The Journal of Doug Ramsey

The Magic Doug's talking about is a nerdy card game. Make believe. Proper magic's hard, and you tend to need to have a gift for it - everyone's got the potential, but not always the ability to learn it.

*counts to ten* Harry and his friends are ~~a pack of wankers~~ also make believe. Magic don't necessarily need wands and all that shite. So no, I don't have one.

I could probably float cnadles for you tho' - levitation's easy enough.

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I resent that. I am not a nerd. I am not even sure if Doug is a nerd anymore. He does nerd things, but how many nerds do you know who own leather pants and have earrings?

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You sit around and play with cards that have monsters and elves and such on them. I just said the game was nerdy, not the players. Think you're protesting too much there, Frenchie.

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You know, I cannot even blame not being a native English speaker on this one.

Monsters and elves and skeletons. Miles will be very, very upset if we forget his skeletons, because his helped him win the last time he played Doug and he is very proud of himself.

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You're making this too easy, Frenchie. Besides, I was trying really hard not to go all frog-spell on Jane, after the Harry Potter thing. Think I've grown as a person, or some such guff, right? ;)

And skeletons, right. Can't forget the skeletons.

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I temper my tendency to do nerd things with my ability to wear leather pants at a club without looking stupid or feeling embarassed.

Jane is not a shapeshifter, strictly speaking, so the spell should not work on her, right? She might turn into a frog-shaped cloud. That could be interesting...

I am told by a small green boy that the skeletons are very, very important.

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That you do. You definitely don't look stupid or embarrassed in those suede pants of yours. *grins*

As for Jane... That is an interesting idea. Not sure I want to try it tho' - she's sort of a shapeshifter, and fuck knows what would happen, even if she said okay to the experiment.

All small boys think skeletons are important. Those and dinosaurs and sharks.

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I have the feeling Doug agrees with you, as he is reading over my shoulder, and nodding and grinning like a loon.

and -bugs- it seems. Has Miles shown you Ed The Cicada yet?

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Boy's got taste. *grins*

And yes, I've met Ed. Miles came by to get me to promise Frank wouldn't eat him. That's one big ugly bug - perfect for a small boy. ;)

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And pants of his own. :) Yum.

Miles loves Ed. I wonder if Ed and Manuel have met? The red eyes and all, I would be suprised if he had not introduced them.

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*snorts and leaves you two to it*

Um, I'm not sure. Manny's power works on animals, sort of - you should see him and Frank together, it's a right laugh - but if he started reacting to the whole cicada orgy that's going on out there, I think I'd have noticed. ;)

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I saw Manuel use his power on horses once. It was ... actually, a tad distressing at the time.

I am just suprised that Miles has not introduced Ed to Manny yet. He seemed quite intent on introducing his new bug friend to everyone else. Took me quite by suprise with it.

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He did? Oh yeah, the fire. An' that wasn't long after... Ah. *backs away from the difficult topic* Miles might well have introduced them, I just haven't heard 'bout it. Contrary to popular belief, we don't share everything. *wry grin*

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The fire. In the long run? It helped a little.

You don't? Clothes, food, a lizard, activities best left undescribed...

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Oh, good.

You forgot emotions and the occasional dream. Apparently the link's getting deeper and we're starting to get into each other's heads. It's... unsettling. But the magic's still my own, tho'. ;)

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Oh, and a room. Share that as well.

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Someday they're going to give Manuel a roommate, and won't -that- be awkward?

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I have it on good authority that I'm completely insufferable. And I'd hate to leak all over this hypoth - this pretend-roommate.

Could be downright tragic.

Manuel

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Do you get a say in the matter? We did not when Monet moved into the fourth part of our room.

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I'm also at a delicate juncture in learning control.

I will _find_ a way. I like living on my own. It's not like we don't have a dozen or more unused rooms - it's silly to make people quad-up when entire _wings_ of this house go unused.

Manuel

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I think it is like, an extra secret class. "How not to Strangle People Like Certain Rich Girls I Know Even Though you Really, Really Want to Sometimes."

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I think .. I am very glad that Doug and I do -not- have anything like that. It would be distressing to be inside his head.

Are you and Manuel going to be allright?

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We're getting used to it. Mostly. They just stepped down the dampener again, so we get the whole fun with him mirroring me again, but we're sorting that out. And he's working hard to get it under control.

It's odd, I thought I'd be a lot more freaked out by the idea of having someone in my head, but I'm not. It's... sort of nice, actually.

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Is THAT what he was so happy about the other day? He was practically skipping around. Not that Manuel would skip, of course.

I can kind of see that it might be reassuring. It would certainly give one the chance to remove some doubts...

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*snorts* Yep, that was why. And no, he doesn't skip, but that was pretty damn close. Sort of cute, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

Yeah, 's good especially with the dreams. Tho' it does set up a whole bunch of new doubts in exchange for the old ones. *wry grin* Still, I wouldn't want it gone.

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Of course not. Not a peep out of me. Of course, this isn't my journal, and the cute sleeping blond about 2 feet to my right probably gets these comments in email...

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about what was appropriate to share and what is not?

You just crossed it.

Manuel

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That would explain what I just felt down the link.

Email?

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with the others.

They don't need to know, and I don't want to get jerked around because somebody saw an opportunity to take me down a few notches.

Manuel

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I think I could probably force my cloudform into the shape of a frog anyway.

I know Harry Potter isn't real, but I thought some of the stuff might have some basis in reality...? Guess not. But it would be cool if you could float candles!

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