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[guiltapalooza]

You know what, I am so sick of this. Completely sick of this!! And look at me, repeating myself and using multiple exclamation points (two!) like a rebel. Because I am a rebel!

I'm tired of all these embarrassing personal incidents. When they aren't embarrassing, they're deeply horrifying and disturbing. I just want regular old test taking anxiety again! I want worrying about whether Anya is going to ask Giles if he has a new orgasm friend yet in public! And all that demon stuff, even that was familiar.

But here it's like, oh, here's that troll kid I'm friends with and he got his arm torn off. Here's me turning myself into a troll and going creepy stalker over Aradia. (Which by the way, oh Goddess am I sorry for and eternally mortified about.) Or here's me picking up the bloody scraps of the clothes of the double of someone I'm friends with!

And don't tell me I'm using too many of's there, I told you I'm a rebel today! I just want my test taking anxiety back, darn it. I'd even take worrying over when I'm going back to college, and that was a lot of worrying.

... Okay, whining done. End whining. In other news, who's still having wacky collar-induced sickness and power-tampering shenanigans? Cause frankly I'm finding this really worrying and I want to get to the bottom of this.

Comments

[ceruleanspid8r]

Woooooooow.
Lamest re8el ever.

[guiltapalooza]

Yeah, well, whenever I'm a non-lame rebel it just ends up being deeply frightening and making me regret it for ages. I'm okay with this status as lame.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Then you have no 8usiness calling yourself a re8el.

[guiltapalooza]

It's a joke. You've heard of those? I know I'm not a real rebel.

[ceruleanspid8r]

I thought jokes were supposed to 8e funny.

[guiltapalooza]

Not when I'm telling them. Then they just fall flat and are distinctly un-funny.

[ceruleanspid8r]

I had noticed.

[guiltapalooza]

Are you having a bad day today or is this what constitutes a good day?

[ceruleanspid8r]

Calling it like I see it means I must 8e having a 8ad day now?
Sorry, 8ut no.

[guiltapalooza]

I don't remember you being this much with the semantics when we first met, that's all.

[ceruleanspid8r]

When we first met I was still trying to figure out where the fuck I was.
I'm not sure you can really 8e so surprised that I'm not the same now as I was then.

[guiltapalooza]

Well, point, but I hadn't put you down on the "to snark at" list, and the fact that you're jumping lists is confusing me.

[ceruleanspid8r]

I'm really not sure which part of that is most pathetic.
That you have a list at all or that you actually think first impressions are everything.

[guiltapalooza]

You're just embarrassing yourself with how literally you're taking me.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Yeah, well.
Whenever I credit any of you with the a8ility to handle non-literal convers8ion, I end up disappointed.

[guiltapalooza]

And who's "any of you" referring to here? Just so I know. For reference.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Any of you here in this place.
I can count on the fingers of my non-metallic hand how many I've met who aren't lame.

[guiltapalooza]

You're really concerned about your lameness, aren't you. It's just too much to ask that you might give some people a chance despite their lamitude.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Why would I want to waste my time with people who can't keep my attention?

[guiltapalooza]

Cause take it from me, sometimes they can surprise you.

[ceruleanspid8r]

Yeah and sometimes those surprises suck.
I'd rather not take that risk.

[guiltapalooza]

There's always going to be sucky surprises, though. I've never really found a way to avoid that.

[ceruleanspid8r]

There's a way.
It's called not 8eing a dum8, reckless wiggler.

[guiltapalooza]

Wrong. There's always some baddie that's waiting to spring something on you. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how strong you are, some parts of life just suck, and trying to avoid them only means you're avoiding the parts that make it worth it, too.

[ceruleanspid8r]

There's a difference 8etween things that suck that you can't control and things that only suck if you're stupid enough to let them surprise you.
You do realise that, right?