entropic: (✞ shortest breath of your young life)
there's catastrophe in everything i'm touching. ([personal profile] entropic) wrote in [community profile] askandanswer2014-09-23 02:41 pm

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Sure, here's a question. Why does life suck so bad?

( kevin's allowed to be kinda emo. sixteen, skinny as a rail, under his clothes he's sweltering in some strange black bodysuit that looks like it's made of rubber or pvc, and he has on full-length black gloves as well. whenever anyone gets too close he jerks away violently. )
meanwhileback: (in its absence lies a painful fact)

[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-23 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The world hates you, specifically. You should maybe cry about it some more, I hear that's useful.
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[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-23 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wahh wahh, a whole bunch of dead kids. The whole world has been killing great numbers of people and children and the disenfranchised for literally as long as humanity as a concept has existed and people act like it's suddenly a big deal once it happens in their general vicinity. This kind of shit happens like twice a year where I'm from and it sucks but nobody seems to stop bombing innocent people ever so maybe the issue isn't that life sucks and more that fucking psychotic people who think it's cool to kill random people all the time do.

If you hate it so much, do something about it. Otherwise shut the fuck up, because whining about something that effects literally everyone else as if you're the first person that ever thought of complaining about it is fucking annoying.

[...I are so sorry you decided to ask Penelope for sympathy and understanding, kid. Maybe try someone else??]
meanwhileback: (my cowardice and your bad timing)

[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-23 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably, but at least I'm not a teenager.
meanwhileback: (who do i see about contracting it back)

[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-23 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Too bad. Die now or become one of us. Your choice.
meanwhileback: (my cowardice and your bad timing)

[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-24 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm telling the truth. The fact that it makes you mad is what's funny.
meanwhileback: (my stiletto on your neck)

[personal profile] meanwhileback 2014-09-24 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's not about you.
factotum: (a matter of providence.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-24 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Some people think it happened at the moment of creation. Basically, that existence is fundamentally flawed; that the particles set in motion by the big bang have been moving in a ruinous path from which there is no real deviation.

Does that work for you?
factotum: (like Actaeon.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-24 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's one school of thought, anyway. Seems convenient for people who have given up trying to change other people, yeah.
factotum: (from the forgotten dead.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-24 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry.

Have the people who remain given up trying to change other people's minds?
factotum: (God permits.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
So have you given up?
factotum: (babylon — farewell!)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
But you do have something to say? Even if it's to shitting pigeons.
factotum: (from the forgotten dead.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the method people are usually after, yes. A way not to destroy things.
factotum: (God permits.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like that would discourage kids from going to the school, too, or discourage their parents from allowing them to go. Or like you, to leave.
factotum: (like Actaeon.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Then the first issue is really safety, isn't it? For the kids, but also in the minds of the attackers, who are afraid, even if it's baseless like you say it is.
factotum: (homo fuge.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Less than that would be enough, too. So you've come to the problem at the heart of most sentient existence pretty early. That's probably also why life sucks so bad.
factotum: (a matter of providence.)

[personal profile] factotum 2014-09-25 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. It seemed more dignified because you stood at the podium.
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[personal profile] threnodic 2014-09-24 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Million different answers to that one. Punishment for original sin, people are inherently wicked, our conscious awareness of our wickedness is some mistake in evolution.

I used to think about it a lot, but then I decided knowing the answer would probably be worse. Fuck all you can do about it.
afraidofclosets: (you don't believe a word im saying huh?)

[personal profile] afraidofclosets 2014-09-25 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Because the world is kind of a really screwy place with really screwy people. And things. Really screwy things.
afraidofclosets: (i thought it was a nightmare)

[personal profile] afraidofclosets 2014-09-25 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, 'screwy' is definitely putting it lightly.
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[personal profile] asongwithin 2014-09-28 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the easy answer is "because we're mutants". [Her smile is wry, and tired.]