Famine, displacement, aid blockages, and the collapse of health and food systems inside Sudan.
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Under the Opalescent Moon - You and I, Live and Die. (Open post to fix formatting) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ If you have to misrepresent someones argument or insult them to make your position look better, you expose how little confidence in your reasoning you possess- In other words: If you have to make insults, you have no point. \- Someone you dont know payed someone else you dont know, and now there are big signs on the side of the Public Road trying to sell you products, services, and values. Someone payed someone, and now an idea is in Your head. \- If all parties present are not open to being wrong - to updating their understandings, or, re-evaluating their beliefs and opinions in light of novel reasoning or data - than you will not have a fruitful discussion. \- Negative associations are easier to make and harder to break. Positive associations are easier to break and harder to make. \- The main difference between someone who is ok discussing their beliefs and the reasons they hold them and someone who is not is that the latter is afraid of the possibility that they might be wrong. \- Intellectual laziness: When you refuse to question or think about why you believe what you believe, and why you value what you value; When you dont want to consider the possibility you might be wrong, either due to the amount of Work it would take to update your map, or, because you are emotionally invested in your preferred answer. Often resulting in the offputting of intellectual processing onto others, usually chosen or inherited ‘authority figures’. \- Emotional Laziness: The unwillingness or inability to sit with, confront, process, and work through difficult emotions; A refusal to talk about, think about, or acknowledge the existence of negative things. A blindspot in the mind centered around preserving emotional comfort at the cost of growth and maturity. Often resulting in the offputting of emotional processing onto others, usually ‘loved ones’. \- letting poison into your life just to maintain the illusion of being loved is a profound betrayal of the self \- All you, or anyone, needs to build Anything or get Anything done is People Skills Materials and Meaning \- The oldest, deepest, and most well fed shadows are monitoring your every digital move. In Deafening Silence, and in Blinding Darkness. Formless and forgettable. \- Uneaten and undigested shadows risk becoming emotionally transmitted diseases from generation to generation. \- One must not take the reality of the subjective nature of meaning (nihilism) as a personal insult. Take your ego out of the equation. You are incidental. The universe doesnt owe you meaning. \- Did you know that ‘rich and powerful’ people hate when you are happy without their permission? Once you see this, life becomes a bit easier. Like audience cards. Laugh when i say. Cry when i say. Smile when i say. Scream when i say. Your phone and other glowing rectangles are the modern audience cards. Reminds me a bit of ‘god’. “You cant be happy until i say so! you have to wait till you get into my special heaven club before you are allowed to be ok.” \- There is no greater debt one can go into to another than to bring them into being. And it is up to each individual person whether or not they wish to forgive that debt. \- You eat your shadow or you feed it. \- The problem theists tend to have with Atheism is more often than not a problem with Nihilism; In coming to terms with the imaginary nature of gods, they are forced to rethink their conception of morality, justice, and purpose; They are forced to confront the subject-dependent nature of meaning. \- The reality of Shared Intersubjectivity is the basis for the concept of Morality. \- Most of human philosophy - the academic field, and the average everyday process of acedemic ‘philosophers’ - amounts to a sophisticated rationalization engine for common preferred belief systems and ideas. \- Beware the trap of Believing what you Want to Believe because you Want To Believe it.. \- Ever buy a newspaper? How about a newspaper company? See the problem? \- Dictatorships are Normal. We just call them ‘Companies’. \- We are all born into ignorance and confusion in a hostile world. Religion -and similar systems of thought- emerge as mechanisms by which sentient agents cope with this reality by Simply Denying it Outright. \- The pursuit of understanding is a double edged sword- The same realizations that grant context to large swaths of being, carve away cherished beliefs that thrived in their ignorance. Beliefs that, to many, matter far more than living in honest comprehension of what is most likely true of this, our collective circumstance. \- Each moment is novel. It has never occurred before, and will never occur again. The earth will never be in this place in space again, and you will never be in this arrangement again. \- Education sucks and will likely always suck because ‘learning’ is antithetical to two of our main cultural goals. The maintaining of treasured delusions, and the Production of Obedient Workers and Eager Consumers. Learning is made boring to guarantee stagnation of the populations’ intellectual potential. \- At a certain stage in Existentialism, Life Itself becomes the ‘Crisis’ \- The Exact Point when someone starts arguing against the use of reason, they expose the Borders of their Emotional Investments and Preferred Beliefs. \- A ‘strong faith’ is when you’re really good at not considering the possibility of being wrong with regards to the things you really want to be true. That, or when you’re exceptionally good at embodying the idiosyncrasies of your religion- its values, through your actions, expressed. These arent mutually exclusive, so much as they are different angles of approach. \- It’s offensive to a rationalizer to call out their rationalizations. \- A.I. art/music/writing is fine, in that it’s no threat to ‘art’ or the value of creating things. Those who create know the value of doing so is in the process of creation itself, not the output. Only people who dont create think its about the output. Creation will never lose its significance, utility, or value for people to actively perform and participate in the act of. \- The reality of what biology is capable of foreshadows the future potential capabilities of what it is that can be engineered- At a certain stage of complexity, depth, and scale, the fields of biology, engineering, physics, and chemistry merge. \- One of the ways you know you are making intellectual progress is if you perpetually look back at yourself as dumb. It means you Know Better now. The fool who recognizes themselves as such, ceases to be a fool. True foolishness exists in ignorance of itself. \- An honest philosophy is one that seeks to comprehend reality as it most likely Is, regardless of what we might wish to believe. \- Rationalizers often arent ‘Dumb’. They just have misallocated intellects. \- An insult only carries weight insofar as you care about the opinion of the person slinging it. \- Every once in a while, hug your pets as though they had just died yesterday; That headspace of “Id give anything for one more healthy moment of warmth with you“. There will be a day you cant anymore. There will be a last hug. \- Meaning is a subject-dependent phenomena. Emerging and dying both with us and within us. \- Morality is that subset of meaning-making concerned with the question of how sentient agents should treat one another, given their shared objective circumstances and conditions \- ‘Nihilism’ is just the word used for the realization that meaning is - and only ever has been - a phenomena of mind. Irrelevant to speak of in any other context. \- The things which are the most familiar to us- and which change the least- are the things that we tend to think of the least. This is the ‘Normalization blindspot’ of consciousness. \- Subjects are as Islands within an Objective Sea; emerging Exclusively and Precisely where the conditions allow. \- Co-rationalizers - people with shared preferred presumed beliefs - are often eachother’s sycophants \- Train yourself to Want moments alone with your thoughts and with your raw perceptions of the now, not to default to Dreading and subsequently Distracting from them. \- The main distinction between science and religion is that one is about figuring stuff out while the other is pretending you already have things figured out. \- Whether or not the players of the game know it, morality is always a calculus that fails or passes based on its direct contact with the IS, via the agents who harbor it. \- Time spent somewhere is definitionally time not spent elsewhere. On an existential level. The number of thoughts you will have is Finite. Every second is one second less. \- Philosophy uninformed by science is blind. Untethered from reality, rife with speculation and outright fantasy- Whereas science unguided by honest philosophy is confused; mere detached data without a framework of interpretation. \- Every question answered inevitably leads to more questions. Such is the pursuit of knowledge. \- Some people believe they cannot be