counterfeit

[onceandforall]

This. This is a good bar.

She does not mind taking counterfeit currency and she sells everything.

Bella is going to exploit the fuck out of that but first she is eating really, really good pad thai and finally talking to a person who is a) interesting b) not someone she has already talked to a lot in the last... several years. Lovely friendly bar who makes a lovely delicious pad thai! Bella will have to try opening that door at that moment again in the past.

Comments

[onceandforall]

"My loop's in 2005."

[whatamithinking]

"Huh. Well, it's not that surprising that Milliways can pull people from different years."

[onceandforall]

"Not at all, I knew that, I just hadn't realized you were close but not that close."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm trying to remember 2005 but most of what I can recall isn't directly relatable to the year."

[onceandforall]

"And I mean, you would have been six, which is a little weird all by itself."

[whatamithinking]

"Not that I imagine you need the reminder but if you have a six-year-old me in your world don't flirt with her."

[onceandforall]

"I won't. If you have a thirty-year old me in yours... go for it if you feel like it, I guess?"

[whatamithinking]

"Pfff. Maybe when I'm older."

[onceandforall]

"Entirely fair."

[whatamithinking]

"Given what I know of you, if there's a thirty-year-old version of you in my world I've probably heard of her. Just not as Bella, and she wouldn't necessarily have anything to do with jewels."

[onceandforall]

"I wasn't gonna say it... but yeah I was thinking that."

[whatamithinking]

"Well, of course."

[onceandforall]

Giggle. "I am a motivated and power-hungry beastie."

[whatamithinking]

"Power to help people is the best thing. If your hypothetical alt hasn't heard of me by the time I'm thirty I'll be disappointed in myself."

[onceandforall]

"Fighting villains and, you said social activism, right, what kind?"

[whatamithinking]

"Most kinds, if I can help it. I'm most personally perturbed by LGBTQA-etc. issues for the obvious reasons, and antisemitism because I'm Jewish, but that doesn't mean that other issues aren't just as important. I want to try organizing magical girl activists involved with individual issues into an intersectional organization that seeks across-the-board improvement of treatment of people who aren't white male Protestant etcetera."

[onceandforall]

"What are the added bonuses of having magical girls in particular work on it? Are you, like, role models with action figures who can get on Sesame Street, or are there people with spells that apply really well to some kind of direct action...?"

[whatamithinking]

"Mostly the former, but there's also the added factor that magical girl spells can be really hard to replicate. Impossible if you're not one, and even most magical girls don't have the dedication to orchestrate what spells they get. So any given magical girl who plays her cards right has a lot of resources to work with, without the caveat that people with resources like that usually come with that they came from privileged backgrounds to begin with to have gotten that far."

[onceandforall]

"Ooh. This might or might not be what you meant but what I'm hearing is 'if a magical girl plays her cards right she can be very, very rich'."

[whatamithinking]

"Oh, yeah. Not just that, but if you play your cards right...it takes time, it's not strange that I have the usual wealth for my native socioeconomic class at seventeen going on eighteen, but yes."

[onceandforall]

"I could, even sans counterfeiting, make a lot of money with magic, but we're all hidey. Maybe that'll change."

[whatamithinking]

"I'd keep hiding the gem-cleaning spell from the fluff a while longer, if you can do that without causing anyone to get unnecessarily hurt, but overall I've found the benefits of public magical girling in my world have significantly outweighed the disadvantages."

[onceandforall]

"Yeah, I need a plan to deal with the fluffs. They don't seem to consider being assholes to be a perk in its own right, but they don't value people. Even a little."

[whatamithinking]

"They don't have emotions. At all."

[onceandforall]

"I picked up on that. Which explains why they're using humans as their emotion fuel."