Esther

@loopylin

Sorry for skipping last week. How did the last two weeks go? Were you still enchanted by crochet, or did you manage to pull away and put in some writing time?

@loopylin

Lucille

“…I don’t know,” Lucy admitted. “Hypotheses are hard.”

Her thoughts didn’t make much sense out loud. She watched as two little black eyestalks popped out of the shell in Mel’s palm.

@ellette-giselle Ok good!

@whalekeeper

lol. Can’t say I relate… but I love bugs bunny!!!

@whalekeeper

my head hurts from staring at the screen looking for tiny mistakes in the formatting of the file, lol.

Have you eaten? Drunk water? Gone for a walk?

yes…. *Finishes breakfast-lunch-whatever really quick.*

and I’m actually about to go for a walk! 😊

Not a Great KP Scare meme but too relatable. Agreed with my mum that I need to get into the doctor again because I might be developing her chronic sleeping issues.

@ellette-giselle

Okay. I’m sorry your head hurts. Have you eaten? Drunk water? Gone for a walk? Snuggled with a pet?

@whalekeeper

Okay…. well I’ve been formatting for the last 6 hours straight and my brain is dead and my head hurts, so you’ll have to remind me to tell you another day. Will that work?

@grcr

Aw. What might motivate you?

@ellette-giselle

I want to know about the specific situation in your story. Vaguely mentioning the Soviets and New York is not painting me a clear picture.

Or I’m just stupid and this concept is not clicking for me. *Cries*

@power

No I don’t know the number of it.

@power for real though

@koshka

As someone who is not getting used to hearing weird politically correct phraseology in Health textbooks, I would honestly like this on a T-shirt please.

Aggghhhh I know, and I don’t even have those sorts of books (all my textbooks are either creationist or old from before the social justice junk)

@whalekeeper

More like inner takeover, like New York right now.

I should shut up 😅 Okay, never mind all this

I just realized you might still be deciding all this. I’m sorry if this is not something you’re confident on. Questioning dystopian premises is what I do every time I read a book with this stuff.

@ellette-giselle

Meaning? Is America taken over by another country and that country is the one making the laws?

@whalekeeper

It’s sort of mirroring a Soviet era takeover.

@ellette-giselle

I get that. I was actually saying I don’t see how that’s a viable strategy for a country right after a world war and civil war.

This is the thing I said that I’m most concerned about:

Because you just said family is what the men believe is worth fighting for, and if this is still America and they’re ravaged this badly, w…

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@whalekeeper

Oh sorry. You said you couldn’t see america banning family, and I’m saying they just declared that children belong to the government, not families. They are already laying the blueprints for doing it. Just not as dramatic as my book.