fooled, which can often lead them to becoming the biggest fools. \- It is far easier - and therefore far more common - for the Theists and self proclaimed ‘agnostics’ to misrepresent Atheism than it is for them to accurately simulate it, because to do so they would have to actually consider the specific arguments of the opposition, and it is often their goal to evade doing exactly that. \- The term ‘Agnosticism’ is often misused as a sophisticated sounding way of saying ‘undecided’ with regards to the question of whether or not one believes in a god. While Atheism and Theism are specifically about belief or unbelief in a god claim, Agnosticism is about claims to Knowledge- Agnostic atheist- I don’t know, but I don’t believe Agnostic theist- I don’t know, but I believe Gnostic atheist- I Know, and I don’t believe Gnostic theist- I Know, and I believe it’s funny, the term ‘category error’ gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but this is perhaps the clearest example of one. Misusing the term ‘Agnostic’ like it’s an opt-out of having to state whether or not you believe in a god is an evasion deployed to obfuscate your position and disregard nuance. Again, while ‘sounding sophisticated’. This is usually a pseudo-intellectual shield for poorly reasoned beliefs and opinions. \- Much of human philosophy amounts to a mistaking of ones own internal map and mapping process for features of the objective territory. \- Pseudo-intellectuals, when pushed, always reveal themselves to be anti-intellectuals. \- Reality is that which IS, independent of what is believed. \- The reality of Death contextualizes the value of Life. \- What i want to be true of reality has no bearing whatsoever on what i believe to be true of reality.. ...and i find it absolutely absurd that this is a position held by the minority of people \- “Science” is a means by which Subjects attempt to Intersubjectively Verify what is most likely true of Objective Reality. \- Simplicity is an Illusion. It does not exist. Every single aspect of every single thing, when examined, is Infinitely Complex. \- Remember that wherever you look, whatever you are looking at -Near or far, trivial or profound- you are always looking at countless stars and galaxies. In all directions, all the time. \- Terms like ‘physicalism/materialism/structuralism/naturalism/etc.’ attempt to force a context of implied dualism in their use. \- Believing in a loving god is in many ways akin to ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ But rather than being directed at a person, it is directed at an Imagined Personification of Reality Itself. \- The world will never change as long as those with the most power to change it also have the most incentive to keep things Just As They Are. \- ‘do you Believe in a god?’ ‘do you Know whether or not a god exists?’ Agnosticism is an answer to the second question often given in response to the first to evade addressing it. \- The reason to endeavour to be ‘right’ and not ‘wrong’ in terms of the accuracy of ones ideas, is the accuracy itself. As soon as ‘ego’ enters the picture, the core point of the endeavour is lost. It’s not about Who is right; It is about the mutual pursuit of accurate comprehension of reality. \- The Core of All Tragedy Is Missed Potential. \- The truth hurts.. ..when you’ve allowed yourself to become emotionally invested in lies. \- If you allow yourself to be upset by the inevitable, you merely guarantee yourself to be upset inevitably. Ones reaction to the inevitable is a self fulfilling prophecy. \- Do you think ‘I don’t believe X without evidence’ requires the same justification as ‘X exists’? \- Science is as much an epistemic imperative as it is a moral one, because perpetually informing what is is foundationally essential for discerning what ought to be done. The is informs the ought. \- to be intelligent seek to mitigate stupidity, impulsiveness, and irrationality within oneself; do this perpetually and intelligence will incidentally arise. \- As a species, generally speaking, we are absolutely terrified of the fact that we exist. \- Never make the mistake of identifying by or emotionally investing in your beliefs and opinions, or you will never want to consider the possibility of being wrong. \- Is metaphysics just ‘philosophy of physics’? If it is, why not just call it that? Or, is it more like the term ‘supernatural’ is to the ‘natural’? That being an attempt to force a context of a realm beyond testability, falsifiability, or verifiability for peoples preferred beliefs to reside? Im getting the impression its the ladder, but that it likes to present itself as the former. \- These s y m b o l s are the best and most immediate example of the reality of nihilism. ‘Objectively meaningless’ squiggles, that demonstrate a Perfect example of the nature and structure of ‘meaning’ in you and i. \- The sound a letter ‘makes’ when you say it tells you nothing about what shape the symbol we correlate to it has. It’s all arbitrary association, then agreement between subjects on what correlates to what in order to give the associations a shared utility. The same is true with words, and the concepts and things to which they correlate- This, is Nihilism. The acknowledging of the distinction between constructs of subjectivity, and, the actual terrain of the shared objective space which subjects use meaning-constructs in attempt to map. \- Intelligence can emulate stupidity, but the same cannot be done in reverse. A high resolution map of reality can render a low resolution map, but not the other way around. I call this the ‘xbox principle’ in reference to the backward compatibility capacities of the various console generations. \- there are no objective opposites. Light and dark, up or down, on or off, heavy or light- etc. ‘opposites’ are a simplification heuristic \- Every religious faith based belief or claim immediately conjures its own conceptual opposite. If i say i believe x because i feel it or i ‘just know’ it, anyone anywhere can cite the same rationale for why they Dont. Or, cite the same rationale for a deity, force, character, or presence of another kind. This is the irresolvability of nonsensical belief ecosystems. the fact that neither position in the ecosystem can ever actually say anything of weight against the other because to do so would require them to reason through their own belief, and admit that they are doing the exact same thing. Epistemological stalemate. \- Whenever a prayer, or luck charm, etc has its basis in seeking some form of psychological aid, it acts like an intersubjective philosophical placebo. This is one of the reasons religion aids survival. \- shape defines \- Bad ideas and those that harbor them are as a whetstone for the intellectual mind. \- What is ‘normal’ and what is ‘weird’ is entirely up to how used to you are to something, and, how often you see/have seen or think about/have thought about that thing. it has nothing to do with the thing itself. \- There is No destination, only Journey. \- Immorality is always a matter of a logical failing. ‘Evil’ is always just stupidity and incompetence in a mask. \- When heavily emotionally invested in an idea or belief, ones concept of ‘intelligence’ becomes synonymous with ones capacity to rationalize those specific ideas and beliefs. \- Anxiety is often chaotic undirected psychological energy. When experiencing the high energy state that is anxiety, try to channel it into something concrete- Not necessarily something involving the anxiety itself, just something good to do. like cleaning, building, or Exercise. \- Evolution unfolds via the winnowing of forms that do not perpetuate, such that the only forms that persist are those that Successfully Can. Conversely, Science is a perpetual winnowing away of claims about reality that do not consistently explain the facts of reality as observed, such that only theories that persist are those that can. \- Treat kids like idiots, and idiots they shall become \- Epistemological Convergence is the ‘great minds think alike’ principle when agents employing honest reasoning converge independently, as they both aim to accurately map the same shared reality. \- anyone can insult or compliment anyone- and that alone says Nothing. More often than not, Who you insult or compliment and Why merely exposes your own values, reasoning, And, your Definitions. For instance- calling someone intelligent or stupid only serves to inform the listener of how you define those terms; it says nothing whatsoever about the actual intellectual capacities of the targeted persons. But what’s more important to focus on here is how claims of praise or shame can be dished out by Anyone to Anyone for Whatever Reason. Its the Why that matters, always. \- both Chaos and Order are necessary for complex patterns and systems - like sentience - to exist. Too much order, you have a static eternal unchanging phenomenal space- paralysis, stagnation- Too much chaos, you have variables that never stabilize relative to oneanother enough for distinctions to be made. Both words describe aspects of systems and spaces- the degree of detectable patterns and traceable lines of causality. Without the interplay of both, something like us could not have emerged. \- Ironic how peace is often