I am nearing the end of Mass Effect 3 so my free time should increase soon, for now though, I shall continue regaling you with the tale of the summer meetup.
Where we last left off, I had arrived in London and reached the meeting point, Marble Arch, just outside Hyde Park, I was the first there. I looked around for a way to cross the road to get closer to the Arch, while searching, I bumped into Mayuri and his latest victim, Alina, she appeared to have two black eyes but this was explained as just being tired. It was nice to see Mayuri again, outwardly he does seem very “together”, he’s one of those who you don’t quite understand why they are part of this community when then could reach higher, no pun intended (Mayuri is 5’4). It was also wonderful to meet Alina in the flesh, there is no disconnect between her voice, personality online and appearance, though the Gothic Lolita thing took me by surprise, didn’t take her for a weeb, though she insisted it was “just a dress”. Much like Mayuri, I’m not sure why she is amongst us, I was surprised she wanted a picture of herself taken both with me and the arch, she even posted the picture of herself in the thread, while I feel it’s a safe place, there are a few certified nonces and criminals around, so it’s best to be wary. Everyone else arrived late, it was very frustrating, the next to arrive was Shutin, he has become older since last time and despite how much he will tell you about his hairline, he doesn’t seem any balder than last time, he comes his hair well. He’s also still the same big beast of a man, very hugable and can imagine being comfortable with him in bed, as I’m sure many other women can, I can see why yellow women throw themselves at him, he looks like “default white businessman”.
I spotted a boy walking towards us in the distance, he had a green t-shirt and his hoodie wrapped around his waist, he looked quite trendy but from his walk and posture, I could tell he was here for the meetup, it became more evident when he greeted us, his voice and eyes, immediately piqued my curiosity and awe. I couldn’t place it at first and he does deny it, but I am sure he if of partial Oriental ancestry. I decided there and then that he would be my new adopted son.
Andrew approached from the shadows unseen, no one recognised him in his new look, I’m sure that’s what he intended, he was on edge about the possibility of the paparazzi. Shoutanon also crept up towards us, I was completely taken aback by his emergence, he looks like a stereotypical alt right type, I just wasn’t expecting it, I thought he would look more like a thug or chav given his voice, I was so shocked that I burst out in laughter it was just so unexpected, it was unreal, I’m sure it’s difficult to understand why I found it amusing but I’m sure we’ve all laughed harder at a joke we didn’t see coming or perhaps in a sitcom, something wasn’t amusing but due to how “random” it was we just laughed uncontrollably. As I was laughing, he told me to “Shut up, or I’ll rape you!”, I moved away from him quickly but not before hearing him whisper “Just kidding, I’m going to rape you anyway”, this put me on edge for the rest of the day.
Next up was the “Irish Paki”, he is of Irish decent but as previously established, as the Irish were the Pakistanis of Britain before Pakistanis arrived in modern times, the name is fitting. His sunglasses were very cool but it was a frustration of mine that he initially refused to take them off, and when he did he wouldn’t put them on his shirt pocket. Almost all of his clothes are from Matalan, except the glasses which are from TK MAXX, though the shirt wasn’t either though that’s the one piece of clothing I’d guess was. He brought along a carrier bag with food, I would have thought a backpack would be more convenient.
The last individual was travelling by coach as I had previously done, it was running late so we cut through the park to meet him part way, the park wasn’t particularly busy. Lots of seating and open grass space, it wasn’t the best park I’ve ever seen, it’s not very distinctive.
The lad approached us after some waiting around and to my surprise he was flamboyantly gay, it added some welcome diversity to our group and I liked that he complimented my outfit. I should mention that he denies being homosexual but I feel that might just be internalised homophobia.
The group was now assembled and on we’d march, when I next update tomorrow.
As for current events, today was Eid but due to work, I slept through most of it, I came down for 20 minutes and the highlights were my sister almost saying “Paki” in front of my brothers white fiancee and then the family debating the use of the word and the other highlight being seeing poppadoms for the first time in my life in the kitchen, I assume my mother thought it was something white people like.
At work, a new guy has started, he’s not particularly talkative but I hear him come alive when I’m in the break room and he chats to my colleagues, it’s disappointing that he’s much more successful socially at work within a day than I’ve been in almost 4 months. I do enjoy though that he sits directly behind me and can see me on YouTube while he actually does work. He picked up he was ex-army so he’s probably racist, his accent is quite racist, very “common”, a phrase that comes to mind is “out the gutter”.