At what point did you and Flaps realize the futility of trying to make everyone happy, and the importance of looking after yourselves first? I applaud your progress…what made you two try so hard in the first place? How did you two become aware of other voidspaces and timelines?

* { well – we realized that first bit fairly recently. he hit rock bottom, and he just…. couldn’t get back out of it. it’d always been easy for him to bounce back, but it never bounced, and it took us a couple months to realize that Hey, That’s Kinda Bad. }

* { the original decision was his, though – i was dormant for a long while. i only started waking back up once he started leaving the space. but he had known about all of that before he even found me in this particular space. }