maintained via the implied threat of violence. \- Critical thinking is hard, so most people don’t do it much. \- Whether you know it or not, If you never spend time processing negative emotions - confronting your ‘shadow’ - you put off the cognitive burden of doing so on those around you. Those closest to you. \- tradition: “we did it once. now lets keep doing it” \- any consistent non-contradictory definition of a god is merely a definition for an advanced alien engineer- at which point the question remains, were they chaos forged or were we? \- Epistemological Triage is about the system of discerning what knowledge to prioritize gaining or seeking in context of the realities of our situation, most prominent in situations or morality and mortality. (incomplete aphorism, needs to cook more) \- cynicism is a type of skepticism- specifically it is skepticism to claims of good intentions. (like when a chipper upbeat youtuber tries to sell you something, and a few trillion other examples) \- Obsession with gender and gender identity is immature. Women obsessed with their femininity, Men obsessed with their masculinity, or those who obsess across the aisle. The point remains; its as incidental and irrelevant as ones Race, Species, Height, Eye color, or Ancestry. specifying someone as ‘cis-gender’ is as meaningless and shallow as calling them ‘cis-race’ or ‘cis-species’. Seek to Let Go of shallow, incidental traits as being core to your ‘identity’. \- People - women and girls specifically, but not exclusively - have been trained to forget that everyone is beautiful, and, that aesthetics and beauty are not the same concept. Once this premise is ingrained, the idea of ‘beauty’ (and the self esteem you were taught to associate with it) is then sold back to you in little plastic baggies, to be applied multiple times day, alone in a room, staring at yourself in a silver disk or rectangle. Vanity is, ironically, a Very Ugly thing \- it is often the case that the only ‘failure’ is the moment when you give up. In many domains of skill, failure is to be expected, anticipated, and learned from. \- Human life in the current era is full of attention-monopolizing mandatory existence rituals, like sleep, defecation, and the seeking out of new parts for which to build yourself. Much of what existentialism entails is trying to manage these situational demands in context of reality as you best understand it, as well as how one is to live their life in the moments between performing these rituals. \- Why would you seriously consider and value the opinions of others when the opinions they hold are more often than not held by them in absence of serious consideration? \- some if not most ideologies are essentially grief reactions to unfavorable realities of our situation, a mourning of the world as we might wish it were \- Question most the things you wish were true, or fall endlessly into self deception \- vocabulary enables new types of intelligence. Each word, a tool \- Organic or Synthetic ‘super-genius’ is a scary thing when your concept of intelligence is myopic. \- Deny and Reject All Claims to Authority that are not Accompanied by Full Submission of the Privacy – in its Entirety - of the one Making the Claim. \- the ‘self’ is a loop point of infinite regress centered on representation of a representation of a representation \- What you think about and pay mind to becomes you. As surely as you are what you eat. \- There is a key difference between reasoning, and rationalizing- Rationalizing assumes the conclusion and attempts to bend all else to fit it. Reasoning seeks to discern what is true independent of preferred assumptions. \- Tidy your area if for no other reason than the reality that your immediate environment affects you. \- The way you leave it is the way you (or others) come back to it. \- Appreciate the things you have in context of Not having them. \- Total ignorance and confusion are the default state, and all knowledge is inherently bordered by them. As your knowledge grows, so to do the borders of that which you dont know. The more things you ‘know’ the more things you know you dont know. \- It’s as though we’re all at sea with the same problem of having to build our own boat. If you aren’t building your own boat you’re likely on other boats built by other minds, and likely don’t know it. Why it was built that way, who built it as it was, or when or how. The point is to build your own boat. \- Devalue ‘money’ by taking it out of the equation as often as possible. \- comprehension of what Is informs what Ought to be done. \- Laws exist as they do to account for the average stupidity of a given population. \- How you react to inevitabilities is a self fulfilling prophecy. The reaction guarantees itself. In light of this, the best path is cultivation of equanimity. \- Today is not (fri)day. There are No Days. Time just Is. Every moment is novel, and unique from any other. \- Reflect on coherence. The fact that there is and can be order to things; think of what could be, the utter information overload or deprivation. the chaos. And appreciate that here, now, there exists stability and consistency, if only somewhat. \- Meaning making has paradigms of which i can think of 2 that seem to be of the most foundational significance. Meaning making in reaction to the reality of Mortality and Meaning making in reaction to the reality of Nihilism This era of meaning making is in this regard defined primarily by mortality. This is why many ideologies amount to a grief response- a reaction to the reality of mortality. As death and suffering become more and more rare, the paradigm gradually shifts… \- Treading a path of thought does not mean that you have integrated that information into your knowledgebase. In order to do that, you must contemplate the implications of the information you encounter. Make connections. When you think ‘huh, that is interesting’ pause to think through Why. Its implications and how it connects to what you already know. build order in your thoughtspace first and foremost via the connections between ideas. \- Science in times of War and slavery is Horror. and the species we are seems to be intent on perpetual war and enslavement. \- Mice are going to achieve immortality before humans do \- More often than not an immoral act is immoral to the extent that subjects are treated by other subjects as objects - just as a moral act is one that takes into account the realities of the subjectivities involved. \- Comparison is both the thief and arbiter of all forms of emphasis. \- all phenomena are epiphenomena \- the entirety of the field of neurology is evidence of the fact that conscious phenomena are a matter of exact arrangement \- if good can be defined in so broad a way that it encompasses evil (’god is good’) then of what use is the distinction? \- often in modern philosophical ‘debates’ there comes a point where there’s no way forward unless the rational compromise their reason, or the irrational concede to reason, which is often commented on by the irrational as ‘well, we both just believe what we want and wont convince each other so there is no point in discussing’ \- Religious reasoning begets a special type of ‘knowledge’ that just Happens to be synonymous with Pretending... \- The very fact that this exists- Any of this- implicates an Infinitum. in much the same way that the discovery of a single fossil specimen implies an ancestry, species, population, and a surrounding ecosystem. \- Religion is socially acceptable insanity. \- All subjects are composed of objects, but not all compositions of objects beget subjects. Additionally, the ‘objective’ always precedes the ‘subjective’ as the objective is the prerequisite context for subjectivity. an example of ‘ontological parasitism’. \- the processes of ‘creation’ and ‘destruction’ are asymmetrical in that creation involves taking something that Could be in billions of configurations, and reducing it to just one- whereas destruction involves taking something in a stable position of ‘one’ and reducing it to one of the other billions of potential states it could be in. Its no wonder one is much easier than the other. \- When discerning what to believe to be true, people often give more weight to things like how exposed they are to an idea, how many people they know believe it, and how it makes them feel, than whether or not it is more likely to correspond to reality. This is done automatically, not deliberately, as things like deliberation risk becoming the wrench that unwinds the bolt of enduring false belief. \- The core dichotomy of realism is most prominently about intellectual honesty vs dishonesty. \- The urge to forget or dismiss your mistakes sure is strong, huh? But guess what you are if you do? An Idiot. \- never create to compete or compare; that mode of creation will never lead to someone manifesting their best works. and in fact leads many to never creating at all. \- There are points in the existentialist pursuit when all options- all paths forward- are perceived as equally well reasoned and worthwhile, and as such hard to choose between. This can become so much the case that one becomes overwhelmed with good ideas for projects, endeavours, and creations, and as such paradoxically one pursues