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[jomi]

3 things.

1. who ever told my kid something about vampires, great, thank you, well done, you can come over tonite and get her to sleep

2. do people not dance in the matrixes or are we unplugging a lot of wall flowers? do you need lessons? im not trying to be an asshole im really asking. ill really give you lessons

3. i dont do much freelancing but if your looking to have something fixed and you have 12 kids or its laundry day you can come to me, since im not an asshole

Comments

[echopraxia]

I know dancing. I do not know this dancing. I need lesson.

[jomi]

what dancing do you know? the kind where you only touch hands?

[echopraxia]

Yes, more like. I dance at court, at party. It is not like you see here.

[jomi]

ive never seen any other kind of party, you should show me what the dancing is like

[echopraxia]

It is difficult with only one person. But.

( in the attached video, anya has pushed all her things to the wall to clear herself a large space to work with and pinned her hair up off her neck, her feet bare and her long skirts belted more or less at her waist.

there is no one else in the room, but she moves through the steps of what had been a fashionable court dance as if they are, responding to gestures she remembers that no one else is seeing, holding her hands up to someone else's who isn't there. it's easy to imagine a group, and her in it, from the lightfooted way she moves through where they ought to be dancing with her and the curtsey she sinks into at the end. )

[jomi]

hey that was pretty cool. kind of weird like you were dancing with ghosts or something but with other people i ca nsee how it would be pretty instead of creepy

[echopraxia]

( dancing with ghosts. yes. )

And the music, and the lights, and the court dress.

But it is not very useful here.

[jomi]

not everything has to be useful

how about you teach me some of that, like a trade? so the angry guy doesn't get angrier.

[echopraxia]

If you like. I have teach it before.

[jomi]

here?

[echopraxia]

Not here. It is frowned on, yes? To be lingering.

[jomi]

too much of it maybe but you dont have to work all the time
were not machines

[echopraxia]

I think I am not clear

It is frowned on being too - attached? It is not real. I understand this.

[jomi]

some of it used to be real though right? they took our real history from us. lately its gone weird but were not talking about vampires or whatever, 1780 was a real year and russia was a real place, maybe people really danced that way.

as long as your not being snotty about dancing our way

[echopraxia]

It is not "me", "all of you". It is I am awake now, it is our dancing. So I learn it.

[jomi]

i didnt mean it that way

[ ... Yes he did, sorry, but he didn't mean to mean it that way, for what that's worth. ]

itll be your way after our elsson

[echopraxia]

Of course.

( she's pretty sure he did, actually, but she'll take the denial in the spirit it's presumably meant, and not object. )

I look forward. When suits you? I am good with child, if that is helpful.

[jomi]

anytime in the mornings is good if you can do that, uusally i work late.
i bet thias would love to come. she might try to help teach you.

[echopraxia]

I would be glad.