10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]
['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.
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.
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[The skirt looks like a cone and the coat and head looks like the ice cream with a cherry on top! Judging by this black and white picture, she would have to say the flavour is-]
Vanilla!
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.................................
'Shit. I can almost see it.']
Well.
There's other stuff too, Yotsuba.
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[She goes back for another look, scanning over the picture as best she can. It must be something deep, so deep that someone like her would never ever be expected to pick up on it.]
Life. [No. Too deep.] A tree.
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Try looking at it from far away.
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I can see! Yotsuba is seeing it, I'm seeing it! Shaggy beard is in the picture! How?!
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['I should at least get this satisfaction for the usual inanity.']
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[Quickly scurrying back over the the journal and getting a close as she can before cupping her hands over her mouth.]
It's okay, Yotsuba is good with secrets. [...] Tell me.
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Secrets are kept secret. If the secret is a surprise party then Yotsuba will say</> surprise but it's just a secret. Not a paraducks.
[... That made sense to her, okay. Blame Hayate.]
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[Waaait. If it's a secret and not even Kyon's secret then should she really be allowed to know what this secret really is?
... This can be an exception.]
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Ah... I've said too much already.
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[Wait, gotta whisper.] I want to hear stuff about the Banana Group!
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So. What have you been doing lately?
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Yotsuba got a penguin popper- Tell later?! Wheeen?! Yotsuba wants to know, it's better when I know, all better!
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['What have I done.']
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[Don't drive her to a tantrum here. Don't do it Kyon.]
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