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@joe.jones | 10 july

What do people do for hobbies around here? Aside from volunteering for medical torture.

Has Victorian flower languages come back in style yet? Bookbinding and leathercraft seems obsolete by now, but what about backgammon or cards. I once lost a game of trappola to the Duchess of Ferrara, she was shark. Scrabble? Does that work with the translator? Pomme de terre is about twice as many points as potato.

[ please enjoy that this translates to "potato is about twice as many points as potato" unless you also speak french.

anyway joe is bored come talk to him ]

Who wants to bring fencing back in fashion?

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[ this network is something that will take some getting used to, but then many new inventions have taken time getting used to. some nicky has not gotten used to because he has not embraced them, not seen their value; others he has been fond of nearly immediately.

this was pushed on them without giving them the choice, but he thinks it will be convenient. he likes the immediacy of joe in his mind, anyway. ]

Remind me. What flowers say "medical torture is bad"?

[ calling out everyone. calling out booker specifically, too. it will be some time yet before nicky is able to let that go. ]

Alas the victorians had no flower for medical torture.

Rosebay will have to do. Danger.

An oversight, I think.

There may have been one in Constantinople's dictionary but I don't remember.

[ no journals or sketchbooks to paw through ]

A whole bouquet of American cowslip for you.

[ 'divine beauty, you are my divinity.' ]

[ the response is not quite immediate. ]

Stephanotis, I think.

[ happiness in marriage. as close as nicky will come to saying incurable romantic and mean i love my husband ]

My heart, who is the romantic now?

It is always you.

[ in any other couple, nicky would be the romantic one, with his casual mentions of joe being the love of his life. ]

I am the one being romanced right now, in public no less.

You called me divine.

That is simply a fact.

No more so than that you are an incurable romantic and the love of my life.

So you agree, your beauty is divinity.

I did not say that.

Am I not the love of your life, Nicky? If that is fact then the paradise of your touch and holiness of your smile is also fact.

You know that you are. I think that is more of a fact than anything about my beauty.

Tell that to every Renaissance painter that tripped over themselves for you to be their muse.

[ nicky is not blushing ]

I only ever wanted to be yours.

And that is why the David is not modeled after the most beautiful man on Earth.

Tch.

[ brain to text means this is the reply that gets sent. ]

I agree, the least Michelangelo could do was pretend it wasn't meant to be a poor facsimile of you.

I only think that perhaps you are biased.

Impossible, I am completely objective.

Of course.

I suppose that art is, essentially, subjective.

[ but he isn't going to let nicky win this one ]

But you are a masterpiece, my heart, and that is not subjective. Your soul is a light that I am blessed to have shone upon me.

[ what can he say? ]

I love you.

[ to a degree and in a way that defies conceptualisation, that goes beyond what he can express in words. ]

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