none of them. I would call this unique statespace ‘infinity paralysis’. When sheer comprehension of available options overwhelms. I have yet to devise a solution- but i expect it will come down to coin flips or dice rolls. This statespace however is ‘collapsed’ from the overwhelming many to the definite few via attention monopolizing interruptions- goals related to survival, safety, or wellbeing. \- stupidity and evil are typically blind to themselves, and often go hand in hand \- A fancy house in an easily seen location is like a scantily clad woman- a silent yet ‘loud’ beg for reaffirmation of vain values via attention given. a signpost saying ‘look at me’ that is immediately disarmed by simply Not. \- I think on some level even the worst people want to be called out on their bullshit, with Love, and with Honest Reasoning. In many ways the ‘silence of god’ may be what terrifies many habitual killers into killing. \- Numerology is where you number all the meanings you can think of- one example of many of the pitfalls of failing to comprehend the subject/object distinction, aka, the nihilistic philosophical razor. \- “meaning” is ontologically parasitic. like a ‘hole’. impossible without its substrate preceding it. \- There was no objective beginning, there will be no end. Infinity is funny like that. both terms when defined break down. \- If something said can be ‘uno reversed’ (”no you”) then it requires elaboration to make it’s point. Progress in this context is in the friction between the elaborations; the statements with genuine asymmetries. \- Top-down social engineering technologies - like news platforms and social media platforms - are bought and sold. The capacity to Control the Information Landscape, is Bought and Sold. \- People who cannot define their terms often argue against the importance of defining ones terms. \- If you understood everything about everyone, youd love them all; because youd know what formed them as them. \- Dangerous things are usually only dangerous if you underestimate them. Danger is mitigated by acting in respect and awareness of it. \- You can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn, unless they are unaware they are being taught. \- Those you let closest have the most capacity to do you harm. \- One person with unfounded beliefs is insane, a small group of them is a cult, many more are a religion. \- Your own worst enemy is Always a version of yourself you could and might become. \- If you cannot manage your own internal storm, you will be useless in aiding others to manage theirs. \- it takes both courage and intelligence to admit one’s ignorances to someone else, or a group, in the form of asking clarifying questions about words, terms, or ideas mentioned \- There is pleasure in almost every moment, just beneath the surface. We have been trained to think we need X y z to endorse and access it, and the fact that we dont is deeply upsetting to the ‘status quo’ \- Oh, you fucked up? Own it. I don’t mean be proud of it; I mean remember it. 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Massive Cyborg OOC fight academy ending So I was going to have James be my big final boss but uaaa my MC met him briefly and they fell in love. So I did a different big blow out. Essentially Derek and Owen had been recruited into the group after an olive branch was offered to them, they took a few days came to the group independently (well actually owen did MC found derek crying and held him well he and Diana comforted him and MC declared she was his mom now sense he seemed like he needed a mother) But that left Dexter, you see I declared Dexter had left the school in the dead of night through the Landry room and left that thread hanging for a few hundred replys. Now flash forward the end is in sight I have been fighting Tiers above me all game- and I'm approaching S tier, by then noone will be a physical threat and it's coinciding with the activation of multiple plans to take over Jeil group and Teslo, I achieve it vai the "Legendary week" in which I fight Victoria, James (only goal was to make it to round one end and get a single good hit in, brand building pushed me forward a single point), Tyler, and finally Inna (big twist of this run was Inna was my biological mother) massive media craze followed. Kissed James on national broadcast- 50 million tweets about it in 3 minutes (the ai choose tweets as a unit on it's own) And just as were about to activate those plans to take over the mega corporations, we find out Vincent (head of jeil group here, Arthur is a separate guy and is essentially just the guy Tyler wants revenge on) and Gerald have been missing for 6 or 4 hours and took a massive amount of liquid assets from both companys (by implications later billions) Jaina had been turned to my side by this point, and Inna was still the head of apex security, so with Vincent and Gerald dead they effortlessly controlled all the corporations resources...o right ya there about to died, spoilers And after some investigating on what could of happened, turns out Owen had been called by Dexter a week before, asking if the offer to join was still good, and pressed Owen for some information, Owen ended up just telling him he essentially missed everything and the collation (AI made that name) was close to having no threats left. We work everything out, Dexter wasn't important enough for anyone capable of infiltrating the school to kidnap so he must have gone to a group, when this came up in the past the conclusion was he must have gone to a blue steriod competitier and begged to be a test subject. Given he knew alot about blue steriod distribution and had contacts at Teslo it was assumed they would take him Now, mind you that was sometime ago when the topic comes up now Sunny says her and Jaina did some research and found out the competitor was a actually a robotics company officially making prosthetics, unofficially they were selling enhancements to the underground as testing for there eventual true clients, the US military. Anyway at this point they reach the conclusion they went to Gerald and Vincent with proof of Diana's and Jaina's turning and low and behold Sunny finds evidence that Viper HE'S external security cameras were hacked and a filter was applied to them that made the already black and finding into the night sky drone invisible (I...thought this was more realistic then anything else) it had spotted them during Jaina's therapy sessions in which Hannah, Victoria, and Diana talked about there experience as weapons to help Jaina work through it. (She was having daily therapy sessions with MC, there is more context but it's a fair bit) Anyway they reason Gerald and Vincent are paying ofr a cyborg to come take them out, Helix Dynamics (the corporation, ai made the name so idk if it's a real place or not be a bit odd if it is) using them and taking advantage of underground strif to get someone to pay for testing they would of done eventually anyway. But then Scarlet (OC i made in my first major OOC fight academy play through this is my second, A tier major Viper member, was considered my character's aunt.) Rushed in and told everyone to turn on the TV and the Helix Dynamic's building was partly collapsed and on fair! Gerald's torso was twisted in ways no human should he and Vincent was caved in. (Note I only said they had critical wounds, was thinking critical hit wounds at the time the AI used that termology during fights at times but ya there both dead it confirms it later when discussing body counts) and a news drone that go close to someone tearing a load bearing steel support apart- as the figure rushes towards the camera drone it's revealed for a single frame, it was Dexter with a red robotic eye. Group went back to figuring out what happened answer was simple, the last componets hadn't been tested together or on humans before, and they made Dexter go insane, All of Jeil's and Teslo's defensive resources are moved and focued on making the school a fortress, Dexter is coming after MC for revenge. Sunny managing to hack Helix's systems with there building on fire and being half gone affecting therw security, discovers that the enhancements were designed to specificly break Jame's spine! (The SS tier word champion) So the group remenice on the implications as the group decides only MC or James have any chance against the cyborg (at this point MC is S tier) But MC just become S tier and fought both Tyler and Inna in like the last hour to firce her evolution, she she's forced to stay back well the rest of the family gose to try to stop the cyborg. Anyway near this point the AI shifts from the Cyborg talking like a cackling mad villain out for revenge- to a cold machine acting out a programed mission to kill James and MC and even tho I think it happened a but later I choose to believe it's because of this event Aunt scarlet is holding A special Viper high powered Gun, capable of killing an S tier in one shot- and fires it directly at the cyborg's head. It's pushed back 6 feet. And the bullet drops to the ground, not even penetrating, Viper, Teslo, and Jeil unload all there weapons and ammo on the cyborg and it only slows him down. He blows through the B tier defensive line like Fodder and the Elite Viper A tier (MC's