socialactivillain: (i'm having my doubts)
Hartley Rathaway 🎶 Pied Piper ([personal profile] socialactivillain) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-06-02 09:43 pm

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[ Video switches on to show a man with a ginger ponytail in a hideous green v-neck frowning deeply and looking incredibly disappointed and/or frustrated, sitting on a park bench as dusk settles in.]

Okay, I've been here for less than a day, so would someone mind explaining to me how it is that the United States government can allocate all these funds to keep us imPorts in nicely furnished, comfortable homes in several cities, and expect native businesses and companies to provide us with paid employment, yet its own citizens are still facing what seem like absurd rates of homelessness? Like I said, I only just arrived, but it didn't take me long to find people who have lost their jobs and homes to make way for the growing imPort population.

[ Someone spent his whole first day in Heropa in a park, befriending homeless people. Continuing on, he sighs heavily, as though this is personally wronging and inconveniencing him, not people he doesn't even know. ]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we're to blame for this. After all, it's not as though it's our fault some unstable technology yanked us from our worlds and lives. Of course this world's government would have to provide for us until we can return home. But every single one of us has the responsibility to give back.

So, what are you doing to help? I'll be taking donations to start up a charity for natives displaced by our presence, if you can't come up with anything on your own.
dualismum: (Normal - pic#10188643)

it's fine, no worries!

[personal profile] dualismum 2016-06-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
True, but I think in most worlds that is always a problem. No society is perfect.
slightlyoffchilt: (Meretricious.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-06-04 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
And I would love to discuss those suggestions. In session. [A beat.] Perhaps one day.
pyrogue: (just watching the show)

[personal profile] pyrogue 2016-06-04 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs a little, though there's a very slight edge of nervousness to it. Nobody's been watching fires burn while they should be put out, no sir. ]

Heh. At the hospitals, actually. Might be able to do some good. [ Which makes him think of a question. ] You heard about how this place hands out superpowers like candy? [ Beat. ] Literally, in James's case.
airshow: (We'll turn coloring into a drinking game)

[personal profile] airshow 2016-06-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It really is a tacky place — all kinds of random decor on the walls, lights strung haphazardly. But the cheddar biscuits are damn good, and the seafood is cheap. James slides into the booth across from him, wearing a very loud Hawaiian shirt and a cheerful grin on his face that doesn't at all betray how goddamn weird and frustrating this is. ]

No one says "new millennium" anymore, by the way.
airshow: (Bad decision Saturdays: a good decision.)

[personal profile] airshow 2016-06-04 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
So I'm tentatively adding it to my to-do list!
airshow: (Caprisun cuts tequila surprisingly well.)

[personal profile] airshow 2016-06-05 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
The new millennium could learn to drive by now.

[ chomps a cheddar biscuit ]
pyrogue: (sup lisa)

[personal profile] pyrogue 2016-06-05 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
He said he had endless candy pockets. Dunno if he was pulling my leg or not, he could've had candy corn already on him.
burnseternal: (affable)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2016-06-05 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
We are all from such different backgrounds, such different situations, that it can only be expected. Patience. Even the most unlikely of souls may come around one day.
bassriff: (Gᴇɴᴇʀᴀᴛᴏʀ)

video;

[personal profile] bassriff 2016-06-05 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, she remembers this guy. Another time warp case, eh. Whatever. There's yet another Kitty Jones, apparently. She just starts counting on her fingers.]

Lessee.... arts and music for kids, social media campaigning, anti-war work, there's a benefit concert in the works... [really she's underselling it here.]

Y'know, if you're done gettin' all sanctimonious, Hartley.
bassriff: (Bᴇɢɪɴ ᴛᴏ Hᴏᴘᴇ)

[personal profile] bassriff 2016-06-05 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not doing it alone, but - [She shrugs, loosely.] It's getting bigger than I thought it would.

You play, right? [she mimes guitar strumming briefly, trying to drive the music thing home.]
burnseternal: (puzzled)

[personal profile] burnseternal 2016-06-05 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
You have never met another who has turned their selfish inclinations to charitable ones?

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