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swordsonnet:

text reading as follows: More terrifying than a totally chaotic universe, I think, is the idea of one that presents us with the right choices alongside the wrong ones and we are too naïve, or stubborn, or scared, to take them. It's the idea that agency exists, but only to the extent that we can blame ourselves for what we did wrong. That the path forked miles behind us, but we only realized we took the wrong one once it's too late to turn back.ALT
lyrics reading: I always thought the choice was mine / And I was right, but I just chose wrongALT
excerpt from a magnus archives transcript. it reads as follows: Archivist: [Emphatically] I never chose this. Elias: You never wanted this, no. But I’m afraid you absolutely did choose it. In a hundred ways, at a hundred thresholds, you pressed on. You sought knowledge relentlessly, and you always chose to see. Our world is made of choices, John, and very rarely do we truly know what any of them mean, but we make them nonetheless.ALT

three specific kinds of terror, jacob geller / working for the knife, mitski / the magnus archives, ep. 92 “nothing beside remains”