Jun 04, 2025
I'm gonna use this chapter as a rant bucket. I've been reading only The End is Now entries for the past 3 weeks and one of the core variants of plot I see is 'I can't promise tomorrow, so let's live for today'. But the thing is, I think that's such a copout way of approaching the plot, because it serves to airbrush over the complexity of emotions one would feel in this scenario and focus only on the extremes. "I wouldn't get the kind of nostalgia [...] but that was okay." Like, why can't she just be sad? Why do we need to paper over the obvious depression with a simple negation? It's not okay. You will die in two months or so. You can acknowledge that fact, get depressed and figure out that it's NOT okay. It's the best it can be but the ceiling is at like a 3/10. You're not living in a solution, you're living in a compromise, and it feels like you're always kind of trying to tiptoe around that point in favour of a clear, unambiguous antithesis.