Guess what, y'all...
It's time for random chat excerpts!
Me: ZEUS STOP BEING A DICK ALL BACCHUS WANTS TO DO IS HAVE AN ORGY OF WINE AND SONG
Kat: But Zeus cannot stop being a dick!
Kat: That's like asking him to stop breathing.
Me: OH HAY ISIS
Me: ....IRIS
Me: NOT ISIS
Me: ISIS IS EGYPTIAN
Me: IRIS IS GREEK
Me: I R SMRT
Me: Huh. Candlejack has a twi
Bex: *sighs and goes to get Puck back*
Me: That works. *ruffles Lionel* He's probably still accidentally working for the Big Bad, too.
Kat: Oh, Lionel. We love you dearly for that. I can't wait to see what he does to the Big Bad once he figures out what said Big Bad wants with Gabi.
Me: OM NOM NOM LION FOOD
Kat: Saul: SAVE SOME FOR ME. Sheesh. Kids these days, so greedy, I don't know.
Bex: .... You have a "bartending in the dark" Zuko icon.
Me: I do.
Bex: I may have to molest you heartily.
Me: Hooray!
Me: Song: *Azula, go away so I can drag Zuko to a corner and ravish him* *follows Zuko*
Bex: Azula: *hmm, no*
Ty Lee: *bouncebouncejiggle*
Azula: *... maybe*
Bex: I love that the Mongols considered diverting rivers a part of laying siege to a city.
Me: *grin*
Bex: dunmurderin: "We are but simple barbarian folk -- who have a lot of shovels..."
Bex: *grins*
dunmurderin: "I mean, we're not as sophisticated as you city dwellers but in our humble superstitious ways we find that if the spirits of water are removed from the humors, you gonna die like three days after your supplies run out. Just sayin', yo."
Me: Genderwise, I think Yu Long/Lai is my most complicated character. Complicated/fluid
Kat: Genderqueer?
Me: In a sense.
Me: How he identifies changes with his name. When she identifies as a woman, she goes by Yu Lai. When he identifies as a man, he goes by Yu Long.
Me: It is entirely possible that this is a direct result of his high dose of spirituality -- after all, he walks with spirits, and spirits aren't really gendered.
Me: On the other hand, it could just be that that's the way she is.
Kat: *nods*
Me: Makes writing her fun, though.
Me: And sometimes jarring - there's a scene with Yu Lai against Dragon Emperor Azula, and Azula says "have him castrated."
Kat: Awkward.
Me: Of course, being Yu Lai, she replies, "At last, I shall be able to sing the part of Princess Akiko."
Kat: Hee!
Me: This doesn't stop her fighting, I point out - she's still biologically male.
Kat: *nods*
Me: Ooh, Rhapsody in Blue. /ADD
Bex: Twilight probably wouldn't count even if you had allowed it. If you tried to abandon any Twilight-related impulse purchase it would just be back in your room two nights later, watching you sleep.
Kat: Oh, Jubal Early. You do realize that everybody on this ship is gonna kill you for hurting Kaylee, and Jayne will be first in line.
Kat: And Jayne is creative.
Me: And has a bowie knife.
Kat: I have faith in Jayne to be terrifying with just his bare hands.
Me: But he needs to get him an ear.
Kat: He can bite it off.
Me: .....I.
Me: I am finding this disturbingly hot. WHY.
Kat: Because it's Jayne?
Me: ....probably.
Me: "I think there would be questions if I had a daughter, since I have no wife. A cousin's daughter then, sent to be kept safe in Ba Sing Se."
GG: no! Scaryman go 'way.
Bex: But he likes you, GG!
Bex: He wants to make you better. Happier.
Bex: Okay, sometimes he just wants to screw with your head for the sheer enjoyment of it.
GG: I HATE YOU BOTH
Charles: *clicks*
Charles: *reads*
Charles: :(
Me: Xin Wan is a creepy creepy bastard who loves his new doll.
