Rory January

01/01/2016

shmoo92 sent a post, "CHUCK HANSEN FEELINGS"

shmoo92: The 'consistent with Herc vanishing' thing fic. Where I got my inspiration for Chuck's lines in Two and Two!

rorykurago: ah

rorykurago: entiendo.

shmoo92: I am in the final stages of packing for two-four months away from home.

rorykurago: nice

rorykurago: What for?

shmoo92: Ste Anne's university French immersion program!

rorykurago: UWAH!

rorykurago: That sounds like it'll be /awesome

shmoo92: I expect it will be! They have us booked for all sorts of activities evening and weekends (daytime is for classroom stuff)

shmoo92: It's my first time living on my own, but I only have to worry about laundry because we have a mandatory meal plan (we're to eat together, too)

rorykurago: NICE

rorykurago: Reckon you'll have /so much fun

01/02/2016

rorykurago: (Sorry, I'm sewing and listening to a set of lectures on military theory and evolution)

01/02/2016

shmoo92: I put myself to bed hoping I would sleep--turns out I could've chatted a while longer for the snooze fairies were slow to arrive

shmoo92: What were you seeing?

shmoo92: *sewing

rorykurago: Practicing a dress pattern

rorykurago: so it's kind of a poofy blue gingham shirt, black waist, and white sleeveless bodice

rorykurago: (not meant to be as poofy as it is...)

shmoo92: Sounds very Dorothy-of-Oz!

shmoo92: (All packed, Dog and Stuffie #2 bid farewell, and I'm in the car!)

rorykurago: eeee!

rorykurago: I'm sorry books didn't come in time for Christmas. :( but at least they'll be there when you get back

shmoo92: That's okay! It may arrive in Halifax as a care package!

01/03/2016

rorykurago: Hope everything's going swell on the programme. :) (aaand I need to stop watching Carnivale. Or finish it. Either of the two. )

rorykurago: Goodnight!

shmoo92: Sleep well!: I believe I've posted pictures of my res room ...

01/04/2016

rorykurago: Looks comfy

rorykurago: That feeling when you want maybe 300 words to finish something off, and then you get 700, but only like 50 words into what you planned.

shmoo92: Oh my goooood

shmoo92: "Cups"? Fei Yen trying to figure out why a triplet wasn't a sippy cup?

rorykurago: Fun, huh?

shmoo92: I kept wanting to take a break, but i was like, you're almost there! just a few more lines! Six pages later, the part I wanted to write was 3/4 of a page long. >______<

rorykurago: EXACTLY

rorykurago: This is a dryad and her (ex) husband who - for timey-wimey reasons, left a thousand years ago and then popped back in thinking it had only been a year and a bit.

rorykurago: There was a battle, he wanted help from the trees, they said no, then they fought anyway.... soooo post battle, hubbie comes looking for wifey.

rorykurago: That's all good. I had that already.

rorykurago: BUT liteRaLLy ALL he had to do, was hold her hand, kiss it, and then she'd say that when he left this time, she couldn't follow

rorykurago: that was 715 words ago, and I've ONLY JUST hit new scene

rorykurago: ffs

shmoo92: And it's not like, o I'll just write this scene and work my way there--the whole damn thing is the scene!

rorykurago: bah

shmoo92: Alas, I must leave you to it, though I can't wait to see it; its 23:45and I have my first class tomorrow

shmoo92: May patience be with you!

rorykurago: <3

rorykurago: Sleep well

shmoo92: Thanks! Can't wait to see your latest masterpiece :)

rorykurago: my mistake was putting backstory into a oneshot 100 themes fic

rorykurago: not that you'll have time for it ;P but for your interest:

01/05/2016

rorykurago: instead of finishing that fic, I wrote a competition entry for something else rorykurago: smack me?

01/05/2016

shmoo92: >squirts with spray bottle< XD

rorykurago: ...and then I started another one

rorykurago: in my defence, the first was cutting down/reformatting a story I already had, and the second is an idea that's been rattling around for a while

shmoo92: And the dryad fic isn't an idea you had rattling around for a while? >rib rib<

shmoo92: alrightee, if I want a shower and breakfast, I gotta get moving. TnT

shmoo92: Shower's done but the wind still howls away. Good thing I didn't wash my hair!

rorykurago: haha aww poor bb... suffering the cold

shmoo92: >shakes fist out of ...< I can't say blankets cause I'm in the caf and the windows are terrible uninsulated

rorykurago: Would you like my 100 words on the theme of '29' to shred in retaliation?

rorykurago: (I say, with honest concern and affection)

shmoo92: S-sure!

rorykurago: Or for quicker pay-off, a mental image: the ships's cook in Rise of the Elements calls Magoo the little wind daemon 'Goop', and feeds xer bits of fish bone, which xe loves

shmoo92: That is so cute!!!

01/05/2016

rorykurago: u h o h. I created another baby and I love her

rorykurago: Her name is Sofie, she's an ex-Catholic, bites people's fingers off if they're stuck into her mouth, and compares herself to Lupita Nyong'o in looks

rorykurago: Okay so I kind of love this other thing...

shmoo92: Shouldn't you be asleep? (What other thing?)

rorykurago: I'm going now

rorykurago: (but also I pretty well finished the second story)

rorykurago: (I like it a lot)

rorykurago: IDK if the contest people will (or you, for that matter) but the raw material is decent

rorykurago: Ya, is time for bed

rorykurago: Study well!

01/05/2016

shmoo92: No spoons for story today, alas (first day TnT) but tomorrow I have a 45 minute bus ride to Yarmouth and am looking forward to reading it then!

rorykurago: Absotively no worries.

rorykurago: Hope day was good!

01/06/2016

rorykurago: I'm vain enough to be reading my own writing as a palette cleanser after trying to read another 10 pages of Gardens Of The Moon. This is a new low. shmoo92: Ones own writing is the best writing! XD rorykurago: Hahaha I'm reading 'Riot'. I don't know if that makes it better or worse, but at least I'm not editing every. damn. sentence. (reading this book is a struggle. I'm questioning whether or not it was ever edited)

01/08/2016

rorykurago sent a photo, "First midnight (one am) snack at Ste Anne"

rorykurago: Late night nibbles?

shmoo92: Yup

shmoo92: Now hopefully late night sleeps

shmoo92: >meaningful look at brain<

shmoo92: Have a good day!

shmoo92: >hugs<

rorykurago: :D

rorykurago: Pleasant dreams of droids and weis

01/08/2016

shmoo92: I did dream of starwars!

shmoo92: It was very similar to another dream of had, tho now I don't remember anything about it >___<

rorykurago: I'm not saying I'm telepathic but

rorykurago: :p

rorykurago: Enjoying St Anne's?

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: I am! (Except for the being tired all the time, but it's not like I've been in a classroom setting at any point during the last eight months.)

shmoo92: Everyone is really patient, and my teachers are quite nice

rorykurago: 😊

shmoo92: How's vacation life treating you?

rorykurago: Lots of sewing and tv series

rorykurago: A particularly evil friend of mine showed me the start of LOST

rorykurago: And babysitting/parenting 2 dogs who refuse to go to bed

rorykurago: I'm in the living room and dog + brother's GF's dog Joey are bedded down in the master bedroom--five times now I've gone in to (A) get Joey off the couch, (B) get Joey off the bed, or (C) escort them both back to bed bc they appeared in the doorway like 3yr olds w/ bad dreams

shmoo92: LOL

shmoo92: Time for class, but where did other dog come from?

shmoo92: Sleep and sew well!

rorykurago: Danke, love.

rorykurago: Have fun with the studies

rorykurago: (Bro +gf went to a wedding, and GF's housemate is a flake so I get her Houdini furbaby for the weekend

01/09/2016

shmoo92: I don't think I'll ever tire of your dog descriptions.

shmoo92: Hope you slept well and that your day so far is good, night!

shmoo92: O! And pickleplum and I also hammered out what of tales of the drift we wanna keep. This on the page of the same name (spoiler: captain chaleigh is not one of those things)

01/09/2016

rorykurago: Aaay

rorykurago: I skimmed the discussion

rorykurago: I'm also never going to be able to get 'Captain Chaleigh' out of my head

shmoo92: It really doesn't help that he looks like their love child

rorykurago: Did I tell you that when I first started reading, I was like "...Chuck...?" before they named him??

