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tempingainteasy - A text, at a completely normal hour of the night, definitely.
midnightroads - When timelines permit, a text.
theweakhavepurpose - After Pratt talks to Sharky, before he Judges Sharky
crushed_pearls - Text, Oct 16th, 8:45 AM
tempingainteasy - After finding out about his misadventure, but before he's back.
midnightroads - Text: 6:15am November 1
crushed_pearls - Early Afternoon, Nov 1st
prince_of_beasts - november first, ~6:30 AM
broshaw - [text] nov 2
ring_for_giles - [sometime at the end of November idk]
tempingainteasy - (no subject)
goodweather - please pretend its still the 25th
prince_of_beasts - [the day before the drag ball]
goodweather - (no subject)
ring_for_giles - [texts, starting from near the end of March when Ossie goes into hiding]
broshaw - [text] start of june
goodweather - whenever demona’s tdm is
theotherright - Beginning of October
ring_for_giles - November, probably. Also just gonna upfront warn for NSFW Discussions so we dont have to worry lol
goodweather - the day after the link, nsfw
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A text, at a completely normal hour of the night, definitely.
Date: 2022-10-06 03:00 am (UTC)Follow up text five to ten minutes later
Date: 2022-10-06 12:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2022-10-14 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-14 10:51 pm (UTC)Blast and bloody hell- my sincerest apologies, I've been wrapped up in this Giles business so tightly as of late that one could embalm me and put me to rest in the bloody valley of the kings.
Are you quite alright, Bash? I imagine you've run into him or Erin if you've heard.
I myself am...
I couldn't burden you with it. I'll be alright, I still remember some of the tricks my therapist taught me back home.
Nevertheless I appreciate the offer.
Please do stay safe and take care of yourself.
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From:After Pratt talks to Sharky, before he Judges Sharky
Date: 2022-10-14 11:20 pm (UTC)something is wrong with sharky
hes not him
can u warn giles?
he was talking about getting him in the hot tub
but its not sharky
i dunno what hell do.
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Date: 2022-10-16 03:12 am (UTC)Deputy Pratt
Lucky for all of us, Giles isn't himself either.
Or unlucky.
Some luck in the truest sense of being neither good nor bad but fate lining up in the infuriating way it so often does.
I'm sorry to hear that about Sharky, really I truly am, and I hope with all of my heart we find some way to get them both back to their usual selves.
Do stay safe, please.
Ossie
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From:Text, Oct 16th, 8:45 AM
Date: 2022-10-16 06:23 am (UTC)After finding out about his misadventure, but before he's back.
Date: 2022-10-19 01:26 pm (UTC)Hey, just heard what happened: sending you well-wishes, my heartfelt sympthies, etc.💐
Also since you're having a hell of a week I am extending an invitation to 'fuck it we're still alive' karaoke night this weekend if you'd like to yell your feelings into a microphone for an hour or so. 👍
Get well soon,
April
When Ossie revives
Date: 2022-10-22 11:30 am (UTC)April, you're a treasure
it's terribly awfully appreciated and I will chase you up on it when I feel more like a person.
Thank you for the invitation
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From:Text: 6:15am November 1
Date: 2022-10-29 07:34 pm (UTC)2 theres somehting i otta tell you about but its absolootly not erjant but pleas when you get a moment?
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Date: 2022-10-31 02:30 am (UTC)At 7:20, Bash gets his response.
Bash
I'll pass the message right along, and I'll be round in a jiff.
Coffee?
Ossie
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From:Early Afternoon, Nov 1st
Date: 2022-11-01 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-09 04:02 am (UTC)Like an asshole after round eight with an ogre.
Giles is back to himself but he's sustained no small amount of damage to his clarity.
He didn't even remember we were in a relationship when I found him.
But I have my health and I have him back, at last, so I suppose I shouldn't complain overmuch.
Are your injuries severe? I'm afraid I... got shot fairly early on in the party, so I don't recall much at all.
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From:november first, ~6:30 AM
Date: 2022-11-02 02:33 am (UTC)Did you coee back
Is gilse back
Ar yo u you?
