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[selfpreservationist]

You're far more optimistic than I am.

[failedsafe]

Yep! I'm not saying don't be realistic or whatever, but if you dwell on the negative you're giving it energy and power instead of what you actually want.

[selfpreservationist]

I keep my power to myself--little though it may be.

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I had a thought just now.

[failedsafe]

Yeah, what is it?

[selfpreservationist]

What if I... want to love the part of him he hates about himself? What if that's why I long for him? As though he might be willing to see... the good in his humanity... if someone cherished it.

[failedsafe]

That does seem like a given to me. You don't really get to pick and choose convenient things to love about someone.

[selfpreservationist]

... no, I suppose not.

[failedsafe]

It is a worthwhile endeavour though.

[selfpreservationist]

Love, you mean?

[failedsafe]

Yeah. And cherishing that part of him, or anyone really.

[selfpreservationist]

[makes a soft, amused noise]

I wonder, sometimes. "Love seeketh only self to please..."

[failedsafe]

"Nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease"

[selfpreservationist]

"... and builds a hell in heaven's despite." Well, we've butchered that poem spectacularly.

[failedsafe]

I really like that one.

[selfpreservationist]

So do I. As I'm sure you've guessed.

[failedsafe]

Yeah, he's kind of like comfort food for me, at this point, haha.