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Mazhar “Mads” Aydemir Morey - Turkish-British - Magick - Middle East Studies Ph.D - 1988 - Virgo if that matters

[mads-morey]

Penciled In || Madsette

[mads-morey]

@perfectisgeorgette

Mads and Georgette had been trying to meet up for a while, but neither of them exactly had an empty schedule. As it happened though, they both finally seemed to have a free morning to meet for coffee or tea at Hatter's.

It was a welcome addition to his weekend plans, which were mostly grading and exam prep.

"I'm glad our scheduled lined up this morning," he said, sitting across from her with his tea. "Otherwise I'd just be grading all day."

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[mads-morey]

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[wilde-fun]

Avery looked away as Uncle Mads spoke hugging the turtle closer. "But people did do that. I got lost. I couldn't find them anywhere. So they took me to a house but I couldn't stay so Dad asked if I wanted to stay with him instead and I said okay. Adar said they're still looking for my other parents, but I don't think they're going to find them."

The words were all said in a quiet voice down towards the ground as a breeze danced around Avery's feet.

"It's not nice to be lonely all by yourself. Or lost."

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[mads-morey]

You know, maybe it was a good thing his one opportunity to be a father went disastrously wrong, because he did not have the patience for this, actually.

Put! The wild! Animal! Down!

"It's a good thing the turtle is a wild animal and is meant to live in nature. He'll be fine. So put him down. If you want pet turtles for your pond I'm sure your dads can buy some."

[mads-morey]

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[sylvia-marpole]

"Don't worry I would just hobble myself there so you won't have to inconvinence yourself." Sylvia stuck out her tongue at Mads before grinning. She wondered if one day she could make herself float and if she could float, could she fly?

"What's up by the way? Did you need something from the library?"

[mads-morey]

@sylvia-marpole

"No, I'm actually hiding. I don't want to talk to any of the other lecturers in my department right now because my brain can't handle our usualy conversation topics right now, so I can't sit in my office and grade assignments." Mads said. "But they won't look in the library to chat."

[mads-morey]

Do Not Put Me In A Situation || OPEN

[april-von-drake]

"Oooooh, free drinks from a stranger?" April slurred, even though, she did, vaguely recognize him.

Though, in her hazy state she couldn't remember where or when. Maybe he was her professor. Maybe they'd fucked...maybe both?

"Don't mind if I do."

She took the drink and started guzzling it down until it was nearly empty. "Thanks! Feel much better." She did not, in fact, feel better.

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[mads-morey]

@april-von-drake

Oh, fuck him. He wasn't getting out of this so easily, was he? What kind of person would he be if he just let some drunk girl wander around?

"Where are you going? I'll walk you there."

[mads-morey]

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[frank-mohanty]

Frank sighed. It wasn't the first time a student had dumped a book anywhere but the returns bin. He very much doubted it would be the last. It was the first time he'd seen someone do it so blatantly, though. Just leaving them in a neat little pile on a random desk.

"It's fine." He said with a weary shrug. "Keeps me from sitting at a desk all day, I guess."

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[mads-morey]

@frank-mohanty

"Small wins I guess," Mads said, looking at the stack. "I don't remember being that careless as a student. Then again, I also actually did all of my assignments and didn't let AI write for me. I practically lived in the library."

[mads-morey]

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[sylvia-marpole]

Sylvia laughed carefully climbing down and although she stumbled a bit when her foot touched the ground the only thing that went tumbling was the chairs.

"Okay all safe and sound. And mission accomplished." Sylvia grinned showing the book she had managed to grab. Some desperate student would be thrilled.

[mads-morey]

"Thank goodness, I'm kind of busy today, I didn't feel like piggybacking you to the ER today." Mads teased her.

But call him booboo the fool for doubting her, he supposed!

"Glad your feet are flat on the floor now."

[mads-morey]

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[wilde-fun]

Instantly, Avery changed tack now that Uncle Mads was looking at him that way. With big eyes, he carefully held the turtle close to him protectively.

"But he was lonely at the lake all by himself! He got lost and I told him he could stay in my pond instead where I could visit him all the time and he said yes and he's very tired so we should probably take him home."

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[mads-morey]

@wilde-fun

"...right. But have you considered he's got a turtle family that might be looking for him at the lake?" Mads said. "Imagine if someone just took you home with them if you lost your dads, you wouldn't like that, would you?"

God, what the hell. Kids, huh?

[mads-morey]

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[april-von-drake]

April had just finished vomiting in the bushes. (It was the middle of the afternoon.) Vodka and ballet finals did not mix. She'd managed to get through her routine without breaking an ankle, but her penance was the spins. Which culminated in:

Chundering into the bushes.

And getting spotted by a professor.

"Then go head and keep walking, handsome," April said as she unscrewed the top to her water bottle (that was full of vodka) and took a swig.

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[mads-morey]

@april-von-drake

Mads blinked, utterly grossed out.

"Ew, I'm like 40, stop that." He muttered, turning to walk away...but he stopped, sighed, and walked back toward her.

He uncapped the bottle of water he'd just grabbed from a vending machine and handed it to her.

"Here."

[ugly-drizella]

Going Off-Script || Dads

[ugly-drizella]

Drizella used the music to think about how she’d answer Mads’ question. 

Why had she wanted to learn French? It was a university requirement. Well, a language was. But why French? Was it just because it seemed impressive? Because it was the sort of thing her mother would’ve approved of? 

