text } chapter read and lesson learned. i turned the lights off while she burned

[krmvgivv]

[It's right around 3 am when this post goes up, when all responsible people (especially 13 year old people) should be asleep.]

Why are people always telling us not to look at the sun? What is it hiding? I think there may be a conspiracy there. Someone's going on with the sun.

Why do we say "follow your dreams" when dreams are either stupid or terrifying like I know we also use it to mean things you want in the future or whatever but that's not how dreams work I mean really

Has anyone ever sneezed and kept their eyes open? Cause I've tried and it never happens. I wonder if that's to keep them from falling out.

What if we're ALL fictional? What if the reason there's no rhyme or reason to Wonderland is that we only vanish when it's convenient to the plot? What if it's even worse and we're an MMORPG and some of us are NPCs and that's why there are so many people who know each other and how would you know if you were a PC or an NPC and that's why we have so many lives oh my god Wonderland is a video game.

Who the heck named pineapples they're not pine-related or apple-related.

[................go to bed, Dipper.]

ooc: please specify when you're replying so I can decide how regretful dipper is

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text omg Dipper why

[mviw]

[He SHOULD ask Dipper if he's okay, but it's late and uh... he'd rather answer those questions first.]

1. The sun's radiation and ultraviolet light can damage our eyes if we look directly at it. Turns out sunglasses aren't just for looking cool but to keep our eyes from frying like eggs!

2. Dreams can work like that. Mine didn't, but that's beside the point. I say if you have a goal you should go for it and don't let anything stop you.

3. I pried my eyes open once to attempt this. It was painful and I wouldn't recommend it, but no, my eyes did not fall out.

4. ... I have no answer for this one.

5. I can understand the 'pine' part.

... Dipper, have you slept?

[krmvgivv]

1. I know how sunglasses work. But what if the secrets are hidden in the radiation and ultraviolet light? [COME ON FORD HE CAN'T BE MORE PARANOID THAN YOU THAT'S NOT FAIR BE HIS PARANOIA BUDDY.]

2. Well yeah I'll go after my goals but my dreams are usually more along the lines of [horror and pain and triangles laughing at him] going to school without my homework and finding out my teacher is a lizard person who isn't wearing pants.

3. Huh. Well that's probably a relief.

4. HOW WOULD WE EVEN KNOW?

5. It's not a conifer!

Ever in my life? Of course.

Text; 4:37 AM - NOT HELPFUL SRRY NT SRRY

[righthemisphere]

You might be onto something with the video game thing.

[krmvgivv]

[He actually has fallen asleep by then, so it isn't until the next..... afternoon that he responds. ...the fact is, though, this is the kind of thing he thinks about so....]

I was about halfway joking. But there's no way to know, right? I mean, video game characters don't know they're in a video game.

Maybe the fact that I'm thinking it means it's not true. I mean, who would make a video character game realize they're in a game?

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[mypartnerintime]

[Sleepless people, assemble.]

There's too little loot for it to be an MMORPG. And there's no way to level up your character. It's either real life or really bad game design.

With the right filter you could look at the sun for ages.

Maybe that one person who posted sneezed with her eyes open and that's why she looks like that. [That Alice post was freaky enough that she didn't reply to it.]

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[krmvgivv]

Not all games have loot. In Domesticity: The Game you just play people living their lives until you get bored and lock them in a room that's on fire. And things do randomly disappear and change enough that someone clicking delete on a staircase would make sense. And how do you know you're not leveling up? You're getting better at stuff, aren't you?

The filter might also filter out any secrets. Maybe they're on the same wavelength as the dangerous stuff.

Alice? That's... not a bad theory. But wouldn't there be more gore left behind?

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[charlastan]

[At risk of blowing his own cover, the following reply comes in maybe five minutes after the post goes up - you know, just long enough for Stan to read it and shake his head.]

GO TO BED

[krmvgivv]

[Whoops. Busted.]

As soon as I finish my chapter!

[.......wait.]

Why are *you* up? You don't read!

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[singloversing]

[Wirt had good intentions replying, but he's in his room nearly falling asleep in a book himself. Three in the morning is not the best time for this, which is of course why it's happening. It's too late in the evening for him to censor himself or spend too much time thinking about the correct wording, so he nightblogs right back at Dipper.]

