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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 🔥🔥🔥.

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@comrade.yurovsky

[medik]

You have read the works of Dostoevsky?

[ About 75% of the message itself is incoherent to him, so Yakov figures he'll go with the familiar. It's rather surprising to see the name in print. ]

@marion.adamopoulos

[cleaningsolutions]

Have you? I read a translation of Notes from Underground some years back, but many of the details have slipped my mind.

[...She read the book largely because she knew that the author had been important in the nebulous way a lot of names in the database of "famous or accomplished humans" had been, but she's had basically no schooling and didn't really get it or know how to engage more deeply than "wow this guy is miserable". The translation was of indifferent quality, besides.]

[medik]

You're fortunate. It's reactionary fantasy.

[cleaningsolutions]

How's that? What was he reacting to?

cw antisemitism mention

[medik]

Progress. The man was a religious radical who thought it pointless to try to make a better life. He hated atheists, Jews, socialists, anyone who dared question the status quo. By his reasoning, we should all accept our oppression and live in shackles until we die. He would have been a great writer if such ignorance and mysticism hadn't tainted his work.

[ His books were entertaining, yes, with a strong grasp of the Russian language, but such things can hardly be separated from the hand and the soul—figuratively speaking—which created them. ]

[cleaningsolutions]

That does make sense. I don't know much about human religions but they seem difficult. I wonder if he was too afraid to see anything good about change. Did he have a hard life?

[The Krakau haven't translated and made available much about any of the old religions. She kind of wishes they had, they were so important to her ancestors, even if what little she knows of them is baffling.]

[dissemblance]

（ 'comrade', that's... significant. ）

What, you don't believe I wrote them? 😉

[medik]

[ Yakov's gonna assume that's a joke, even though it's not really the brand of humor he's used to. Then again, he's fresh out of the trenches, and there's a lot here that he's not used to. ]

I was under the impression he was male

[dissemblance]

Men can use emojis too, you know.

[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.