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[sythyry]

Misplaced Sympathies [21 Oix 4261]

I am insufficiently versed in the etiquette of adultery. Ysgwyd sent me this. As far as I can tell, it's entirely sincere.

Dear poor sweet Sythers. Ysgwyd here -- I'm very sorry to hear that my husband dumped you! He's really very much of a jerk sometimes. Lots of times really. I sure wouldn't want to date him, and not just because he's so low on tentacles!

I'm sorry, I don't mean to discourage you if you really love him or anything. He does have some good features, a bunch of them really, and I imagine that if you're bothering to like Orren, he's a pretty good specimen of one. But he's not a very considerate man. I say this as an inveterate admirer of invertibrate shoggies. I know from inconsiderate, believe me!

I heard that he's gone back to pretending he's not traff, that he's boinking some disgusting Orren chippie and squiring her around in public. I know what that's like. My first real boyfriend left me for another Khtsoyis, and that hurt like getting my tail slammed in a door. By a Gormoror. But don't worry. Ilottat's so traff he can't take a bath -- the only way he'll get it up with her is by thinking about his times with you. And since you're the only game in town -- no way he's going to get in Hezimikkinen's lack-of-pants -- since you're the only game in town, I imagine he'll come crawling back to you and offering you half the branch for just one little fuck.

Sythers, he's just one little fuck, and there are plenty of better ones around. You can take him back if you want -- far be it from this Ilottat's wife to complain! -- but at least you should get a high price out of him. A really high price.

Sorry if I sound like a shoggy. I feel like a shoggy too ... I'm gonna go get Delframber in a minute.

Best wishes, Ysgwyd

Well, that "chippie" is Pondspark, and she's me.

Ysgwyd is so wrong, and so right, and so sympathetic, and so awful... I don't know what to do.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

*chanting* DUMP HIM DUMP HIM DUMP HIM


(says the dressed-up-in-Cloak-of-Another-God Sleeth)

[xyzzysqrl]

Nyyygh. Don't just DUMP him, JETTISON him. Into whatever the World Tree version of 'outer space' is.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

*cheers!!*

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Some people -- who might be accused of overly refined sensibilities -- might think that were a slightly excessive punishment for Ilottat's taking me out to nice restaurants and holding my hand in public as I had asked.

[And yeah, Sythyry is missing the point. -bb]

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

*slightly pained look*

Wow, there's... a lot going on there.

[redbird]

You are insufficiently versed in, not the etiquette of adultery, but the quasi-etiquette of dealing with people who dislike you and your lover and are trying to use you against him.

Dump Ilottat or not as seems good to you, but not on account of anything Ysgwyd says: she doesn't have your best interests at heart, nor Ilottat's.

There may or may not be any truth to any of what she says about herself or her own past, but she's not saying it to comfort you: she's saying it to lull you into believing that she's on your side, which she's not.

If you want advice, talk to your friends, or to us monsters who at least aren't trying to hurt, your friends, or your lover.

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a period of (semi) public mourning would be appropriate. Rumor already is that he's seeing some sweet young girl instead of you. You may as well act like it, or there'll be no "evidence" to prop up the larger fib.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Clever!

A dangerous letter...

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Beware, dear. The author of this poisoned letter is no friend of yours. Sometimes the most deadly of strikes comes concealed in a scabbard of painful truth.

I think you and Ilottat both need to realize something...

You measure your lifespark in eons, while he measures his in years, perhaps decades if he's lucky. And you are very young, with a vast life in front of you. You can be with whomever you choose, and as time and lovers pass through your life, you'll become far more selective in who exactly that will be.

Also, when you can see several incarnations of a society in the first half of your life, the morals of that society can only carry as much weight as you care to give them. Granted, you're not going to become a psychopathic killer because such creatures are usually expunged for the good of all. That being said, why should you care about how anyone within that society feels about being trans-affectionate? Love who you want to love, I say, and let those who say otherwise take a flying leap off the Branch.

Ilottat needs to decide if he's going to be a part of your life. He has a chance to be a part of someone who will outlive him by many hundreds of years, carrying his memory much farther than either he or his close-minded family ever could. Will that memory be a fond one, or a foul one; that's what he needs to decide.

And honestly, if his family decides to cast him out, does he really think that he'll be destitute? Phaugh! He's the child of a noble family, and the weight of a bunch of sticks-in-the-mud will only carry as much power as he gives them. There will be other families and nobles who will honor his title.

And truth be told, were he to stand UP to his family and show some backbone, they might just give him an ounce of credit and leave him to his choices, provided he can fend for himself without getting the family involved.

Ilottat has the chance to share the life of someone who will bring him great happiness and joy for the length and breadth of his entire life, right up until the moment he passes on, held safely in your coils, the friend and lover he's known his entire life.

Or he can resign himself to whatever fate his family decides for him, always existing under the spectre of being discovered and cast into disgrace and shame for being as much a coward as traff.

And YOU, dear Sythyry, need to show a little backbone yourself. Put it to him just like I said. If he chooses to buckle up and take charge of his life, then the two of you will have many adventures.

If not, then it's time to move on.

[esory.livejournal.com]

Well, unlike some of your monster friends, I do believe Ysgwyd is sincere and well-meaning. I mean, the woman's only virtue is her breathtaking and rather appalling honesty. I find it hard to believe she's trying to manipulate you.

But that hardly means you need to take her advice. This is Ysgwyd, after all. Even granting her the purest of motives and the best of intentions, taking Ysgwyd's advice in general would probably be a recipe for disaster.

I don't know, what does one normally do with sympathy cards? Send her a polite note thanking her for her concern and leave it at that?

You may find, that under certain extraordinary circumstances, being on speaking terms with Ysgwyd might be handy. Besides, she is sort of ... um ... interesting, in her own unique way. How do the monsters put it? O_o ?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Ysgwyd is so cute! Sythyry should turn into a khysoyis and seduce her.

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

So, erm, what's a chippie? I only know the term in relation to fish & chip shops....

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

slang for prostitute

[zeeth_kyrah]

She is trying to do several things here:

* Pump you for information
* Insult him
* Break the relationship
* Bring you close enough emotionally to get a knife in deep if she wants
* Possibly suggest that she knows what's really going on
* And maybe even give some good advice by accident

I wonder how effective this will be.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Renegotiate your contract!

But only the next time he's difficult. As long as you're enjoying things, there's no need to rock the boat -- but make sure Ilottat's the one that feels the pinch, next time push comes to shoving someone out the door.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Other monsters are telling you to dump him, from this letter. May I suggest a much more difficult course of events?

Do nothing based on this letter. Whether you should dump Ilottat should be based on your relationship with him, not on what Ysgwyd says. If he treats you poorly, dump him for that reason -- but not because of this letter. If he treats you well, stay with him, but not because of this letter.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!
And it will frustrate her so to be ignored.
:D