shmoo92: You didn't, but pickle thought he was Scott so I'm not surprised

rorykurago: I'm v. glad he's not Scott

rorykurago: I mean I don't love him either, but I can't shake Kurago's Scott. Every time he comes I'm I'm physically nauseated

rorykurago: If we're not getting Vanessa, I might have flipped a table if Scott got airtime

rorykurago: (although I /would appreciate the demi-canon insight into his character)

shmoo92: Does it settle your soul at all to know I kill him off in "Millennium Drift"?

rorykurago: ...maybe

rorykurago: how does he die?

shmoo92: Killed by sand people

shmoo92: My metaphor kinda fell apart when I realized if I were making Rangers = Jedi, then Scott would be a Jedi, not Luna

rorykurago: ...I hope you know I'm imagining blood

rorykurago: Scott could've been a Force sensitive, who trained and then never got picked by a master

rorykurago: then he got pissy, refused to go into the AgriCorps LIKE EVERYONE ELSE and left the Order in a huff

rorykurago: Luna could be like Nomi Sunrider, who joined the Order later in life (waaaaaay back in the history of SW) after she already had a kid and husband

rorykurago: (I thiiink bc her husband died? was killed? the Dark side was involved somehow? crisis measures???) shmoo92: Luna was selected because of her potential, and when the council realized stacker's would exceed hers, they tried to convince the pentecosts to let him go

shmoo92: They refused, and the council had them killed

rorykurago: As in the recruiter found two Force sensitive bbs when they investiagted the family?

shmoo92: (Stacker's very young at this point)

rorykurago: (Stacker = younger bro?)

shmoo92: (Yep!)

shmoo92: Stacker wasn't born when they recruited Luna, and when stacker was born mrs Pentecost learned she wouldn't be able to have more children, and they were told Luna would be allowed to visit but the council dragged their feet whenever the issue came up

shmoo92: She wanted to wait a few years before giving him away, if she even went through with it

shmoo92: I don't know if Luna would've been a ranger in real life, but gawd the mapping works out so well if I keep her as a Jedi

rorykurago: it does... (Is Star Wars your funtimes outside homework? :P )

rorykurago: On a different note, TV family casting really doesn't work when family members are visibly different races (more specifically than 'black')

shmoo92: (I switch between it and ANSK. I'm stuck at the moment because I didn't have anyone for Bail Organa so I cut alderaan for Naboo but that means Princess Kirra needs a new dress. I was originally going for a simpler version of Amidala's purple travelling dress, but that gown needs an entourage to 'fit in' and Princess Kirra has a single escort at most but moves around alone most of the time)

rorykurago: hmm

rorykurago: Sherlock just called Joan Watson 'partner' for the first time, and I don't even go here but I'm getting happy flutters

shmoo92: You watches elementary???

shmoo92: EEEEE!

shmoo92: If which family were you speaking?

rorykurago: I needed another binge while I sew

rorykurago: Uh, Detective Bell's family? Specifically his brother

rorykurago: differences in skin tone, eyebrow ridge, eyebrow definition, even 3-4 profile suggest non-relation)

rorykurago: ...also that Bell's skin is red-brown, his 'brother's ' is yellow-brown

shmoo92: aaah

rorykurago: just me being persnicketty

rorykurago: esp given my happiness at the moment over Daisy-Ridley-as-Angela-Hansen

rorykurago: every photo makes it more convincing

shmoo92: ooooo, that could be cute!

shmoo92: *ooo, that could be cute!

shmoo92: your brain must keep itself occupied while you make like a seamstress!

rorykurago: :D :D :D

rorykurago: if I'm not watching tv, I'm listening to audio lectures from Great Courses (or Hamilton)

rorykurago: has the dual benefit of keeping me from getting bored with seaming, /and checking off tv series etc from my 'to watch' list

rorykurago: ^^^ the reaons I have trouble shutting down to one pursuit

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: are you handsewing or machine sewing?

rorykurago: hooo heck no I'm not handsewing ;D machine all the way, except for yk buttons and details

rorykurago: Mum handstitches her quilting, but dresses etc are all machine for me

shmoo92: What a nice set up you have there!

rorykurago: she HIT. HIM. IN. THE. FACE. with a tennis ball

rorykurago: I love her

rorykurago: not pictured: the two dogs who've finally gone to bed

shmoo92: YAY

shmoo92: hey, do you remember a post about Paciifc Rim and the cult mechanicus?

rorykurago: mm... vaguely?

rorykurago: It might be in my BuenaKai tag...

rorykurago: nope, apparently not

rorykurago: more info?

shmoo92: how some geeks in the PPDC would probably start adapting material from the Cult Mechanicus in Warhammer to deal with Jaegers as a sort of parody of the BuenaKai beliefs

shmoo92: (a paraphrase)

rorykurago: Ah, then No I haven't seen that post

shmoo92: ah, poop

01/10/2016

rorykurago: the moment when your story takes a hard right turn and suddenly your [angel] characters are trekking through Africa looking for a jungle that's either Eden or the place they fell to Earth

rorykurago: (spoiler: it's somewhere in the region of Cameroon)

rorykurago: the moment when your story takes a hard right turn and suddenly your [angel] characters are trekking through Africa looking for a jungle that's either Eden or the place they fell to Earth

rorykurago: (spoiler: it's somewhere in the region of Cameroon)

shmoo92: I MET SOMEONE FROM CAMEROON YESTERDAY

rorykurago: OH?

shmoo92: Any who, your two messages sent twice, and hivemind freakiness, I was just thinking 'I should message Rory because I haven't spoken with her in a couple days'

rorykurago: hmm.... odd, because on this end they said they hadn't gone through

shmoo92: Yea, her name's Georgia and she's in the administration programme

rorykurago: oh well!

shmoo92: Good to know a message hadn't been eaten

shmoo92: So your characters are (fallen) angels?

rorykurago: (...in a...different...story)

rorykurago: my WIPs are numerous, dark, and full of terrors

rorykurago: This is not one of my major ones, but I had a brainspark about my main girl, which led to noting, which led to adjusting plans for book 2, which led to Cameroon

rorykurago: Yup, the theory is that during the war between heaven and hell, the angelic artefacts (think sword of Eden, horn of Judgement) were being moved between battle lines, and a squad of light angels got into a scrap with dark; several of them fell to Earth and became human

rorykurago: (EARLY human, apparently, bc one says he 'remember[s] being shorter' then, so pre-homo sapien)

rorykurago: They have human lifespans and memories and their angelicism (?) is unknown to them until they're informed/awakened

rorykurago: my head is very crowded

rorykurago: How's St Anne's?

shmoo92: That sounds really, really cool

shmoo92: We are in the midst of a wicked storm

rorykurago: SNOW?!?

shmoo92: In Ottawa, yes

shmoo92: Here, alas, it's rain

shmoo92: So much rain

shmoo92: Buckets of the stuff and the wind is shrieking profanities

rorykurago: aww...

rorykurago: but rain is fun too

rorykurago: we had a blackout at 1AM here, so logically I climbed to the reservoir to check it out >idiot<

rorykurago: Storm sounds familiar

rorykurago: Brisbane summer

shmoo92: Ooo, did you hurt yourself?

shmoo92: Cause if you didn't hurt yourself, what's the harm?

shmoo92: Is it a rain reservoir or a power making one?

shmoo92: I must be for bed tho, ug I am never gonna stop being so tired if i keep staying up late why did autocorrect correct 'if' to 'of'? This stupid phone is more trouble than it's worth sometimes

shmoo92: How goes your dress, too?

shmoo92: Have a good day!

