#aspe(ttalk 5/12 - time ti(k. to(k. ti(k. to(k. ti(k wait shit i sound like that do( s(rat(h bit aborted. time is refreshing among aspe(ts be(ause it's prett7 obvious what it is. it's time. se(onds into minutes into hours into da7s into wipes into perigees into sweeps into eons. ever forward, never (hanging, the great leveler. heals all wounds, humbles all emperors, limited for ever7one. time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana. i mean. do i reall7 need to explain this? it’s time! 7ou know about time! it should (ome to no surprise what time pla7ers (an do. fast forward, pause, even reverse. time travel! wait, a(tuall7, that’s something i (an talk about - how time travel works. some of 7ou are thinking “god, the things i’d let n7rita do to - wait, time travel is real? i (an go ba(k and (hange - “ and i need to stop 7ou. 7ou (an’t (hange the past. it’s alread7 set in stone. 7ou going ba(k and doing whatever it is 7ou’re doing is how the timeline goes, and the present is alread7 a((ounted for that. 7ou (an’t (hange it be(ause 7ou alread7 did, and this is what happened as a result. well, that’s how the alpha timeline works. the real timeline. ever7thing that deviates from that is a doomed timeline. a bran(h offshoot that’s going to get (ut off. time pla7ers (an travel ba(k to before the brea(h and let people know what went wrong and how to fix it, but the7’re still doomed. somehow, some wa7, the universe is going to (ome (olle(t. time pla7ers sta(k their own bodies high. there are five destru(tive aspe(ts, just as there are five (reative ones. and two that are neither. time is the last one of the destru(tive that i’m doing, and that’s be(ause it just. is destru(tion. the end. entrop7. death. time (omes for us all and it leaves nothing in its wake. mountains (rumble. buildings fall. life ends. stars (ollapse. an7thing plus enough time equals nothing. all 7ou prin(es and bards listen up here, though, be(ause destru(tion isn’t bad. it just is. 7ou (ut down a tree, that tree’s dead and destro7ed, but now 7ou have wood to do something else with, 7ou know? and whatever suffering happens, whatever evil overshadows 7our life, whatever bad times (ome 7our wa7, know this, in 7our heart of hearts - this, too, shall pass.