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Vriska grinned as she pulled the John Travolta mask down over her face. “Yes. Yes you do.”

She definitely wasn’t going to inform John that it meant he wouldn’t get to have Cage as his face-claim most of the time until it was too late for him to switch back. That would just be a dumb move on her part. One does not reveal their plans until they’re finished – something, she’d noted, that movie and TV villains were generally shit at doing.

She really, really hoped this would get John into roleplaying and oh god, how did he not know what the term canon meant? She tried, and failed, not to facepalm herself. Why did her friends have to be so duuuuuuuumb? She thought that everyone knew that term, but apparently not. How the hell was she even supposed to explain it????????

“Joooooooohn, I cannot beliiiiiiiieve I have to explain this to you! Canon with one ‘N’ is like, the official part of a story’s plot, so things like roleplays and whatever aren’t always considred canon and don’t always follow it.”

She sighed.

“In other words, did you want to stick to the plot of the movie or not? Jeeeeeeeez.”

Vriska: Wonder why your Friends are SO DUMB

“Of course they look like shit.” Vriska said, rolling her eyes. “I ain’t spending my time putting together a good cosplay for your first time. It’d be a waste if you end up hating this and you’re dumb if you do.”

She handed John the Nic Cage mask – she figured this way, she’d end up being Cage for longer. Seriously, being John Travolta was not a thing she particularly wanted to do. But if it could get somebody else into role-playing, it was so worth it – as she walked inside and plopped herself on the edge of John’s bed.

“So did you want to stick to canon or what?”

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“I could make up all of the excuses to keep them from potentionally meeting. Allllllll of them. But fiiiiiiiine, ignore my brilliant plan! You’re the one who’ll miss the greeeeeeeeat opportunity to see the city.” Vriska frowned.

She was getting a little more than peeved, which really wasn’t how she’d wanted this day to go. Most people would jump at the chance to see an unknown city – but Kanaya had to keep bring up her mom and how her mom would react. Ugh.  If she didn’t want to go, she could just say so. No need to bring parents into this. She just couldn’t believe that someone could be so goddamn concerned about their mother’s response that they would give up asking before even trying.

Bluh. Cool down Vriska, the day was just getting started.

“What, do you really think I wouldn’t visit a desert? It might be boring as hell, but it would beat staying at my own house. That’s for sure.” Even if she had to deal with someone else’s overbearing mother. Yup, definitely sounded better than dealing with her own. Not that she particularly wanted to deal with either, per se, but one was the lesser of two evils as it were. Not that it even mattered, she’d planned to stay at school during the holiday breaks and wow she really needed to look into that soon. “Hey, I can say tiny things like ‘’please’ and ‘thank you’ and all that shit, as long as the woman doesn’t expect me to engage in a full conversation with her.”

And man, who the hell would jump to a conclusion like lesbian gypsy lovers if their kid didn’t show up for a few days? That idea was completely ridiculous – Vriska’d coined that phrase as of five minutes ago and even she knew it was not a thing that happened. Like, ever.  There were much more logical conclusions to be drawn here. Thinking your kid decided to have a little harmless, independent fun? Sure. Thinking your kid decided to stay at school? Sure. Thinking your kid decided to run off and become a lesbian gypsy lover/something equally horrible-sounding? Just no.

“Kanaya. That’s just downright insane. And I’m pretty sure you can join a band of gypsies if you want to, it’s not birth-only.” She actually didn’t know how true that was. She wasn’t even entirely sure what gypsies did, besides dance around people and steal their wallets while travelling around. But they were pretty cool, and pretty high up on her list, somewhere under pirates. Thieves were awesome as a general rule of thumb. “You care too much about your mom’s opinion.”

She didn’t feel like discussing that anymore right now – it was obviously a battle neither of them would win and they had the whole day ahead of them, with plenty more fights to be had. So she grabbed her polystyrene cup as she got up from the table with a “Yeah” and threw it out.

“So, where to next?”

