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[artfulironicist]

I was going to make the extra effort to warn those in my universe about the frankly suspicious cupcake, which I could only assume had been delivered to my friends as part of the same ploy, when I discovered this website. As others seem to be having the same issue, it's clearly a generation of this website, as opposed to other sources.

It doesn't mean I'm going to eat it all the same. Mysterious confectionery is never a good sign, whether originating from the expected individual, or from any unannounced others.

As I've only recently discovered this community, I haven't had the opportunity to introduce myself yet. The name's Dirk Strider and I still had nothing to do with this, Jake. That was considering the chance that you're not feeling entirely convinced yet, though I'm sure you've stumbled ass-backwards into unthinking credulity by now. That's ok: it works in my favour in this case.

Incidentally, if any of you work out what the purpose of these cupcakes are, I wouldn't mind finding out myself.

[ooc: Aaaand I'll be keeping the magic RNG number to myself. BUT THERE IS ONE.]

Comments

[artfulironicist]

Hey, Sollux.
There aren't any trolls with vivid gamboge blood?

[thekidsare0kay]

gamboge?
can't say ii'm famiiliiar wiith that colour.
you'd be culled iif you hatched wiith that kiind of colour.

[artfulironicist]

It's this one.
Which colors are acceptable to trolls, then?

[thekidsare0kay]

well there are certaiin colour2 that are blood colour2 and lot2 that aren't.
ii mean iif you want two talk about orange, iit 2hould be more liike thii2.

[artfulironicist]

Dude. That's basically brown.
Is the criteria for non-cullable blood color that it should look at home in a 70s curtain pattern?

[thekidsare0kay]

yeah 2ome of the colour2 are pretty ugly, though ii don't know the reference.
what'2 a curtaiin?

anyway
here
are
some
others

[artfulironicist]

70s meets the 50s in terms of color schemes.
I'm referring to the 1950s and 1970s, human decades with distinct, associated styles.
Here's a picture of 70s curtains for demonstration purposes.

[thekidsare0kay]

wow yeah that'2 ugly a2 2hiit.
what are they for?

[artfulironicist]

Covering windows, mostly.

[thekidsare0kay]

2eem2 pretty pointle22.
why cover them up, 2o you can't 2ee through them?

[artfulironicist]

At night, it's so people can't look through your window in at you.
At day, it's for the purposes of keeping your room dark, so you don't have to wake up the moment the sun rises.
They're movable, you realise.
I find it difficult to believe that trolls don't have any manner of window covering.

[thekidsare0kay]

but niight ii2 when people are awake and around.
duriing the day the wiindow pane2 polariize two keep the burniing ray2 from bliindiing u2.
what would 2ome 2hiitty cloth do two help wiith that?

[artfulironicist]

I presume this is some sort of geocultural difference.
Earth, my planet, orbits a yellow sun, which I believe is much tamer than your sun.
Either that, or we simply have a thicker ozone layer.
Either way, the sun poses only a mild burning risk that a UV resistant cream can generally prevent.
For that reason, humans are generally diurnal.

[thekidsare0kay]

well ii gue22 that explaiin2 a lot.
why the fuck are we talkiing about 2omethiing 2o iinten2ely boriing a2 fabriic wiindow coveriing2, anyway?
ii thiink we've beaten thii2 topiical hoofbea2t two death, don't you thiink?

[artfulironicist]

Because you asked.
What would you prefer to talk about?
We can move on to some other facet of interplanetary cultural differences, if you'd like.

[thekidsare0kay]

uh, ii don't know.
2hiit, ii'm on the 2pot, now.