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emoji nonsense, pretend this is many texts | text, un: a.kennedy

[jollyboat]

Horatio!!!!!

Horatio look at this!!!

🍍⛵️⚓️🏝🗺🇬🇧🌊

You can send pictures, Horatio!

#blessed content

[whisted]

[What


in the world is happening.

Give him a few minutes to just squint down at the screen.]

How

[No time for punctuation he needs to understand a thing.]

SO good

[jollyboat]

Like this!

[So a brief walk through of how to do, before there's another spate of them sent his way.]

🐟🐬🦞🎭

Isn't it exciting???

[whisted]

[There is no reason for this he can think of. There is no additional utility from these tiny little pictures.

And yet.]

🐠

[jollyboat]

🦀

[This is the best thing to ever happen.]

Did you see they have faces, too?

😊

[whisted]

That is a circle.

[jollyboat]

No, see, it's got a little face inside!

It looks like this: :)

[whisted]

What's it for?

[The fish were obviously self-explanatory.]

i forgot about this thread and i'm so gleeful all over again

[jollyboat]

To show you're happy!

I imagine others must have found it similarly difficult to read tone over a medium like this, just like you can with letters sometimes. So they must have made these little faces so people can show what they're feeling a little better. There's a fair few of them so you can display all sorts of feelings. Like these:

😋😭😡😘

See? I don't quite understand them all but they definitely convey some sort of emotion.

babies

[whisted]

[where is the e.a.poe emoji, we ask you]

I can't say I understand any of it.

i love them

[jollyboat]

[🧐 is unfortunately the closest.]

We can practice! 😄

Like that one there I feel like is excited.

let them be ridiculous forever

[whisted]

Is it needful for these communications?

yes plz

[jollyboat]

It can be!

It's good to be clear as one can, I should think.

[whisted]

What do the cats clarify?

[jollyboat]

that might just be for fun, admittedly

although i suppose if i needed to quickly tell you that there was a cat wherever i was located, that'd be a good way to do it.

[whisted]

😻

Is this a warning that an amorous cat is about?

[jollyboat]

It may well be. They're quite the sneaky sort, you know.

[whisted]

Bit silly.

[Which... is actually quite nice.]

[jollyboat]

It is.

Feels good to be, though.

[whisted]

[This pause is much more a matter of sorting through the pleasantness of finding himself understood, even just in a little flicker like this.]

Now and then, perhaps.

august event aftermath stuff

[ettersberg]

Did you go over onto the other vessel?

[whisted]

I did.

[And he almost manages to end there, on the factual statement, but his gut twists abruptly under the weight of the only reason his addled mind can find for the inquiry.]

I'm sorry, sir.

[ettersberg]

[ it's a sad thing, that that is the only reason his mind can find. ]

It was not a reprimand.

Any injuries?

[whisted]

[It's new, not being dressed down for surviving. It takes a beat to breathe into this new shade.]

Most of us.

[It takes a beat before he can hazard:] It's nearly all scars, now.

[ettersberg]

Small blessings, I suppose.

[ or not; nightingale knows too well how wounds can ache long after the physical ones have healed. ]