video | i was one of those preteen backstreet boys fans and i am living

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[The video is shot from someone's seated lap, legs in dark jeans crossed, Rochelle doing her best to hide that she's recording. Across cameramen and a news van, a Level 2 local news anchor is interviewing a young deer Prismal in a *BTSB shirt.

The Prismal is very excitedly going off into why Lecter is their favorite fox boy. He's hot, he's talented, he LOVES cats, and they saw him in the gym the other day and oh my god look at this selfie they got??

They take out their phone and start waving their selfie in front of the camera, jumping up at down. After a point, they just start rambling. Rochelle tilts her phone up to her face. She grins behind a hologram script, expression equal parts exasperated and fondly amused.

She switches to text not long after.]

back where i'm from we had a couple big boy bands like this with a LOT of fangirls like these. i was sixteen when they got really big. i was also pretty dumb. somehow thought i was better than everyone else who liked them because i liked 1980s new wave and synth pop more. like i said, i was sixteen.

so anyone seen these BTSB guys around? Backstay Sailor Boys or something? because wow. i thought the Midnight Riders was a bad name for a band.

then again, the latter literally saved my life after the infection hit. had to blast crappy old guy rock music and fireworks and fight off zombies on a fairground stage to get a helicopter's attention. so what do i know?

anyway. people are saying i should use this network thing to talk about my thoughts more so uhhhhhh. work's interesting lately? management's pushing a lot more fluff and celebrity stories. this station's already small and kind of directionless and now

well

here's hoping i don't end up in tabloid journalism i guess.

Comments

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Thirty-six this year, so don't worry. Women are better-looking in their thirties, anyway. If you ask me.

Well, shit. Hope it was an easy clean? Haven't kept up with the news normally here lately as well as I'd like. I tend to be cranky around my time of the month, ha ha. Guess the one thing that can be said for Lunatia, at least, is that it never lacks excitement.

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damn okay. im gonna hold you to that, you know.

[What, Jill is a good-looking woman.]

guess so. i wasn't the one that cleaned it. you're right, though. something's always happening here. a little more than i'd like, but. yeah.

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You ever see those high school girls that already look like they're thirty? They tend to age bad. I can tell your age and pin it as mid, late-twenties. I think you'll be fine. :)

[ She wouldn't say Rochelle is anything to scoff at, either. ]

If you're interested in something a little more serious in your free time, I might have some information that could be useful. I'd have to ask a friend about it. Not sure it's the best thing to bring up on the network, though.

I'm not good at easing into things, either, in case you couldn't tell.

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29. pretty good guess.

that sounds....ominous, but alright?

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You're fine. I know that feeling, I got it pretty bad when I neared it, but honestly people in their sixties are looking younger and are active. We were hit with a good era to get older.

Not that bad, I promise. If it was it'd be all in person. But I figure it could be something you might be interested in.

[ It's just drugs. Which she imagines might not be that big a deal in a world where people can create their own cocktail of intrigue on their bodies without even knowing it, but she's talked about the trade a bit with Gabriel. It's... interesting. ]

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[that's

gonna be more than a "just" for her]

good genes, i guess.

i'll give it a shot?

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Ha ha, I'm thankful I'm pretty hard to pin from a distance and my wrinkles are all up close under my eyes. I'll tell you that.

Thanks. :)