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Fun fact a Sphynx refers to the hairless cat, while the Sphinx refers to the mythical creature
Timpani
Damn
LincLoud
GreenNinja22
aloharamada
Just for the rhyme scheme (?), I'd go with "Do you recall your name?" for the last line of the poem.
bendaresall
His answer be Yes or No would be enough
kojenk
(Source: Wapsi Square has a few Sphinx)
KaijuIsekai
Sounds like a Peter S. Beagle story.
PhailRaptor
GorgeouslyDefinite
Please accept my humble upvote, for posting this. Already been to leave a message for @KaylaAncrum.
Tjitso
This could be in the same universe as Areppo
NeverShaveYourDuck
RomanSnow
Monster fuckers unite.
LucidPariah
chaosundivided
gives the same energy as Constance by Spiritbox
MeatGob
The time comes when his mind is gone and even in his lucid moments, he is listless. He nor the Sphinx can bear it anymore. She gives him a riddle...But she does not twist the answer to suit him this time. It would not be a kindness any longer. And he falls, at last. In the moments as her jaw closes upon him, although she does not see or hear it, lucidity returns to his eyes and he simply utters a thank you for everything.
TK421isAFK
Without knowing otherwise, I'd swear this was written by Shel Silverstein.
idiotsonfire
Xecryo
One the day he dies it's not because of a riddle. The sphinx knows he's dying and so does he. So she tries to distract him "Just this once, you tell me a riddle. One I haven't told before." So he thinks as he drifts off trying to think of a riddle and remembering a lifetime of happy memories solving the sphinx's riddles.
Putitinyomama
Isorikk
lucasmacdonald81101
Gayforbae
snafu999
I'm surprised no-one has linked this yet. https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1abxbml/what_talon_and_what_dreadful_claw/
HappyOutsideDeadInside
Thanks for making me cry, that was beautiful ❤️
CedricDur
I mean, this one was bad enough, but that one had me filled with tears. There are worse things to have tears about though.
Blanks56
Thank you for that.
VictusVonGuyver
This reminds me of Lady Ren and Cheng, a Chinese story about a Fox Spirit who would lure men to their deaths. Cheng falls for her not just because of beauty but because he enjoys conversing with her. He went to her despite knowing his potential death. She in turn falls for him because he was genuine despite being foolish. They merry, and despite poverty, a friend's betrayal intent on raping her, they were happy. She helped turn his fortunes, but he wouldn't ever trust her reasoning. >
VictusVonGuyver
Once he gained an imperial post, he refused to listen to her pleas to wait on moving but he refused to listen. His nature won out over hers, and she is killed en route by her true nature being revealed to hunting dogs who attacked and killed her while trying to flee in her true form.
He was devastated despite all the wealth and prestige he gained, it was only her he had desired in life.
holyfool521
I would absolutely read this
1TrueKingInTheNorth
You just did
DrBlackJack
Well, it's not quite the same, but here is a story about an elf who was married ro a human who developed Parkinsons and what it was like for the immortal creature to watch her beloved fade away. It has a nice but very bittersweet ending IMO. /gallery/ql1p5yw
AyatollahBahloni
Ok this one wrecked me
relsky
Fuck you, I don't need these tears in my life. But here we are. My dad had bad dementia at the end.
Wapusk
I was coming down to say something similar, my dad's decline is worsening.
MeatGob
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
BulgogiBolognese
Just stayed up most of the night because of my StepDad's dementia.
m4uboy
my mom is a ghost now. didn't recognize my dad for the first time last week. it sucks so bad.
wowwawazat
I’m sorry to hear that. Both Mom and Dad are in cognitive decline now.
NecroNikolai13
The wild things eat their dead? Not gonna be able to look at monster James Gandolfini the same way...
NergalJester
I'm not crying, you're crying.
mrsdowneyjr
Well I'm crying
tythiss
Jesus...
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
The Greek myths about the sphinx was that she demanded boys as sacrifices. The implication is that the sphinx attack (usually strangulation, sphinx and sphincter have the same origin) was sexual in some way.
madelinewuntch
incubisexual
Me at a pudding cup in my fridge when I'm high at 1am
Akumaka
Source?
darkstar86
Dragons Dogma 2.
madelinewuntch
It's a game. The soon to be released Dragons Dogma 2. Enjoying the very old first one now :)
Heavenissize17socks
"Are you awake"
nagesagi
I do be like that for some patients. Though they usually go nonverbal by then.
MeatGob
Reminds me of Clive Wearing. He was a musicologist until he got some infection in the 80s. It broke his memory. He wakes up daily as if from a coma. His mind resets every few minutes. He greets his wife as if it's been years, every time. He can't name his children. He can play piano flawlessly but could not tell you how (because he 'never learned' to play). He can recall video if repeated enough but could not tell you how the information got in his head. (1/2)
MeatGob
And his journal, for years, is pages upon pages of 'I am awake' (and variations) crossed out and rewritten each day as he never recalls being the one who wrote it the previous day. On every page, the phrase becomes increasingly emphatic ('I am REALLY awake.', 'I am FINALLY awake.', I am AWAKE.'). He eventually devised a system of using * to denote 'Clive wrote the following sentence.' ...But he never remembers that either, and just keeps crossing out. (2/2)
m4uboy
jesus fuckin christ meatgob!
OnlyOneArman
"First thought: I love darling Deborah for eternity"
UnXclusive
Gods that's sad
blueKD
There's all sorts of nifty ways our minds can break - stick enough electricity in a meatball to make it hallucinate sapience, start poking at it, and things are bound to go fucky