Charles: ARRRG
Kat: Which is nice, but I have perfect faith in your ability to freak me out but good along the way.
Me: Xin Wan has a little doll and a steadfast tin soldier.
Kat: ...
Kat: Like, see, that.
Kat: That would be a beautiful example of freaking me out but good.
Kat: In less than twenty words, even. Well done.
Me: ---I bet XIN WAN would run a dollhouse.
Kat: AUGH
El: yes.
El: yes, he would
Kat: *hides behind Pris*
GG: AAAAAAGH
Me: VICTORY IS MINE
GG: *hides behind Kat hiding behind Pris*
Kat: Pris!
Kat: Make her stop!
Kat: She's freaking me out!
Mom: "I thought Diana was the Greek goddess of the hunt!"
Me: "No, Mom, that's the Roman goddess of the hunt. You want Artemis."
Mom: "That fits my crossword a lot better."
Me: "That would be why they said Greek."
Cleolinda: "In retrospect, it's kind of amazing they didn't do that to Star Trek. Happy shiny can work, people!"
Tetradecimal: "I think you just took two years off Frank Miller's life."
Me: *kind of loves Playing With Jade, because it's got Long Feng being creepy in a weirdly nonsexual way and then Song seducing him by undoing his jacket with her teeth and they both know that after sex he's going to arrest her and then she knocks him unconscious first and steals his clothes and YES*
Kat: And then Long Feng wakes up with hearts in his eyes and everyone within twenty miles has a sudden inexplicable urge to hide somewhere.
Me: Clearly you are a filthy filthy thief.
El: and a lameass one, too?
Me: THIRTY LASHES
Me: AND THEN, YOU WALK THE PLANK
El: what am i being lashed with?
El: and what is this plank over?
Me: A wet noodle and a kiddie pool.
El: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Me: Oh, right, this is the cutscene where [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER], and [SPOILER SPOILER] while [SPOILER] gets a [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] [SPOILERS].
GG: ...go [spoiler] yourself.
Me: *stares at Head Games*
Bex: Head Games: *stares back*
Me: AAAAAAAA
Bex: Oops.
Me: It isn't supposed to be the abyss!
Valkyrie Esker: And now you know.
GG: And knowing is half the battle!
GG: ...though I'm not sure what kind of battle would involve kosher food.
Valkyrie Esker: ...A No-Holds bar Mitzvah?
GG: ...ten cents in the pun jar. Now.
Valkyrie Esker: ...How many future kids have I put through college now?
GG: 17.
GG: Including three lawyers, one doctor, and one mime.
GG: (We don't talk about the mime.)
Valkyrie Esker: he's my favorite.
El: ...i like heels, and i find these painful just to look at.
Me: ...that sound you just heard was my feet.
Me: screaming in agony.
Me: OHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S A SUDDEN UNEXPECTED MILLIPEDE
GG: AGH I HATE YOU.
Me: Ichiro: *watches him go, looks at the wall, adds on* 'The Dai Li do as they must.' *looks again, wanders a ways down* 'The significant catowl hoots in the night.' *wanders off*
GG: What about the caged elewhale?
Me: It knows nothing of the mighty deeps.
Me: If you must know.
GG: Oooh. Three doors down.
Me: If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?
GG: I'm not the only one who habbitualy mispells certain words, right?
Me: habitually
GG: ...oh, irony. Where is thy sting.
Me: And now Xemnas pontificates at length. Again.
GG: /\ Throw Tomato.
Me: /\ Throw Rotten Eggs
GG: /\ Throw Brick
Me: /\ Throw Mickey
GG: You win
Me: Batman.
Me: He doesn't like chocolate.
Kat: D:
Kat: Well, I'll just have to eat it all so it doesn't offend him.
Kat: Poor me.
Me: I'll help!
Bex: ... So I kind of want to do a Liu/Ichiro claim. 7snogs or 7_lies?
