A Lesson

[x_magik]

I should preface this by saying that I don't know anyone involved, I am not in any way affected by the outcome of this recent attempt at active suicide, and I think that in times of crisis most people ought to be forcibly incapacitated. Perhaps this will colour your perception of the comments that follow.

That said, the number of you who are appallingly poorly schooled in the mythical quality of "common sense" seems to grow at an exponential rate these days.

Allow me to explain: Going into a fight where you don't know the odds is a very, very stupid thing to do. Going into a fight where you don't know the odds and your backup consists of more alarmingly stupid people who live in a house with telepaths lives in the range of IQ commonly attributed to shellfish. Going into a fight when there are people who would do it for you, because they are nice philanthropists in leather (and some of them indestructible; see: my brother), is simply insane.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but what on Earth is wrong with you people? Your first reaction is to say, hey, let's go help out? You know, even for those of us who grew up fighting for our lives (and I am well aware the number includes more than just me), it's a bit like saying, "Well, I survived hell, but I think I'll give it another go just to see what happens."

In a display that shocked me almost beyond human comprehension, Clarice seems to have maintained the coolest head of all in this little predicament. My world is quite out of order. My world has fallen back into place. See below.

Comments

That's just a bit unfair.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Some of us kept our heads quite nicely, thank you very much!

Well...

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

I was going for the shock value, really.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Oh. Blast. I didn't meant to ruin that for you.

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

I should probably practise the arcane concept of 'credit where it's due', anyway. I hear it's quite useful in daily life.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Sometimes. Dramatic effect and appropiate credit often feud.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Don't say "credit" too loudly, you'll draw the attention of the shopping goddesses. :)

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

There are shopping goddesses in this dimension?

I'm really speechless.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

OOH! Shopping. Has anyone taken Yana to the mall yet?

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

See? See? You said the magic word!

[xp_daytripper]

Yeah, well, sometimes there are things that get in the way of self-interest. Like having a friend in trouble. And yeah, it was dumb to react that way, but nothing came of it since the X geezer put his telepathic foot down, and we're all sitting and waiting like good little girls and boys. Still, I'd rather be dumb and have emotional reactions than to be a cold bitch.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're named Alison and Lorna. And apparently Marie-Ange.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Shopping is a -joy- and a pleasure only possibly equalled by chocolate.

[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

And I would much rather be alive and a cold bitch than a slave to my unnecessary emotions.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am simply a apprentice. I have not the staminia to shop like Lorna and Alison.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I'm feeding Miles cookies in an undisclosed location right now.

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Oh, one of those metaphors. I have been practising . . .

I was getting these images of people cursed to buy ugly shoes for an eternity, that kind of thing.

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

You have cookies??!?

Wait. I have cookies.

and Doug. And packing to finish. EEK!

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Piotr got me a few things after he got back. I'm not sure I'm a 'mall' kind of person.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're leaving tomorrow. More cookies for me and the short one!

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[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Does Piotr shop properly? Stereotypes suggest that he should, but I am not sure I can picture him happily browsing through a selection of silk shirts,

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Sacrifice three newspaper advertising sections to get the blessing of a twenty-percent-off sale, stuff like that?

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. Although knowing goddesses (I don't, at least personally), they'd have to curse the unworthy with color-blindness or something.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

I dunno--you'd think lack of fashion sense would be the thing that makes you unworthy, and in that case who would notice the curse?

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[x-snowflake.livejournal.com]

Well, I told him I didn't want anything -- exciting. I have some shirts and denim pants (genes? jeans? I can't remember the homonym), things like that. And shoes of my own, thank the gods.

[xp_daytripper]

Because caring about a friend is so 'unnecesary'...