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ghostytrainer) wrote2013-06-25 11:50 pm
ghostytrainer) wrote2013-06-25 11:50 pm
prank #44 | text
[Hello Pokémon World. It's almost 3 in the morning and who all is still awake at this hour? Aside from John, who hasn't slept (save for occasionally nodding off for a few hours here and there) in nearly five days now. But unlike the past three nights, apparently tonight he's feeling kind of chatty.]
[Too bad he doesn't really have anything worthwhile to say...]
ok so i know there's a shit ton of stuff here that doesn't make a lot of sense.
you know like... how everything lays eggs, even the mammals?
and ghosts? ill nrver get that one at all, even if i pride myself as somethign of an ectobreeder.
and don't even get me started on fly just...
that's dumb.
SO DUMB.
but w/e, do you ever just like...sit there adn really think about some of this stuff?
like zubat.
what is even the deal with those fuckers?
they don't have any eyes. but for SOMW REASON they learn mean look.
how can they give ANYTHING a LOOK, MEAN OR OTHERWISE????
it's like how wooper can learn ice punch.
WIHT WHAT ARMS, I ASK YOU??? i am like 1000% sure you need arsm in order to punch someting.
maybe even over 9000% sure of that.
it is not possible to be more postibve of anything than i am right now about needing arms for punching.
no ok i lied we're gointo talk about the flying thing.
like how does that even work you get the hm and you use it on your bird or dragon or whatever is it just like
OH SHIT SON.
IT'S THAT THING I ALREADY KNWE HOW TO DO.
THE THING I DO BASICALLY EVERY DAY BECAUSE I'M A BIRD AND THAT'S HOW I GET AROUND.
BUT NOW I CAN *CARRY YOU*. YOU AND *ALL OF YOUR CRAP*.
what an astounding revelation your pokemon must be having.
okay, all you lucky ducks out there who can read your pokemon's minds or whatever i gotta know.
what's going through your bird/dragon/giant automaton ghost's mind when you crack the fly hm over their heads.
someone get back tome on that.
goddamn i wish i was a poketelepath.
like that would just be the coolest fucking thing. be able to talk to them in your mind and stuff.
crzy mind conversations all day, everyday. with ALL of your pokermon, not just the psychic types.
so.
cool.
only vaguely related, but i miss being able to fly on my own.
i liked it better when i didn't knoe i had powers so i had no idea what i was missing out on. :(
now it's just like "man, john, remember when you had super strength and could do the windy thing and it was basically awesoem? NOT ANYMORE, BUDDY, SORRY."
oh well, i guess.
that's the way the cookie crumbles!
speaking of cookirs, i wonder if it's possible to make literal pancakes.
like using cake batter insread of pancake batter.
but making it ina frying pan on the stove instead of in the oven.
holy shit.
i think i know what i'm goign to do once i'm done watching ghost eraser 3.
dave. dave if you're reading this you should totally come over to my room and help.
we'll do it for scinese.
wait no.
fuck science.
i forgot that science blows and is basically completyl inferior to magic in every way.
let's make kitchen magic, dude. it'll be great.
jade, you can come too even thouhg you think sciende is cool. i won't hold it against you.
even if you're still totally WRONG about that particular issue.
oh but rewind for a sec, let's talk about ghost eraser.
these are actually pretty okay as far as johto moives go. not as good as ghostbusters, sure, but not terirble either.
it's much less of a dissapontment than con dragonair, which is not even close to ebing the same thing as con air which is BASICALLY THE BEST MOVIE EVER, just saying.
i mean they fight a haunted janitor in the first one, pretty damn sweet. in ghost eraser, i mean. not con dragonair, we're not talking about that disappointment anymore.
nope nope.
but it's pretty much impoddible to be a better ghost hunter mobie than ghostbusters.
i m p o s s i b l e
holy shit when did it get to be 3am?
doing the time warp over here or something because i swaer it wasn't that late last i looked at the clock.
ahahahahahahahahahaha.
fuck.
[Too bad he doesn't really have anything worthwhile to say...]
ok so i know there's a shit ton of stuff here that doesn't make a lot of sense.
you know like... how everything lays eggs, even the mammals?
and ghosts? ill nrver get that one at all, even if i pride myself as somethign of an ectobreeder.
and don't even get me started on fly just...
that's dumb.
SO DUMB.
but w/e, do you ever just like...sit there adn really think about some of this stuff?
like zubat.
what is even the deal with those fuckers?
they don't have any eyes. but for SOMW REASON they learn mean look.
how can they give ANYTHING a LOOK, MEAN OR OTHERWISE????
it's like how wooper can learn ice punch.
WIHT WHAT ARMS, I ASK YOU??? i am like 1000% sure you need arsm in order to punch someting.
maybe even over 9000% sure of that.
it is not possible to be more postibve of anything than i am right now about needing arms for punching.
no ok i lied we're gointo talk about the flying thing.
like how does that even work you get the hm and you use it on your bird or dragon or whatever is it just like
OH SHIT SON.
IT'S THAT THING I ALREADY KNWE HOW TO DO.
