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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

Comments

[dissemblance]

It can be.

I don't think there is a perfect system.

Power goes to people's heads, especially when they have it over other lives. It takes a rare person not to turn that into an abuse.

[dissemblance]

（ she has, in fact, seen the wolf. but having seen the wolf and admitting she's seen the wolf are two different things, and natasha isn't the most honest and forthright person around.

apparently that honour goes to him. ）

Starbucks is a place that makes non-alcoholic drinks. The dog story is real sad, but it's a good movie if you're into that sort of thing. I think they have it in the archives here.

That is a very big wolf, you're right. Gorgeous, though. Is he friendly or do I have to hide the children?

[dissemblance]

Asimov, eat your heart out...

You recognize anything here? I'm still pretty wound up from tentacle rats, personally.

[unclesam]

it's practically a hallmark movie.
but in all seriousness, I don't know if I'd call it making friends now - we already did, but he hasn't lived that yet. he's from earlier than I am.

[dissemblance]

I'd say that counts. You're still doing the work. You just have the cheat code. It'd be like Barton meeting me at eighteen.

[dissemblance]

Do you think someone from the year 1200 would recognize life in the 20th century?

（ she's guessing 20th, for him. it would explain a few anachronisms. ）

[unclesam]

[ He tries to imagine her that young. Tries to reconcile the things that have been dragged out into the public eye with the woman he knows. Feels the ache in his chest - Natasha is still a wound layered over the scar Riley left behind. ]

showing up for people or walking away from them is the only choice we get to make sometimes.

godspeed

[dissemblance]

'Feral plague'?

So why did you take her name, then? It must have meant something to you.

[neversmall]

[ ...fistbumping?

That's a thing?

...

...

Nina loves it.

It's gonna take her a minute, tho: ]

👩🤜🎇✨🎆🤛🏾👨🏾‍🦲

[ She may have just legitimately said out loud: This is amazing! ]

[cleaningsolutions]

Pick one.

1. To remind myself where I come from and what my people did to themselves, and what we owe the Krakau for giving us a second chance.
2. My Awakening and Orientation officer didn't like this name when I floated it and I was defiant.
3. It's a beautiful name. When you say it out loud, it flows.


[Only a few people actually call her Mops.]

[unclesam]

[ Note to self: He's gotta introduce her to the real thing, too. Good thing they work together. It's gonna be a neverending storm of high fives and fistbumps from here on out. ]

❕❕🙌🏾😁🎉🎊🍻🥳

[ Is it too early to declare one of the other hatchlings his new favorite? 'cause Nina is fast-tracking it. ]

[neversmall]

[ OK, the best thing about this is that Nina doesn't need an exact translation of any of those things to get the feeling behind it. This is fun!

It's nice to be able to have fun, people rarely indulge her silliness this long. ]

😁🤸‍♀️🤸🏾‍♂️💥🎉🎊🎇😁

[fossils]

Just like to be sure I'm aiming at the right guy before I throw a punch.

But I've seen enough aliens now to keep an open mind.

[unclesam]

[ This is just utterly delightful. And if they can indulge each other, all the better. ]

🤣🤹🏾‍♂️🤹🏻‍♀️🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇✨

[ oh look, he found the waffles for her ]

[neversmall]

Waffles!

[ Her FAVORITE.

You're gonna make her break out her first heart emojis, Sam. ]

😍💞💞💞🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇❣

[ ...yup, there they were. Matthias loses to waffles once again, he'll just have to deal. ]

text ▶ @cal

[psychometries]

Your party in 2018 caught on fire?

@cal

[psychometries]

I thought I was the only one who didn't catch any of that.

[cleaningsolutions]

I wish I knew English. I know it was popular.

[unclesam]

[ He actually puts a hand on his chest and has a moment to lean back and just laugh. Way to brighten his day, Nina. ]

🤩🐦💌🎁🧇🎁🧇🎁🧇🤩

[neversmall]

[ ...the bird... sends the present of the waffles?

Oooooooooooooooooh man, she *wishes*. She somehow doubts there's even a waffle-*maker* in this world.

That's okay, though (it is not okay. it will never be okay. she misses real food So Much.), this has been so much fun. ]

‼😍😂🤣🙏💭🧇💭💌💭💞💃😃

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[spalten]

I don't know, these all seem like lies, and some of them are just terrible opinions to hold in the first place.

I think 1 is the most egregious.

1. I'm actually over 6" tall.
2. I am a pilot.
3. Before I was a pilot, I was a politician.

is it an honour though, or is Jon just really judgmental sometimes

[northerndragon]

I don’t see the point of sad stories about dogs. Do they have Robin Hood?

Ghost is no threat to children unless they taunt him. He is friendly to friends. Not so much so to enemies. He has seen battle, and he can survive in the wilds.

He is no wolf-dog. There had been no direwolves south of the Wall in centuries when we found his litter. But the direwolf is the sigil of my father’s house, and there were as many pups as he had children. It seemed right for us to raise them. Ghost is the last of them now.

[mylawn]

See, aliens are new to me.

[cryptoherpetology]

Nothing yet, but evolution likes to repeat itself often enough that you never really know.

Sadly I didn't get the chance for a field dissection of the rats. For as much as they definitely wanted to rend flesh from all our bones, they were biologically fascinating.

[sunmon]

Oh, you're probably right about the bowl.
Look at that.
Do you think people could write whole messages with these?
Here, let me try.
❌🌧🧗🏻‍♀️🌎🌲🍄🌺🦌🛬💥🌑

[ alina ... ]