meme :: advice

[mercurialnature.livejournal.com]

✖ Post as your character!
✖ Other people -- characters, players, your mom -- ask you advice.
✖ Give advice in character.
✖ Keep asking, keep giving.

Comments

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

Every day of my life.

But I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. What are you talking about?

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

I'm asking how you'd handle apologizing for taking that and seeing something you weren't supposed to. What do you mean by it?

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

I see things no one should have to see every day, so your answer to apologizing is that I wouldn't. I don't.

I mean that I spent the last twenty years trying to make up for being a suicide. It's just as cheerful as it sounds. Ask me what kind of pet you should get.

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

...Jesus, John, yeah, I'll just get right on that and pretend like you never said anything. Do you think I've got some kind of problem? Don't even talk like my thing is like yours, it's like comparing a skinned knee to stitches, and I do it to myself.

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

Oh? Did you ask for it? Get right up to the front of the line and demand your right to forces impossibly bigger than you are, ones you can't possibly be expected to comprehend the consequences of?

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

I keep doing it. I have to practice or it doesn't work, you know? It ain't like I ever tried just walking away from it.

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

It'd find a way to follow you. I speak from someone else's personal experience.

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

You know how much I want to argue this with you?

None, is how much.

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

Listen to me, Cat. Speaking as a person who had to die twice just to figure this out, some people get to pretend the world is a ordinary place, and some people don't. Now you have to decide what you do with it.

And don't ask me what that is, you're looking at the standing definition of 'a work in progress.' Maybe it means when you fuck something up you don't let it knock you down forever. You get back up and you keep swinging.

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because the ability to go all half-ghost and half-nightmare on people is really going to change the world in the hands of somebody like me. I can't do anything with it, so I might as well not have it. I've asked myself about this before, you know, and it's--if you keep getting up you know exactly how hard that is, John.

Jesus, maybe I just want somebody else to fix this for me, but it's not going to be you--and even if you felt like it sure as hell shouldn't be you, I made this goddamn mess.

[antisaint.livejournal.com]

You know that if we start playing the 'great power in the hands of someone like me' game I'm going to win, right? Or lose, if you're feeling semantic. And yeah. I know exactly how hard it is.

I'm not going to fix anything. You wanted advice. My advice is that you can't earn forgiveness, there's no - there's no scoreboard. Trust me on this.

[lambentstar.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't it be a lot easier if there was?

We're well past the point where I've figured out all you're going to tell me is what I already know, just - I guess everyone's always looking for the easy answer and ends up disappointed when one doesn't show up.

This is exactly why I took up smoking.