spoon boy rises

[esperimental]

Be honest with me. Am I losing my mind if I find this Retrospec package comforting to look at for some reason? Or can someone grace me with some artistic interpretation as to why these functionally useless silverware washes me with some wave of relief.

"Memories", sure. But what did these cutlery do to deserve this?

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[lalliho]

[Uhhhh, comforting, well...]

one is a heart I guess

[esperimental]

Love or sappiness.

I wouldn't look forward to either of those.

[sketchythief]

maybe its because theyre familiar to you somehow

i wonder how much all those cost...

[esperimental]

They're not that different in weight from the ones back home, but that's just me guessing.

I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse it's probably my family's.

[lostapprentice]

a reminder of psychic powers, perhaps?

[He knows he'd feel pretty comforted by the idea of having telekinesis.]

[esperimental]

I do see ghosts, but I haven't done anything like bend objects.
... Yet, maybe.

I guess to start with figuring out how to fix these if I can.

[liberal_arts]

If I had to guess, and mind you this is purely speculation on my part, it represents an exerted will over functionality. The artist has given new image to these objects once taken for granted, and while their use as tools in the practical sense has been removed, they have been given new life as something else, something unique and avant.

[esperimental]

That's actually really deep. I'm glad you replied seriously Kaneda-san.

It's like they've been released in some way. Maybe I... feel that release as well.
Felt.
Whatever.

[rygdea]

Maybe in your past life you was a...contemporary artist?

[Fynn is seriously trying to be helpful here.]

[esperimental]

And here I was criticizing parts of the exhibit in the museum a few months ago for being incomprehensible.

None of that creativity leaked onto my life here, or I had awful ideas to start with.

[explodosafe]

Dude, did you leave your chocolate cutlery out in the sun and then just tossed 'em into the fridge? What the hell!

[HOW DID SOME OF THOSE NOT BREAK SEVEN TIMES OVER GETTING BENT LIKE THAT??]

[esperimental]

I would really like to know how a piece of dessert made me so angry as to grab others' utensils as well.

But no, these aren't actually for sweets. They're regular spoons and forks. Were, anyway.

[admiringly]

[ yikes ]

if you don't already have memories about these i can probably make up some artistic interpretation?
but if you can't unbend them yourself you can create your own art piece with them!
if you want to i mean
so the spoons won't be like that in vain

[esperimental]

I'm not an artist so it would probably look really bad...
But I guess it wouldn't be for lack of trying. Rather than just storing them away forever because I can't understand why they make me happy.

What's your interpretation?

[totallynotanoni]

Maybe you were using them for stress relief?
Bending them to relieve tension of some sort?

[ But wow thats a lot of spoons and forks what the hell? ]

[esperimental]

I don't doubt that, after bad days, sometimes you find joy even in questionable decisions.

But still I hope my other self got chewed out for this. He really had to grab out everything from the drawer?
Did I have to use my bare hands to eat that night?

[evidentiary]

If it were a movie, I suppose it'd be the result of a psychic disturbance...?

[esperimental]

There was a stereotype between psychic powers and spoons, right?
I've never felt like I had the need to look into it before but maybe now I do.

[hadeir]

Maybe you watched one too many phony psychic shows on TV as a kid and you're relieved that those bent spoons let you hold onto a hope that maybe those psychics weren't just using really soft cutlery and are actually real?

[esperimental]

I mean, I guess that's possible.

We can have unrealistic dreams as kids. Knowing how the science works, it would ruin the magic right?

[frostflowers]

I don't think it's weird to find them relieving?

They look like something from those psychic TV shows.

[esperimental]

Are those still around? I could check for reference, though part of me really doesn't want to.

[chargebomb]

Who sent that to you
And why wasn't it me
Anyway I know what I'm getting you for your next birthday

[esperimental]

Maybe it was you but you did it in your sleep.

Also, no.
Get that idea out of your head right now.

[meowbel]

Look on the bright side! At least you can make some kind of art with it!

[esperimental]

All I can think of with components this twisty is a man in agony.

[ CALM DOWN EDGELORD ]

[livingdeadgirl]

[well there's the obvious answer of course. but first, the silly answer.]

past you singlehandedly thwarted a silverware uprising
and those are his trophies of war

[esperimental]

They never stood a chance. I really went wild on them.

...
Look, after Retrospec and August, I wish I could honestly say that such a war won't happen, but it might.

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[wantshappiness]

I think bending spoons was something people did on tv to show that they have psychic powers. I remember reading that there's actually a trick they use though.

[She says even though she remembers espers being real in her memories.]

I'm not sure why someone would bend so many...

[esperimental]

Probably. It's easier to believe there weren't actual powers, but then we became aware of this app, and with people waving superpowers around it's hard to tell what is and what isn't scientific.

That someone was probably me and I'll be ashamed of him enough for all of us.

[lastcomfort]

Oh no! Poor spoons and forks... Maybe you're supposed to melt them together to create personalized armor?

[esperimental]

I don't think I have any medieval battle memories but... that's definitely an interesting interpretation.

You like armor?