Fandom Radio, January 5
Lacey: Evening, Fandom.
Katchoo: Wow, Lacey, I think you're missing your exclamation point there. For all of you guys who can't see it, because she still thinks you can see the look on her face, she isn't sickeningly cheerful about smiling when she says that tonight. She usually is.
Lacey: Don't talk to me about it, person who looks awfully tanned.
Katchoo: Three days in Curacao. Suck it, Lacey. Guess I'll steal your intro tonight. That's Lacey Burrows, and . . . fine, this is Katina Choovanski, and it's Tuesday night, so you get us on your radio. Don'tcha feel so frikkin' lucky?
Lacey: Don't talk to me about luck.
Katchoo: . . . right.
Classes
Lacey: First week of new classes means it's probably introductions time again, isn't it? Let's see what we've got. Magical Ethics started out with an introduction from Alysha before the first lecture, then they went right into discussing ethical magic use in pairs. Raven and Andy, Tara and Alex Russo, Leda and Tony Foster, Karla, Sookie, and Ino -- wait, that's not a pair.
Katchoo: Go with it.
Lacey: Beka and Zack, Sam Winchester and Griff, and Azula and Helen all got into the discussion and, I presume, get points for participation. Tony talked to Alysha after class and got made TA and oh my gosh she's Canadian.
Katchoo: Oh geez. You guys are gonna take over. Hey, let's see what's goin' on in my favorite, no, really, class from last semester. Ethics. Yep, today was the class on self-sacrifice, 'cause there's nothing like starting the semester off with the easy stuff. Bet Anakin's lecture was just as sunshine-and-puppies as it was when I was there.
Lacey: Boy, someone loved that class.
Katchoo: Like a swooning schoolgirl.
Lacey: And I did not need that mental image.
Katchoo: Merry late Christmas. The question of the day was about when everybody realized they had an unsolvable problem. Kinda like Lacey. Anakin talked to Leia after class and got to hear all about her finding out more about her birth family and sooooooooooomebody's been holding out on something, apparently. Cindy started off the first day of Monomyths by giving everybody the basic rundown on the concept, complete with lecture in case people thought they'd get off easy the first week and not get one, and made everybody discuss their favorite fictional character. And like ya do, she was around to talk to.
Lacey: I am not an unsolvable problem, thank you very much.
Katchoo: Oh, good, you didn't miss out on me saying that.
Lacey: I wanted you to think you got away with it. Bet people in Alex Cabot's Law and Justice class aren't going to get away with much; she warned them it might get messy.
Katchoo: Usually does.
Lacey: If you say so. Oh, guess what, there was a lecture. Nobody is getting away without one today. Just because you kids don't have the heaviest course schedule in the world doesn't mean you get to get away with really easy classes either, apparently. In keeping with the class theme, introductions had to include an overview of what everyone's legal system is like back home. Wow, talk about not starting off easy -- the discussion was about what is or isn't a crime, and the first example is murder.
Katchoo: Screw the kiddie pool. Right into the deep end there. Speaking of the deep end, Jack Priest doesn't think vampirism should be a crime. Yeah, I'd boggle like Kurt did. Karla and Dinah talked about prostitution, and Karla doesn't know why it was ever illegal. I'll just keep my opinion on that to myself. Alex fielded questions from Karla after class, but no idea if she stuck to the same subject there. Max did introductions in Living With Difficult Women --
Lacey: What, there's a class all about you?
Katchoo: I AM NOT DIFFICULT, YOU *FEEDBACK*ING *FEEDBACK* DITZ.
Lacey: Right, because there's nothing about you in these notes about how everybody shared their experiences with difficult women while they did their introductions?
Katchoo: *feedback* frikkin' right.
Lacey: Also nobody mentioned you to Max after class.
Katchoo: Shut it, Lacey. Some of us get that it's not all about us.
Lacey: . . . hey. Anemone was in the library even though she and Gulliver looked more like they were geared up to go flying. If that happened it wasn't until after Henry got to meet her and hear all about the awesome, yet sadly underutilized, library, and more about Special Collections. Henry's teaching buddy Summer came by with coffee and introduced herself. Coffee always makes for good introductions, and we have a particularly great house blend at Luke's D -- *thunk* -- ow.
