Someone once asked me how I am. I told them “Oh, I’m throughly miserable.”
They looked sad for me, and said “Oh, I’m sorrry.”
I looked back at them, “Miserable is fine. I’m worried when I’m happy, I don’t know what to do with it and the tricks it plays. At least I know what’s happening with miserable.”
If I lost the misery, I don’t know what I’d do. It’s the base that my happiness sits on, like Lilith squatting over the next father of her monster spawn, riding him though that brief moment of transient ecstasy. It’s a triumphant pyramid of glass upon the barren Sahara the peasants are pelting with stones. It’s a bone sticking out of a freshly broken leg, white and free, painful and a reminder of the wonder and terribleness of life.
@EnochianEntropy Your own words, or a quotation?
Powerful stuff.
@EnochianEntropy You expressed it quite beautifully.
@stueytheround I’ve been told by more than a few people that I’m a fair writer.
@EnochianEntropy Misery or melancholy isn't all truly awful. Perhaps it helps us to better appreciate the happinesses we experience.
@stueytheround 😀I could do with a little less, though.
But hey, whatcha gonna do?
@stueytheround Only if I’m burning Rome to the ground.
@EnochianEntropy There are lots of "Romes" that still need burning.
@stueytheround Yeah, well, as much as I want to burn it all down, I want something there to replace it. The Matt Gaetz of the world can Joker it up, but I want solutions.
@EnochianEntropy Not all Romes are big political issues, thankfully.
The fire of our passions can raze strongholds to the ground on a personal or local level, too.
@EnochianEntropy @stueytheround It's tempting for people to want to burn it all down and rebuild.
But I assure everyone, ashes make lousy material for building houses.
I've already seen that show - the one where you burn it all down. It doesn't create an enlightened age, just a bunch of rolling heads, and a new dark age.
@AskTheDevil @stueytheround It feels powerful, but it’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
At least when Khan burned down the Jin Empire, he built an empire that a small girl could walk from one end to the other with a bag full of gold without a hair being touched.
@stueytheround That being said “I welcome our lord and savior, goth chicks in fishnets.”
@stueytheround @EnochianEntropy
I swear that's young metal and cons face and lips.
Wow! Madeline Kahn thanks, translator.
Not bad given the topic.
@FireMonkey
I picked that picture because she reminded me of Emily aka Mouse, who redesigned Eleanor's wedding dress.
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Stuey who is Emily? Who is Mouse and who is Eleanor and when did she get married? So many questions. 😝
@FireMonkey Heheh.
Eleanor @Mauve_matelot and I were married in August 2005 🤣
Emily/Mouse (pictured below in 2004) was in college learning dressmaking and offered to rework the Edwardian lace wedding dress Eleanor had found to make it unique to her.
@stueytheround Two days late to a Goth Girl post, but it took that long for the messenger crow to find me. 🖤
Sadly I can't post pics of exes because... well, it's not the done thing. But is there room for one more?
@BillyBones I think we can squeeze her in! @EnochianEntropy
@stueytheround Mine.