004 ☀ video ☀ i miss you

[tumbleweeds]

[ Jaye's sitting in the Oxygen Gardens, tucked away in a back corner near some grasses. She's wearing a plaid mens shirt that she hasn't worn out in public before, watching a grasshopper that has landed on one of the leather wristbands she got in her locker this past jump. Unlike her previous network experience this month, she looks more subdued; she's been doing a lot of thinking lately. ]

Nobody knows for sure where people go when they disappear from here, do they? I mean, people say "home", but we don't... know.

[ She turns her wrist, watching the grasshopper. ] And we don't know what the fuck anyone's up to without us, either.

[ The insect hops away, out of sight, and Jaye follows it with her eyes for a moment before looking back at her network device. ] ... Right, well. [ She shakes her head, smiling -- anyone who knows her well enough or who is particularly good at reading expressions should be able to tell it's forced. ] I've got some fun questions now. Favorite animal back home and why? Animal you'd consider the most dangerous and why? [ Yes that is somehow a fun question. Danger is fun, right guys? ... Right? ] All you people who aren't from Earth, you should tell me about the animals you guys have. It'd be interesting to hear about the differences.

((ooc: If you want to have your character find her in the oxygen garden, feel free!))

Comments

[tumbleweeds]

[ Of course not, her whole post was about animals. GOSH SHERLOCK. ]

oh my god are you a spider furry
nah. street rat. like in aladdin only much less cool and without musical numbers. also no pet monkey.
awesome things.

[consulting]

[ He thought you'd be like "OH OKAY" - he wasn't expecting you to quiz him on it. DAMNIT JAYE. ]

What? What on earth is a "spider furry"?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

you know what? you don't want to know

[consulting]

If I didn't want to know, I wouldn't ask.

Tell me.

SH

[ Now you have him curious. ]

[tumbleweeds]

this is not what i wanted to do today just fyi
furries really like anthropomorphized animals
which is cool whatever
but some of them take it many steps further
you know i can get behind wearing some cat ears
but i'm not gonna have sex in a fursuit
i mean your kink is not my kink so you know do what you want

[consulting]

No, of course. I pencilled in this conversation in my diary.
So you're telling me I sound like I fetishise anthropomorphized spiders?

Fursuit?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

yes that's exactly what i'm telling you

... exactly what it sounds like. so for you, basically you'd have a spider costume.

[consulting]

You're seriously asking me if I am in possession
of a spider costume and if I involve said alleged spider costume in
sexual activity?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

no, not all furries do that
and to be honest if you do i don't really want to know

[consulting]

To clarify, despite what asinine conclusions you are obviously
convinced of. I do not in fact, fetishize spiders anthropomorphic or otherwise.

SH

[tumbleweeds]

oh well that's good to know

so do you have a favorite/least favorite type of spider or not?

[consulting]

No. I do not.

SH

[ the spider is a metaphor. ]

[tumbleweeds]

[ your face is a metaphor ]

too bad. there are some cool ones.

[consulting]

You have an alarming investment in animals.

SH

[tumbleweeds]

you have an alarming lack of one

[consulting]

Was that wry attempt at a decent retort?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

it was an observation

[consulting]

Observing requires effort. That did not.

SH

[tumbleweeds]

i'd say having to ask you three times about spiders = effort

[consulting]

That's a crass definition of effort.
Alternative: stop asking about spiders.

SH

[tumbleweeds]

i'm a crass sort of person.
no.

[consulting]

Clearly. Observation is an art, don't sully it.
Why?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

w/e
because it's amusing and i'm bored

[consulting]

And you have nothing better to do than fill the network up
with useless inquiries?

SH

[tumbleweeds]

useless to you, maybe. not to me.