[seasonality] catchall for rupert

[wtfox]

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[heartlands]

You seem pretty tough to me, so... Ah, not to say that you always have to be if you're even not feeling it.

[wtfox]

I am pretty tough! Or at least, I can be. I think. Especially when there's people like you to back me up.

[...]

But you don't have to pretend like you're okay, either.

[heartlands]

...I don't think I'd be very good at pretending even if I tried. I'm not okay. This is - horrible.

[wtfox]

It really is. But... luckily we've got people to support us.

We can be not okay together.

[heartlands]

Maybe we could make a club.

[it's a joke, though it's halfhearted given the circumstances.]

[wtfox]

Like a support group? That's not a bad idea...

[she is not joking]

[heartlands]

...What's a support group?

[wtfox]

A group of people who are dealing with the same unpleasant thing and help each other through it.

[heartlands]

Oh.

[...]

You mean, like, friends...? Are friends called a support group where you're from?

[wtfox]

Oh! No, friends are friends... it's just, um, how should I put this... sometimes your friends haven't been through the exact same things you have? So it's easier to talk to people who have.

That's where the support group comes in - it's all people who know exactly what you're going through because they lived it.

[heartlands]

...You know, I was joking earlier, but that actually does sound like kind of a good idea.

[wtfox]

...yeah, the more I think about it, the better an idea it sounds.