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Castiel ([personal profile] trenchcoatedly) wrote2012-06-26 10:30 am
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016 + THESE ARE BUT THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS [video]

Can you imagine what it must be like to be an ant?

Problems that humanity deals with would seem irrelevant - the warming of the planet and all it's related consequences, the population explosion and the subsequent issues, including overcrowding and famine, the expansion of information, and the overwhelming perseverance of human violence. But there would be other problems - like the catastrophe of the appearance of an anteater or another predator animal. There would be tasks like to gather food. And there would be nothing but the colony and the queen.

Now imagine if an ant were to become a human. How difficult it would be to grapple with basic bodily functions, and the variety of emotions and chemical responses each action and reaction brings. Even humans must learn to walk - can you imagine if an ant tried to learn to be bipedal? I imagine it would be a task more monumental than for a human to enter space.

It's difficult to think outside your boundaries, no matter what you start as. Difficult to understand something or someone on a scale dimensions different than yours.

This is how I feel the Admiral sees us.

[PRIVATE to Ivy]

How would you feel about beehives in the greenhouse? I think they would benefit the plants greatly.

[PRIVATE to the ADMIRAL]

Would you permit beehives to be added to the greenhouse?

[PRIVATE to DRACULA]

I'm sorry that I killed you.

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umgekehrt: (Default)

[personal profile] umgekehrt 2012-06-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
As ever, a beacon of cheer.

[A distantly terrifying, unnamedly dreadful beacon of cheer, but being matter-of-fact is how Stildyne handles that.]
Edited 2012-06-26 20:25 (UTC)
nolongerhollow: (orly?)

[private]

[personal profile] nolongerhollow 2012-06-26 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dracula sounds...fine, actually. Neither distracted nor subdued, his voice is cheerful and has if anything more life in it than before.]

You did not kill me. That thing tore me up on the way out. I almost...knew it would.

Now I merely face the prospect of figuring out who I am now that it is gone.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=bmshipper-arts> (thinking † an unjust path is unwise)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-26 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe the saying is "takes one to know one," Chief?
trenchcoatedly: ✪hollow-art.com (thinking † humans want and lie)

Re: [private]

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-26 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It was quite tightly bound into you.

It seems you are granted the chance to make that decision for yourself.
umgekehrt: A gauntfaced man, from neck up, looking at camera with an ironic smile. Has yellow eyes, scar bisecting left eye. (Says the officer)

[personal profile] umgekehrt 2012-06-26 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You're coming dangerously close to displaying a sense of humor, there.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=isapiens> (thinking † there must be an answer)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-26 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't understand why this would be a terrible thing. Perhaps I would be creative next. Had I had dreams, I would dream of such a gift.
umgekehrt: (Default)

[personal profile] umgekehrt 2012-06-26 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
People might start to suspect the admiral had replaced you.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=awakencordy> (thinking † things will settle)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-26 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That I was the admiral, or that there was someone masquerading as me?
umgekehrt: (Default)

[personal profile] umgekehrt 2012-06-26 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The latter. Or there's a flood on.
trenchcoatedly: (thinking † over there)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-26 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I would be a poor choice to masquerade as, though given the Admiral's power I suppose it's possible.
Edited 2012-06-26 22:02 (UTC)
childhood_surgery: (Think)

Video:

[personal profile] childhood_surgery 2012-06-27 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
If I am viewed as a human, then your Admiral truly has taken leave of their senses.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=awakencordy> (thinking † things will settle)

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[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
A human and an ant is an analogy. It can be anything to any other thing infinite scales smaller. A bird to a whale. An angel to a rock.
Edited 2012-06-27 01:01 (UTC)
nakesnakecobracobra: (no cure and no protection)

[personal profile] nakesnakecobracobra 2012-06-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Quite the speech, I'm impressed.
trenchcoatedly: ✪hollow-art.com (thinking † humans want and lie)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. Spoken language is not a strength of mine.
nakesnakecobracobra: (for the sake of another)

[personal profile] nakesnakecobracobra 2012-06-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
By any chance, do you speak from experience?
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=bmshipper-arts> (thinking † an unjust path is unwise)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.
nakesnakecobracobra: (remedies and no corrections)

[personal profile] nakesnakecobracobra 2012-06-27 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
How curious. And what are you then, if not human?
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=tsavorite_icons> (power † the angel of thursdays)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an angel.
nakesnakecobracobra: (no symptoms to find)

[personal profile] nakesnakecobracobra 2012-06-27 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Of the Christian persuasion, I presume? What must it be like, I wonder, to be lowered to this level?
trenchcoatedly: ✪hollow-art.com (power † and the entire eastern seaboard)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I still possess the vast majority of my Might.
nakesnakecobracobra: (the virus is spreading)

[personal profile] nakesnakecobracobra 2012-06-27 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
The 'vast majority' isn't the same as having all of your abilities.
childhood_surgery: (Ponder)

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[personal profile] childhood_surgery 2012-06-27 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
An applicable one, only if my captor is truly more advanced.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=isapiens> (thinking † there must be an answer)

[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I don't mind it.
trenchcoatedly: ✪<lj user=tsavorite_icons> (power † the angel of thursdays)

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[personal profile] trenchcoatedly 2012-06-27 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
That is my suspicion.
nolongerhollow: (baffled)

[private]

[personal profile] nolongerhollow 2012-06-27 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I know. My wickedness did not begin when I became a vampire. There were plenty of cracks for the evil to get into me well before that.

Thanks to you and the Father I can look forward to the same basic freedoms as any thinking being, including the freedoms of moral choice and faith.

I have actually already made a few decisions on that front, though my head is still spinning some.
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