watching x-files with no lights on, we're dans la maison

[skald]

Happy 3 AM, fellow Retrospectres who can't/won't sleep because of all the nightmares and ghosts and memory fog and all that (and happy morning to anyone who checks their phone later, I guess)! I'm going to fall asleep if I don't start talking to someone soon and I'm trying to make it until dawn.

IF YOU ARE AWAKE RIGHT NOW, PLEASE WEIGH IN ON SOME/ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS (or you can message me when you wake up, that's fine too) :

-If this fog thing lasts for much longer, isn't it going to get in the way of Trick-or-Treating? If it rains (/creepy memory fogs) on Halloween, what do little kids (/university students who don't really get to celebrate Halloween in their home countries and would like to) do instead? Do I have to make backup plans or can we start some sort of safety Halloween caravan to protect the little kids (/occasional university students with no cool powers or survival instincts) from the monsters?

-Dave and I made a Finnish-language movie about magic pirates (and some other stuff, lots of symbolism, it's very deep), does anyone want to see it? Here's a trailer: x [this links to a trailer spliced together from this disaster, namely shots of Mafuyu hurling fake severed heads into the distance, Magician's Red looking ominous on camera, someone singing something to the tune of 'A Pirate's Life For Me,' though the accent is so strong it's not identifiable as Finnish, multiple clips from fight scenes, a creepy rabbit mask, and absolutely no subtitles.]

-Completely unrelated: currently taking applications for subtitle and/or scriptwriting positions. Compensation consists of lunch from a taco truck and a couple half-completed customer loyalty cards from various cafes, and you can put it on your CV. Please contact me for additional details.

-What are your top three coffee places in the city, I'm going to try all of them by the end of the month

-Is this better or worse than when half of us disappeared and there were monsters running around in the daytime

-What's the most comfortable lounge to sleep in on the Recolle U campus (during daylight hours, so please no big windows)

-Trick or Treat?

Comments

[skald]

Well of course! But what I mean is that the monsters seemed really, really dangerous, and only one person died and I really don't fully understand what happened there because he's fine? We live in a house together. He doesn't remember Retrospec anymore but that's recent, I don't know if it's related to dying.

I don't know what I'm trying to say, nothing makes sense anymore so I guess there's no point in ranking it at all.

[thesettingsun]

I don't know what to say about it either. But I don't think I'm okay with going 'he got better so dying is fine'. You still have to remember dying. Everyone else remembers you being gone.

We had a funeral.

[skald]

I don't know if he does, though

Remember dying, I mean. Idk I don't want to ask to be sure, but he doesn't remember anything from the app anymore. I don't think he'd know what I'm talking about.

I don't know, if he doesn't remember and if he's still alive, it's

better than the alternative? I'm not going to say it's fine but the problem with people dying is that they're dead afterwards

[thesettingsun]

He remembered when he came back. I think the dying and the forgetting are separate.

[skald]

I think that's true

Or at least, he didn't IMMEDIATELY forget by dying. Maybe it was a slow thing, I don't know

Maybe the answer is that it's better for him not to remember it, and that's why this happened

Or it's random, I don't know. I just don't want to ask him and bring it all up again.

[thesettingsun]

I wouldn't ask him either, I didn't mean you should.

[skald]

Yeah.

I'm sorry, Shuji, I'm just tired and a little out of it and trying to make sense of things that don't make sense.

[thesettingsun]

It's okay. I'm tired too, and I've been sleeping as regularly as I can be sleeping with this stuff going on.

[skald]

Try taking naps during the day! I still get shitty dreams but so far I haven't recognized anyone in them who remembers that it happened afterwards!

[thesettingsun]

I never manage to get anything in between classes and work... But I'll try.

[skald]

Yeah, work is hard with all of this going on. Especially since I've got so much more responsibility now.......

[This is 1000% the least subtle humblebrag about her promotion that has ever been written.]

[thesettingsun]

I know you got a promotion, we're coworkers.

[skald]

I know, I'm just saying

[ruining her fun, shuji]

[thesettingsun]

[Aww, don't be like that.]

Congrats again, btw.

[skald]

[oop there it is, that worked.]

Hee, thanks Shuji. Shine Bright and all that!!!

[thesettingsun]

Nobody could accuse you of not shining brightly.

[skald]

Awww that's so cute, you're cute Shuji

How've you been lately?

[thesettingsun]

[He's a grown man, only his boyfriend gets to call him that...]

Kind of terrible, but I'll live.

[skald]

[cute.....]

That's the spirit!

(Get it because it's Halloween!)

Uh except I want it to be not terrible, I'm sorry, that sounded so flippant.

[thesettingsun]

It's okay, I know you don't want everything to be terrible. The pun is more important.

[skald]

Hee, I knew you'd understand! This is why we're friends, Shuji.

[thesettingsun]

I knew you only liked me for terrible puns.