01/11/2016

rorykurago: It's a rain reservoir (a big concrete tank on a hill). Nah, I didn't hurt myself (ty for the concern <3 ) but there was some walking through unlit parks and nature reserves alone at 1AM, which... isn't the smartest

rorykurago: Dress goes well. Almost finished the practice one except for detail buttons, and have begun the goal dress!

rorykurago: This just in: the OTHER awkward moment when you realise halfway through writing notes that your brain has headcast young Oscar Isaac as the love interest/detective. Thanks, brain. I appreciate the input.

rorykurago: Sleep well

rorykurago: This just in: the OTHER awkward moment when you realise halfway through writing notes that your brain has headcast young Oscar Isaac as the love interest/detective. Thanks, brain. I appreciate the input.

rorykurago sent a post, "can you please list your top 10 Oscar looks"

rorykurago: specifically No.s 4 + 6

01/11/2016

shmoo92: >appreciative whistle<

01/13/2016

shmoo92: Did the phone call cut back in?

rorykurago: The brother called back to clarify that he was alive, and in hospital

rorykurago: thankfully

shmoo92: Phew! Any prognosis?

rorykurago: we went to see him the same day; he's still non verbal, and blood pressure and sugar are both still high, but his muscular strength was already returning

shmoo92: That's great!

rorykurago: Language has two separate modules in the brain, so it takes a bit to restart

rorykurago: Yeah, we figured

rorykurago: But it's still one of the common things to lose, with a stroke, I think? So we'll see

rorykurago: He's comprehending okay, just not speaking

rorykurago: How's school?

shmoo92: I must sleep now, and I won't ask how you're doing cause you probably don't want to answer

shmoo92: xxoo

shmoo92: There isn't a lot of homework--or maybe there is--but its comprehensive. Or I actually have to think about to do so

shmoo92: I am very tired

shmoo92: That was supposed to send 'tired', 'homework', sleep, xxoo

rorykurago: I'm doing fine; I'm just.. not examining my feelings on dad too closely.

rorykurago: Thank you as always for concern <3

rorykurago: Sleep, Shmoo!

shmoo92: Thank you! I send recovering thoughts your way :)

01/14/2016

shmoo92 sent a photo,

shmoo92: Underboob tattoos: >swoon<

rorykurago: I really love the shading and detail on this one??

01/15/2016

rorykurago: ugh, SUNLIGHT did the thing again--the thing where I sit down to write the last bit of a scene and it goes "O! HAI! While you're here, you should also write THIS--!!"

shmoo92: Sunlight is a story?

rorykurago: Sunlight is that one with dryads and timey wimey nonsense

shmoo92: Because I'm looking at the time thinking, she could be just waking up ...?

shmoo92: OH

rorykurago: (sorry, my bad, skipping important info like always)

shmoo92: With the angel people?

rorykurago: different story

shmoo92: DANGIT

rorykurago: desafortunadamente

rorykurago: How is Star Rim?

rorykurago: (Pacific Wars?)

shmoo92: okay, there's the werewolf story, the vampire story with the brother freaking out for 200 years about touching his sister's boob), there's the glider story, and the angel story, and I know dryads came up at some point but for the life of me I cannot recall where

rorykurago: thahaha yeeeeeah, we're a fun people

shmoo92: I'm thinking of calling it "Millennium Drift" because although it mixes concepts, it's really cool

rorykurago: Dryads is the oneshot that spun out of control because backstory.

rorykurago: Roger! Millenium Drift I can remember.

shmoo92: WITH THE 'IF YOU LEAVE ME AGAIN' SCENE THAT TOOK THOUSANDS OF WORDS TO GET TO

rorykurago: I have zero expectation for anyone but me to remember all the ins and outs of my stories, so if I start rambling and forget to contextualise, please do just poke me about it

rorykurago: YISS. THAT ONE

rorykurago: At this point I'm like' fuck you, Narnia, this can be a separate entry/story/A03 work'

shmoo92: I wish the same of you, please!

rorykurago: *Gottliebian salute*

shmoo92: In MD, I have recently figured out how to destroy--I love that and will be using that.

rorykurago: destroy?

shmoo92: *how to destroy the Death Star in Episode IV without destroying the Death Star and killing thousands of people

rorykurago: No 'I had friends on that Death Star'?

shmoo92: Nah, I just don't like that much death

shmoo92: Same reason Alderaan doesn't go kaput!

shmoo92: Did I tell you about subbing Naboo for Alderaan?

rorykurago: Reasonable. Thousands of staffers on that vessel were only doing their jobs, which may or may not have been the most stable/safe in the galaxy

rorykurago: You mentioned the Naboo-Alderaan thing

rorykurago: Who is Leia in MD, again?

shmoo92: So I kinda hacked up relationships to fit Pacific Rm's model

shmoo92: At least I think that applies here

shmoo92: So the princess is Kirra because of being related to Chuck (she's a Hansen in this 'verse) but they're not twins

shmoo92: The Naboo thing--I had no one to play Bail Organa so I replaced Alderaan with Naboo. Simplifies things two fold, because there's legacy with the planet between the two trilogies now

shmoo92: Problem is, Kirra can't be wearing Alderaanean clothes anymore, they have to be of Naboo

shmoo92: And since she's a princess ....

rorykurago: Been snooping through the Star Wars costume concepts a bit lately...?

shmoo92: turns out cutting Alderaan was not as easy as I had thought since I now have to design something >___<

shmoo92: You bet I have

rorykurago: God, some of them are gorgeous

rorykurago: Speaking of gorgeous, and on a related note: Have you seen any of the Shannara Chronicles yet?

rorykurago: The designers were costume pornographers to the max

rorykurago: Christ, the costuming and set design in that is gorgeous

shmoo92: I haven't yet but what you have just described makes me want to

shmoo92: I have no cable, however, and I am not wise in the way of looking up tv shows

rorykurago: I'm looking frantically for a ref picture of the elf-king's sash because I think it would be PERFECT for a Nabooian costume detail

shmoo92: EEEEEEE

rorykurago: OKAY: so there's this one, which is kind of blurry, but it shows the pattern:

rorykurago: (the zig-zag thing cross out from his shoulder)

rorykurago: THIS one shows the colours better

rorykurago: it's kind of a slaty texture?

rorykurago: it looks really golden in these, but in the show's lighting it often looks kind of blue-grey, which I ADORE

rorykurago:

rorykurago: It doesn't always have the spine-chain thing over the top, but I can't find a photo without it

shmoo92: AAAAAH omg it's perfect!!!

rorykurago: yes, yes, pretty thing, do want

shmoo92: I don't know for what but it's perfect!

rorykurago: I was legit sitting there trying to figure out how to make one before I was like 'uhhhhh should I not be paying attention?'

shmoo92: LOL

shmoo92: 'I may not be able to ... form assumptions about scenes to understand what's going on' (or something)

rorykurago: I kind of was paying attention, but I was also like.... 'how many individually stitched beads are there on this and how heavy would it be...?'

shmoo92: The almost-collar?

rorykurago: well, the collar, the sash...

rorykurago: the everything...

shmoo92: Woooow

rorykurago: The main characters all have a theme colour? Like, main girl is red-purple, boy is blue-green, wizard is light purple...

shmoo92: That's so cool!

shmoo92: It's not, like, magical girl or power ranger-y, tho, I hope!

rorykurago: nope

rorykurago: surprisingly

rorykurago: I may or may not have been sitting there going 'how do I make it Pacific Rim?'

shmoo92: Do you like the show so far? There's only been one episode though I think--LOL

rorykurago: I saw four the other night (tho I asked no questions how my source got them...)

rorykurago: It's SO. PRETTY.

rorykurago: Still not sure if I buy the story line, but it's pretty

rorykurago: And Manu Bennet is pretty

shmoo92: Gawd, to watch anything now and not pacrim it Except I want to keep doing it XD

rorykurago: and the cast are stupid, very human elves who think magic is a myth

shmoo92: Who's your source? Can I get some of this action?

shmoo92: Pffft

rorykurago: EXACTLY

rorykurago: I don't know where he got them. I'll ask

shmoo92: If he says he'll have to kill you, it's not worth it!

shmoo92: Right, so, Naboo dresses because I have this chunk copied and don't want to overwrite it by mistake but I also don't want to move away from our current topic just because I want to natter but anyway:

shmoo92: I want to use the travelling dress because Kirra is traveling but also because amidala wears it to a funeral and for every day she refuses to tell them where the Rebels are they march her to a large hall, sit her in a fancy-ish chair, ask her again, drag up one of her crew, and execute them

shmoo92: So the funeral dress is fitting

shmoo92: But Kirra moves around the ship on her own and that dress needs an entourage or it's too big for the space

shmoo92: The battle dresses are less ... voluminous(?) but Kirra and her crew are delivering the latest in moisture farming equipment to Tatooine and it wouldn't make any sense for her to be dressed like she's going to war

rorykurago: I assume you don't mean the dress Padmé wears when they bury her...

shmoo92: Whoops! No, QuiGon Jinn's funeral

shmoo92: With the purple headscarf thingy

rorykurago: yep, got a picture now

shmoo92: Then I shall desist with finding a link

rorykurago: :D

rorykurago: (i actually just went 'Star Wars Amidala costumes' so the clarification was helpful :P )

shmoo92: I love how apt the names are

shmoo92: "Packing dress", "battle dress", etc

rorykurago: lol

rorykurago: What was she doing before she was picked up by the Star Destroyer?

