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[mylegacy]

"Leave a message, per favore; I'll be back before you know it."

[text|voice|video]

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[starmark]

I know who you meant.

That's not a subject I'm ever going to talk to Jiji about.

[mylegacy]

Whyever not.

[ w h y e v e r n o t ]

[starmark]

Because I really don't want to hear about what's been on my grandfather's dick.

[mylegacy]

Nothing.

[WOW]

Also because he'd somehow trick you into doing something embarrassing, probably. And/or contracting something fatal.

I really don't understand why you're consulting me on your condom choices if you won't consult him, that's my point.

[starmark]

Yet.

[OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH — wait no he has a point, he wouldn't exist in the first place if — you know what this narration is going places.]

I just wanted to talk about the pot. I don't know how the conversation ended up like this.

[mylegacy]

Because you said you were going to put condoms in it. You said that.

[starmark]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU PUT IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT

[mylegacy]

Whatever you want. Whatever you have a lot of and need to store in a location. If you have a need for condom storage, fine. Although that really does increase the chances of you accidentally knocking it onto the floor and breaking it.

[starmark]

...

I guess I could put sea glass in it. When I start collecting it again, after the weather warms up.

...

Sorry. Thank you for helping with my birthday present. I like it.

[mylegacy]

[.................. wait. Shit. He fucked up somehow, didn't he. He did something Incorrect and now Jotaro is turtling for some unknown and inexplicable reason and he has absolutely no idea how to fix it because he doesn't know what it is so maybe he should]

[just]

[course correct . . .]

I'm glad you like it.

[Okay, all right, solid start, keep it up.]

I wanted to help more but I'm glad it was [????????????] made you happy.

[KEEP GOING . . .]

You collect sea glass?

[THE JUDGES AWARD IT A 6.5, NOT THE BEST SHOWING BUT CONSIDERABLY LESS OF A FUCKFEST THAN IT COULD HAVE BEEN. AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!]

[starmark]

[Sea Glass™: the new Otters™, as conversational Hail Marys go.]

Yeah. Because of the color. The prolonged exposure to the water and its pH polishes it and gives it a kind of frosted quality, but it's translucent. If you but it near light, a glow comes through.

Like stained glass, but softer. It takes decades, and the glass comes from things like bottles and other glass objects that were lost overboard at sea, or in shipwrecks. Beer bottles. Vases, stuff like that.

Sunset colors are the hardest to find. Reds, oranges, yellows. Purple, because there aren't many things made of purple glass in general. The most common are white, green, and brown. Industrial bottles, clear glass.

I like the turquoise best.

[mylegacy]

I didn't know any of that.

[It's even, like. 10% interesting, and he can easily fake the other 90%.]

Is turquoise hard to find? Since it's green, but also blue.

[starmark]

Actually, yeah.

I read somewhere that most turquoise glass comes from broken seltzer bottles from the early 1900s. But there isn't a lot of turquoise glass period because it's a hard color in general to make consistently. Some batches would come out too green, some too blue. Too hard to standardize.

So a lot of people didn't do it.

[mylegacy]

It sounds pretty, though. Better than if it was all the same.

[starmark]

It is. I think that's one of the reasons I like it.

That and it's just...a good color. Like little bits of solid ocean.

[mylegacy]

[This is weirdly charming. Not sure what to do about it.]

I didn't realize it was your favorite color. Bits of solid ocean. I just thought.

You worked so well by the sea, once you made that choice. I thought you must have a connection to it, somehow.

[starmark]

Have you ever felt...I don't know. Maybe it was a poem, or something like that. But something that just made sense, even if you couldn't explain why?

It's like that. I just like it. The color, the things that live in it, the way the water supports you from all sides. It makes sense, when a lot of other things don't.

[mylegacy]

[Family. Fighting. Revenge. Joseph. Yeah.]

Once or twice.

I'm glad it was the right advice, then. Although maybe next time it should be something that's from there, not just something that looks like there.

[starmark]

Next time?

[mylegacy]

. . . Were you planning on never having a birthday ever again?

[starmark]

I figure odds are you'll have killed me for something before then.

[mylegacy]

I will if you don't shut the fuck up.

[starmark]

Teach me how to walk on water.

[mylegacy]

So I can drown you?

[starmark]

If I do it right, you won't be able to. I'll be above the water, not beneath it.