deleting nouns...

[katster]

*idly hefts the bulk eraser of history she confiscated from Mal*

If there was one person, place, thing, or event you could erase from history without consequence, what would it be? Would you still erase it or them from the timestream if it meant that other actions their or its presence caused would not have happened?

There's no going back in time to fix the damage that's been done, obviously. There's a lot of things I wonder what would have happened had they gone differently, if I'd made the choice to go right intead of going left, if I'd taken the road more traveled by?

And would I give up the one oh so right thing that happened because of the noun I would delete from the time stream?

I don't know.

*pockets bulk eraser and wanders off*

Comments

that's life

[tanesmuti.livejournal.com]

sometimes the cost of winning is seeing everyone else lose.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

As with a lot of people. It was a relationship. What the woman did to me has poisoned my whole atitude and removed a lot of the trust I had in life..no matter how I try to forget


I would give anything to erase what happend..

[joii.livejournal.com]

...if I could erase without consequence?
Persons, places, or things? How about a set of circumstances? I'd erase every time a male ever even *thought* about saying 'I love you' to me. *Especially* if they haven't even met me yet. Boys are fucking stupid.

Would you still erase it or them from the timestream if it meant that other actions
their or its presence caused would not have happened? Yes. Absolutely. In a second. Why? Because it hurts for years afterwards when you find out they're lying. There are particular cases where one or two good things have come out of that horribly bad thing, but I find that they would probably have developed anyway, and probably in a healthier way. This is merely my finding, and not necessarily related to anything real. ...this is my brain, after all.

interesting questions, katje;
you're one of the people who would have happened differently.

pax
Jo

(sorry if we're a little light on the diplomacy; we're out. we have lots of authenticity, though, and fair size stock of good intention left... Maybe we can make soup or something. gotta run, got distracted and will now be slightly tardy for workage. bad jo!)

[neidhart.livejournal.com]

I'd fix it so, back in 1914, Germany would win the war by Christmas as they had planned.

Victorious Kaiser Wilhelm = Adolf Hitler rendered harmless, thus no Nazis and no WW II.

Russia might have a revolution of some sort, but it's bound to be not as destructive as the one in our history.

[galith.livejournal.com]

not nesissarily. Its actually quite likely that there would be a WWII, as if Germany won by Christmas then there wouldn't be a general anti-war vibe going around yet. And France would be awful pissed about being beat by Gremany twice in a row...

[neidhart.livejournal.com]

hmm, don't know about that . . . even if there was another war, I doubt it would have leveled Europe as Hitler did. (I'm picturing Adolf Hitler as a staff artist at a Berlin advertising agency in the alternate 1934.)

Would there have been anything like a Fascist movement -- would Communism have been weaker than in our timeline? Dhmm, don't know about that . . . even if there was another war, I doubt it would have leveled Europe as Hitler did. (I'm picturing Adolf Hitler as a staff artist at a Berlin advertising agency in the alternate 1934.)

Would there have been anything like a Fascist movement -- would Communism have been weaker than in our timeline? Déat or Doriot as the French dictator?

hmmmmm . . . . .

[neidhart.livejournal.com]

. . . plus I'm a big fan of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wouldn't want to see it broken up. :-)