Daring to promulgate the possibility of happiness, I think.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2002 6:00:10 pm PST #2338 of 10000
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P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 6:00:12 pm PST #2339 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Happy endings will not hasten the heat death of the universe. Just so you know.
THE TRIPTYCH CODA HAD A HAPPY ENDING!!!
Drat it.
So, for that matter, did Absolution.
My goth is showing again, isn't it?
esse - Dec 30, 2002 6:01:26 pm PST #2340 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Or maybe my influence. You always put them through so much pain. I try to poke and prod you to relative happiness.
Though your spin on happiness is not mine.
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 6:02:32 pm PST #2341 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Though your spin on happiness is not mine.
Dude, everyone dies. What's not to like? Besides, it's not like they all died alone. Sheesh.
Atropa - Dec 30, 2002 6:02:41 pm PST #2342 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My goth is showing again, isn't it?
Y'think? Silly, silly girl.
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2002 6:03:01 pm PST #2343 of 10000
brillig
The hope of happiness is what drags characters on through the hells we throw at them. I want no part of a universe that teases helpless creatures, no matter how lovely they are in their suffering.
Is that anti-goth? Or merely Uncle Goth?
Atropa - Dec 30, 2002 6:05:36 pm PST #2344 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
No, that's goth too. Because while I can appreciate Ple's endings, I think I like Connie's universe better.
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 6:06:33 pm PST #2345 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The hope of happiness is what drags characters on through the hells we throw at them. I want no part of a universe that teases helpless creatures, no matter how lovely they are in their suffering.
Eh. I think what I liked about Coda, and why I'm always going to think of it as schmoopy and happy is that they found a modicum of content in a world without hope.
Because ultimately, it's the whole death and taxes thing. The end is inevitable, it's how we face it that matters.
Corinna - Dec 30, 2002 6:17:02 pm PST #2346 of 10000
Bill, my friend, strange deeds are afoot at the Circle K.
Although, you know, it's hope that something good will come from the Big Fight that helps one fight it. Straight-up despair can be not only hard to live, but kind of dull to read.
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 6:19:58 pm PST #2347 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Straight-up despair can be not only hard to live, but kind of dull to read.
I like my despair with a side of snark, personally.
But I may have spent way more time than was healthy mentally preparing for the world to be blammo-nuked and trying to find a silver lining as a kid. (Side note, I also spent time figuring out where we could hide in the house in the event of Nazis. Nukes and Nazis were my two big fears. Wait. And supernovas. Three.)
(Cripes, I was a morbid child.)