Vriska: Be Irritated

“No I don’t think that would actually be a good idea.”  Kanaya started, playing with the bottom of her cup.

She wasn’t quite sure if Vriska entirely got this entire “concerned mother doesn’t want her darling daughter playing in a dangerous city, housed by people she doesn’t know” thing,  and she wasn’t sure if it was worth it to continue stressing this fact. ”You see even if my mom would be theoretically alright with just talking to your mom through the phone, she’d want to meet her eventually and then she’d try to reference the conversation over coffee or whatever and then she’d get really confused.  And then she’d figure it out because she has a reasonable intelligence and I’d get in a lot of trouble because she knows better than to think I wasn’t in on it.” There were very few ways to legitimately make Kanaya’s mother angry, but blatantly lying about something important was definitely at the top of the list. 

And as for that other part, well. She’d only been speaking hypothetically really. ”I was just mentioning it on the off chance that you would be a guest at my house one day too not that you’d want to my house is really boring unless you like… deserts or something I guess.  And plants.  We have a lot of plants.” She sighed, taking another sip. ”And you know it wasn’t merely to make this off-topic it was more because of the fact that my mom would probably want to meet you too one day and yeah there are just certain ways to act I guess.”

And ok was that really necessary.  Lesbian gypsy lovers really wow ok she didn’t know if that was meant to be funny but the fact of the matter was that she wasn’t laughing. Though, honestly, that was probably would be the first thing that her mom would think if she didn’t return right on time at break.  Not the lesbian part though, because honestly her mom thought she was pretty straight — just the entire heathen running away with some punk drop-out boy she’d met at school who would only return after she’d  been riddled with drugs, STDs and was also teen pregnant. Because clearly that was the most logical of conclusions, mother.  

“You know that’s probably similar to what my mom would say I was doing if I didn’t come home on time, Vriska, so yeah I’m going to consider it like that.  And don’t be stupid you don’t just become a gypsy I’m pretty sure that’s something you’re born into.” She wasn’t completely sure of the logistics, really.  Though she was marginally sure that it was an ethnic thing and maybe a religion and also that her mom didn’t think highly of. Hm. 

“I’m just saying it’s a really bad idea that’s all my mom wouldn’t like it.”

With a slight roll of her eyes, she finished off her drink and leaned back. She really wanted to drop this money thing though because she had it all figured out and she didn’t think it was worth it to explain herself any further.  Just would make them argue more and ugh. This wasn’t how she’d wanted to spend her morning, thanks.

“Yeah ok you’re right and whatever look I’ll drop it it’s not worth it.” She gathered her belongings onto her lap. ”You’re about done though right?  Do you want to head out now?“ 

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why not

Yellow: When you get older, where would you want to live?

Tan: Where do you want to be right now?

Lilac: What is your dream vacation?

Beige: What is your favorite dream?

White: Who was your first kiss?

Purple: Who was your last kiss?

Tangerine: Give a description of who you like.

Gray: Share a relationship story.

Green: Share a family story.

Gold: Share a story that makes you smile.

Black: Share something you did embarrassingly.

Blue: Are you still friends with the people you met in elementary school?

Magenta: What is something you barely tell anyone?

Red: What are your hobbies?

Violet: What college do you plan to attend?

Brown: Would you rather have a relationship or friend with benefit? Explain.

Peach: Who is your favorite teacher so far?

Pink: What is the meaning behind your url?

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1, 5, 17, 28, 38, and 47

1: What eye color do you find sexiest?

Green.

5: Your favorite adult as a child? (and not your parents, if they were your favorite) 

None of them!

17: Have you ever watched the Superbowl all the way through? 

No, I don't give a shit a8out foot8all or the commercials. 

28: If you had to look at one city skyline for the rest of your life, which would it be? 

I'm going to go with NYC.

38: A relationship with love or one with sex? 

8oth? They're not mutually exclusive, you know.

47: City or nature person? 

City.

