video | un: NAILS

[nichocolatine]

[ the video begins with badou wearing one of his usual tees, carefully setting his phone down so the camera angle can spot him sitting on his living room floor surrounded by an array of dresses. affixed to his wrist is a little cloth pumpkin, stuck full of needles and pins. he's without his usual cigarette, instead sucking on a lollipop that stains his lips bright red. last time he made a post on the network his neck was bruised and bandaged — this time it's the same thing, but the bruise is angrier, spreading across his neck and shoulder, disappearing under a bandage and gauze that looks about ready to get changed in an hour or two. ]

Evenin'.

[ he picks up the skirt of one of the dresses, flipping it inside-out to access the pocket he'd been working on attaching. ]

So I'm sittin' here, mendin' dresses — as you do — and I nicked myself pretty good and I'm thinkin', well, shit, that's another one I gotta wait on, y'know?

[ he lifts a forefinger, displaying a bandage that looks an awful like like dora the explorer, and wiggles it in the direction of the camera. ]

It got me thinkin'—

How many of us here are just regular ol' humans? Or whatever. I'm talkin' no magic, no special augmentations, no fancy shamcy abilities that got you doin' better than the average guy.

[ he pauses to finish off a stitch, making a knot with his thread and cutting the excess with his teeth. ]

See, where I'm from, that ain't the norm. But that doesn't seem to be the case around here.

[ oh, one more thing— ]

And if you are one of the special ones, go ahead and tell us what you can do. Why not, right? What else do any of us got to hide at this point?

Comments

text; un: dynamight

[apshot]

Only about 20% of humanity don't have a "special ability."

So "normal" is relative.

[nichocolatine]

sucks to be us then huh

[apshot]

Who said there was anything wrong with it?

[nichocolatine]

nothing wrong with it
just your regular brand of disadvantage

[apshot]

I don't even think of it as a disadvantage

[ Not anymore anyway... ]

[nichocolatine]

no? how dyou figure that?

[apshot]

People with abilities can get arrogant. Take em for granted. Rely on them too much.

Think about all of the people here having to adjust for the first time because they don't have what they're used to/

[nichocolatine]

hah, fair enough
you got me there
guess it aint always so bad starting from zero

[apshot]

Is it really staring with zero if you have an advantage?

[nichocolatine]

feels like zero most of the time

the fuck happened to this week

[apshot]

Ain't that the truth for any of us?

me every month

[nichocolatine]

now youre just trying to out-cynical me

i feel like this often... like where did half of the month even go?

[apshot]

Is it cynical? I thought it was being practical.