shmoo92: They were legit delivering equipment but that was an excuse to check out the location where supposedly plans for the Death Star were stored

shmoo92: And lo, the info was correct!

shmoo92: But you see, the drive was so heavily encrypted that one measly ship's computer had no hope to unzip it so they could find out who it belonged to and return it

rorykurago: okay, so she's travelling kinda-sorta-but-not-really incognito...

shmoo92: Since they found it floating in outerspace in an unsealed, rusty container

rorykurago: then what about the yellow travelling dress she wore with Anakin

shmoo92: Exactly!

shmoo92: That's from a different system, plus Padmé was traveling under the guise of a refugee. Kirra's representing Naboo as their princess

shmoo92: (But I did think about that one because it's kinda sorta similar to leia's outfit in IV)

rorykurago: hmm

shmoo92: Apparently the travelling dress has an overcoat so the thought I had the other day was to switch that overcoat with a shirt similar to that of the peasant disguise

rorykurago: What are you going for?

shmoo92: (And de embellish the sleeves)

rorykurago: (also which is the battle dress?)

shmoo92: There's the one Sabé wore--red and dark purple-brown/black

shmoo92: And then there's the maroon one Amidala wore when confronting the trade federation and then approaching the Gun guns

rorykurago: with the giant pigtails and tassels?

shmoo92: That's the senate address

rorykurago: I honestly always loved the one she wears to sneak into the Naboo palace

shmoo92: Sabé's battle dress

rorykurago: (is that the Trade Federation one?)

rorykurago: AH that one

shmoo92: The sneaking into the palace dress it the trade federation one, yra

shmoo92: *yea

shmoo92:

shmoo92: I'm basically going for something that I can actually picture in the scene with VV31

rorykurago: so much to play with...

shmoo92: because everything I offer keeps 'pausing the film' (the film is the scene as it plays out in my head and the pausing is how it refuses to let me watch the thing play out)

shmoo92: I drew a thing that wasn't immediately rejected; it's the traveling dress but with one bun under the headscarf, the braids behind her shoulders, and white and grey

rorykurago: okay, so concept to begin with

shmoo92: Also I should note technically Kirra isn't a princess, shes an 'avatar' but she's not even that because avatars are (supposedly) droids and she's human

shmoo92: She was adopted by the Naboo royal family and since that changes every few years she outstayed all of them in the palace and they needed some sort of role/status for her

shmoo92: And since she's ... I can't remember the word

shmoo92: Since she's basically part of the palace, they thought 'avatar of theed palace' was a good fit

shmoo92: VV31 is the avatar of the Naboo starship, for instance

shmoo92: And Brawlerette is the avatar of the Jedi council

shmoo92: (If you've seen "andromeda" it's a similar concept)

rorykurago: uh huh

rorykurago: (no, I haven't, but okay)

shmoo92: In andromeda, avatars are kind of an interface for their ship

shmoo92: So instead of going, "computer, tell me X" it's "rommie, tell me x"

shmoo92: Not unlike Farscape's pilot

shmoo92: *Piloy

shmoo92: *Pilot

shmoo92: And Kirra knows everything there is to know about Theed palace

shmoo92: basically none of this actually shows up in the main story; it's all 'what exacty happens between episode III and IV?'

shmoo92: so. destroying the death star.

rorykurago: yes

rorykurago: boom splody, 'cept less with the splody, correct?

shmoo92: correct!

shmoo92: correct!

shmoo92: AUG show up in the right place DANGIT

shmoo92: i imagine there're also prisoners on board, as well as detainees, diplomats, volunteers, even famlies with children

shmoo92: so i don't want it to randomly blow up and kill everyone who's just minding their own business

shmoo92: (the families with children argument is how Kirra saves Naboo because for some odd reason Lord Scissure seems to have a soft spot for children

shmoo92: she also points that they're going to blow up a planet in the empire because a full military couldn't get one secret out of a 22 year old. lame, much?)

shmoo92: (the 'lame' argument comes before the 'children' one)

shmoo92: (so the commander destroys one of the moons instead)

shmoo92: i believe, thematically, the death star's splodiness was to parallel that of alderaan and since that isn't happening anymore, no reason for the death star to go kaput

shmoo92: so what happens is the person who supplied the kilometers of wiring to the weapons system was a secret rebel sympathizer (so secret, in fact, that they hadn't done anything to that effect up until this point)

shmoo92: and delivered sub-standard materials after selling them top notch stuff

shmoo92: when they fired to destroy the moon, all the wires melted, so when they tried to fire again, absolutely nothing happened

shmoo92: this is important because "The Empire Strikes Back" happens much sooner after "A New Hope"; Mako leaves to train on Dagoba (Chuck refuses to go), Hoth comes under fire and the rebels evacuate, the Millennium Falcon is scooped up by a cruiser just like Kirra's ship was, Kirra and Chuck are taken prisoner, Kirra and Chuck escape, the rebels nearly beg Kirra to 'please go home and rest and not get kidnapped in the exact same fashion twice in six months please'

shmoo92: so she does, chuck goes to Dagobah, and he and Mako get more than three days of training! >__<

shmoo92: the wiring part was the latest development XD

shmoo92: what were you keen on writing this morning?

rorykurago: ew. Flacid Death Star

rorykurago: uuhhh, I really just wanted to have another crack at getting Sunlight done

rorykurago: which isn't happening

rorykurago: because alongside talky bits, I now have to write more party bits, and then leaving-Narnia bits

rorykurago: none of which I have the spoons for RN

shmoo92: i am not at all surprised at you spoon shortage

shmoo92: bits of skeleton key are up if you want fluff, btw, and i will get to '29' this weekend because i've finished my homework~

rorykurago: I saw!

rorykurago: I am following that, yes :)

rorykurago: (thankee for doing 29. I know you're super tired with school and busy being a radio celeb :P )

shmoo92: awww, shucks, >starstudded sparkling< XD

shmoo92: you're very welcome and i'm glad you will be following SK!

01/15/2016

shmoo92: To bed with I! I hope you have a day that isn't trying :)

rorykurago: Sorry! I got totally caught up in a chapter of something

rorykurago: Sleep well!

01/18/2016

shmoo92: I am for bed so I shan't reply for a bit XD but how goes the dress?

rorykurago: AH. I was going to take photos. I can do zat!

shmoo92: AHHHHH ITS SO PRETTTY!!!!!!!

shmoo92: (o snap it's late. Have a successful day!)

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: Pleasant dreams of Star Wars!

01/19/2016

rorykurago: It's Newt's birthday today and doing up his timeline post made me pleasantly aware that I have very little Newt content on my computer

shmoo92: What a wonderful thing to discover!

01/19/2016

shmoo92 sent a link, "The Case of the So-Called Alien Megast..."

shmoo92: Why does no one appreciate my pun? TnT

rorykurago: hahaha I thought it was cute

rorykurago: I was going to bed at ten

rorykurago: here I am, writing a short story about a pair of heroes-for-hire and a very frustrated monk attempting to hire them

shmoo92: Post apocalypse?

rorykurago: Nope. The theory is that [potential] apocalypses are actually not that uncommon, between all the sects and prophecies floating around. It's just that averting them all requires Chosen ones to be (A) available, (B) capable, and (C) successful. What do you do if you're none too sure of any of these requirements? Outsource!

shmoo92: And the frustrated monk makes sense!

shmoo92: I am seriously loving this concept

rorykurago: It's something I came up with for our QCS (national testing... thing) in high school, but it's developed somewhat

rorykurago: ...mostly into banter, creepily hiveminded ex-Chosen ones, and a rather sexist American cultist with illusions of grandeur

rorykurago: ...mostly into banter, creepily hiveminded ex-Chosen ones, and a rather sexist American cultist with illusions of grandeur

rorykurago: His reason for outsourcing is that they have six months before the apocalypse, but.. well... their Chosen One has turned out to be a woman

rorykurago: how unsatisfactory.

rorykurago: hence the female ex-hero: > Sabita scowled. “We ought to turn this job down on principle.” <

shmoo92: Woooooow

shmoo92: Up yours, cultist

rorykurago: yuuup

shmoo92: Do the outsourced people hire her on as a consultant or something?

rorykurago: IDK

rorykurago: At the moment it's just a short

rorykurago: (and I'm leery rn of delving too deep, lest I end up with ANOTHER full-length story)

rorykurago: But I guess if people were interested?

