Third floor commoon room, Monday night

[peter__parker]

Peter was bored. He had a deck of cards. He decided that he was going to build a house of cards in the common room

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[auroryborealis]

Rory poked her head in and looked thoughtfully at what Peter was doing. "I know a guy back home who does that for fun. He's pretty good, too. But the sacrifice is that he's really weird, too."

[peter__parker]

"Hey, Rory," Peter said, looking up. "I'm pretty weird, but I'm not very good at this. I'm trying to decide if that tradeoff is worth it at the moment."

[auroryborealis]

"Hi, and you're not weird like him. That takes effort," she assured him. "I personally don't have the patience to even try. I'd breathe or something and it'd topple over."

[peter__parker]

"You could always rent some SCUBA equipment, which would solve the breathing problem, but that would be pretty weird," Peter said, getting another wall up. "On the other hand, that weirdness should help you with the construction if anything I've assumed is true."

[auroryborealis]

"Possibly." Rory sat on the couch, watching. "See, by now, I'd have used tape and just hoped no one noticed."

[peter__parker]

"I considered glue before Hermione encouraged me to not cheat," Peter said. "Personally, I'm tempted to throw the cards in the air, shoot some webbing to hold the cards wherever they are, and call it deconstructivism."

[auroryborealis]

Rory laughed. "If you did that, I'd fling some paint at a canvas and call it abstract expressionism. It worked for Pollock."

[peter__parker]

Peter gave a chuckle at that. "Sometimes I wonder what exactly people were thinking when it came to that stuff. Then again, I'm not an art guy. Maybe there's actual thought that went into it that I just can't see?"

[auroryborealis]

"Maybe?" Rory shook her head. "Pollock was drunk when he was painting half the time, so I don't know. I personally don't understand paying millions for something my year-old sister could've done with her drayons between her snack and naptime."

[peter__parker]

"Possibly because the people buying it have had too much wine?" Peter suggested. "Drunk to create it, drunk to buy it. There's a nice symmetry there."

[auroryborealis]

"They do have champagne at exhibit openings," Rory considered. "That may be a big part of why people buy."

[peter__parker]

"It's all part of the evil art conspiracy," Peter tsked, waving a card around descriptively. There wasn't any word on what it was describing, but it was very descriptive. "They liquor you up just to take your money. That's just wrong."

[auroryborealis]

"Exactly." Rory nodded seriously. "My mom's inn hosted a lot of gatherings for pretentious artists and art-buyers. They were boring and boozey. Much less interesting than say, the Poe convention."

[peter__parker]

"Why was the Poe convention so interesting?" Peter asked.

[auroryborealis]

"Well, aside from the fact that the inn burned down during that event, there were twenty or so men dressed up to look like Edgar Allen Poe. And they all did dramatic readings of his work. It was like, their main hobby."

[peter__parker]

"I've been to sci fi conventions," Peter said. "This actually doesn't sound too weird to me, sadly."