turing-tested:

turing-tested:

and just. i can’t even imagine a standstill internet, but that very well could be what dirk and roxy went through. a silent world, not only in the physicality, but in the digital world, as well. having to scroll back past the archives, past the calls for help, past the mass suffering, to a world they could pretend wasn’t long dead, long drowned. it’s incredibly fucked up.

and the inverse is JUST as fucked up. through skaia shenanigans they could have been limited to the internet from Jake and Jane’s time, but that would also mean that Dirk and Roxy would have had the opportunity to communicate with their predecessors, however choosing not to, wrestling with the fact that it didn’t matter WHAT they did, the world and their misplaced gaurdians would still die. wild