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[retromix]

Display Name: Steve Harrington
Profile Photo: pic


[ The way Steve backs away from the phone as it records and his hands find his hips as he straightens gives off Unimpressed Vibes but he can't tell one way or another if this thing is broadcasting. He trusts it is. Pressed the livestream option, for what it was worth. He murmurs to himself for a moment, checking the set-up. ]

Alright, so not that different from making a home video, it just ... transmits right away. Very cool.

Uh, hi. Hello. I think this is "streaming" now? [ Like in Ghostbusters when the streams are crossed? Right? Damn. He's got this. ] Yeah, let's do this.

Name's Steve Harrington. Me and some of my [ doesn't even pause here, well done, ] friends got pulled into this dimension and we're kinda used to the whole other worlds thing but we've never been to the future before.

Can someone who isn't a total jackass and won't waste our time please fill us in on whatever's happened since nineteen-eighty-six? That's when we're from. Thanks. Also, does anyone know how dead people can come back to life here? Is it a magical spell or a friendly curse put on them or something? Asking for reasons.

... Yeah, okay, bye.

Comments

[nepotis]

so you can take a video of the asshole who's creeping into your porch to steal your Amazon packages.

[retromix]

Why is everyone getting their packages from the Amazon?

[nepotis]

[ Harry just sends a link ]

[retromix]

... Okay. Got it. Thanks.

[nepotis]

in all seriousness, if you want to know about the interim years you missed, you're probably better off asking specific questions.
but also keep in mind that we're all from different universes, so our answers might differ.

[retromix]

I know, I know about the different universes, but if a bunch of people repeat the same things and they're from alternate realities or some shit then that still means something, doesn't it?
It does. It has to.
I don't know WHAT but I know it means SOMETHING.

[nepotis]

yeah, it means something.
it means multiple realities are fucked up in surprisingly similar ways.

[retromix]

That's still something.

[nepotis]

well, you've already gotten the start of a rundown from one of the Peters.

[ Hello, yes, that's one of the other things to note about the future. Everyone stalks everyone else's conversations. ]

other salient points:
-1987: Black Monday
-1999/2000: Y2K crisis
-2001: the dot-com crash
-2005: hurricanes Katrina and Rita
-2008: subprime mortgage crisis and "the great recession"
-2012: the world was supposed to end but didn't
-also 2012: hurricane Sandy

[retromix]

[ God, everyone is so nosy. ]

If you're not yanking my chain and those are all real things, then thank you. Harry Osborn?

[nepotis]

for once, I am being 100% genuine. those are all real, honest to goodness factual events in recent American history. (at least in my world.)

yeah, that's me.

[retromix]

What's your world like, Harry?

[nepotis]

I'd say it's pretty normal. but you probably are getting the idea that "normal" is subjective.
it's pretty much like this world, except we only have the one superhero.

[ Harry's feelings on that one superhero are... pretty conflicted, these days. ]

also, it was 2014 for me.