10 - [Video]

[biwinning]

[So Sollux thought it'd be a good idea to see what Earth movies are like. And with Crank as his only basis thus far, he's 1. not impressed, and 2. confused on a few things.]

Hey.

That movie that was shown last night, used a lot of words I don't know. Human vernacular ith really stupid and weird. Tho everyone should tell me all the thwear words they know and what they mean. There were like twenty onesth I didn't know in that movie, and I thtill don't get what they meant. Thith ith for educational purposes, of course.

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priva-city

[heartsink]

Yeah. From what I remember, most of the times they were awarded when the one person felt threatened by the other. Abusive exes, or things like that.

priva-city

[biwinning]

...
wii2h troll2 had that kiind of thiing.

priva-city

[heartsink]

Nothing close to equivalent?

priva-city

[biwinning]

kiilliing them.

priva-city

[heartsink]

... Oh.
That's pretty rough.

priva-city whoops

[biwinning]

iit'2 only a problem iif you can't do iit.
or they kiill you fiir2t.
or they're a hiighblood and you get iin trouble for iit.

priva-city i saw nothing

[heartsink]

I can't say any of these options sound very appealing.

priva-city it was a sign i needed to sleep

[biwinning]

they really aren't.
but that wa2 the world ii belonged two.
now iit'2 diifferent obviiou2ly.
fuck ii wii2h 2omeone told me about tho2e when eriidan wa2 around.

priva-city as good a sign as any

[heartsink]

[ ... ]

Ex of yours?

priva-city

[biwinning]

what.
no.
fuck no.
more liike "he'2 a murderer."

priva-city

[heartsink]

[ ;) ]

Ah ha. We usually try to keep ours in prison.

priva-city

[biwinning]

[W...what is that face for.]

yeah well gue22 what al2o doe2n't exii2t for hiighblood2 on alterniia.
prii2on2.

priva-city

[heartsink]

[ for deliberately teasing on the "exes" route ]

So this Eridan of yours, he some sort of Prince, or royalty, or something like that?

priva-city

[biwinning]

[Fortunately, Sollux never had the lapse in judgement there. Sort of.]

he liike2 two thiink he ii2, defiiniitely.
and ii gue22 my 2ociiety 2ay2 he ii2.
even though he'2 not.

priva-city

[heartsink]

That sort of thing can happen in human societies, too. It comes down to a sort of luck of the draw, in a way.

Is there anything you miss about it? Not that guy, I mean, but your society, culture, that sort of thing.

You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

priva-city

[biwinning]

ii mii22 the fact that my age diidn't put me at a dii2advantage two be taken 2eriiou2ly.
unliike here.

priva-city

[heartsink]

Oh, I know *that* one well. I've always interacted more with adults, rather than with people my own age, and they do that everywhere.

That's one of the reasons I only use text on these things. I hate being dismissed for the way I sound, or the way I look.

priva-city

[biwinning]

unfortunately me ju2t typiing the way ii liike two ii2 enough of a giive away.

priva-city

[heartsink]

Yeah. But it's important to you, isn't it?

priva-city

[biwinning]

typiing thii2 way?
yeah.

priva-city

[heartsink]

Yeah. You wouldn't sacrifice that, even if it meant an easier time of things with an alien culture.

In any case, I'm sorry you have to put up with the age discrimination. It's idiotic most places, I think, but especially one like this.

priva-city

[biwinning]

ba2iically.

iit ju2t doe2n't make 2en2e.
ii have more battle experiience iin my fiifth phalange than half the adult2 here have iin theiir whole body.
why 2hould they be telliing me ii "2houldn't be out late at niight" and that iit'2 "iit'2 two dangerou2 for you"?

priva-city

[heartsink]

Egotism.

Your history doesn't fit their perception of reality, the setting of their grand story, so they dismiss it as inconsequential. Everything is about them—how they appear, how things affect them, how things relate to what they know. You look like a child, therefore you have to fit their understanding of what it means to *be* a child. Human children believe themselves more capable than they are, they're loud, they're bratty and weak, their thoughts and opinions are based in fantasy and can be ignored, they say they need one thing but actually need another, they need to be taught and molded and protected, and good children will be grateful to whomever does.

Obviously, that's not really true. But that's what adults often believe, even if they won't admit it. So, this image persists, even across culture and species. If the adult is human, at least.

Nevermind your history or capabilities, or what you've gone through. Nevermind whatever you've suffered, even if they were there for it. Nevermind that all people here were technically brought here to fight in the same war. In their minds, in their self-centered stories, they're the heroes. And they look more heroic—it looks better, it makes them more sympathetic, it sounds better in the retelling—if they're concerned about The Children.

[ BITTER MUCH? ]

priva-city

[biwinning]

wow uh.

priva-city

[heartsink]

...

It didn't seem that long when I was typing it, I swear.