Katchoo: Nice shot, fuzzball. *chittering* And I get another stack of notes for giving a frikkin' compliment. That's gratitude for you.
Dorms
Katchoo: Aww, look, it's Fighting Reserves time again, and it looks like Arthur unclenched enough to not pretend Zack's cookies weren't there for once.
Lacey: . . . you know, you could rephrase that.
Katchoo: Nah. 's funny. So's the fact that for a bunch of fighters they sure as hell do a lot of socializing. Ino, Fiona, Triela, Gabrielle, Kennedy, Blysse and Blind Seer, Dinah, Kurt, Gunn, Illyria, and Momoko were around. Jacob offered Blysse a cookie and talked about wolf pack behavior with her, 'cause everybody's gotta geek out about something. Jennifer and Fiona did the post-break catchup thing and the "I don't feel that secure when I'm not giant and green" thing. That was Jennifer, anyway. Ben and Tiny Creepy Kid spazzed about Chuck Bass going on a date with Leia, and sadly not even that stopped them from being nauseatingly cute. Dru gets points from me for telling Dinah she's too bouncy. She also said she's a hunter.
Lacey: Be less specific, why don't you. Oh, look, introductions. As the new arrivals, Jacob, Dru, Kurt, and Gunn all got interrogated by Arthur when they introduced themselves. Gunn got a bonus surprise in Illyria, who recognized him, but it wasn't mutual; he freaked out when she did a shapeshifty sort of thing on him.
Katchoo: And the reserve veterans who introduced themselves: Kennedy, Blysse and Blind Seer, Gabrielle, Fiona, Dinah, Ben, and Momoko. They didn't get the special Pendragon grilling this time. Aww. Don't you feel less special now? Especially because instead of doing anything fighty you had to share advice on Fandom invasions? Well, if you were Dinah, anyway, since Fiona and Kennedy got kinda bitchy at each other for a while there instead. God, I don't like that kid.
Lacey: Fiona?
Katchoo: Nah, the other one.
Lacey: Oooh. Gratuitous hatred.
Katchoo: Everybody's gotta have a hobby or ten.
Lacey: Well, I'm glad that makes your life feel worthwhile. Really I am. The intrepid Reserves leaders were available for conversation, like a discussion between Arthur and Leto about the new kids, including Gunn, who's Leto's new roommate, and came up to talk to Leto about how he didn't know he was involved with the Reserves. In news that might be newsworthy, Zack was not bouncy, although he was cheerful and in very shiny armor that hopefully didn't blind Dinah when she came to talk to him about break. Or bruise her when she got hugs from him.
Katchoo: Elsewhere in the dorms, Jonas was at the pool. New kid Warren Worthington was on the roof, checking out the view. Nice pursuit, but Bobby probably ruined it by coming up to talk to him about Fandom's abnormal class catalog and what Warren's up to with Kate. Bruce and Warren had themselves a little debate about whether or not it's a good thing that Fandom's quieter than a big city. See, I thought that was part of the appeal of small towns. Bobby told Bruce appreciates the view. Aw, gee. That's nice. He also said he kills plants, so Bruce was worried that he might have a pet. You can breathe, Lacey the Bane of Virtual Keychain Pets, he doesn't. Enjoy that breathing for a second, 'cause you're gonna forget how when you hear about Hayley making the fourth floor common room a disaster zone in the process of tryin' to bake a cake. Liir was appalled by the mess. So appalled he started cleaning it . . . like Lacey probably would've done if she could. Wow, Lacey, your eyes are about to hit escape velocity there. Gawd, that's hilarious.
Lacey: I'm going to focus on Bobby and Kate's conversation instead, and how Kate has no sympathy for people who have classes today. And has a coffee date with Warren, which explains Bobby grilling Warren on the roof, huh? And see, other people were cleaning, like Alex Russo, who multitasked by talking to Harper about how Harper went home for break and her parents were gone on vacation. Oops? And Chuck Bass's TV-watching got interrupted dramatically by Jaina, who was drunk and threatening him about making out with her mom. I'm sure that's a lot less wrong than it sounds because this is Fandom.
