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About a yeaw i-into o-ouw wewationship, m-my wifewong best fwiend died unexpectedwy. The news o-of this happening twickwed out swowwy and towtuouswy over the c-couwse of the day while fwiends and famiwy were contacting each other to f-figure out what was going on ☆*:・ﾟ John w-was on his way to a hockey g-game with some fwiends when I fiwst got wind t-that something had happened, but nothing was confiwmed yet ☆*:・ﾟ I hate hockey, but J-John woved it ☆*:・ﾟ and he wouwd often go to games with his fwiends〜☆ and I wouwd sit at home and scwew awound with the computer ☆*:・ﾟ I cawwed and towd him what I thought was going o-on. He was comfowting uguu.., concewned e-even, but he said that he was awmost at the a-awena.., and he’d be home in a few h-houws uguu.., stunned uguu.., I just said... “o-okay.” I didn’t even put up a fight. I spent those few houws panicking, texting, cawwing fwiends, w-wefweshing sociaw m-media feeds, doomscwowwing〜☆ twying to figure out what was going on. Awone.

I had weceived confiwmation of the bad news by the time John had come home a few houws watew (≧◡≦) I was in a state (* ^ ω ^) We g-got into t-the wowst f-fight that I c-can i-imagine g-getting into. I’ve never been that w-wowked u-up before ow s-since. It did stop s-showt of being a fistfight, though. It got heated. My b-body witewawwy fewt wed hot. We wewitigated owd awguments that had been peacefuwwy put to bed m-months a-ago *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ I descwibed t-these wewitigations on the v-voicemaiw message that itsewf was a w-wewitigation of this howwible day ☆⌒ヽ(*"､^*)chu I scweamed untiw I was hoawse *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ John did〜☆ too〜☆ I w-was so wesentfuw o-of him fow not coming home. I don’t think he had time ow context to p-pwocess how s-sewious the ciwcumstances were w-when I cawwed him o-on t-the way t-to the hockey match (* ^ ω ^) I fewt tewwible fow him now O.o b-but i didn’t think i was awwowed to tell him that ☆⌒ヽ(*"､^*)chu it all spiwwed out of me wike a c-cup that h-had been fuwwy i-invewted all water moving in unison to m-make a fowcefuw swap on the gwound. It h-had c-cweawwy been pent up inside of me s-still, in a s-small cowner that I onwy thought to wook at in the wowest pawts of m-my wife.

and then I t-towd him that I didn’t fowgive him.

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Pardon me, I think you mean Edwoman now, thank you very much

Middle aged trans-fem Edgar: call that a Cougar

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Middle aged trans-fem Edgar: call that a Cougar

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This is about to dissolve into something that's only semi-related to my original point, but this reminded me of some things I'd been thinking about, and I'm a Chronic Blabber lmao

First thing is, I didn't include this in the original post because I couldn't quite figure out how to phrase it, but I was making the post with the idea that it's a sort of a point of Contradiction for them

Like they're often so focused on Being the Original and Having the Original Person around, but also they will disregard that the second it suits them like, they save him, he is Michael to them despite the fact that Michael is most likely Not the Original Michael, therefore technically not the "real Michael" by their own standards (There's a whole other post I have in my drafts about Michael and this sort of idea, well this idea tangentially at least, but I haven't quite figured out how verbose I wanna be on that one yet lol ) All the characters have a lot of hypocrisy in the way they view and talk about/to different iterations, they will switch on a dime to whatever fit their wants and needs at the moment, and I love it, because, yeah, that's exactly how people work, malicious intent or not, it's great <3<3

Anyways the second thing is the difference between Real and Original, and the reason why I keep putting quotation marks around the word 'real' and not 'original'.

There's always an Original Version.

Original in this case, the way I take it and the way I use it just means "something serving as a model or basis for imitations or copies" or "being the first instance from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is or can be made"

Original means the source of something.

There has to be an original in order for there to be an iteration.

Iterations are the Person (or object) like a split second before (if I'm remembering everything correctly lol)

From Ep.49:

From Ep. 50:

( I think there's a 3rd scene somewhere that I'd like to inculde as well, but I don't know where right off and I don't have time to dig through 180+ episodes right now lol)

So there is an Original i.e. there's always a version that serves as the source, the basis, a version that is the Oldest, even if ultimately the age difference between all of them doesn't even total like 2 actual seconds

You can't make a copy, a duplicate, an iteration without an Original, because if there's no Original, no source, that just means that person doesn't exist.

