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thelegion2016-12-29 03:25 pm
the_real_sir_prize) wrote in thelegion2016-12-29 03:25 pm
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I figured out my codename! And I set up a few social media accounts. Let me know what yours are so that I can add you!
[The list of links that follows are mostly microblogging and picture-sharing platforms, though it does include a HoloRay account as per Robbie's recommendation. They share the same username of "therealsirprize", and all the profiles identify him as "Sir Prize of the Legion of Super-Heroes".]
[The picture-sharing accounts are already filling up with shots of Makkachin, Victor posing in his official uniform, Victor with Legion World staffers (who are already mutually following him), food, the ice skates with the gold blades that the Athramites made for him, and some of the cool looking things he saw in Metropolis.]
[The list of links that follows are mostly microblogging and picture-sharing platforms, though it does include a HoloRay account as per Robbie's recommendation. They share the same username of "therealsirprize", and all the profiles identify him as "Sir Prize of the Legion of Super-Heroes".]
[The picture-sharing accounts are already filling up with shots of Makkachin, Victor posing in his official uniform, Victor with Legion World staffers (who are already mutually following him), food, the ice skates with the gold blades that the Athramites made for him, and some of the cool looking things he saw in Metropolis.]
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What's social about it you're just showing photographs Is there any real purpose to all this[The words might seem disdainful ones - they are, to a point - but Roland is thoroughly tired by now of understanding less than half of what he sees and so, as far as intention goes, the words are genuine. Maybe rude, maybe more than a little frustrated, but genuine. He wants to know.]
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People can click on the pictures and discuss them and share them with other people. It's a way of forming communities on the internet. I keep in touch with a lot of people I know back home this way because we're all busy and live in different countries.
As for its purpose...well, it's fun, and my dog is incredibly photogenic.
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It isn't the photographs themselves that are important That explains much[No matter how beautiful the dog, there's no sense in wasting a photograph on it. It doesn't occur to Roland to beat around the bush about that. He's thinking instead on how he used to use similar tactics - similar in their way, at least - to build up goodwill with the people of whatever new place in which he found himself. At least, in his younger years. Since then he's arrived in plenty of new places, but left off the pretense of caring a whit for the people in them. It'd never been him who'd been much good at the public relations, anyway. Still-]
Do people of this universe find something worth talking over in all that They care about your dog and your knife shoesRe: text
[Victor's willing to take "that explains much", but he would definitely argue that nothing he's posted is a "waste" of a photograph. At least not a digital one; he'd grown up on the very tail end of film cameras and he might not have taken quite so many pictures with those. They'd be more difficult to share like this anyway.]
I'm part of their Legion of Super-Heroes now, so yes, they do find things to talk about. Mostly that my dog is indeed cute and that they're excited that I'm willing to share these pictures with them.
Also you are now invited to drop by the rink on the beach on the Habitat Deck sometime, because you've clearly never been ice skating before.
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I'd like that You must have been some kind of performer in your other life Did you use your social photographing to draw strangers to you there too[He's assuming so, anyway, since the man seems aware that the only reason people do seem to care about his 'social media' is because of the position he's in. If he's as experienced in that as Roland assumes, in convincing the people of a new culture to like him at least a little, then talking to him could prove useful.]
[Also, there're those knife shoes. He's interested in the shoes.]
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And you insight into them I would wager It isn't hard to gain one of these accounts is it The machine omnicomm puts the pictures where they need to betext
No, it's not hard at all! [says the millennial who grew up with these things.] Picking a username tends to be the most difficult part.
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Why do you need a different name Clearly it isn't supposed to be a secret[If Roland had been born in a different universe he'd be the sort of baby boomer who tries to name all his accounts after his own first name, all uppercase.]
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What's the most important of these accounts With which do you contact the most peopletext
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Writing is a pain in the ass I haven't tried making photographs yettext
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I've little better to do these days If I can find your rink I'll see you theretext --> action?
[Roland gets a photo of one of the appropriate building on the Hab Deck.]
[Inside, Victor has left his omnicom on the low wall that surrounds the rink itself, and is moving across the ice like he was born to be there. He builds up speed and then flings himself into the air, limbs pulled in tightly as he spins, completing multiple revolutions before his skates hit ice again. And again. And again.
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Seems a shame to interrupt such skill. Want me to come back another day?