Well, I always respected the serpent: that it had no tools at its disposal except its mind. The fact people like you came to treat its cunning as an allegory for deception and evil is your own fault.
Slimy? Well, I suppose that's a pleasant change from your last allegation. I am not repetitive, nor am I... what's that word you people use... toxic? I was voted most congenial in my ward, actually.
Slimy instead of dry? I'll keep that in mind. The very meaning of what you call work is toxic. Multiple years of being exposed to your gas agrees with me.
Everybody uses fear to manipulate people. Children are taught right from wrong not through empathy but punishment. The fear of facing consequences for breaking rules arises soon as we turn two years old. While we are still learning to walk.
I'd ask what kind of childhood you had to think all parents are like that, but I've read your file. I'm not going to argue the finer points of gentle parenting with you.
Let me clarify: they don't use those fears in the sick ways you do.
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Date: 2025-06-21 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-22 01:48 am (UTC)Hey, he had plenty of venom at his disposal. But this isn't about a tale as old as time-- sort of. This is about your own slimy plans.no subject
Date: 2025-06-22 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-22 02:13 am (UTC)Slimy instead of dry? I'll keep that in mind.The very meaning of what you call work is toxic. Multiple years of being exposed to your gas agrees with me.
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Date: 2025-06-22 02:23 am (UTC)Oh, and toxin is the general term for broad damage, you know. Environment, organic systems and the like. I believe my work is more refined than that.
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Date: 2025-06-22 02:43 am (UTC)It's adorable that you think I'm completely free.
And I believe in Santa Clause, but I keep my delusions to myself. Yours are feral, animalistic.
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Date: 2025-06-22 02:56 am (UTC)Is that supposed to upset me? We are all afraid sometime in our lives.
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Date: 2025-06-22 03:13 am (UTC)And decent folk don't use those fears to use people.no subject
Date: 2025-06-22 03:23 am (UTC)So yes. "Decent folk" do use those fears.
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Date: 2025-06-22 03:38 am (UTC)I'd ask what kind of childhood you had to think all parents are like that, but I've read your file. I'm not going to argue the finer points of gentle parenting with you.
Let me clarify: they don't use those fears in the sick ways you do.
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Date: 2025-06-22 10:06 am (UTC)[He doesn't.]
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Date: 2025-06-23 01:57 am (UTC)I'm not going to explain it to you like a child. You know the difference-- the methods, and the intention.no subject
Date: 2025-06-23 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-23 10:23 pm (UTC)Yes, a right pain in my ass.no subject
Date: 2025-06-23 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-23 11:32 pm (UTC)We’ve been at this too many years for you to be misinformed on that.no subject
Date: 2025-06-24 10:23 am (UTC)[When they involve terrorism, psychological abuse and poisoning the water supply? Yes you can.]
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Date: 2025-06-25 12:19 am (UTC)I can and will, always.[and just cause Dick’s a petty little bitch]no subject
Date: 2025-06-25 09:28 am (UTC)Always and forever. And so it goes.
[His message is abstract, connected to the "can and will, always" without involving the other man as anything but subject.]
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Date: 2025-06-25 06:48 pm (UTC)Irritating too.wrap?
Date: 2025-06-25 08:21 pm (UTC)[Repetition indeed.]