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Jan. 12th, 2015 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velocette[As usual, he's smoking. And it's not unusual that he's staring at the smoke like he's been hypnotized, but he's smiling more than he has in the years he's been on board.]
You know, I've been so fixated on these things for so many years. On cigarettes, I mean, Kools if I could get them--and it's funny that these are the greyest thing in my life. The single thing that lacks color now. I sort of expected the smoke to be blue...or pink.
I actually stopped seeing color when I was four. I think that was when I stopped believing in God, Santa, and the American Dream. I assumed for a long time that everyone went colorblind (literally, figuratively, whichever) when they got old enough to be cynical. But I came here and I met a real muse, and I've realized that I was mostly wrong.
I wonder what the rest of you lost when you stopped being kids? I don't expect many of you will answer, since most of you are understandably very sensitive about your pasts, but it's a real question. What did you lose when you grew up?
You know, I've been so fixated on these things for so many years. On cigarettes, I mean, Kools if I could get them--and it's funny that these are the greyest thing in my life. The single thing that lacks color now. I sort of expected the smoke to be blue...or pink.
I actually stopped seeing color when I was four. I think that was when I stopped believing in God, Santa, and the American Dream. I assumed for a long time that everyone went colorblind (literally, figuratively, whichever) when they got old enough to be cynical. But I came here and I met a real muse, and I've realized that I was mostly wrong.
I wonder what the rest of you lost when you stopped being kids? I don't expect many of you will answer, since most of you are understandably very sensitive about your pasts, but it's a real question. What did you lose when you grew up?
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Date: 2015-01-25 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-28 05:16 am (UTC)Do they? I've never seen one. Not even the little statues. What do they look like?
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Date: 2015-01-29 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-01 06:58 am (UTC)You?
...I thought you'd wear a hat. That's prejudiced of me, though, isn't it?
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Date: 2015-02-01 07:04 am (UTC)[Chromie giggles.]
Common, but it's fine!
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Date: 2015-02-12 02:43 am (UTC)So you do have the toys there! I'm glad; it would have been offensive, I think, if we had made them up to represent you.
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Date: 2015-02-13 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-16 01:59 am (UTC)Most myths and legends are the work of curious minds trying to make sense of their world, really. Magic was an easier explanation than the ones science has given us instead.
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Date: 2015-02-16 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-18 02:50 am (UTC)Well, there are a lot of strange things in nature. Odd lights in swamps, strange sounds at night, things disappearing. If there was no explanation at the time, there was plenty of room to invent warnings or fantasies.
[He hesitates, and adds:] I would've liked your world better than mine, probably, if I'd had the choice.
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Date: 2015-02-18 07:02 am (UTC)[Chromie giggles.]
The Admiral lets wardens see other worlds all the time!
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Date: 2015-02-20 03:10 am (UTC)I hadn't thought of that. ...I hadn't found a world I wanted to visit until now. Would you be a tour guide?
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Date: 2015-02-20 09:39 am (UTC)It probably wouldn't be very safe if you didn't have an escort, anyway.
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Date: 2015-02-22 06:30 am (UTC)Really? [Actually he believes that completely.] What's the most dangerous thing there?
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Date: 2015-02-22 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-25 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
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