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futurology2016-11-10 01:31 pm
heavyhitter) wrote in futurology2016-11-10 01:31 pm
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text, @TARANTO, day after the saloon fire
hey guys guess what: blankets!!! me and TF to the fucking rescue, we rustled up like 40 of these bad boys
super cozy, some nice patterns. one of them has a robot wolf on it
it was also all entirely legal
they're ALMOST free, all you gotta do is tell me a story then come get one (i'm by those spiky ass fat plants that bleed if you knock them over)
also since i have 40 and there's more than 40 of us, i guess also pick someone to get cozy with
super cozy, some nice patterns. one of them has a robot wolf on it
it was also all entirely legal
they're ALMOST free, all you gotta do is tell me a story then come get one (i'm by those spiky ass fat plants that bleed if you knock them over)
also since i have 40 and there's more than 40 of us, i guess also pick someone to get cozy with
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The other specifications, however, I think I can manage to fulfill.
Does the quality of the story impact the quality of the blanket, in any way?
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give me a shitty story and i'll give you the blanket the cat pissed on
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In what medium do you prefer your tales spun?
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just maybe don't spend a few months writing a book unless you wanna freeze your ass off in the meantime
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Of all the stories that I could think meet your criteria on such short notice, I find myself remembering a story I read quite a while ago. Like many of the best stories told, it is one based in truth—a story of loss and bloody revenge.
Hundreds of years ago in my world, on an island country by the name of Britain, there was a woman, and her name was Jeanne de Clisson. By all accounts, she merely played a role that she was born into as a young woman of noble birth. By the age of thirty she had been married three times, mothered two children. It was her third husband that gave her the title she would be remembered by—as well as the rest of the story that she would be remembered by.
It was ten years and yet five children more before the state of Britain was thrown into question. A question of succession turned into a war, and the family that this woman belonged to supported a man backed by the foreign country of France. He fought for this cause, though was captured and ultimately accused of not fighting as fervently as one should.
These were the rumors that would consume him. Upon the very coattails of peace between Britain and France, this woman's husband and several over Breton lords were called to France for a tournament—where they were subsequently arrested and, with heated words of treason penned in ink of the axeman's warrant, executed by beheading.
Jeanne de Clisson received this news and was spurred to action. She took two of her eldest sons with her to France to see the head of her deceased husband and, filled with rage for this injustice, swore vengeance against the French king and the man her husband had died vying to take the British throne.
And so this woman, who had, until that point, fit perfectly into high society as a dutiful wife and mother, received help from the British crown and was given three ships, painted in black and crimson. Her flagship she named "My Revenge," and for thirteen bloody years she sailed the seas of the channel between Britain and England, killing entire crews of French sailors and sending a handful of witnesses back to the French king. It was her viciousness in how she raided both French ships and coastal villages that she became feared as the "Lioness of Brittany."
Her piracy ended all those years later when her flagship was sunk. She and her two sons who had left for France with her were stranded on debris, one of them succumbing to exposure.
She and her other son, however, were rescued by British forces. With her privateer force beneath the waves, she returned home. She remarried—as was custom for a woman at the time—and only a few short years later died on those island shores.
I am fond of this story for the reason I am fond of humans. There is such a great potential for change, given just a few circumstances in one's life. Certainly, the Lioness would never had need to bare her teeth and claws had her husband never been executed. But history has shown us such interesting permutations such as this. They are always exciting to watch.
So? What do you think?
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i think that was a pretty good fucking story
not sure if it was worth her husband dying to make a good story for us, though. kinda torn on that
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I am interested to see what type of "pretty good fucking" blanket might accompany it.
[Mark as: something he would've never said aloud but just kind of slips through the communication as he thinks it. Oops. That was not dignified.]
Such tragedies are often out of our hands. Where the true worth is is in how one reacts to such a thing. Some people might have been crushed by the loss. Others deny it, or ignore a plain truth, in order to shield themselves from pain. And still others would seek revenge.
What is it that makes one individual go down one path when another would do differently? That is the most fascinating thing about this to me.
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anyway
got a real literary approach there huh. i guess it's easy to keep that if it's just a story
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I - beg your pardon.
[Ramir, have mercy, the guy's got the human maturity of a toddler currently...]
I've been observing the lives of humans for a very long time. Such an approach is something that comes along naturally with such a thing.
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what are you, anyway?
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so? some kinda deer ghost?
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No.
I am flesh and blood. I am no ghost.
[The "deer" thing is up in the air, even though his face was more canid in nature.]
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because it'd be a lot faster if you just told me
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[Not that he'd know the difference.
There is a pause, and fortunately the jewelry doesn't transcribe his audible sigh.]
The truth is that I do not have an answer for you.
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why not
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I do not know the answer.
At least, not in exact terms.
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why the fuck don't you know what you are
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I... am unsure of how to answer that.
I do not remember where I came from. At one point I became cognizant of my existence, though I know I existed before that point. It is... very difficult to remember anything from before that.
I have some trappings of humans and fae, but I am neither.
Therefore, as I have no conclusive answer, all I can say is that I do not know.
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alright
that's kinda fucked up though
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It is as it is.
I learned a very long time ago to merely accept it and move forward.
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best way to be