I am now imagining a trio of dysfunctional vampires or immortals or something. And 2-300 years later, one of them is still That Fucking Guy.
it’s not technology, buddy, it’s just that no one agrees with your entitlement to their attention
HEYO
roachpatrol nailed it. A lot of people are very bothered by being deprived of a “polite” way to interrupt and demand the attention of people who don’t want to talk to them right then, and dress this up as being concerned that people aren’t interested in the “world around them”, where the “world around them” actually means “engaging with me right this minute.”
“She had the gorgeous young fop murder her husband.” Louis : “How do you know?” Lestat : “Read her thoughts.” Louis : “I can’t.” Lestat : “The dark gift is different for each of us. But one thing is true for us all, we grow stronger as we go …”
Someone was waiting here in this little room for him, someone whose presence he had been unable, except by the most ordinary means, to detect. A figure who stood behind him now.
How many times over the years had he dreamed of such a reunion, and he had never had the courage for it; and now on this battlefield, in this time of ruin and upheaval, they were at last to meet.
—The Queen of The Damned – The Vampire Chronicles.
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