The important thing in this case is: That doesn't make the other versions less Real.

Just because something isn't exactly the original doesn't mean it becomes not a real version.

My best example of what I mean, that I don't think I necessarily need to give, but I'm giving it because it's fun and slightly ironic, is it's like with trees.

With certain trees you can take a cutting off of the Original tree and plant it and it will grow and be Identical to the Original Tree.

Yes, there's only one Original Tree, one source where you got those cuttings, but it doesn't make the other trees Not Trees.

No one would look at a tree grown from a cutting and argue that its not a "real tree", because it is Real.

They're all still Real Trees.

They're all still Real Version of their Species, they have the same Real characteristics, the same Real makeup, they're not somehow fake version, they're still Real.

They're just not the Original.

(I wanted to give this sort of example because for any of the folks that don't know, that form of growing is called propagation... you can see why that's funny to me)

The characters seem to conflate Being the Original with Being the Real One, which means there's a lot of emphasis, a lot of importance put onto being the Original, as opposed to what it seems like generally actually matters to them, which is being Real. Obviously there's more to it than just that, there's other things that go into it, nuances and personal perspectives and opinions and experiences and consolidations and so on and so forth, but that's a different discussion and I feel like I've talked too much as it is, this's mostly just my perspective on that particular dyad, none of this is particularly important, or even really relevant to my original post, I just like talking, thank you and goodbye

You ever think about the fact that the Michael we'd had this whole time, the Michael that Base broke out of the Compound, is and was most likely just one of the various iterations and not technically the "real" Michael That the Original Michael, that one made the deal with Ty, that walked into the Compound willing to be experimented on to try to keep everyone safe, most likely never left and probably died there?

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You ever think about the fact that the Michael we'd had this whole time, the Michael that Base broke out of the Compound, is and was most likely just one of the various iterations and not technically the "real" Michael That the Original Michael, that one made the deal with Ty, that walked into the Compound willing to be experimented on to try to keep everyone safe, most likely never left and probably died there?

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Have this Definitely Very Important, Obviously W.BG Related Post

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Which Doctor Who Companion do you think reminds Ty most of Helen?

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I dont think it's canon, but I have to say, I do love the idea that Ty needs glasses/contacts to see in his daily life, like beyond reading glasses, because it's like

You have access to so much powerful technology...

You have the ability to travel through time, create entire copies of people, find almost anyone, anywhere, at any given moment, literally bring people back to life and heal them from fatal injuries....

... and you still can't tell me what the first letter on line 3 is from 20 feet away without using your special little magic eye windows

Incredible

I'm sure the in universe explanation for why he wouldn't have had corrective eye surgery would probably be something like consolidation making it a bit risky and it could potentially fuck up your eyes in a New and Different way, or he doesn't actually need glasses whatsoever, but personally I'm fond of the notion that...

...despite who he is and despite everything he does, all the horrific experiments and surgeries, 100% including things involving eyes...

...Ty is just too squeamish about the idea of having eye surgery done to him to get it done

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The universe had to make Ty and Anne enemies lest they become the worlds most powerful t4t couple

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Nobody should have been a little bit more pretentious and called himself Odysseus instead, like you know he would've loved making a bunch of smug parallels between himself/his missions and a Greek Hero/his Quests

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Missed the midnight new year roll over because i started thinking about W.BG at 11:55 and got too deep god bless godspeed and happy new years y'all 🙏🙏🫡🫡

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Come get your biblically accurate cattle drive here

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Anyway I think we should give one of the Sammies to Outlaw, I feel like he'd be a good dad, and Tex and Bluster can help co-parent

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Today I have for you all: Nobody themed collage

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Got handed some mustard packets from a brand id never seen before and did a little bit of a double take

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Got curious due to the nature of Woe.begone and the fact that I'm southern and have an accent so

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The only reason Ty didn't go Rogue (Outlaw Style) last season after spending so much time with MW is because he already had a Michael and it works like PEMDAS which, alas, in this case the order of operation goes Cowboy Michael > Michael > Cowboy Mikey > Mike/Mikey, so there was simply nothing to be done

Sorry MW, you're the Multiplication of Mikes, you could never have come before an Exponent