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[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Okay. The Queen's latest mess has been cleaned up. Nobody's dead. Some of us have medals. [ Not that Batgirl got a medal, despite nearly being eaten by half a dozen vampire plants. Vampants? Planpires? Lame. This is why they should've been Frankenplants. ] That's fantastic. Seriously, thanks to everyone who helped out through healing, fighting, and defence strategies. It's great to know that if we never need to stage an emergency barbecue, apparently, we have the fire power to pull it off.

Of course, now that we're in the calm-after-the-last-storm-but-before-the-next-one-that's-gonna-suck-even-more, there's not much to do but sit and reflect. Y'know, on how we're trapped in another world, and everyone back home either thinks we're dead or missing or worse. I mean, me being here just proves everyone right about me – that I can't see anything through, blah blah, failure – and I've even let Babs down.

Not that I'm looking for free therapy or anything. I just want everyone to know that I hate the downtime as much as the almost-eaten-by-Eldritch-horrors time.

Comments

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's been kind of interesting, when I'm not busy fearing for life and limb. Kind of nice seeing weird things everyone else can see.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

I guess that's what keeps us sane.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Well, assuming everyone's sane to begin with.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Man, don't open that can of worms. I don't even wanan think about the possibility of the Garden actually being Arkham Asylum, complete with padded walls.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I'd had a thought about like some kind of VR thing, but I don't think it's really likely. I mean, for one, that level of technology seems pretty unlikely.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

VR's likely. I mean, I know Babs – my friend-slash-computer science professor – can make life-sized 3D holograms, and she doesn't even have any government funding. Throw an eccentric billionaire into the mix, and it's just about believable.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

....holy shit, really? Man, where I'm from, we're not even in 3D hologram stage.

...I don't know whether that supports or destroys this line of thought.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Really. I don't understand 90% of what she says, because it's all undernet this, terabytes that, but I know what I see with my own two eyes.

Think we should start looking for glitches in the Matrix?

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, that's... a little beyond my "open Windows, make programs happen" understanding.

Hah. How would we even know what a glitch looks like, with all the crazy stuff going on in here? Polygon clipping?

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Not clue where to start, but I'm starting to feel like I'm a glitch.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

How so?

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Huh? Oh, sorry. Just rambling out loud, not really intending to make much sense.

—although the fact that everyone but me has friends and family showing up probably is a glitch.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Well, so far I'm on my own, so... I dunno, we can be glitches together?

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Like I said, you're a newbie. Give it a few weeks.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Well, all right... although I think I'm kind of less likely to get most of the people I know. That whole "no boys allowed" thing.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Oh, boys are allowed.

They just have to be from alternate universes where they were born as girls.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Wait what

How is that even a thing?

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

It's a thing 'cause the Queen says it's a thing, I guess. It shouldn't come as that much of a surprise, when you think about it. Alternate universes, sliding timelines and alternate versions all go hand-in-hand.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Wow OK I am so not a quantum physicist. None of that made any sense to me.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

'kay, in short: if two weird things happen, you should probably expect a third weird thing to come along at some point.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

That seems kind of uselessly vague as far as a law goes, but I'll work with it.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Uselessly vague is the best I can offer, I'm afraid.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

It's becoming par for the course here, anyway, so I'll have to get used to it.

...on further thought about this whole thing, I think I'd rather remain a glitch here, because I don't think I can deal with the idea of meeting my dad as a woman.

[gravityfists.livejournal.com]

Ohmygod, don't even pretend that something like that could actually happen.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

You're the one that brought up alternate reality girl versions.