Stupid dialog, free to a good home

[classicdrogn]

Proprioception and nociception, too. 'd have listed temperature and itchiness separately, but apparently they're rolled in with nociception.

[robkelk]

Yeah. Depending on how one counts, humans might have as many as 11 senses. Six is the minimum.

[Vulpis]

Two I'd have though would have come up easily around here...Common and Humor. ;-)

[classicdrogn]

"The brave die but once; a coward dies a thousand deaths."

"The way you say that it sounds like you think you're insulting me, but all I'm hearing is that running from a fight I can't win means I get nine hundred ninety nine chances to try again."

[robkelk]

"She's, what, fifty feet tall now?"

"We're going to have to start calling her Microha instead of Nanoha, and hope she doesn't keep growing to become Milliha."

"You can go home now."

"No, I can't. She stepped on my house."

[Tennie]

"She's, what, fifty feet tall now?"

"We're going to have to start calling her Microha instead of Nanoha, and hope she doesn't keep growing to become Milliha."

"You can go home now."

"No, I can't. She stepped on my house."

(On the other side of the spectrum...)

"She's smaller than even Reinforce Zwei!"

"Can we call you 'Picoha'?"

[robkelk]

Apollo, no more missions, program's over, oops, out of time,
So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1969.

[robkelk]

"Okay, let's start the personality test. When I say 'twilight sparkle', do you think vampires or little ponies?"

[Ebony]

"Palpatine was wrong. Hate that flows is a wasteful, disorganized torrent, splashing about in an impressive, noisy display, that is ultimately a waste of energy. To be truly powerful, rage and hate must be focused, controlled, and - most importantly - aimed.

It is not a raging lightning storm, to be grounded and deflected. Properly focused hate is a bullet, moving too fast to be avoided."

[robkelk]

"Fullback, halfback, quarterback... Nickelback?"

[classicdrogn]

"Not many people know this, but EARBUD is actually an acronym. It stands for "EARBUDs Are Really Bloody Uncomfortable, Dammit."

[Dartz]

"From the Rivers to the Seas, Bajor shall be free"

(That'll make a few people twitch)

[classicdrogn]

"Lo, for too long hast thou fucked around. Cometh now, the hour thou shalt find out!"

[robkelk]

"The Force is what brings us together today. It surrounds us and penetrates us."

"Oh, kinky!"

"Grow up, Luke."

[robkelk]

Oh, I'm sure that They want you to think that that parrot is just pining for the fnords...

[robkelk]

All lefts unreserved.

[robkelk]

"Nothing says St. Valentine's Day like a massacre."

[classicdrogn]

"The Matrix presented 1999 as the height of human culture and we all laughed, but then the next twenty five years happened and, yeah, maybe the Machines had something..."

[robkelk]

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."

"Are there no food banks?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of food banks," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

"And the homeless shelters?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"

"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."

"The employment agencies and the minimum wage are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very much so, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."


– A Christmas Carol, updated

[robkelk]

While she knew she had to break the news to her parents somehow, she began to wonder whether she should take an approach other than the direct, "Mom, mom... I'm straight."

[robkelk]

"I can't imagine any place for Jennifer Lopez in the cast of this cooking series."

"Aw, c'mon, there's always room for J-Lo."

[robkelk]

What sort of court has a counsel for the persecution and a counsel for the defiance?

[robkelk]

I don't know whether this can be used in either DW-S or My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character, but I'm pretty sure it won't fit into Isekai by Moonlight. So... on the off-chance that somebody else can use it...

---

"Looking back to long ago,
"I seek the one from whom I grow
"Calling her who became me,
"Serenity! Serenity! Serenity!"

The girl in the mirror grinned and said, "You know, you could just think things through when you have to figure out something, Usagi."

"I know, but talking it out is so much easier."

"Maybe, but you're freaking out Mamo-chan and Chibiusa."

Usagi looked behind her. "Oh, hi! I'm just working through a couple of tricky homework problems without getting help from anyone else."

Serenity rolled her eyes. "Technically, I'm not you. I'm your previous incarnation."

[Dragonflight]

Okay, Rob showed me a snippet he posted here, and my mind sort of sat up and said, "it's about time you used this for something more than compost" (Yeah, that happens, and I also lose more arguments than I win, which on reflection is sort of worrying...

Anyway, after mulling it over for about half a second, I came up with this:
===

The door opened, letting in light and the sound of garish music. As the door closed, the music cut sharply, the door's clang resounding like a axe-strike in the enclosed space.

Usagi walked through the middle of the space, noting images around her. Some tall, some small. A few were rounder than usual, while others made her look wavy. The hall of mirrors. Exactly where she needed to be.

She walked into the middle of the house. The dim lights illuminated her only faintly. Behind her, she could sense Chibi-Usa and Mamoru in the scaffolding above. They didn't know what she was about to do next, but she could sense their confidence, and trust, like a wave of warmth over her.

"I'm stuck," she called out to the hall. "I need help. From all of you."

As the others watched, she began to chant:

"Looking back to long ago,
"I seek the one from whom I grow
"Calling her who became me,
"Serenity! Serenity! Serenity!"

With the last word, she wasn't alone. With a flare of light, she was surrounded by Usagi's. But not all the same one.

One wore the silver and pearl dress she remembered herself wearing a few times. She stood with a white-clad version of Mamoru, and they watched her intently. Others stood around her, clad in a variety of outfits. Some were taller, some smaller. One wore the full regalia of Sailor Moon Eternal, all the way to the tricolor banding on her skirt, usually the sign of a goddess or other supernatural being. Usagi spared a moment to envy the extra leg inches that version of her enjoyed.

"I'm stuck, and I can't figure out a way out." She looked at all the others. "In the past, our solution was always the Great Reset. But I don't want to do that again. My friends and I lose so much every time we start over. There has to be a way to save our friends and not reset the universe!"

Sailor Moon Eternal smiled sadly. "There's always a way. I figured it out in my reality. Here's the kicker though. You are the linchpin. The fulcrum this particular see-saw rests upon. The only real answer I think we have for you is this: What price are you willing to pay to guarantee everyone else their happy ending?"

Usagi swallowed hard. "I worked out a plan earlier," she admitted quietly. "But the cost..." She looked up. "Was it worth it?"

Sailor Moon Eternal looked up as a young man stepped up behind her. Mamoru, dressed as a nobleman, glowing with golden light from a scepter he carried. a scepter with a glowing golden crystal Usagi had never seen. "yes," Eternal Usagi said with a smile. "It was touch and go a few times, but it was worth it."

Usagi blinked, and pointed, "What is that?"

Eternal Usagi grinned mysteriously. "You'll have to figure that out yourself. Who knows? Maybe it'll open another door?"

Usagi's began to disappear, one by one, until finally, Eternal Usagi was the last one left. "Good luck, little one."

With that, Usagi was alone in the hall again. No, not alone, as Chibi-Usa and Mamoru walked up behind her, eyes full of questions.

Usagi took a deep breath and spun around. Pointing a finger at Mamoru, her eyes narrowed. "Are you holding out on me mister?"

"No. Wait... I don't..." Mamoru stammered and backpedaled as Chibi-Usa giggled from the side.

[classicdrogn]

That was a good take on a more serious version of the scene, but sorry, Rob's was just adorably Usagi and will be very hard to surpass.