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[odasaku]

Has anyone ever tried to talk to family and friends without Retrospect about all the strange things that are happening?

If you have, how did that go?

Comments

[thebeastwithout]

mom said i watched too many movies
mom talked to dad
dad said he was worried about my grades

now my internet time is restricted and i have a bedtime of midnight

learn from my mistakes and never talk to anyone

family and friends are just gonna pull you down, bro

[odasaku]

Are you sure it doesn't have to do with your grades?

Midnight bedtime is still good, though.

Any later and you won't get enough sleep.

[ that last sentence really does hit sakutarou a bit closer to home than he expected, though. but he's going to just...ignore that feel. yeah. ]

[thebeastwithout]

my grades are great!!!

c stands for 'congratulations on your good work' everyone knows this

anyway that's not the point the point is that they won't believe you anyway

[odasaku]

Yeah, I understand.

But if you have a C, I think you should try to get some extra help.

Maybe it'll raise it to a B. That stands for...'Beary Good Work On Studying'.

[thebeastwithout]

ok why would anyone make bear puns on the report card
that's just silly

obviously b stands for 'barely better than c so you should probably just get a c'

[odasaku]

I see nothing wrong with bear puns.

But an A stands for 'A lot better than a C' so why not try for that?

[thebeastwithout]

an a?

bro i haven't gotten an a since i was like... coloring in second grade and i drew this really sick alien

the teacher thought it was supposed to be a flower and said my use of color was imaginative or something

an a is like... impossible

[odasaku]

Well, that's fine. Grades shouldn't have to be everything.

But you should study. So you can get closer to a B. Or get a B. Because B stands for 'Best effort'.

[thebeastwithout]

but.... why?

this stuff is all boring and useless

and you just said it stood for something else you can't just change that halfway

[odasaku]

I'm on the fence.

But it does get a bit easier to work hard for something you like.

What do you like?

[thebeastwithout]

video games
sleeping
the arcade
aikido's kinda fun i've only done it a few months though
heavy metal
did i say sleeping yet?

[odasaku]

Sleeping is great.

Heavy metal is good, too. I'm more of a rock person myself, though.

Aikido seems interesting. Are you going to keep doing that?

[thebeastwithout]

yeah i think so
my parents said i got in too much trouble and i needed to have some kind of after school thing

so it's not much of a choice

[odasaku]

Better than detention.

[thebeastwithout]

hey detention is great

you just sit in a room and do nothing all day

i mean, going to class is the real punishment here...

[odasaku]

...If you say so.

[thebeastwithout]

yup

...anyway so that's why there's no point trying in school glad we cleared that up

[odasaku]

I guess so.

Good luck. If you need help, hit me up.

[thebeastwithout]

i always need help but i think i'd have better luck going to church at this point

[odasaku]

Oh.

[thebeastwithout]

anyway so that's why i'm planning to be a professional mattress tester

[odasaku]

It would be nice if there was a job like that.

[thebeastwithout]

i bet there is!

do they just ship out hundreds of mattresses without seeing whether or not they're comfy? that would be way irresponsible

i bet they definitely 100% have those