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i posted this back yard and this storm on a discord channel with her little brother who is off-pic to the right.

and while i respect the decision by a moderator to consider the picture inappropriate for their channel,

it nudged a gargoyle that had been lurking in the wings cleanly to centre stage and into the spotlight.

and since she had the floor, the gargoyle did the only sensible thing. she drew a huge venn diagram.

 

 

two mice meet at an event. he asks if they can keep in touch, she agrees and it seems fine.

another mouse approaches and says that keeping in touch is inappropriate, that she is married.

he replies that he didn't mean any harm, and that this was the first time anyone in the field had given him the time of day.

he said he hadn't made the connection out of interest, and the immediate response was 'well what else could it be for?'

 

this comment didn't make the mouse feel bad he had asked, or bad that she had agreed to keep in touch.

it didn't even make him feel bad that the other mouse had misunderstood the intent behind the interaction.

it made him realise that this mouse was incapable of framing the event in an innocent light,

because this person did not have any innocence. ...had completely run out of innocence.

 

it made the mouse afraid. very afraid.

because it forced into the open the idea that framing an event powerfully defines that event,

and this leads to the inescapable conclusion that any conceivable event could be framed to be incriminating.

in short, any action he took was incriminating. so he did what any self-respecting mouse would do. he froze.

 

i know right about now you're thinking 'no mr mouse, theres so much to see, so much to do, don't freeze ! '

and while you're absolutely right, our mouse was no longer frozen to the spot out of fear, but catharsis.

without screening the mice he chose to surround himself by their capacity to frame events in a good light,

he had successfully surrounded himself with mice that suppressed goodness in the world. his safety was illusory.

 

pretending to have been caught in a shameful act, our mouse apologised and quickly excused himself.

outside, walking briskly, he narrowed his eyes to slits while the wind in his blew through his whiskers.

he might look like any other mouse, but in his heart he knew he was a member of a secret society,

a secret society willing to enable good by being willing to see it. even if he was the only member of it.

 

and this makes the mouse happy  

 

 

 

 

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