hemlocksock ([personal profile] hemlocksock) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-05-23 04:34 pm

I don't want to be in love, I don't want to be in love



EVER BEEN IN LOVE?

Be for real. Be so for real right now. We won't judge.

how to play
I. Answer the question IC-ly in your top level.
II. Has your character ever been in love before? Yes, no, maybe so? Give us all the details.
III. Repliers will shake their heads in simultaneous pity and judgment discuss one of life's fundamental experiences with the original responder!
bugness: bill cipher made these for me!! JEALOUS? (pic#)

[personal profile] bugness 2025-05-25 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw that!! It's in the second room. The guest room? Lemme go find it.

[ Catbug jumps into a little purple portal, swirling with black. There's a flash and he returns through another purple portal. He's holding a bowling bag. ]

Oops, that's not it!
tetrahedonist: (I burned whole cities to the ground)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-26 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, that was a neat trick! It's closer related to bowling, anyway, I see where you're going with it.

[ Bill thinks about it. Catbug's so eager to assist, it's hard not to want to find a way he can. ] I bet it'd glow a different colour under a blacklight!
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-05-26 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Catbug opens the bowling bag, it's pink with a white stripe. He sticks his head inside, apparently it's got HAMMERSPACE or whatever Mary Poppins called it. He produces a flashlight/stun gun/blacklight combo and a clown mallet. The mallet is way bigger than Catbug, he mostly just picked it up because it caught his eye. And for the visual gag.]

I think I'll need batteries...

[ Sure, Bill is somewhat GODLIKE but batteries are hard to come by! The mallet doesn't need batteries, it's just there to be Chekov's gun?]
tetrahedonist: (I wage my wars these days)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-26 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Lemme see! [ Bill floats forward, peering down into the bag after Catbug removes his head, then chuckles, pulling a little penny from somewhere and dropping it in. Listening patiently for the splash, endlessly satisfied when he gets one. ] Nice one, Toebeans.

Alright, alright, let's get serious about Mission Formal Neckwear, shall we? If you've got weaponry, we're set to party. There might be a crystal lifeform in there, [ A backward thumbjab toward the main 'storage area' of this dimension, where there are sure to be batteries, lightbulbs, the napkin of turin, and an entire pristine collection of Slammer Jammer 90s pogs, mint in pack. ] Exponentially multiplying itself all over my stuff. So if you gotta, you should hit it with the mallet.
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-05-26 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ See, Bill is so smart. That's why he's in charge.

One day, Catbug will be in charge, though. One day. Until then, he goes to actually charge in the direction of that thumbjab, mallet held above his head. Or not, since his arms aren't very long. Don't think about it too much.]


DON'T YOU TOUCH MY POGS CRYSTAL LIFEFORMS!
tetrahedonist: (It's like they dropped you from the sky)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-30 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Go get em, killer!

...Huh. [ This kid's worth an entire cadre of henchmaniacs. ...Says more about the henchmaniacs, actually. But still. ] Guess I better back him up, huh. [ Bill draws back the 'sleeve' of his arm, revealing just bone and no muscle underneath it, cartoony as hell, and then floats on after Catbug mildly. ] You're doing great!

[ The crystal lifeforms initially circle the wagons around the batteries and pogs, but after a few persuasive thwacks, ebb backwards to cover a bookcase that serves as a wall in the nebulous herespace, flickering all sorts of colors in disco irritation. ] That's fine, I don't do a whole lot of reading in here.
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-05-31 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Catbug holds his mallet aloft once the crystal doo-dads submit. He lets out a cackle, but it's kind of cute, actually. ]

That's not some sort of... lit...litter... literary device, is it?
tetrahedonist: (we don't deserve to be so pretty)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-31 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Couldn't have done it better myself. [ Bill picks up a box, opening it up and peering inside. The bottom has several batteries, including that old jar thing from Baghdad that conspiracy theorists on the internet say is also a battery. Bill picks that up, looks at it, and then chucks it to one side with a fun bottle crashing noise. ]

I hope not. Can't stand sledgehammer narrative where it's obvious what the writer wants, when what he needs is to decant his big feelings somewhere private.

