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[microwavemutant]

Pietro's been sitting around the house carving these puppets for the last month and it's driving me absolutely crazy. Every time I turn around there's another two or three of them sitting there, just staring at me.

[She picks up a marionette by the strings, looking mildly horrified.]So, who wants to buy a puppet? They're hand-carved! Made of wood

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[oncemercurial]

[Someone walks in from the next room with a really unpleasant look on his face.]

They're marionettes.

[microwavemutant]

What's the difference?

[She kind of... kicks the one she was holding away from her. Ew.]

[oncemercurial]

[He picks it up and cradles it. How could she?]

Marionettes have strings. Puppets are controlled with sticks or by hand.

[microwavemutant]

[Look it was attacking her, okay. You all saw.]

Are they more expensive? Should I jack up the price?

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[respaces]

Um... Those are very... Nice!

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[microwavemutant]

Would you like some?

[respaces]

No thank you!

[They are really really creepy.]

Um... Maybe he could be a dog walker? Or carve things other than puppets?

[microwavemutant]

The dog walking is a great idea. Maybe that would get him to start walking his own dog too.

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[letoilenordique]

Hmm, that is a skill set that sounds familiar.

Sans the carving, of course.

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[microwavemutant]

Eh, well. It's a cultural tradition or something, I guess.

I'll just take my threadjacking here then

[manlytear]

I do not have any unsettling puppets in my apartment.

[oncemercurial]

And what would make you think we share a common culture?

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[manlytear]

... I suppose I am glad to know that he has a hobby.

[ Besides being difficult, that is.]

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[microwavemutant]

He has other hobbies, too.

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[manlytear]

Besides whisking people away to hostile foreign countries and abandoning them there, you mean?

[He sounds a bit skeptical, but also as though it is said in jest.]

[microwavemutant]

[oh dear]

Has he done that recently?

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[blue_and_proud]

...puppets.

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[microwavemutant]

And marionettes.

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[blue_and_proud]

Puppets and puppets on strings.

...why?

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[microwavemutant]

It's something his father taught him when he was a kid.