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Ares Makepeace ([personal profile] smokeeater) wrote in [community profile] stateofdecay2024-11-19 09:15 am

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Hi. It’s Reggie’s birthday tomorrow. We just had a Prescott party so I’m not going to put everyone through that, but I’ll be making her go to the Lobby and all of you will be buying her drinks I’m sure. Some more facts about this day so you can be fully educated on its importance include:

  • The most exciting people who share this birthday are Beck so she has to share. Formerly born politicians Joe Biden and Robert F Kennedy also were born on this day but are probably dead. Updated.
  • This makes her a Scorpio. Scorpios are loyal and mysterious. That’s all I know about the zodiac.
  • Also this day in 1959 celebrated the declaration of rights of the child which probably Reggie would have wanted even before she was a child.
  • In 1993 I ruined her birthday by breaking my arm in three pieces at the roller rink and I’m still making up for it

    [Prescott leaders Not Reggie]
    Please also consider this me calling in sick for her for tomorrow night. Turn her away at the door if she tries to work. I’ll cover as many other shifts as I have to.
  • dukeofrats: (Image251)

    duke/arlo - it takes him a few minutes to formulate all this

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
    [.....]

    so like in therapy theyd sometimes say like [...] by sayin other people have it worse it was just deflecting and stopped you from actually like dealin with your shit cause you were telling yourself it shouldnt be shit in the first place

    i dont think youre behind cause everything is at everyones own pace and also i think people are harder to read now because they got all shut up from the apocalypse so who even knows where people are

    i know its not the same but you always got me [...] im sorry its lonely
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 06 -? size)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
    [...] ok. well. then y'all can ignore everything else i said except for the last bit. most's self-inflicted cause i don't wanna sleep in the bunkhouse where it's court's space or in the school where we lived together. so i been focusing on work cause that always helped but it don't feel like a family like i had at my station in danforth. and that just puts me back in the shitty sad loop all over again

    flirtin with everything that moves don't feel the same neither so i can't even distract myself with somebody else.

    like is this just life now



    [...] i know i do n i love you
    Edited 2024-11-20 03:02 (UTC)
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
    maybe sleepin in the school can be like some exposure therapy or something? or like you should start doing other stuff in there to reduce the association and maybe itll be easier then to sleep there?

    i think its just still adjustment you know cause like [...] were also kinda in the middle of some crazy shit in general

    might not be exactly the same as it was but dont see why itd never change

    youre seriously the best big brother on the planet even before the apocalypse
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 81 = hands poofy face)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
    i did for a couple months before you showed up then again after the pumper got the storm leak. and when i got bit cause of the field hospital. it didn't get better. i gotta winterize the truck now

    ok but i wanna GET LA guess we can hope for that

    when mama told us she was pregnant again i was pretty pissed off but you made everything about growin up better [...] you fuckin dweeb
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
    [...] did you talk to court about the bunkhouse? see what she thinks? i really dont want you sleepin in a truck all winter

    even im in a container

    haha got you to tell me you love me and i made your life better
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 89 = hm!)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
    she told me to just move in but i don't wanna be in her business. then she offered to move to the school but i'd feel like an asshole so i told her she better not

    huffing in manufacturing chemicals

    yeah but i got to call you a fuckin dweeb too, you fuckin dweeb
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
    dude move into the bunkhouse and just like use your words and be like: hey court if this becomes not ok at some point lets be adult people and you can tell me and then we can figure something out

    no chemicals our place is super clean

    yeah i accept that
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
    but if she wants to talk to her buddies about [...] whoever she's hooking up with. or seeing or whatever. or like [...] having her ex there just don't seem helpful when she left so she could work on her own shit. i can't follow her around

    they make em with chemicals it's called science

    dweeb
    Edited 2024-11-20 04:03 (UTC)
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
    she doesnt have to talk to them in there

    arlo like [...] this is like a two way street you dont have to make all the compromises you know and youre not following her around youre trying to not live in a truck

    they make your face with chemicals
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 95 -?=?)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
    bro i'm trying to not be in her living space 24/7 so i can get stay over her it's self-preservation. and the truck ain't so bad, i took the seats out so i don't have to scrunch up

    yeah the same ones they made rocky with in rocky horror picture show
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
    [...] oh some of it is about you too i got it sorry i was being kinda thick

    [...] theres gotta be something better than the truck

    ill figure something out

    same ones they made his butt out of aka your face is a butt
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 39 -= talking)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
    way to remember me, baby genius

    did you see his lil gold shorts?? that's a compliment. i'm honored thanks
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
    you just seemed so worried about her and shit so i got distracted sorry

    [...]

    but well get it figured out

    gonna make you a sash that says 'butt handsome'
    Edited (That was already covered Rin) 2024-11-20 05:15 (UTC)
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 81 = hands poofy face)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
    yeah we in the fuckery business call that "intentional"

    i'll wear it.
    Edited 2024-11-20 05:18 (UTC)
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
    rude

    ill make it dont worry

    hey you'll love me no matter what right?
    Edited (Not ominous at all) 2024-11-20 15:59 (UTC)
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 83 -?=? sry what)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
    what'd you do [.....] course. even if you kill somebody and so long as that somebody ain't drew brees. [...] what'd you do
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
    nothin

    bro i never even stabbed anyone in juvie

    threw some punches but thats whatever
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 20 -?=? scowl)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
    you asked like you're worried about something. if it's me you don't gotta be but if it ain't me what's up
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    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] dukeofrats 2024-11-20 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
    just clarifying for any future pain in the ass behavior

    you know how i am

    also i forgot i got some old paint markers that like half work so you should draw the dick and f with those it'll be way easier
    halligan: (πŸ”§ 15 -?=?)

    duke/arlo

    [personal profile] halligan 2024-11-20 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
    so all of it. [...] thanks for talking me through stuff though

    fuck yes let's upgrade me from kindergarten art to first grade