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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

[medik]

What is an emoji. Are those the pictures you have all been using

[dissemblance]

Yep.

Think of it like hieroglyphics for the modern age.

[medik]

What is it you're calling the modern age?

[ Everyone here seems to be from a different time period (if not planet altogether), so it seems to bear asking. After all, everyone considers their own time to be modernity, or at least they in the 1910s did. ]

[dissemblance]

2801, apparently.

But before that, 2023.

[medik]

[ 2023. Just over 100 years since the last moment he himself was on earth. It explains the new emergence of emojis, at least, and her manner of speaking. ]

What is life like in 2023? Is it as things are here?

[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. ）

yakov: im not gonna get political | yakov, like 3 messages in: https://tinyurl.com/khe9c22s

[medik]

[1/2]: Fair. Some things are the same, though. Horses, the weather, the grip religion and mysticism hold on daily life. And serfdom and autocracy in my country, no matter how "free" our law says peasants are.

[2/2]: Do you recognize their political system? These ships?

[dissemblance]

（ nnnnnnot touching that first part with a stick, thanks. you cannot make her discuss what sounds like turn of the century russian politics. she ain't gonna do it, fam. ）

I mean, the Captain and her ranking scheme seem like it was cribbed from standard naval structure to me, but I don't know for sure. I haven't really looked any deeper on a political level.

It's familiar the way I'd think the Roman Republic was familiar, but I'm not going to guarantee I could write a dissertation on it either.

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[medik]

You think they are from some military, then.

[ He'd gotten a similar feeling about the locals here, truth be told, but he hadn't voiced it until now - partly for lack of audience, partly because it hadn't seemed prudent. ]

[dissemblance]

It would make sense to me.

But I'm not exactly an expert. I've seen a few episodes of Star Trek and that's about it.