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Nick Irving
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The Hierarchy is a monster that has to feed to survive. And inevitably, once it has eaten everything else, all that is left is to consume itself.
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I’ve helped set off events that I have no control over anymore; I’m adrift on a river of violence, facing a broken dam that I can never build back. I barely notice the horror of the destruction this time. It’s a familiar backdrop, now.
— Jul 20, 2026 12:30PM
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I’ve helped set off events that I have no control over anymore; I’m adrift on a river of violence, facing a broken dam that I can never build back. I barely notice the horror of the destruction this time. It’s a familiar backdrop, now.
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Nick Irving
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“I will not delay my death so that you can join me in it.”
— Jul 29, 2026 05:46PM
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Stomach churning. Heart hammering in my chest. Everything flashes of nightmares and blood and fear.
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I allow myself to be drawn into the darkness.
— Jul 29, 2026 11:29AM
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I allow myself to be drawn into the darkness.
Nick Irving
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I never said I had the right, Diago. Just the responsibility. We’re doing what has to be done to effect change. You can see that, surely.”
— Jul 28, 2026 04:24PM
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“What is it they say, again? What he needs of the many will always be loud. But in the end, it is only the strength of the few that matters.”
— Jul 23, 2026 05:12PM
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I wait until my stomach settles a little, then walk closer. I am here now. I may as well understand what in the gods-damned hell this horror actually means.
— Jul 22, 2026 05:53PM
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“I do not know what shape the Republic will take when all of this is done, but it will need leaders made out of better stuff than our current ones.”
— Jul 20, 2026 08:54AM
Nick Irving
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Fear is a lack of control, realized. Not the absence of control itself, but the understanding of it. The true, stomach-churning grasping of the fact that we have no significant way to affect what comes next in a given situation.
— Jul 19, 2026 11:19AM
Nick Irving
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Grief never really leaves you, but at some point it becomes remembered rather than enveloping.
— Jul 12, 2026 06:08PM
Nick Irving
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The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it.
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A society cannot make a man a monster, Diago. But it can give him the excuse to become one.
— Jul 11, 2026 07:09PM
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A society cannot make a man a monster, Diago. But it can give him the excuse to become one.