they are not coming home.
you are grown, now. you have felt
the bitterness of empty springs
the dull ache of silver sticks
the swelling terror of a silent phone
and now
the cold, clear certainty
of an empty home.
how long, you wonder, until fire consumes it.
you stuck your hand in, once
while they looked away.
it blistered and bled
wrapped in white
for days and days
but, for an instant
before your tender skin
understood what you had done
it did not hurt.
how long, you wonder
until the fire consumes you.
My best friend is letting me move in with her! Well. There’s not actually room to move in, but the apartment room next to hers opened up and she grabbed it and then let me know, and we’re opening the adjoining door, which is approximately the same.
She is amazing and I have packed everything, and she will help me move tomorrow! And I’m going to get to be close to her all the time, and I will get to see her tiny little brother more but he will know me better so I will feel less guilty about it.
I am not particularly looking forward to making this many trips back and forth with backpacks and boxes on the trains, but even accounting for time-value, it is less expensive than hiring a driver, as long as we can both take two to three boxes and a backpack each trip.
A gentle reminder to southern hemisphere 4-year-olds: southern hemisphere 4-year-olds are half a year older than you. At this stage of your life, those months really do matter. Especially your first spring, especially when they’re in autumn.
A gentle reminder to southern hemisphere 4-year-olds: southern hemisphere 4-year-olds are half a year older than you. At this stage of your life, those months really do matter. Especially your first spring, especially when they’re in autumn.
How much time to you estimate will pass in real life before we get to the end of "in color" in the game? Also, do you expect the game to continue past that point?
P.S. to previous ask: More precisely, I’m interested in the point of time FTL discovery becomes public knowledge, although it’s almost the same.
I’m not sure how long it will take because pacing depends on how many people are doing things. A while. We’re not even done with the first year and there are half a dozen to come. My guess for after warp is invented is that we slow way down and people can keep playing if they want to but in-story events basically stop happening.
Tricky. The only one that comes straight after in color rather than inserting aliens during is “you belong with me”, and that doesn’t have much in the way of fleshed out what-would-public-knowledge-be content.
Its clear that nothing from Orvara is guaranteed clean, click here to be directed to a country appropriate petition to ban imports from Orvara and here for a list of companies to avoid.
Presuming, like, attention to labor rights and stuff, I don’t think this is intrinsically horrible or anything. But they had better be very very sure they’re right, I don’t think the world can handle another pollution scare.
Sure, and presuming the people giving out the credits do it with good planning, fairness, and integrity, the imperial system is great for child credits!
(Also, just checking, do you think you’d feel the same way if it was yellows being singled out for red work?)
Also I’m going to point out that if this is allowed to stand that’s going to encourage other countries to do their own ‘let’s do random new stuff about reds in secret and then announce it’. Last one of those got us a food crisis and a war, anyone want to bet on the next one?
It should be yellows put in those jobs: the most important requirement is scrupulous and methodical attention to pollution protocol. Shouldn’t be purples. Just shouldn’t.
Its clear that nothing from Orvara is guaranteed clean, click here to be directed to a country appropriate petition to ban imports from Orvara and here for a list of companies to avoid.
Read my about page. Thing is, Verjandra’s Paradox shows that we almost certainly live in a false vacuum. This means that once particle accelerators reach the 10^16 eV range, there’s a good chance they will trigger vacuum collapse, destroying Amenta and killing everyone nearly instantaneously. And, yes, I know cosmic rays have higher energies, but these only produce collisions with high momentum relatively to Colron’s field, which is a different story. Even if the Greens and the Blues in all countries get their act together and enact regulation, eventually someone will kill us all, whether by mistake or intentionally. So, the only real solution is controlled vacuum collapse + transmitting ourselves to the new vacuum (I call it CVA = Cross-Vacuum Assembler). Unfortunately, we have a long road to designing such a thing, and so far I’m one of the very few working on it (and obviously nobody takes me seriously, only a lowly Yellow meh).
how are you not your first self. what self are you. how many versions are there.
Oh, don’t worry. It’s a quote from the third book of the Uncoloured series, which has conveniently remained among my dearest fandoms since I joined tumblr.
The reason I chose it as my URL (and description), is very spoiling, but since you seemed interested: cut.
See, the premise of the entire series—let me reiterate that I wasn’t kidding about “very spoiling”!—involves, roughly, people having been extracted from their bodies, ‘uncoloured’, and projected into different castes. (That is terrible summary, never mind.) One of them’s the main character, of course; she’s been assigned “green” (to over-simplified, sorry) but at the climax of the first book she discovers her original, sort of comatose/frozen self, that is purple. The evil government types tell her that version isn’t real, and for reasons she needs to kill it. Being the hero of the story, of course—
she believes them. She obeys.
That scene destroyed me, by the way. I just. Because most protagonists wouldn’t, but the whole system runs on the assumption that most people would, nd also I identified with her very strongly and it felt... like learning something about myself, like learning I wasn’t as strong or as brave as I told myself I was. And it felt true.
Then there’s the second book, and the slow guilt-ridden journey to opposition—the other thing the system runs on is that everyone who finds out becomes themselves blood-stained in supporting it, so she has to overcome that, and weakness and her knowledge of it, until by the third book she can look that woman in the eye and say no, the version of me you created is not the real one. And yet I am alive. So I will fight you, on behalf of who was.
I love that she makes something strong that isn’t supposed to be strong. I love that she claims the rightful self was a 3-year-old purple from a middle-of-nowhere maize farm. I love that I felt like I really could be that brave, and that strong, even if I were weak now. I love that she is the knife cutting through their lies even when they think she should be harmless.
tangentwithtanner
origamiaround
2087
stormborns
izzy806
turnnoffyourmind
theartofmadeline
janainaart