Me: ....given the nature of the relationship (which is actually surprisingly fluffy considering the dark possibilities), I want to go with lies.
Me: ---all this controversy and the official results haven't been released yet. *is back in sf_drama, where more sanity is being had*
Kat: Trust idiots on the internet to LOL jump to conclusions like a frog on a pogo stick.
Me: Like a jumping bean on a frog on a pogo stick.
Me: On a frog on a RABBIT on a pogo stick.
Kat: Like a jumping bean on a frog on a rabbit on a beat me to it.
Me: And the green grass grew all around all around and the green grass grew all around.
Me: Or should I have gone with the hole in the bottom of the sea or the rattlin' bog?
Kat: Do do do do!
Kat: O, ro, the rattlin' bog, the bog down in the valley-o!
Me: Rare bog, the rattlin' bog, the bog down in the valley-o!
Me: ....
Me: *puts it on*
Me: And eventually Hyo's just like 'we have to give her back, Niran'
Bex: Niran: "But she makes pastries."
Me: Hyo: "Yes. But she is not ours."
Bex: Niran: "... But she makes pastries." *as if this trumps the 'not ours' part*
Me: Hyo: "And she has a home and a family."
Bex: Niran: ".... I suppose 'but she makes pastries' isn't going to work a third time either."
Me: Hyo: "Not really."
Tian: *walks to Liu with her bowl of spiced fruits*
Liu: *headtilts*
Tian: *faint flush* "Um... I... I guessed you can't have pastries because..." *touches her lips with her free hand* "Well, because of this, but I thought... maybe if the fruit was chopped finely...?"
Liu: *smiles at her and nods* *yes, he can have finely-chopped fruit*
Tian: ^_^ *gives the bowl to him*
Liu: *enjoys* *they can keep pastry girl?*
Hyo: *.......NO. WE CAN'T KEEP HER. WE ARE NOT KIDNAPPERS.*
Liu: *But. Desserts.*
Hyo: *then you can help Niran court her when he takes her home*
Liu: *I has a Fireboi*
Hyo: *and you're just lucky he's a runaway or you'd have to send him back too*
Liu: *You speak heresy.*
Hyo: *beg pardon?*
Liu: *hisses*
Hyo: *I am not making you send your fire boy back, Liu. He's an adult and he ran away from home because his father is an abusive twat*
Liu: *Yes. Good.*
Hyo: *besides. his brother belongs here*
Liu: *Yes.* *purrs*
Hyo: *what is with my Agents and being enamoured of Firefolk?*
Liu: *Ichiro likes me.*
Niran: *Dude. Pastries.*
Xiang: *Yuriko likes to yell at me. Also, she is sexy.*
Hyo: *I'm going to bang my head against the wall a few times*
Me: Should probably do the seduction of Ichiro at some point.
Bex: Yes.
Me: Should finish Songzai first.
Bex: Yes.
Me: But instead I'm going to watch more Bleach.
Bex: Heh.
Me: ...why is it that the longer I'm in California, the more I say y'all?
Charles: trying to hold on to your southern roots?
Charles: (Do you have southern roots?)
Me: I don't think I do.
Me: I don't even have the accent, and I lived there (collectively) over ten years!
Charles: FAIL :(
Me: Well, you know, you spend 3.5 years there, move to Nevada, move back for another 3.5 years, move to Germany, move back for another five years...
Charles: you should have a very strange accent then
Charles: or a German one
Me: Near as I can figure, my accent is Hollywood Generic.
Me: Or just Generic American.
Me: (I have been told I don't have an accent. I'm sure you disagree.)
Charles: YES
Charles: YOU HAVE A WHOPPING ONE
Charles: YOUR VOICE BLEEDS BALD EAGLES AND APPLE PIE
Bex: I crave them like the flesh of the living.
Me: ....
Me: *eyes*
Bex: What?
