text ↪ un: dostoevsky

[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 🔥🔥🔥.

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@s.wilson

[unclesam]

can't say I've been to kansas, but I hear dust in the wind used to be a popular song a handful of years ago.

[ ... too soon? ]

nice assembly of emojis there.
how about this:

1. I have a t-shirt that says 'superheroes need therapy, but get action figures instead'
2. The craziest drink I ever had was a shot that included snake innards
3. If I wanted to hide a body, I know exactly which alligator I'd feed it to

@indy

[nonscriptum]

#1 is the lie. 2 and 3 are just this side of crazy enough to be accurate.

Florida or Louisiana?

[unclesam]

small fishing town in louisiana
you from a place with backyard alligators too?

[nonscriptum]

I was living in New Orleans before all this trans-dimensional crap. Most of the countries I grew up in had crocodiles, though.

[unclesam]

just in the neighbourhood, then. we just under an hour out of new orleans
so your folk travel a lot with you?

[nonscriptum]

must be nice. we had a shotgun a stone's throw from the river, probably not quite as picturesque as you.

[ Your folk. It's hard not to immediately think about what he lost. Who he lost. ]

but yeah, been all over the place. didn't really lay down roots until louisiana, though. y'all born and raised?

I'm so glad google exists because 'shotgun' had me SO confused

[unclesam]

damn right, local family business and big cookouts included.
new orlean's a good place to grow roots in.

1/2 LMAO SORRY it is really such a specific regional thing

[nonscriptum]

It was.

2/2

[nonscriptum]

So what's the family business?

just me having only a vague idea of the US, much less specific regions lmaaaooo

[unclesam]

you saw the fishing town part, right?
just messing with you, it's a seafood business.
what's it you do that it sent you globetrotting and ended you in new orleans?
before getting sneezed through the universe and becoming egg yolk, I mean

@weirdshit

[brosbeforeprose]

"2. The craziest drink I ever had was a shot that included snake innards"

I see you've been to my local inn.

I'm sorry, that's unfair.
It was an animal tooth and it was only one time.

I don't know for sure that 1 is the lie, but I want the others to be true, so it's my guess all the same.

[unclesam]

1 is true in sentiment, but not so much reality. 2 & 3 are entirely correct.
the shot was horrid. yours any better?
the alligator's named miss olive. pillar of the community, really.

[brosbeforeprose]

I have to ask, what makes a superhero any more super than your regular run of the mill hero?

[Question for the ages.]

Tasted a bit sweet, kind of earthy. And then like blood when it cut my tongue. In some parts, they'd call "sweet, a little earthy, with a tang of blood" the "bouquet" and charge extra.

And how did you happen to meet Miss Olive?

[unclesam]

it's all about the costumes and gimmicks, man

[ true story ]

alright you know what, you win that. at least the snake bits went down the hatch in one gulp.

oh everyone knows where she usually lurks. teach your kids where not to stick their arms in the water, y'know.

[brosbeforeprose]

I'm making notes as we speak.
Not that I'm the heroic type, I'm more the man behind the hero making sure the wind blows their hair back just right and making sure the story's going to sound good at the bar later.

I don't know, I think the snake guts would make a second appearance if I'd drunk them.

[unclesam]

oh you the hype man, running pr and marketing, yeah?

[ memo to self: do not talk about the actual superhero shit in front of this guy. he doesn't wanna give the wrong impression there. ]

it was a close call, I'll admit that

[brosbeforeprose]

That makes me sound like a professional. I just like spinning a good tale. And occasionally I shoot people. When I have a sodding crossbow to do it with.

[He hasn't found his Bianca yet, and he promises he's not bitter about it.

No, that's a lie. He is bitter. How dare the mysterious forces of the universe not give him Biance right in his hand when he arrives.]

So what kind of superheroing do you see and/or do? On a scale of 'rescuing cats from trees' to 'delivering the whole world from unimaginable peril'.

[unclesam]

[ crossbow... Sam's about to judge the antiquity when he remembers he's throwing a big shield like a frisbee as his weapon of choice these days.

it occurs to him that taking up the mantle meant giving up all rights to judge other strange weapon choices. damnit. ]

shockingly? kinda both. I mean, world ending plots are practically a dime a dozen. what kinda monster wouldn't stop for a little kid needing a cat saved, though?

[dissemblance]

Oh, so overplayed. If we're talking Kansas, I've gotta go with Miracles Out of Nowhere.

（ too soon, sam. too soon. ）

You realize I'm going to have to buy you that shirt now, right?

[unclesam]

you know I was about to crack a joke about how I'm too black to know their discography, and then I remembered what was usually playing at the airbase.
no one together comes to mind.

[ How does the begin to tell her about the mess of things, and how far everyone's drifted? Her loss proved and unmooring in many ways. ]

please do. I'd wear it and look damn good in it.

private dm ↪ un: romanoff

[dissemblance]

You'd probably look good in anything. I've got the leg up on the black nomex/kevlar catsuit, though. Just saying.

What's on your mind, Sam?

[unclesam]

please, do you know how much trouble we'd be in if I were the avenger in the catsuit? devastating, I'm telling you.

please tell me you're also not a fan of how public our means of communication are? 'cause I got ideas for my bird that are incompatible right now.

[ yeah that's totally what's on his mind. nothing else. ]

[dissemblance]

In that case, I get the EXO unit. And Redwing. Full custody, no take-backs.

I can probably jury-rig us something after a crash-course in the local tech. Are you thinking barbershop quintet intranet, or... something for all the little Gigers, too?

[unclesam]

y'know I'd offer you the old unit as a fixer upper if I had it on hand. unlike mr roger's neighborhood and old man barnacle, I'd actually trust you to learn how to fly it

that's a no on redwing and buckabee though.

primarily barbershop quintet - might not be a bad idea to give all the egg yolks a way to talk without prying eyes.

[dissemblance]

Sounds like someone got an upgrade. Stark?

（ she just assumes it would be tony's doing. he owes sam. ）

I'll see what I can do. I might need to do some sort of manual push through their system.