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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

[sunmon]

You make it sound like people can't change. Like it's fate.

[dissemblance]

Oh, I happen to have it on very good authority that people can change.

But change generally comes about from a catalyst. Staying as you are is the easiest path. Power becomes comfortable the longer you have it, and the more comfortable you become with something the more you're likely to turn a blind eye to the ways it can be abused.

I'm not saying it's hopeless. I'm just saying you need to be mindful.

[sunmon]

You as in the rhetorical you. Obviously.

[ she'd never said anything about having power, but she can't help feeling like this person has narrowed their gaze on her anyway. ]

[dissemblance]

Obviously.