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[hello, Room, here's a Harvestman lounging around, half- falling off the couch he's chosen to drape himself across.]

Oh, god, I'm so bored. Y'all better step to it and entertain me and wait on me hand and foot. That's why y'all exist, right?

[wait no, now he's actually falling. After a moment of flailing, he manages to stay on the couch.]

Seriously, why is acting like a responsible adult so fucking boring?

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The key word is 'responsible.'

And that's what fucking sucks 'bout it. Being responsible is boring as shit.

So don't be. Or like, pretend to be responsible but secretly be irresponsible?

See, I've tried that and it always backfires on me. Funny how that works.

Then I guess you better suck it up and be responsible. It's the sort of duty that comes with age anyway, right?

I'm not old.

I think we had this argument once already.

Did we? I have that argument a lot. 'Blah blah, get off my lawn,' all that?

Something like that. I think you threatened to knife me with a sharpie.

[he laughs.]

Shit, really? I'm sorry. I don't actually mean most of the shit I say.

Whatever, it was an interesting way to wake up. But I gotta say, if you keep having the old argument, maaaybe the world's trying to tell you something. [ child do you not know when to stop. ]

Oh, wait, I remember. You were the kid who fell aslee - Do I look old to you?

Nope. But you know, if you keep denying it people are gonna keep provoking you just because they know you'll react.

Goddamn Catch 22.

Kind of like life, really, but that's sort of depressing.

Anyway. You sure there aren't any responsible ways to entertain yourself?

Can't drink, can't smoke, can't do drugs, can't watch tv 'cause it gives me headaches, boyfriend's outta town, life sucks.

Comic books?

Not old don't mean twelve.

Shut up, they're not just for twelve-year-olds. There're these Japanese ones called manga, too, for all kinds of demographics. [ Breaking out the big words, yep. ]

After my best friend filled my phone up with that horrible anime porn shit, I ain't so inclined to look at it.

Phones can do that? [ that's genuine curiosity, before oh right comics. ] It's not all horrible porn.

You'll never convince me otherwise.

[ scowl. He wishes up the first volume of Bleach and brandishes it. ]

Here. Read it. My friend said it's good, and he would know about this sort of thing. [ Which is to say he hasn't read it himself and he's desperately hoping there isn't some horrible porn hidden inside or anything. ]

[holy jesus where did he get that? Harvestman will just glare at it suspiciously.]

I don't speak Japanese. It in English?

Should be, the Room oughta know my Japanese isn't that good-- [ give him a second to flip through a few pages. ]

Yeah, it's in English, and I don't even see any porn. Here, just read it, quit stalling.

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