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[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit
When: Yesterday evening.

Want to play a game? [ kate's surroundings are, quite evidently, a lush little corner of málum. the neon-y blue tinge of the bar's decor casts its colour over her features. there's a tall, impressively concocted cocktail at her elbow. ] I mean, I know I do. So here's how it goes: you tell me anywhere you'd rather be but here, with the caveat that it can't just be a home. I think it's safe to say that home is a very understandable answer, but it's also a little too achingly realistic for my purposes. So pick somewhere else. Pick Ibiza. Pick Iceland, if you want.

Well, unless Iceland is your home. Then please refer to rule numero uno. It also happens to be the game's only rule. [ short and sweet, that's our katerade.

and maybe about an hour (and maybe another drink) later: ] ...Does anyone wanna come dance with me?

[ swipe right, dear flooters. swipe right. ]

Comments

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[ladybro]

Now that sounds cool. Why Jupiter?

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[astrobleme]

It's pretty close to but also pretty far away from home. It's also just huge, so everyone from Earth knows about it, but most people don't want to go there. They'll leave it alone.

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[ladybro]

And being alone is what you want?

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[astrobleme]

It's more like I want to be left alone. A few people could come with me. But I don't want to be trapped, either. So I'd want some sort of space station with shuttles that can go anywhere. But if that's how it is, it's less about Jupiter and more about the space station. So I guess I'd rather be in a space station with my friends.

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[ladybro]

Got any friends here?

[ because it sounds like this is the ideal place for you. y'know, apart from the reality tv show. ]

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[astrobleme]

Yeah, I do. And yeah, I know what you're getting at. The Drift Fleet is a pretty sweet deal aside from constantly being spied on and having weird crap implanted in our heads and seeing our self-worth enshrined in the approval of strangers.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

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[ladybro]

I don't know where you come from, but my home is barely a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from that. CCTV everywhere. Propaganda around every corner. And Heaven knows the approval of strangers thing has been, like, a human imperative for eons and eons.

But no -- here still sucks major eggs.

[ wry. almost playful, but the tone is lost in text. ]