Me: When did you become a Reaver?
Me: ZEUS STOP BEING A DICK ALL BACCHUS WANTS TO DO IS HAVE AN ORGY OF WINE AND SONG
Kat: But Zeus cannot stop being a dick!
Kat: That's like asking him to stop breathing.
Me: OH HAY ISIS
Me: ....IRIS
Me: NOT ISIS
Me: ISIS IS EGYPTIAN
Me: IRIS IS GREEK
Me: I R SMRT
Me: Huh. Candlejack has a twi
Bex: *sighs and goes to get Puck back*
Me: That works. *ruffles Lionel* He's probably still accidentally working for the Big Bad, too.
Kat: Oh, Lionel. We love you dearly for that. I can't wait to see what he does to the Big Bad once he figures out what said Big Bad wants with Gabi.
Me: OM NOM NOM LION FOOD
Kat: Saul: SAVE SOME FOR ME. Sheesh. Kids these days, so greedy, I don't know.
Bex: .... You have a "bartending in the dark" Zuko icon.
Me: I do.
Bex: I may have to molest you heartily.
Me: Hooray!
Me: Song: *Azula, go away so I can drag Zuko to a corner and ravish him* *follows Zuko*
Bex: Azula: *hmm, no*
Ty Lee: *bouncebouncejiggle*
Azula: *... maybe*
Bex: I love that the Mongols considered diverting rivers a part of laying siege to a city.
Me: *grin*
Bex: dunmurderin: "We are but simple barbarian folk -- who have a lot of shovels..."
Bex: *grins*
dunmurderin: "I mean, we're not as sophisticated as you city dwellers but in our humble superstitious ways we find that if the spirits of water are removed from the humors, you gonna die like three days after your supplies run out. Just sayin', yo."
Me: Genderwise, I think Yu Long/Lai is my most complicated character. Complicated/fluid
Kat: Genderqueer?
Me: In a sense.
Me: How he identifies changes with his name. When she identifies as a woman, she goes by Yu Lai. When he identifies as a man, he goes by Yu Long.
Me: It is entirely possible that this is a direct result of his high dose of spirituality -- after all, he walks with spirits, and spirits aren't really gendered.
Me: On the other hand, it could just be that that's the way she is.
Kat: *nods*
Me: Makes writing her fun, though.
Me: And sometimes jarring - there's a scene with Yu Lai against Dragon Emperor Azula, and Azula says "have him castrated."
Kat: Awkward.
Me: Of course, being Yu Lai, she replies, "At last, I shall be able to sing the part of Princess Akiko."
Kat: Hee!
Me: This doesn't stop her fighting, I point out - she's still biologically male.
Kat: *nods*
Me: Ooh, Rhapsody in Blue. /ADD
Bex: Twilight probably wouldn't count even if you had allowed it. If you tried to abandon any Twilight-related impulse purchase it would just be back in your room two nights later, watching you sleep.
Kat: Oh, Jubal Early. You do realize that everybody on this ship is gonna kill you for hurting Kaylee, and Jayne will be first in line.
Kat: And Jayne is creative.
Me: And has a bowie knife.
Kat: I have faith in Jayne to be terrifying with just his bare hands.
Me: But he needs to get him an ear.
Kat: He can bite it off.
Me: .....I.
Me: I am finding this disturbingly hot. WHY.
Kat: Because it's Jayne?
Me: ....probably.
Me: "I think there would be questions if I had a daughter, since I have no wife. A cousin's daughter then, sent to be kept safe in Ba Sing Se."
GG: no! Scaryman go 'way.
Bex: But he likes you, GG!
Bex: He wants to make you better. Happier.
Bex: Okay, sometimes he just wants to screw with your head for the sheer enjoyment of it.
GG: I HATE YOU BOTH
Charles: *clicks*
Charles: *reads*
Charles: :(
Me: Xin Wan is a creepy creepy bastard who loves his new doll.
