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[motherloving]

WHAT in person for maximum wish power
WHERE by the lake or anywhere
WHEN night of day 140
NOTES it's a tanabata post!

[ Bamboo trees line the shore of the lake tonight, trailing papers from their branches. Each one is inscribed with a wish mysteriously left by...someone. Some of them are generic, like "world peace," and others are kind of weird and random, like, "fishes with candy scales."

But if you touch one, the text on it might turn into one of your wishes. Maybe it's something innocuous, but maybe it's one of your deepest secrets.

Well, maybe you don't go to the lake tonight. In any case, the stars are luminously bright overhead, and looking at them instills you with a strange sense of nostalgia... ]

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[willnotwatch]

[he smiles, holding her against him]

I know. ... but I am here, if you need anything more.

[morethanyou]

I know, but what if I don't want to put it on you? Just knowing I'm working with Erik obviously upset you. I don't want to give you one more thing to worry about—

[morethanyou]

[she cuts off and laughs, pulling away enough to look at him with a sudden, sunny smile, and he surely recognizes the slight shift in her voice that means she's quoting something]

"And right now, I am not gonna dump another thousand year old complex on you or anybody else! I'm ending it right here! I am the Ding Dong Sunshine Future — your friend FOREVER!"

[FINGER GUNS. she's cracking up a little by the end]

Ohhh, brother. Listen, you're not wrong. I do need a break. Come on, I'm making you watch Steven Universe.

[willnotwatch]

[a very long pause]

... I speak many languages, and yet I have no idea what you just said.

[morethanyou]

It's a cartoon show. Come on, it will cheer me up.

[willnotwatch]

Ding dong?

[morethanyou]

I'd say it will become clear in context, but it won't.

[getting up and holding her hands out to him]

[willnotwatch]

[absolutely letting her haul him up but just muttering "ding dong" under his breath]

[morethanyou]

[laughing and tugging him along to her lab]

Stop brooding about it!

[willnotwatch]

I simply want to understand.

[morethanyou]

Well, your majesty, I think it's simply used as an intensifier of enthusiasm in this case.

[putting on a pompous voice. absolutely sounds like she's mocking one of the council elders]

[willnotwatch]

[OK SOMEONE IS GETTING A NOOGIE]

[morethanyou]

[SHRIEKS and punches him in the ribs]

I was giving you a serious answer!! So serious!

[willnotwatch]

[oOF why do you hit so hard]

What is this show about?

[morethanyou]

Gay space rocks. You'll like it.

...actually, I do think you will like it if you give it a chance. You'll be baffled and then it will grow on you.

[willnotwatch]

I'm beginning to accept that that is just how my life goes.

[morethanyou]

It's good to have self-awareness!