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

You can do whatever you set your mind to..

[menial]

.....



So.

Maybe... get a little closer.

stop tempting me, you devil.

[happyends]

.......

Ah, I get it! Like this it sort of looks like a dark blotch.. you know, like those tests psychologists always have, right?

I'm just saying that it would be amazing... no one's tempting anyone.

[menial]

['Once again, not what I meant.']

...

Those blotches are supposed to look like other things... other things aren't supposed to look like them.

that's what they all say, and the next morning you wake up with a soul gem...

[happyends]

Huh, really? I didn't know that's how it's supposed to work.. [ now you're confusing the loli, kyon. ]

fighting witches is important...

[menial]

[Don't say "loli, Kyon". He is not a lolikyon...]

... Yeah, well, that's how it does. But that's not what--

['One more time...']

So. Try getting a little closer one more time...?

[happyends]

[ he's the lolikyon. it's him. ]

.. Ah!

[menial]

[NO HE'S NOT A LOLIKYON

'Maybe I should keep going with this. "No, that's not it either, Madoka-chan..."']


... Everything all right over there?

[happyends]

Actually.. um, I'm back where I started now.

1/2

[menial]

..................

[menial]

It's a face.

[happyends]

[ st.. aring.. ]

But you can't see the woman's face, right? Her head is turned away..

[menial]

['... I guess I would never have to feel insecure about my grades around Madoka.']

Okay, try starting with the tree trunk. That's the right side of the face, and the other tree , the branches on the left, is the left side.

[happyends]

.. Oh, now I can see it! Wow, it's really like there's a face in the middle of the picture..! That's amazing! [ her surprise is almost over the top. almost. ]

[menial]

['...

Well, it'd be wrong if she was cute and smart, right? Just unfair?']

Heh. Yeah, it is, isn't it? They have all kinds of stuff like this, too.

[happyends]

Really? Do you have more of them with you? [ she seems rather enthusiastic now.. ]

I want to see more of them, hehe!

[menial]

['Good old reliable cuteness, erasing memories of stupidity since nineteen ninety--... Wait, what year is she from anyway?']

Uh, hm... Yeah, I found another one here somewhere...

[flipping...]

Here.

[happyends]

[ See, at least now she knows that trick she can see it in one go, so she just giggles. ]

Wow, this one has a mustache! It's like an old man..!

[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.']

[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!

[menial]

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

[happyends]

But the filling in part is difficult.. you need to think about what still makes it seem natural. At least, I think that's how it works..?

[menial]

Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's right. Well, why don't you try it, Madoka-chan?

[happyends]

Me?! [ she gasps. ] N-.. no, there's no way I could do that! I mean.. um.. it's probably too difficult for someone like me..!

[menial]

What's "someone like you" mean, Madoka-chan?

[happyends]

.. Well.. I'm not really special or anything, right? If anything, I'm just about average in everything, or even a little below that.