@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

[panacean]

I'd sooner protect life where I can than sacrifice it out of selfishness.

[bastardofipswich]

i think there's something to be said for self preservation
but what do i know
it obviously didn't work out for me! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[panacean]

[ This poor wee bairn. ]

I've known plenty for whom that was true. It would depend on what you value most, I should think. Who you value, and why.

[bastardofipswich]

me myself and i ;)
maybe it'd be different if

[ If he'd actually had friends? Parents who were as engaged with him as he craved? A birth dad who didn't ditch him to a life of addiction? Who knows. ]

it's stupid to think about

[panacean]

Nay. Anyone who ever did good in the world started with thinking about how it could be different. Even if it was just for themselves.

[bastardofipswich]

yeah well
short of a time machine
i'm not REAL sure how to make things different for me

[ How do you correct a fucked up childhood? Says Chase, the only person ever in the universe to have one. ]

[panacean]

Life would be much easier if we could change the past. The future is all we get. You can start now. You have time, thanks to this place.

[bastardofipswich]

ugh. optimism

[ DESPITE HIS WORDS... he's kinda smiling. He appreciates it, okay!!! ]

do you look at it the same way?
with your imminent death i mean
this is a pretty good diversion

[panacean]

I'm not sure yet as to how I look at it. I only found out about dying--well, it's been two months, hasn't it. Time does fly.

[bastardofipswich]

when you know it's coming
and you don't know what you can do about it

it's the worst

[ In fact, it might make you do crazy things like uh. MURDERING FOLKS. ]

< private, @c.beckett, audio >

[panacean]

Firstly, you're under no obligation to share who you are with me. But I wanted you to know, should you want to talk elsewhere.

You've been living with knowing for longer than two months, aye?

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[bastardofipswich]

[ He considers sticking to text, but. Hell. Maybe it's good to talk from dead guy to soon-to-be-dead guy. ]

Let's just say short lifespans run in my family. But when you're adopted, you don't get to find these things out until it's too late.

I figured it was coming about two months before I died. [ And the funny thing is, if he hadn't tried to kill Caleb in a big dumb scheme to save himself from certain death, he would've lived longer. ]

[panacean]

[ A twist of sympathy that manifests itself as a soft 'ah' over audio. ]

Illness? If I may ask.

[bastardofipswich]

[ There's hesitation before he responds. Illness isn't how he thinks of the Power. It's so much greater than that. But he remembers being 13 and scared, thinking of it as so many different things. Before he learned to stamp his fear down and embrace it, it had been a disease, a curse, some kind of psychotic break...

Chase lets out a short huff. ]

Yeah, something like that.

[panacean]

Are you afflicted here, or have they found you a remedy?