pc catchall | homophonic | alex

[metacognition]

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      CORALINE.      

coraline.
alex.

❝ "Because," she said, "When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave." ❞

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w0 monday

[metacognition]

[ good morning and welcome to the selfie museum. we are in a room with a swing.

fei du, who was exploring as you do, hums, thoughtfully, as he looks at the banana. ]

This is a choice.

[camena]

I feel like... there's a dirty joke hidden here, somewhere.

[metacognition]

I think you've just written someone's Instagram caption for them.

[ staring... at this banana... ]

Taking a ride, winky-face-emoji. Something like that.

[camena]

Right, right. Maybe the winking one with its tongue out.

[metacognition]

And the water droplets.

[ hmmm. ]

This room is... [ ... ] What's a good word for it. Gauche?

[camena]

[ she snickers ]

Yeah, or like... Ostentatious, maybe?

[metacognition]

Oooh, ostentatious is good.

I think I'll pass on this one. You?

[camena]

I think we could find a better prop...

[metacognition]

Agreed.

[ almost anything could be better than the banana swing. anyway poking through the box o selfie stuff, there is... a banana phone? and a banana pair of slippers.

deadpan: ] ... I think, Alex, there may be a theme here.

[camena]

Oh yeah? What is it?

[ she's kidding. as she finds a big banana pillow and holds it up. ]

[metacognition]

Vegetables.

[ deadpan. he pulls out pajamas. ]

... Or a very strange prison, maybe.

[camena]

Or like... Banana bed-time? What is this?

[ even though this image has unlocked Memories in me, to alex it means nothing. ]

week 1: tuesday

[camena]

[ hello she is Here ]

Wanna tell me a secret?

[metacognition]

[ help she's so cute

fei du props his chin in his hand. ]

What kind of secret? Something tragic, something scandalous? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.

[camena]

[ she. pauses, like it is just occurring to her that she will need to share a secret too. ]

Um. Scandalous sounds more fun. But my secret won't be very exciting, I think, so—whichever.

[metacognition]

That's alright - mine either. My life's not exactly that thrilling!

[ he thinks about it for a moment, thoughtful.... ]

Let's see... every time I've spilled wine on Luo Wenzhou's carpet, I've blamed it on the cat and successfully gotten away with it.

[camena]

[ pfft ]

What, like saying the cat knocked your glass off the table or something? Actually—how often is this happening?

[metacognition]

Two or three times, I think - and exactly that.

[ wehehe. there's a little Victory in that phrase that suggests perhaps he's in a battle of wits with the cat. ] Luo Yiguo tends to lash out at things as much as you'd expect a cat to. Wenzhou believes it without me having to explain any further.

[camena]

Well, I'm gonna tell him now.

[metacognition]

He would never believe you.

[ wehe ]

Your turn.

[camena]

Whenever I sleep over at my friend's house and he falls asleep first, I steal all his lighters.

[metacognition]

[ help he laughs immediately because that's his kind of gremlin behavior ]

Not Jonas'?

[camena]

Oh, uh, no.

Ren. I've known him since we were, like, tiny.

[metacognition]

[ a nod. ]

And you've never been caught? What does he usually say?

[camena]

He just thinks he's misplacing them. I have like a drawer full of lighters and I haven't been caught yet.