Then, it clicked —

“What you asked earlier,” she said, voice low, as the band took a quick break to do some sound checks. “I do like French movies. I’ve always wanted to go to Cannes. I think they’ve got some of the best cinema out there. Maybe I should start watching movies without the subtitles.” She let out a laugh. “Might be too hard at first. Unless it’s one I’ve seen before.

Now French people, I could give or take. I don’t think it’s too controversial to say that.” She snorted, then grew quiet as the band started up their next song. 

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[mads-morey]

@ugly-drizella

Mads listened, genuinely interested in her answer.

To him, wanting to watch French movies was a perfectly good reason to be invested in French.

"Not at all, especially people from Paris. I think French-speakers from Belgium and Switzerland are much more pleasant to talk to." Mads said, before focusing on the main point. "I think that's a great reason to want to learn a language. You could also watch them with the French subtitles so you can read along if you miss a word in French, that's what I do until I feel ready to watch a movie in a language with zero help."

A beat.

"There's also a plug-in you can get on your laptop with bilingual subtitles, real language nerd shit. But I find that most useful when I'm SO brand new to a language."

He stopped before he bored her with my unsolicited study tips.

"But I think that makes sense for you, wanting to watch French movies."

[mads-morey]

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[wilde-fun]

As soon as Mads spoke, Avery froze as if that would make the turtle in his hands less conspicuous. Maybe if he stood really still...

Of course, that was when it yawned and let out a loud snap. "It's fine! Everything is fine. No sit-situ-situations," Avery sounded out slowly, smiling as reassuringly as possible.

[mads-morey]

"Right. Avery, do we pick up snapping turtles? I'm just curious, because I forget the rules." Mads said.

Poor turtle.

He was probably just trying to live his life before Avery came along.

[mads-morey]

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[sylvia-marpole]

"Workers Comp you know? If I fall you can replace the chairs with a ladder that I'm sure you can find and everything will be solved. Easy Peasy." Sylvia retorted back successfully grabbing the book.

"Okay look away in case it all tumbles now."

[mads-morey]

"Oh yes, because finding a ladder is my job," Mads deadpanned, before turning around for plausible deniability.

"Tell me when I can turn around."

[homophobla]

KILL ALL HOUSE FLIPPERS!

[mads-morey]

Do Not Put Me In A Situation || OPEN

[sylvia-marpole]

Look- Sylvia couldn’t find a ladder and she couldn’t see the shelf and if couldn’t see the book names and which name she needed she couldn’t use telekinesis to bring down the book.

So two chairs perch precariously on top of each other with a little bit of her magic to keep them steady and her tiptoeing just to see the book and grab it, wasn’t a bad thing. She was being quite safe honestly.

“Honestly a good idea. I’ve just passed my first year here and while I’ve been done my probation I have no idea if there’s a rule they can still fire me for reckless behaviour.”

[mads-morey]

"I can't be party to you falling and breaking your back, so it's best to look the other way," Mads deadpanned. "Which I am. So go on, grab the book now."

There was the hint of a smile though, evident in his voice.

[ugly-drizella]

Going Off-Script || Dads

[ugly-drizella]

“Oh that’s smart,” said Drizella. “‘Cuz you can get the song stuck in your head and then you just naturally learn the words. Maybe I should do that. I’ve been trying to Duolingo French for as long as I can remember but it’s boring. I mean I took three years of it in uni, so I know more than the fundamentals. But it’s hard to keep up with when you don’t really have an incentive, y’know?”

She shrugged. The band got up on stage, introducing themselves, and then began to play. They were quite good. Drizella found herself nodding along. She snuck a glance at Mads to see if he was vibing with it as much as she was. 

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[mads-morey]

@ugly-drizella

"Do you actually care about French culture and French people?" Mads asked, as a genuine question. "Because I find I can only be arsed to put the time, effort, money, and tears into learning a language if I also love the culture, food, music, and people. Like, I never formally studied Farsi but I learned it because I had an Iranian friend when I lived in Turkey who was like 'you should learn Farsi so I have someone to speak it with' and I said 'sure, I could probably do that.'"

To really make his point, he added, "Failed miserably at trying to learn German. The language itself wasn't the most difficult. I just don't have any German-speaking friends to make me care so I couldn't stay motivated. But that's okay, I once got around the working-class areas of Berlin by speaking Turkish. So I get that, needing a reason to keep motivated."

When the band started to play, Mads had to admit, they were good. As a guitar-player himself and former guitarist in a band, he was particularly tuned in to the guitar.

"She's good," he said, nodding in the woman playing guitar's direction.

[mads-morey]

Do Not Put Me In A Situation || OPEN

[mads-morey]

"...I'm going to pretend I didn't see anything. This feels dangerously like a situation I'd feel obligated to sort out otherwise."

And Mads did not have time for situations today.

[mads-morey]

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mazhar.morey: Actual pictures of me explaining to my Turkish cousins, in detail, the different semantic and pragmatic functions of "innit" in British English -- there's at least four distinct uses

[moon-yeongjun]

Join the Cause! || OPEN

[moon-yeongjun]

"Hello! If I can steal your attention for a moment-- I'm collecting signatures to cancel prom!"

[mads-morey]

@moon-yeongjun

Mads blinked.

Cancel prom? Interesting.

"That wasn't on my Jun Moon petition bingo card, but I'm intrigued. Why?"