Katchoo: Actually I bet it's more wrong. But kinda hilarious. Still, hope you kicked his ass, Jaina. Gunn's conversation with Illyria must've freaked him out, since he tried to leave the island and failed a bunch of times, so he ended up back in his room bitching to Claire about . . . about . . . holy *feedback*. Yeah, I'd bitch about it too if someone told me I was gonna end up with my heart cut out in the future. WHAT THE HELL.
Town
Lacey: Let's just talk about town news instead, then. Jill was at Fourth Dimension, getting a jump on the academic schedule by working on a Powerpoint presentation about prom shopping; Spock was tinkering with gadgets at Stark Industries; Jack Burton was making film can pyramids at Photo Hut; Hinata had cookies and an energetic cat on her hands at Book Haven; Didi was putting together a display of Japanese snacks at Turtle and Canary --
Katchoo: Oh, hang on, I gotta do this one. Raven was at Dite's Decadent Delights. Reading porn versions of mythology. IT EXISTS FOR EVERYTHING, PEOPLE, QUIT BEING SHOCKED. Even Minesweeper.
Lacey: . . . I'm sticking to Spider Solitaire from now on.
Katchoo: Oh, go stare at your stupid Yule Log some more. Oz was arranging figurines at Coyote Medicine, Tim Desmond got confused by the latest comic plot twists at Android's Dungeon, Mary kept having to field calls on her cell phone at the Arms Hotel, Kris Furillo worked extra with Duke at The Gig, and Leda was playin' around with a motorcycle in the causeway parking lot.
Lacey: It's okay, it wasn't an entirely quiet commercial day in town. Ino was singing along with the radio at Covent Garden Flowers, and when Liir came to visit he told her he wasn't upset about her taking off for break without letting him know. And it might be past winter break time, but that didn't stop Fiona from taking off early from Cabot and Associates to, er. Go to Thailand with Griff. Dru came into the Magic Box and bonded with John Winchester over hunting, and Lion-O bonded with the Cafe Fina staff over their interest in candy fruit from his home world. Not that he brought any to share with them. Momoko got to hear about it, too, when she came in to visit him.
Katchoo: And because you fighter kids can never frikkin' get enough, Azula and Dinah were out training on the beach this afternoon. Jono was crankin' the Silverchair at Groovy Tunes, and I bet he had to turn the volume way down to talk to Beka about their new classes and Didi about how normal their workdays were. They're not complaining about that, by the way.
Lacey: Neither am I. The Boards had its first open audition for the new play, and the casting call got answered by Dinah and Sam Winchester, who both showed up to audition. Geoffrey fielded a phone call at some point, and fearless stage manager Tony Foster told Dinah about getting made TA for Magical Ethics because Alysha is Canadian too oh my gosh eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Katchoo: Aw. I didn't need that eardrum. Robin whose name always makes Lacey make that dogwhistle sound and get sparkly eyes like a frikkin' anime character was smoking and drinking on the job at Caritas, where there was a hockey game on TV.
Lacey: *whimpering* You ruined the moment again.
Katchoo: Don't blame me, idiot. Henry the new librarian showed up and met Robin, and told her all about how Fraser was telling him about her on the shuttle ride over the weekend. Alysha was glad the hockey game was on, and bonded with Robin over how the Canadians were totally going to --
Lacey: I LOVE YOU ANYWAY, TEAM CANADA.
Katchoo: . . . well, at least they got to bond over something. Henry's Chicago-ness didn't seem to bother Alysha, since they were pretty friendly about the introductions. Jaina asked Robin for a shot lineup because Chuck the *feedbackfeedbackfeedback* made out with her mom. Must've been what Tiny Creepy Kid showed up to get sloshed with her about. What is with you two, anyway?
Lacey: . . . huh?
Katchoo: Never mind. That's all, actually. Okay, up on the stump. You know you wanna.
Lacey: Always. That concludes our broadcast for the night, folks. I hope it was as fun for you as it was for . . . me, at least. For WTFH Radio, this is Lacey Burrows, and on behalf of myself and Katchoo here, good night, Fandom!
