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[thisislife]

[Lexi's on her couch, Mewnos and Nosferatmew snoozing on the couch with her]

Okay, this is probably the dumbest question ever, but what stupid things do you miss from home?

Personally, I miss 'Doomsday Preppers' the most. I usually don't like reality TV, but that show is funny as hell. All of those people buying out Costco and building bunkers and assembling arsenals of guns which would make Neo go 'yeah, I think you have enough,' 'cause they thought the government or aliens or Captain Trips or the Illuminati were out to get them.

This one lady was coating eggs in mineral oil 'cause she said that would make the eggs stay fresh for a year. And she had literally dozens of cartons of eggs all covered with mineral oil. This other one accidentally shot his own thumb off while showing his little kids how to handle guns safely. That was hilarious.

Also, Dorothea left me a kitten last month. A normal kitten, not a batcat. I'm kind of not sure what to name her, but I know I'd like to stick to the whole insert shitty movie here plus 'mew.' I first though of going with The Mewm, but that kind of rhymes with womb and no. [she sits and thinks a moment, a crease forming between her eyes] Maybe 'Mewdemic?" Do you think that would work?

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[onerthes]

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That's... more than a little disturbing. [She shook her head.] Even beyond what we deal with here. Is it strange to say it sounds safer here?

[thisislife]

It really is. I'm kinda hoping to stay, only I don't know what would happen to my sister or my mom if I did. They depend on me.

[onerthes]

In our limited experience, time is halted. When you return to your world, no matter how long you have been here, it is as if you were never gone. It's part of the ... awkwardness of the whole thing at times.

[thisislife]

[Lexi breathed out a] ...damnit. It would figure, wouldn't it? But still, if I don't go back at all, time has to kick in somewhere along the way. Cassie and Rue both were acting too weird for it not to.

[onerthes]

Well... that's where the oddity gets very strange. Some of us are grabbed from different times, or different timelines entirely. It can be very unusual and hard to follow. It makes for unpleasant realities at times, too, when someone does not remember what they experienced here.

[thisislife]

[Lexi groans] ....I've changed my mind, I don't want anyone from my world here. Ever. At all. But why are our memories lost back in our 'home' worlds?

[onerthes]

So... we're not sure. none of us are. I've actually known a few who were trapped in strange worlds of their own that were not unlike this one, but with different circumstances. They experienced the same. It is as if this world is a 'bubble' within which we experience our lives, but what is within does not always clearly translate.

And sometimes... you aren't encountering the same person from your own world. It might be another version, from another time, without any memory of what happened. It is ... surreal.

(CW: gory imagery)

[thisislife]

...okay, that's officially freaking me out. I mean, a lot can change really fast. And as of March, I've been here a year. But I, uh. I kinda got a sneak-peek of my future a while ago. My big sister, she looked like she wanted to rip me limb from limb. I have an idea of what I might have done, but Cassie had been acting weird for months. Maybe that was her tipping point?

I can imagine. There actually are friends I wouldn't mind having along, but I don't know if I'm ready for, uh, the kind of emotional intimacy this place kinda causes between people.

Re: (CW: gory imagery)

[onerthes]

I'm very sorry to hear about that. That kind of knowledge... isn't something that I've experienced myself. Mostly because my world was basically ended, and being reborn from the ashes. There was nothing left to cause that kind of pain. But perhaps you're right about that tipping point.

[Hmmm]

Oh, you mean the sorts of things that happen to us randomly, in combination with the bonds?

[thisislife]

--oh. Oh, jeez. You told me about that, I'm sorry. That's horrible. But, reborn, that's hopeful? Right? And, yeah. I don't want to hurt Cassie, but I think I must have somewhere along the way.

Yeah, pretty much. And this place has a nasty habit of fucking with all of our minds, most of my friends have had their minds fucked with plenty already.

[onerthes]

It has been more or less reborn from the ashes. It is not a bad thing, though the process was ... unpleasant. Don't worry about it. It's certainly a hopeful situation, and one where future conflicts for me are not likely.

I hope you're able to help this situation with Cassie if you have the chance. Sometimes this place allows such a thing when it might not be possible otherwise.

[thisislife]

I'm glad. You're nice, I wouldn't want to think of you dealing with those kinds of things.

I'd like to hope so. If Cassie came...maybe it would be the best possible thing for her? Get her away from toxic guys who only like her because she's a 34-DD. Get her into a circumstance where she can prove herself for whom she is, not for what she looks like.

[onerthes]

That sounds like it might be a good thing for her. Sometimes, this world really is an improvement, strange as it might have seemed under the circumstances.

[thisislife]

Yeah. It's an improvement for me and I really, really think it would be for Cassie. Especially if she was, I don't know, a coldblood. No one would mess with her then. She needs to learn how to establish herself as a person outside of what pervy guys think and this could...this could really help.

[onerthes]

Coldblood or Vileblood. There's ways for both of those to be very good at defending themselves. Having power when she might not have before could feel quite very empowering. And in a world where we are safe that way comparatively? It might help.

[thisislife]

That's what I'm hoping. The guys where we come from, they're just...nauseating, the way they treat her. And I know there's something she's not telling me, something big. Get her away from it and maybe she'll feel safe enough to admit what it is.

[onerthes]

Those sorts of things eventually come out in this world. My only hope is that she'd have the chance to say it freely instead of this world trumpeting it for her.