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Viola Warbeck ([personal profile] tristfully) wrote in [community profile] peckenpaugh2020-05-06 07:52 pm
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Evening...

'Cicadas at the End of Summer'

Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.

But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum β€”

What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned

The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman's pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper's pantry
in Brighton.


Martin Walls




[.......]

Will someone please tell me the steps to unlocking the memory inside of a cicada shell? Succinctly.
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
There was definitely something about burying it. And I think they got kind of [...] mind sproingy after that party where everything got a little soggy at the end!
lionellovelace: (πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»- 030)

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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-07 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Should we be trying to unlock our cicadas too?
I'm not sure anymore.
That's not a 'no.' It's an 'I don't know.'
nublada: ((t) GUY)

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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I [...] do really want to figure it out. I'm just curious, and it seems like the only way to get more information without actively [...] harming people.
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ fry concern)

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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
do you think that like all the weeds getting worse is bc people are fuckin with these bugs tho
nublada: ((l) examining)

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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] I don't know. We probably should have asked at the sΓ©ance. [...] But maybe it was only a matter of time before things came to light.
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ blerm??)

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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe we should go find the smarmy gryphonbeat bug and ask HIM what happens??

either way better to know than not know in the end right
nublada: ((?) oh juicy)

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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, let's! [...] I'm not sure where to find him, but if we do let's not tip our hand and tell him how many we have in our collective possession.
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ elementary!)

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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
pocket always comes when you yell about parties so maybe we just need to run around campus yelling about [...] hair product

i bet he uses a lot
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we have enough hair product in our dorm alone to make an entirely new bug-person if we really want. Let's bring him a welcome home present!
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ oh!! yeah!!)

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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
oh hell yeah he's gonna love us or at least be unable to forget our names and faces for the rest of his days
lionellovelace: (πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»- 010)

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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-07 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He also likes candy, right? Or least that's what the rumors always were.
And based on the other night, he likes the cold, too.
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ fry intrigue)

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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
oh i bet that dude would love the hell outta some ice cream then huh
i'll bring a pint
lionellovelace: (πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»- 077)

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[personal profile] lionellovelace 2020-05-10 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] Maybe two? We might get hungry.
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
So far! Meant to go on a burying spree, but school and sports got in the way.
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I would absolutely crush a GED.


[...] Wait, is someone going to die if I do or don't start burying my rock??
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
So I may or may not be responsible for someone's death and there's not much I can do about it so I might as well keep recklessly plowing ahead??

Sounds like a typical weekday, to be perfectly honest.
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[personal profile] themurderbird 2020-05-07 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They had better not cancel finals.
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
We could petition to take them in a private facility where there are no bug rocks or ghost bugs.
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[personal profile] themurderbird 2020-05-07 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh, agreed! That seems fair, all considering.

merlinpletcher: :| ([PH] 39)

[personal profile] merlinpletcher 2020-05-07 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Who cares? We're graduating either way.

Besides, do you want to take exams written by possessed professors?
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[personal profile] themurderbird 2020-05-07 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I care! How will I make valedictorian without final grades? How will I put it on my Curriculum Vitae?

As long as I can excel at them, then why not?
merlinpletcher: :| ([LH] 94)

[personal profile] merlinpletcher 2020-05-07 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Just use the grades we've already got? Easy. Besides, everyone knows you're going to be valedictorian.

Can't trust them. Not for anything.
Edited (Sorry Other Smart Kids.) 2020-05-07 17:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] themurderbird 2020-05-07 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's not the same if I don't prove it.

You think their knowledge of their areas of expertise is compromised? Besides, are any of them possessed other than Treetops?
Edited (this is all still fine and totally managable) 2020-05-07 18:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] merlinpletcher 2020-05-07 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll prove it. Just maybe not with exams.

I don't care about their expertise. I just mean I wouldn't trust anyone that's compromised like this. [...] It's just Treetops so far. But that could change.
Edited 2020-05-07 18:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Fountain.

Springs.

Mud.

Cave. [...] Falls ?.

[...] [...] Will you give it back ?
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
oh yeeahhhh our bug rock got all funky after we got drenched at pocket's last partay and that's like falls water right
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[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] Yeah. Think so.

Rocks wanted to go there.
gasgiant: (πŸ‘Ύ chip think harder)

[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
like they told you??
quidditched: (πŸŒ’ 024)

[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Rocks don't talk.

[...]

Scream sometimes.
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[personal profile] gasgiant 2020-05-07 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah ours got all buzzy once

so how'd you know they wanted to go to the falls
quidditched: (πŸŒ’ 063)

[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Checked a compass.

Not recently.
nublada: ((l) not cool)

[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she someone take yours??
Edited (still doesn't understand eddy, thinks she does) 2020-05-07 14:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] nublada 2020-05-07 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Good! So who needs to give it b Just making sure I don't need to beat anybody up today.
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[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] Thanks. Not today.
Edited (so confused) 2020-05-07 15:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thorntrail. [...] Where Chanel did.

[...]

Oh. [...] He show up ?
quidditched: (πŸŒ’ 007)

[personal profile] quidditched 2020-05-07 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Course.

[...] Think you're right. That someone helped us find them.
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[personal profile] quodpotted 2020-05-07 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
you alright?