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 "Who do you work for?"
"Santa Clause."
"He's telling the truth?"

"So he's insane."
"They"
"Excuse me."

"They/them not he/him."
"See, insane."
"No variation."

"Being transgender is an affront to God."
"You do understand that in legal documents in the British court system gender was only assigned to the aristocracy right?"
"Truth"

"Who do you work for?"
"Santa Clause."
"They're still telling the truth."


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So I've been working on a concept for a new version of the Three Musketeers.
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D - "Who's the guy hogging all the women?"

At -  "Porthos"

D -"The PIRATE?"

Ar -"King"

D-"What?"

At - "Porthos the Pirate KING"

D - "He's Royalty?  I doubt that."

At - "Would His Highness deign to slum with the commoners."

P - "Hey, I know this brat."

D - "Mark your words sir, we already have an appointment."

At - "How many cousins need  knocked off to get the crown?"

P - "Less than I'd like.  Excuse me, the ladies are calling me to court."

D - "It will be a pleasure to strike down such a lecherous creature." 

Ar - "That leacher has more nobility in his pinky then the a royal ball." 

D - "I doubt that." 

At - "Do you know how he came to be a pirate?"

D - "Turned his back on the crown I'm told."

Ar - "He's a Scottish lordling that took the safety of his people to heart." 

At - "When the English marched across his lands he loaded the peasants onto his ship and sailed for France refusing to let them be ground under the monarchy's heel in their greed."

Ar - "His people call him King, The Crown calls him a pirate."

At - "The French king offered harbor to his people in exchange for his ship.  The Cardinal sent us to the New World."

Ar - "We sailed with him not realizing we were being taken off of the board." 

D - "My father marched with him?"

At - "Your father saved his life."

Ar - "All of our lives."

D - "Where is his ship docked."

At - "Scuttled in the harbor when he refused to raise the Flag for the Cardinal." 

Ar - "And he's been holding court here since." 

D - "What are the silver coins on his hat?"

Ar - "His crown of thorns"

At - "We were told they were savages."

Ar - "Red Devils." 

P - "They were people...Kind and generous people." 

Ar, AT, P - "And our cannons cut them down."

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"Who do you work for?"
"Santa Clause."
"Man...Santa's Not real."
"Says you."
"No white man ever put presents in my socks."
"Did you know that back in the day getting a stocking full of coal was the equivalent of winning the lottery?"
"..."
"Back then that's how you heated your house, so someone just giving coal to someone else helped keep a home warm through the coldest part of winter."
"...But getting coal is bad." 
"Only if you don't know the history." 
"Still haven't seen a white man dropping anything other than bodies around here." 
"Did you know superman is meant to be a Jewish super hero?"
"Jews are white."
"Zionists are White, not Jewish people."
"What's a Zionists?" 
"A conversation for another time maybe."
"..."
"Spider-Man is just a kid put in a tight spot."
"Still, no super heroes with hair like mine."
"What about the Three Musketeers?"
"That's a White story."
"You should look into the history of that.  The author had hair like yours."
"Huh?"
"By your estimations I'm White."
"You're not White, you're Mem."
"Wish the rest of the world saw it that way." 
"So you work for Santa Clause?"
"Just one of his little Elves checking his list." 
"So am I naughty or nice?"
"I dunno d'Aratagnan you tell me."
"..."
"Let's get outta here before Krampus shows up."
"Who's Krampus?"
"Trust me kid, you don't wanna know." 
"So does this mean I'm going to get coal in my socks?"
"Dude, you're a diamond and the world needs your sparkle."
"..."
"Move when I move, stop when I stop, and keep your head down.  I'll get you back to your parents." 
"Grandparents."
"That's who you trust?"
"Yeah."
"Alright, let's move."

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