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[recollecters]

Hello and happy new year! A lot of poll results came in from R&D and we've almost fixed taste all the way. Horses are almost fixed, too. We've been working pretty much non-stop around the holidays to stabilize everything, so I hope this works! Just so you guys know, while we were working on fixing the original problems we received some alerts of residual effects outside of our usual domain. Don't worry though! Remember what I said a while ago? We're still moving more resources around into better defenses to protect the city from huge storms like last summer. We'll be taking care of that really soon and isolating the unknown problem. I wish I could tell you more, but we're all working overtime here to finish the final stages of a big project. No matter what happens you guys should be safe while we finish up, so just stay calm, okay? Don't get too reckless! Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post taste tier 4 has been icly regained; tier 5 will go into effect on Saturday, January 6th at 9pm EST and taste will be fully restored! Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[notyourutopian]

You woke up with that?
Does it hurt?

Also look at me not making a flower joke.
My willpower is legendary.

[nachetanya]

Oh no, it really is. I know I would have talked about the flower.

I'm sure you didn't even look at my cleavage!

No, it doesn't hurt surprisingly.

[notyourutopian]

That's good. I imagine waking up to tattoo pain would be rather awful.

If anyone tells you they weren't looking at your cleavage they are lying, since that picture is entirely cleavage.

[nachetanya]

That makes you willpower a little bit suspect, doesn't it?

[notyourutopian]

My willpower was about not making a flower joke.
Not about your chest!

[nachetanya]

That seems a little improper!

But I'm not all that proper either so its okay.

I'm glad it doesn't hurt too. Or my eyes

[ Because someone pointed out to her above in the video that her eyes are now red, not hazel. ]

[notyourutopian]

Oh wow, I hadn't noticed.
They're certainly striking.

I remember when my eyes changed back to blue.
That was a wonderful morning.

[nachetanya]

Oh right, because blue vanished for a while. I saw the sky shift around a little a few weeks ago, I think. I hope you keep those.

I don't know how to feel about red eyes.

But if you say it's striking maybe alright

[notyourutopian]

Yeah.
They were just grey for most of the year it was...
Very odd.

Well.
I feel like eyes should stand out, you know?
They're one of the first things people really notice about someone.
Or at least what I notice.
So they should be striking in some fashion.

[nachetanya]

[ And included here is a close up picture of one of Natalia's new red eyes. She focused her phone's zoom just on one eye. So basically its this. ]

Hope that's not too dirty of a picture

[notyourutopian]

Ha ha.
Who can resist a giant eyeball.

[nachetanya]

Oh no!!

I'm going to get flustered!

[ . . . ]

You're right though, I notice eyes first too.

[notyourutopian]

Someone fetch you your fainting couch?

Well that means you have good taste then.
I mean there's other things to notice too.
But eyes just tell us a lot about someone.

[nachetanya]

The vapors, Eleanor!

And if you're making eye contact to notice their eyes, that means you're really looking at someone. It's a difficult thing for some people, but it really is better to try

[notyourutopian]

My goodness, not the vapors!

I guess it's weird but I've never really had that problem?
Eye contact is pretty easy for me.
Always has been.

[nachetanya]

No, for me too. But some people are more shy, or have suffered things that make it harder for them.

[ But then she recalls her and Eleanor's first conversation. She considers deleting that response or editing it and decides to just make a new response. ]

That's all. I don't think it's weird to be good at it.

[notyourutopian]

I think more people don't like eye contact than do.
I'm not sure it's about shyness though.

More

Oh I don't know.
Like, I know I'm a basket case of insecurities but eye contact was never an issue so
Maybe I am just the oddball.

[nachetanya]

Everyone has their own insecurities. I don't like the idea that one trait or another makes someone odd.

People are way more unique than that.

Everyone has 'odd' traits, after all

[notyourutopian]

Mm.
I guess that's true.

Probably best to just not dwell on stuff like that though.
Who has time for introspection anymore?

[nachetanya]

Introspection can be really important to help people sort themselves out, I don't know about dismissing it entirely.

But I'm also tired

[notyourutopian]

As someone taking four classes and an internship and an engineering lab
I don't have time for introspection.
Or being tired.

[nachetanya]

Two classes and a full time job here so tbh you might win.

Or maybe I'm just prone to admitting tiredness after New Years idk. Last night was busy

[notyourutopian]

Yeah...
For me too

fun though?

[nachetanya]

Of course! I love my job

[notyourutopian]

Oh you had to work?
Where do you work?