*sigh* Pain, pleasure, and muses

[sylph_fics]

Has anyone else ever desperately wished that Immortals (or vampires) were real? Anyone else out there ever wanted the chance to meet one, be friends with one, somehow touch all those centuries that they knew and loved? Anyone else out there ever wanted to be able to ask one that long-lived if pain ever truly heals over? If the white-hot pleasure you found in something forbidden will ever quit arching through your veins like lightening, and if you'll ever quit wanting it again?

Anyone ever wanted to believe that somewhere out there, today, there's someone that heard Shakepeare read his own plays, heard Bach or Beethoven play their own pieces, heard Chaucer read his Caunturbury tales in dim, smoky light? Anyone else ever looked out at our world and our expedience and wished desperately that there was someone out there who thought in the language, the measured speech, the pure impassioned flow of the Declaration of Independance just so it wouldn't be true that "People don't talk like that anymore"?

Anyone else ever been criticized with those same words, when you were speaking from your heart?

Conversely, anyone out there ever feel like you've seen this all, done this all, before? That this is just another short piece of an undending cycle and wished that you knew more about that last life, more than the tiny bits and pieces that haunt your dreams and a few of your waking moments?

Comments, retorts, appeals for sanity? Leave them in the little box, please?

(sorry about the melancholy, i'm reading Highlander stories, and they always make me sad)

Comments

[cosmicastaway.livejournal.com]

I asked Ten his thoughts on your question and he grew quiet for a bit.

Hmmm.

(Ten is my RP buddy, who hangs with a vamp/lover(?) named Nathanial)

Personally for me, I used to. Now I'm more shipping for a Superman. Dammit! The world is freaky scary, and I'd like something like an iconic hero to be friends with. Or at least find out I can be one. I dunno.

But good luck with yours. ^__^

[ilyena_sylph]

*hugs*

Somehow, I guess i didn't see this comment.

Thank you for making it.

[cosmicastaway.livejournal.com]

O___O

I made that comment YEARS ago!
I had to sleuth back since I had no idea what was happening here.

*laughs* Oh Ten, I miss you.

Vampires are a neat idea, but if I had a choice between a world with vampires and a world with superheroes, I'd pick the heroes. That way, all the dark could be hiding was Batman. I'd rather be unafraid than seduced. ♥

Realistically, I'm certain we'd screw that up too. It's probably best that we keep the supernatural in the "what if" category.

How do you still feel on the topic?

[stalinglim.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, yes. And sometimes, no. :)

[ilyena_sylph]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no?

[stalinglim.livejournal.com]

sometimes I wish the times that are gone were here, but at others, no, I don't want them, I want the time that I have and I want the time that I *have* to matter.

I wish I could meet an immortal, but I would probably feel so sorry for them it would break my heart.

[ilyena_sylph]

I like the time we have now for a lot of things, I don't think I said anything that said I didn't..?

I just wish so much of this world wasn't so terminally ignorant and happy to be so!

and yeah. Immortals break my heart to bits.

[stalinglim.livejournal.com]

You didn't say anything about not liking this time :)