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Tweak says, "This is who I am."

Rune Parker (neverbeentold) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2009-09-22 16:46:00

Entry tags:

kk, lori trager, rune parker, sam ford

Ugh. People, please, we were doing so well for a while there. But now there's a whole new stormfront of secrets, and I've got a migraine the size of Pluto.

I honestly don't care who you tell, you can tell me, you can tell your therapist, you can tell a friend or a loved one or a pet or a stranger on the train, I don't care. It doesn't matter, as long as more than one person knows, it means that it's not a secret any more and it's not making me feel like my brain is slowly pushing my eyeballs out of their sockets.

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	steam_punk 2009-09-23 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	By any chance, would a tinfoil hat help? Scoff, but it kept us from hearing each other without actively shielding. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	It's not so much a case of hearing as it is a case of being. Things would be so much simpler if it was merely hearing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	Like you are a secret? So 'Silence is Golden' means jack to you. Go sit with some old, knitting biddies, they can't keep their lips shut to save their weaves, but then you have a migraine for another reason. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	I'm all the secrets. You know the rhyme about the magpies? For counting? I'm the seventh. Rune Parker to most, and I think you'd be surprised just how many secrets little old ladies have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well then, I'm KK, Thursday's child. So I'm guessing assuming such an influx would fortify you is off. But they're like cheesecloth on keepin' mum and speculate if they lack good goss. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Well and truly? Haven't seen any of the Kids around before, it's a pleasure to meet you. Wouldn't fortify me in the least, in fact would probably confound things worse and confuse the biddies, since they wouldn't be able to agree what I looked like. They're fantastic at telling other people's secrets and none of their own. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry, was pulling your leg. I'm not one of them, just snarky. You're a shapechanger as well? Well, I guess since a secret doesn't have one shape, it can be many. Oh, it has to be your own secret. That does make it complicated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

neverbeentold
2009-09-23 05:18 pm UTC (link)

So was Thursday as I recall, well, from what I've heard, anyway.

Now that's where things get complicated, doesn't have to be one's own secret, but the dichotomy of telling other people's secrets while hoarding so many of one's own makes the hidden ones all the worse, and I don't change shape so much as people perceive me differently, I am the secrets, so it follows that I'll look like the secrets, what or whoever they may be.

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	steam_punk 2009-09-23 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Now that was a sentence of epic proportions. So, say one of these fossilized birds had a secret lover all those years ago. You look like him, doughboy fatigues and all, and are now stuck with a lady with one bad hip, fake knees and no teeth trying to jump you like your the last crumpet on the plate. That is ~~priceless~~ unfortunate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	You got it in one. Well, three, since you're right, and it is both priceless and unfortunate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oops, busted. Heh. ...Sorry am now stuck with that image, need a moment. Especially you trying to pry her off with her own cane. Well, how does copious amounts of ethanol help with such ailments? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	Well, you know how in some places they treat toothache with a cottonball soaked in whiskey? It's not so much that it dulls the pain so much as that after a while you just don't care any more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yup. Makes babies teething bearable. It's a pretty standard fix for most symptoms, actually. And quelling hangovers is a snap. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neverbeentold 2009-09-23 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	For the parents? I see you are wise in the ways of the booze-fu. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	steam_punk 2009-09-23 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	Both, but the parents are more articulate about it. Why yes, grasshopper. It is a demanding path to follow, but I am diligent enough in my practices that the medic swore off using my organs when I finally hit the pavement. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)