Dictated;

[nottallerordead]

[ Okay, today is the day that Linda tries to make herself use the weird magic journal that is probably something evil and horrible that sucks her soul out at night. Let's do this thing. Just open the book, and think about people, and... ]

How do you guys get used to talking into a book? I feel crazed.

[ There's a long pause. Yeah this is weird. ]

Man, I miss phones. Regular old corded phones. Or the funny ones, like that one shaped like a hamburger. I always wanted one of those.

[ And another long pause. How do I journal. ]

Right. This has officially gone past insane and into awkward.

Comments

[dog_eat_dog]

[There's something exhausting to Tess about being in Paradisa, and this is really it: constant reminders about the past. Not that living in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic America didn't constantly remind her, but christ, no one there talks about it. Everyone just wants to forget.

Here, people enjoy reminiscing.]

I had one of those hamburger phones. It was a piece of shit, like most novelty junk.

[nottallerordead]

Yeah? Figures it would be something like that. Good thing I saved my money for actual hamburgers.

[dog_eat_dog]

Yeah. I'm guessing you saw that Juno movie?

[nottallerordead]

The Roman Goddess?

[ That's a no. This wish is 100% pure 90s. ]

[dog_eat_dog]

[Huh?]

No... Juno. Some movie from the early 2000s, main character had a hamburger phone.

dictated;

[ofhope]

You can...use mobile phones. There are towers for it.

dictated;

[nottallerordead]

[ Blink. Blink. ]

Huh. I've never had one, too expensive.

Re: dictated;

[ofhope]

You can wish. So it's free.

dictated;

[nottallerordead]

[ . . . ]

You're going to have to run that one by me again.

[whistles_the_blues]

By doing exactly what you're doing right now.

[nottallerordead]

Somebody's never heard of a rhetorical question.

[whistles_the_blues]

Rhetorical or not, it was still a stupid question.

It's how things work around here, get used to it.

[nottallerordead]

You don't make a lot of friends, do you.

[freeslider]

I don't know. I think I kind of like this better. It reminds me of talking to my diary or storybooks when I was little. Did you ever do that?

[nottallerordead]

No, never. I thought writing was supposed to be a silent activity.

[freeslider]

Well, it usually it, yeah, but it doesn't have to be. I know a lot of people that would talk as they write, to see if it sounds better when you say it aloud, or just to help them think. Personally it makes me feel like an entertainer or like I'm in a movie and narrating my life or something.

[nottallerordead]

Yeah, I was always more into clay than literature. And I never talk when I sculpt.

[elfiehopkins]

I've pretty much just arrived here too and I can't get used to any of it. In fact, I can't see myself ever getting used to it but then that's what everyone says and they end up doing just that.

As for phones I used to have a bright green one myself.

[nottallerordead]

Maybe we'll get used to not being used to it. I mean, we got used to MTV, right?

Mine was boring and grey.

[elfiehopkins]

I doubt it but who knows, I guess. MTV? Na, I never used to watch that shit...

(Yeah, she totally did.) Yeah, that does sound boring. Name's Elfie, by the way. Not that I'm sure you care what my name is or anything.

[nottallerordead]

Nice to meet you. I'm Linda. I figure I may as well start learning people's names around here, right?

[lucre]

You can write.

[nottallerordead]

That's what I had been doing, but everybody else seems to like talking at the thing. Maybe I should draw a face on it. That'd give me something to look at, anyway.

[lucre]

You can imagine you are speaking to an imaginary scribe.

[nottallerordead]

An imaginary scribe named... Fernando. [ Yes, she is drawing a smiley face in her journal now. It has a curly mustache. ]

Fernando is schizophrenic.