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[stavros]

As the date of my birth approaches, I must express solemn regret. Not just because Alex is gone and Marisa lost her numbers a while ago and now I basically have one or two friends. Seriously. That's shallow. Shallow is for preps and football players. No, I must express the melancholy of something that plagues the entire world, or at least that of the goth kids.

It's hot.

And my entire wardrobe is black or close to that, as well as very heavy and often covering a lot. Truly this is a struggle for the ages. Air conditioning in the mall is a glimmer of pitch black hope in the false, bedazzling brightness of this world.

Also, I am called by duty to take exception to a post making its foul rounds upon the Internet. Steampunk is not just brown goth. It is its own aesthetic with its own themes. You would not catch a goth wearing goggles and gratuitous gears, well, unless they wanted to. More importantly, any aesthetic and/or subculture based upon the historical period in which society at large decided that yellow was finally a colour that could be applied to clothing is the antithesis of goth.

Good day.

closed;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Who: Lily, Winter
What: Lily's got a... request? Question? She needs to ask something.
When: July 20th, 2014, Evening
Where: Approaching the Tsukuyomi household

( This shouldn't be so difficult. )

Entry #A-10: "Abominable" [Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

First... it's only right to offer my sincerest thanks to everyone who helped, following the attack on Espresso Yourself. We couldn't have done it without your generous assistance, and the speed we reopened with was a direct result of your efforts and sacrifice. Even if mob occurrences seem to be escalating for others, in frequency and severity... I can say, at least for now, that the coffee shop is doing well.

[A pause. This update is not the sole reason he's making this post.]

If you've... ever gotten a pulse, and it's something bad... something you lose sleep over, that goes against everything you thought you knew and understood about your other... how do you begin to repair the ensuing cognitive dissonance? Especially if your other hurt people... and you know it wasn't self-defense, and they were obscenely good at it...

I apologize for rambling. Let me attempt to streamline my questions.

Faced with new evidence concerning the person you're receiving pulses from, does it change your belief that you can be a better man or woman?

If you could talk to that person and ask them why they acted a certain way, would you embrace that chance, or be afraid of what they might say?