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Hello city!
I am not entirely sure what my feelings on Spring are. Regardless, I shan't complain about nicer weather nor about the chance to eat outside. Perhaps I will stop needing an umbrella when Summer finally arrives.

On that note, I regret to inform you that since Kanaya has decided my birthday is now July 12th, I will be expecting another set of birthday presents in three months. My condolences to my friends. If you are stuck on what to get me, I suggest checking my Amazon wishlist. :)

On a completely different note, I am looking for recommendations for books containing historical context into medieval torture. I would appreciate any input.

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yeah ive done that. i went home once but thats not the point, the point is that whatever universe we’re in is gonna feel like the alpha timeline to us

so when we think shes sent us back, she couldve just created a completely different alternate universe, its not like thats never happened in my world anyways

i dont know i cant prove it. and it doesnt matter, at least not while im there, i just cant help thinking like. maybe there is no alpha timeline, maybe theres just like millions of different options and we just dont get to see them unless lachesis teleports us to a different one
like she did when she sent us to metricog

[ He’s having uncomfortable memories of the Age of X reality here. If Legion could create another reality with one splintered off fraction of his mind, what’s to say Lachesis couldn’t do it too, just by virtue of the way she kept kidnapping people?

This is the last thing Julian wants to think about. He means it when he says it doesn’t really matter to him. But having literally lived through shifting realities, he can’t just pretend it’s not a possibility. ]

[ unfortunately, for a topic he doesn't want to think about, they're pretty deeply entrenched in it. and kanaya, much as she dislikes it, has spent too much time in the middle of it, forced to confront the questions and come up with answers to them. ]

I Think The Problem Is A Misunderstanding Of What The Alpha Timeline Is
It Isnt Simply The One Youre Native To
Its The One That Isnt Doomed
This Is The Economy By Which Paradox Time Operates
When A Timeline Is No Longer Viable It Is Abandoned
The Branch Is Left To Go Its Own Way To Its Eventual Dissolution
I Suppose They Collapse In On Themselves Eventually
Or Perhaps They Just Continue Into Oblivion
Stuck In An Endless Line Of Failure With No Hope Of Correction
Its Beneath Paradox Times Concern

The One That Matters Is The Alpha
It Must Be Nurtured And Guided That Its Eventual Conclusion Will Be A Fruitful One
That Fruit Being The New Universe Waiting At The End

Think Of It As A Sort Of Romance Between Time And Space
Where The One Path Must Be Followed To Ensure Stimulation And Uh
Well Eventually Gestation Of The Result Of The Reproductive Process
Stray Too Far From The Path And It Ends Poorly
Maybe Time Was Spent Prematurely Or Space Had A Headache
In The Worst Scenario They May Have To Contend With The Fallout Of A Miscarriage
This Is The Dead Fruit Of A Doomed Timeline
And Only The Alpha Will End In A Healthy Becoming
Though At Times The Alpha May Lead You Through Deceptive Results
The Two May Have To Lose One Child At Younger An Age Than Is Considered Fair
Only To Help Pave The Path Better For The Greater Offspring To Come As A Result

[ or at least that's what she has to believe. how else could she create a universe that was all but stillborn yet still a part of the alpha timeline? how could she have seen doomed ghosts who've done better unless she was supposed to fail? maybe she was better for paradox space as a failure than she ever could have been as a success. just don't make her decide whether it was really her fault or just the only way it could have turned out. she doesn't know and she doesn't know that she wants to. ]

i dont think thats right. I dont think theres only one timeline where everything works out

i dont think it has to all work out anywhere, its all just different degrees of how crap everything is

thats what ive seen anyways

i dont think theres one perfect option that we have to try and ‘nurture’ i think we just have to stay where we get put and try not to fucking die when it goes sour

because it always will

thats what i think

Everything Doesnt Work Out And Some Who Try Not To Fucking Die Wont Be Successful
That Isnt What Its About
What Im Talking About Is The Timeline That Ends In Birth
That Is The Definition Of The Alpha Timeline
It Nurtures Nothing And Has No Mercy
But It Will Spare What Will Bring About Its Purposes
Anything Else It Considers Expendable

youre talking about a timeline like it has feelings and choices, like its alive

how can a timeline consider anything? its the people inside it who have choices to make

I Dont Know How Exactly It Does It
It Just Does
Its True That We Have Choices But Those Choices Have A Path To Follow
Thats Just The Way It Is

maybe in your world

[ But not in his. He can't really bring himself to believe that. ]

If Yours Isnt Nearly So Concerned With Ensuring The Viability Of Its Progeny I Would Consider You Lucky

i mean theres alternate worlds all the time. they dont always survive but lots of them do. like i dont look at the city and think this is a doomed timeline thats gonna implode some day just because its not where im from you know?

I Cant Explain Exactly Why This Universe Or Yours Arent Governed By The Rules I Lived Under Elsewhere
All I Know Is Thats The Way It Was
This Doesnt Necessarily Give Us The Choice To Determine Where Our Future Will Lead
But I Still Believe We Have Some Part To Play In It Either Way
We Have To Earn Our Future If We Want To Make It Better
That Wont Happen On Its Own

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