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[standingonmyneck]

Type: Text

Sender ID: standingonmyneck

Subject: love is real

Warnings: true love incoming (claws and companions quest related)



(Everyone just sees this video on the network.)

real love exists

Comments

sender id: netherese | text

[netherese]

It's nice that they have someone, isn't it?

[standingonmyneck]

Truly moved to tears.

[netherese]

I'm amazed they stayed still long enough for you to capture this.

[standingonmyneck]

I've been down here a while with Bramblesong. Maybe I've lost my mind.

sender: everblooms / video

[everblooms]

[ A calico cat is clawing furiously at the device, face sniffing the screen with a level of indignation, as if to question the rats' insistence on escaping capture today. How dare they! Someone isn't a fan of real love, it seems. ]

[standingonmyneck]

Hey Aerith, ding ding. Your cat is either going to end true love or your phone.

[everblooms]

[ Daria has now interrupted Lilyliver's hunting. His eyes go wide, and his body still before he slaps the screen, hard and knocks the phone right over. Daria's always right.

Over the clamor comes a familiar voice: ] Oh, very funny, Lily. And were there mice in the phone, hm? [ The interior of her cabin, sparse as it is, has a few flowers left out, sitting and waiting to be potted, or perhaps pressed... and the device gets picked up, so Daria gets an eyeful of the florist herself. ]

What's this? Oh, no. It's a Magic 8 Ball. [ She's teasing. ]

[standingonmyneck]

Yeah, shake me and I’ll tell you the worst fortunes you ever heard. I dare you.

[She did get a look at her place. Of course she had this cottage girl thing going. It seemed to fit her.]

Nice flowers.

» text | un: tilfrosset

[tilfrosset]

[Jill is now a believer that the video function on these shellphones was the worst invention. No one ever had to witness these shenanigans with parchment and quill.]

Perhaps you should give them some privacy.

[standingonmyneck]

[technology hater]

What if I was here first? I was just minding my own business when nature called.

[tilfrosset]

I do believe you are in their territory, therefore it is on you to avert your eyes.

And everybody else's eyes.

[Really, did this lady think all and sundry wanted to see this?]

[standingonmyneck]

[Daria didn’t really care about what other people thought. But this was the one time she got bored enough to post something stupid and getting lectured about it just kinda felt silly.]

It’s literally just two rats touching noses. It’s not that serious.

text | yuezun

[yuezun]

Is it not usually frowned on and considered embarrassing to the one watching to remain and watch others being intimate when you walk in on them?

[He had recently (read: before coming to this world) used his limited understanding of that particular social expectation to chase Shangque out of his chambers while being in Orchid's body by challenging the black dragon to stay and watch 'her' make out with 'the moon supreme'.]

[standingonmyneck]

Dongfang, I hope no one ever introduces you to television or the internet.

[yuezun]

[The words she used didn't translate directly as neither existed in his world. Thus:]

Who is Television and The Internet? What do they have to do with watching others being intimate?

[Wait. He did know of a type of person and a place where that might occur.]

Is Television the proprietor of a brothel-ship called The Internet? Are you sending this from a sea-faring brothel?

[standingonmyneck]

[Yeah chief that was a lot of something that Wasn’t It.]

Not exactly. Let’s just say if you think two rats touching noses is cause for alarm, wait until you learn people make a living actually documenting mating rituals (baby making) for money.

sender id: heartstealer, text

[doctorheartstealer]

How does this prove anything?

[standingonmyneck]

Look into your heart and find the answer.

[doctorheartstealer]

...

I can literally look into my heart and tell you it makes no difference.

[standingonmyneck]

Then you truly have no soul.



How sad.

text

[inventuring]

HUH?! I don't think rats kiss, actually!

Or are those mice...
Anyways about it, how'd you find the music for that video then?

text

[standingonmyneck]

These shellphones aren't more complicated than the phones I had at home.

Rats definitely kiss though. One of my old college roommates had a domesticated one.

[inventuring]

They weren't hard to pick up, but you've got to show me where you found the music! I can figure it out from there, promise!

Never heard of domesticated rats but I guess if we make dogs and cats pets that makes about as much sense.

[standingonmyneck]

It wasn't cool when my roommate went into my groceries to feed him but yeah otherwise.

Uh. But sure. I can show you.

Text; Sender: chatterbox

[cursedwords]

Oh good, more rats. I guess my cat has to eat something.