Katchoo: Wow, Lacey, I think you're missing your exclamation point there. For all of you guys who can't see it, because she still thinks you can see the look on her face, she isn't sickeningly cheerful about smiling when she says that tonight. She usually is.
Lacey: Don't talk to me about it, person who looks awfully tanned.
Katchoo: Three days in Curacao. Suck it, Lacey. Guess I'll steal your intro tonight. That's Lacey Burrows, and . . . fine, this is Katina Choovanski, and it's Tuesday night, so you get us on your radio. Don'tcha feel so frikkin' lucky?
Lacey: Don't talk to me about luck.
Katchoo: . . . right.
Classes
Lacey: First week of new classes means it's probably introductions time again, isn't it? Let's see what we've got. Magical Ethics started out with an introduction from Alysha before the first lecture, then they went right into discussing ethical magic use in pairs. Raven and Andy, Tara and Alex Russo, Leda and Tony Foster, Karla, Sookie, and Ino -- wait, that's not a pair.
Katchoo: Go with it.
Lacey: Beka and Zack, Sam Winchester and Griff, and Azula and Helen all got into the discussion and, I presume, get points for participation. Tony talked to Alysha after class and got made TA and oh my gosh she's Canadian.
Katchoo: Oh geez. You guys are gonna take over. Hey, let's see what's goin' on in my favorite, no, really, class from last semester. Ethics. Yep, today was the class on self-sacrifice, 'cause there's nothing like starting the semester off with the easy stuff. Bet Anakin's lecture was just as sunshine-and-puppies as it was when I was there.
Lacey: Boy, someone loved that class.
Katchoo: Like a swooning schoolgirl.
Lacey: And I did not need that mental image.
Katchoo: Merry late Christmas. The question of the day was about when everybody realized they had an unsolvable problem. Kinda like Lacey. Anakin talked to Leia after class and got to hear all about her finding out more about her birth family and sooooooooooomebody's been holding out on something, apparently. Cindy started off the first day of Monomyths by giving everybody the basic rundown on the concept, complete with lecture in case people thought they'd get off easy the first week and not get one, and made everybody discuss their favorite fictional character. And like ya do, she was around to talk to.
Lacey: I am not an unsolvable problem, thank you very much.
Katchoo: Oh, good, you didn't miss out on me saying that.
Lacey: I wanted you to think you got away with it. Bet people in Alex Cabot's Law and Justice class aren't going to get away with much; she warned them it might get messy.
Katchoo: Usually does.
Lacey: If you say so. Oh, guess what, there was a lecture. Nobody is getting away without one today. Just because you kids don't have the heaviest course schedule in the world doesn't mean you get to get away with really easy classes either, apparently. In keeping with the class theme, introductions had to include an overview of what everyone's legal system is like back home. Wow, talk about not starting off easy -- the discussion was about what is or isn't a crime, and the first example is murder.
Katchoo: Screw the kiddie pool. Right into the deep end there. Speaking of the deep end, Jack Priest doesn't think vampirism should be a crime. Yeah, I'd boggle like Kurt did. Karla and Dinah talked about prostitution, and Karla doesn't know why it was ever illegal. I'll just keep my opinion on that to myself. Alex fielded questions from Karla after class, but no idea if she stuck to the same subject there. Max did introductions in Living With Difficult Women --
Lacey: What, there's a class all about you?
Katchoo: I AM NOT DIFFICULT, YOU *FEEDBACK*ING *FEEDBACK* DITZ.
Lacey: Right, because there's nothing about you in these notes about how everybody shared their experiences with difficult women while they did their introductions?
Katchoo: *feedback* frikkin' right.
Lacey: Also nobody mentioned you to Max after class.
Katchoo: Shut it, Lacey. Some of us get that it's not all about us.
Lacey: . . . hey. Anemone was in the library even though she and Gulliver looked more like they were geared up to go flying. If that happened it wasn't until after Henry got to meet her and hear all about the awesome, yet sadly underutilized, library, and more about Special Collections. Henry's teaching buddy Summer came by with coffee and introduced herself. Coffee always makes for good introductions, and we have a particularly great house blend at Luke's D -- *thunk* -- ow.
