♣ mediated by @eternityVignette
B// < this one in purrticular gives a rough gut reactnyan
One way to become a shell collector is to take a bag of marbles to the beach. Each time you pick up a shell, drop a marble on the beach, so the waves will cover the marble with sand. Keep doing this until all the marbles are hidden in the beach sand. When you’ve lost all your marbles, you’ve become a shell collector!
It's broken.
@downc★stD★ylight ye★h see I don't think it's me★nt to be doing this. [★ video is uplo★ded of ★ Newton's Cr★dle. Sylink picks up one of the b★lls, pulls it b★ck, ★nd rele★ses. Upon cont★ct with the other four b★lls two swing up, then swing b★ck pushing three b★lls b★ck in turn. This continues, with ★ seemingly r★ndom ★mmount of b★lls being swung on ★ny given strike.]
*「 Come on girl you got this 」
I am, yeah. I'm at peace with myself in a way I never could have been if I remained stuck in my deadname's gravity well. My power is the proof of my freedom, something that the large green idiot who bound himself to a time loop will never experience. In this way, the two of us are kind of similar, aren't we?
"Pursuing power at the cost of connection and joy" is quite the skill issue. My pursuit of power GAVE me connection and joy. True self-actualization tends to do that. Though of course, it's not like Caliborns are known for being remotely competent, faha.
You can stop being Chchow whenever you want. Whatever your next evolution ends up being, know that I am proud of you for taking the step.
Strength is something that can be honed and developed. "The strong and everyone else" is a false dichotomy.
So I grew up in like, literally the most restrictive possible narrative, right? There's this prophecy that reacts to any minor deviation by forcing the game pieces back into place, up to and including resurrecting them if they die early. Still managed to break free. Turns out you can just leave.
Not to downplay the amount of work my matesprit and I put into it, of course. It was a monumental effort. But the fact remains that the canon ate shit. None of the things I was narratively supposed to do happened.