How to discover your younger you. The Time Traveler's Wife series

[Davie]

The Time Traveler's Wife - Season 1

Tells the intricate love story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem... time travel.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8783930/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

[Vidanjali]

@Davie did you read the book? I did. There was something in the book which greatly disturbed / still haunts me. For that reason, I'm hesitant to watch the show. 

[Davie]

@Vidanjali No, I didn't read the book. Just watched some of the first episode and it seemed interesting. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it? 

[Vidanjali]

@Davie no, no. Not to worry. Just wondering if you had read it and if so, what you thought. If the show is to be an ongoing series, then maybe they won't dramatize the part of the book I'm thinking of. 

[Davie]

42 minutes ago, Vidanjali said:

@Davie no, no. Not to worry. Just wondering if you had read it and if so, what you thought. If the show is to be an ongoing series, then maybe they won't dramatize the part of the book I'm thinking of. 

@VidanjaliThanks. The reason I was interested in the story was to possibly help me plot my own story that's a fantasy about what my life could have become at age 6, if I'd been allowed to express myself as female. Apparently, plot mechanisms are not the answer in my case. At this point I'm simplifying plot and focussing on a stronger imaged character. Not sure I'll ever be able to accomplish that. But I will try because it helps to deal with the traumatic memories. Onward.

Thanks for your interest.

— Davie

[Vidanjali]

@Davie coincidentally I was recently contemplating what a time travel queer story would look like after hearing an interview on the radio with an author who published a work of fiction about a woman who woke up on her 40th birthday in her 16-year old body and life. It made me wonder what I'd do with my previously chaotic & self-destructive 16-year old self in such a scenario - and more importantly (which is always a dilemma with time travel), how making different decisions in the past would affect the present. It seems to me I'd need to wrap my head around what the point would be before attempting to craft such a story. Naturally, there's value in exploring such ideas through the process of writing, simply for the sake of exploration. But, I am a believer in karma, to the extent I understand it & I endeavor not to regret or grieve over the past (which is a process in itself). That is not to say that events and circumstances must play out as they will. Indeed, I believe karma can be expended, as it were, in an instant with deep insight and self-effort. But, is there greater value in having done so in the past whereas the life as a whole is but an instant in the grand scheme of things? All this makes me wonder if my attempt at a queer time travel story would wind up more like a Vedantic allegory... 

[Davie]

2 hours ago, Vidanjali said:

 

A queer time travel Vedantic allegory? What's wrong with that? Sounds like a story to me. Just make it all true for you, right?

💜  Davie

[Vidanjali]

19 hours ago, Davie said:

A queer time travel Vedantic allegory? What's wrong with that? Sounds like a story to me. Just make it all true for you, right?

💜  Davie

 

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