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9, 16, 21, 37, 49

9: Most embarrassing moment from your high school years? 

There isn't one.

16: Madonna or Lady Gaga? Neither? Both? Who cares? 

Who gives a shit????????

21: Whole, skim, 1%, or 2% milk? (Did you know they make 1 1/2% milk?)  

I don't really care, whatever's availa8le.

37: Small, liberal arts school or public university? Why? 

I don't give a shit either w8y, as long as the school is good.

49: Can you walk well in high heels? Even if you're a guy? 

I've never worn them, so proooooooo8a8ly not.

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11, 33, 43, 44.

11: Have you ever climbed a tree more than twenty feet off the ground?

Yup.

33: Favorite kind of bean? Kidney? Black? Pinto? 

Jelly. ::::D

43: Coolest thing you've ever been for Halloween? 

I think my costume this year is going to 8e my gr8st one.

44: If you could change your natural hair color, would you? To what?

Pro8a8ly  not, 8ut if I had to, I'm going to go with 8londe. That way I could easily dye it 8ack to dark 8rown.

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O8scure Questions - Ask me some!!!!!!!!

1: What eye color do you find sexiest?

2: White, milk, or dark chocolate mocha?

3: If you could get a Sharpie tattoo on your back, what would it be?

4: Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?

5: Your favorite adult as a child? (and not your parents, if they were your favorite)

6: What kind of smoothie sounds really good right now?

7: Most embarrassing moment from your elementary school years?

8: Most embarrassing moment from your middle school years?

9: Most embarrassing moment from your high school years?

10: Pirates or ninjas? Why?

11: Have you ever climbed a tree more than twenty feet off the ground?

12: Did you like swinging as a child? Do you still get excited when you see a swing set?

13: If you could have any pet in the world, illegal or not, what would you get?

14: What's your most favorite part of your body?

15: What's your most favorite part of your personality?

16: Madonna or Lady Gaga? Neither? Both? Who cares?

17: Have you ever watched the Superbowl all the way through?

18: Have you ever watched any major sporting event drunk?

19: What's the most delicious food you've ever eaten in your life?

20: Margarine or butter? Which did you grow up with?

21: Whole, skim, 1%, or 2% milk? (Did you know they make 1 1/2% milk?)

22: Which continents have you been on?

23: Do you get motion sickness? Any horror stories?

24: Backpacks or satchels?

25: Would you wear a rainbow jacket? A neon yellow sweater? Checkered pants?

26: What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

27: If you had to have a cow or a pig, which would you take? Why?

28: If you had to look at one city skyline for the rest of your life, which would it be?

29: Longest plane ride you've ever been on?

30: The latest you've ever slept?

31: Would you buy a sweater covered in kitten pictures? Would you wear it if someone gave it you for free?

32: Do you pick at scabs?

33: Favorite kind of bean? Kidney? Black? Pinto?

34: How far can you throw a baseball?

35: If you had to move to another country, where would you move?

36: Have you ever eaten Ethiopian food? Vietnamese? Korean? Nepalese? How was it?

37: Small, liberal arts school or public university? Why?

38: A relationship with love or one with sex?

39: Do you eat enough vegetables?

40: Do you like horror movies? How about thrillers?

41: Would you scratch a crotch itch in public?

42: Do you swear in front of your parents?

43: Coolest thing you've ever been for Halloween?

44: If you could change your natural hair color, would you? To what?

45: Do you want to get married? Have kids?

46: Do you use a reusable water bottle? If not, you should.

47: City or nature person?

48: Have you ever used something other than "makeup" as makeup? (Like paint? Markers?)

49: Can you walk well in high heels? Even if you're a guy?

50: Post 5 awesome things about yourself. BRAG AWAY!

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Vriska sighed. “Do they actually have to like, physically meet? Or would just a phone call work? Because I could just pretend to be my mom on the phone. I used to do it aaaaaaaall the time. I just change my voice a little bit and people believe it.”