Im sorry
Dimitri's not up for producing speech, so back to frantic, shaky typing it is.
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Date: 2022-11-09 04:08 am (UTC)Both Giles and myself are alive and ourselves.
You've nothing to worry about and no reason to apologise.
Are you alright? Are you hurt?
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From:[text] nov 2
Date: 2022-11-03 06:05 am (UTC)hey
i dont have a full pic of waht happened but is giles ok
or like alive i mean
u dont gotta tell me ne thing specific if u dont wanna
i just need 2 know uve seen him
like him him
i dont got ne weird txts from u so i think u must have been ok???
but if giles wasnt him then problbly not huh
fuck
ummm shit im sorry i kno this aint great but like
just lmk that u guys are safe n alive
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Date: 2022-11-09 03:50 am (UTC)Sharky
Giles is alive, I'm tending to him now.
It's not my place to say much more, but...
Suffice it to say that the manner of beast that he and I am are both more resilient and fragile to difficult occurrences such as these.
He may not be back to his usual charming self for a while.
How are you? Are you alright?
Ossie
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From:[sometime at the end of November idk]
Date: 2022-11-29 05:27 am (UTC)So on a quiet afternoon, Giles's curiousity wins out over continued patience.
"Will you tell me what's on your mind, my love?"
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Date: 2022-12-04 11:36 am (UTC)"Oh, you know, this and that. Not just any one thing. It's just-"
A hand goes up, fingers limp and curled as it sort of rests in the air while he gathers his thoughts.
"Do you ever hear one thing, then another, and your mind won't stop banging the two ruddy things together in your grey matter?"
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Date: 2022-12-12 08:18 pm (UTC)@ wedding now, seating is being set up. people have done their best to dress up for this thing and I tell you, it's wild to see people in actual suits and nice dresses beside the finest Tommy Bahama has to offer. The dress code was 'please wear clothes' and that has definitely been followed there sure are clothes here. There's honest to god a man in a maxi dress that still stops at his thighs and he's got pants on under that. look im not judging I'm just saying I feel much less worried that I underdressed for this. IDK if I can attach pictures but I'm taking 'em anyway so you can see for yourself later
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Date: 2022-12-12 08:46 pm (UTC)OKay now I guess we're just waiting for the ceremony to start??? idk anyone in particular you want an update on while we wait?
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From:please pretend its still the 25th
Date: 2022-12-26 08:12 am (UTC)A note is left inside. It reads:
Merry Christmas Ossie!
I hope you enjoy! I had to fight the Bahamanal six times for this.
Phil ]
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Date: 2022-12-28 08:48 pm (UTC)[the day before the drag ball]
Date: 2023-02-05 10:31 am (UTC)Dedue is interested in the
Drag ball
That has been advertised around the ship.
He asked if I would accompany him for moral support. Of course I agreed but I'm still unsure what exactly this event.
Is.
It sounds like it's far closer to your context than ours. Would you be willing to explain it to me?
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Date: 2023-02-07 08:00 am (UTC)Ah! How lovely! I can certainly oblige.
To put it simply, Drag is a performance of impersonating a gender in exaggeration, often accompanied by dance and song and theatre and comedy.
I intend on performing myself, in fact.
Does that all make sense?
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Date: 2023-03-31 06:43 am (UTC)[texts, starting from near the end of March when Ossie goes into hiding]
Date: 2023-04-02 11:46 pm (UTC)Oswald,
The Hollow doorway appears to have stopped working for me, I will try again in the morning but if you receive this before then you can find me in the library.
Giles
[ And then the next day, the next one comes ]
Oswald,
I still cannot access the cottage, and I am concerned about what this means, please let me know when you receive this.
Giles
[ The third day there are no texts, for Giles spends the whole day as a cat. Napping in the library, curled up on the chair that Ossie used when he took up the role of Blackbird Bishop.
The fourth day the concern reaches a fever pitch, and the texts come spread mere hours apart and getting more frequent as they go on ]
Oswald,
Have you changed the knock? Is that the reason I cannot enter?
I can come up with only one other plausible explanation for my being locked out, and it does not bare thinking about.
