I'm mad I'm not as smart as I thought I was for fucking sure!!
As smart as I hoped I was, anyway
A lot of people seem to have come from environments with more cannibalism than I'm strictly used to. My working theory is the house pulls people from slightly worse places to really kickstart the Stockholm Syndrome
my home-home is like, the middle of nowhere england. and it's really nothing special honestly, but it's pretty in summer i guess?
anyway, we had a zombie event in 2009. it was a whole thing, whole country went absolutely tits up. we managed to find a treatment to restore their bran function so they could be people again? but they're still like, partially dead. my brothers one of them, actually
not danny, lol. kieren. he's still home with our parents. anyway our village has always kind of been middle of nowhere bigoted and they're extra bigoted about the partially deceased now, so it's a bit shit.
so anyway, zombies are a whole thing and when they weren't treated they were fucking scary, so it fucked me up a little bit? i ended up in this cross-multiverse city doing like, therapy in exchange for fucking a lot. it was nice, i miss it. i tried to leave to go live my boyfriend and we got separated and i ended up in the middle of nowhere eastern europe which in retrospect, might have been purgatory idk. it was surrounded by this void. everyone turned into monsters if they didn't fuck or fight regularly.
the locals worshipped this spider lady and when they got like, really old and were ready to die she would cook them up in her castle ??? i went to a feast and all the food was people
it's kind of cool to experience different worlds and stuff, but like, this is the second one i didn't really mean to end up in lol
[ Matt is, frankly, impressed that his phone loads this message.
He reads it a few times over, lingering on what are, to him, the most unusual points. Where he comes from, a zombie is effectively a magically lobotomized person. They're called dead colloquially, but it's more like "dead inside," and the whole phenomenon is a rare one. Very few practitioners know how to create the effect, and from what Matt's heard, it's both dangerous and expensive. Still, from the context of what Jem's shared here and the vision Alicent revealed, he thinks he can put together that where she comes from, zombies are a different kind of frightening. Dead, and deadly.
(He wouldn't be surprised to learn Danny had made zombies. Not at this point in their acquaintance. He has the aesthetic lens to be a good spellcaster, the fascination with death and taboos to turn that way.) ]
You have lived quite a life, [ is his first reply. ] I'm starting to worry that way more of the universe is cannibalism-based than I previously thought, but at least the spider lady seems to have been sourcing ethically. The city where you fuck for therapy does sound nice, though.
I'm sorry to hear about all of that from back home. I don't think anything I can say will adequately convey that [ Which always frustrates him, the vapor of words. How little they count. ] but I am.
[ He has to admit, though, that he agrees with Jem. It's fascinating to experience different worlds. Even if the experiences themselves often suck. ]
[ And good for her mental health, Matt imagines. He wonders if he should be journaling or something, but to capture his emotions rather than just spell diagrams and theories about the house. ]
It's true, nothing good is easy. At least in my experience. I can't even tell you how many fires I set and houseplants I lost learning how to do magic
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you know what's funny is the last real like 'meal' i had before ending up here WAS a people banquet
lmfao kind of fucked up if it happened AGAIN
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As smart as I hoped I was, anyway
A lot of people seem to have come from environments with more cannibalism than I'm strictly used to. My working theory is the house pulls people from slightly worse places to really kickstart the Stockholm Syndrome
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not me tho i’m really smart all the time obviously
can i tmi and tldr for a bit, it’s about cannibalism
and zombies
and monsters!
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please do, I'm looking to expand my horizons on most of those points
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my home-home is like, the middle of nowhere england. and it's really nothing special honestly, but it's pretty in summer i guess?
anyway, we had a zombie event in 2009. it was a whole thing, whole country went absolutely tits up. we managed to find a treatment to restore their bran function so they could be people again? but they're still like, partially dead. my brothers one of them, actually
not danny, lol. kieren. he's still home with our parents. anyway our village has always kind of been middle of nowhere bigoted and they're extra bigoted about the partially deceased now, so it's a bit shit.
so anyway, zombies are a whole thing and when they weren't treated they were fucking scary, so it fucked me up a little bit? i ended up in this cross-multiverse city doing like, therapy in exchange for fucking a lot. it was nice, i miss it. i tried to leave to go live my boyfriend and we got separated and i ended up in the middle of nowhere eastern europe which in retrospect, might have been purgatory idk. it was surrounded by this void. everyone turned into monsters if they didn't fuck or fight regularly.
the locals worshipped this spider lady and when they got like, really old and were ready to die she would cook them up in her castle ??? i went to a feast and all the food was people
it's kind of cool to experience different worlds and stuff, but like, this is the second one i didn't really mean to end up in lol
storytime!!!!!
He reads it a few times over, lingering on what are, to him, the most unusual points. Where he comes from, a zombie is effectively a magically lobotomized person. They're called dead colloquially, but it's more like "dead inside," and the whole phenomenon is a rare one. Very few practitioners know how to create the effect, and from what Matt's heard, it's both dangerous and expensive. Still, from the context of what Jem's shared here and the vision Alicent revealed, he thinks he can put together that where she comes from, zombies are a different kind of frightening. Dead, and deadly.
(He wouldn't be surprised to learn Danny had made zombies. Not at this point in their acquaintance. He has the aesthetic lens to be a good spellcaster, the fascination with death and taboos to turn that way.) ]
You have lived quite a life, [ is his first reply. ] I'm starting to worry that way more of the universe is cannibalism-based than I previously thought, but at least the spider lady seems to have been sourcing ethically. The city where you fuck for therapy does sound nice, though.
I'm sorry to hear about all of that from back home. I don't think anything I can say will adequately convey that [ Which always frustrates him, the vapor of words. How little they count. ] but I am.
[ He has to admit, though, that he agrees with Jem. It's fascinating to experience different worlds. Even if the experiences themselves often suck. ]
It sounds fucking hard.
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i mean, it's okay. it was hard for a long time in different ways, and then it was livable for the most part. nothing good is ever easy right???
i miss my friends a lot. i miss my big brother. i write to them, here, actually? just in case i ever see them and need to catch them up lol
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[ And good for her mental health, Matt imagines. He wonders if he should be journaling or something, but to capture his emotions rather than just spell diagrams and theories about the house. ]
It's true, nothing good is easy. At least in my experience. I can't even tell you how many fires I set and houseplants I lost learning how to do magic