“I don’t believe you. I hate The Sims. Why would anyone play a game about living life? it’s stupid.” Nat glared when Fern put her arms around her. “Uh. Many times.” She started to re-think the moments, while lifting her fingers up for the possible incidents to count. “Do you really need me to tell how how many times?”
“babe, who shit in your cereal this morning?” she mused, unfazed by the glaring coming from her. “don’t you want to play God, nat? that’s what the sims is. plus it’s fun to put them into a room with no doors or windows and watch them die.” at the counting, fern covered her face. “alright, no, we get it, yeesh.”
“i definitely know, and we can’t have that.” sami said, with a matching grin. “i don’t skate, but i do dance, which i hear can be quite similar.” she said, with a small shrug. “if you ever want a dancing partner, and an activity that means less falling on your face, and damaging the.. erm. the-” she searched for the word for a second, her mind blanking. “the goods.” sami finally found it, clicking her fingers, and letting out a laugh.
“i mean, i dunno, dancing is almost hotter,” she said, not intending for it to come off as flirting. “unless you’re talking about roller dancing, then oof, all bets are off.” fern raised an eyebrow, and grinned. “you askin’ me to dance?”
mahi did want to get into the semantics of naked men, but his mouth was just stupid. “just sounded like a unsolicited dick pic on wheels. but how would i know? i’m just stuck in the architecture lab all the damn time. now that it’s summer, stuck in the intern office spray-painting small plastic trees.” he huffed, tired from his day’s work.
“oh, shit, you right,” she replied, sticking her hands into her pockets and giving a haphazard shrug. fern smirked, rolling her eyes. “must be fun inhaling all those fumes, you know. you ever think about ditching?”
“seriously?” a grin spread across the lawyer’s features, unable to not overhear. “I swear, the city never ceases to amaze me… maybe he thought he was going fast enough that no one would know? or that the topless law could qualify for full nudity if he made the first move?”
“oooh, kinda like a self censor? like he’s blurring himself out by using the laws of physics,” she paused, and furrowed her brow. “can you imagine a car chase involving this man?”
bubbled laughter , lids crinkled to a shut in humour , following words to emit the other … it was a sight that jieho was thankful to not even have the capabilities to imagine . “ comments like that make me wonder if having sight is all that great. ” they joked , digits making a home in hair , tangling with the strands.
“it all depends on how you feel about it, ya know? i mean, i was fine with it, but doesn’t mean the world is. plus, pretty sure that’s illegal.”
“Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like that, but now I kind of wish I had.” People are weird, Hunny knows that much, but generally speaking that’s something he finds interesting and amusing most of the time. Life is so boring without naked fellas on roller skates. “Which reminds me — I’ve always wanted to go to one of those roller skating places. You know, like where it’s all dark and they play funky disco music and you just glide around like the outside world doesn’t exist. Too bad I don’t know how to skate.”
“i can see why people don’t want to see it, though,” she replied with a shrug. “you’ve never been to a roller rink? well, now, we have to go. it’s easy! plus, you just cling onto the walls so you don’t fall right on your face.”
“what? there’s no way!” rosemarie couldn’t help but feel as though her city was getting weirder and wilder by the day. “full naked? no underwear? socks? nothing?”
“it was all hanging out, and i was proud of him, to be honest.”
“i swear there is never a dull moment in austin,” parker laughed. “no one pulled out their phone to record or anything? i gotta say that’s pretty surprising in this day and age.”
“well, i mean i am sure someone did, but i wasn’t really focused on other people while i was in the presence of a legend.”
Nat furrowed her eyebrows together, eyes unblinking. “That… doesn’t sound real real. Are you sure it’s not just The Sims? That sounds more like The Sims to me,” she mused. “You’re not just trying to mess with my mind, aren’t you?”
“nat, nat-a-tat, come on, i might be weird but i’m not a liar, and i saw with my own eyes that naked skater. the sims are fun but not that fun,” she said, slinging an arm around her friend. “when would i ever mess with your mind?”
