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Audrey Jensen (fknaudrey) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-08-22 16:51:00

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[Peter Parker]

O, guru of pop culture and all-around genius. I need you to settle a debate.

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	fromyoutube 2019-08-22 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Sure. What's the debate? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fknaudrey 2019-08-22 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, so I'm 99% sure Billy is just fucking with me cause he wants to get my nerd brain all riled up and see how far I'll argue it, but... Is the 1998 horror classic (and I use that term loosely) which spawned eight sequels called Stab or Scream? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fromyoutube
2019-08-22 11:27 pm UTC (link)

~~THAT'S THE NAME! How could I forget~~

~~So, how do I~~

~~Stab is~~

~~Did you see that post with that girl Gwen, and how she was like, "OMG SPIDER-MAN OMG PETER PARKER I LOVE YOUR COMICS" and I'm like oh uhm gee comics what the what?~~

~~Who's Billy again? Too dumb a question? I don't think I've talked to him, so, I mean, it isn't technically~~

So you know how stories can exist within stories, and stories can also be true, like how Star Wars is apparently true? That's how Stab and Scream work. Except Scream came first. In 1996. And is a good sized, kind of genre revitalizing franchise that spawned some sequels and parodies and ~~a tv series on MTV that I kind of saw and oh my go~~ stuff like that. So, I mean, technically, it sounds like you're both right? Because Scream came out in 1996, and it has less sequels than Stab, which came out in Scream 2 in 1998 (well, the Stab movie is 1998, and Scream 2 is 1997, if I remember correctly).

However, it should be noted that each of our worlds is different, so what exists in one world may not exist in another. (Like the mutants/wonders those little girls talk about? Not in my world, but they still have Iron Man, etc, in their world.) Or it could be twisted in another world. ~~Like I'm pretty sure~~

For instance, I'm apparently a figment of someone's imagination in other worlds, and I'm also a pig. And have a love child with someone named Wolverine, who, according to Klara and Molly, smells bad or something. Maybe figment is a little harsh. Maybe it's more like the universes collide more than we realize, and there's some kind of background leak that seeps into the minds of others and comes up as stories because they don't exist in the same capacity in those worlds as they do in their own. So maybe stories are easier ways to understand the multiverse.

But if facehuggers are real? I may have to tap out for awhile.

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fknaudrey
2019-08-23 12:00 am UTC (link)

Whatthewhat?

Are you telling me that there's a version of these movies that's not only good but that in some Mandela Effect Shazam-Kazaam world the movies that I remember are movies-within-a-movie? ~~So that would mean that~~

So Wolverine is a mutant. He has regenerative abilities and claws that eject from his hands which were fused with adamantine in the Weapon-X program which was this big scientific bad guy program in Canada. He's kind of a dick. And he probably does smell bad. Like cigar smoke and week-old stale beer. And wet dog. Cause he's super hairy.

But what I'm hearing is basically that it's like that Heinlein book? The Number of the Beast. Where the crew of the Gay Deceiver end up in Oz and John Carter's Mars and other Heinlein storylines because the ship's continua device allows them to break through the sixth dimension and there are (6⁶)⁶ total dimensions that are accessible which essentially comprises all of fictional history and every alternate-universe version of that history that's ever been created and then some.

And that would mean that I am... from a slasher flick?

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fromyoutube
2019-08-23 12:12 am UTC (link)

Yes, I am.

Ew. I don't want alternate reality love children with someone who smells like cigar smoke and beer. I mean, it sucks he was in that program, but gross. If I'm having alternate reality babies with someone, why can't it be someone who at least smells nice?

Yes.

Kind of. More like a slasher tv series... But it's all the same universe.

I'm sorry! I didn't want to be the one to tell you! I wasn't even sure until you mentioned Scream! I've had this whole "you exist in another reality" thrown at me a few times, and then Gwen told me about being a comic book character, and that came from left field (and I mean FAR left field, so far it was coming back around the globe into right), and I didn't want to do that to someone! Especially not someone who's my friend! And I wanted to be sure, and I wanted to find a way to tell you without breaking your brain if I was right, because it's a lot to find out you're a story in someone else's reality. I'm sorry!

