first spell.

[bitchcrafting]

a friend of mine once said that being dead... it was like nothing. there was just darkness on the other side. like if you closed your eyes and could never open them again. so then i thought, maybe this is hell-- but then, i've been to hell-- visited hell, i mean, and no way this is it.

so where are we supposed to be? heaven? 'cause if heaven is supposed to be a bad sci-fi movie, where god's played by alec guinness and E.T is jesus....then that's just weird. too freaking weird, and i'm used to weird.

you guys have probably heard all of this over and over again. newbie falls out of the jelly tube, tries to understand what's going on, and totally gets it wrong. sorry. but since i'm stuck here for the time being, i'd like to make myself useful ... i mean, i can't pilot a ship or fix an engine, but i'm sure i could find a way to help.

okay, totally rambling now-- [ and then the line cuts. ]

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[acapriciousthing]

This isn't the afterlife. Trust me, I would know.

[bitchcrafting]

yeah, that's what i would've said, except how can any of us be sure?

[allfatherissues]

And what was hell like? [The hell with two L's, not one.]

[bitchcrafting]

it's what you make of it. your worst nightmare, repeated over and over again.
forever, i guess.

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[doggedly]

[about 85% of this makes no sense but]

visited hell eh
just for what--the hell of it?


avoided pomegranates?

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[bitchcrafting]

you think i was crazy enough to want to go down there? talk about a sick hobby

[ please. ]

didn't really have time to eat

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[whenimdone]

definitely not heaven. could be a hell dimension, but there's like, a ton of those, so it's hard to tell. and it's way better than the ones i've seen and heard about. could just be a spaceship, like everyone says. my bet's on the spaceship

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[bitchcrafting]

hell dimension? you're saying that we could be in another person's spaceship hell or something?

someone must've had a traumatic childhood

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[coolcubed]

Alec Guinness would be a great space god. Great enough that I'd be willing to let something as left field as an E.T. Jesus slide if they were a package deal. But I'm willing to take my chances saying this isn't an afterlife. None of the ones I've read about, at least. People all seem to be on the same page there.

It's more of a genre change from whatever you were before into sci-fi. Continued-life.

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[bitchcrafting]

what would be better than E.T jesus? william shatner? honestly though, they'd probably be trapped here with the rest of us

so another universe, basically.

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[pushfall]

Jesus really likes Reese's pieces. Who knew?

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[bitchcrafting]

i might be wrong about that
i mean, if that were the case, i'd be disappointed by the lack of reese's pieces on this ship

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[falteringly]

You're incorrect in assuming either. [ He pauses. ] And I'm certain there are others who will accept your offer of help.

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[bitchcrafting]

What makes you so sure? [ Zoe takes a breath, adding a shrug that carries across a voice. ] And there better be. Space ship or not, I'm going to go crazy if all we're doing is sitting around.

[circumitus]

not hell. though been here long enough that it might as well be. you either get used to it, or you go away. [Thanks Rey, totally not cryptic and foreboding in any way.]

[bitchcrafting]

go away where?

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[coy]

I don't think we're dead. I mean this can't be what the after life is like, right?

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[bitchcrafting]

i don't think there's rules for what it could be. i mean, that's what the afterlife is, right? we have no idea what it's going to be

heaven, hell-- whatever. maybe that's just two of the possibilities.

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[shallbeavenged]

How did you return from Hell?

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[bitchcrafting]

i was never really there. it was more like... dreaming.

[nightblogs]

[magical teens high-five freeze frame]

so tell us what you can do dude we aint here to guess

[bitchcrafting]

[ cue john hughes movie magical style ]

right. that's a lot to share with a bunch of strangers. just tell me what you need done, and i'll tell you if i can help.

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[ironsider]

Wouldn't that be fucked up if this were heaven.

Maybe it's Hell.

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[bitchcrafting]

i really don't think this is hell

might suck to be stuck here, but it's not unbearable. not enough terror and torture to be hell

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[wolfchild]

death is not like that

[ not commenting on the hell thing since she's happily stalking the other conversations. ]

locked.

[bitchcrafting]

i'm starting to think that we can't compare: different worlds, different rules. doesn't make sense that it would all be the same.

[ wow aren't you a creeper arya!! ]

[gothchicklit]

It sure as fuck isn't Heaven. I'd say, if it IS the afterlife, it's some kind of shitty in between.

[ Considering October's dead back home, she's not 100% sure if this is the afterlife or not. But it's a possibility. All she knows is that there's no way in hell this is Heaven; it can't be. ]

[bitchcrafting]

purgatory or limbo, you mean? i'm kind of hoping at this point that we're just on a space adventure.

space adventure i can deal with