Katchoo: Nice shot, fuzzball. *chittering* And I get another stack of notes for giving a frikkin' compliment. That's gratitude for you.
Dorms
Katchoo: Aww, look, it's Fighting Reserves time again, and it looks like Arthur unclenched enough to not pretend Zack's cookies weren't there for once.
Lacey: . . . you know, you could rephrase that.
Katchoo: Nah. 's funny. So's the fact that for a bunch of fighters they sure as hell do a lot of socializing. Ino, Fiona, Triela, Gabrielle, Kennedy, Blysse and Blind Seer, Dinah, Kurt, Gunn, Illyria, and Momoko were around. Jacob offered Blysse a cookie and talked about wolf pack behavior with her, 'cause everybody's gotta geek out about something. Jennifer and Fiona did the post-break catchup thing and the "I don't feel that secure when I'm not giant and green" thing. That was Jennifer, anyway. Ben and Tiny Creepy Kid spazzed about Chuck Bass going on a date with Leia, and sadly not even that stopped them from being nauseatingly cute. Dru gets points from me for telling Dinah she's too bouncy. She also said she's a hunter.
Lacey: Be less specific, why don't you. Oh, look, introductions. As the new arrivals, Jacob, Dru, Kurt, and Gunn all got interrogated by Arthur when they introduced themselves. Gunn got a bonus surprise in Illyria, who recognized him, but it wasn't mutual; he freaked out when she did a shapeshifty sort of thing on him.
Katchoo: And the reserve veterans who introduced themselves: Kennedy, Blysse and Blind Seer, Gabrielle, Fiona, Dinah, Ben, and Momoko. They didn't get the special Pendragon grilling this time. Aww. Don't you feel less special now? Especially because instead of doing anything fighty you had to share advice on Fandom invasions? Well, if you were Dinah, anyway, since Fiona and Kennedy got kinda bitchy at each other for a while there instead. God, I don't like that kid.
Lacey: Fiona?
Katchoo: Nah, the other one.
Lacey: Oooh. Gratuitous hatred.
Katchoo: Everybody's gotta have a hobby or ten.
Lacey: Well, I'm glad that makes your life feel worthwhile. Really I am. The intrepid Reserves leaders were available for conversation, like a discussion between Arthur and Leto about the new kids, including Gunn, who's Leto's new roommate, and came up to talk to Leto about how he didn't know he was involved with the Reserves. In news that might be newsworthy, Zack was not bouncy, although he was cheerful and in very shiny armor that hopefully didn't blind Dinah when she came to talk to him about break. Or bruise her when she got hugs from him.
Katchoo: Elsewhere in the dorms, Jonas was at the pool. New kid Warren Worthington was on the roof, checking out the view. Nice pursuit, but Bobby probably ruined it by coming up to talk to him about Fandom's abnormal class catalog and what Warren's up to with Kate. Bruce and Warren had themselves a little debate about whether or not it's a good thing that Fandom's quieter than a big city. See, I thought that was part of the appeal of small towns. Bobby told Bruce appreciates the view. Aw, gee. That's nice. He also said he kills plants, so Bruce was worried that he might have a pet. You can breathe, Lacey the Bane of Virtual Keychain Pets, he doesn't. Enjoy that breathing for a second, 'cause you're gonna forget how when you hear about Hayley making the fourth floor common room a disaster zone in the process of tryin' to bake a cake. Liir was appalled by the mess. So appalled he started cleaning it . . . like Lacey probably would've done if she could. Wow, Lacey, your eyes are about to hit escape velocity there. Gawd, that's hilarious.
Lacey: I'm going to focus on Bobby and Kate's conversation instead, and how Kate has no sympathy for people who have classes today. And has a coffee date with Warren, which explains Bobby grilling Warren on the roof, huh? And see, other people were cleaning, like Alex Russo, who multitasked by talking to Harper about how Harper went home for break and her parents were gone on vacation. Oops? And Chuck Bass's TV-watching got interrupted dramatically by Jaina, who was drunk and threatening him about making out with her mom. I'm sure that's a lot less wrong than it sounds because this is Fandom.
