Of course, many ways of seeing immortality exist and your examples are perfectly fine Miskatonic. Obviously, immortality and they way it affects the mood/behavior of a character depends on a myriad of other factors - social and otherwise. I only favor the immortality as a curse trope because a...
I can't help but imagine immortality as an eternal fall in the abyss of depression - an endless fall in a bottomless pit... I've toyed with the concept in my WIP, and the few immortal characters are systematically cynics with a shattered heart, exhausted by the everlasting nature of their stay...
News of Lemmy's death left me a little shaky...
It seems your whole universe shrinks as time goes on and people you knew, loved and/or admired pass away.
It is necessary to understand that peace as a concept was not valued in the old world as it is today, in our modern world. Peace really became a part of political idealism after the Great War of 1914-1918, people having witnessed how horrible armed conflicts had become with the technology...
I don't know what western country you live in, but as far as my own is concerned, we swear all the time as well, and in many different ways. I'm given to understand that only a fragment of the socio-economic spectrum of the population would shy away from using swear words in common life...
Everything is not politics; politics tries its hardest to involve itself in everything, but when discussing some events or parts of our social universe, no matter what they are, one doesn't have to make it eminently political by picking a side or a stance. Sure, anything can be political; but...
As a paris-born French who is living away from his country in this dreaded times, I am shattered.
Let us weep for the dead, the wounded and the grieving. And let not fanaticism divide our people, but give us strength in face of adversity.
We will prevail in the face of fear.
Thanks for your...