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video | i was one of those preteen backstreet boys fans and i am living
[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.
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.
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A week of apocalypse is more than long enough even without the human brain's tendency to distort the perception of time in stressful situations.
[Wait. No. That's probably still too 'I have twelve PhDs' on main.]
By which I mean, I imagine this place is a welcome change of pace even if the work isn't all that highbrow.
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My other character hasYou're not the only dude with 10+ PhDs around here.]i get the idea. and kind of. it's relatively normal? relatively. but tbh i'll take any kind of normal at this point.
[It's more complicated than that, but she's not about to spill all her apocalypse-based anxieties to this guy.]
to answer what you were talking about though: yeah, my zombies are from an infection. not undead. they used to be just movie fiction until recently.
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Relatively normal is better than nothing.
[That's safe. True, too. Much as he loves the strange and unusual, he was kind of looking forward to settling down in his native dimension and having more mundane adventures. And now surprise! This nonsense!]
The differences in the native 'normal' for the huge variety of different people drawn here is something I'm eager to get more insight into, which is why I asked the questions I did. Compared to some of our outliers, myself included, you're doing just fine.
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[Again: long story.]
if you're trying to get insight, i'm guessing this place is paradise for... what did you call it, paranormal research?
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I would say so. Between the incredibly unique native magic system and the fact that there are centaurs and aliens among the moonblessed, I'm spoiled for choice.
Admittedly research has taken a back seat to work lately. Food doesn't buy itself.
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i figured something like that would actually be in demand here.
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None of my current academic work is publishable; my art is.
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also, you do art?
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I do. In my travels I've found people are more interested in paying money for a good zine or portrait than they are in paying to hear about inter-dimensional paradigm theory.
[It sure hits a wider demographic, and when you're on an unfamiliar planet and need cash fast, you get less picky.]
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[getting used to it]
makes sense, that's usually the case
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