10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

[menial]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.



Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

Comments

[voice]

[menial]

Well, I apologize for bringing it up. Apologies also to my brain for the bleach it'll need.

[menial]

It took you that long to come up with "I like to read", huh, Ushiromiya?

... Well, it's okay, we can be the mostly-hobbyless together.

['Unless "listening to Haruhi ramble" counts as a hobby.']

That or someone was teaching me how to garden.

[menial]

Hm.



No, I can buy that. Although it does shed new light on your character.

[menial]

Yeah. Pretty cool, huh?

['Also, that one was the most obvious one of all. But hey, at least she's caught up with the rest of the class now.']

[repudiate]

You can't blame me for saying that and then bringing up something like 'someone's teaching me how to garden' right afterwards.

It makes you sound like an old man.

[happyends]

I wonder how people even think this up.. it looks pretty complicated, doesn't it? I couldn't suddenly just draw something like that!

[herotypical]

W-wait. Shed new light like what?

[Voice]

[installing]

Right...

And you guys have been getting along well? [Or at least as well as they can?]

[godbent]

After the spelunking trip to be sure... I'll need to call the guy.

[menial]

.... You do have a point there. ['Even if I was learning how to garden only to cheer up a cute girl!']

Though at least mine was with another person. Socializing is a hobby too.

[ribbonbon]

W-well...it is a little unusual, I guess.

[Though she recalls a certain conversation she had a while back...]

Maybe I really should just pick a different name.

[menial]

I think they must make the outline first, and then decide what to fill it in with, right?

[menial]

Just... general new light!

Uh, for example, if you had asked me, "Is Buffy Summers the kind of girl who could date a kind-of-sworn enemy," I probably would've said yes before, but now I know for sure. And...

['... Likes "exciting" guys? Yeah. More confirmation there.']

...Other stuff.

[Voice]

[menial]

Well, it's mostly the same as usual. As this place's usual, anyway. I think we understand each other fine by now.

...You really are keeping in touch, huh? As far as I knew, she always... Well, that can't really be compared.

[menial]

Right.

Well, it's always good to have a full slate of Brigade activities on tap.

[menial]

Huh?

Well, I kinda like your name. But what would you change it to?

[ribbonbon]

Hee hee. This actually isn't the first time I've thought about this. If I could change my name to anything...

I'd definitely go with Pauline! What do you think? Isn't it cute?

[voice]

[mydearapple]

It'll thank you later. I'm sure it won't miss memories like those too much anyway.

[herotypical]

Well. It's not a thing I'm particularly proud of. But...he was a good man. Still is! Just -- he has a soul.

[menial]

['Well, it certainly is more normal.']

Hmm... Well, it'd take some getting used to, but it's not a bad name.

[voice]

[menial]

So you really do have said memories yourself too, huh, Silverberg?

Must be interesting for a guy like you.

[menial]

Well, that's what really matters more, I guess. That and open communication for resolving conflicts of interest. Guess it's more questionable why it began than how it kept going for a while.

So wait, vampires don't have souls, is that it?

[voice]

[promisebythetree]

It's right there.

[she points to the... tree-ish looking thing on the side, and the black nose.]

[ribbonbon]

Yeah, see! Maybe I should start introducing myself to people as Pauline instead!

Oh, but...most people already know my name. I wish I would have thought of this when I got here...!

[Voice]

[magicalesbian]

Do I look like a zoologist to you? No one's seen a bear in years where I come from. How would I know a panda from a-- whatever kind of bears there are?