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avalononline2021-12-19 06:55 pm
apogeal) wrote in avalononline2021-12-19 06:55 pm
video; un: x; 12/21 (during the Solstice)
[The video opens onto a long shot of singing people dancing around the base of a huge tree. Naked singing people! Not all of them, but many of them, though some are wearing white robes instead of going totally nude. That's right, it's the majestic and emotional climax of the Nicnevin Solstice tradition, apparently being liveblogged by someone who is not participating in the naked musical antics.
The shot holds for a few solid moments, and then the phone camera swings around to a large, muscular man sitting a short distance from the action, under a tree, also naked—except for the black wrap tying up most of his hair. It takes him a second to steady the camera and aim it well at his face, but only a second. He actually seems to be decent at working this thing.
He says:]
So, this is "magic"? I want to understand. This ritual is more than a symbolic gesture of bonding? Is there proof? Or is this simply what people accept?
And if there really is more here than symbolism, how have they done this to us?
[His body jerks in a tiny shiver against the cold—boy does it look cold out there, but he's trying hard not to show it, and with that little tell, he turns off the camera with a flicker of annoyance. Cold!]
The shot holds for a few solid moments, and then the phone camera swings around to a large, muscular man sitting a short distance from the action, under a tree, also naked—except for the black wrap tying up most of his hair. It takes him a second to steady the camera and aim it well at his face, but only a second. He actually seems to be decent at working this thing.
He says:]
So, this is "magic"? I want to understand. This ritual is more than a symbolic gesture of bonding? Is there proof? Or is this simply what people accept?
And if there really is more here than symbolism, how have they done this to us?
[His body jerks in a tiny shiver against the cold—boy does it look cold out there, but he's trying hard not to show it, and with that little tell, he turns off the camera with a flicker of annoyance. Cold!]
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[He shrugs, just barely. He was already hardly wearing anything when they asked, so, eh! Here he is! Freezing, but that part is hard for him to swallow. Kars isn't used to not being able to just shrug something like a little winter off yet . . . and it sucks.
But that aside, this is interesting, and new.]
But this is exactly what I'm asking. You're saying it was not a person, but the planet itself that twisted us? That's certainly possible. But I have no way of knowing which of those things is the truth, and if someone does, I want to hear it. This is the first I've heard anyone describe what might happen when we leave.