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[stantheman]

I really like birds. My favorite is the evening grosbeak male but the female is pretty cool too.

One of my friends is teaching me how to make bird sounds but I really suck at it and I'm still trying to do the first one she showed me. I'm better at bird watching.

What's your favorite animal? Do you have a hobby you that's related to them?

That's another thing I love about birds. It's a whole thing.

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[a_shadow]

[ Stan had always struck her as a particularly thoughtful child. This cements it. ]

I never thought about it before. I really like my dog. Does that count?

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[stantheman]

I think it counts. People usually do a lot of activities with their dogs too. I've never had a dog.

Yours is pretty.

[a_shadow]

Isn't he? I call him an idiot sometimes, but actually he's probably smarter than I like to think. He did manage to get us to adopt him, which is not something you can say about the other 20 or so dogs that lived in the vents on the Moira.

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[beeped]

hey did u get my gift

[stantheman]

And your note. I keep them by my bed.

You didn't have to do anything, you know... I didn't really do the gift thing...

[stantheman]

What did he do to make you adopt him?

[a_shadow]

Begged outside my boyfriend's door. I don't know if he begged outside a lot of people's doors or not, but most of them hung around the mess hall instead.

[redshitlord]

Uh are cars animals ?? Cause I pick those.

[stantheman]

He sounds clever then.

[stantheman]

Not really. They're not exactly alive.

But why do you like them?

[beeped]

sure i did. you're my friend and that's the normal thing to do during holidays.

plus everything's been so goddamn fucking weird. i thought maybe it might cheer you up?

[stantheman]

I guess weird's a good name for it.

It does. It makes me wish there were birds to look at here.

I should have gotten everyone something. I have a lot of the Hanukkah candy left, though.

[beeped]

if you want help eating candy no one's going to object to that






you wanna tell me what's going on, pal?

[actuaryonline]

I don't really have much experience with animals, but where I'm from, we have these things called Bits which are binary entities. They're pretty cute and can be useful at helping with simple processing.

[stantheman]

Well, I'll share it.

Maybe.

Are you doing okay?

[stantheman]

I don't understand what this means but I'm curious.

[actuaryonline]

Can you tell me more about these evening grosbeaks in turn? I haven't come across them before and they're very pretty and sound interesting.

Bits are capable of only positive and negative so you can only ask them yes or no questions. They can exist on their own or with a program, in which case they can do simple processing tasks upon request.

[beeped]

not really
i don't think anyone is

[stantheman]

[ And that's a reason he doesn't really want to talk about what's wrong with him. After all he's wholly responsible for what he did... it's different for everyone else. ]

Probably not.

There's more important things than what's going on with me.

[beeped]

that's a crock of shit, stanley

i don't know what's going on but it still matters

[stantheman]

It's not shit.

But you ever think that I wasn't there?

Like... it's my fault that I'm not and so like...


It matters a lot less right now even if it matters.

[beeped]

it matters that you weren't there
like a whole fucking lot



it's okay to be not okay right now
but you don't have to be not okay alone

[stantheman]

I know it matters and it's my fault that I wasn't.


I know. I'm just trying to understand stuff and I'm not alone. You guys are around and I'm here and I haven't done anything shitty yet. And I'm not gonna.

[beeped]

what do you mean it's your fault that you weren't there?

[stantheman]

I was already dead, okay?