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I finished the show.
I loved it but I feel like I've been lied to yet again.
We were the Best Friend Squad too. We used to tell each other we loved each other and our friendship was the most important thing and it would save us all.
It doesn't happen. We don't say it anymore. Not even the ones who will still talk to me. Nobody but Peggy, really. (OK. give or take a couple, especially that weird frost lizard. <3 )
But still. It doesn't work. Things decay in the real world and that's OK. Why can't we have a show that'll tell us that's OK?
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Unless I completely fail... and boy do I think I will... Parallax is gonna be something very, very different. Nobody's gonna get their true love. The world won't stop doing what the world does. Flowers won't grow where there's supposed to be stone, plagues won't be cured by crying, and the power of friendship will be about as enduring as it is in the real world, i.e., like a hunk of prettily painted plaster.
And... I say this through tears... it's going to be OK. Everyone's still gonna be OK. The world's gonna be OK. It'll be a happy ending, if you can deal with the fact good things end for good and the bad stuff never actually goes away. But it's gonna be OK.
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And I didn't get the Best Friend Squad, and I never even got a proper goodbye or chance to say I'm sorry. But I did get three cats, a lizard, a good job, all of you, and very pretty town that only sporadically tries to kill me. And that's OK. I'm going to be OK. Even if I get washed right into the sea tomorrow, it's OK.
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... we still friends, right?
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@JulieSqveakaroo Oh goodness yes, I dunno what I'd do without any of you folks. But what I had in Seattle was INTIMATE. It was like losing a sister. You're more like a weird bouncy cousin that I'm always delighted to see. <3 <3 <3 Those Two were more like flesh and blood. They were part of my daily life for like eight years. That sorta thing cuts deep. But it doesn't mean I treasure having y'all around any less. 
❤️
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@JulieSqveakaroo (Oh and in case there's the faintest doubt: "weird" is ALWAYS a compliment from me of course. n.n )
seemingly unrelated griping but actually not about the Seattle postfurry scene, re: stuff (---), she-ra finale
@zebratron2084 I know this feeling too goddamn well? But at the same time... knowing the kind of shit we've both been involved in I feel like we've gotten an *unusually* bad example of how good things could get. Like, we've both had a space that should ultimately have been about radical self-expression instead just tie us down into irresolvable quagmire that almost entirely happened because it was pracitcally *policy* there not to communicate a single goddamn thing if you had problems with someone until it was far, *far* too late. You've been burned by that, I've been burned by that at a significantly younger age where I was arguably still developing no less, many others have as well.
I guess what I'm basically saying is... better things *are* possible. You've been lied to, but not necessarily by the show itself.
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@Thaminga This is all actually pretty comforting, and I really did kinda need someone to commiserate with who understands. yanno? *hug* But I mean, I turn 45 in a few weeks. It's hard not to feel like I've missed my chance for a lot of those better things. And that's also OK, because I can still focus on trying to make sure OTHER people get them, and I did have my fun... it was just over so fast, you know?
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Yeah. I love these crazy kids and I'm very grateful to Noelle for the huge blow she just struck for queer love and hope. And a contented purr from Catra is worth five quadrillion in small unmarked bills. But I also feel like I just drank a gallon of pink sugar water that was labeled as a health potion.
I sure don't feel any different.