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That’s my Manhattan: neat and proper on the surface, walking near-death experience underneath.
This is late-stage capitalism; evil is everywhere. But if she can help her family, then at least she’s getting a little good out of it.
She is Brooklyn, and in this moment she speaks true.
Some people have no business being both manipulative and deeply kind.
no corporation needs help from eldritch abominations to do awful things.
Cats don’t decide to follow this religion one day, that religion another, and some unholy mishmash on a third; they worship themselves, and are fine for it.
nothing lives that does not depend at least to some degree on the death of another being.
but city magic can do anything if an avatar just tells it how.
Every court is a horror movie setting at its core, where property matters more than human lives and justice gets measured in billable hours.
“Fuck the future,” Marina says. “Everything’s going to shit anyway. Let’s just make the next five minutes amazing.”
oh, God, rats and pigeons and cockroaches, and pigeons carrying rats holding cockroaches! She’s never seen anything so nasty, and she’s a Lovecraftian horror.
Please take care of yourselves, and each other. As Neek would say, we all we got.
