psl/meme catch-all (2025)

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[noentry]

Explosion.

[headhooligan]

[Nice. Aubrey raises a fist and opens it, in the world’s most nonchalant mimic of a:] Blast.

[noentry]

[Hm...]

Bright.

[headhooligan]

[Explosive— Hmm.]

Sparkler. [It’s not cheating if they’re on different scales, shut up.]

[noentry]

[She totally already said firework...]

Write.

[Has she ever done that? When Sano was a kid, he'd use his sparkler to write his name in kanji as fast as he could, right there in the sky. The trails of light would hang around almost long enough to read.]

[headhooligan]

[Huh? Odd connection. Aubrey tilts her head. Fireworks in cartoons say words, sometimes, but sparklers…

[Oh. She nods as the visual sparks to life. Usually, she and her friends made] Pictures.

[noentry]

[Yeah. She gets it.]

Draw.

[headhooligan]

[Sunny.]

Bri— Wait, no. [Different “bright,” still a repeat!]

Creative.

[noentry]

[Hm...]

Imagination.

[headhooligan]

[“Pretend” seems too close, and she’s on thin ice with that slip-up, so:]

…World. [Thing that can be imagined by bright people.]

[noentry]

[An imaginary world. Like a good--]

Book.

[headhooligan]

[Would that she knew any!

[…Although. It’s not a prose type of book, but:] Space.

hi my name's aubrey I'm 16 and I never fuckin learned how to read

[noentry]

[Alright. A book about space. Maybe this chick is a little nerdier than she looks?]

Science.

JBVJSDKFSD

[headhooligan]

[A brief eye-narrowing as if the connection from book to space to science takes a second to register. Oh, yeah…]

Nerd. [With a little nod. That means you, buddy.]

[noentry]

[Eh--]

Smart.

[That doesn't mean he's a nerd.]

[headhooligan]

[Time to break out the thesaurus:] Geek.

[noentry]

Punk.

[headhooligan]

Rebel. [Debatably, but now she’s just ribbing him.]

[noentry]

Delinquent.

[He can practically hear Haruaki shrieking (wait, is that really him?).]

[headhooligan]

[Yeah!] Free-spirited.

[noentry]

[Sano offers her a flat look.]

That doesn't count. Nothing hyphenated.

[headhooligan]

Who made that rule?

A nerd?

[noentry]

Free-spirited is two words.

[Girl, you know he's right!]

[headhooligan]

Hmph. Well, I think we’ve established I’m a punk, so.

[A shrug. Frankly, it’s just nice to not be stuck with one word anymore.]

[After a beat,] You want a trophy? [In any other context this would sound sarcastic. Maybe it’s a little sarcastic? She's not making fun of him, though....]

[noentry]

[She doesn't sound sarcastic, but what else could a comment like that be? He sounds sarcastic.]

I don't see any lying around.