167: When I Find Myself in Times of Trouble, Crack and Cliches Comfort Me
And, frankly, I'm going to need the comfort. I will be spending the next week - seven glorious days! - shut in a very expensive hotel room (five minutes away from where I live) with two large dogs, one of whom does not like new things and howls if you leave him alone for any reason whatsoever, and the other of whom is going to view this as the best
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And Northstar inclines his head and grins and says "Yes, but I'm drinking cola. What's your excuse?"
Yes yay yay yay! I am in love with this. (And I would so read it as fan fiction, since Marvel seems unlikely to acknowledge the brilliance of that. Although if they do, man, I will break my long-standing comics buying ban just for that.)
I wonder if Jack Harkness would have a similar effect on a game of I Have Never as Methos? He may not be as old, but man does he pack the experiences in. And, what with the immortality and the time travel, he might actually be as old as Methos...
Thank you for putting the image of Jack Harkness and Methos meeting in a bar in, like, 2090, and getting talking, and getting a little drunk and silly and arguing over who has done more with eternity, and eventually ending up playing I Have Never.
Because, of course, hours later, the waitresses (or whatever) would all cluster around, saying, "They told me to get them a full bottle of Scotch, and they're just sitting there, each with a full shot glass, and one of them will say something, and the other one will nod. And then the other one will say something, and the first one will nod. And they never drink. WTF?"
That will stay with me. Yes. *nods*
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(Well, actually, we know the answer to that. See also: marketing acuity of a drunken weasel who hates capitalism.)
But I will live happy in the knowledge that somewhere there's a universe where you are indeed writing your Northstar book. And in that universe, Marvel's probably doing a lot better, fiscally speaking. *dreams*
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