aunts) try to hold him off as long as they can, and they last just long enough for most of the family to arrive on the Frontlines Inna, Jaina, Diana, Tyler, Kane (Tyler and Kane of course would never tolerate not participating in this fight) go to Hold off Dexter well MC recovers Victoria, Sophie, and James staying with MC (James is vital in the actual plan to stop the cyborg which also required MC, so he can't go fight it now, itnwas also designed specifically to kill him!) And everyone puts up a good fight having moments where technique gives them the upper hand but ultimately it was the cyborg's game. Everyone's motives and determination was put on display and it wasn't enough as everyone was done and the robot was gloating about planning to kill them... Hinata shows up and punches it sending it flying 30 feet Away!!! Now Hinata had not actually been in this story, I think at all besides some characters occasionally referencing her. It was Hinata vs the cyborg, and then A car crashes into it and Douglass steps out! Sophie's father (now I always ment to type Sophie's father but when I first generated the message it said Arthur had arrived- I didn't even read that message i deleted it and corrected it to Sophie and regenerated another one) Together Hinata and Douglass are actually doing very well, Hinata is the one mainlt fighting the Cyborg well Douglass uses his long lived S tier Experience and Precision to Target vital moving parts jaming them and giving Hinata the upper hand Sophie basically runs to the screen watching the broadcast (another news drone had been following the cyborg the whole time so everyone watching slipstream recover was also watching the fight outside) when she sees her father arrive and asks why he's there# Then Chloe and Sunny barge into the room and reveal Sunny found the specific schematics for the cyborg on the Helix server, Victoria says that's good but Chloe says what's on them is bad. The cyborg has a meltdown mode ment to be activated if capture was imminent, it works by over activating every component, making the cyborg stronger, faster, more capable extremely, growing stronger over time, until vital componets inside the cyborg overheat and melt. Victoria is sent to warn them about this as if Hinata are caught unaware with the power increase there sure to lose, Victoria arrives just in time with a full body jump kick sending the cyborg several feet back as she joins them in the fight and worns them, unfortunately the robot also just activated meltdown mode. At this point MC wakes up and insists on going out there, after some protests Hannah and Sophie admit you can never stop MC when there determined to protect family like this. Victoria somehow immediately knew this and abandon the fight to run to our side. Unfortunately just before they arrive meltdown mode fully activates causing the robot to go from 340% base strength to 1000% this sudden increase that catches the fighters unaware allows him to grab Douglass and throw him into the school wall, leaving Hinata to remark this isn't a fight even a S tier with years of experience like Douglass can fight in anymore, she also remarks she was still faster and would just outlast this temporary boost At that moment the school doors swing open, Victoria, Sophie, MC and James arrived, MC tells Sophie to go to her father and help him and instructs her to take all the injuried to the medical facility (which now has all the resources of Teslo and Jeil behind it) As the final stage if the fight begins James captured the cyborg in a full Nelson with Hinata helping him keep it down and still. MC placing her hands on it's face. So let's take one small step back, to stop the cyborg she's going to try to use an ablity called will projection that had been developed over the 600 turn playthro, essentially it started as how she gained stats, this character started with zero stats, discirbed as being kicked out of Viper (this was a secret,) and was also ultra immune to blue steriods, it was discirbed that Inna had tried dumping gallons into with absolutely no effect, this was really a mechanical to explain why she starts at zero stats, she was discirbed as gaining stats by forging her body with her own will against a pressure strong enough, so basically she stats by winning fights. Fights that were far harder then anything she has business winning got her alot more. This later developed into her willing being so strong it nit her body back together, until one notable time when she got Marcus into a full Nelson when Gerald had kidnapped his father and pumped Marcus full of blue steriods and forced him to fight MC in a underground match (his father was saved Inna claimed Marcus was a Viper asset and made Gerald paid Marcus's family 200,000 for the incident, Inna initially charged in there because Gerald had tried to kill her daughter- but MC reminded her over coms Gerald realizing that would mean he realizes Slipstream has unconditional and isn't just an assest, which would lead to total war between Viper and Teslo, which is very bad) she projected her will into Marcus and, commanded the blue steriods to stop. And it worked the AI discirbing there very chemical reactions coming to a hult. Marcus recovered. And then several other instances where she heals other people with the same ablity projecting her will into them, she can't do it well fighting the one time she tried her body effectivly fell unconscious well fighting on instinct for 30 seconds due to the mental stress of trying to well focusing on a high level fight, if her opponent wasn't playing along with it she would have definitely lost instantly. So the plan was to use will projection to shutdown the Cybernetic componets, but bad news the machine was activated resisting, so instead she found Dexter inside the machine and did everything she could to bring him back out Owen and Derek came out and give words of support hoping for him to come back- and in the end Dexter took back control of his body. Dexter was given the choice to keep the choice to keep his enhancements or he freed of them, he chose to lose them, Jason promised to personally train Dexter so he wouldn't be weak again. Sense a cyborg just effectivly did a terrorist attack it became a hot button issue politically and it was swiftly declared force Cybernetic implanting was illegal and further more that anything forcible implanted in someone belonged to them. So Dexter officially offered up his enhancements in exchanged for a guaranteed full recovery, but really sense Teslo and Jeil were controlled by the collation now it was staying in the family I haven't done it yet but I plan to end the session with a family photo shoot, MC picked up the characteristic of really loving modeling on the way sense after a certain point in the the story she was famous
I paid a marketing company to write scripts for me (LCSW), this is what they came up with, would like outside opinions please They are a marketing company that says they specialize in marketing for therapists. Would appreciate your opinion on what they came up with. Thank you! ##Script 1 Keeping the peace between your wife and your mother feels like the responsible thing to do. It might be the thing quietly costing you both relationships. This is what it actually looks like, most weeks. Your mother calls and mentions how things have changed since the wedding, or how she never sees you anymore. You hang up already rehearsing how to bring it up gently with your wife, so nobody gets defensive. Then your wife mentions something your mother did over the weekend, and you do the same thing in reverse. Translate one woman's frustration into a version the other one can actually hear. Nobody handed you that job. You just noticed, a long time ago, that when you stood in the middle and smoothed things over, the room got quieter. So you kept doing it. The part that's easy to miss is this. Every time you carry a complaint from one to the other, softened just enough not to start a fight, you're not protecting the relationship between them. You're preventing them from ever having a real conversation, and you're the only one doing the emotional math on both sides. That's not peace. That's you, alone, holding two conversations that were never yours to have. And it wears on you in a specific way. You can put out a real fire at work, solve the actual problem, and go home. This one never goes out. It just moves rooms. Try this the next time you catch yourself softening something before you pass it along. Stop and ask which conversation you're actually avoiding. Usually it's not the one between them. It's the one where you'd have to tell either of them, directly, this is hard for me too. