haha ok wow where to begin

ok well! new housing situation i find myself in a sprawling rococo-slash-actual-space-observatory nightmare which is actually more cash than it sounds but make no mistake this is a fucking monstrosity of a home it is HUGE

consider also that it's a brain house, like my head and a squid prince from the stars (OK WAIT YIKES I DIDNT THINK OF IT THAT WAY BEFORE LOL I HAVE A TYPE I GUESS YIKESSSS)'s head kinda just came together like chocolate and peanut butter but instead of a delightful confectionery snack known to the world as Reese's(c) Peanut Bubber(tm) Cupz we have ended up with a place to call home

and ok like it's really nice i guess i cant process anything good without first calling it bad but it's good there's a lot of cool stuff here it's a comfortable living space and i don't ALWAYS feel completely on edge which is new? anyway

so my roommate fucked up. not gonna name names or anything but he fucked up i think he wanted to fix the world or something but like literally everyone who takes it upon themselves to get that done in a day, he ended up making it worse? so i mean, a universal story i guess does that make sense?

and like... ok so i thought he was taking all this WAY too well for what it is but the more i pay attention to him the more im like, 99% sure he's just not addressing it mentally. like not even actively ignoring it just, pointedly not Going There in his own head ever like he's not engaging with his own head on any level deeper than the shallowest of shallow depths

so he's majorly fucked up over his failure he keeps talking like he can still fix it somehow? but idk like if you were here you would agree, it doesn't seem likely. there's only so many times you can drop a vase on the floor before you forget what pieces you glued together in which way - or hell, you just can't glue these tiny shards at ALL anymore. he's on drop number, like - 100 by now like this world is dead as shit the only people still alive are immortals like him and i

im not even kidding there are times when i just find him staring off in the distance smiling and not even doing anything just totally spaced out staring at the wall or like,  staring like he can see THROUGH the walls and im saying as someone with a fucked up brain, he's starting to freak me out really bad

i mean i guess im more trying to say im concerned or worried but that feels weird to say. let's pretend that's what i said

there's all kinds of other terrible awful bad factors at play here too but those aren't important i guess im just like... what the fuck do i do?? ive never been anyone's rock before this is like, brand new territory

i wanna open his eyes at least to the fact that this world is done, it'll never be okay again because of what he did but like i want the big point i guess to be more like... redemption??? which again, also new. someone fucks up by you, you kill them, that's how ive always been. but IDK i dont think i could kill him. no one knows me better than he does now and he doesn't even judge me or think im bad and he doesn't act all shocked when im just being myself he doesn't get all like, patronizing or condescending and act like i should just Stop having a fuckbrain so idk things are too good with him and i wanna return the favor

shit im rambling IDK what to do

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He destroyed the whole WORLD and youre sitting around worrying about him? Priorities much???? What kind of freak just sits around not even accepting he fucked up so majorly????? Christ! Do you, but if that were me I wouldnt be so gentle with bursting his bubble.

i mean just me being me just saying maybe as someone who almost did that (but no really, go ahead and judge me for it) for a lot of different reasons it'd be kinda silly of me to think that's a huge deal but i mean ok cool!

Well, ignoring the BIG FUCKIN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, dont beat around the bush with it. Rip off the bandaid in one go or hes gonna keep denying it. Thats my two cents.

um... thx for sharing but thats fucking stupid i'm trying to help him not traumatize him

Oh my, i don't think i've ever related to something quite so closely. both sides, even. Ah, but to remain on topic, it sounds like the severity and knowledge of his actions is in there. You just gotta crack open the lockbox he's stowed it all away in. If you want to sober him up to it without destroying him inside, try confronting him about it in slow, but stern doses. He's deep in that denial of his, and dragging him out of it means you have to make him WANT to leave it. So in short, you'd need to provide or be an alternative to his blissful faux-ignorance. Be the person that treats him respectfully, without invalidating his better qualities or coddling his worse ones. Be the person he (by the sound of it) never had alongside him until that point.

ohhhh shit this is legit do you do this for a living??? waht the fuck this guy knows what he s about where's a poorly-drawn award certificate when you need one

I have had... a lot of time to think about this kind of thing, and one hell of a reason to.

Either way, I hope you can at least coax him into making amends in ways like helping the immortals get out of there or some stuff like that. Once it's sunken in, he'll probably need a nudge in the right direction, and amending what he can of his faults will probably help get him in a more stable state.

o shit lol! like what are you like, bird therapist

yeah holy shit like... i dont know how far i can go w/ it im not expecting him to just do this awesome turn around and become a Stand Up Guy necessarily? like, ideally yes, im definitely gonna try for it but gods lol like the fuckin... ENORMITY of it all is kind of crushing like just how much fucking... work there is to do. im up to the task its just like, shit

(a missive from a possible future:)

You're in uncharted, unchartable waters. Thus I think it's OK what you don't know what to do. A secret: No one does. No one. Anyone who says so is lying, if to no one else than themself. I didn't know what I was doing when I took up this office and after a half-century I st

What I am I guess meaning to say is it is quite alright to blunder on in the dark before you find something that works. Gather allies, gather information if you can, act on it to the best of your knowledge and resources, but bear in mind that we're all blind here, all of us.

... yeah. like sorry i dont have a lot to say im just kinda taking it in, basically youre saying its ok to not know what to do? that makes things a little easier

Don't apologize. Fuck me that sounded rude. Better phrasing: you don't need to apologize.

If experience is any guide? Things might not feel real for a while, maybe a long while. Which is also OK, because that kind of shock may be sort of... cushioning the impact? and because it sounds like your situation is stable at the very least; you have time to reach some kind of equilibrium alongside your roommate. Find your own rock if you can, because you're going to need to keep your own morale from going down the drain. For a relative value of morale. Upheavals are disheartening for anyone, and your case is...

...I'm sorry for your loss, I should have said that first.

oh no its cool i think i got what you mean

........... shit lol thats fucked up like ive experienced that a lot actually, like that feeling like you're not really awake??? is that kinda what youre saying? bc ya thats happened 2 me a lot

uhh idk about finding my own rock though it really seems like its just him and me. and i dont feel super like, "hey i cant possibly do this alone" because technically he did do me like... a HUGE fucking solid all by himself and i dont doubt it was exhausting and terrible for him just seeing like... my life lol?? so idk im not like... expecting one at the very least. besides i dont know how the immortals would feel about sympathizers of this guy

like........ idk. its cool. its not like the world was that great anyway