Back in her middle school days, when teachers handed out index cards and told everyone to write their name, address, phone number, parents work number, parents name and other personal shit, Vriska would just put down her cellphone number for all of the numbers and write that her mom worked from home.

That way, she'd always be the one to answer it and her mom would have no idea about whatever it was the teacher was calling about. (Usually it was that she'd gotten detention or needed to stop acting so horribly in class, but once her math teacher called about the 105 Vriska'd gotten on a test and how proud she must be of her daughter. That was probably most definitely the weirdest one. Who the hell called when a student was doing well?)

They never suspected a thing.

Sure, there were times when they called during the school day, but Vriska had changed her voicemail to say something like “Serket residency! Nobody is near any of our phones to answer your call right now, so just leave a message after the beep.”

Then they would or they wouldn't, but the system worked.

And it wasn't like she'd had any friends at the time who had her number and could make fun of her for that message. Now that she thought about it, she hadn't changed it since coming to St. Skaia – but why wold anyone with her number feel the need to call her, anyway? What, with everyone communicating via blog and the fact that it would take you five minutes to see someone face-to-face.

Calling someone here was just plain weird.

“I could play the part of the gracious guest if I needed to, but I'm inviting you to come with me. So I just don't see why I should.”

Ugh. When she put it that way, the whole situation did seem a bit ridiculous. Which in itself was ridiculous, because it really wasn't that bad. There was nothing wrong with two friends walking around “The Big Apple” together. It was fun and the city wasn't as dangerous as people made it out to be. Because a) there weren't as many skeevy people walking around the streets as most thought, and b) there were many easy ways to avoid them.

“It's not crazy, I know my way around the city and I'd return you in one piece after a few days. Christ, you make it sound like I'm suggesting we drop out of school and become lesbian gypsy lovers without telling a soul or something.”

She took a sip of her coffee – which, unfortunately, she realized was her last sip. She made a mental note to come back her someday if they couldn't find a Starbucks later. But this didn't seem like the kind of town that had a coffee shop on every corner. So who knew?

“Oh my god, it's just four dollars. I don't need you to 'treat me' in return for this or anything. If I didn't spend it on that coffee, I'd proooooooobably spend it on another graphic tee or one of my MMOs.”

Hopefully that would shut her up on the whole money thing.

“I didn't think I owed you anything for coming with me. Doesn't mean I can't buy you a cheap cup of coffee.”

She shrugged, and put her now-empty cup on the table.

Vriska: Offer A Solution

“Well you see that’s the thing she might not actually care about it but knowing parents they tend to promise each other stuff and your mom would probably tell my mom that she would and then that would be that and there would be no issue.  As long as she talked with your mom and not you first I think we might actually have a shot I mean if my mom ends up liking yours then she’ll put up with you no matter how terrible she thinks you are.  Not that I think that she’d think you were completely terrible but she would have misgivings about you at first and that would just turn into one fault after another probably.”

If there was one thing that Kanaya’s mom loved, it was meeting parents.   Probably the reason why she had enjoyed Kanaya’s elementary school days so much, to be honest — even though they lived in the middle of nowhere, there were few weekends where they weren’t going off having “playdates” at some girl’s house.  Very rarely did her mom not actually accompany her to someone else’s house — up until she was twelve, actually.  Then Kanaya had gotten very proactive in the “I’m allowed to just go to friend’s houses, mom,” school of thought, and while there had been tension for a while, it had subsided into her way.

Which had been surprising, really.

But no, there was basically no way in hell for her to get away with going to some complete stranger’s house hours and hours away without having a meet the parents get-together, unfortunately. Christ. ”Ok well I understand that and I sympathize,” Kanaya sighed, realizing at that second how stupid she must have sounded for trying to even suggest that Vriska was able to change her demeanor for a terrible horrible authority figure (tm).  Fat chance of that, really, “It was really kind of stupid of me to even suggest but you know.  You could at least be a gracious guest I’m sure she’d respect that as long as I talked about how much I liked you before you came over.”

