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[sir_vancelot]

[The video comes on and Vance is...red. Cheeks, face, neck. Even his ears are red. It takes a moment for him to clear his throat.]

Uh...

Right. I apparently needed a reminder to never Google myself. Or, you know, whatever the equivalent is in the future. But is this usually a thing these days?

I mean, maybe I should be more used to this from the Avengers. I know they did this sort of thing back home sometimes, but...yeah.

I also never want to see the fan art. I love you, Rich, but...no.

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[floraltranslator]

[ Program Tsubomi.exe has stopped responding. Would you like to restart? ]

W- w- w- w-what????

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[sir_vancelot]

I don't know. I don't get it. I...

I really don't get some of this. At all.

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[iamresponding]

[Rich picks a bad time to start recording because he breaks into another bout of laughter right as he starts and it takes a while for it to stop. It only ends in a small cough at the end, which is good. He's up and about and his lung is getting better.]

See, you didn't do the reality show with us. We had ourselves a whole fandom and you missed it.

My ship name with Thrash was Novanight and the shippers called themselves the Nova Knights. For me and Robbie, it was Novaball. Which sounded horrible. Me and Nita's was Novarita. That one was okay. And nobody shipped Zach with anyone, poor guy.

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[sir_vancelot]

Oh no. I didn't miss that. I mean, I did sort of. At first. But I saw some of it.

[What he doesn't say is that he saw it later. Mostly after Stamford.]

Novaball sounds like it should be a sport. And now I need to go find out if this world ever invented brain bleach because, one, the idea of you and Thrash together and, two, the idea of Zach having sex. You're a mean man, Richard Rider.

[headinjuries]

Oh.

My.

Gooooooooooooooooooood.

[sir_vancelot]

Ah. Hey, Sam. Sorry about this.

[iamresponding]

Hey, tiny son. You're not allowed to read that meme until your homework is finished. Also, clean your room.

[whyarewehere]

It's okay dude, I am not even remotely adopting you.

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[whyarewehere]

What the fuck am I looking at and what the fuck are they saying about me?

[ He thinks he understands and he really doesn't want to. ]

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[sir_vancelot]

Since I pretty much had the same sort of reaction, I'm figuring you know what they're saying.

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[iamresponding]

You need to also clean your room apparently.

[the_fuzz]

...they're shipping me with Nick. Where are they even getting that from?

[sir_vancelot]

They're shipping me and Rich. Because we're friends back home. So...I'd guess that's where it's coming from?

[thethinzooline]

[Before he gets on the comms, he has to take five minutes to just die. He died. He laughed so hard that he stop breathing, died, and magically came back to life.]

This little story one of them linked sure is, ah, interesting and I have to say, they really did capture the essence of my wit. Uncanny.

[He thumbs the story window back up and starts to read in a dramatic voice, even imitating Judy during her dialogue.]

"His heart quivered in his chest (at a rate of 95 beats per minute, which was higher than natural for foxes)" -- a fun and informative fox fact for all you non-foxes out there -- "as he stood there, the rain dripping through the fur of his face. Had she really said those words?

'Judy, he whispered in a hushed breath. 'I thought -- I thought you were only interested in other bunnies.'

'Love is love,' she whispered breathily."

Indeed it is. Wise words.

[He thumbs through more of it.] The dramatic scene where I go over a waterfall and you think I'm dead is pretty good. That ground's already been tread, because we've done a waterfall already, but it's not like they have our autobiographies, and this time it was just me going over it.

Also, little known fact -- so little known that I didn't even know it -- but apparently in our home culture, clothes are entirely optional. Not just in naturalist communities or clubs. Everywhere.

SORRY NOT SORRY

[floraltranslator]

[ And then some time later after flailing about, trying to understand this anon business-- ]

Um, I do have a question... what do they mean by "state of the kink"?

[iamresponding]

Not it! [He knows that as one of the resident actual adults, someone's going to expect him to explain and nope nope nope. He's establishing that now.]

Re: SORRY NOT SORRY

[kingtyrantranger]

Maybe they've got problems with their hoses in the future?

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[the_civilian]

[A wild Tadashi appears! His hair is sticking up like he's run his fingers through it.

In the interests of you NOT GOOGLING THAT, I'll answer this question.

Seriously, don't google that.

[He takes a deep breath and lets it out. He can do this, he has a fourteen-year-old brother at home who will eventually discover that the internet is good for more than just engineering projects.

Apparently, some people like to theorize and write stories about the romantic relationships of people on this team. Sometimes up to and including their sex lives. And sometimes those stories involve, ah, unconventional practices that some people enjoy.

[There, that was relatively painless, right?]

[fighting4afuture]

...Kami, I'm glad I'm new.

[Someone just called him good looking, that's...fine. Right?]

[fourstars]

This is the exact reason I had your mother make me a costume to hide my identity.

[deafleppard]

They have pretty good taste if you ask me.

And I can confirm that my uniform is the coolest.

[iamresponding]

One of them said they wanted to suck your toes.

[wherenoonegoes]

THORDAMNIT GRIF.

[whyarewehere]

I am all about honesty and transparency, Hiccup.

[leverageintceo]

I understand that sending hundreds of porno magazines is an appropriate retribution for people being jerks on the internet. How do we go about doing that?

[ringslinging]

With an address, for starters.

Are IP traces still a thing in this century?

[wherenoonegoes]

Completely unrelated to this, does anyone else want one of those toys they've been showing on the newslinks?

[nerdninja]

I want to take one apart. The holo tech they use for those superpowers looks slick.

[fourstars]

... I'm not clicking that.

[ Gohan knows better than to even look at that link. He may not exactly be the most internet-savvy person, but he wasn't so oblivious as to think that searching for his superhero alter-ego online would've been a good idea. He grew up knowing Master Roshi, for goodness' sake. ]

I can barely handle the press knowing who I am, I'm definitely not checking to see what's being said about me online.

[the_civilian]

That's really the best choice you can make here.