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maya lopez is more than an echo (ashtawawidiwin) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2017-10-07 13:35:00

Entry tags:

!network post, johnny storm / human torch (616), maya lopez / echo (616), river song

We're starting to almost need another mixer for everyone who's arrived in the five days since the last one.

JJ's is the best cafe, there's a farmer's market on Saturdays, if you want to learn to fight or work out Wolverine's gym is safe from locals who shouldn't be seeing use of powers, if you're high school aged and don't want to do public school talk to Emma Frost or Scott Summers about the EPS, and anything else you can ask on the network and be sure of getting some kind of answer.

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	spoilers_ 2017-10-07 06:10 am UTC (link)
	Are you the welcoming committee? Thanks for the tips. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 08:08 am UTC (link)
	I think the staff at the military base are the welcoming committee, really. I'm just chronically bored. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	spoilers_ 2017-10-09 02:29 am UTC (link)
	I much prefer your brand of hospitality, even if it is born out of boredom. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	Almost? What happened to any excuse for a party? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, there's always an excuse. Just this time it's completely valid. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	Tell me there's at least one club in this town. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	The Bronze. Though it's not exactly New York standards. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	So no bottle service then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	Not exactly, no. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	VIP section? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure they know what a VIP is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	That's depressing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-07 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	I know, it's dire. I prefer the city or the reservation, I'm not so much for these in between places. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	matchstick 2017-10-07 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	It's a nice place to visit but. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bannerbgood 2017-10-08 03:43 am UTC (link)
	There are a lot of new faces here. I've been doing some experiments in my lab and just noticed. I take it you managed not to turn into anything from the costume shop? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-08 04:00 am UTC (link)
	A police officer. So mostly I just handed out tickets, nothing too terrible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-10-08 04:02 am UTC (link)
	What's the most common citation or ticket you gave? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-08 04:04 am UTC (link)
	Loitering. Apparently I'm an oppressive enforcer of broken windows policing when I'm not me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-10-08 04:07 am UTC (link)
	I'm surprised you got away with those sorts of tickets. Broken windows policing is like communism, it sounds good on paper, not as much in practice. I wish that was different though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-08 04:13 am UTC (link)
	They're probably not even valid, it's not like I had access to log them in the system or anything. And really I'm more of a socialist communitarian. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-10-08 04:14 am UTC (link)
	Socialist communitarian? That's a new one for me. What does that mean exactly? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ashtawawidiwin
2017-10-08 04:25 am UTC (link)

Communtarianism is a philosophy centered around the ideal that a person's social identity and to some extent personality is molded by their close communities. It puts importance on social capital - the strength of social and support networks - and positive rights like the right to education or healthcare or social security. Socialism is an economic and political system which is different from communism in that communism eradicates private ownership but socialism combines social ownership of some resources that shouldn't operate with a profit motive with economic redistribution through the tax system. Basically I'm the nemesis of people who cry about their tax dollars and claim people should be self-reliant.

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bannerbgood
2017-10-08 07:15 pm UTC (link)

Ah. That's really interesting. I admit I've not read much philosophy or economics texts, I was a bit more focused on the hard sciences. But that is all important aspects of society. I've thought a lot about consumerism having lived outside of first world countries for years. It's amazing what is taken for granted and how little we really need to survive.

I like your outlook, I could agree with that.

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	ashtawawidiwin 2017-10-08 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	I spent half my early childhood on a reservation before getting adopted by a well-connected mob boss so I've seen both sides of the wealth coin. I tend to think it doesn't do many favours for the people who have it, personality-wise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bannerbgood 2017-10-09 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Money is a tool, it has no intrinsic positive or negative qualities. It doesn't seem to inspire generosity of spirit in people in general though. Did you want to be adopted? Or if that's too personal I understand. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ashtawawidiwin
2017-10-09 08:28 pm UTC (link)

I don't know. There are layers. With the information they had they were right that Wilson was the best able to provide the resources for me to either turn out relatively functional or have access to suitable care. With whatever's in my brain that lets me mimic so easily I probably would have been okay without that. I'm undeniably better off for it in a material sense but it came at the cost of cultural heritage.

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	bannerbgood 2017-10-12 03:51 am UTC (link)
	That sounds like a difficult trade off. You have abilities here or are talented in the more general sense? I hope you have been able to recapture some of that cultural heritage lost, now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ashtawawidiwin
2017-10-12 09:04 am UTC (link)

Some kind of enhanced pattern recognition and mimicking. I can see tiny muscle movements and repeat them back, so anything I watch someone do, I can do. It also helps with lipreading and learning languages. I'm practically fluent in ~~Tsisinstsistots~~ Cheyenne and Plains Indian Sign, but the reservation I'm from is fairly mixed so a lot of what I've picked up is a bit of a mish mash of different heritages.

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