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Courf } courfeyhot

[philosoferre]

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why does slang keep developing so much. i feel old.

[courfeyhot]

that's how language works mon cher

I do too. I found a grey hair

[philosoferre]

I find that valid but very distressing.

Oh no! Or is that an oh no? I feel like you could rock a grey hair look.

[courfeyhot]

same. This new-fangled slang.

It's an oh no. I'm sure I could but not prematurely. That's a trend that looks great on some people, but I think it'd look silly on me rn.

[philosoferre]

Fist shake at the youths together?

I think you could pull it off if you tried to play it as that ombre look, but I acknowledge I am not the fashion conscious one of the two of us.

[courfeyhot]

it's a date.

Yeah, I appreciate the thought, but I'm gonna pass hard. I like my dark hair, I'm still growing it out from that undercut.

@incredulite

[philosoferre]

You are good for far more than that, my friend, but thank you.

It is hardly so much woe as it is philosophy driving me into a bit of madness.

[incredulite]

As philosophy so often will do. Empedocles leapt to his death into a crater so that he might be deemed a god. Isocrates is said to have starved himself to death. Chrysippus died of laughter after giving wine to his donkey and seeing it attempt to eat figs. Philosophy gets to the mind.

I will hope your fate as a philosopher is less maddening, but no less interesting.

[philosoferre]

I don't intend to give wine to a donkey, so hopefully that will help keep me from too terrible a fate.

But I have a feeling I'll still end up a little mad. We have to be, to follow who we do.

@deblayer

[philosoferre]

I don't think that'd be smart with the alcohol.

[deblayer]

Several liters of water, then.

[philosoferre]

I've been hydrating appropriately. Just relaxing, is all.

[And sometimes relaxing means drinks and random hypotheticals.]

[deblayer]

Are you sure?

[philosoferre]

I'm taking a break from thinking about real things. Trying to have fun. It's a thing people do, you know.

[deblayer]

What we do is fun.

[philosoferre]

We're trying to change the world, Enjolras. It can be fun, but it's not always easy.

[deblayer]

Easy is rarely fun.

[philosoferre]

[There's a beat. It's a long one. He's sobering up, now, and more talking to him makes him feel more tired than he was before he started drinking. He's clearly taking a moment to remember just how much he cares about his best friend.]

I love you, Alain, and you know I care, but I don't want to talk about any of that tonight. Can it wait?

[deblayer]

[Listen: there is no off-switch.]

If you're genuinely taking care of yourself and have a ride home.

[But there's a mostly non-functional, occasionally utilized dimmer for approximately two (2) people in the entire world.]

[philosoferre]

[It's enough.]

I am, and I do. Promise.

[deblayer]

Call when you're on your way?

[philosoferre]

I will.

[And he definitely will call, not too terribly later on.]

[deblayer]

[Does that meant he will be invited to the apartment's blob of Enjolras-low-key-work and other-Amis-bonelessly-piling?

It does.]

@lafautedevoltaire

[philosoferre]

It is an incredibly rickety and mostly non-fuctional thing, mind, but essentially yes.

@vagueambition

[philosoferre]

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Being banal in this case is hardly so terrible a thing. It means there are people in the world who understand you.
And besides, I've seen your art. You can hardly classify yourself as entirely uncreative and unoriginal.

Nothing that you'll find of use, then. I'm sorry to hear it.

[wow i did NOT mean to leave you hanging - weekend got way busier than expected]

[vagueambition]

And yet I fit too well in the suit of a "suffering artist" to call myself original, by any means.

The universe will rue the day some piece of advice does get through to me. I'll be too powerful.

no worries! i backtag into oblivion

[philosoferre]

Your art itself is original. I know you hold yourself in very low esteem, my friend, but that doesn't mean I won't keep trying to show you your worth.

I feel like I remember someone saying once that their troubles were God's way of making sure they didn't get so powerful they fought Him. Was that you?

[vagueambition]

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being unoriginal. Most art is derivative.

It was me, but I believe the exact quote was, "God nerfed me." Still waiting for the DLC that reinstates my original powers.

[philosoferre]

So long as you're not labelling yourself uncreative. You're the most creative person I know.

Might be in those articles you refuse to listen to. [But he won't push it.] Let me know when you're about to fight God; I've got questions for Him before you do.

[vagueambition]

Creativity flourishes alongside unoriginality, tbh. It's a lot easier to churn out content when you're not overly concerned about how groundbreaking it is.

I mean, consider the fact all the classical art we hold in esteem is greek/christian mythology fanart.

You say that like I'm going to win my fight against God. I don't expect to win, you'll have plenty of time for questions.

[philosoferre]

I'll take your word for it. You're far more the expert on creativity than I, as I said. Though I suppose even in philosophy other philosophers build on one another.

If you get the powers God nerfed, you probably would. You wouldn't've been nerfed if you weren't a threat.

[vagueambition]

Yeah, and so do scientists. Every form of human creativity is built on the backbone of what came before it.

Haha true enough. What's that meme? "Are you a boy or a girl?" "I'm a THREAT"

That'll be me.

[philosoferre]

Well said, my friend.

It suits you, honestly. I'm looking forward to the day you fight God.