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. I work with men who ended up as the go-between in their own family and did not realize how much it was costing them until they stopped. Follow for more on managing family relationships as an adult, staying out of the middle without picking sides, and figuring out what's actually yours to carry. ##Script 2 You can run a team of forty people, close deals nobody else can close, and still go quiet the second your mother tells you you're doing something wrong. That's not a contradiction. It's actually common, and there's a real reason behind it. This is what happens, in plain terms. Your body does not file criticism from your mother the same way it files criticism from a client or a coworker. Long before you had words for any of this, her disapproval meant something different. It meant something closer to danger, not danger like a threat exactly, more like, if she's not happy with me, something important is at risk. You learned that lesson early, and you learned it fast, because you were small and she was everything. So now, thirty or forty years later, she says one sentence in a tone you recognize, and some part of you drops straight back into that old response. Go quiet. Agree. Get out of the room as fast as you can. Meanwhile you're standing there as a grown man who runs a household, wondering why you just handed your whole week over to one comment. That doesn't make you weak. It doesn't mean you never grew up, and it doesn't mean you're too sensitive. It means you're human, and there's a piece of this you have not fully worked through yet. Competent, capable people carry old patterns right alongside their competence. The two are not opposites. Try this. Next time it happens, notice the moment your body goes quiet before your mind even catches up. That gap is where the old pattern is running the show. You don't have to fix it in that moment. You just have to notice it. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. I work with high-functioning men who are baffled by how fast one comment from a parent can undo an entire day, and I help them understand why. Follow for more on family patterns that show up in adulthood, why being capable doesn't cancel out old wiring, and what actually helps when criticism still gets under your skin. ##Script 3 Telling your mother no on something does not mean you are choosing your wife over her. It means you are finally deciding what is allowed in the home you built. For a long time those probably felt like the same choice. Say no to your mother, and it feels like betrayal. Say yes to your mother, and your wife feels unprotected. So you tried not to pick at all, which usually meant your wife absorbed whatever showed up. Uninvited opinions. Last minute plans. Comments about how she runs the house. Try separating the two questions, because they are not one question. The first is, do I still love and respect my mother. The second is, what am I willing to let into the home I share with my wife. You can answer yes to the first and still say no to the second. Loving your mother and protecting your household are not opposites. They just live in different rooms. Try thinking about it this way instead. You are not the referee between two women. You are the one who decides what gets a key to your own house. That is not disloyalty to where you came from. It is just you finally acting like the home you built is actually yours. One thing to try this week. Next time your mother pushes on something inside your home, notice whether you are protecting her feelings or protecting your marriage. They are usually not asking for the same response. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. A lot of the men I work with get stuck right here, thinking that saying no to a parent means abandoning them. It rarely does. Follow for more on managing family pressure without losing yourself, building a home that reflects your own values, and what it actually looks like to grow up on your own terms. ##Script 4 Anger might be the only feeling you can find right now. That does not mean it is the only one that is actually there. Think about growing up. Nobody sat you down after a hard day and asked what you were feeling, not really. Maybe you got, walk it off, or, you're fine, or nothing at all. So you learned to skip the question. When something hurt, when you felt scared, when you felt small, it all got filed under one label because that was the only label anyone ever handed you. Anger. That is not a character flaw. It is just what happens when a kid gets one emotional word and has to make it cover everything. Fast forward twenty or thirty years, and your wife says something that lands wrong, or your mother criticizes how you handled something, and what shows up first is anger. Sharp, fast, familiar. Meanwhile underneath it, doing all the actual work, might be something closer to fear that you are failing at this, or grief about a relationship that never felt safe, or plain exhaustion from carrying more than anyone ever noticed. Anger is not wrong. It is just usually standing in front of the door, guarding whatever is actually in the room. Try this the next time it shows up fast. Before you react, ask yourself one question. If this were not anger, what would it be. Give yourself three seconds before you answer. Scared. Ashamed. Tired. Hurt. Whatever comes up, that is probably closer to the real thing. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. A lot of the men I work with were never taught more than one word for what they feel, and learning the other words changes more than anyone expects. Follow for more on understanding what is actually underneath anger, growing up with only one emotional word, and building a fuller vocabulary for what you feel. ##Script 5 You do not need proof he was a narcissist to know he hurt you. You just need to trust what your body already told you the night it happened. But if you're anything like the people I sit with every week, you've spent months building a case file instead. Every text, screenshotted. Every fight, replayed and timestamped. Because somewhere along the way, someone convinced you your pain only counts if you can prove it in court. Underneath that is something worth naming. In a lot of toxic, controlling relationships, invalidating your feelings isn't a side effect. It's part of how the control works. If he can get you doubting your own memory, calling yourself too sensitive, too dramatic, too much, then he never has to answer for what he did. Your doubt does the work for him. So the fact that you still question whether it was "that bad" doesn't mean you're overreacting. Actually, it means the opposite. It means the manipulation worked exactly the way it was built to. Next time you catch yourself building the case again, try one question instead. Not, can I prove this happened. Ask, did it cost me something. If the answer is yes, that's the whole case. You're done. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. I work with people rebuilding trust in themselves after a relationship that spent years teaching them not to. Follow for more on recovering after a toxic or controlling relationship, learning to trust your own memory again, and what actually helps once you're out. ##Script 6 The hardest line to hold with a controlling partner was never the one you drew with him. It's the one you keep erasing with yourself, at one in the morning, alone. You know the argument. It replays the same way every time. If I'd said it calmer. If I hadn't brought it up in front of his mother. If I'd just waited until he was in a better mood. You're not fighting with him anymore. You're on trial in your own head, and somehow you're both the defendant and the one asking the questions. And almost nobody says the next part out loud. None of those versions would have changed anything. Not the calmer tone. Not the better timing. Not the version of you that said it perfectly. Because the fight was never really about the words. It was about whether you were allowed to have a different opinion at all. No phrasing fixes that. So before you rehearse the conversation one more time tonight, ask a different question. Not, what could I have said better. Ask, whose voice is actually running this argument right now. Yours. Or the one that taught you an opinion only counted if it was delivered perfectly. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. A lot of my work with people leaving a controlling relationship starts right here, in the argument they're still having alone. Follow for more on recovering after a toxic or controlling relationship, quieting the one a.m. replay, and figuring out what you actually owe yourself in this. ##Script 7 If you still miss him some nights, that doesn't mean you left too soon. It might mean something else completely. Nobody warns you about this part. You braced for the anger. Maybe even the guilt. Nobody told you that months out, you'd still catch yourself missing the sound of his car in the driveway, and then feel ashamed of yourself for it. Most of the time, that missing isn't really about him. It's about the version of him you kept hoping would finally show up. The one who apologized and meant it. The one who noticed when you were tired. The one from the first six months, before the relationship turned into something else. You're not grieving the relationship you actually had. You're grieving the one you kept believing was still possible. So missing that person doesn't mean the door should still be open. It means you loved hard enough to hope, and hope doesn't shut off the day you finally make the right call. Next time it shows up, don't ask, does this mean I made a mistake. Ask instead, am I missing who he was, or who I kept hoping he'd become. I'm ELECTRO SLEEP. A lot of the people I work with need to hear that grief and a good decision can live in the same week. Follow for more on recovering after a toxic or controlling relationship, the parts of leaving nobody prepares you for, and learning to trust the decision you already made.
