issue #2 | text

[survivorsguilt]

so, uh. question for anyone who's reading, i guess. these little picture things that that are in our phones


most of them make total sense to me! the cats are even pretty cute. but can someone please please please explain this


what the fuck am i meant to do with a picture of a can of salt

[Go easy on her, memers of Hadriel.]

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[skelebro]

pretty sure it means irritation at something.

[Buuuuuut your guess is as good as his. These wacky humans and their human culture, right?]

[survivorsguilt]

I don't get it. how does salt equal irritation?? aside from like how its sorta irritating ME.

[Right???? Because she's totally not a human. At all. What weirdos.]

[skelebro]

correlation don't seem to matter.
human culture sure is fascinating, huh?

[survivorsguilt]

yeah. you can say that again

half the time i don't know if people are lying or telling me the truth about what things were like in my world before it went to shit

[skelebro]

what year are you from?

[He already knows it ain't exactly the best world, but that's a given.]

[survivorsguilt]

[That gives her pause for a moment. Okay, so, if that was Winter, then-]

guess its 2032 back home

how come?

[skelebro]

people come from all over.
you sound farther along than anyone else?
idk.

[survivorsguilt]

sooooo im from the future kind of?

does that mean other worlds could be going in the same direction as mine and just havent gotten there yet? cool great

[skelebro]

depends.
not every world's the same, but i guess there'd be no real way to tell unless they got to that point.

[survivorsguilt]

sweeeeet. another thing to add some variety to my nightmares.

[She's joking. Probably. Sort of.]

[skelebro]

[...]

you ok there, kid?

[survivorsguilt]

[What. Oh god. Don't actually ask her that, you're meant to laugh.]

what?? yeah man. im fine. i was just kidding

[skelebro]

if you say so.

[Should'a figured, honestly. Any imagining on his part was wishful thinking from the start. Too much all at once, though. Dial it back. Torque things back to a reasonable baseline.]

hey, this place is plenty spooky.
i hear it's full of skeletons.
creepy, right?

[survivorsguilt]

[Deep breaths. It's fine. He's not about to spill her issues all over a public network post. Everything is fine.]

eeeexactly. terrifying stuff. sometimes i close my eyes and all i can see is this toothy skeleton grinning

and then i remember skeletons don't have teeth and get even more freaked out

[skelebro]

whaddaya mean, we don't have teeth?
what kinda floss-ophy is that?

[survivorsguilt]

[Now, she knows you're the master of puns, Sans, so this one has to be a good one, but-]

i don't get it ??

[skelebro]

floss.
philosophy.

y'know?

[What are they teaching the kids these days?]

[survivorsguilt]

whats floss

[skelebro]

do you not have dentists where you come from?

[Even monsters, many of whom lack the requisite anatomy to require dentists, know most of the basics of dental care, c'mon. Have you seen Undyne's teeth?]

[survivorsguilt]

shut upppppppp of course i know what a dentist is

[That's not to say she's ever been to one. Doctors have checked over her teeth before. That counts, right?]

[skelebro]

what kinda dentist doesn't tell kids to floss?
cripes, what's been going on in the surface world?

[survivorsguilt]

[Well, it's not like it's a secret.]

the apocalypse

[skelebro]

no time for toothbrushes in the apocalypse.
kids these days.

[That explains, uh. Kind of a lot.

Boy.]

[survivorsguilt]

i know right? one itty bitty virus spreads and all personal hygiene goes out the window. gross

[SO PROCLAIMS THE LEAST HYGIENIC TEEN EVER???]

[skelebro]

hey, at least you can take care of that here, right?








lol.