text | in spacetext no one can see you crying like a toddler.

[borndying]

Who cares if you die?

( feel free to interpret that however you please, denizens of the EXTREMELY POORLY NAMED tranquility! all possible interpretations are acceptable in harry's current state of complete emotional breakdown. he probably doesn't care if any of you die, for instance, and may bitterly resent you for having an actual answer to this question.

who cared when norman died? who really cared. people mourned the man who'd contributed so much, but that man was an idea. an image carefully cultivated. harry knew enough to know better, but even he wouldn't pretend to have known his father, and who's going to care when harry dies? just like norman did.

harry's legacy is just disappointment and isolation. his best friend is his only friend and he's pretty sure they're totally not friends any more, also. everything sucks and he broke a bottle when he got back to his room and he can't be bothered to clean it up, he's just going to sit here and hate all of you, publicly and violently, and

you know, by text, because he looks even shitter than usual. )

Comments

[borndying]

Do none of you read the other conversations on a post? Is that genuinely not a thing here? No one ever thinks, 'maybe I should check if someone else has thought of this incredibly obvious question and the relevant answer is already available to me'?

I mean, for a ship full of people constantly shitting on people who ask questions, you'd think this would be less of a problem.

[redhotsummers]

You're really assuming that I give a shit enough to look at what other people are saying. You're asking a stupid question in the first place. Don't get your pants in a twist just because people are questioning it.

[borndying]

( this sounds vaguely familiar. harry looks up the number and

oh )

Oh, right, angry prison guy.

[redhotsummers]

Yep, angry prison guy.

[Wonderful nickname.]

Also a guy who happens to be right.

[borndying]

Aw, and if you really believe that, that's all that matters.

[redhotsummers]

You're a little shit, you know that right?

[borndying]

( somewhere, harry is laughing. )