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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[doitrockapella]

You're not wrong. Not by a long shot.

At the risk of getting a little mythological, you could also say he's the Daedalus to my Icarus.

[parodeity]

except the wax wings he built for you didnt melt
?
i dont mind getting a little mythological
some shit just goes better for references to that
like
sisyhphus
good reference just his entire experience is like
mood sometimes

[doitrockapella]

Oh, no, they still melt. But he knew me well enough to know I wouldn't listen to being told not to fly too high, so he came prepared with a way of turning the sea into feathers beneath me while he was at it.

...You're right, though. Sometimes Sisyphus really is "big mood", as the kids are all saying these days.

[parodeity]

daedalus but craftier

thats exactly how we say it
air quotes included
i feel that way a little every time we start a new month
with more weird shit
but admittedly a lot more of it is "why not"
my memories have trained me not to bother being that bothered by weird shit

[doitrockapella]

Daedalus but well aware that his fool of a child likes flying too much to be afraid of falling.

Have you gotten back any unsettling ones recently? Memories. Or is that "same old", too?

[parodeity]

i remembered dying again
but thats same old
so
ymmv

[doitrockapella]

...

That's not something that ought to be same old, Dave.

Is that one of the secrets you've been keeping lately?

[parodeity]

its like my thing tho
and anyway
death was cheap
more or less

idk if thats a secret
its just something i dont see the point in talking about

[doitrockapella]

...

Would it be untoward if I asked what it feels like? Dying. Does everything just...stop?

[parodeity]

[ HAHA. WHY IS HE AN AUTHORITY ON THIS. ]

it depends on how you die
how it feels i mean
and as to stopping
i think that depends on the universe
there was this stupid thing
an afterlife
back home
the one i remembered last month
i remember waking up after
just another doomed version of myself
looking over at another doomed version of one of my best friends
and watching her eyes go white

[doitrockapella]

And so to the best of your knowledge, the afterlife just...collects these doomed versions of people?

[parodeity]

in that universe yes
ok im gonna like
give you the chance to walk away from this text rn
im going to say some stupid shit and you can choose not to read it
about how it works
because explaining anything about home is like
"im saying all these words
and they are stupid fucking words
and yet they are the truth"

!!! stupid warning !!!
anyway
to the best of my understanding
someone made some sort of illadvised agreement w the horrorterrors
which are like tentacle sky monsters
to spit out these dream bubble things
which are made up of like the memories and feelings of millions of dead teenaged players
(not promiscuous players tho some probs were
ppl who played the game)
and populated by ghosts
from zillions of timelines that went doomed
i dont know if it "collects" them so much as you just like
end up there
if you die
and you cant come back
but also you can die a second time
once youre a ghost i mean
because to my understanding some asshole was going around like
killing all the ghosts
for some reason?
im not clear on why
probably because life is stupid

[doitrockapella]

[I remember bragging about how I stole the talent of a virtuoso violinist, she almost types in response to his stupid warning, and after a second nearly follows it up with I remember stealing every single television signal in the world at once and I don't know how I could possibly, and then she proceeds to think better of both thoughts and just sits a while, chewing at her lip before figuring out an actual response instead.]

So death, in what you're remembering, isn't precisely the end of an overall existence. Just of an initial set of circumstances.

...That seems eerily relevant to what Retrospec claims to be doing with us, doesn't it?

[parodeity]

[ dave would, hilariously, accept both those things completely at face value because he remembers homestuck so why not. ]

yes
thats why i think i probably have something of an easier time going sure yeah that sounds legit
honestly
i cant help thinking of all this as another scratch
post scratch i mean
a universal reset

[doitrockapella]

A scratch. As in "scratch out and start over"?

But you said "another". So you remember the universe already resetting once?

[parodeity]

yeah ours like ended so we had to hard reset it to try to do better the 2nd time around

id apologize for saying that sentence but you know what eh

[doitrockapella]

You mulliganed a universe.

...Did it work?

[parodeity]

initially no but then there was like another rendition of that involving more time travel
and im pretty sure that one took

[doitrockapella]

There were MULTIPLE resets of the same universe?

[parodeity]

yeah but the second time was more a rewrite?

[doitrockapella]

What's the difference between a rewrite and a reset?

[parodeity]

a scratch is a universal reset mechanism that changes a single parameter
in this case the arrival times of important ppl to earth
the rewrite i mentioned involved someone else
going along the timeline and offering advice that changed shit
rewriting what happened after
as i understand it

[doitrockapella]

...Ah. So a scratch makes you start from scratch. A rewrite edits things to make them go in a different direction than they would've otherwise.

[parodeity]

you got it in one
anyway
my point was i think that i cant help but consider this a scratch
or rather a post scratch

[doitrockapella]

And you think the single parameter they changed is that...what? The thing that would've put us on the path to who we used to be, changed into whatever put us on the path to who we are now?