“austin is so weird that i would believe it,” mahi replied. he took a bite out of his burrito. it didn’t seem so savoury with that image. “there’s so much courage around here and i haven’t absorbed any of it. i couldn’t even rollerblade in public, god forbid while naked. are you traumatised?”
fern laughed, it was a little loud, drawing attention to the pair from others sitting around them. she leaned on her sketchbook. “the weirder the better,” she replied to mahi, before quirking an eyebrow. “you’re acting like i’ve never seen a naked guy before, i mean... really, dude.”
sami let out another burst of a laugh then, shaking her head in amusement. “i completely agree.” she couldn’t even fathom such a thing happening back in algeria. that’s why she liked it here so much. “well, i guess we have to get you some skates then, no?”
fern’s lips stretched into a grin at the other, nodding almost too enthusiastically. “hells to the yeah, though i think i’d fall on my face and i can’t damage the goods, ya know.”
“ recycling is still throwing it out, isn’t it? either way, i can no longer read it. ” he paused in a moment of reflection. “ i guess if dorian gray is helping trees grow into more books now, i can’t be too upset. ”
“hold up, i wasn’t even the one who threw it out, don’t shoot the messenger,” she said, scrunching her nose at him. “dorian gray, dude, really?”
sami opened her mouth, then closed it again, only to open it once more. her face was quizzical, and she let out a laugh, almost immediately putting a hand up to cover her mouth. “so long as he’s happy, right? although i’m kinda impressed nobody else seemed to have the same reaction as you.” she shook her head, amused. “really does feel like we live in an alternate universe sometimes.”
“shit, i’m all for it, i cheered him on,” she replied, with a snort. “i mean our universe is somebody else’s alternate universe, you know? one man’s trash, or whatever. dunno. i’d do it, i just don’t own a pair of roller skates.”
“y’all, you ever just witness the craziest shit that seems almost unbelievable?” fern mused aloud. “i mean i just saw a naked dude on roller skates going down the street and i’m not even tripping. nobody even batted an eyelash. what the fuck?”
“ why would you do that? ” jinwoo huffed dramatically. “ why would you throw out my book? ”
fern snorted, and rolled her eyes. “shit, dude, relax, your book is fine. o ye of little faith, you really think i would waste all that paper? trust me to at least recycle it.”
⸢ KIERSEY CLEMONS, 24, DEMIGIRL, SHE/THEY ⸥ — well, that looks like ( FERN MAHLER ), that ( COMIC BOOK ARTIST ) living over in ( SOUTH CONGRESS ). they’ve called austin home for ( 3 YEARS ) now, and i hear you can usually find them at ( JO’S COFFEE ). people say they’re ( LIVELY ) and ( IMAGINATIVE ), but that they also can be a bit ( IMPETUOUS ) and ( VOLATILE ). they remind me of ( THE BONG ON THE COFFEE TABLE, MISMATCHED SOCKS, GRAPHITE SMUDGED HANDS ). — ⸢ MEG, SHE/HER, 20, EST⸥
hello hello hello i am meg, i love dogs, kdramas n watching dumb webseries and this is my meme queen, fern mahler
here’s some things important to know about fern:
fern mahler, born and raised in a small town in oklahoma, came to texas for college, graduating with a degree in illustration
she moved to austin after graduating to look for work (which they found originally in a comics store before becoming a comic book artist herself)
she seems to have infinite amounts of energy and is often trying to pull some stupid stunt that she never thinks through
she’s also indecisive as hell, she says one thing and then means another, it’s,, exhausting
her mom passed away when she was young so she lived with her dad, who sort of cultivated her eccentricities as he is just as weird as her
close to her dad, especially since her mom died while she was young, they still talk regularly and he’s been down to visit a few times
fern lives with darcy , they met at a party when fern originally got here and was couch surfing, they’re very good friends
fern is a total stoner, and has a joint bong (pun unintended) with darcy, named pippi bongstockings (pun very much intended)
here’s some more stats
if you wanna plot or anything w fern feel free to like this or hmu!!!!