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	fknaudrey 2019-08-23 12:15 am UTC (link)
	I don't mean to ignore your alternate reality love children, but they made a slasher into a TV series? How long until that got cancelled? And have you seen it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fromyoutube
2019-08-23 12:28 am UTC (link)

No no. It's fine. I was mostly trying to distract you and let you know it wasn't just you. ~~And I don't know who else to talk to about~~

They did.

So I'm from 2018, and I know there were two seasons and talks of a third. I don't know what happened to the third. As in, I don't know when it came out or comes out because I ended up here before I could find out.

Not all of it. ~~I didn't make the connection, I swear! I wasn't being~~ ~~I'm sorry!~~ ~~Please don't~~ Not even most of it. There was a lot going on when it came out. ~~I'm sorry.~~ I'm sorry.

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fknaudrey
2019-08-23 12:35 am UTC (link)

Wow, that's a lot longer than I would have thought. I mean, a classic gothic horror like Hannibal or a monster of the week show like ~~Supernatural~~ ~~oh wait~~ ~~Buffy~~ no True Blood or even an anthology series like Tales From the Crypt or Twilight Zone all make sense, but you can't do a slasher as a TV show. The format doesn't work. Harper's Island barely lasted one season and even then the ratings were abysmal. So I'm impressed... I think?

But there's nothing to be sorry for, though. I mean, I asked. And to be fair I know you're Spiderman so I guess this just evens things up.

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fromyoutube
2019-08-23 12:49 am UTC (link)

There's a whole thing about that. Totally meta. Or breaking the fourth wall. Something. ~~I'm too fra~~ And I know there's at least one other similar show, but I don't remember the name. I didn't watch it. I think it lasted two seasons? All I remember is something about sorority girls or something.

Everybody knows. What's the point of a secret identity if everyone knows?

It's a hard thing broach with someone. What do you even say? "Hi. I know we just met, but you're fictional in my world. What's it like actually being real?" That's just... Maybe some people would do it, but it just sounds insane. And blindsiding people? That's just... It's not pleasant.

This whole thing is making me think we're all stories to someone.

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fknaudrey
2019-08-23 01:01 am UTC (link)

Let me guess. Noah? Cause I remember Noah having at least one tirade about that so it would make sense that one of them made it to film.

I mean. I'm gonna be honest, I kind of figured I was from something but I always imagined that Stavo's comic existed as an actual comic in someone else's universe somewhere. Or every other universe? I just assumed that was eventually going to be the story I was going to hear and it would get all meta and I could rationalize it because I'd already started to rationalize it. But I sort of always figured that the Woodsboro murders and all the other Ghostface slayings were just a thing that happened in every world. Like Dahmer and Bundy happened in every world. And I think maybe that's the part that I'm having trouble connecting to?

I guess there are a lot of things - huge things - that happened in your world and other worlds that didn't happen in mine. What's a few spree/serial killers when other people have dealt with aliens and world-destroying robots or... the apocalypse?

But hey. I spent twenty hours playing video games with you, you're as real as anyone I know from back home.

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fromyoutube
2019-08-23 01:34 am UTC (link)

Probably? I remember it was a guy.

I get that. I thought a lot of things were pretty universal over similar worlds, but then I found out they aren't, and it's a lot. Still. ~~I don't know what to say that doesn't make it sound like I'm trying to talk about myself. I'm not. I just want you to know it isn't just you~~ Not to talk about me. I'm not trying to do that. Just kind of let you know I know that mood. It's a big one.

Spree/serial killers are still a big deal, especially if they impact you. They're just a different brand of big deal than aliens. Like the whole thing about how your trauma isn't more or less than someone else's trauma; it's just yours, and all trauma is valid. And I use the word trauma because it seems like most of us are pretty messed up and come from messed up places.

