FAHYE, IT IS AT TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I WISH THE INTERNET OFFERED FULL NAMES, SO I COULD SHOUT THIS ONE AT YOU.
OH. MY. GOD.
OKAY FIRST MY TWO FAVORITE LINES BESIDES THE SHOCKING CAMEO OF EITHER MAI LINH OR NAHIA DOING HER BEST IMPRESSION OF MAI LINH AT THE END, I'M GUESSING THE FIRST, BUT ANYWAY:
"You don't understand." The boy clutches his bag -- leather, looks like it costs twice as much as Tee's entire outfit -- tighter to his chest and tries to look earnest; he hasn't the face for it. "We have recognised our pampered existence and chosen to move against it. We have renounced the Pipe. We wish to make a stand against the terrible polarisation of wealth and the social inequality that defines our country in such an unfortunate way!"
"Jesus fuck," says Tee, after a considerable pause.
~
"Almost half an hour late, this morning."
"Aye. And I ain't pointin' fingers, but I can't recall it bein' this bad -- y'know. Before."
There's a rare murmur of talk on the Tube, the need to grumble overriding the need to keep oneself to oneself. There may not be a single person who can say I-wish-to-be-free-but-I-am-not, but Tee could name twenty who would kind of like the transport infrastructure to be getting some priority discussion time now that the Citizen Rights Act, formerly the Human and Eyai Rights Act, formerly who the fuck even knows, has been revised for the hundredth time.
~
SO PERFECT.
AHHHH god Fahye I love this so much. I love what it does to the world, I love that it makes things make sense, I love the business continuity of Blacksheep Industries and the terrible, terrible things they're doing that are just business and are jokes, and I love the twins and I love Tee and I love Marie (which is not something I ever expected) and I want Tee and Pru to settle down and have thousands of brilliant coder babies. This is fucking awesome.
And of course SIMONE and MAI LINH and THE REVOLUTION and THE GALLOWS and FUCKING WILL and, yes. Teresa may be my favorite character in this, I'm not sure.
My favorite, favorite thing about it is the sense of fun. Because for Tee, with some very important exceptions, this is all of it just an awesome game. And it's so fucking cool to see it refigured that way.
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FAHYE, IT IS AT TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I WISH THE INTERNET OFFERED FULL NAMES, SO I COULD SHOUT THIS ONE AT YOU.
OH. MY. GOD.
OKAY FIRST MY TWO FAVORITE LINES BESIDES THE SHOCKING CAMEO OF EITHER MAI LINH OR NAHIA DOING HER BEST IMPRESSION OF MAI LINH AT THE END, I'M GUESSING THE FIRST, BUT ANYWAY:
"You don't understand." The boy clutches his bag -- leather, looks like it costs twice as much as Tee's entire outfit -- tighter to his chest and tries to look earnest; he hasn't the face for it. "We have recognised our pampered existence and chosen to move against it. We have renounced the Pipe. We wish to make a stand against the terrible polarisation of wealth and the social inequality that defines our country in such an unfortunate way!"
"Jesus fuck," says Tee, after a considerable pause.
~
"Almost half an hour late, this morning."
"Aye. And I ain't pointin' fingers, but I can't recall it bein' this bad -- y'know. Before."
There's a rare murmur of talk on the Tube, the need to grumble overriding the need to keep oneself to oneself. There may not be a single person who can say I-wish-to-be-free-but-I-am-not, but Tee could name twenty who would kind of like the transport infrastructure to be getting some priority discussion time now that the Citizen Rights Act, formerly the Human and Eyai Rights Act, formerly who the fuck even knows, has been revised for the hundredth time.
~
SO PERFECT.
AHHHH god Fahye I love this so much. I love what it does to the world, I love that it makes things make sense, I love the business continuity of Blacksheep Industries and the terrible, terrible things they're doing that are just business and are jokes, and I love the twins and I love Tee and I love Marie (which is not something I ever expected) and I want Tee and Pru to settle down and have thousands of brilliant coder babies. This is fucking awesome.
And of course SIMONE and MAI LINH and THE REVOLUTION and THE GALLOWS and FUCKING WILL and, yes. Teresa may be my favorite character in this, I'm not sure.
My favorite, favorite thing about it is the sense of fun. Because for Tee, with some very important exceptions, this is all of it just an awesome game. And it's so fucking cool to see it refigured that way.