behind each of these accounts is an ape. scary huh? I like to pretend they're not but sometimes it nags from the back of my mind
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some people experience acute distress over not knowing the ape behind a name
"what's your real name" they ask, sometimes insistently
weirdos
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myself, I prefer not to know these things, although I am ofc curious
this game of identities is more fun than the banality of a legal name
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I find this difficult to reconcile with knowing that many of these apes are enjoyable to meet irl (stares at wall, reminded of own apeness)
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can't some of us be aliens or sentient weather systems or trees that are just really excited to talk to "animals"
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or hydrogen-fusing gas clouds as the case may be
you guys are beautiful even if you decide to get planets one cycle
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anyway. I'll be in low-Internet places until end of august, mostly around so-called "trees" and "tents", expect only sporadic transmissions