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“Well, I think making you dizzy just by showing up earns me bonus points with the ghost council. Thanks.” He just sort of sits there staring again, or maybe he’s just zoning out. You don’t know. It’s not like you’re in any particular hurry, so you simply wait for him to recover. You also try not to laugh at him, and you actually succeed, so you end up with just an amused smirk when he does. “I’m not actually sure what brings me here. I don’t really know how the appearing suddenly in another place mechanism works. Just how to do it. Sometimes even successfully on the first try.” You shrug, ‘sitting’ down next to where Sollux had been. You’ve been able to smell the tea, but you hadn’t really thought about it. “Boiling water is an art form. Many have tried and failed to complete the task. It smells fine, but I’m going to go to the trouble of trying to drink it. Especially when I have no idea what will happen to it if I do. That’s all you need, to look like you pissed the floor and spray raspberry on it to cover it up.”

You stare at the teapot in your hands for a solid thirty seconds and put it down. “Right. No, it’s. It’s good that you can. Appearify in places. Remember when we went on that adventure thing and we needed me to blindly walk us in a random direction until we magically passed into a different dream bubble? And now you can do that. To some extent. I think. I’m not sure if it’s really the same thing. Did I mention you look nice today?”

You really weren’t expecting him to come that quickly. He pops in right next to you which scares the living hell out of you. You yelp and nearly throw your laptop into the air in shock, but save yourself and set it down gently on the floor.

“Hi, Karkat.”

You hadn’t quite meant to do that, but now that you have nearly given Sollux a heart attack, you’ll definitely claim it as a planned thing. Stepping the rest of the way into the room, you don’t even bother to try to hide the fact you’re laughing at him. “Hi yourself. Are you going to be okay, or do you need to lay down for a bit?” He did have quite a shock, after all.

"Uh, no, I'm okay," you stammer. "Dizzy, though." Karkat is cuter than you remembered him being, keeping in mind that you literally live down the hall from him, and you scold yourself internally for being such a thirsty fuck. Everyone's always cuter than you remember them lately and you constantly fantasize about romantic validation. God, you're awful. Your thoughts are drifting again and you startle yourself with the realization that you're sitting right next to him. You think you already have a personal reputation for being spaced out so it's probably not a HUGE deal but.... "So, yeah, hi. What brings you here. Wait. I already knew that. Uh. Do you like raspberry tea? I actually have some. Brewing, I mean. In this little. Teapot." You step over to the little plug-in electric camping stove you have sitting on a table and pick up the teapot. "Over here. Because I think boiling water with leaves in it is the first step to learning how to prepare food like a normal functional self sufficient person. And also it has caffeine in it but probably isn't slowly killing me like energy drinks are."

eheheh i can’t believe i’m actually hearing some0ne call her “that one bitch” if a drone caught y0u saying that shit about the c0ndescension y0u’d get fucking culled i promise

it’s kind 0f refreshing

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puh lease i been callin her shit since i was old enuff ta call nething shit fish hitler crockercreep batterbitch forkface her imeprios conchwhore o shit im not puttin like seditious materials on ur comp am i liek is that a thing u need 2 still worry abt i dont hafta worry abt fuckin drones nemore but i didnt even ask u either way i guess im glad ta bring a lil minty freshness 2 ur life thank u thank u ill be n the multivorse all week

uh no im drifting 0ut in the middle of parad0x space i don't think treas0n is really a problem f0r me anymore i can't say i'm n0t a fan of "imepri0s" i think it really captures her essence god i can't believe feferi is related t0 her like people tell me they can't believe i'm related t0 mituna and on the 0ne occasi0n i've met him that guy was fucking great he's ascended to a level 0f ironic meme i can't even grasp let al0ne compete with it's like reading an elder scr0ll the power 0f the knowledge destr0ys you i guess he read like the dank scr0ll but i digress kankri is like karkat if karkat thought the pr0blem was everyone else and n0t himself and didn't yell as much they really aren't as different as they think they are feferi is a wonderful pers0n HIC basically enslaved her entire race? what the fuck ok i guess that's ancestor and n0t dancestor but my p0int remains

