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a – age

b – biggest fear

c – current time 

d – drink you last had/are having 

e – easiest person to talk to

f – favorite song 

g – ghosts, are they real 

h – heritage 

i – in love with 

k – kissed someone

l – last time you cried 

m – middle name 

n – number of siblings 

o – one wish

p – person who you last called 

q – question you’re always asked 

r – reason to smile 

s – song last sang 

t – time you woke up 

u – underwear color 

w – worst habit

x – x-rays you’ve had 

y – your favorite food 

There’s this conventional wisdom that ignorance hopes, intelligence despairs. It’s the heart of grimdark - every time a character acts based on hope, they die, or are forced to endure worse than death. Every time a character acts based on cynicism or cruelty, they succeed. Eventually everyone - including the audience - learns that there’s no place for feeble, foolish things like kindness, like optimism. And eventually everyone - especially the audience - gets tired, gets bored, gets pissed off, and gives up. Which is wise, because effort means hope of some reward for said effort. And hope is for people who don’t - or refuse to - understand how things really work. ‘Intelligent girls are more depressed because they know what the world is really like’. 

And I mean. It’s not as though no one has ever taken advantage of the hope and faith of others. It’s not as though sitting around going ‘I’m sure everything will work out in the end’ is a great strategy for dealing with nasty shit. But that’s not what this is about. This is about the idea that taking meaningful action is pointless and useless and people shouldn’t be doing it, because don’t they know how the world works? The world always crushes people who hope and who act, so better to do nothing and despair.

Look. We’re on a collision course with the sun. Within a few hundred years not one of us will be remembered, and our children and our children’s children will be dealing with the exact same shit we’re dealing with right now. It’ll wear a different face, it’ll make slightly different promises, but its underbelly will be the same colour. I’m not gonna attempt to argue the nobility or inherent worth of choosing either hope or despair in the face of this knowledge. Pretty sure Shakespeare already went there, and did it a whole awful lot more poetic justice than I would. I’m just gonna say that even Hamlet, depressive and highly educated doucheface that he was, didn’t have an answer. You definitely don’t. And you don’t get to make that decision for other people.