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thirdtimed · 6 months ago

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unfortunately if i ever developed the lifeseries orv au in my head in earnest i would in no capacity whatsoever manage to be normal about it at all and like. i mean it

#like . genuinely. so much of orv deals with metafiction & the act of art literally coming to life through #reading/watching/observing it (schrodingers cat) (both dead and alive) (your gaze the determining factor) (a witness to existence)#& how characters turn into real people & vice versa & fiction intermingling with reality #and its that character bit that i am kinda obsessed with esp in mcyt spaces from a phenomenological standpoint #for example in smps where roleplaying elements are light and the characters the ccs are playing as #are much closer to themselves than they are actually characters #AND LIKEEEE THIS IS KIND OF ORVS ENTIRE DEAL REALLY #this act of being percieved and witnessed and characterized by yourself and others #the different social conventions between how we treat ppl as characters vs ppl as human beings #how every person is unto themself a story and how fiction is a tool used to preserve life #to resurrect the dead #to love someone with all your heart despite never actually truly ''knowing'' them #only having an imperfect reconstruction of their existence entirely based on your perception of them #how much of you is ''real'' versus ''fiction'' ? genuine versus persona?#does it matter?#and like. explodes. its so everything to me. its so everything. its not nornal. this is not a mormal way to engage with media #but there is a narrative mechanic that involvws cosmic twitch streaming as metaphor for the audience & performance & stage & storytelling #and i cant just NOT think about it in tandem with whatever it is i have going on here #you tell these stories to keep others alive... to keep yourself alive.. to stave off death...#like... this combined w the endless death game timeloop that is the life series is just #really... important to me... the watchers less as eldritch beings and more true to their metaphor as audience stand ins #greedily devouring the story because its all that we have left #this perpetual act of death and rebirth a preservation of life a celebration of their stories #somethign we cherish and champion and hold close.. something that allows all of us to live #for just a little bit longer #see i. i. yeah. not normal. not nornal at all

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