Defeatism doesn’t help anyone. It’s worth trying, at least. It might not be reliable as the only action any more, but that doesn’t disqualify it entirely.

Mate’s been huffing his own farts for too long and started thinking they don’t smell

Once that big thing happens, they can no longer milk the anticipation

That’s what I was getting at, yes.

I genuinely believe it might not fix everything, but will go one hell of a long way to making a lot of things easier to fix.

There should be a mechanism to reward artists for their work and enable them to keep creating, but without also allowing a system of vampires to control that mechanism and enslave them in a twisted web of dependency and power.

I bet his body could still provide some nutrients for flowers. I guess he’ll be on some regimen of meds at his age, but the toxicity of the mind doesn’t necessarily seep into the physical host.

And it would be one way he could still be useful.