shmoo92: Loving it~

rorykurago: <3

shmoo92: Sleep well!

rorykurago: Thankee! Have a good day

shmoo92: I have a cold and cramps. But pancakes for breakfast! So it's not a total write off XD

rorykurago: Aww, honey...

rorykurago: I hope you have a less gross afternoon than morning then

shmoo92: Thank you <3

rorykurago: >> “It’s not a full time job, Mister Opilio,” Radek assured him. “We do a lot more monitoring and waiting than active service. But it’s twenty-nine ninety-five US dollars an hour, plus expenses. And there’s a negotiable fee payable on delivery of one freshly-delivered world.” “Now hold on!” Aldus leapt to his feet. “Your ad didn’t say anything about that! If you expect us to pay more, I’m going to need to see some references.” “We’ve got the best reference there is,” said Sabita, shaking out a new page of the newspaper. “Oh? And where is it, if I may ask?” Owl-like, she turned her head to look at him. Her eyes were very dark. “You’re still breathing to ask for it, aren’t you?” Had she always had tattoos up her neck? Twisted up into a series of knots, it couldn’t have been her hair that now curled dark out of her scarf. Very slowly, Aldus sank back into his chair. <<

shmoo92: NIIIIIICE

rorykurago: I'm... /fairly sure they're not demons? But I do suspect that their respective apocalypses changed them both in very dramatic ways

rorykurago: because next, there's this: >> Where Radek’s pullover was undone at the neck curved another scar like the one over his throat—dimly defined, like Sabita’s tattoos. As Aldus watched, it moved. Aldus looked from one to the other with a dawning sense of horror. “What are you?” Both shrugged. “Survivors.” “We survived our own apocalypses—” “—and then we thought: this must happen a lot—” “—I bet not everyone is as successful as we were—” “There’s no Ex-Chosen Ones Anonymous, you understand,” said Radek. “Although there should be, if only to help with the trauma.” “The nightmares.” “Substance abuse.” “Crushing sense of unfulfillment and sudden lack of importance,” mused Sabita. <<

rorykurago: anyways. I will stop spamming you now. Sorry!

shmoo92: No sorry!

shmoo92: I like spam messages!

shmoo92: I don't like not having words, tho

shmoo92: I'm wondering if this last exchange isn't a bit too personal for a perspective client ...

shmoo92: Demons would be an interesting twist ... they actually like this world >cue Spike's season 2 monologue<

rorykurago: It is, but they're also a bit... haphazard? They literally make their money on the off chance they and everyone else on earth won't die

shmoo92: One of them fell in love with a chosen one

rorykurago: ...also Sabita has so much to say about women's rights and I'm a bit ???

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago: Probably Radek, if it was one of these two

shmoo92: Being a demon or <3?

rorykurago: Falling in love with another chosen one

rorykurago: Or possibly his own chosen one

rorykurago: that's a twist... Radek being a bystander who kicked in at the last minute to help his ladylove/ray of sunlight Chosen One a la Raleigh, only her saving = sacrifice?

rorykurago: He's like... literally been a temp hero since the get-go?

shmoo92: Yea!

rorykurago: That would explain all the scarring. He was never meant to be a Chosen One, so it wears on him more than others?

shmoo92: Exactly!

shmoo92: He has none of the Chosen One invulnerablility

rorykurago: Well, I mean none of the Eschatos crew do on hire jobs, since it's not 'their' apocalypse, but they're very good at what they do and very knowledgeable about end-of-the-worldsy stuff

shmoo92: Id think being (a potential) chosen would grant one a slight extra stat boost--the universe wants the person to have the best shot at surviving until the choosing

rorykurago: Oh yeah, definitely--but that'd help you survive your own choosing (pick the weapon, run the trials, learn the super sekrit ancient art etc). >> After that, you'd just be a very hardy, fire-tested normal who /happened to have experience averting apocalypses

rorykurago: >> “The price is different for everyone,” said Sabita. “It might be a minute from the lives of everyone saved, or a cent from their bank account.” “A bit of ancient knowledge.” “A family heirloom.” “A future triumph.” Where Radek’s pullover was undone at the neck curved another scar like the one over his throat—dimly defined, like Sabita’s tattoos. As Aldus watched, it moved. He looked from one to the other with a dawning sense of horror. “What are you?” Both shrugged. “Survivors.” <<

shmoo92: Oh, so the extra stat boost would go away after cancelling the apocalypse?

rorykurago: Sort of? You'd retain a little, but... the Force wouldn't be guiding you anymore? I guess? you'd have to know how to use a lightsaber on your own?

shmoo92: That makes sense!

shmoo92: Now to bed with you!

rorykurago: Yes 'm!

01/19/2016

rorykurago: I'm secret judging people on whether they reblog the Cherno Alpha post or the Newt one

shmoo92: I appwove

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago: okay day?

rorykurago: I promise I did not spend the rest of the night on that story, but it /may have been the first thing I did after waking up this morning

rorykurago: ...and waking up was trippy

shmoo92: Why was waking up trippy?

rorykurago: Not sure. I'm sleeping badly at the moment and waking up is a broken, disjointed unpleasant experience this week

rorykurago: For no good reason

rorykurago: Anyway

rorykurago: I'm going to see if I can track that package for you. If it hasn't arrived, it's AWOL

shmoo92: You may be stressed.

rorykurago: Quite possibly

shmoo92: The package may have arrived and my parents put it in the box that is now en route to me without saying anything so it would be surpriseful.

shmoo92: I'm going to use that word now, 'surpriseful'

rorykurago: Hmm. *crosses fingers*

rorykurago: I like it

rorykurago: It's melodic

shmoo92: We keep saying 'suprisé' in class (the verb is 'suprendre' and doesn't conjugate like that) and my professor dies a little inside each time. Maybe this'll help with the saying!

rorykurago: hahaha that's beautiful

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: What're you up to today?

rorykurago: Moar sewing/Spanish/listening to lectures on military theorists and stretegists/ watching 'Mr Selfridge'

rorykurago: What delights were in store this evening?

rorykurago: You?

shmoo92: Right now, I must call my mother about a large population of red spots on my front and legs

shmoo92: And not panicking about said spots

rorykurago: oh... Hmm. Reaction to something?

rorykurago: Itchy?

shmoo92: Slightly burn-y on my legs, hardly burn-y on my chest except between my boobs were there are many spots

rorykurago: Not a contact rash then?

shmoo92: And I've only taken Tylenol which wouldn't do it

shmoo92: I don't think so. Mom and I have ruled out irritation--I'm using the same laundry soap as at home and if it were the sheets if have broken out already

shmoo92: I don't think so. Mom and I have ruled out irritation--I'm using the same laundry soap as at home and if it were the sheets if have broken out already

shmoo92: So that leaves 'you moved to a new city in a new province in a house full of young adults'

shmoo92: *immuno compromised radg

shmoo92: I don't think so. Mom and I have ruled out irritation--I'm using the same laundry soap as at home and if it were the sheets if have broken out already

shmoo92: I don't think so. Mom and I have ruled out irritation--I'm using the same laundry soap as at home and if it were the sheets if have broken out already

rorykurago: ( 'I don't think so' etc came through 3 times. Internet troubles too? : ...are bed bugs a possibility?

shmoo92: It's after ten pm so everyone's on Netflix. Time for bed! XD

rorykurago: Goodnight!

shmoo92: There are apparently bed bugs in one of the other buildings, but it was quarantined before I arrived and I haven't heard any word since

shmoo92: Good luck on Outsourcing the Apocalypse!

shmoo92: ... I wanna use that in pacific rim somewhere now

rorykurago: haha I feel like it comes up in a Pentecost-Chau convo at least once

shmoo92: Omg xiong can say it when they confront each other "you expect me to outsource the apocalypse?" Fei yen /howls. "Possibly child care, too." >temperature in room plummets a zillion degrees<

rorykurago: I love it.

01/20/2016

rorykurago sent a photo

rorykurago: I don't want to say 'Dana' but COLLIERS DANA JAEGER RANGERS OH MY FRELLING GOD D.A.N.A.

