hmm it doesn’t feel like such a hard boundary to me. “transformation” for me shades naturally into “death and rebirth.” i think i’ve changed in big ways over time as a person and insofar as past selves of me have “died” i think they were happy to if it meant becoming me?
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mostly true, but I kinda like myself this time and I'd like to keep some of it
death implies complete cleansing and there are things (like a dead girl's memories) I'd rather not part with
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"scrap it all and become what we like" doesn't leave a lot of room for personal preference, or more fundamental disagreements with "what we like" means
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i don’t think death has to imply complete cleansing! i also think complete cleansing is in some sense impossible anyway 🙃 it’s transformation all the way down imo, or repression if done poorly
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so like, I hear what you're saying and it sounds like a v healthy approach
but there's nothing left of the first girl. she gets maybe a few seconds as an equal before dissolving along with her benefactor
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oh *huh*. the last panel is them disappearing? that's not how i was reading it at all lol welp
i don't think they actually disappear when you actually do this
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I mean, it looks that way to me; maybe I'm misreading it
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i kinda thought it was a "happy ending" symbol but now that you've pointed it out i can totally see that reading and it does make it more sinister 😬
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Fwiw this read to me as two conflicting internal parts of the same person ceasing to be reified once they became aware of each other, which from my experience I wouldn't equate to a death (but I guess depends on how you look at it)
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(the text reads "until it disappears completely")
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oh poop i forgot there was text. i think this is a misunderstanding of how parts work works 😡 nothing disappears completely 😡
Yeah, I guess there are two variables in that phrase to parse: what's "it", and where does it disappear from?
"until the specific reified trauma disappears completely from the realm of things I can depict as visual entities" is certainly something I've experienced
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transformation that is a ship of theseus except when you put the last wood chip in you realise you've got a superyacht
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