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Roxanne paused the tape recorder. "I'm just going to interrupt the interview for a second. I don't really appreciate that term."
"Pardon?" The wombat set down his teacup in a motion that seemed designed to mirror her own. "What term is that?"
"I'm not a bear, Mr. Underwood."
Her interviewee folded his paws atop his bulging stomach. "I never claimed that you were."
"But you called me..." Roxanne had investigated campaign finance scandals where the suspects were less cagey than him. "Where I come from 'koala bear' is considered a slur, that's all."
"And you are from..."
It was important to remain calm. "Melbourne."
His eyes widened slightly. "Oh? I've never been to Florida." He retrieved the teacup and drained what was left in it. "I don't think the heat would agree with me, honestly."
Roxanne grumbled to herself. By now she'd made up her mind to dig up this wombat's birth certificate and confront him with the fact that he was lying about his history (and faking both his accent and his ignorance of Australia), but she expected he'd merely get enjoyment out of knowing he'd rattled her.
He was enjoying it now. That little barely disguised smirk. Florida. "The heat wouldn't agree with me." He'd already asked his "assistant" to turn up the heat, no doubt because he saw she was wearing a sweater.
Well, if he wanted to play the long game, she had plenty of tape.
"Now then." She hit the button. "Where were we..."
Artwork by
BearlyFeline
"Pardon?" The wombat set down his teacup in a motion that seemed designed to mirror her own. "What term is that?"
"I'm not a bear, Mr. Underwood."
Her interviewee folded his paws atop his bulging stomach. "I never claimed that you were."
"But you called me..." Roxanne had investigated campaign finance scandals where the suspects were less cagey than him. "Where I come from 'koala bear' is considered a slur, that's all."
"And you are from..."
It was important to remain calm. "Melbourne."
His eyes widened slightly. "Oh? I've never been to Florida." He retrieved the teacup and drained what was left in it. "I don't think the heat would agree with me, honestly."
Roxanne grumbled to herself. By now she'd made up her mind to dig up this wombat's birth certificate and confront him with the fact that he was lying about his history (and faking both his accent and his ignorance of Australia), but she expected he'd merely get enjoyment out of knowing he'd rattled her.
He was enjoying it now. That little barely disguised smirk. Florida. "The heat wouldn't agree with me." He'd already asked his "assistant" to turn up the heat, no doubt because he saw she was wearing a sweater.
Well, if he wanted to play the long game, she had plenty of tape.
"Now then." She hit the button. "Where were we..."
Artwork by
BearlyFeline
Category All / All
Species Koala
Size 1919 x 1919px
File Size 5.71 MB
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You know...I think about that some times; we do idealize this perfect world of colorful cartoon animals, going along nicely and being happy......but in actual applications, that would be a definitely something that would complicate the interactions between each other way further more than could be in our world already..
If anything I like to downplay it because I prefer to imagine that in a world where the people standing next to you are likely to be massively physically different from you, people would be less likely to succumb to the "narcissism of small differences". If you couldn't tolerate difference in such a world you simply would not survive in it.
That's not to say that different groups don't have rivalries or that bigotry doesn't exist, but in the modern, rapidly changing world it tends to shift around too much to lead to e.g. war and slavery.
Things were occasionally different in the past and, of course, Victor remembers all of it.
That's not to say that different groups don't have rivalries or that bigotry doesn't exist, but in the modern, rapidly changing world it tends to shift around too much to lead to e.g. war and slavery.
Things were occasionally different in the past and, of course, Victor remembers all of it.
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