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Hey out there, Luceti. Are we all more or less ourselves again? Pretty sure we are, uh... here's hoping.

Considering how crazy things have been lately, Teddy and I were talking, and we think it'd be a good time to run this. We all need a break. So courtesy of the LGBTQQA Club - um, I'm tentatively calling it "Alliance", for the sake of minimizing all the abbreviations, better name possibly pending - I'm happy to introduce: Luceti's first-ever (I think) Speed Dating.

If you don't know what speed dating is, it's pretty much exactly how it sounds. The idea is we'd all get together, pair up, you'd talk to someone you might not have talked to before for about ten minutes, and then afterwards decide how you liked it and if you want to see them again. First impressions count for a lot, and sometimes that's all it takes to find your true love or your new best friend.

We're going to run it next weekend - Saturday afternoon, we figure is a good time - and sign-ups are starting now so we'll have time to pair everyone up. Anyone can participate, not just club members or people in the LGBT spectrum, and you're not obligated to do anything if you don't like it. So why not give it a shot? ...And we'll have cookies. Teddy's making them and the recipe looks amazing. Anyone else want to bring some food and stuff? We can have a table for contributions...

Um, anyway. I'll be over by the plaza today, and on the journal network, too, if you've got any questions or if you want to sign up.

[The above message is also written out (albeit less informally). And there's a table with posters and some forms in the plaza, near the school, all day. Billy's just hanging out and drawing the passerbys while he waits, if anyone wants to chat him up about it in person.]

((ooc sign-ups here!))

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[Oh hey, it's that guy who blew up the kitchen or something that one time.]

Sadly, yeah. Even modern society has its prejudice.

Geez, man. 20th Century Earth, right? [Since that was the demographic. There were woefully few 'aliens' in Luceti.] You'd think that they'd have learned a thing or two about how badly that sorta thing goes. Wasn't there a war that involved a ton of discrimination?

[It's Earth history that's over 700 years old. Not his subject of expertise.]

21st century, close enough. And you probably mean World War II... that was about 70 years ago.

A lot's changed since then, but not everything. It's definitely still a work in progress.

Yea. I'm never going to get how weird people were back then.

The good news is that, if the calendars run how I think I do, that problem goes away.

Haha, yeah, you sounded like you were from the future. That's good news, though.

How far ahead are you?

772 SD. Way ahead of you guys. I don't think too many things changed though-- I mean, people are still people, right? The tech has just gone a long way.

What's the SD stand for?

[Sounds like a long ways off, assuming their universes will even coincide.]

Star Date. Space travel's been a thing for a long time back where I'm from.

[UP3? What's that? Surely it had no bearing in this world!]

Should've guessed that. You probably mean, like- long-distance travel, right? Because we've got spaceships now, but they usually don't go too far.

[Unless aliens are involved. That happens sometimes. ...A lot.]

[Aliens are involved alright. Billy's talking to one over the journals.]

Yea...that is the case, isn't it? It's hard to remember these bits of Earth History sometimes. But, yea. Interplanetary travel is pretty common back home.

That's really cool. We get a lot of alien invasions back home these days, but it's rare for people to be able to go off-world. Usually only the Avengers get to do stuff like that.

Alien...invasions.

[That was the one thing he hated about history, and the UP3 was meant to protect planets against such things. He dropped his head in his hands.]

Agh. I hate that sorta thing. Seriously, man...

Trust me, you're not alone there. It's scary how much we've just gotten used to it over the years.

[There was a brief moment of silence that weight heavily on the other line. If the video was active, Billy would have seen those blue eyes narrow for a second before Cliff shook his head.]

And this is exactly why I can't stand it when the political big dogs have gotta fight. Everyone catches the flak.

Well, to be fair, the aliens aren't actually the government's fault. They just kind of assume Earth is the place to be, for some reason or other. Last time it was reclaiming a long-lost prince, and then there was a prophecy...

The universe is kind of a mess.

I never said it was Earth's government, did I? Nah, it's on the head of the other parties here. It's never cool to have your problems become someone else's too.

Point. Heck, some of the invading aliens don't even have governments. And don't even get me started on Galactus.

...

yanno, I think I'll let the Galactus bit go. Just...man, haven't they realized that anarchy gets you nowhere?

Apparently not. Some of them want to reorganize the leadership, I hear, but the ones currently in charge are after the wrong things. And other races... yeah, I have no idea what they're trying to do. But it's not helping Earth any.

That. Sucks.

[It really did, and the thought of something like that happening in a different universe really stuck in his craw. There was nothing he, or anyone, could do about it while in this strange world that somehow acted as an interdimensional nexus...but, there were obviously other problems.]

I wish you guys the best of luck with that. Seriously.

Thanks. I'd say we need it, but somehow we've managed to survive whole generations of this stuff, so we'll probably be okay. But hey, we could use all the well-wishes we can get.

Unless your century has some kind of trans-dimensional time machine.

[...

The last comment made Cliff a little more serious. It smacked at something that was valid...and a threat that he personally hadn't seen neutralized yet. He replied without missing a beat, the darker part of his mood well obscured.]

Nah, we don't. It's something beyond what physics can get, and we've got gravitic warp drives. Seems like going back in time just ain't possible.

[And in stark contrast to the hidden mood of Cliff's comment, Billy doesn't even miss a beat-]

Actually, one of my closest friends back home came from the future.

...

What?

[Congrats, Billy. You threw the space man off of his groove for once.]

Ah, yeah. Sounds weird, but that's actually how we met. He came from about a thousand years in the future to try and get some help. Ended up recruiting me and a couple of other guys to join him.

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