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[emerges]

[ Well, hey TQ, hope you don't mind this fresh face on the network. She normally sticks to texting because if it looks like a phone and acts like a (kind of sci-fi upgraded) phone, why not use it like one? But she's been going through the other features — slow day on the ship, you know how it is — and after rifling through everything she can easily find on the communicator, she decides to post up a video.

So here's a young, teenaged girl setting the comm in front of her before she sits down cross-legged and twirls a lock of her hair. Alas, it's got less of a bounce than it normally does, but that's what lack of hot rollers on a ship will do. ]

If I write my best essay and promise to stay on my best behavior after, am I allowed to leave Space Detention? I mean, I haven't even gotten to mess around in a library, so this kind of blows.

[ she smiles because she's kind of hoping someone will catch the reference. If not, then well: ] Or are we all waiting for some big, space musical number?

Are there even any boomboxes to hold up outside that red smiley thing's window? If it has one. [ seriously, what is up with that thing. ] Also, I guess it'd have to be this phone thing, since I don't have an iPod anymore.

[ She lets out a very put upon sigh before admitting something you never would have guessed!! clearly!! But it's followed by a smile that's all teeth and too much eyelash batting. ]

Okay, so I'm bored. And I can't really miss anyone who left, since I just got here. [ not even touching whatever's up with the masks. ] You'd think the aliens would be able to hook us up with better movie selections or something.

I don't suppose there's someone on here with something entertaining to do?

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[emerges]

Right, right. Wheaties.

Define interesting first.

[testgasm]

-ley.

[Cough.]

Depends on what you find interesting, I'd think. Genres. Subject matter. Those sorts of things.

[emerges]

Whotley.

[ this is just fun now. ]

I like comedy. Or romance. Not together though; rom-coms are the worst. I'd say horror, but I don't think there's any shortage of awful things here.

[testgasm]

Uh, still not quite right, but that's okay. Plenty of time to work on it.

[No this is the opposite of what he wanted.]

Rom...coms.

[emerges]

Say it one more time?

Yeah. Like all the Katherine Heigl movies where she just plays the same person over and over?

[testgasm]

Wheatley. Not so hard! You'll get the hang of it, I'm sure.

Sorry, who?

[emerges]

I'll try and remember it for next time, Wheatski!

Wow, maybe you just made the smart choice and never saw any of her movies. They're kind of cheesy. Or you just don't like those kind of things?

[testgasm]

[face in hands sobbing]

Oh, uh. Can't make an assessment. Would, if I'd seen any. But...I haven't.

[emerges]

[ there there weatherby. also hold the phone!! ]

Like not at all? You realize we have to fix this, right?

[testgasm]

Um, no. Not at all. Didn't really--never had much access to films, where I'm from. And by that I mean...not at all.

[emerges]

Well, I don't know when you're from, but you've been deprived. Just leave it to me.

[testgasm]

Twenty-first century Earth, sometime, actually, but deprived, um. Okay, sure, let's go with that.

[emerges]

Well if you're from the same time I am, I don't know why else you wouldn't have known what they were.

[testgasm]

I mean, I can think of a few reasons, but I'll trust you on this one.

[emerges]

No, wait, like what reasons?

[testgasm]

I did not, uh. Have access to that sort of thing. Where I worked. Back home.

[I'm from an underground research laboratory and also I'm secretly a robot.]

[emerges]

That.

[ dramatic pause ]

Is really sad. [ except she doesn't know he was a robot shhh, but she's thinking about how she was sort of excluded from a lot of things back home because of her epilepsy. SHE THINKS SHE KNOWS THAT FEEL, BRO. ]

Well, like I said. We'll get to work on making it better.

[testgasm]

It's okay, really! Got on fine without the films. Had plenty of books.

But, uh. It's appreciated. The sentiment, I mean.

[emerges]

Don't even worry about it. I mean, I guess I maybe owe you for filling me in.

[testgasm]

Right, well, if you're sure.

[emerges]

Totally. Next time I see you, okay?

[testgasm]

Can do! That is--that is definitely a thing I am capable of.