text, memeing it up

[rathercommon]

Hullo, all.

So...The days are short, the air is cold (except in Heropa), and all of us are struggling with lingering embarrassment from all those mis-sent texts. So, to give us all a bit of cheer, and in recognition of all the holidays we've constructed to help us deal with winter, I thought we all could give one another a bit of love.

So! How does this work, then? Well -

1. Go ahead and post your name in this post.
2. People respond to you with things they like about you, lovely moments you've shared, et cetera.
3. You go out and respond to others with things you like about them.
4. NO BEING AWFUL. Do NOT give backhanded compliments or secretly troll people or things like that. The point of this is to be good to one another. Go be good to one another!

Comments

[deadtective]

He tries to adopt fucking anything and they're gonna put him away for animal hoarding. It's not gonna happen.

[notice how she's completely removed herself from this topic, making it entirely about Josuke. she's feeling pretty good about having pulled one over on this conversation.]

[helpline]

I said you and Josuke, you know.

[ he does notice how she's completely removed herself from the topic and is CALLING HAZEL OUT ON IT. ]

[deadtective]

Sure, but he's the one with fifty fucking million pets.

[this just has??? nothing???? to do with her. sorry, grandpa, it's just not happening.]

[helpline]

Right, which is why the next pet's going to be one of those couples decisions. That's a thing, you know, a couple deciding that they're going to adopt a dog together.

[ just said so matter-of-factly like Hazel would have no clue in the first place. ]

[deadtective]

What the hell would you know about couples decisions?

[this is not to say that she's forgotten he was married. this is to say that there's no way in hell that Hazel would ever believe his wife let him have more than a nanosecond of input after the fact on any decision.]

[helpline]

I've had twenty-four years of couples decisions! That's a pretty good track record.

[ One last night with River, his wife, spent with her before her death. Equivalent to twenty-four years in Earth time. ]

[deadtective]

For her, yeah. You're still hanging around square one.

[helpline]

We'll just have to wait until she gets Ported in so she'll verify my opinion.

[deadtective]

More like get your balls back in that jar.

[helpline]

I'm sticking with verify my opinion and you can't make me change it.

[deadtective]

I don't have to, you're not the one whose approval matters in this equation.

[helpline]

The person whose approval matters, however, isn't here.

[deadtective]

Yeah, I know, which means it defaults to mine in the meantime.

[helpline]

Scuze you, it defaults to mine!

[deadtective]

Why? You never start with the fucking bottom of the barrel.

[helpline]

Of course you do! How else can you work your way up to the top?

[deadtective]

By starting there.

[helpline]

Nobody starts at the top. [ well, what about rich white dudes. ] Addendum: very few people start at the top.

[deadtective]

The numbers aren't my problem.

[helpline]

But the numbers don't lie. Sorry Hazel, you'll just have to face the facts.

[deadtective]

You know I never mentioned how much of fucking anything, right? You're the one trying to make this a thing.

[helpline]

I'm making it a thing because it's a thing to begin with!

[deadtective]

It's only a thing in whatever's left of your mind.

[helpline]

Of course it's a thing! Why wouldn't it be?

[deadtective]

Because other people are still kinda rational, probably.