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Tweak says, "I see voices."

Tom Sturbridge (timestoodstill) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-07-06 13:07:00

Entry tags:

character: charlotte meadows, character: mickey o'hare, character: tom sturbridge

Who: Tom Sturbridge and Char Meadows
When: July 6, 2096
Where: Outside Anhalt
What: Just talking
Status: Closed, Complete

Tom sat on the front steps, contemplating the lawn. Someone needed to mow it, but he wasn't sure if they had a mower.

He heard the door open behind him and glanced over his shoulder. A girl he's seen around but never spoken to. "Do you think Ganesh could build a lawn-mowing robot?" he asked with a grin.

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timestoodstill
2010-07-09 07:41 pm UTC (link)

"Isn't that part of the point, though? To be afraid, and to do it anyway, because it's the right thing to do? There's no way to advocate for the rights of wild cards without being discriminated against. We have to do it anyway, and we have to get people who aren't wild cards to do it. Not that I want to put anyone in danger, but if someone who's maybe on the fence about things actually did get discriminated against, they would see what it's like every day for people who can't hide what they are. I mean, I'm a wild card but no one has to know it if I don't want them to. I know that I'm lucky I'm not a joker."

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plusthree
2010-07-10 12:02 am UTC (link)

"Because you can look, and act, completely normal. Jokers can't." Which was something Char understood all too well. She herself might have been a nate, but Mickey was an Ace and a Joker, and he trapped them all in this Joker life of changing places. "I'm lucky because nobody can tell Mickey's a joker just by looking. When he's out, they can tell he's insane. But until they realize we swap places, they don't know about the rest of it."

She picked up the giant bubble wand from the shelf. "So we have to ask nats to sacrificed themselves for us. But they'll want to do it, because there's strength in numbers. If everyone's doing something, then people see it as the right thing. Which is why discrimination works: everybody does it. If we want to reverse discrimination, we have to get everybody doing something else."

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	timestoodstill 2010-07-10 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"Exactly," Tom said. "Ready to go?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	plusthree 2010-07-10 12:31 am UTC (link)
	"Sure, let's get these things paid for, then go chase bubbles on our lawn of too-long grass." Char grinned. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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