King of all wild things.

I'll be down later today to get back on the donation schedule then.

As long as it's not lemon-scented, right now I'm happy.

Where in the heck do we keep aspirin in this stupid room? Do we have aspirin?

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No rush. I'm attempting to cut back. There has been unhealthy binging of late.

Apparently I am many things, but to my knowledge none of them involve a fresh lemon-scent.

I can offer no suggestions as to the aspirin. The only analgesic currently accessible to me is the product of my palms' Pavlovian salivation. Which I suppose is an option if you have no further need to feel your face.

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There is some in my right-hand desk drawer. Or I have migrane stuff if you need that. I get a lot of headaches.

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Nah. I'm good now. Angel fixed it with her feet.

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Did she use her feet to remove the smell, or to cure your headache?

If the latter, I am using her feet next time I get a migrane.

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No, the smell wasn't giving me a headache, my back was giving me ... a backache. The smell's gone away enough that I don't want to claw my face off anymore.

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I jumped up and down on his back until it popped. *grin* Sadly, I don't think that would work on your head...

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Hey, we could try. My headaches are always powers related.

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What kind of headaches? Depending on the type, there could be different reasons for them. If you're getting a lot of them, it's always good to check in with a doctor.

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We should totally give Marius a break here!

Sure, he did some not-nice things, if what I hear is true, but that doesn't make him a BAD PERSON!

I find that borrowing a rock or even the wood from my desk makes headaches go away. But that wouldn't work very well for you.

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Perhaps what you "heard" falls under the category of "spreading rumors" and is generally frowned upon in polite society.

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Don't look at me. Just because I hear everything doesn't mean I repeat it.

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Okay, now you're creeping me out. How much of "everything" are we talking?

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It's a figure of speech. I just like to keep up around here is all.

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We know what you did last summer!

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Saved Mr al-Rashid's life by making new cybernetic legs for him, gave Jono back a physical body, and got kidnapped by Magneto and the Brotherhood, forced to create a device to neutralize mutant powers, and wind up losing my own for a while?

Not like it's much of a secret.

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You know, the gossip I miss by going to another school till recently. It's shocking I tell you, shocking. You got kidnapped by Magneto? That's pretty impressive that you're still breathing really. I heard he wasn't the type to actually let people go.

I, of course, was making a rather lame reference to a popular movie.

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I did write a book about it.

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Got a copy I could borrow? *innocent look* What? You wouldn't deny a fellow Xavier's resident a free copy, right?

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I've got one you can borrow - we've got a few copies in the SV library. I'll bring it with me next bus trip.

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I'm not giving Marius shit any more than I give anyone shit - I call myself a moron before I call anyone else one. Ask Forge or Marius about my stupid antics sometime.

Actually, hell, I'll tell you about 'em some night over ROH DVD's. Gives me a chance to explain why I know how to do about .. half that stuff, if not more.

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DUDE!

ROH DVDs!

I am _SO_ there! I'll even leave the feather boa behind.

Brotherrrrrrrr.

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I'm not sure Kyle's saying Marius is a bad person here, Mondo - there's that teenage bloke thing where insults can be like friendly nicknames, at least in places like England and Australia and the States.

As for not-nice things... like Forge said, those are rumours and it's not always a good idea to believe everything you hear whispered in the locker room. Marius is no more a bad person than the rest of you lot.

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Yeah. I mean, Marius was dumb, but hey, I'm dumb a LOT. So it's all good. Mostly.

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Speaking as someone who has had personal experience with the rumors, do not believe everything that you hear.

For instance, I am not related Enrique Iglesias or Ricky Martin. I do not know where those came from.

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Clarice tried to convince me "La Vida Loca" was my song once. We don't like to talk about it.

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My people claim no responsibilty for him. He is Puerto Rican.

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Wish I could do the same with the Spice Girls. Maybe we could pass them off as Australian? They tend to give their shite soap stars recording deals...

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let me count the ways...

1). you dated MANUEL. who's latino like Ricky Martin and looks damn good in those leather pants. manuel and ricky.

