[IC: Forward dated to Saturday 19 May]

[julienned]

[YEAH I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GUYS ARE IN HERE. it's a comatose teenager hooked up to a bunch of machines.

it's really boring.] 

Comments

[skinofalizard]

How do you think we should go about fixing that? Do you think we even can, at this point?

[julienned]

All I know is what I read in a book to try and find the word for what's wrong with me. How would I know?

[skinofalizard]

Yeah. I guess you wouldn't any more than me. Sorry.

[julienned]

Maybe if we broke something someone could give a crap.

[skinofalizard]

Only long enough to yell at us.

[julienned]

Maybe eventually that'll be enough.

[skinofalizard]

I'm not sure negative attention is better than nothing.

[julienned]

It's still attention, isn't it?

[skinofalizard]

I'd rather they care about us and not just what we might break next.

[julienned]

We're not going to get that. Might as well cut our losses on that one.

[skinofalizard]

Then I'd rather just cut my losses on it entirely.

[julienned]

We're stuck with them, Vic. Isn't that the stupidest part? We're stuck with people who we don't like very much and they don't like us at all, because it's all we have left.

[skinofalizard]

We all still have each other.

[julienned]

Yeah.

You know that everyone thinks of us all as a singular unit?

[skinofalizard]

It saves them the trouble of having to get to know all of us.

[julienned]

Or any of us.

[skinofalizard]

The really messed up thing? I've met a couple okay adults here but still don't want to bring anything up to them.

[julienned]

I tried. It's proving to be not worth my time for the vast majority of them.

[skinofalizard]

The best you'll get is a "wow, that's really rough" and a subject change.

[julienned]

Yeah, pretty much.

Or "kid, I know how it is" and then they prove that they don't.

[skinofalizard]

"I know how you feel. One time, my cat ran away."

[julienned]

Can cats run away? I thought they were just sitting balls of evil.

[skinofalizard]

Probably they just saunter off to plan something devious.

[julienned]

Sounds likely.

[skinofalizard]

Who knew you were a dog person.