01/20/2016

shmoo92: Oh my gooooood

shmoo92: It looks even more incredible in colour!!!! (I invert the colours of my phone during the night so I don't blind myself)

rorykurago: that's a neat trick! I hadn't thought of that

shmoo92: I couldn't flip the colours on my HYC, but on Apple devices it's really easy

shmoo92: The rash is just the cold virus from my throat making itself at home in/on my skin >dabs brow<

rorykurago: whew

rorykurago: I mean: that's horrible for you. At least it's nothing serious

shmoo92: My thoughts exactly! XD

shmoo92: I don't have lukemia or an alien parasite, so it's a win in my book!

rorykurago: NICE.

01/21/2016

rorykurago sent a post, "me: why are you des...

rorykurago: Up your alley perhaps?

shmoo92: /very up my alley, thank you!

01/21/2016

rorykurago: Hope the morning was good!

shmoo92: It was!

shmoo92: My class watched "Polytechnique" yesterday which is a film about the massacre of female engineering students at Montreal's university Polytechnique

shmoo92: So we talked about that for the first hour and I was just "I am so glad I missed this"

shmoo92: And then the boys were driven to Clare radio station so us girls basically had an hour to do whatever we wanted as long as we paid attention when the person we were judging came on

01/21/2016

rorykurago: nice

shmoo92: How did you wake this morning?

rorykurago: Dreaming my cousin (sort of) and I were Xena (her) and Gabrielle (me) and we'd been drugged and carried by our ankles up into an old asylum/apartment block by something that was crawling on the walls and ceiling. Finally it left us hanging by our hand from a bit of metal grating. Being Gabrielle, I slipped the zipties and dropped to the ground while it was explaining its rules to us. (It - man-shaped now - was surprised, looking up at the cut ties, but not perturbed.) We had one chance to search the block - under its supervision - and find the exit, or it would do something horrible to us. [Reavers from Firefly cross my mind now as an example for what.]

rorykurago: And no, I didn't feel heroic and capable, being Gabrielle. I was felt afraid, and I could feel him breathing down my neck and following us too-closely room to room as we searched

shmoo92: Possibly writing Kurago at one in the morning did your subconscious no favours

shmoo92: :S

shmoo92: *:D

rorykurago: possibly

rorykurago: But I didn't feel a lot of Kurago in this

rorykurago: But while there's no system to the dreams lately (no unifying thread) I woke up this morning feeling drugged, disoriented, and hunted

rorykurago: which IS familiar of late

shmoo92: Ah, so waking up was still trippy. >soft cool blanket hug<

rorykurago: *sighs*

rorykurago: *snuggles*

rorykurago: Just wish I knew the /WHY

rorykurago: thankee

shmoo92: When did it start?

rorykurago: A couple of weeks ago

rorykurago: I think you're right, I'm stressed about things

rorykurago: But this is the first time (I remember) that I've had traumatic waking dreams as my only reaction

shmoo92: One theory I've read about dreams that does make some sense is that when we sleep, our brain cells shrink enough that the self-cleaning fluid can slide in around them and flush away all the build up

rorykurago: hmm

rorykurgo: Sorry, ramble ramble ramble

rorykurago: It's good to hear you're still finding St Anne's interesting!

shmoo92: So it would make sense if stuff on your mind showed up in your dreams, but since my dreams for all most three years involved (though sometimes peripherally and/or in a humourous fashion) someone dying, I don't really wanna put too much stock in it XD

rorykurago: :D

rorykurago: Have a good night. I'm off to clean houses

shmoo92: I never need apologies for your rambling (especially considering I do as much of it XD ) especially when you're feeling dream!icky (so juvenile a word and yet 'gross' just doesn't quite cut it)

shmoo92: Best of luck with the cleaning; hope dog doesn't interfere and guilt trip too much! (Or do i hope that? Do you want to clean? XD )

01/22/2016

rorykurago: I get paid to clean, so... yes?

rorykurago: Witness: my dog being a wierdo. in triptych

01/22/2016

shmoo92: AIYEEE

shmoo92: WAT IS STICK

shmoo92: WHY IT FLY

rorykurago: "We make fire, cause stones to fly--we are their gods"

01/23/2016

shmoo92: sent a photo, "I’ll never be over the fact that Audrey's middle name is ..."

shmoo92: Because it's partly my story and I can do what I want, I recently cast ms Ramirez as a Collier!Diablo intercept JTech

rorykurago: headcanon accepted

rorykurago: Next question: young and sassy Audrey--or old and crotchety I've-forgotten-more-than-you'll-ever-learn widow Audrey?

shmoo92: Um

rorykurago: *bangs on table* JTECH CREW CHIEF JTECH CREW CHIEF

rorykurago: (unless there's one already...?)

shmoo92: Young sassy Audrey prooooobably isn't old enough for a Chief role, however old crotchety Audrey maybe too old

rorykurago: If we're playing with ages anyway, 50's/60's-ish adult Audrey?

shmoo92: If she's a spry old lady, chief would be an excellent fit

rorykurago: lbr she's pretty crotchety anyway, and I firmly believe that she would leave her garage in a flat second if it meant building GIANT ROBOTS

rorykurago: ...there may or may not be some referential Altantis bits in Diablo's crew room

rorykurago: I imagine Audrey being one of those amazing old ladies who are, like, scaling power-line towers right up until they literally fall off the perch dead.

shmoo92: Her great great grandmother once went on an expedition in search of it!

rorykurago: My great godmother's like that

rorykurago: But with less climbing

rorykurago: My grandfather was painting his house at 80-something

shmoo92: And engineering. She just has a mountain of activities and veterans aid stuff

shmoo92: Sounds like we both know amazing old people! XD

shmoo92: Alrightee, crotchety old lady Audrey Dewdrop Ramirez, age 50-60

rorykurago: ...haaave I mentioned yet that he was a military police officer during WWII, and my maternal grandfather was a Major/surgeon in the Pacific theatre?

shmoo92: You have not, and that's seriously cool

rorykurago: (Please let Audrey's english-language crewmembers secretly call her Grandmother Dewdrop)

shmoo92: (Omg yes)

rorykurago: (because (A) it's terribly adorable and ironic, and (B) they'd have no idea that Rocío is actually a pretty common, unremarkable name)

rorykurago: (so I'm told by Spanish teachers)

shmoo92: This bushy tailed newbie jtech's dragged along to meet grandmother dewdrop and expects to meet this fairy-like, ethereal being

shmoo92: And Audrey's hollering profanities at an engine

rorykurago: *ducks a knut that goes flying past their head* *muffled Spanish cursing* "What blockhead put the wrong gauges on my hydraulics panel!!?"

shmoo92: Newbie's like, this makes much more sense than fairy-mechanic

shmoo92: But I did not at all see this coming

shmoo92: Other jtechs laaaaaugh

rorykurago: *ducks a knut that goes flying past their head* *muffled Spanish cursing* "What blockhead put the wrong gauges on my hydraulics panel!!?"

rorykurago: They're all a little scared-straight, but they love her to bits. They gather on the gantries to sigh and coo when her older gentleman friend from another crew comes and offers her his arm for their customary stroll into town

rorykurago: Because Audrey does not let anyone get a THING by her, but she still likes being treated like a lady sometimes

shmoo92: *u*

shmoo92: On that note, I will bid thee good day but when I wake up o want to tell you about Marshal Nguyen, Henry du Croz, and Dame Eadith who are also all old people and in wuv

shmoo92: Have a good afternoon!

rorykurago: Okies!

rorykurago: Have a good night

01/23/2016

rorykurago: HOW AM I ALREADY PORN-WRITING TRASH FOR 'SECOND CHANCE'?

rorykurago: I haven't even finished the first episode yet

rorykurago: w. t. f.

shmoo92: Ah, the adventures of Rory and Rob continues XD

rorykurago: ...

rorykurago: shuddup

rorykurago: the thing started writing itself, I wrote it, I posted it, I wash my hands of it

shmoo92: Of course you do >pats ... shoulder<

rorykurago: except wall-sex and SERioUSlY SuGgESTIVE LINES like damn, writers, what the hell

shmoo92: Totally not imagining them with a book of pick up lines, definitely not

rorykurago: LOL

rorykurago: IDK if 'it's only 600 words' is a defense or a complaint...

rorykurago: How was sleep?

shmoo92: Sleep could've been better

shmoo92: I couldn't breathe through my nose and my throat hurt when I breathed through my mouth so that made it interesting

shmoo92: And the guy across the hall's alarm has been goning off for ages and I may be losing it so!

shmoo92: To the caf with I!