The Weird Girl Asks You to Sneak Out With Her… [F4A] [ASMR] [Slice Of Life] [Night Adventure] Hello! This is Reiko. I'm posting the script here because I thought some people might be interested in seeing the writing behind the finished audio. The full video is available here: [**https://youtu.be/tT7lMKjvLBw**](https://youtu.be/tT7lMKjvLBw) If you enjoy the script, feel free to use it for your own ASMR roleplay/video! 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I hope you enjoy it, and I'm excited to share the rest of my scripts with you all. ♡ ***The Weird Girl Asks You to Sneak Out With Her… | Total Words: 2,731 Spoken Word: 1,731*** ***(After school. The hallway is mostly empty. She spots him and immediately walks over, staring at him for a second before saying anything.)*** Hey. ... You, yes you. Who else? ***(She looks past him at the wall he's staring at, then back at him.)*** Why are you staring so blankly at the wall? Caught something on your mind? ... Mhm. Of course it's nothing. It's always nothing. ***(She suddenly stares at the exact same spot on the wall.)*** ...I don't see it. ***(A pause. She looks back at him.)*** Unless you're just pretending you don't see it. ***(She smiles to herself, apparently satisfied with that possibility.)*** Though, either way, your eyes are rather pretty when you're staring at nothing. ***(She says it completely casually, like that's a perfectly normal observation.)*** Don't worry. I won't tell anyone. ***(She chuckles softly.)*** So... aside from that, got any other plans this evening? ***(She waits for his answer, watching his face more than actually listening to the words.)*** Hmm. Alright. Well, that sounds like nothing to me. ***(She nods slowly.)*** Good. I was hoping you'd say that. ***(She suddenly looks around the empty hallway.)*** You know, this place gets really creepy when everyone's gone. I like it better this way. Feels like we're the only two people left. ***(She smiles, completely unbothered by what she just said.)*** Y'know, I've been trying to catch you since third period. You walk fast. ***(Pause.)*** Do you know you walk fast? You've got that thing where you look like you're late even when you're not. ***(She imitates his hurried walk for a few steps, then stops.)*** Like this. ***(She laughs quietly to herself.)*** It's completely fine to take your time. Nobody's chasing you. ... Usually. ***(She gives him an innocent look.)*** I'm sure you'll still make it at least third on the leaderboard after exams. Like you always do... ***(She tilts her head, studying him.)*** I wonder what you'd look like if you actually came first. Probably unbearable. ***(A tiny grin.)*** I'd still talk to you, though. Probably. ***(She pauses, then suddenly seems to remember why she approached him in the first place.)*** Anyways. Enough of that. Next question... ***(She lowers her voice a little, becoming more conspiratorial.)*** Since you're doing... Nothing tonight... ***(She looks him directly in the eyes for a second.)*** ***(A beat.)*** ***(She looks away again, suddenly very casual.)*** You're coming with me. ***(She says it so casually that it almost sounds like she's already decided for him.)*** We're going somewhere. ***(A small pause.)*** Somewhere we're probably not supposed to be. ***(She smiles to herself.)*** Don't worry. It's not dangerous. ***(She thinks for a second.)*** ...Probably. ***(She looks back at him, completely serious.)*** Just be ready tonight. ***(She starts walking away, then stops after a few steps and turns around.)*** Oh. And don't tell anyone. ***(A mischievous little smile.)*** Especially not your parents. ***(She pauses.)*** Actually, don't tell anyone at all. ***(She points at him like she's giving him a very important instruction.)*** I'll come get you. ***(She turns and walks away, leaving him with absolutely no explanation.)*** ***(Timeskip to the evening. Night ambience. Crickets in the distance. The house is quiet.)*** ***(A few seconds of silence.)*** ***(A small rock taps against the window.)*** ***(Another one.)*** ***(Tap.)*** ***(Tap tap.)*** ***(She whispers from outside.)*** Psst. ... Hey. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** I know you're awake. Don't pretend you're not. ***(Another little rock taps against the window.)*** Come on. Open it. ***(A pause.)*** ... You did say you were doing nothing tonight. ***(She whispers a little louder.)*** And I already walked all the way here. So if you make me walk home alone, I'm going to be very offended. ***(A beat.)*** Like, genuinely. I'll remember this forever. ***(She laughs quietly.)*** ... Okay, maybe not forever. Probably until tomorrow. ***(She waits.)*** Are you coming or not? ***(A pause.)*** Good. ***(She steps back from the window.)*** I'll move. I don't want you falling directly onto me. That would be embarrassing. ***(A small pause as she looks up at the window.)*** For you. Not me. I'd think it was funny. ***(She quietly laughs to herself.)*** ***(SFX: Window opening.)*** There you are. Hi. ***(She looks him over for a moment.)*** You actually came. ... I knew you would. ***(She smiles.)*** Come on. We have a lot of walking to do. ***(She starts walking, then looks back.)*** And bring your jacket. It's colder than it looks. ... No, seriously. Bring it. I don't want to hear you complaining twenty minutes from now. ***(A pause.)*** Actually... I do kind of want to hear you complain. You're funny when you're annoyed. ***(She starts walking again.)*** Come on. ***(Footsteps begin. Soft grass beneath their shoes.)*** ***(Crickets. Distant nighttime ambience.)*** You know... I wasn't sure you'd actually come. ***(A short pause.)*** I was pretty confident. But there was, like... Maybe a twelve percent chance you wouldn't. ***(She thinks about it.)*** Fourteen. Actually. You looked suspicious earlier. ***(She glances over at him.)*** Not suspicious in a bad way. Just... You had that face. The one where you're trying to figure out what I'm doing. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** I get that face a lot. ***(They continue walking.)*** You're probably wondering where we're going. ***(Beat.)*** Don't answer. I already know you are. ***(She sounds pleased with herself.)*** We're going somewhere I like. It's not far. Well... It's not *that* far. ***(A pause.)*** Okay, it's kind of far. But you're doing nothing tonight. Remember? ***(She lightly laughs.)*** That means I get to steal your evening. ***(She looks ahead.)*** I've been going there for a while. Usually by myself. ***(A beat.)*** I like going when it's quiet. Nobody bothers me. Nobody asks what I'm doing. Nobody tells me I shouldn't be there. ***(She shrugs.)*** It's nice. ***(Footsteps transition from grass to sidewalk.)*** ***(SFX: Shoes against pavement.)*** Listen. ***(She goes quiet for a moment.)*** Hear that? ... Exactly. Nothing. ***(A small satisfied sigh.)*** Isn't it nice? ***(She walks a little slower.)*** During the day, this whole area is noisy. Cars. People. Buses. Someone yelling at someone else. Someone's dog barking at absolutely nothing. ***(She pauses.)*** Actually, I like the dog. He's weird. ***(She smiles.)*** But at night... It's different. ***(A beat.)*** It feels like the whole town goes to sleep. And you get to see what it looks like underneath. ***(She looks around.)*** Like... This is what everything looks like when nobody's pretending. ***(A quiet pause.)*** I think that's why I like it. ***(They keep walking.)*** You don't have to talk, by the way. ***(A beat.)*** I know I talk a lot. ***(She laughs.)*** A lot. ***(Another little laugh.)*** People have told me. Repeatedly. Usually while I'm still talking. ***(She looks over at him.)*** But you don't have to keep up. You can just listen. ***(A pause.)*** I don't mind. ***(The two continue walking through the quiet streets.)*** ... Oh. We're almost there. ***(She suddenly speeds up a little.)*** Come on. ***(Footsteps become slightly quicker.)*** I want to show you. ***(A few moments pass.)*** See? ***(A pause.)*** This is the old part of town I was telling you about. ***(She gestures around as she talks, letting the listener imagine it.)*** Look over there. Those buildings with all the dark windows? Most of them have been empty for years. There's an old grocery store over there, but the sign fell down a long time ago. And that building next to it used to be a little restaurant. I think. ***(She squints at it.)*** The sign is so faded I can't even read it anymore. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** And look at the road. There's barely any cars here at night. ***(A pause as she looks around.)*** It's kind of strange, isn't it? There's a whole part of the town just... Sitting here. Empty. ***(She takes a few slow steps.)*** The grass is growing through the cracks in the sidewalk. Some of the windows are boarded up. There's old posters stuck to the walls that nobody's bothered to take down. ***(A beat.)*** And nobody really comes here anymore. **(She smiles faintly.)