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Hey so

I've been screwing around with the network connecting the communications devices a little. I know there's no Spotify here, no internet, not a lot of music, which sucks. My MP3 player came here with me, so I figured maybe some people might like to have at least a few options. It might not necessarily be to everyone's taste, but it's better than nothing (probably).

I've uploaded the contents to the database, you should be able to access it or send/receive songs at any time.

Turns out they already had some music on there too, so you can poke around theirs and see if you find something you like more. I haven't gotten to go through it all, but at least some of it looks like 21st century Earth stuff.

Sidenote: you're welcome to criticize the contents of my MP3 player, just know that I've never felt shame in my life & I can and will sing all of these karaoke style to your face. IDK if you really want to live through that experience.

( feel free to threadjack as you like )

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Wait, is hatching fully grown out of eggs not totally normal on your world? Weird, that's like every other Tuesday where I'm from.

oh yeah, you make a special day of it still or has yolking out of eggs become common place?

our share of weird hasn't hit 'unnecessary alien sequels for 200' quite yet.

It's kind of like going to the DMV. Boring, lots of lines, for some reason everybody has to take a number.

Sequels?

oh so it's hell with a different set dressing. gotcha.

yeah. 'cause of the... goopy eggs on an alient planet thing. wait, are you too young or too old to know alien movies are still in the 2020s?

Oh, my bad, man. When you get used to talking about actual aliens you kind of forget about the movie Aliens. Took that way too literally. To be honest, I'd feel way safer if Sigourney Weaver were here. Nobody fucks with Sigourney Weaver.

don't even worry about it. trust me, you're not the worst offender when it comes to pop culture illiteracy.
hey, not a bad thought. get ripley here, sort all this crap out in no time, badass one-liners included.

[ note to self: find out if bucky's watched alien. make him watch alien. ]

Genius. Screw the guns and the houses. 100% focus on somehow birthing Ripley out of a trans-dimensional dragon egg thing. Give me, like, a week and a half.

( spoilers: bucky has not watched alien. )

I see no downsides to this brilliant plan, we'll turn this mess around in no time at all. glad you're on board, copperfield.

[ yep, that movie night's gonna be a go for sure. ]

Pleasure's all mine.

I'm Ian, btw. Fowler, if you're nasty. And if you're not nasty. My last name is Fowler either way.

you missed the opportunity to go for 'foul' there instead of nasty. c'mon, you set yourself up so well.

sam wilson, while we're at it.

FUCK
you're right
the only answer's seppuku
it's been real nice knowing you, Sam

yeah, honestly, probably your only choice at this stage.
can you hold off until after you've made a couple bandages for us, though?
not to objectify you but...

I think that might be the most literal way I've ever been objectified.

Alright, since you asked, I'll hold off on the self-stabbing. It'd probably make the guy with the great pecs running around here really sad anyway.

I'll head over there in a few.

well look at us, providing new life experiences for each other. ain't that just sweet.

tall, blonde, dorito shaped guy?
yeah he'd be mildly concerned with some casual seppuku.
plus I'm not sure I wanna get into an ethics debate about saving lives vs saving resources vs respecting choices with dr hyacinth.
so maybe you just gotta live with the shame.

More like tall brick shit-house looking guy with puppy eyes and shoulder holsters.

Guess I'll just have to redeem myself the old fashioned way
hard work and buying off politicians
it's a long road, but I'm willing to walk it

huh, ain't familiar. general bleeding heart type, or friend of yours?

I support your road to redemption, man.
creating something from nothing's sure useful for bribery, gotta give you that.

My partner
boyfriend?
guy I'm dating

No kidding, fuck, imagine if I could have done that back home. I'd have the best counterfeit scheme in history.

ah, gotcha. well, that explains why he'd be mildly affected. yeah, let's maybe spare him that.

you didn't have the powers before? what, the eggs dispense new features at random?

No, actually, this is my second
um
relocation, I guess. I woke up in like this alternate... timeline... thing about a year ago almost. I got the powers there, and I guess they're permanent, since they came with me here.

well, shit
so you're just that kinda unlucky, huh?

[ goddamn miracle the boyfriend didn't get separated - Sam's just assuming that's an imported thing, though if they just went full-speed ahead, hey, who's he to judge. ]

seriously though, how you holding up?

I guess it depends on your perspective. Anywhere is better than going home, so. Glass half full, I guess.

I'm good, man. Could be worse.

( he's awful, actually, and he's staving off anxiety attacks with moonshine and weed. Thisisfine.jpg )

[ Sam thinks back to the phrasing 'the end of the world with no government out there to swoop in and save you from the aliens'. Yeah, this ain't hard to clock. Anywhere's better than going home, huh. ]

could be worse don't quite make it good. ain't gonna push you on that though. this place more like home or more like the power up timeline?

Home. The power up timeline had actual infrastructure. I had a career and an apartment again. Home was more like a compound. Maybe forty or fifty people, holed up in the national park by Crater Lake.

This place definitely has a better population and more electricity. Indoor plumbing. No restrictions on using metal, you'd be fucking amazed how hard it is to adapt to not using metal.

[ alright. so it is better than home, but closer to it than the power up timeline. goddamnit, Ian - that's not half full, that's just the glass tipping over without spilling everything. ]

we also still got the wreck to salvage things from. so no nine to five, but more stable than 40 to 50 people in a compound.

oregon, huh?

Yep
Not originally, I was teaching at Berkeley in California when everything went nuts. Oregon was less populated, lots of forest, practically no metal. We made it work.

( Look man, yes, that is definitely awful and only barely keeping his feelings in the glass, however — on the surface he looks chill as fuck, totally unflappable. He's a real master at projecting that, good luck prying Real Feelings out of him.

Watch him do the ol' redirect attention off himself maneuver: )

What about you, man? Where are you from?

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