Giles
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Ossie, please, if you receive this and are able, please respond.
[.....]
My love, I need to know that you are safe.
[....]
If you need some time alone I understand, you know I understand that my love, and I would give you all the time in the world if you need it. Just please, please, tell me that you are safe and well.
[...]
Please tell me you're still here
[ The fifth day there are no texts again, for there is only so long he can spend staring at the little screen before his eyes begin to blur and his head begins to hurt.
They start alternating after that, one day of frequent short and frantic messages, one day of near silence, rinse and repeat.
Then, on the first of April, the pattern changes. Only one text, sent at around 8pm every single day without fail. Composed in the little journal he keeps in his pocket — which is starting to fill up, and will need to be replaced soon, especially if this goes on for much longer — and then painstakingly copied over into his phone ]
My beloved Oswald, [ it begins, and what follows is an account of his day. The people he saw, and if any of them asked after Ossie; the current state of the ship, such as the fact that the cracks have disappeared and speculation on what that might mean; what he has tried that day to regain access to the cottage; things that he noted throughout the day that made him think of Ossie; and, very very occasionally, a short poem he has written.
Naturally all interspersed with as many ways as he can find to express his love for Ossie, and, finally, signed off ]
Yours, for now and for always,
E. Giles
[text] start of june
Date: 2023-06-07 05:55 am (UTC)pratt + me r throwin a pride thing ASAP
giles is 2 goth 2 help us make the place gay so he said come 2 u
u wanna help decorate??? or just show up n take in the super awesome flags im makin
Sharky
ps sry 4got the stops woops
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Date: 2023-06-08 01:12 am (UTC)MY DEAR SHARKY EXCLAMATION POINT
I WOULD BE THRILLED AND RIVETED TO HELP YOU ARRANGE A PRIDE SHINDIG EXCLAMATION POINT
I will insist that we cater from the cottage so that we can indulge a little without worrying about tightening our belts later on stop
Just let me know when and where and I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail stop
Ossie
P.S. please do tell me that you didn't call Giles goth to his face it would cause his heart to give out stop
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From:whenever demona’s tdm is
Date: 2023-10-04 05:36 pm (UTC)So. Watch out for that.
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Date: 2023-10-05 10:14 pm (UTC)My dear Phil
This bodes ill stop
The warning is appreciated stop
Are you quite alright question mark
I have been wondering when something like this would happen stop
Ossie
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From:Beginning of October
Date: 2023-10-07 10:21 am (UTC)Good morning stop hope I find you well stop I wonder if you would lend me an hour or two of your time and assistance stop
[ A few moments later: ]
Mostly in something perfectly safe comma but also partly in avoiding the bahanimal stop
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Date: 2023-10-07 11:19 am (UTC)Dear Arthur
You find me better than I have been of late stop
Anything for a friend stop
What do you need question mark
P.s. if you've any designs on combating the bahamanal then you may want to look elsewhere stop
Ossie
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From:November, probably. Also just gonna upfront warn for NSFW Discussions so we dont have to worry lol
Date: 2023-11-05 07:55 am (UTC)Inside is very definitely a maid outfit (of the modern costume variety, not a real uniform
to Giles's mild annoyance) which, if Ossie cares to investigate, appears to be sized to fit him perfectly.no subject
Date: 2023-11-05 09:50 am (UTC)Sorry Giles he respects your privacy.
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From:the day after the link, nsfw
Date: 2024-02-06 08:59 pm (UTC)Phil lounges at the cocktail bar--here, rather than Bobby B's, just for a bit of variety. He looks nicely done up himself, although the general bar he maintains means there isn't much more going on than his hair and feathers all being neater than usual.
But Ossie is here, and Phil's mantle kicks up a cool and playful breeze. He raises the Manhattan he's poured himself in greeting. "Shall I mix you anything? I was a deft hand at Punxsutawney's bar, if I do say so myself."
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Date: 2024-02-07 03:23 am (UTC)"Really?" Ossie asks, with a playful curiosity, "by all means then- I couldn't possibly not let you show off."
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