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Rosenblum Hall ([personal profile] facultwist) wrote in [community profile] witheredblum2025-04-19 03:10 pm

sinking down, down

Death is a drop into a blackness that swallows you. You feel the movement of not air but shadow across your face as you plummet, and there is no bottom. No crash.

If there is another side, you do not reach it.

It is neither the light of heaven or the fires of hell that greets you when you wake. And wake you do, to the buzz and flicker of old fluorescent lights.

You are laid out beside a full-size competitive swimming pool, half-filled with stagnant water. The doors out are blocked off by locked doors covered in caution tape. The locker rooms are long since emptied, paint peeling from the humidity. The only signs of habitation are a few pieces of scattered graffiti.

Welcome to your new home. There's no sunlight, no indication of time passing. Just you and each other and your thoughts. the stagnant water bubbles a little occasionally, but there's nothing in it.

Before long you'll realize that you no longer need to eat or drink. You might notice your hand go through something if you don't focus. You're a ghost now. What's that they say about unfinished business?
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-17 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The Brothers Grimm purposely made a lot of the stories darker and more fucked up than they were originally cuz they hated women.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Figures.

[Fuck those guys.]

...so did they actually have the most on the nose surname ever or was that a pen name?
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-17 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That was their actual fucking name! Fucked up, right?!
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-17 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
What the hell, that's messed up. That's like- I dunno, old-timey comic book shit.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-17 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s like they were named by the guy who writes those books they based that HBO show on. “A Ballad of Frost & Flame” or something.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-18 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like they were named by George Lucas.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-18 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I don’t watch those movies.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-05-18 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
...Echo was a fan.

[They're probably all double-dead, and it's not like her sisters in general are actually a secret anymore.]

You're not missing much except spectacle, personally.
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[personal profile] bellpepperexercise 2025-05-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
They were kind of set up to make something messed up from the beginning, huh?
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[personal profile] trustheart 2025-05-17 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s fucking literary or whatever. I dunno. English Literature wasn’t my best class.