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Exactly! It's a practical living choice.

Yeah, I don't think Yale produces many people with redeeming qualities. I'm sure there are outliers. But.

It's nice here!! The three months it was closed sucked for me.

I agree, but I'm biased. But it doesn't matter any more, he also doesn't talk to me, so problem solved! I never have to hear him gloat again!!

Next time we get apocalyptically shut down, you just show up as my mother's newest child and she'll feed you flautas and ask you why you haven't given her grandchildren.

~~Yeah, b~~ Fuck him too, then. Nothing better than that kind of silence.

Your mom sounds really nice. But hopefully we don't get apocalyptically shut down again, I don't think my heart can take it!

Thank you! Sorry, I didn't mean to be a downer!!

Oh, she is. She's also insane. My sister is 'childless by choice' and mama's still stressed by this a decade later.

You're not. I just kind of want to sock your brother in the jaw a little is all.

It's a valid choice! It's 2023, mom!!

Well, maybe he'll also turn out to be a Liminal and wind up here and we can both punch him a little.

My brother only gave her one granddaughter. Who's going to carry on the family name, Whitney? She's under a lot of pressure. What will the ladies at church say?

What kind of power do you think he'd hate most? Maybe something with oozing pustules.

Girls can carry the family name, too! ~~I'm named after my m~~

Ooooh, that's a good one. Maybe horrible flatulence.

Oh, I know this. The teen beast knows this. Even my mama knows this, if you really pushed her on it a bit. But do this church ladies know this?

Just - all of your skin's inverted. [...] Shit. It really could've gone so much worse, huh?

What do church ladies know anyway???

Eww. Yeah, I'm feeling a little better about being a hideous monster? I could've been a hideous inside-out monster with pimples and excessive farts???

All the good neighborhood chisme. You can't lose out on that kind of connection because you don't have enough grandchild collateral.

You've got permanent stiletto nails. I know women who put down $100+ on that easy. There's nothing hideous or monstrous about it.

I guess I'll never get that good chisme. Woe is me.

I also have a tail.

The only other way is to bring new and exciting chisme to the table. It's like currency. Her children are not currently providing.

Oh no, a functional extra limb. There's no possible way that could ever be useful in daily life.

Best I can do is bring a casserole to their potluck.

It's useful, ngl. But it freaks people out.

I guess that depends on the casserole.

People here live in a literal bubble and get attacked by giant, purple shit regularly. And people elsewhere have a non-zero chance of waking up with some sort of unexpected 'talent' at any given moment. They'll get over it.

There'll probably be tater tots in it.

[...] I guess. Thank you.

I don't know about the church ladies, but I'd demolish a tater tot.

Nothing to thank me for. You're allowed to complain about it if you want, but nobody else should.

All the best casseroles have tater tots. You can trust me, I'm an Expert.

At least I'm not a business school grad. 😌

I believe you! If anything, not enough meals include tater tots.

See? There are true monsters among us.

They're a very versatile form of potato!

I hope nobody here went to Yale business school, in which case I'm sorry, but also they ARE monsters.

They're kind of like if McDonald's hashbrowns had children.

There's an exception to every rule. Maybe.

Exactly! That's why they're called Tots!

Maybe. Maybe that's someone's superpower.

Y'know, that actually never occurred to me until this moment.

Exception to every rule? Could be great. Could also be horrible.

I also never thought about it until you said it.

Oh, I meant the superpower to be a business school grad and not be a jerk, but also your thing sounds both great and terrible all at once.

Oh thank god I'm not alone.

Sometimes I really wonder if there are limits on this whole powers thing. There should be limits on this whole thing.