Oh has the world changed, or have I changed?

[prongslove]

Holy shit.

In about two months, we're all graduating. All the seventh years.. we're leaving, we're going off into the real world, on our own, being grown ups and the like. I don't think I'm ready. I don't want to grow up. I'm too young to grow up. I'm only seventeen. What am I supposed to do with myself? I can't even work a washing machine -I

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[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

And now you're feeling what I've been feeling for the last two years. Welcome, you can pick up your paranoia packet at the door.

[prongslove]

Excellent, now I get to feel it all hit at once. Now that I've joined the club, do we have t-shirts? Or a manifesto?

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Enjoy. No, no t-shirts. I suppose we should have some mournful little campfire song or something. Maybe you could be in charge of that.

[prongslove]

There really should be t-shirts, or at least some of those pins I always end up sticking myself with. That would be fantastic, you know. I would write the absolute campiest, most mournful song ever.

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

We could probably manage the pins easily enough, and I'll put it on so you won't stick yourself. You should definitely do it, what with your cleverness with words and all.

[prongslove]

I'd appreciate it. That way, even if I still got stuck, we'd have a whole new set of pronouns. It would be excellent. I'm a modern-day William Shakespeare on a guitar, if I do say so myself. Or I would be, if I could play one.

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Well, Shakespeare created words so you could just create...notes? Sure. Just jam away on that guitar. I'm sure it'll be beautiful noise.

[prongslove]

You know, I'm sure that you're right. Shakespeare was a smart guy. He assumed some kid named James would come along and... be a brilliant undiscovered guitarist. I'm sure whatever the notes are, they'd be adequately mournful and, you know, petrified, since I'm a...method...writer. Or methodist. Or whatever you call those things.

What do you reckon you'll do, you know, after school? And, you know, where, and everything?

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Hmm. Maybe he assumed some kid named Wilhelm would come along and do that, since that's a much more fitting name considering it was Shakespeare and he named his own kid Hamnet. I suppose you're close enough. A methodist is a member of a particular Protestant faith, dear.

I still don't know. I have ideas...sort of. I don't really want to go back to my mother's house, so I'll just find a place to stay and a job to pay for it. It can't be too hard.

[prongslove]

I think you are probably correct. Wilhelm is a good, strong, weird, potentially Shakespearian name. I hear one of the characters in Lear was briefly named Gonerilla. That would have been exceptionally unfortunate. I knew I was taking that in the wrong direction. But there are method actors, yes? Which are, I assume, completely unrelated, given their morally questionable behavior.

Yeah? What sort of ideas do you have? They have to be better than mine. Certainly more thought out, probably less potentially insane.

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Gonerilla would have been very bad. I'm sure that character was thankful that his/her creator didn't stick with that one, if a character in a story can be conscious of such a thing. But yes, there are method actors. I'm sure you'd make a fine actor/guitarist.

I'm seriously considering being a Welcome Witch at St. Mungos. Directing worried patients, dealing with crabby mediwizards, filing...fun. I thought about getting a teaching license, but I'd probably kill the kids.

[prongslove]

It would have been. Generations of children in literature courses would laugh their snotty little childhood arses off over Shakespeare. You think so? I could write you songs, you know. So long as I can think of some words that rhyme with "red' that aren't quite as morbid as the first one I came up with. I suppose it could be like, "your hair is so red, thank god you're not dead..." but that seems like trying too hard... reckon there's slant rock, like there's slant rhyme?

I think weshouldgetmarried you would be very good at that. In a matter of weeks, I'm sure, they would realize that you were an untapped talent and have you upstairs performing complex procedures on mothers of eight, and all matter of things. If you lasted a week teaching small children, you'd have done better than I could do.

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Laughter as opposed to falling asleep on their textbooks...perhaps Shakespeare should have stuck with the funnier name. Well, I think that's an excellent song, seeing as I have red hair and I am also very glad to be not dead.

What was that? NO. No medical procedures! It's too squicky. I'll leave that mess for people like Riley. I'd rather get to play with files and yell at irritating people.

[prongslove]

You know, now that you mentioned it, I think I might agree. Laughter is less drool-inducing. Think of all the books that have suffered at the hands of drooling children with no sense of history! Thank you kindly. It will be even better when I put it to music properly, you know. Something meaningful and swing and up-tempo all at the same time. Very heartfelt.

I... nothing, it was just an idea I had. Or didn't have. Or had. I was just thinking.. never mind. Wait, NO what? No to the medical procedures, yes? Or, no, I mean? If you aren't much on the squick, that's probably wise. You're ace at potions, though. You could always incorporate that somehow. Give the irritating people potions to make them shut up, and the like.

[r_o_s_e_w_i_n_e]

Those poor books! ...clearly someone tampered with Shakespeare's works, changing the proper names to something more drooly just to harm the books! Mount up the library nerds! We must put the Wilhelms and Gonerillas back into the works of the Bard! Oh, I'm all for heartfelt music. I'm sure it will be very moving.

Is this an idea that you're willing to share with me? Or will it be relegated to the land of ink blobs forever? Er, no to the medical procedures. You know, I never even thought about potions...I could work in an apothecary for a while, maybe open my own eventually...

[prongslove]

I know! This is a travesty for the ages! We must find those responsible and have them hanged a second time, as was the fashion! It will cause generations of men and women to weep like children. Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive that powerful rhyme!

I... yeah, I suppose I should probably share this one with you. It would probably need your approval, in this day and age, and.. it might not be the best idea to be had in, you know, ink format. Or maybe it is. I don't know. You could do that. You could break the age old stereotype of potions masters and weird old men with lank dark hair and unfortunate noses.