Well, lately in the Neverafter, things have started to go wrong. People call it the times of shadow, but bad things happen more often than they used to. More than that, it's like...all of us have stories, but things keep happening to us that aren't supposed to. Like me becoming a werewolf, or Gerard turning back into a frog, or my friend Rosamund's prince never coming and her waking up from her sleep on her own.
We're not sure why it's happening. There are some things out there maybe...eating the nice versions of stories, and other things trying to keep the Times of Shadow in place. And then there are the fairies, who are trying to put things back the way they're supposed to be and give us our happy endings.
But it's not just that. Because now some of us are aware of our stories, and it's started causing us to think that maybe going back to the way things are supposed to be isn't so good either? Like...why should Rosamund have to go to sleep for a hundred years just to meet her true love? Why should Gerard get turned into a frog in the first place? It seems like the fairies want bad things to happen to us so we deserve our happy endings, and that doesn't sound so good anymore.
Unfortunately, for a while, we thought we were on the same page about that with some allies. There's a group of princesses who were trying to recruit Rosamund because they don't want the fairies to put their stories back to how they're supposed to be. But they're also going a little far; what they want to do to erase their stories might destroy the entire Neverafter.
So our hope is that somehow with Mother's book, we can find another way, where maybe we can give people the ability to write different stories rather than having to choose between preserving them and destroying them.
If you've seen other versions of your story anyway, then... that probably means it should be possible, right? Even if the bad things are more consistent in them, they're already not all exactly the same story. There shouldn't be anything wrong with getting to make one that you want for yourself, if it works out.
... you shouldn't have to deserve getting to be happy, in the end.
[yeah! her emotions are happy because netzach gets it.]
That's what we want. Maybe not happy all the time, but...it's not fair. I didn't get it until I saw Pinocchio's book, but it feels like - stories about kids like us are always about how we have to be punished for not listening and not following the rules, even though adults are wrong all the time. It's not fair to have to get eaten by a wolf or turned into a puppet just because we disobeyed the rules. It shouldn't have to be like that.
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Date: 2023-06-29 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-29 02:50 am (UTC)You said if your friend could use that book then everything was gonna be okay, right? What was wrong?
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Date: 2023-06-30 12:14 pm (UTC)[where do i, siz, start.]
Well, lately in the Neverafter, things have started to go wrong. People call it the times of shadow, but bad things happen more often than they used to. More than that, it's like...all of us have stories, but things keep happening to us that aren't supposed to. Like me becoming a werewolf, or Gerard turning back into a frog, or my friend Rosamund's prince never coming and her waking up from her sleep on her own.
We're not sure why it's happening. There are some things out there maybe...eating the nice versions of stories, and other things trying to keep the Times of Shadow in place. And then there are the fairies, who are trying to put things back the way they're supposed to be and give us our happy endings.
But it's not just that. Because now some of us are aware of our stories, and it's started causing us to think that maybe going back to the way things are supposed to be isn't so good either? Like...why should Rosamund have to go to sleep for a hundred years just to meet her true love? Why should Gerard get turned into a frog in the first place? It seems like the fairies want bad things to happen to us so we deserve our happy endings, and that doesn't sound so good anymore.
Unfortunately, for a while, we thought we were on the same page about that with some allies. There's a group of princesses who were trying to recruit Rosamund because they don't want the fairies to put their stories back to how they're supposed to be. But they're also going a little far; what they want to do to erase their stories might destroy the entire Neverafter.
So our hope is that somehow with Mother's book, we can find another way, where maybe we can give people the ability to write different stories rather than having to choose between preserving them and destroying them.
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Date: 2023-06-30 01:16 pm (UTC)... you shouldn't have to deserve getting to be happy, in the end.
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Date: 2023-07-01 12:03 pm (UTC)That's what we want. Maybe not happy all the time, but...it's not fair. I didn't get it until I saw Pinocchio's book, but it feels like - stories about kids like us are always about how we have to be punished for not listening and not following the rules, even though adults are wrong all the time. It's not fair to have to get eaten by a wolf or turned into a puppet just because we disobeyed the rules. It shouldn't have to be like that.