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8:16 PM
a woman just walked by with a hat shaped like a bunch of little flowers exploding out of a much bigger flower and i suddenly, probably for unrelated reasons, realized i haven't checked in to see how you're settling

8:17 PM
this is how i phrase my random pestering to make it sound like benevolence instead of selfishness. good trick, huh?

8:54 pm
i see youve been introduced to emojis. crucial component of human communication nowadays 🌈✨👏 watch out though some of them are tricksy ⚠️

8:56 pm
i am doing just peachy (that's one of the tricksy ones or else I'd send it) and even better to hear you're doing well. I know they have some kinda safety net for you guys but i always think it must be a lot to get used to anyway

9:13 PM
maybe you have one of those face recognition ones. try making the face as hard as you can at the screen. if you're trying to do like sparkles or whatever just try to embody a sparkle. maybe some fosse hand movements or something.

9:32 PM
god bless your roommate

🥨 if you ever feel up to a challenge there's some real doozies in there

has your roommate introduced you to the awful earth tradition of interpretive dance yet? i normally avoid it but I think you have real potential. maybe even enough to make me enjoy it.

9:43 PM
an earth art form that somehow manages to take the funnest thing to do on earth and make it not fun for anyone except the person dancing, and im not sure on that one bc they're usually making really intense frowny faces. they're always doing stuff like dancing out emojis or whatever

9:44 PM
but I think you could make it fun. do they dance where you're from? fosse is one of our most famous dance people and we have birds that dance pretty crazy, did your fosse birds dance?

9:47 PM
im glad too. really really glad.

9:49 PM
you should ask your roommates to show you videos of something called birds of paradise one day. they dance to find mates too. so do humans i guess but less than we used to, i think people find mates on their phones now more than they find them dancing. which sucks im way better at dancing than phones (except emojis im an expert 👯‍♀️)

9:50 PM
but that's ok because we also dance because dancing feels good and it's gonna feel good forever even if its not landing me any mates🧑‍🩰💃🕺

10:01 PM
oh boy

10:01 PM
i dont even know what they are at this point, judging from my success

10:01 PM
do you know what grindr is

10:02 PM
scratch that, never mind, not important. there's a tricksy emoji minefield for you by the way it's a ******** mess trying to figure out how many things mean doing drugs and not even the fun kinds

10:02 PM
never mind about that either actually. was it paradise?

10:03 PM
i am sorry if i shouldn't have gotten you talking about the birds, i'm still trying to figure out things like that, but those are good emojis i hope? let me know if i ******** it up or else i'll never figure it out

10:03 PM
i always want to hear people talk about themselves and where they come from so i don't always think first especially when i cant see someone's face while theyre talking

10:04 PM
im always hearing smiles that arent necessarily there or whatever but i'm glad you told me about the fosse birds

10:19 PM
sorry, grieve apparently gave me a wrong idea of how much earth slang you get automatically caught up on, she's pretty well versed when it comes to vulgarity especially

probably just needed to learn quick in order to be as crude as possible, i respect it

i think it's called immersion learning or something like that where you just barrel right on along but it seems kinda like a bad deal for the person being immersed, maybe?

it's really good to remember good things, you're right about that

(said maus, who could remember nothing, good or bad)

if you ever wanna talk more about paradise you got an audience right here

i don't have anything to say about myself that's worth hearing
i used to just make stuff up for the sake of being entertaining but im trying to be better about it
but that just leaves me without anything to say
i didn't exist before last august, really
i was someone else and i can't remember
so i have all this space in my head and i'd rather fill it up with other people's memories if they want to tell me
so there's a fosse bird now where there was a gap before! so that's amazing, thank you

but i won't lie about a smile either

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