You're real, too. I think you and Rose were some of my first friends here. So thanks for being real.

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fknaudrey
2019-08-23 10:01 pm UTC (link)

No, no it's really fine! You've had to conceptualize this whole thing recently too. You need to vent too. It's perfectly alright. And it is helpful. It's helpful to know that someone else has started working their way through this whole confusing thing and is having trouble with it too.

Not that I... I mean, it's an interesting thing to work your way through, the idea that you don't exist at all in some other world or many other worlds. But it's something I have thought about before. Think of all the worlds you do exist in. All the different timelines that could exist with you in them and things playing out almost entirely the same. It's one of those things that can make you feel incredibly small and insignificant but, at the same time, knowing you're just one mote in a giant universe is exceptionally freeing at the same time. None of the mistakes you've made really matter and forward movement is the only way you have left to go.

Or maybe I'm just fucking rambling and none of that made sense at all but I want it to because something has to make sense right now.

Thank you for being real too.

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fromyoutube
2019-08-24 04:07 pm UTC (link)

I think it's easier to imagine stories being true than to imagine yourself as a story. We all end up stories, I guess, but that's more of a "one day my grandkids will tell stories about me" kind of thing versus "I am literally a conceptualized story in someone else's reality and do not exist outside of certain mediums".

There's also the opposite kind of where things play out drastically different, either from a notably big change or a tiny change that you think has no real effect but does. It doesn't make the end results of it not mattering in the long any different, though. It's both a little depressing and a little freeing to think it may not actually matter all that much. On the one hand, most of us want our lives to have meaning, whatever it is we can find to assign meaning to it. On the other hand, it can take the burden off a little bit over not doing something correctly or making a wrong choice or inaction or whatever else.

Now I'm wondering if there's an alternate reality of this reality.

I ramble all the time. Sometimes it helps sort out my thoughts. Stream of conscience word vomit can be good. It makes sense to me, but maybe that's because we're going through similar things.

If this doesn't spawn a ton of "keep it real" jokes, I'm going to be very disappointed in us.

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fknaudrey
2019-08-27 08:16 pm UTC (link)

I'm kind of wondering if there's an alternate reality to my reality, honestly. You know, every decision that you made, if you'd made the opposite one, a different timeline splits off in full butterfly effect style. One innocuous change just snowballs through the entire timeline. And yet, when you sit down and think about it, so many things stay the same too. Which really does take the weight off certain decisions. There are big changes too. If my dad hadn't been offered the job in Lakewood, we might have ended up maybe staying in New Orleans and everything would be different. I'm sort of curious what that version of me looks like.

I'm glad it makes sense, though. And I'm glad that someone doesn't just think I'm being nihilistic when I say that it's sort of comforting to know that I don't exist in any reality other than my own and that there are ten trillion other realities completely different than the one I've experienced. I'm really okay with that part

Hey. Peter.

Keep it real.

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fromyoutube
2019-08-30 01:17 am UTC (link)

Given how many realities I seem to exist in, as well as those from my world, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of there being at least one other reality similar to your world but with marked differences. But it also seems like, from my incredibly limited experience and perspective, that maybe some changes would always (or almost always) happen. Maybe 99 out of 100 realities you will always end up in Lakewood somehow.

I think knowing you exist in different realities is more stress than it's worth. Maybe it'd be cool to meet another version of yourself, but what if you're a dick in another reality? Then people here expect you to be a dick, and you're not. Like how Klara and Molly except Tony and Steve to be jerks, but they're really not. I mean, okay, Cap dropped an airplane gangway on me, but I know it wasn't a dick move. But it's also nice to know there's variety out there, that it isn't all some slight to drastic variation on the same reality. Yeah, there's enough variables it would result in some drastically different ones, but it'd also be kind of boring, you know?

The realest, Audrey.

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