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G'day g'day, this is Sarissa Theron, local hero and devastatingly good looking rural.

( She seems in a better mood than last time she posted, and better form - and sure, she is, but it's also Sarissa trying very very ahrd to be Okay, and definitely not actually being Okay. Still, there's a healthy flush to her cheeks, and unlike last time she's got a smear of mud on her cheek and is looking like she's been working outside. Wherever she is, she's definitely in a field, and there's a shed nearby. )

I know, two posts from me, in one month? Overkill, definitely. But this is so important. Or, should I say,

( and she grins, brightly, before turning the camera... ) sow important?

( Yes, viewers. In-frame is a very large sow, pink with black patches. Around her are nine little piglets, varied from all pink to speckled to covered in patches, and one that is totally black. )

I just rescued these guys from a bit of a situation. Got them a special shed and I just finished the fences on the fields a couple days ago, so good timing, but I gotta head back into town to pick up some more supplies and that. If anyone has any fruit and veggies or pig feed or straw or - I mean, anything that you wanna donate to the rescue pig extravaganza, lemme know.

( A thumbs up; she is so excited. Pigs!!! ) And I need help coming up with names, because they can't all be Hamlet or Francis Bacon.

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[ Sarah opens her mouth. She closes her mouth. She takes a deep breath, about to speak, and then stops herself. She closes her eyes, squeezes them shut really, and finally, after a long silence, forces herself to ask a question she already knows the answer to. ]

Is that our yard?

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( ............. :D )

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( wait hang on )

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( shit, she knew she forgot something )

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( oh well )

Definitely no-yes, yes it is, yeah.

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[Cosima is grinning wildly, looking like she's about to abandon everything she was doing and make her way to Sarissa's house immediately.]

Name that after female scientists who were underappreciated in their time.

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Bloody genius, Tiger. Rosalind Franklin, maybe?

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[In a tone eerily similar to one that's already replied to this post - ]

Is that you and Sarah's yard?

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Oi, Bambi. Yard makes it sound so limited. We got a few bloody acres here, y'know that?

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Hammy Davis Jr, Piggie Smalls, Boary Williams, Linkin Pork, Sarah Jessica Porker, the Notorious P.I.G., Jean-Luc Pigcard.

[ this coming from the guy who says he hates puns. ]

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Who's Boary Williams named after? ( She's squinting, trying to think. ) Like a jazz musician, or something? I dunno much about jazz.

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Oh, Rory's good enough for a piglet, but there's no "Clara Hogswald"? I see how it is.

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[Helpfully, Twice supplies a link to a random pig name generator.]

I don't know any pig names. Here are someone else's suggestions.

[She is also currently rummaging through some clothes hanging in a closet, with her communicator propped up on a shelf or something?]

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( Sarissa, meanwhile, is sitting in the mud and patting Rosalind, the sow. )

Huh, I'll take a look. What're you up to, then? Dunno if clothes are much use to pigs, but thanks for the thought.

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You gotta name one of them Bacon.

[She was fully prepared to present an entire list of pork based foods as names here. But Bacon was clearly first.]

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Hey, no, these are pets. No food names unless they're a clever pun, you gremlin.

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Have you considered naming them "dinner"?

[ Ohhh, Theon, no. Get used to the modern world already, goddammit. ]

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Have you considered falling down an open mine shaft?

( Sarissa "never dramatic" Theron sure does appreciate his thoughtful suggestions )

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Waddles.

[the great thing about your former sitcom feud nemesis and her entire family porting out is that there's literally no one around to call you on suggesting what is basically a memorial to her in the only way she'd have wanted. god bless the Porter.]

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I love it. Feels like it could be better for a duck, but.

We do have a pond. Maybe I could get a duck.

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What about Hambo?


I heard that pigs poop a lot, ne? You might be able to make fertilizer out of it to sell and support feeding them.

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Okay, that's actually really good. Maybe if I put some camo paint on one of these little guys. At the very least it needs to be a movie, right?

( Her brow quirks a little. )

Not a bad idea. I mean, I got enough cash, but that'd help. Takes a few months for it to be good to put on gardens, so it breaks down and all that, if I remember rightly. You much of a gardener?

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Can I get a couple of them off of you? Or just a boy maybe? Them're harder to get a hold of than breeding females.

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They're still pretty small, so I reckon they need bottle feeding and their mum for a bit longer, but if people wanted to home them I wouldn't be against it.

Hey, you aren't planning on eating him, are you? Doesn't feel right handing a little guy over for him to become lunch. I mean, I'm country, I know domestic pigs and sheep and that mostly for purpose and not for pets, but they've have a rough go of it so far. Kinda hoping they get to live long and happy, after that.

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Wow check your hick ass out

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babe we covered this already

rural, not hick

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How the hell did you — [ an aggravated huff. ]

Forget it. I don't wanna know.

permavoice; after her argument with Sarah B)

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Oh, come on, don't you start.

[ret2go]

Name one Chris P. Bacon!

ahhh I'm so sorry, I was phone tagging and missed your comment D:

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Now, see, I'm starting to think that you lot are just a bunch of bloody sadists. Look at this face.

( And she holds up a little black piglet, to the camera. )

Do you really look at this little angel and think "mmm, breakfast"?

( says the carnivore... )

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[And here's Wanda, smiling at the image of the cute piglets.]

Aw, they're so cute.

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I can bring you some fruit and veggies for them. [Who wouldn't help out cute little piglets, ok?]

Name suggestions? Jedan, dva, tri, četiri, pet, šest, sedam, osam, devet. [Those are literally just the numbers one through nine in Sokovian. Wanda is terrible at naming things, but at least she knows it.]

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( Sarissa beams, and scoops up a little piglet with a splotch of black on its nose, balancing the device on a bale of hay so she can also grasp up a bottle of formula. The sow can feed them, but she's not in top shape and very tired, so— yeah. Picking up some slack. )

Thanks. The solid stuff'll mostly be for mum the next few days, but I reckon they'll be getting ready to move off just having milk, soon. Rosalind needs to get built up a bit, but. She's pretty run down.

( She glances down at the piglet she's bottlefeeding, and back to the device. ) What's all that mean? Jedan, dva, try— tri? Try? Trihhh?

( Languages: she's not good at them. )