92.1 - the kids are alright

[hard_talker]

[a day late and a dollar short, Mark fires up his record player and sends Leonard Cohen's low, rumbling voice drifting over the journals. by the end, he's singing along - and when he cuts the record short, he's improvising] Eeeev'rybody knoooows that it's ten o'clock, everybody knoooows that it's time to roll, everybody knows that it's the Happy

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[foolreversed]

Beauty pageants? You kidding me? That's the fast track way to help your little girl grow up into a gross gold digger or something!

[contemplates for a moment though]

...My daughter is the cutest though, I gotta admit.

[derpling]

[Chiming in! Guess who's running down the halls with the kid on her shoulders?]

And the toughest!

[hard_talker]

Oooooooooooof course she is. [you can hear the eyeroll] Thank god there's no school here, or we'd all have to listen to that parental pissing contest, too.

[foolreversed]

[JKFDHBKDHFJKFC had to nearly avoid being run over by Meiling over there. Returns to his journal:]

I don't know, man. She's actually pretty... weirdly strong at this age already.

Ugh, a school would be a horrible idea. There's no reason for these kids to start having to study their asses off yet. They should be able to have fun, you know? [although it would take all the children off everyone's hands for a while] ...It'd still be better than a beauty pageant though.

[hard_talker]

So what do you suggest, friggen Gymboree? ... I'm just glad this happened now, and not a couple months ago.

[foolreversed]

[he's about to suggest daycare BUT THEN HE REMEMBERS THAT DAYCARES ARE CO-ED FUCK THAT, KEEPING LITTLE MISS MAYOKO AWAY FROM THE Y CHROMOSOMES FOR A FEW MORE YEARS

...his curiosity is pretty piqued though]

Wait, what happened a few months ago...?

[hard_talker]

There was this monster... thing ... kidnapping all the little kids and dragging them down underground. They called it Slenderman.

[foolreversed]

[WHOA WHAT that's... the first bad thing happening in this castle that he's heard of so far.]

Wait, really!? Something like that was here?!

[hard_talker]

Yeah, I ... well, did you sleep through it, or when did you get here? I know a bunch'a people actually went all Sleeping Beauty on us.