Until the wound becomes a window

as metaphors go the netherese orb is so hilariously and fittingly on the nose. oh this guy has a great big gaping black hole in his chest he's desperately been trying to fill with accomplishments and external validation and a feeling of control, does he. and when you feed it that makes it chill out for about twenty minutes and then it's back to its insatiable craving and we're hitting the stage of diminishing returns with a vengeance. hm. impossible to say what that's about. it's a mystery. his whole deal remains inscrutable

the widespread idea/meme that qifrey and olruggio are living in two different genres where qifrey thinks he's living a greek tragedy and olruggio thinks he is living in a slice of life BL manga is of course very funny, however that is to me a misrepresentation of olly's perspective specifically. I think olruggio thinks he's living in a slightly depressing piece of nordic social realism cinema about how life will never be quite what you wanted it to be and all you can do is get to terms with that as best you can and then either way one day you'll at least die