for your own protection over their affection

[campjesus]

[ there's a blanket fort taking up one corner of the room - one out of many corners, since it's not unusual for it to have more than four, somehow. various bits of furniture have been pushed around it to drape blankets off of and it's very dark except a dim light barely shining through the draped sheets.

a tiny vampire is inside, rearranging piles of bones with his fingers and teeth. after a minute, a tiny hand reaches out and hangs some of them from a hook. they're bent into unnatural shapes, spelling out 'TOP SECRET !! KEEP OUT !!!'

... at least they look too small to be human. probably raccoon or something. ]

Comments

[likethedead]

Are those, like, real?

[campjesus]

[ muffled by blanket fort: ] Maaaybbeeee...

...

... no?

[likethedead]

They're so... cool.

[he's just. like this. normally.]

[campjesus]

[ Brody peers out from his fort. pretty much just a nose and one red-and-black eye. ] Then they're real.

[likethedead]

[he is just as chill with this; he hangs out in weird places.]

Sweet. You work with bones a lot?

[campjesus]

Yeah... mostly mice, though. They're easy to find.

[likethedead]

You, like, sell it or display it? Uh - not to be nosy, got this friend upstate who does work with leaves and sticks and, uh, anyway, I'm not good at art and shit. I just think it's cool.

[campjesus]

No... [ mostly because they're uh, not always animal bones ... okay Brody doesn't do that much anymore but like, sometimes!! whatever!! ] People buy that stuff?

[likethedead]

Yeah, like - You seen Etsy? People buy anything off of Etsy. You don't even have to go out and, like, talk to people, the internet is great.

[campjesus]

Yeah... I know, I've been kind of hermity. I think Etsy might be too twee for me. Also um, don't have a bank account and stuff.

[likethedead]

Oh, that sucks. It should be easier to do stuff without needing things like that, but... then it wouldn't work in the first place, I guess.

[campjesus]

Yeah... And they'd probably kick me out of the craft fair.

[likethedead]

Its full of stick-up old biddies anyway.

[campjesus]

And they smell like patchouli. Too many dream catchers per capita, also.

[likethedead]

Oh yeah, they love that shit, that whole 'exotic' fetish thing. I got this tattoo on my neck, see -

[He cranks his neck around, exposing the word Leap on the left side]

And the second people like that hear my last name, 'cause it's Asian, they ask what language it's in. It's clearly in fucking English, right?

[campjesus]

That's when you make up something that'll make them look like an asshole when they repeat it.

[likethedead]

I should just cut out the middleman and get 'fuck you' on the other side. Won't make much sense, but it'll make me feel better.

[campjesus]

Plus the side effect of making you completely unemployable?

[likethedead]

That was my dad's objection, yeah.

[campjesus]

That's the kind of tattoo you get if you work at a tattoo studio.

[likethedead]

That's on the bottom of the list of 'things to do other than waste my life.' It's a long one.

[campjesus]

What's on the top?

[likethedead]

'You're smart enough to go to college, why are you working at a corner store and hanging out with creepy people.' There's a lot of editorializing on it, I'm apparently not allowed to make my own comments.

[campjesus]

College is overrated. I mean look at me, I never went and here I am, a delinquent with no job prospects. Uh. Or something.

[likethedead]

Oh, good, we can start a club! There's no health benefits and people yell at you for shit that's not you're fault, so, you know, it's an awesome club.

[campjesus]

Nobody yells much at me anymore.

[likethedead]

That's a good thing... right?

[fuckvampires]

I'm sensing a contradiction here.

[campjesus]

[ Brody peeks out from a slit in his blankets

lineface

his head disappears

a few minutes later he hangs up another one: ]

HARVESTMAN IS OK

[fuckvampires]

Thank you.

[campjesus]

[ he's not coming out of this fort though.

it's dark. like a cave. ]

[fuckvampires]

[That's okay, he'll just chill outside. There's probably not enough room for both of them anyway.]</small I like these better than the, uh, moving things.

[campjesus]

Those are too hard to make. [ :C ]

[fuckvampires]

And creepy? I know goth is your thing, but really.

[campjesus]

I think they're cute... [ :CCCC y u do this Harvestman ]

[fuckvampires]

[Why that face, Brody. Why is it always that face.]

...I ain't got no taste anyhow. Nice to see you out.