Charles: ARRRG
Kat: Which is nice, but I have perfect faith in your ability to freak me out but good along the way.
Me: Xin Wan has a little doll and a steadfast tin soldier.
Kat: ...
Kat: Like, see, that.
Kat: That would be a beautiful example of freaking me out but good.
Kat: In less than twenty words, even. Well done.
Me: ---I bet XIN WAN would run a dollhouse.
Kat: AUGH
El: yes.
El: yes, he would
Kat: *hides behind Pris*
GG: AAAAAAGH
Me: VICTORY IS MINE
GG: *hides behind Kat hiding behind Pris*
Kat: Pris!
Kat: Make her stop!
Kat: She's freaking me out!
Mom: "I thought Diana was the Greek goddess of the hunt!"
Me: "No, Mom, that's the Roman goddess of the hunt. You want Artemis."
Mom: "That fits my crossword a lot better."
Me: "That would be why they said Greek."
Cleolinda: "In retrospect, it's kind of amazing they didn't do that to Star Trek. Happy shiny can work, people!"
Tetradecimal: "I think you just took two years off Frank Miller's life."
Me: *kind of loves Playing With Jade, because it's got Long Feng being creepy in a weirdly nonsexual way and then Song seducing him by undoing his jacket with her teeth and they both know that after sex he's going to arrest her and then she knocks him unconscious first and steals his clothes and YES*
Kat: And then Long Feng wakes up with hearts in his eyes and everyone within twenty miles has a sudden inexplicable urge to hide somewhere.
Me: Clearly you are a filthy filthy thief.
El: and a lameass one, too?
Me: THIRTY LASHES
Me: AND THEN, YOU WALK THE PLANK
El: what am i being lashed with?
El: and what is this plank over?
Me: A wet noodle and a kiddie pool.
El: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Me: Oh, right, this is the cutscene where [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER], and [SPOILER SPOILER] while [SPOILER] gets a [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] [SPOILERS].
GG: ...go [spoiler] yourself.
Me: *stares at Head Games*
Bex: Head Games: *stares back*
Me: AAAAAAAA
Bex: Oops.
Me: It isn't supposed to be the abyss!
Valkyrie Esker: And now you know.
GG: And knowing is half the battle!
GG: ...though I'm not sure what kind of battle would involve kosher food.
Valkyrie Esker: ...A No-Holds bar Mitzvah?
GG: ...ten cents in the pun jar. Now.
Valkyrie Esker: ...How many future kids have I put through college now?
GG: 17.
GG: Including three lawyers, one doctor, and one mime.
GG: (We don't talk about the mime.)
Valkyrie Esker: he's my favorite.
El: ...i like heels, and i find these painful just to look at.
Me: ...that sound you just heard was my feet.
Me: screaming in agony.
Me: OHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S A SUDDEN UNEXPECTED MILLIPEDE
GG: AGH I HATE YOU.
Me: Ichiro: *watches him go, looks at the wall, adds on* 'The Dai Li do as they must.' *looks again, wanders a ways down* 'The significant catowl hoots in the night.' *wanders off*
GG: What about the caged elewhale?
Me: It knows nothing of the mighty deeps.
Me: If you must know.
GG: Oooh. Three doors down.
Me: If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?
GG: I'm not the only one who habbitualy mispells certain words, right?
Me: habitually
GG: ...oh, irony. Where is thy sting.
Me: And now Xemnas pontificates at length. Again.
GG: /\ Throw Tomato.
Me: /\ Throw Rotten Eggs
GG: /\ Throw Brick
Me: /\ Throw Mickey
GG: You win
Me: Batman.
Me: He doesn't like chocolate.
Kat: D:
Kat: Well, I'll just have to eat it all so it doesn't offend him.
Kat: Poor me.
Me: I'll help!
Bex: ... So I kind of want to do a Liu/Ichiro claim. 7snogs or 7_lies?