There's some logic to the dream thing. i've been doing like a lot of reading and apparently some psychologists think dreams are there to like prepare you subconsciously for stuff, like if you dream about dying that's supposed to be your brain like mentally preparing you for when you actually die. [NOT THAT...THAT'S WHY HE KNOWS ALL OF THIS OFF THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. OF COURSE NOT.] You know, so dying is less traumatic for you or whatever. so in THAT sense it's like "follow your dreams so that you're ready for all of the stupid terrible stuff stuff when it happens because it's definitely going to happen to you someday".

What if every weird dream we've ever had was preparing us for Wonderland?

or wait wait no. What if WONDERLAND is a really long dream preparing us for something even MORE horrible? What if that's why we get so many deaths here maybe people who die a lot here needed to die that many times to come to terms with the concept before whatever horrible thing comes after Wonderland happens I

I don't know I'm like really tired.

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper's pretty tired himself. But he's pretty used to sleep deprivation. And he's not so tired that he can't see that this is... all kinds of not ok.]

You should probably go to bed.

[He deletes that before he sends it. Because while it's true, it's a) hypocritical, and b) not... helpful.]

People always mean it in a dumb sappy way though. Not a horrible go to school without pants way.

Do you really think stuff that's that horrible is going to happen to everyone who comes to Wonderland? I mean there are a lot of us. And worse stuff happens to plenty of people who don't end up here.

You should talk to my great uncle about this stuff. He might be able to help.

text; 6 am

[agentxthirteen]

Dipper. Go to bed.

[krmvgivv]

[It's not until many, many hours later that he responds since he... actually has gone to bed by then. But he still scowls when he sees it.]

You're not my mother.

text; 3:31 am because sleep is clearly for the weak

[rosswood]

are you high

[krmvgivv]

[what. who asks that.]

Ew. No. Why would I get high?

text - 7am

[naughty_nurse]

I'm sorry I didn't reply properly when you sent this out!

But you shouldn't look into the sun because of the chance of blindness and a condition called solar reinopathy! Also it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open but it is very difficult because of your reflexes! Your muscles and eyeballs aren't strong enough to pop out from a sneeze!

[krmvgivv]

[It takes Dipper a while to respond himself, since he's... asleep by 7 and stays that way for a while.]

ooookay... a) it was 3am I don't really blame anyone for being asleep. b) it was 3am I wasn't actually asking serious questions.

3AM

[interspatial]

Have you been studying the Fermi texts I gave you?

[ fermi's paradox messes with everyone yo ]

[krmvgivv]

Yeah. You know some people say the most compelling evidence for intelligent life off of Earth is that they're smart enough to avoid contacting us.

5:45-ish

[onetruemorty]

oh boy. look i think the thing about the universe is that its a crazy place. so even if were not npcs and all theres probably still a whole dimension wehre we ARE made up characters.

theres basically tons of versions of everyone and tons of realities and stuff out there. its messed up but you get used to it. and even if you dont theres probably a reality where you DID get used to it

i dont know.

just dont think about it much and its fine you know??

[ Morty will probably literally roll over and go back to sleep once he's hit post. This looks like some hella legitimate chewing over existence, though, and he represses and/or deals with that all the time. It's not the kind of thing he'd feel right leaving off, regardless of his complete lack of scientific terminology. ]

[krmvgivv]

[That's fine, Dipper's asleep by then anyway so he doesn't respond for a while.]

I know there are people here who are fictional in other peoples' worlds. I wasn't totally serious, but it does kind of track.

[text forever] [closer to 9am]

[goodwoofjames]

What's an MMORPG? And what's the difference between an NPC and a PC?

[At least he's been in Wonderland long enough to pick up on what video games are. He's mostly unnerved by them.]

[krmvgivv]

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Non-Player Character. Player Character.

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[powerofmabel]

[THROWS A STUFFED ANIMAL AT HIM.]

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[krmvgivv]

[Ow. Sort of.]

I'm going to bed soon, Mabel. Promise.

text; 5AM

[thecourier]

whoa wat the hell.

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[krmvgivv]

[Many hours later....]

Look it all made sense at 3 AM

video;

[deadlystar]

[... oookaaay...]

You have very strange thoughts.

text;

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper grimaces as the sound comes out and quickly turns the volume down to mute before responding via text.]

My sister is sleeping.

morning, after coffee.

[therapize]

You realize rational thinking is a hard thing to come by at the time you posted all that, right?

[Just saying.]

[krmvgivv]

[It's probably for the best that it's closer to noon when Dipper responds. At least he ended up getting a reasonable amount of sleep....]

On the other hand what comes out is always interesting.