So Familiar a Gleam: Diagnet!

[voidtreckermods]

This post are for network posts using the phones that all citizens of Diagad own. The phone connects to the internet- which is mostly full of the latest heroics of the city, warnings from the government and plenty of cat videos.

There is a popular forum space for the city where people can post in text, video or voice notes. There is also a phone book that lists everyone in the city for direct messaging.

Comments

[blitzcheer]

so no meeting the girl you were going to marry in the past and now shes old or dead?

edit: ok i dont care about a 5 min tragic scene of meeting your old lover or seeing her grave but no getting with their kid thats CREEPY

[jingyeets]

what? i mean sure meet whomever you were going to marry but then you're gonna marry them old or else you weren't serious in the first place and that's horrible, and if they're dead then you better be paying respects to their grave and checking in on their family or else you are also horrible?

wait reading the edit that's gross??? you adopt that kid not marry them, you adopt that family not marry any of them! you fell in love with their mother not with them! where's the respect for that if you go and do that, huh?

and yes you adopt that kid even if they're older than you!

edit: or you fell in love with their father i'm more familiar with that one so, whatevs

[blitzcheer]

ok but how far in the future are you talking bcuz i was thinking 80 years or somethin like that. ppl move on or are you really going to be interested in the same guy you met 60 or 80 years ago??

also i mean ok say hi to the family and do what you do at a grave but some 20 year old looking guy over and being like "hi i met your mom when she was 20" thats crazy??? theyre going to think youre a crazy guy

and why would you adopt their kid what about their actual parents?? what if theyre already married they dont need adopting!!

[jingyeets]

ugh! i have no idea! i wasn't thinking hard on it! also i didn't mean you should automatically adopt a kid that was your lovers or anything, but that adopting their kid makes way more sense than wanting to marry that kid?

also you're never too old to be adopted. that's a family thing, and family doesn't say, no you're not allowed to be part of mine because you're old. you don't have to adopt someone as your own child only, you know? family's more complicated than that!

[blitzcheer]

idk time travel convos are a head to begin with and now were trying to make our own. but if the lovers kid was an actual kid and they didnt have any other family then sure that makes sense

also i have nooooo idea bout adoption. but i think i know people who did that? just said theyre family now?

i moved out soon as i had the chance. i dont think a lot bout family

[jingyeets]

yes, that, whatever, it's obv circumstantial or something like that, act according to what's going on

sometimes family is about choosing. idk that's what it feels like

( which is weird because the intense feeling he has of needing to choose family is at odds with the fact he has a little brother and absentee parents off touring as they always do? which makes... weird... sense... no. what? )

the one you're born into isnt always the one you want or get to keep
then there's the one you make and the one you earn
and its all family, friends are family, aren't they

[blitzcheer]

[ Huh. Family...

There's something odd about it; thinking about it, questioning about it. What's family to him? He knows his family life is alright, but he can't get rid of this uncomfortable feeling in his gut - a sort of acceptance, and yet...

the one you're born into isnt always the one you...get to keep ]

never thought about it
huh
i guess theyre family? they can be but idk i dont think of friends as family
isnt the relationship different
it can be the same but i dont think of my old man or mom then think of my friends the same way
but theyre still special
and i know theres people out there who mean as much as them
i dont have a word to call them though

[jingyeets]

( it's unsettling, because he does feel strongly on this. why? family feels like it has layered meanings, and... sure, there are, there are elders and lateral branches and, and... )

i dont know that's still family to me
your chosen family the people you watch out for and who watch out for you
they're friends, too, but kind of
bone deep? idk

[blitzcheer]

never thought a q about powers would lead down to wonderin what family means lmao

nothing id argue about tho
ill see how my bones feel when im around friends
see what they tell me

[jingyeets]

your bones, huh
feeling it in your bones?

you don't predict the weather like arthritics do you

[blitzcheer]

hey youre the one feeling families bone deep
i should be asking you that

what do they call it??? sixth sense?

can you tell me winning lottery numbers. tell me what numbers you feel are right deep down
bone down

[jingyeets]

Lans dont gamble

Except on things we're sure to win so my bones say you're boned, man

[blitzcheer]

what a waste of psychic bones man

you could be funding our time compression room

or our movie

[jingyeets]

yeah sure because you're gonna call me sugar gege right

( eye

roll )

[blitzcheer]

a what

[jingyeets]

( just doogle it, wow )

sugar gege

sugar big bro