yeah i mean tbh there wasnt a whole lotta hax i could rlly do after a certain point??? unless i wanted 2 fuck w one a my like three friends in which ur absolutely right hackins not worth makin ur friends hate u an my friends were likely 2 just tell me bout their furaffinity account neway no hacks or questions required so really most of my practice was against that one bitch an u kinda gotta keep outright rebellion on the dlow atleast sometimes right but yeah ill keep that in mind im def interested thanks 4 the tip

eheheh i can’t believe i’m actually hearing some0ne call her “that one bitch” if a drone caught y0u saying that shit about the c0ndescension y0u’d get fucking culled i promise

it’s kind 0f refreshing

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We just don’t know anymore. Maybe. CG: ALL RIGHT, SEE YOU IN A MINUTE THEN. CG: NO SENSE BEATING AROUND THE DESSERT CART WHEN I CAN GO STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE. ——– It’s actually far less than a minute, a few seconds, in fact before you’re sticking your head through the wall that joins Sollux’s and Mituna’s room. “Boo!”

You really weren’t expecting him to come that quickly. He pops in right next to you which scares the living hell out of you. You yelp and nearly throw your laptop into the air in shock, but save yourself and set it down gently on the floor.

“Hi, Karkat.”

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nose smooches accompanied by flailing

#ooc #reblog

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TG: dude that is some straight up xman shit TG: why are you so cool TG: you should like talk them into like building you a bee castle

TA: a bee castle is literally the worst idea i’ve ever heard TA: unf0rtunately i no l0nger keep bees rip in peace TA: that’s ok th0ugh as much as i liked it they’re really high maintenance and i’m not sure i’m really in a great place to have that much w0rk i need to c0nsistently do

yeah dude im not the mf who made a viable powersys outta bees but imma take the compliment neway tbh its been awhile since i coul talk 2 ne1 bout this kinda stuff 2 so it was nice mostly i just do hax n leave the hardware 2 the experts but im not totes clueless at least it wasnt super specific tho like it coulda been a certain species of bees and absolute nothin else but yeah it is kinda ridic i wonder how that kinda thing even happens

#this video is a fucking treasure

eheheh i used to d0 a lot 0f hacking i stopped trying t0 crack other pe0ple’s computers 0nce i figured out i wasn’t even d0ing it because i actually had a reason t0 i was just doing it because it gave me s0mething to d0 and i’d rather not make every0ne hate me because i found their furaffinity acc0unt you learn a l0t about hardware d0ing hardware hacks actually i highly recommend it if y0u ever want something t0 do

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CG: BUT ARE YOU COMPLETELY AND ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE I AM? CG: THIS IS AN AWFUL HARD DEFLECTION, SOLLUX. CG: WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT KIND OF DESSERTS WE MIGHT BE, AND I WAS CONSIDERING JUST POPPING IN ON YOU, BUT I HADN’T DECIDED THAT FOR SURE YET.

Is he???? Flirting with you???? In some weird Karkat way????????

You have absolutely NO idea what the fuck is going on with him right now.

Something seems off from his usual brand of fuckery, but you have no clue what it is.

TA: uh TA: yeah i mean you can c0me over if y0u want i don’t mind TA: that’s y0ur decision

i get what ur sayin its like like put n the basest terms fuckin possible a concentrated highlevel energy cloud that uve configged ur system to ground? an u just happen to have like brainpowers that let u keep said energy cloud from dissipatin in a flurry of buzzy anger honest my dokis r a lil fast rn its beaut an its fuckin bees fuckin amazing lemme just take a fuckin moment to fan myself neway i dont see what ur so salty abt bees are p cool so what if some nitram schmuck can commune w eerything u kno what we call that n science generalizin u kno what we call some who does 1 thing specializing bees or no bees u got the better end o the stick i think