Katchoo: Actually I bet it's more wrong. But kinda hilarious. Still, hope you kicked his ass, Jaina. Gunn's conversation with Illyria must've freaked him out, since he tried to leave the island and failed a bunch of times, so he ended up back in his room bitching to Claire about . . . about . . . holy *feedback*. Yeah, I'd bitch about it too if someone told me I was gonna end up with my heart cut out in the future. WHAT THE HELL.
Town
Lacey: Let's just talk about town news instead, then. Jill was at Fourth Dimension, getting a jump on the academic schedule by working on a Powerpoint presentation about prom shopping; Spock was tinkering with gadgets at Stark Industries; Jack Burton was making film can pyramids at Photo Hut; Hinata had cookies and an energetic cat on her hands at Book Haven; Didi was putting together a display of Japanese snacks at Turtle and Canary --
Katchoo: Oh, hang on, I gotta do this one. Raven was at Dite's Decadent Delights. Reading porn versions of mythology. IT EXISTS FOR EVERYTHING, PEOPLE, QUIT BEING SHOCKED. Even Minesweeper.
Lacey: . . . I'm sticking to Spider Solitaire from now on.
Katchoo: Oh, go stare at your stupid Yule Log some more. Oz was arranging figurines at Coyote Medicine, Tim Desmond got confused by the latest comic plot twists at Android's Dungeon, Mary kept having to field calls on her cell phone at the Arms Hotel, Kris Furillo worked extra with Duke at The Gig, and Leda was playin' around with a motorcycle in the causeway parking lot.
Lacey: It's okay, it wasn't an entirely quiet commercial day in town. Ino was singing along with the radio at Covent Garden Flowers, and when Liir came to visit he told her he wasn't upset about her taking off for break without letting him know. And it might be past winter break time, but that didn't stop Fiona from taking off early from Cabot and Associates to, er. Go to Thailand with Griff. Dru came into the Magic Box and bonded with John Winchester over hunting, and Lion-O bonded with the Cafe Fina staff over their interest in candy fruit from his home world. Not that he brought any to share with them. Momoko got to hear about it, too, when she came in to visit him.
Katchoo: And because you fighter kids can never frikkin' get enough, Azula and Dinah were out training on the beach this afternoon. Jono was crankin' the Silverchair at Groovy Tunes, and I bet he had to turn the volume way down to talk to Beka about their new classes and Didi about how normal their workdays were. They're not complaining about that, by the way.
Lacey: Neither am I. The Boards had its first open audition for the new play, and the casting call got answered by Dinah and Sam Winchester, who both showed up to audition. Geoffrey fielded a phone call at some point, and fearless stage manager Tony Foster told Dinah about getting made TA for Magical Ethics because Alysha is Canadian too oh my gosh eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Katchoo: Aw. I didn't need that eardrum. Robin whose name always makes Lacey make that dogwhistle sound and get sparkly eyes like a frikkin' anime character was smoking and drinking on the job at Caritas, where there was a hockey game on TV.
Lacey: *whimpering* You ruined the moment again.
Katchoo: Don't blame me, idiot. Henry the new librarian showed up and met Robin, and told her all about how Fraser was telling him about her on the shuttle ride over the weekend. Alysha was glad the hockey game was on, and bonded with Robin over how the Canadians were totally going to --
Lacey: I LOVE YOU ANYWAY, TEAM CANADA.
Katchoo: . . . well, at least they got to bond over something. Henry's Chicago-ness didn't seem to bother Alysha, since they were pretty friendly about the introductions. Jaina asked Robin for a shot lineup because Chuck the *feedbackfeedbackfeedback* made out with her mom. Must've been what Tiny Creepy Kid showed up to get sloshed with her about. What is with you two, anyway?
Lacey: . . . huh?
Katchoo: Never mind. That's all, actually. Okay, up on the stump. You know you wanna.
Lacey: Always. That concludes our broadcast for the night, folks. I hope it was as fun for you as it was for . . . me, at least. For WTFH Radio, this is Lacey Burrows, and on behalf of myself and Katchoo here, good night, Fandom!