Sometimes — just sometimes — if Kanaya begged in her own kind of way and talked a person up, despite her own reservations, that person would be able to stay over. Though with Vriska, erm.

She sets the cup down percussively with Vriska’s last statement, though. Like hell she was going to risk her mom’s fury by going off in a dangerous city hours away by car, completely lost and clinging on to a girl her mom didn’t even know despite the fact that she was told not to. That might blow over worse than even the entire gay thing. ”Yeah no not happening.  I mean I understand where you’re coming from as you honestly don’t care about your mom or what she says but the fact of the matter is that I do.  We’re really close I’m not going to jeopardize anything by running off with a friend in another state at the age of fourteen are you crazy.” She didn’t want to go any further with it, though.  Vriska probably wouldn’t get it, anyway. It wasn’t even not wanting to do something for herself — she just valued a stable homelife over a lot of other things.   Which really made some things awkward and wow look what was getting filed into the “do not think about folder” it was that.

“Look it’s not something that I occupy myself with it’s just money’s not so easy to come by for everyone and I don’t know I just feel uncomfortable taking it I mean I can care for myself in that regard and other people probably deserve it more than I do.”  She sighed, tracing her finger over the rim of the cup. ”And it’s not like I can treat you or anything so it just makes it awkward.”   A shrug.

And well. ”That was the point I could have but I didn’t so that was my way of consenting and saying that you owed me nothing for agreeing to come along I was just as enthusiastic as you were.”

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Spiders and Their Kin

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In the early nineties, the rare ladybird spider was nearly wiped out because of loss of habitat, but now they are coming back in full force. They are known however to eat its own mother.

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My very own adorable spider (g. rosea, otherwise known as a Chilean rose hair tarantula). Her name is Fluffles. :3

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notes: this was purposely made to be kind of a shitty fst, as niether of us have had experience with this and at some points were just picking songs we could barely make fit because we liked them. whoops. also, song 2 is ~30 minutes long, and song 11 is ~10 minutes. 

1. accidentally in love - counting crows (vriska's pick)

how much longer will it take to cure this? just to cure it 'cause i can't ignore it if it's love.

2. butterfy lovers -  chen gang &  he zhanhao (kanaya's pick)

no lyrics available 

3. bandits - meg & dia (vriska's pick)

when i get out, i'll come to find you, cause you're my other half,  i never told you that, never told you that.

4  i tried to do handstands for you - chairlift (terezi and kanaya's pick)

i tried to do handstands for you,but every time i fell for you.

5. hot n cold - katy perry (vriska's pick)

we fight, we break up; we kiss, we make up. 

6. elenore - the turtles (kanaya's pick)

you got a thing about you, i just can't live without you.

7. L.O.V.E. - nat king cole (kanaya's pick)

two in love can make it, take my heart and please don't break it. love was made for me and you.

8. turn me on - the fray (vriska's pick)

you turn me on, i want to touch you till we're burning; ohhhh you turn me on.

9. get some - lykke li (vriska's pick)

go ahead, go way low, where i can do no harm; go ahead, go way low in my honey lovin' arms.

10. only girl in the world - rihanna (kanaya's pick)

want you to take me like a thief in the night; hold me like a pillow, make me feel right.

11. i would do anything for love (but i won't do that) - meatloaf (kanaya's pick)

will you cater to every fantasy I've got? will you hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?

12. undiscolsed desires - muse (kanaya's pick)

i want to exorcise the demons from your past, i want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

13. my life would suck without you - kelly clarkson (vriska's pick)

being with you is so dysfunctional; i really shouldn't miss you, but i can't let you go.

14. juliet - emilie autumn (vriska's pick)

the consequence is hanging there,  the sky will fall but i don't care.

15. the edge of glory - lady gaga (vriska's pick)

i'm on the edge of glory, and i'm hanging on a moment of truth; out on the edge of glory, and i'm hanging on a moment with you.