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[vampirella]

username: elvira

has anybody seen a change of clothes somewhere in this dump? would love to have an option besides what i died in

black preferred but as long as it isn't hot pink i'll consider it

Comments

[vampirella]

tell you what, if i see them doing anything else suspect, i'll let you know, if you do the same

[softheartedshizun]

Sounds like a deal.

[vampirella]

you got a name or would you rather go by ... peerless cucumber

( ok she's heard worse usernames, but that's still a weird one. )

[softheartedshizun]

[Maybe he shouldn't have defaulted to his internet handle where he would have to interact with people IRL as well....]

Shen Qingqiu....

[vampirella]

( to be fair, she also defaulted to her favorite internet handle. it's just that it's less embarrassing, because Elvira is Awesome. )

carmilla. thank god i don't have to try and say 'peerless cucumber' out loud with a straight face

( to be honest she'd probably just run with a condescending pet name, anyway... )

[softheartedshizun]

[Don't rub his shame in his face so casually!]

It looks better on bulletin boards.

[vampirella]

i'm sure. what kind of message boards were these, inquiring minds want to know

[softheartedshizun]

Web Novel sites and review and fan forums.

[vampirella]

so it's some kind of reference? i'm relieved, i thought it was some weird euphemism

( cucumber, eggplant, same difference, right? )

[softheartedshizun]

Yes. Of course!

[He can't admit it was exactly what she had thought, a stupid dick joke. But! No matter what he would be glad that he wasn't the hack of an author known as Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky!]

[vampirella]

( she's been around the block for three centuries. she has a good sense for dick jokes. )

must be some cucumber

[softheartedshizun]

One could say peerless....

[vampirella]

i hope you got some pictures of it, beautiful things like that never last

[softheartedshizun]

Two worlds away and another life.

[vampirella]

guess all you have now is the memories

but sometimes those are just as good

( still talking about vegetables. obviously. )

[softheartedshizun]

It doesn't really matter.

[vampirella]

oh yeah?

if it's that forgettable it couldn't have been that perfect

[softheartedshizun]

What can be said of things from a lifetime ago? Let us instead focus on the here and now.

[vampirella]

( oh buddy, you are barking up the WRONG tree. she's been obsessed with the same girl for nearly two hundred years. despite the fact she's dead. )

lifetimes ago, huh?

[softheartedshizun]

One, one lifetime ago....

[vampirella]

( even a single lifetime is pretty curious. unless this guy is like secretly 80. ...is he? )

well, if you're forgetting about it, dedicating a weird username people are bound to ask about to it is a weird way to do it

[softheartedshizun]

[He might mean it as a saying, simply having changed since then, though he did indeed mean\ it much more literally.]

As usernames tend to be, once you become known by them online it's hard to change them. When one is prolific in the review community, it's impossible to change. It seemed better than something pretentious like Peak Lord, or using my own name.

[vampirella]

( consider it courtesy as a fellow immortal, she won't press. just remember with idle curiosity. )

i don't know, i've never been attached to any one username. they're easy to change, i do it all the time

( this is true of both usernames and whatever moniker she happens to go by at any given time. )

peak lord wouldn't be the most egotistical username i've ever seen, if it makes you feel better

[softheartedshizun]

Not at all.

[It just felt strange using your own title in such a way.]

And when you change your username all the time no one will remember who you are. What is the point of people can't connect you to all of your posts?

[vampirella]

you don't use the internet that much, do you

( she's a modern three hundred year old. no loudly owning internet posts over here! )