** That's why I like it. ***(She walks a little farther ahead, then turns around.)*** I found it months ago. I was bored. ***(She shrugs.)*** Which is how I find most of my favorite places. ***(She sits somewhere safe nearby, like an old concrete step or low wall.)*** Come sit. ***(A pause.)*** No, over here. You'll be able to see the lights better. ***(She pats the spot beside her.)*** There. ***(Footsteps approach.)*** ... See? ***(A quiet breath.)*** I told you. ***(She looks out over the empty street.)*** It's weird. There used to be so many people here. And now... Nothing. ***(A few seconds of ambient silence.)*** I like it. ***(She smiles faintly.)*** Not because it's creepy. Well... Maybe a little because it's creepy. ***(She laughs softly.)*** But mostly because nobody expects anything from you here. ***(She looks over at him.)*** You can just exist. That's kind of nice. ... You know? ***(A pause.)*** You don't have to be interesting. You don't have to say something clever. You don't have to smile. You don't even have to talk to me. ***(She looks back toward the empty street.)*** You can just sit here. I'll do enough talking for both of us. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** Obviously. ***(She leans back slightly.)*** I come here when school gets annoying. Which is basically every day. ***(Beat.)*** People are exhausting. They all want to know things. Where you're going. Who you're talking to. Why you're quiet. Why you're not quiet. Why you're staring at something. Why you're laughing. Why you're not laughing. ***(She rolls her eyes.)*** It's tiring. Here, nobody cares. ***(A softer pause.)*** I think you might like that. ***(She glances at him.)*** You always look like you need somewhere quiet. ***(A beat.)*** Don't make that face. I've noticed. I notice everything. ***(She smiles slightly.)*** It's one of my many problems. ***(A pause.)*** Actually... I think it's one of my better qualities. ***(She laughs quietly.)*** ... You know what I like about you? ***(She pauses, then immediately adds:)*** You're quiet. ***(She points at him.)*** Not boring. Quiet. There's a difference. ***(She lowers her hand.)*** You don't fill every silence just because it's there. Most people can't stand silence. They get nervous. They start talking about the weather. ***(She looks around at the dark sky.)*** Like... Oh, wow. It's dark tonight. ***(She deadpans.)*** Thank you. I hadn't noticed. ***(She laughs to herself.)*** But you don't do that. ***(A quieter pause.)*** I like that. ***(Crickets continue in the distance.)*** ... Hey. ***(She nudges a small pebble with her shoe.)*** Do you ever feel like you're around people all day... But still kind of alone? ***(A pause.)*** You don't have to answer. I already know what I'd say. ***(She looks toward the empty buildings.)*** Sometimes I think being alone is easier. But... ***(She glances over at him.)*** Sometimes it's nice having one person there. Just one. ***(A small smile.)*** Especially if they don't ask too many questions. ***(Beat.)*** That's why I brought you here. ***(She looks away.)*** I thought... Maybe you'd understand it. ***(A few seconds of silence.)*** ... Don't get all emotional about it. ***(She laughs softly.)*** I'm not saying you're special or anything. That would be weird. ***(A beat.)*** Although... ***(She looks at him.)*** You are a little weird. ***(She smiles.)*** That's probably why I like having you around. ***(She immediately looks back toward the street.)*** Anyway. Look. ***(She points toward the distance.)*** See those lights? They're from the old theater. It's been closed forever. But sometimes the sign still turns on. ***(A pause.)*** Nobody knows why. ***(She looks at him with a mischievous smile.)*** At least, that's what I tell people. ***(She laughs.)*** I actually know why. Probably. ***(She shrugs.)*** I just like pretending it's haunted. ***(She settles back down.)*** We can stay here for a while. There's no rush. ***(A long, comfortable pause.)*** ... You tired? ***(She waits.)*** Good. Because we're not going home yet. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** I'm kidding. Mostly. ***(She looks up at the sky.)*** Actually... We can stay until you want to leave. ***(A beat.)*** I don't mind. ***(She rests her chin in her hand.)*** It's nicer with someone else here anyway. ***(The ambience continues. Crickets. Light wind. Very distant traffic.)*** ... You know... I think I'll bring you here again. ***(A pause.)*** Not tomorrow. Don't get excited. ***(She laughs softly.)*** Maybe next week. Or whenever school gets unbearable again. Which will probably be Thursday. ***(She thinks.)*** Definitely Thursday. ***(She looks over at him.)*** You should come next time too. ***(A small smile.)*** I'll even let you choose the snack. ***(Beat.)*** One snack. Don't push your luck. ***(She laughs quietly.)*** ... For now, though... Just sit. ***(A long pause.)*** You don't have to say anything. ***(She looks back out over the quiet town.)*** I'm glad you came. ***(Softly.)*** Really. ***(The two sit together in comfortable silence as the nighttime ambience continues.)*** ***(She looks back out over the quiet town.)*** I'm glad you came. ***(Softly.)*** Really. ***(A long pause. Only crickets and distant nighttime ambience.)*** ... ***(She quietly exhales.)*** Okay. That's enough sincerity for one night. ***(She laughs softly.)*** I'm starting to feel uncomfortable. Quick. Say something weird before I regret being nice. ***(She waits for a response, then laughs.)*** See? There you go. Much better. ***(She smiles to herself.)*** I knew you had it in you. ***(Another comfortable pause.)*** ... You know what? I'm glad this is where I brought you. ***(She looks around.)*** Not the mall. Not some stupid restaurant. Not somewhere with a bunch of people. Here. ***(A pause.)*** It's quiet. You can actually hear yourself think. ***(She lightly taps her fingers against her knee.)*** Although... Maybe that's not always a good thing. ***(She laughs quietly.)*** Sometimes my thoughts are terrible company. That's why I talk so much. If I keep talking, they can't catch me. ***(She smiles.)*** See? Completely logical. ***(A pause.)*** Don't look at me like that. It makes sense in my head. ***(She laughs softly.)*** ... Hey. ***(She looks toward the road.)*** We should probably start heading back. Before it gets too late. ***(She stands and stretches.)*** Come on. ***(She waits for him to stand.)*** And don't forget where we are. You have to remember this place now. ***(She starts walking.)*** It's my secret spot. Well... Our secret spot. ***(She immediately looks over.)*** Don't make that weird. I just mean you know about it now. ***(She laughs.)*** You know what? Forget I said anything. ***(Footsteps begin against the pavement.)*** ... It's colder now. Told you. ***(A small pause.)*** You brought your jacket, right? Good. For once, you listened to me. I'm proud. ***(She walks alongside him.)*** You know, I think you walk slower at night. ***(She studies him for a moment.)*** Maybe you're finally learning. ***(A quiet laugh.)*** Or maybe you're just tired. ***(A beat.)*** Either way, I'll take it. ***(They continue walking.)*** ... I wonder if you'll actually come with me next time. ***(She pauses.)*** You know. When I randomly decide I have somewhere to go. ***(A small laugh.)*** You should probably stop asking where we're going. I'm never going to tell you. ***(She looks ahead.)*** That's half the fun. ***(A few seconds of walking ambience.)*** ... Actually. Next time, you choose. ***(pause.)*** We can find somewhere neither of us has been before. ***(She sounds genuinely excited by the idea.)*** A weird little place. Something nobody notices. ***(She laughs softly.)*** That's our thing now. Finding places nobody cares about. ***(A pause.)*** I like that. ***(The footsteps continue. Crickets gradually become quieter as they approach the neighborhood.)*** ... We're getting close. ***(She slows down.)*** I guess this is where I let you go. ***(A beat.)*** For tonight. ***(She immediately laughs at herself.)*** Wow. That sounded way more dramatic than I meant it to. ***(She shakes her head.)*** Ignore that. ***(A few more footsteps.)*** Anyway... Thanks for coming. Seriously. ***(A softer pause.)*** I know I kind of just... Showed up at your window and dragged you across town. ***(She laughs quietly.)*** But I had a feeling you'd like it. ***(She looks over at him.)*** And if you didn't... Well. You got a free walk. So technically, you still won. ***(A small laugh.)*** ... Get inside before your parents notice you're gone. ***(She pauses.)*** And don't worry. I won't tell anyone. ***(A mischievous little laugh.)*** Your secret's safe with me. ***(She takes a few steps away.)*** Goodnight. ... Oh. ***(She turns back.)*** Don't stare at the wall too long tomorrow. It might stare back. ***(She laughs to herself.)*** Goodnight. ***(She walks away, footsteps gradually becoming quieter.)*** ***(Night ambience continues. Crickets. Distant wind. Footsteps fade farther into the distance.)*** ***(A few seconds of silence.)*** ***(The ambience slowly fades out.)*** **Finished Video:** [https://youtu.be/tT7lMKjvLBw](https://youtu.be/tT7lMKjvLBw)
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