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passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

Be open to the possibility that people are speaking nicely about you behind your back. People are conspiring about ways to help you. People advocating for you. People are genuinely rooting for you behind your back.

something really beautiful that the main point of failure of this perfect hivemind is that they all have tumblr users first philosophy. yeah let the zoos be empty (ignore the restoration work they do), yeah dont kill any animals (ignore how this will lead to overpopulation of certain species), yeah let indecision mean no one is harmed (ignore that this is a trolley problem). my partner and i are theorizing that this hivemind of billions may experience character growth (or, given that this is a side effect of the virus, evolution?) which is SUCH a good twist on the genre.

"We're excited to have something new to read" oh so you admit it sucks that no new art is getting made ever? You crave new stories and new experiences even though you have the sum total of all of humanity's knowledge and memories? You're mindlessly marching towards humanity's extinction but the prospect of a new romance book still excites you? What was that thing y'all said about Carol not knowing she's drowning?

already said this in somebody's tags but the true nightmare horror of pluribus is what if you were 50 years old and then you were suddenly forced to be a teenager again. nobody wants to hang out with you because you're "disruptive" and a threat to the social order and their worldview and actually they're all talking about you behind your back and nobody respects your autonomy or agency and any independence you may have had is taken from you as you're forced to rely entirely on the conditional "kindness" of people who want change and fix you because they believe there is something wrong with the kind of person you are and they all condescendingly talk down to you about how you don't understand how the world works or what you actually want and you should just let them make the decisions for you