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un: enpawnsant | text

[hearthebell]

Lazarus Sauveterre. I’m a human male from a version of Earth; I have hair and wear shirts.

un: moonsight

[unsheathedfromreality]

[This made him laugh.]

There's something to be said for how identifiable that still makes you.

[hearthebell]

If I was trying to avoid delivering identifying information, I wouldn't have given my name. I'm just reliably poor at this type of introduction, considering the subjectivity of any description and the relative nature of "interesting".

[unsheathedfromreality]

Never fear--that was a joke at Trench's expense, not a rebuke for obstructionism.

[Far be it from him to get upset at anyone withholding information.]

The exercise, I think, is meant to capture that subjectivity. What do you find salient about yourself?

[hearthebell]

If I had to be rebuked, a joke at something else's expense would probably be my preferred delivery method.

[Never mind that his sense of humor veers easily toward the simple or slippery, very often and inconsistently.]

I had to think about it for a long time, but I have strong opinions on the practice of cutting a tag off of a shirt because the wearer finds it irritating. Frequently, it leaves a stump behind with irregular edges, and it's much more irritating than the issue was to begin with. It's both a very literal form of self-sabotage, and a decent metaphor for the many people in the world who take enthusiastic action towards their problems while making them exponentially worse.

[unsheathedfromreality]

Noted for the future.

[And not at all surprising, given what he has noticed of Lazarus' nature.

What a...genuinely interesting example, too, for what it reveals. Attention to small things is endearing to an elf.]

They still have the union labels on clothing in your world? Suppose it's a longer-lived trend than we suspected.

What should be done with them instead, for the wearer's sake?

[hearthebell]

A simple and elegant solution is just manufacturing the shirts in the first place without tags, just putting everything you might need to know about its brand, care instructions, and material content directly onto the shirt.

Many still come with one attached, however. And many still make the mistake of cutting it off and having to deal with a worse problem. The way to do it is carefully with a seam ripper if you must.

un: boneadept

[necrosaint]

Do you also wear trousers or skirts? Shoes? Or is it only shirts.

[hearthebell]

In fact, I realized that if I described every item of clothing I wear habitually, my chance of having a dull answer increased by roughly 74%.

[necrosaint]

How does it become more and not less dull? Is your clothing remarkably uninteresting?

[hearthebell]

Firstly, people who talk about their clothes exclusively are very dull.

Secondly, yes. I choose mine with the intention of being wholly unmemorable.

[necrosaint]

That ... is a good point, I have met one or two individuals who come close to that. It is talking about fashion and one or two other things to the exclusion of all others.

I only wear black, but apparently that is memorable.

[hearthebell]

Exactly; fashion changes so often you might as well just embrace being unstylish.

In my world, it's associated with various countercultures. That's the case for some people I've met in Trench as well; I don't even wear black and I've been called a "goth kid."

[the_obedient_servant]

You have hair? I assumed that was a wig... I suppose we will chalk what I saw up to a normal nightmare then.

[hearthebell]

Don't you think that it may be hurtful to those with hair loss to imply that wigs are not "normal?" Over 50% of people in my world wear some form of wig or hair extensions, and the number is 90% among celebrities, so I have to confess I've never understood the stigma.

[the_obedient_servant]

Most of the people that I grew up with naturally had no hair. I had a dream in which you took your hair off and revealed yourself to look like this. That being a non prophetic and normal dream is what I was referring to. Whether you wear a wig or not has no bearing on your abnormality.

[hearthebell]

You described it as a "nightmare", which can be a horrifying situation or a literal dream, depending on context. I appreciate the clarification.

Incidentally, I suppose that's what I would look like without hair.

[lipochrome]

thats crazy
i have hair and sometimes i dont wear shirts

[hearthebell]

There are occasions in which wearing a shirt is in fact ill-advised.

The brief moment that occurs while one is changing shirts comes readily to mind.

[lipochrome]

idk man sometimes you gotta rip your shirt off in a fight
for example
nothing hotter than ripping your shirt off in a fight

[hearthebell]

Nothing at all? Do you have peer-reviewed studies I could glance over to determine if it's really the case?

[lipochrome]

yeah sure
they peer reviewed your mom

[hearthebell]

Who are "they" in this case?

Not to doubt you; my mother got around, by all accounts.

[lipochrome]

uh the people who got with your mom i guess
damn i had no idea you had a hot mom
good for you dude having a hot mom is a huge privilege
you and paul could start a club

[hearthebell]

Everything you said was meant kindly, and I'm making the choice to take it that way.

I'm sure my mother was beautiful, and she did everything because it was the right choice, and it's just my bad luck that my random father was ugly.

Thank you for helping with that.