@joe.jones | 10 july

[malta]

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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[malta]

I'm decent.

Nicky, on the other hand, is a champion. If you want better than decent.

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Who's Nicky?

[ you know, like he should know or smth ]

[malta]

[ he should ]

The other half of my soul. My husband, if you'd prefer, though it is not wholly accurate.

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That's pretty deep.

[malta]

After 920 years I would hope so

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Really, really old.
It sounds like you've been together through a lot.

[malta]

We have. Good and bad, sometimes he has a mustache.

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Just a mustache?
Never a full beard?

[malta]

He had a full beard when we met. One mustache was very memorable.

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I'm on the edge of my seat.
What kind?

[malta]

I was hoping you would ask.

[ instead of describing it, joe attaches a small hastily sketched almost comic like picture of a beautiful seventies pornstache. there are a number of practice sketches around it in a half a dozen styles that shows joe is trying to get a handle on this digital art format. most of them are half finished studies of nicky's hands or eyes. gross.

did i just want to share this delightful art? si. ]

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Hm.
So you're good at art, too.

[ thanks he loves it probably ]

[malta]

Thank you, it is a passion.

[ the mustache or the art? we will never know. ]