[ Bill hands down a fistful of batteries. ] Here, can you see if any of these fit?
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-05-31 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
OKAY! [ Catbug mirrors Bill's 'throw stuff aside when I'm done with it/time and space is my kitchen wench!' He then holds the flashlight with the lens in front of his face, and clicks. It goes from BRIGHT LIGHT, to RGB ROTATION, to BLACK LIGHT. it takes him a few tries, and he screams bloody-freakin-murder each time. Unbothered by it now, Catbug holds his flashlight up. ]

I feel like Fox Mulder!
tetrahedonist: (I wage my wars these days)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-02 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Here's a paradox: is the place still considered total chaos if there's an order that Bill and Catbug can interpret to find things?

That hollering from the light switching makes Bill crack up helplessly for several seconds, it's great. Five stars. ]


Great! I feel like... [ Bill thinks back. ] Cigarette Smoking Man? Did that guy not have a name? Wow. That show got weird.

Alright, Special Agent Mulder, let's see if we can find this tie-needle in the carpet haystack. The last thing we want to do is resort to having to clean up.
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-06-02 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
His throat was deep, [ Catbug muttered, on the subject of X-Files. ]

Oh no, I don't do cleaning anymore.
tetrahedonist: (where did the plan go wrong)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-03 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, exactly! They should remake that show, but as a mockumentary, more like the Blair Witch or War of the Worlds, you know? Or an ARG! You like ARGs? I love those.

Not since the Incident?
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-06-03 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
I like to say ARG!

Like a podcast but everyone HAS to listen?

[Catbug gasps softly. He whispers, but he has a THOUSAND YARD STARE]

Don't bring up the noodle incident again! Ahhh!
tetrahedonist: (I know it's not your fault)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-03 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Pirate cat! Swashbug.

Yeah! The people who don't pay enough attention think it's real, like stage magic.

[ Bill ruffles Catbug's head between his ears. ] Alright, Nugget. We mostly got the stains out though. Maybe we should burn that rug.
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-06-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hog wash! Poppy cock!

[ Catbug squints his eyes when he smiles wide at the gesture. ] We got plenty more rugs where that came from!
tetrahedonist: (why did you write all of your)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-05 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
Do you know 'squiffy'? Means you're walking funny. Pirate talk is great. And 'hornswaggle' means you cheat somebody!

[ He's a good little creature, Bill's exceedingly fond. ] Yeah we do. Oh, hey, speaking of rugs. I got this neat trick I can do where I can look through things that look like me? And rugs are one of the best things to do that with. Nobody really looks at what a rug looks like, it just blends into the background, you know?
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-06-06 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I do a squiffy all the time!
[ This time, his eyes narrow. Something nefarious is afoot. ]


Do you see ... nanites?
tetrahedonist: (I was a bad idea)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-06 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Smart money's on --

Wait, what? No? Should I be seeing them?
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[personal profile] bugness 2025-06-09 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
They are the smallest robots in the world, but I also don't know how your .. eye works.
tetrahedonist: (where did the plan go wrong)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-06-09 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. I should look into that more. Where'd you hear about nanites? Beth's dad?

Mostly I call it magic. [ Bill offers: ] Imagine if the whole universe was really just one thing. A blob. You can pick out bits of it, but they can't be separated for real! Blobjectivism. Division is an illusion, a hologram you imagine, to make sense of things. Really there's no time, no space, no people, no stars, no light or dark.

I found out that I was really good at being birch trees, for example. I can treat them like eyes, because they look like my eye, and I can see through them. Tuning in to the Blob.

It's okay if you don't get it, it's hard to explain. You kinda have to feel it.