crystal

[rathercommon]

FORM: Crystallll
SENDER: Kitty Jones
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS EVERYBODYYYY DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Everyone seems sad so: dogs

[ Kitty sounds faintly aggrieved. The reason: ]

So, there's this dog that started following me about. I guess it's mine now or - something. Anyway. Has anyone got ideas for a name?

Comments

[zombra]

Eh, they're just a form of joke, in my opinion.

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty shakes her head. It's the second time Kitty's bumped up against an eh it's not that deep, and so this time, she protests - ]

Except that things always mean a lot more than the surface-level stuff. Especially jokes. You can tell a lot about what a person believes from their sense of humor.

[zombra]

What, like all people who use puns are obnoxious?

[rathercommon]

No. But some people who use puns want people to know they're clever. Or people who make jokes at others' expense but can't laugh at themselves.

[zombra]

Soooo... watch out for people who suggest pun dog names, I guess?

[ What even is the big deal, she asks herself. She doesn't ask aloud, because she's learning that plenty of people here get their gutchies in a twist about anything and she's not savvy enough to navigate through it all. ]

[rathercommon]

Well, no. I mean, the fact that someone is really self-satisfied, that doesn't make them a bad person or anything.

[zombra]

All right. I can get behind that.

[ A pause. ]

I don't think I ever asked: male or female dog?

[rathercommon]

Oh - she's a girl.

[zombra]

[ A thoughtful hum. ]

Lady. That's good, right?

[rathercommon]

[ A slightly dissatisfied grunt. ]

I don't really have much faith in systems of nobility.

[zombra]

Umm...

I'm talking about the dog character from Lady and the Tramp. I guess... you never saw it. Never miiiiind.

[rathercommon]

[ Uh - ]

What is that, a play or something?

[zombra]

Movie. An animated one, actually. I was really into it when I was a kid.

[rathercommon]

What's a movie, exactly?

[zombra]

Oh, man.

[ There's a pause. ]

Like a play, but it's not live and in person. It's like looking at the pictures in a book, but they move. And there's sound.

[rathercommon]

So - like a flip-book? Or a zoetrope?

[zombra]

Uh, yes to the first. No idea about the second.

[rathercommon]

It's a circle that spins, and when you look inside the images seem to move. No sound, though.

[zombra]

Ohhhh, okay. I think I've seen those before.

[ Like on tv when they were showing this outdated piece of nonsense that used to amuse people. ]

Anyway, Lady is a dog from the movie. She belongs to a family but gets lost without her collar and has to hide from the dog catcher. This dog named Tramp and all the stray dogs in the story help her get adjusted to life on the streets, and she and the Tramp fall in puppy love. And blah blah, stuff happens; at the end she's reunited with her family and they adopt Tramp too.

[rathercommon]

[ A dissatisfied grunt. ]

Sounds quite lovely.

[ She doesn't sound like she thinks it's lovely. ]

[zombra]

About as lovely as your attitude, I guess.

[rathercommon]

[ Wow??? ]

That's a bit rude to say, isn't it.

[zombra]

I mean, just following suit. You were totally free to say "I don't think that name will work," but instead you were all,

[ And here she imitates the grunt and tone of voice, but thankfully not the accent. ]

"Sounds quite lovely." Like, okay? So don't use it? Why the attitude?

[rathercommon]

[ Oh. ]

It's not the name. It's -

[ Well. ]

That "movie" of yours just sounds like total propaganda.

[zombra]

Well, yeah, it's a Disney movie. They're for kids, so they're all wholesome and teach a lesson. And the good guys get a happy ending. Like, you're not supposed to think too hard about logic in a Disney movie. [ What even was Frozen? Seriously. ] Dogs don't talk either, but they do in this.