"Czechoslovakia no longer exists. The airline went bankrupt in 1994." Cool how some parts of reality just disappear in non-magical ways.
Oh, CZECH monks, right, that was a thing!
"If she'd sing a silly song about anchovies, it built on the music box tune." Ooh. :)
"until the Buffybot picked up on it and started singing along and it got weird; what part of its programming made it do that?" Love it when the Bot brings the weird :)
"She even bought a cheap keyboard and tried to pick out the melody but it seems like it's missing some notes, somehow." Nice.
"and she suddenly knows that the song was called "Dawn"… And she can't not think about how almost all of the reality-changer spells she's read about or experienced firsthand require a keystone, an anchor of some sort to maintain the illusion" Oh, cool cool cool
"like people keep forgetting her" terrifying :)
"Dawn grew up surrounded by people who defied prophecy, who survived the impossible, reading and watching stories about self-actualization and individualism and deciding for yourself who you get to be. She knows so many stories in which someone who's raised to be one thing learns to be something else, learns to shake off thoughts and patterns she was taught was a basic fact of existence and sing her own song instead." Nice commentary on the Buffyverse (and not only, of course)
I like the ending. Is she just going to disappear? We don't know! It's scary.
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Cool how some parts of reality just disappear in non-magical ways.
Oh, CZECH monks, right, that was a thing!
"If she'd sing a silly song about anchovies, it built on the music box tune."
Ooh. :)
"until the Buffybot picked up on it and started singing along and it got weird; what part of its programming made it do that?"
Love it when the Bot brings the weird :)
"She even bought a cheap keyboard and tried to pick out the melody but it seems like it's missing some notes, somehow."
Nice.
"and she suddenly knows that the song was called "Dawn"… And she can't not think about how almost all of the reality-changer spells she's read about or experienced firsthand require a keystone, an anchor of some sort to maintain the illusion"
Oh, cool cool cool
"like people keep forgetting her"
terrifying :)
"Dawn grew up surrounded by people who defied prophecy, who survived the impossible, reading and watching stories about self-actualization and individualism and deciding for yourself who you get to be. She knows so many stories in which someone who's raised to be one thing learns to be something else, learns to shake off thoughts and patterns she was taught was a basic fact of existence and sing her own song instead."
Nice commentary on the Buffyverse (and not only, of course)
I like the ending. Is she just going to disappear? We don't know! It's scary.