THE THING I DO BASICALLY EVERY DAY BECAUSE I'M A BIRD AND THAT'S HOW I GET AROUND.
BUT NOW I CAN *CARRY YOU*. YOU AND *ALL OF YOUR CRAP*.
what an astounding revelation your pokemon must be having.
okay, all you lucky ducks out there who can read your pokemon's minds or whatever i gotta know.
what's going through your bird/dragon/giant automaton ghost's mind when you crack the fly hm over their heads.
someone get back tome on that.
goddamn i wish i was a poketelepath.
like that would just be the coolest fucking thing. be able to talk to them in your mind and stuff.
crzy mind conversations all day, everyday. with ALL of your pokermon, not just the psychic types.
so.
cool.
only vaguely related, but i miss being able to fly on my own.
i liked it better when i didn't knoe i had powers so i had no idea what i was missing out on. :(
now it's just like "man, john, remember when you had super strength and could do the windy thing and it was basically awesoem? NOT ANYMORE, BUDDY, SORRY."
oh well, i guess.
that's the way the cookie crumbles!
speaking of cookirs, i wonder if it's possible to make literal pancakes.
like using cake batter insread of pancake batter.
but making it ina frying pan on the stove instead of in the oven.
holy shit.
i think i know what i'm goign to do once i'm done watching ghost eraser 3.
dave. dave if you're reading this you should totally come over to my room and help.
we'll do it for scinese.
wait no.
fuck science.
i forgot that science blows and is basically completyl inferior to magic in every way.
let's make kitchen magic, dude. it'll be great.
jade, you can come too even thouhg you think sciende is cool. i won't hold it against you.
even if you're still totally WRONG about that particular issue.
oh but rewind for a sec, let's talk about ghost eraser.
these are actually pretty okay as far as johto moives go. not as good as ghostbusters, sure, but not terirble either.
it's much less of a dissapontment than con dragonair, which is not even close to ebing the same thing as con air which is BASICALLY THE BEST MOVIE EVER, just saying.
i mean they fight a haunted janitor in the first one, pretty damn sweet. in ghost eraser, i mean. not con dragonair, we're not talking about that disappointment anymore.
nope nope.
but it's pretty much impoddible to be a better ghost hunter mobie than ghostbusters.
i m p o s s i b l e
holy shit when did it get to be 3am?
doing the time warp over here or something because i swaer it wasn't that late last i looked at the clock.
ahahahahahahahahahaha.
fuck.
Audio
I know what it's like.
I couldn't sleep through the night without my mom for two whole weeks after... [He trails off.] After my dad died.
Audio
[There's more silence on John's end. Part of him is frantically searching for a way out of a conversation that he doesn't want to have and the other part is just too tired to give a damn either way.]
Mmm... yeah. Though... there's more to it. That's definitely part of it, my dad I mean. That's pretty much all the nightmares have been about so far but when I'm awake that's not really what I'm thinking about. I have had three years to... well, not get over it, because you never really get over something like that, as I am sure I don't need to tell you. But three years to deal with it.
But I guess I didn't deal with it, among other things, as well as I thought I did.
[John's coping methods are kind of absolute shit. It takes something drastic like half-crazed nightblogging or driveway tantrums to really even alert people to the fact that something is wrong most of the time.]
Audio
I didn't mean necessarily that it was just because of your dad, I was just saying I have trouble sleeping too, and that's mostly why for me. Even now sometimes. It's okay to have nightmares sometimes when something bad's happened to you. It's like your brain's way of telling you you need to talk to someone about it.
Talking never makes it go away, but at least you start feeling better.
Audio
[He sighs again, on the other side of the line dragging a hand down his face.]
I know I should. But it's hard. The person I would normally go to first about this isn't here right now and she's part of the problem to begin with so... [He trails off.] I did talk about it a little bit with my sister last night though. That sort of helped.
Audio
[Shaun pauses and listens, chewing on his lip on the other end.]
I don't know what you've been through in your world, except what you told me about your dad...
But maybe you could try talking to your Pokemon, too. They're good at listening, and they won't judge you if you end up crying. ...It's okay to cry, too, if that makes you feel better.
Audio
I don't want to go home, because it just means going back to a mess of problems and basically all around terrible things. I didn't want to fall into one of those stupid memory comas either, because I was happier not experiencing all the things that supposedly happened to me in the future which is now technically the present.
But hey, what can you do? That's just the way things go sometimes. We don't always get what we want.
Audio
You're not the only one who doesn't want to go home. If that makes you feel any better.
I'm sorry you had to go through that...bullcrap, even though you already knew it was going to happen and stuff. But I mean, at least you're back here, and you don't have to worry about that stuff again for a while. Because time doesn't pass back home while we're here.
I hope you start feeling better soon.
Audio
[The only thing he has to worry about now is potential guilt over NOT wanting to go back ind finish things that are kind of his responsibility to fix. Oops. But dammit, he just doesn't see the point anymore.]
Thanks, Shaun.
Audio
[Shaun's too young to understand the 'guilt over things you're supposed to go back and finish' part of that.]
You're welcome. And, uh. If you wanna talk more, you can call me again.