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rathercommon
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Date:
2018-11-21 11:02 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
(
anyway, how's YOUR sex life.
)
Stopped speaking to him. Which I did, for a few months after my mother died. I thought that was going to be forever.
(
it's a strangely lacking response from someone so notably volatile, and yet. it doesn't sound false.
)
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Date:
2018-11-21 11:07 am (UTC)
From:
rathercommon
Well -
[ A long breath. ]
Good. Just as long as you don't ever think that you owe anything to anyone who'd mistreat you.
i / ii
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2018-11-21 11:08 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
(
there's a longer silence.
)
ii.
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2018-11-21 11:10 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
I know the difference. Let's leave it at that.
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2018-11-21 11:10 am (UTC)
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rathercommon
[ Girl. ]
What's
that
supposed to mean?
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2018-11-21 11:12 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Nothing. It just—nothing. He isn't like that.
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2018-11-21 11:12 am (UTC)
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2018-11-21 11:15 am (UTC)
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rathercommon
[ Uh huh. ]
Then who is?
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2018-11-21 11:16 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Most of Orlais.
(
it's glib, but it's probably not untrue.
)
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2018-11-21 11:19 am (UTC)
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rathercommon
Sure. Who else?
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2018-11-21 11:22 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
No one I care to remember.
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2018-11-21 01:01 pm (UTC)
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rathercommon
[ An uncertain noise, but - ]
All right. I won't make you talk about it.
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2018-11-22 02:12 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
It's important to me that it isn't important any more.
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Date:
2018-11-22 06:23 am (UTC)
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rathercommon
[ A little puzzled - ]
That it's not important? What do you mean - you don't care about it?
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2018-11-22 06:43 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Yes.
(
whether that's
true
is debatable, it is nevertheless the
goal
—
)
Why should I have to carry it forever? They won't.
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Date:
2018-11-22 06:49 am (UTC)
From:
rathercommon
[ Oh. That gets a little noise - something like a scoff, but more sympathetic. ]
Doesn't really work like that, though. Not in my experience.
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2018-11-22 06:56 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Difficult isn't the same as impossible.
(
it isn't as if she's never heard 'saying something enough times won't make it true', it's just that she refuses to absorb the lesson.
)
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:00 am (UTC)
From:
rathercommon
Maybe not. Still, probably best not to pin your hopes on a near-impossible thing.
[ says the girl who lives her life hoping for a near-impossible thing. ]
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:10 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
It only ever has to be true enough.
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:12 am (UTC)
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rathercommon
What does that even mean?
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2018-11-22 07:13 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
If you do something, say something, behave a certain way—what does it matter what's underneath it?
(
the same logic, again.
)
It still denies satisfaction. Even if it isn't perfectly real.
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:16 am (UTC)
From:
rathercommon
Whose satisfaction? Theirs?
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:17 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Mmm. It's better that way.
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Date:
2018-11-22 07:36 am (UTC)
From:
rathercommon
That means you're still letting them dictate your actions.
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2018-11-22 07:36 am (UTC)
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2018-11-22 07:39 am (UTC)
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elegiaque
Great, well, now that we've established there are literally no options where that can't be argued, I'll carry on as I have been.
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2018-11-22 07:41 am (UTC)
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Well, why not be honest about your feelings in that case?
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:02 am (UTC)Stopped speaking to him. Which I did, for a few months after my mother died. I thought that was going to be forever.
( it's a strangely lacking response from someone so notably volatile, and yet. it doesn't sound false. )
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:07 am (UTC)i / ii
Date: 2018-11-21 11:08 am (UTC)ii.
Date: 2018-11-21 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-21 11:10 am (UTC)What's that supposed to mean?
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-21 11:15 am (UTC)Then who is?
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:16 am (UTC)( it's glib, but it's probably not untrue. )
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Date: 2018-11-21 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-21 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-21 01:01 pm (UTC)All right. I won't make you talk about it.
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Date: 2018-11-22 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-22 06:23 am (UTC)That it's not important? What do you mean - you don't care about it?
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Date: 2018-11-22 06:43 am (UTC)( whether that's true is debatable, it is nevertheless the goal— )
Why should I have to carry it forever? They won't.
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Date: 2018-11-22 06:49 am (UTC)Doesn't really work like that, though. Not in my experience.
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Date: 2018-11-22 06:56 am (UTC)( it isn't as if she's never heard 'saying something enough times won't make it true', it's just that she refuses to absorb the lesson. )
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Date: 2018-11-22 07:00 am (UTC)[ says the girl who lives her life hoping for a near-impossible thing. ]
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Date: 2018-11-22 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-22 07:13 am (UTC)( the same logic, again. )
It still denies satisfaction. Even if it isn't perfectly real.
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