rorykurago: Alarm: eeew

rorykurago: throw something at his door

shmoo92: I knocked a couple times but since I think I'm the only person awake I don't want to wake anyone else up

shmoo92: Including the girl whose room is beside his who I don't think likes me very much

rorykurago: whyso?

rorykurago: (who could not like you, you are smol adorable)

shmoo92: (awww, sanks <3 )

shmoo92: I can say one thing, like a compliment, and we'll be fine, but if I ask where she got it (nail polish/earrings/what have you), she snaps 'I don't know/remember'

rorykurago: hmm, how odd

shmoo92: Like I'd like to ask if I said or did something

shmoo92: But when I've asked stuff like if I could use the washroom on the other side of the common room or if there was an okay time to wash hair, I get weird looks, and I feel this may end up the same

rorykurago: Le sigh.

rorykurago: Unrelated question: how credible is it to claim there's a plant-based testosterone-treatment replacement in Dinotopia?

shmoo92: Whixh is dinotopia?

rorykurago: Ah, dinosaurs on an island who survived the meteor; James Gurney picture books/ 2003(?) miniseries with Wenworth Miller

rorykurago: http://www.dinotopia.com/

rorykurago: They do have a plant extract that can prolong human (and dino) lifespans to a couple of hundred years. But it's plants, or my trans lady pilot has a very dim future

shmoo92: That looks freaking awesome

rorykurago: You haven't seen Dinotopia?!!

rorykurago: PLEASE COME INTO MY HOUSE AND LET ME SHOW YOU ALL OF MY GORGEOUS TOYS

shmoo92: I've seen Cadillacs and Dinosaurs but TOYS!?

rorykurago: The original books were three travelogue-style picture books narrating the arrival of an explorer from the 1800s(?) and his son on this island, and the adventures they had

shmoo92: Cadillacs and dinosaurs only had 13 episodes

rorykurago: (sadly no, I don't have actual Dinotopia toys)

shmoo92: Oh

shmoo92: My

shmoo92: God

shmoo92: Travelogue-style?!

rorykurago: (buuut I do have all three books, the miniseries, the [terrible] tv series and a couple of the novels)

rorykurago: YES

shmoo92: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rorykurago: COMPELTE WITH SCHEMATICS AND PLANT DRAWINGS, AND DIARY ENTRIES AND RANDOM OFFSHOOTS

rorykurago: I have to go shower; I'll be back in a bit

shmoo92: Omg Rory my heart can't take this description!

shmoo92: Just as well, I'm en route for the caf

rorykurago: Enjoy your new playground!

rorykurago: I'm going to bed. (P.s., not like I'm plugging the books or anything... but JG's paintings are SO. MUCH. BETTER. in print. just sayin'.)

rorykurago: Have a good day!

shmoo92: *gleefully rubs hands*

shmoo92: sleep well!

rorykurago: (last note, I /promise: after minor editing for grammar etc, the wordcount on This Is You is 666. Bahahaha! See what evil I have unleashed!)

rorykurago: Good night/ day!

shmoo92: BWAHAHA!!

shmoo92: Thanks, you, too!

01/24/2016

rorykurago: So my mother liked the Chosen Ones For Hire story...

rorykurago: ...and she wants my step dad to read it "even though it's not his genre"

rorykurago: IDK how I feel about that, but we'll see

01/24/2016

shmoo92: Yay, familial interest?

shmoo92: Sleep well!

01/25/2016

shmoo92: sent a photoset Dog Owners Will Understand

rorykurago: hahaha truuuuth

rorykurago: Sweet dreams!

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: Thanks! Hope you're pleased with your day and continue to be :)

rorykurago: My day has been relatively productive, thankee. Went to see 'Carol' solo, worked out, now finally taking a break for lunch before I start housework

shmoo92: What's 'Carol'?

01/25/2016

rorykurago: It's about a young woman in 1952 who begins a lesbian relationship with a divorcée, but things are complicated by the divorcée's battle for child custody

rorykurago:

rorykurago: My grandmother and one of her groups went to see it, and didn't like it because in her own words "I find lesbianism distasteful" and "She ruined that young girl's life!"

rorykurago: ...and then there were some other words exchanged about unconscious prejudice, LGBT+ right to existence, and old-timey values--

rorykurago: but the short of it was: obvs, I had to go see it for myself.

rorykurago: I love her, but this is the same woman who said "it just never crossed out minds [when we were young] that women could be that way" (gay)

01/25/2016

rorykurago: YAAAAY! The books arrived! (only a month late) but the books arrived!!

shmoo92: The successfully traveled the ocean blue! ... That's part of a song, I think

shmoo92: Now for more homework TnT

rorykurago: ...isn't it a line from The Owl And The Pussycat?

shmoo92: Maybe? It may be one of those 'public domain' things "sail the ocean blue" is "Barges" (a girl guide song)

rorykurago: Old-time co-location

01/25/2016

shmoo92: co-location?

shmoo92: i must say before i forget, your grandmother reminds me quite a bit of my grandfather's wife, jeannie

shmoo92: she's mellowed out in recent years but she's made me cry a few times

shmoo92: and she once gave my parents a book called 'how to behave so your children will too'

shmoo92: and i have /finally finished all the homework and worksheets i missed

shmoo92: so tomorrow'll be like christmas!

01/26/2016

rorykurago: Aaay!

01/26/2016

rorykurago: Deeper By The Hour 3: Into The Night >> Mako is not religious. She doesn’t pray; doesn’t believe in anything but the church of sweat and strappings. But she still burns incense for her parents and in the Ready Room, before every fight, she touches her tattoo like a talisman and glances at the photo on the wall: Herc, Stacker, Tamsin and Luna all in shinpads and shorts in the ring. As if alerted to their eyes in the present, Herc lifts his eyes to Raleigh and Vanessa. After a second he nods to Vanessa. She sighs and sips her champagne. No EMTs for her to pay off tonight. <<

shmoo92: Ooooo

01/28/2016

rorykurago: "Where is she?" >"She's in my room." *scoff* "Knew /that/ was going to happen." >"She was /frightened." "I saw you strip down for that hot tub. I'd be frightened too."

shmoo92: LOL

shmoo92: How be thee besides falling down laughing?

shmoo92: (About to talk on the radio so if I disappear, is why)

rorykurago: Is radio a recurring thing, or just a couple?

shmoo92: Every two weeks!

shmoo92: CifaFM.com

rorykurago: I be... watching GDT's early movies as homework (!!!) for Spanish this semester

shmoo92: NICE

rorykurago: Hmm! I shall investigate Cifa

shmoo92: School started this week? (I knew it was soon, just not how soon)

shmoo92: We're!

shmoo92: *eeee!

rorykurago: Lord, no, uni starts on the 29th of Feb. buuuut I /really/ need to work on my Spanish this year. SO.

rorykurago: I'm headed to bed. Hope radio went well, and rest of the day meets expectations too. Goodnight <3

shmoo92: Sleep well <3

shmoo92: Radio went quite well except that they wanted to talk about aliens

shmoo92: And I'm like, but all this stuff about Planet X!

01/29/2016

shmoo92: >boop<

shmoo92: Bedtime for me, have a good day!

01/29/2016

rorykurago: Morning, sunshine!

shmoo92: Morning!

shmoo92: Ski trip in an hour!!!

rorykurago: NICE

shmoo92: Can't wait!!!

shmoo92: How was your day?

rorykurago: >Sweaty<

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: I cleaned things, and then I came home and bathed the dog because she decided now was flea time, then cleaned out the half her pelt she left in the bath tub

shmoo92: Ewwwwe

shmoo92: *ewwwwww

rorykurago: she lovely but she shed

shmoo92: And has flees

shmoo92: Which she probably tried to do often

shmoo92: She had *flead

shmoo92: Effing ....

shmoo92: *fleas

rorykurago: lol one of those days?

rorykurago: Or typing in cold weather?

shmoo92: One of those days

shmoo92: I took a decongestant last night, woke up at 6:45 and apparently turned off my alarm

rorykurago: yuck

shmoo92: And woke up again at 9:03

shmoo92: Class starts at 9

rorykurago: aww no...

shmoo92: Buuuut since the bus leaves at 11, I wouldn't be there for very long anyway

shmoo92: >guilt intensifies>

rorykurago: *shrug* Some days you've just got to cut your losses

rorykurago: That, and if you slept all the way til 9 you probably needed the sleep?

shmoo92: That's what I'm thinking

shmoo92: shmoo92: Especially skiing all day while recovering from this dumb cold

rorykurago: yk, priorities and such :P

rorykurago sent a photo, "John Boyega photographed ..."

