Annotated 47-20
FB: The stages of grief: denial, depression, bargaining, anger, and performing for a mass audience and pretending everything is fine.
FB comment: Every clown needs a true friend they can let see behind the grease paint (Justin Raderson)
Byron feels the need to apologize to Scipio and E-Merl for everything the berserker put them through, just like recovering alcoholics (and various other repenters) take ownership of what they did under the influence. And like those repenters, he’s a little worried whether that apology will be accepted. This just goes to show how much Byron and E-Merl have drifted apart since they served together. As Syr’Nj could have told Byron, for all its horror, the berserkalypse was barely even a scratch on E-Merl’s psyche compared to the gaping wound that was the loss of Rachel.
I need to mention that the image T picked for today belongs to the Webtoon “Everything is Fine” which is a masterpiece of psychological horror. There are no monsters and no supernatural occurrences. Just a thick layer of “very strange” applied on top of forceful suburban mundanity. Things are wrong and you are deliberately kept in the dark as a sickening dread slowly mounts while people desperately attempt not to lose their minds or their humanity.
Link?
https://www.webtoons.com/en/horror/everything-is-fine/list?title_no=2578&page=1
What a hell of a trip. Thank you for the recommendation, and thank you T for putting it on my radar to begin with!