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because we need them. like burning. the revolutions.

yeah? what would you change?

PRIORITIZED LIST:

power dynamics between the sexes.
racial mistreatment, inequality and discrimination.
economic distribution between classes and the sexes.
treatment of heteronormative non-conforming and genderqueer individuals.

you know, i think if we started out with 1) and 3), there's a chance we'd nail the others as we went along.

you know, princess...

I think you're completely spot fucking on.

why, thank you! now i kind of want to wear my own tiara, just to keep you in the clear.

I've worn the one you gave me. once.

don't ask.

really? oh god, i'm so sorry about that - i knew the moment you came in... but now i really want to know, though. are you sure i can't ask?

you can always try. go ahead. try me.

don't mind if i do! where did you wear it?

this place I frequent, Rosebud. I showed up with that stupid thing on my head in the middle of jazz hour. you should have seen the look on those hipster-dyke faces. they thought I'd finally lost my fucking marbles. but whatever, the fake crystals went super well with my leather jacket and grey tie.

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oh! oh, i wish i'd been there, i bet you looked

um

um, but how's the crew at rosebud these days? are they still sort of... i don't know how to explain it but... sort of endemic to luxembourg city? like, exactly as you'd expect of a crowd in this place. exactly so.

I looked fucking ridiculous. but fucking amazing.

it's exactly that, yeah. all that shit. rich married ladies, young hipster girls who think swaying their heads to the resident jazz singer's crooning counts for dancing, the boring side of lipsticks everywhere, no activism, no drive. narrow-mindedness and the wrong kind of intimacy.

you've been?

once, yes. it didn't feel any different from my usual social circles so i didn't return - i mean, what's the point, right? it just felt really incidental. all these ladies and they didn't seem to care anymore than anyone else i knew and i kind of hadn't expected that at all.

must've been on a night I was out. I'd have seen you for sure. saved you from their shit. I mean, fuck, do I know it.

well, you could have missed me. lots of blond-haired girls around that place, i bet.

princess, I've been around that place fifty-plus times. none of those blondes emit sunshine and daisies like you do.

sunshine and daisies. it doesn't sound very exciting, does it? :(

Stacy, you're kinda talking to someone living in the Pigsty, you know how fucking novel sunshine and daisies are around that neighborhood?

oh, you do? i haven't been there in a while but my mum has a project going down there at the moment, i think. do you like living there?

it's cheap. I can afford all my necessities with the rent so low.

so, what kind of project has your mom cooked up?

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