2). "she's into superstition, black cats and voodoo dolls"

3). "she's got a new addiction for every day and night"

4). "she'll take away your pain, like a bullet through the brain"

It is TOTALLY YOU!!!

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Okay, I might not be Latino - but even I know that Spanish and Puerto Rican are immensely different. To get an idea of how different, go tell Rahne or Terry that Irish and Scottish are basically "all just British, really".

Besides, Ricky Martin may somehow have redeeming qualities somewhere. Thus, no comparison.

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of course spanish is different from puerto rican - which is wht I said they were both "latino" not both "hispanic". but they both fit under a very broad catagory.

and I dunno about ricky having any redeeming qualities, he was in Menudo!

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And technically you're still wrong, as Manuel is not Latino. He's European. Latino is a term specific to the Spanish-speaking people of the Americas. Trust me, grow up in a community that's 1/3rd Spanish-speaking, and you learn to tell the differences really quickly.

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whatever mr. genius.

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You see, this is why I espouse "mutant" as an ethnicity. Much less complicated and divisive.

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except that we're not an ehtnicity.

eth‧nic /ˈɛθnɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[eth-nik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
2. referring to the origin, classification, characteristics, etc., of such groups.
3. being a member of an ethnic group, esp. of a group that is a minority within a larger society: ethnic Chinese in San Francisco.
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of members of such a group.
5. belonging to or deriving from the cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic traditions of a people or country: ethnic dances.
6. Obsolete. pagan; heathen.

none of us have a common cultural, racial, religious or linguistic background. genetics don't make a group - as the balkanization of europe showed.

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We're not an ethnicity yet. Developing a common mutant culture is a significant goal of a large number of our people.

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I thought we were working to live WITH humans - not separate ourselves more! I can't think of a single time that separating a group from society did any good other than make them easy scapegoats for bigotry and hatred!

I don't want to hole up in some little enclave to be protected, I want to live my life! you need to get your ass out of your lab and maybe experience the world before you start creating your plan for world domination!

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No, I really don't.

And here's where you're wrong - developing a common culture does NOT mean isolation, or separation, or domination.

Denying that we ARE different is ignorance, just as much as the folks espousing the FoH beliefs. No one's talking about hiding out in a little enclave - if you'll recall, I'm pretty vocally opposed to the entire concept of reservations, ghettos, and other ethnoculturally-divided areas.

Yes, there are a lot of mutants who would prefer to just assimilate, blend in, pretend they're something they're not. The phrase "Uncle Tom" comes to mind when I think of those folks. They want to pretend they're the same, when all that amounts to is living a lie motivated by self-loathing.

But we are different. And to say that doesn't affect how we react to the world around us is both naive and ignorant. We share common experiences and perceptions related to our differences from the majority of humanity, and that in and of itself is a cultural touchstone for us, whether you choose to accept it or not.

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and with absolutely nothing in common - we have no culture. no language, no beliefs, no religion, nothing.

not an ethnic group. does not mean we aren't a group in general, but we are not that specific kind. not unless you come up with a way to create that common link - and without some sort of enclave or country of mutants or whatever, I don't think that's going to happen.

and for the record - I am not pretending, I am not blending in and I am not assimilating. I AM ME.

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If you can't change the world, you change the word. "Ethnic" used to mean "anyone not Greek". It carried the connotations of "heathen" for centuries until people decided it meant something else.

Perhaps it's time to make the world realize that it's an ineffective and anachronistic division - and that to me is an admirable goal, one bigger than any type of social unity that's ever been accomplished in human history.

And I'm not suggesting you're trying to hide what you are or assimilate - you really can't, nor do I ever think you would. You're proud of who and what you are, and I respect that. You're out in the world, in a predominantly human college, unafraid to show what you are but also not using it to isolate yourself.

In all actuality, you're the perfect example of my entire point.

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it's about time someone else recognized my perfection.

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Funny you should mention that. Check the news from Prague.

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