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[penpoint]

I have a question. Consider it a bit of a survey or questionnaire. I'm curious. I want to remain anonymous, so that people feel like they can safely remain anonymous, as well.

What does love mean to you here? What did it mean to you at home? Is it different for both?

Relationships are seemingly more complicated here than they would be at most of our homes. I was wondering if others felt the same.

How are you managing it here in a place where it does seem more complicated? Are you doing the same things you would have done if you were at home?

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[penpoint]

I'd say that's probably the same to me, too. A bit of weird does make this place easier to get used to.

[penpoint]

No. They don't. They may not ever.

[tigerpoet]

How do people who come here from completely mundane lives manage? My heart would give out.

[penpoint]

I've noticed a bit of both, to be honest. I thought most would want to avoid unnecessary complications and share the same thoughts as you, but that doesn't seem to be the case so far that I've heard.

Maybe, and I generally prefer a face-to-face honest, real interview. But if people are only willing to divulge otherwise, I won't turn them down.

[penpoint]

Maybe there are. I've conducted a few interviews in my lifetime and people are usually honest when I know who they are, but sometimes they hold back. Even if it seems to some like they're sharing everything.

I think a lot of people want to talk about it regardless as to their varying degrees of experience and perception of it. But they don't know how to talk about it. It's complicated and messy sometimes.

[penpoint]

Now, that is something I can't fully advise simply because it differs from person to person. For me, it is most impulses and not always involving lust, love, and relationships - though those impulses are removed from time to time, too.

How it impacts you may vary from month to month.

[penpoint]

Maybe it's similar to what you'd get, but I don't know if it's the same as whatever push you'd get a home. I think at home... I would not have possibly ended up making choices I have here. That simple. Nothing could have pushed me to where I am now or into anything I've done.

But here... It's different.

[penpoint]

Interesting. I'd love to hear anything you'd like to share.

That's up for debate. What question did you have?

[restringing]

I see
Maybe it's subconscious sometimes
Just a little

But you're right
Love can make you vulnerable
And being anonymous can take some of that vulnerability away
Something like that?

[penpoint]

Who knows. I mean, yeah, this place is still a bit odd, but at least I can start to manage some aspects of it.

[penpoint]

Sometimes. Sometime's it's just how they are. They're just spouting the same thing they always did. Recounting the same story and events.

Correct.

[swordhardy]

Hey, I don't mind sharing. What would you want to know?

What made you decide?

[tigerpoet]

At least we've gotten used to the furry parts by now.

[wearingguess]

Why not? Are you under some kind of curse that prevents you from revealing your true feelings?

[penpoint]

Where are you from? Do you age normally or otherwise? Are you more humanoid here?

...And what made me decide what?

[penpoint]

For the most part, yeah. I mean, mine change nearly monthly, but I still know to expect them.

[penpoint]

What? No. I don't think such a thing exists where I'm from.

[wearingguess]

Well, then? What is the problem?

[decisiveconquest]

I didn't. I was too in love to see his intentions.

[penpoint]

[ he feels pretty called out, thanks titus ]

This place is the problem.

[wearingguess]

Really, if you don't want to answer me at all, you can say as much, but must you make me ask a new question on every little point?
To wit: in what respect is this place a problem?

[penpoint]

I'm not making you ask any questions. You could just as easily let it go.

I am not seeking advice for how to manage my own feelings, either. At no point was that suggested.

But everyone will leave here and we do not know what we will be stuck with after this.

[tigerpoet]

Varied symptoms from the same moonblessing, or actually different moonblessings? I've seen people vary between standard Cordis-kitsune and standard Sanguis-dragon, but I've also heard that people can switch moonblessings on rare occasions...

[wearingguess]

Then we both agree that we are having this conversation because we want to!

Ah, you are really thinking ahead. But even still, both of you are here now, are you not? All the more reason to act quickly. [ it's literally impossible for this to go badly! titus would know—he promised his adopted sister he'd be with her forever even though he knew he probably only had another month to live, and all that happened was he had a breakdown (or two? three at MOST) and was on the verge of betraying his life's mission or whatever about it, and then he showed up here and got to avoid ever having to deal with any of that for an open-ended interval!! ...even though he knows it could end at any moment, and either way he still doesn't get to be with his sister, so his emotional instability is probably at least as bad as ever!!

in other words, it's foolproof. ]

[swordhardy]

I'm exactly the same here as I was there.
I'm from the Wastelands, around Midgand. And... huh, you know, I don't know.
Most daemons live long lives, so I guess I'd say 'no'.
Though that's a hard question when all the moonblessed are from somewhere different, right?

That it's love.
Not just, you know. Indigestion.