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[inmyothertights]

Because the universe has piled us into this place, where things just happen, usually when you're trying to deal with all kinds of other things that just happened, piled on top of a sundae of people you love getting afflicted with stuff and people you like disappearing, which is of course topped with the Big Brother is watching you cherry, I would really like to suggest some kind of 4th of July cookout.

And you know it's bad when I am suggesting a 4th of July cookout. But whatever, if it rains I'll work up some spell to move it around or someone who can manipulate weather, if they want to help, they can do that, and we can get a big projector somehow and play really classic old movies from the thirties or something and I'll....make fireworks. Plus food.

I'm just starting to find this all oppressively oppressive and I'm not a...party person, I guess, but I figure this is probably easy enough, right?

If I'm wrong don't correct me.

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People don't add mayo to mashed potatoes on all those recipes I looked up because mayo in mashed potatoes is weird! You're not going to win this argument by getting me to agree to mayo mashed potatoes for a cookout that shouldn't have mashed potatoes in the first place.

[So, there.

She wins.]

[selfimage]

Not all recipes that you look up are recipes that work. Please, I bet if I make two batches in a blind taste test that you'll choose the one with the mayo every time.

[ win or challenge. ]

[selfequipped]

You've been angling toward this taste test from the very beginning. It's not happening.

And the recipes work just fine. Some were from the Gourmet Network!

[selfimage]

Ah—yes, because you know you'll pick the one with the mayo.

Very convincing.

[selfequipped]

I wouldn't, but the point remains that mashed potatoes are inappropriate for cookouts. Please bring baked or potato salad, please and thank you.

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[notasaviour]

Uh, it can. Or it can still mean the other thing, too. Most people will assume the other thing.

[SORRY BUCKY he didn't mean to make you worried about what you were saying.[

Kind of a robot?

[notasaviour]

I'm with you on this one, Kate. That's just. Weird.

[He has to back his oldest friend up on this one, even if he didn't agree with her, right?]

[selfequipped]

The worst part is that he tried to sneak it into our meals at the Christmas party.

[notasaviour]

At Christmas? Seriously?

[Definitely just wrong.

He fights down the tiny pang of something at hearing about yet another thing he missed, but he's doing that a lot. He'll get over it.]

Actual sneaking though, or just thinking everyone did it?

[selfequipped]

Actual sneaking ... he didn't tell us he planned on ruining our mashed potatoes.

Just like he refrained from telling us about the turducken.

[notasaviour]

Okay, that one always sounds kind of cool in novels.

[Actual huge geek Teddy Altman, people.]

But maybe not for Christmas dinner. Although ours was always a little weird, back when I had one, so maybe I can't talk.

[selfequipped]

You can talk, but how does turducken sound cool?

[The very idea of it horrified her.]

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[liverletdie]

And I accept that, but thank you. I appreciate it.

[notasaviour]

It just sounds like something you'd have at a feast, that's all. Like in Game of Thrones, or the Hobbit.

[Hello, Kate, meet actual giant nerd Theodore Altman.]

[munies]

Mn. [ god this is just making Teresa realize she has no idea how to throw a part ] Makes sense. There's a guy named Wally that knows a lot about movies, you could ask him. Maybe there's a good movie about Independence Day.

[ CUE WILL SMITH ]

[notasaviour]

Teddy might. But what's in it for Teddy?

[Hey, no talking about him when he's not paying attention.]

[inmyothertights]

Well, there's a lot of movies that happen during, or have it as a theme....

....I think we can toss out 1776, though.

[inmyothertights]

.............makeouts?

Flying makeouts?

Flying makeouts over the Statue of Liberty?

[notasaviour]

Careful Kaplan, I'm getting the idea you're desperate.

[And if he wasn't such a nice boyfriend, he'd be holding out.]

Okay, okay. One less thing for you to worry about, right?

[selfequipped]

Okay, I don't know what those are, but it's a weird science fiction thing!

[She pauses.]

Those are science fiction things, aren't they?

[notasaviour]

Fantasy things. They're different.

[inmyothertights]

This isn't why I keep you around.

But it is an added perk.

[selfimage]

The point was about mayo.

But yes—fine, Loki's famous potato salad it is.

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[sidecars]

[ He gets an incoming text from Toro with a new question for Billy. ]

You hip cats still do fireworks on the Fourth? Like a big display?

[ It's murrika right? He expects fireworks stuffed up the Statue of Liberty's ass ready to fire! ]

[sidecars]

[ Okay, relieved sigh! ]

I dunno, man! I don't know anything about robots except how to break 'em. She's--It's... A thing.

[ IT'S CONFUSING LOOK WHAT YOU DID LEAVING HIM ALL BY HIMSELF!! ]