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[magnitudes]

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.

Comments

[helladoomed]

You've got...eight? of them?

One food name out of eight is cute. And it'll keep the other piglets in line.

[She may have done a Grand Moff Tarkin voice there.]

[magnitudes]

Ten, including Rosalind. Named after Rosalind Franklin, not some brand of sausages, or something.

( Her brow knits. ) Nah. No food names. Cosima said maybe cool female scientists. Even for the boys, they can handle it.

[helladoomed]

Okay that's not as funny but I do kinda like it.

[Pensive thinking for a few seconds.]

You gotta name one Vera Rubin then.

[magnitudes]

( She immediately brightens. )

The astronomer, yeah? Didn't figure you for caring about stars.

[helladoomed]

Yeah! I mean, she basically discovered dark matter and they still haven't given her a fuckin' nobel. I mean, unless they did it after I got dropped here.

[A beat. She's caught somewhere between amused and insulted.]

Hey, I can have layers! I read about physics and astronomy and shit all the time.

[Just cause she had been garbage at school didn't mean Chloe had been garbage at learning.]

[magnitudes]

Yeah, but like onion layers that still kinda suck and make people pissed off, or good layers?

[helladoomed]

Well, everybody seems to think I'm pretty awesome, so.

Good.

[She just rolls her eyes.]

[magnitudes]

Gonna need citations for that, sorry. It's what Vera would want.

[helladoomed]

Nobody told me naming pigs would require a fuckin' job interview.

[magnitudes]

Surprise. I like to keep people on their toes.

[helladoomed]

Well let's see. [Chloe counts people off on her fingers.]

Well there's my girlfriend, but I guess she's biased. Oh, then there's your sisters, they seem to like me.

[magnitudes]

Yeah, sure, you can say you have a girlfriend and you can say my sisters like you, but I could say that one time I got basketball lessons from Michael Jordan.

[helladoomed]

Look, I understand. You're jealous of how much they like me. It's hard, I know. I get it.

But, it's okay. You'll get through this. I'm sure you can do it.

[magnitudes]

That's cute, kiddo. ( A genuine chuckle. L O L, even. )

Nah, seriously, though. Are you qualified to name pigs?