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[fiddlestick]

Well, this is pretty nerve-wracking, but I finally uploaded some music I composed. It's just four songs, between college and everything happening in Retrospec, I've been, well, pretty busy this year. But I hope to compose more soon!

Anyway... you can listen to them here. Please enjoy them.

And in less good news ... I had a rather troubling conversation with a ghost...

According to him, our Earth isn't what it seems. Apparently, while Recolle's real and stable, the rest of the world is actually a recreation of other Earths. It was made to be a centralized hub for planets across the galaxy that were destroyed, and Recolle's essentially the capital. It was all formed and balanced from the soul energy being generated by this city and the people here, and it's not exactly stable.

Good news, all the people outside of Recolle in this world are real, so it's not like our lives were fake. But bad news, if anything should happen to Recolle, the rest of the world would disintegrate. So...no pressure?

Oh, and has anyone heard anything about a river of souls beneath Recolle? A friend heard about it from another ghost, but we don't know much.

Sorry for all the troubling news. This isn't how I expected this post to go.

Comments

[echoing_sutras]

eh, i read young too, so i feel u

[fiddlestick]

Oh yeah? How old are you...?

[echoing_sutras]

sweet sixteen.

most ppl think im in middle school

[fiddlestick]

Ah...yeah. I could see where people get it.

Sorry you have to deal with that.

[echoing_sutras]

eh it could be a lot worse

gotta keep up that pme yanno?

[fiddlestick]

pme?

[echoing_sutras]

positive mental energy

it started in the 80s in the east coast hardcore scene. but it also, conveniently, aligns with a lot of buddhist philosophy so i took it up as a personal creed, too.

[fiddlestick]

Ohhh.

That's a really nice idea! I don't know much about the hardcore scene, so I didn't know they had such a nice message! I like it!

[echoing_sutras]

yeah! it's helped me through

a lot really

and like i said im already buddhist and it all just kind of jives together.

[fiddlestick]

Wow, that's cool! Don't meet many buddhists.

It makes me happy to hear though. People usually write off the louder genres as aggressive and hostile, but that doesn't sound like the effect it has on its fans at all. Just goes to show the power of music, I guess.

[echoing_sutras]

and the power of community. pme caught on because it helped create a unifying identity for a lot of people who didn't feel like they fit in anywhere else.

[fiddlestick]

That makes sense...
Still, good for them. And good on you for spreading it!