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Tweak says, "'Hub!"

Damian is son & (heir) wrote in repose,
@ 2018-01-21 05:33:00

Entry tags:

*forum, *text, abe winters, beau williams, cat dubrovna, damian wainright, daniel webster, dietre abendroth, misha bellamy, nilus doe, ra's algol, sadie marella, sasha james

Dietre A+Nilus, Daniel W, Carnival, Naila a-K, Cat C, FLEET: Misha B
[Locked to Dietre A+Nilus]
The lawyers have told me you ought be out by the middle of next month.

[Locked to Daniel W]
Hello.

[Carnival lock: Abe W, Sasha J, Beau W, Dietre A, Misha B, Sadie M]
Greet Sadie. She is now your coworker.

[Locked to Naila a-K]
[In Arabic.] Greetings.

[Locked to Cat C]
I failed.

[FLEET: Misha B]
[Sent to Misha is a fifteen second long video of Pennyworth, shot from overhead, as the kitten sleeps in Damian's hood—as he is wearing his hoodie.]

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	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 06:26 am UTC (link)
	`But you ain't black. Damian, I ain't trying to get you to apologize to me. I want to know how your mind works, to see if it can help me fix mine similarly. How would you reason it, is what I'm asking. I ain't going to use it gainst you, which I reckon you fret I might.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 06:34 am UTC (link)
	`I am Arab. North African. You do not wish for me to feel I must change, but you clearly feel you must.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 06:40 am UTC (link)
	`Back home, they just tend to lump folks into being black or white. I know that ain't right, but I reckon they'd call you white. Wouldn't they? It ain't changing to understand how you think bout things. Ain't we meant to understand each other?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 06:41 am UTC (link)
	`No. I would be a terrorist. "I want to know how your mind works, to see if it can help me fix mine similarly." That is changing, Misha.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 06:44 am UTC (link)
	`Do you worry bout folks thinking that here? No, it ain't, it's understanding, and you won't answer me any. If I understand what you think, then I can fix my mind to understand it's that, and that it ain't you want to be far from me. Is that clearer any?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Fleet]
heir
2018-01-24 06:47 am UTC (link)

Yes. People think it everywhere, especially after the attacks on September 11th. The night I nearly slept with that girl, at the club we were at, the bouncer did not like that I was pacing out front and instructed me to go elsewhere. I made him nervous. He suggested I plant bombs elsewhere. What are you asking that I am not answering? What I would do were our positions reversed? I cannot answer this, as I do not know, and they were never like to be reversed.

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	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 06:55 am UTC (link)
	`That's real ridiculous. You weren't going to hurt anything. It's as fool as folks back home reckoning they're somehow better than black folk. We best not go see my home never, if you reckon they'd look on you badly. That's what I was asking.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 06:58 am UTC (link)
	`It has been this way since I came to this country. It is not new. At times, my name earns respect I would not otherwise get. Or, vitriol, if people are concerned about non-whites 'taking over.' I would still like to see your home. But, is not the problem that I would not hold you when you desired me to? So how could I know?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:04 am UTC (link)
	`Where I'm from is real awful bout race, Dami, and it ain't kind bout being gay neither. Why would you want to be someplace folks ain't going to look at you right. It's wrong, their way of thinking. Skin and religion ain't got a thing to do with anything. Then say what you feel when you don't?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Fleet]
heir
2018-01-24 07:07 am UTC (link)

Because, Misha, unlike sexuality, my skin is not something that cannot be seen at first glance. It has always been this way. You may think here is better about race, but it is, in fact, only more insidious, requiring subtler routes to expression, but that does not mean it is not expressed. I am not looked at right ever, so it would be as any other place to me. When I do not hold you?

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	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:09 am UTC (link)
	`We can go to where your folks are from stead of being here. That would help, wouldn't it? It sounds real pathetic of me when you say it like that. I reckon we can let that subject go.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:11 am UTC (link)
	`I would like to see where you are from. It does not sound pathetic. I only meant to ascertain that I had the question correct. My answer is obvious. What do I feel when I do not hold you? That is all the time, is it not? Which means that is not your question and I ask you be more specific.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:14 am UTC (link)
	`Alright, but I meant more permanently, going to where your folks are from. Not your island, but where your kin hail from. Dami, I feel real stupid just now. We'll talk bout it again later on, alright? That fine?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:15 am UTC (link)
	`Oh. No, Misha. It is fine.` [...] `Okay. What did I do?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:19 am UTC (link)
	`I wouldn't mind any. Nothing. It's me and asking for things or talking bout me. I still ain't good at it, and we done it a lot this talk.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:22 am UTC (link)
	`You would. And I have a life here. I would not desire to leave it. It makes you self-conscious.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:25 am UTC (link)
	`I wouldn't, not for you. Location ain't important to me. You're sure you ain't inclined to go? It makes me itchy and hot under the collar, so I reckon my answer's yes.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:28 am UTC (link)
	`You would. It is not like here. I am not inclined. I would not be nearer to the al Gols. More likely am I then to be snared. You may imagine that I am hugging you.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:31 am UTC (link)
	`You got to know I won't let you be snared. It ain't as good as the real thing.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:52 am UTC (link)
	`I know. Then I will come.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:54 am UTC (link)
	`Good. You take your time and come when you can. Remember you got a kitten you didn't want to go waking.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 07:55 am UTC (link)
	`He is gone now. Did you truly think me white?` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 07:59 am UTC (link)
	`Did he go on his lonesome? I knew you were Egyptian, but I reckoned that was still white. You ain't much darker than me.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] heir 2018-01-24 08:01 am UTC (link)
	`I was pacing. It jostled him. I suppose I am neither.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Fleet] tithe 2018-01-24 08:02 am UTC (link)
	`I didn't mean to make you pace, sweetheart. You're both, I reckon.` (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)