creeping while you're sleeping

[playdolls]

Pitou Blythe shared a photo. March 4th, 20XX near RECOLLE

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Comments

[livingimpaired]

It is nice to meet a fellow creep.
However, I don't necessarily like sounding like one.
Best to keep that to oneself.

But still, even if you were never human in your memories, you're human now, aren't you?

[playdolls]

I used to have a coffee slave but I had to let her off the hook to go to her classes.

[vitis]

seriously?
fetched you coffee all the time without asking for a dime?

[lalliho]

yeah you did it bad

[playdolls]

To certain specifications, my internal systems are still human. My tail and ears make me look like a cat, which I am also not.

[livingimpaired]

No.
I don't mean your physical body.
You may be an oddity, but you were born human.
You came to be part of this society.
You're still part of the people, even if you create works that may be considered disturbing.
You've not yet been dismissed from the human race, Pitou Blythe.

[playdolls]

My point is, that looking at a doll takes away all the prejudices you'd see when looking at another person, they're a clean slate to project ideas onto.

[playdolls]

I gave her spending money, it's not like she had a job.

[playdolls]

I don't have any proof of that, and neither do you. I remember my queen and my hive, and I remember being born to that. I'm waiting for a human who can say the same.

Did you wake up in the womb and share your mother's mind?

Maybe I don't want to be lumped in with your inferior species.

[livingimpaired]

I'm afraid I didn't.
But I still know myself to be human.
An odd human, to be certain, but I am one.

If you didn't want it, you wouldn't be attempting to connect with us.

[lalliho]

I feel pretty prejudiced looking at that scary doll

[playdolls]

[ Hissssssssss. ]

Does it look like I'm trying to connect? Or does it look like I want to take you apart and sew all your pieces back together in a different order.

[livingimpaired]

It looks like you're trying to connect.
But you're too afraid of what will come next if you do.
Because they may be incapable of accepting who you are.
So it's easier to be a creep and inhuman.
Easier, but not better.

[playdolls]

You should think about why it scares you. Is it the inhuman thing feigning humanity?
Is it that human resemblance, but just ever so slightly wrong? Or is it the cruelty done to them? All those things can tell you a little bit more about yourself.

[lalliho]

I don't like the way she looks at me and is missing the back of her head

[playdolls]

I don't need to be accepted. You can all be remade into whatever I want.

[ WHY WOULD ADMIT THAT OUT LOUD. ]

You're just meat and strings.

[ohrlyeh]

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

you have cats?

[playdolls]

That something 'dead' would still have sight. Do you know why that is?
It's because we find it disturbing that something we otherwise consider mindless might have some kind of consciousness and awareness after all. It erodes our sense of power and control.

[livingimpaired]

Maybe not, but I accept you, Pitou Blythe.
In this small conversation, I accept you.

And so I may be but meat and strings, but I still accept you as you are and as you will come to be.

[playdolls]

Five cats.

[playdolls]

[ RCTYVUBINBUVTYCRYTVUYBIUNOFE ]

No one asked you to!

[ohrlyeh]

[QUIETLY YELLS]

do you have a picture of them? what are they like?

[livingimpaired]

And no one needs to.
You need not ever worry.
I will always accept every part of you.
Consider it the second portion of my payment.

[playdolls]

I have a lot of pictures of them.

[ pretend these cat pixels are pictures whatever ]

Tiger is the big orange one, he's the oldest and the boss. Snowflake is second in command, he likes to nap in my bed to keep it warm for me when I am out. Kit, Cat, and Coffee are the younger ones and they pretty much run around and knock things over and rip up my couch.

[playdolls]

No, no, no! You can keep all of it! Someone put you up to this.