Me: ....given the nature of the relationship (which is actually surprisingly fluffy considering the dark possibilities), I want to go with lies.
Me: ---all this controversy and the official results haven't been released yet. *is back in sf_drama, where more sanity is being had*
Kat: Trust idiots on the internet to LOL jump to conclusions like a frog on a pogo stick.
Me: Like a jumping bean on a frog on a pogo stick.
Me: On a frog on a RABBIT on a pogo stick.
Kat: Like a jumping bean on a frog on a rabbit on a beat me to it.
Me: And the green grass grew all around all around and the green grass grew all around.
Me: Or should I have gone with the hole in the bottom of the sea or the rattlin' bog?
Kat: Do do do do!
Kat: O, ro, the rattlin' bog, the bog down in the valley-o!
Me: Rare bog, the rattlin' bog, the bog down in the valley-o!
Me: ....
Me: *puts it on*
Me: And eventually Hyo's just like 'we have to give her back, Niran'
Bex: Niran: "But she makes pastries."
Me: Hyo: "Yes. But she is not ours."
Bex: Niran: "... But she makes pastries." *as if this trumps the 'not ours' part*
Me: Hyo: "And she has a home and a family."
Bex: Niran: ".... I suppose 'but she makes pastries' isn't going to work a third time either."
Me: Hyo: "Not really."
Tian: *walks to Liu with her bowl of spiced fruits*
Liu: *headtilts*
Tian: *faint flush* "Um... I... I guessed you can't have pastries because..." *touches her lips with her free hand* "Well, because of this, but I thought... maybe if the fruit was chopped finely...?"
Liu: *smiles at her and nods* *yes, he can have finely-chopped fruit*
Tian: ^_^ *gives the bowl to him*
Liu: *enjoys* *they can keep pastry girl?*
Hyo: *.......NO. WE CAN'T KEEP HER. WE ARE NOT KIDNAPPERS.*
Liu: *But. Desserts.*
Hyo: *then you can help Niran court her when he takes her home*
Liu: *I has a Fireboi*
Hyo: *and you're just lucky he's a runaway or you'd have to send him back too*
Liu: *You speak heresy.*
Hyo: *beg pardon?*
Liu: *hisses*
Hyo: *I am not making you send your fire boy back, Liu. He's an adult and he ran away from home because his father is an abusive twat*
Liu: *Yes. Good.*
Hyo: *besides. his brother belongs here*
Liu: *Yes.* *purrs*
Hyo: *what is with my Agents and being enamoured of Firefolk?*
Liu: *Ichiro likes me.*
Niran: *Dude. Pastries.*
Xiang: *Yuriko likes to yell at me. Also, she is sexy.*
Hyo: *I'm going to bang my head against the wall a few times*
Me: Should probably do the seduction of Ichiro at some point.
Bex: Yes.
Me: Should finish Songzai first.
Bex: Yes.
Me: But instead I'm going to watch more Bleach.
Bex: Heh.
Me: ...why is it that the longer I'm in California, the more I say y'all?
Charles: trying to hold on to your southern roots?
Charles: (Do you have southern roots?)
Me: I don't think I do.
Me: I don't even have the accent, and I lived there (collectively) over ten years!
Charles: FAIL :(
Me: Well, you know, you spend 3.5 years there, move to Nevada, move back for another 3.5 years, move to Germany, move back for another five years...
Charles: you should have a very strange accent then
Charles: or a German one
Me: Near as I can figure, my accent is Hollywood Generic.
Me: Or just Generic American.
Me: (I have been told I don't have an accent. I'm sure you disagree.)
Charles: YES
Charles: YOU HAVE A WHOPPING ONE
Charles: YOUR VOICE BLEEDS BALD EAGLES AND APPLE PIE
Bex: I crave them like the flesh of the living.
Me: ....
Me: *eyes*
Bex: What?
Me: When did you become a Reaver?