smokedout]

sure.

guessing you want advice for doing the same?