rorykurago: I regret nothing

rorykurago: I have many questions, but no regrets

rorykurago: ^^ Finn Becket

shmoo92: If the Beckets were a couple of black kids who weren't particularly good at anything but were drift compatible?

shmoo92 sent a post that's no longer available

shmoo92: Because we're talking about Beckets

rorykurago: I like

rorykurago: I was thinking in regards to Finn's co-pilot more that it could be Slip (or whatever the trooper who dies on Jakku's name is)

rorykurago: I like

rorykurago: Which sent Finn into a much longer spiral before he was brought back by General Organa to pair off with...

rorykurago: well, I haven't decided. 'Rookie' says it should be Rey; then 'best pilot' makes Chuck Poe

rorykurago: ...but automatic sync-up/best-buds suggests Finn-Poe

rorykurago: decisions, decisions

shmoo92: But Poe's so friendly! XD

shmoo92: Mako!Rey who knows she's good but hasn't had the opportunity to really show it off

rorykurago: But Mako!Poe who is the General's protege...

rorykurago: uuuugh

shmoo92: And Rey isn't really angry enough to be Chuck ...

rorykurago: The relationships/characterisations don't have to be the same, obvs

shmoo92: Obviously

rorykurago: But we still want each franchise to be recognizable

rorykurago: happy!Chuck Poe, the General's former protege, before she went on a tour of the Wall sites and found an orphaned missionary girl in Mexico and took her home?

rorykurago: /to the Shatterdome, trained her

rorykurago: Not the same as Tokyo, but maybe a city Leia defended once, and this is the first time she's been back--and she never realised how messed up it's gotten

shmoo92: In any event, I recommend you get some zzzzs

rorykurago: here's this teenager (older than Mako) scraping a living, but she /burns. Her folks aren't coming back. Leia knows what Rey doesn't, which is that the surveillance ship they were on was sunk during a Breach event not too long after the city was destroyed. (Rey, still holding onto a shred of hope that they didn't make it onboard and they're just... recovering somewhere)

rorykurago: So she takes Rey back to Hong Kong, and starts to train her.

rorykurago: Poe, a little older, likes this new scrap so much he gives up his position as General's pet (not 100% willingly tho)--in exchange for pilotship of the new Mark-V

rorykurago: Poe, a little older, likes this new scrap so much he gives up his position as General's pet (not 100% willingly tho)--in exchange for pilotship of the new Mark-V

rorykurago: (this is probably just after Finn's co-pilot dies, or just before. Finn and Rey never meet--until Pitfall)

rorykurago: (Yes, I should get zzz's, but I'm braining now.) (it's addictive make it stop)

shmoo92: There's something about Raleigh's copilot dying and losing his droid, GD-05, so, disaffected, Raleigh runs away from the organization

shmoo92: Only to find Mako who's tended to GD-05 and made her even better

shmoo92: Or, since BB-8 brought people together, picture said droid chirping at Finn, "do you want to die here? or in a ship!"

rorykurago: "...I don't speak bot."

rorykurago: Rey sighs, and translates

rorykurago: No no no!

rorykurago: POE /smiles and translates

rorykurago: because ofc the General would take her best pilot to meet his new co-pilot (and persuading him out of retirement), except that when they get back to Hong Kong, Finn meets Rey and she's like.... "You're a Ranger? I've never met a Ranger before."

rorykurago: (Or 'you're a Mark-3 pilot? I heard those were hard to control, what with the synapse delays and faulty rotors"

rorykurago: General Organa like "We've never been an army, Finn. We're the Resistance."

shmoo92: !!!!!!

shmoo92 sent a post, "in case that last comparison seems far-fetched"

shmoo92: I just keep giggling over imposing, fixed point Stacker as BB-8

rorykurago: (p.s. Finn ends up going into Challenger Deep with Rey, while Poe pilots with Jessika Pava, and Leia's arrogant shitbird son who's defected to war profiteering tries to control a kaiju by drifting with it and using it like robo-Godzilla for the benefit of a corporation. Except PSYCH! THE DRIFT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY)

rorykurago: B.O.N.U.S. POINTS if it's his dad who slaps him around the head, pulling him out of the drift with the captive kaiju

shmoo92: o_O

shmoo92: >SMOOCH<

rorykurago: muahahaha

shmoo92: I especially like that in "The force doesn't work that way!", one can easily imagine Han Organa wearing a parka XD

rorykurago: Han EXTREMELY TICKED OFF that he's here in the BoneSlums (or somewhere) slapping his idiot son around the head instead of piloting Cherno!Falcon into the harbour with Chewie (because Ben SHOULD have been a pilot, might have piloted with Poe--except that he got ticked off about not getting the Mark-V and went off private sector, and left Poe to find a new co-pilot)

rorykurago: (basically mashing up ALL OF THE THINGS--and coming out with Star Wars)

rorykurago: in which Kylo is all the worst bits of Chuck and Newt, plus their intellect

shmoo92: Purrrrrrfect

rorykurago: OKEH. Having now brought this monstrosity into the world, I'm going to get those zzzz's. I'll endeavour to type this out into a post tomorrow, yes?

rorykurago: G'night and have good snow fun

shmoo92: I wish thee the best!

shmoo92: Thank you!

01/29/2016

shmoo92 sent a photo, "Soren in his archsage outfit"

shmoo92: I know it's not mako but for a second i really thought it was

01/29/2016

rorykurago: Mm, same thing happened with me with that Leilana/Dragon Age art. I legit thought it was supposed to be Kel from a Tamora Pierce series, and only the description dissuaded me

shmoo92: Mediaeval!Au Mako?

shmoo92: ... I still tagged it a mako on xiongfeiyen

shmoo92: And now I will be tagging it as that, too

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago sent a photo, "Portrait of Marina Nery"

rorykurago: I may have found a (potential) Bea Mollier...

rorykurago: Not perfect, but it's a start

shmoo92: >claps hand to mouth<

shmoo92: She's so pretty!!

rorykurago: The model Marina Nery is maybe a bit too elfin IRL, but it's a step in the right direction

shmoo92: Elfin! That is a perfect descriptor!

rorykurago: Reading old books ftw!

shmoo92: >salutes book list<

shmoo92: Which was your latest?

rorykurago: Regular books: trying to read Gardens Of The Moon. Having more success with Tales Of The Alhambra

rorykurago: You? Does radio leave time for other books?

rorykurago: (Reading novels in French ?!?)

shmoo92: That we are!

shmoo92: "La cagoule"

shmoo92: ("The Hoddie")

rorykurago: Interesting?

shmoo92: It's about a sixteen year old delinquent who gets caught and chooses to go to this experimental rehabilitation camp instead of back home

shmoo92: But not all is what it seems ...

shmoo92: Sort of?

shmoo92: The MC calls the head of the camp a "nazi" and hopes (before he arrived) that it's not a concentration camp

rorykurago: I full expect that most French novels are not what they seem

shmoo92: >spit take<

shmoo92: And it may just be too soon after the force Awakens and how heavily it borrowed nazi imagery,

shmoo92: but I found the MC's language a little unnecessary?

shmoo92: But the author is very French and the French can be very racist, so it may be totally okay to them

rorykurago: Is it supposed to be over-dramatic?

rorykurago: IDK if mis-using the Holocaust is racism, per se

rorykurago: It's something, definitely, but I don't know if it's racism

shmoo92: Insensitive is probably a better word

rorykurago: anyway I get your point

shmoo92: I guess I haven't seen any indication that the camp is anything other than a rehabilitation centre for young people, so it kinda just seems like the story of a white, 16 year old delinquent learning to be a model citizen

shmoo92: Which isn't uninteresting, I'm just finding it difficult to care

shmoo92: Also the main character, being a sixteen year old boy, spent a good page describing how sexy the second of two women was

rorykurago: The French have a long history of not thinking too much of the Germans, too, so...

rorykurago: (Compare: Napoleon Bonaparte not wanting to be called 'Caesar' because it's associated with 'those weak German princes')

rorykurago: Oh. Gross.

rorykurago: That's...maybe a good insight into how boys think, but like...can you not? You can give us the impression he's attracted to her without salivating over it

shmoo92: Though there was a pun-y thing--he said "she had a lovely form, but if I didn't listen i would have trouble with my own third dimension"

rorykurago: Um...?

rorykurago: (Sorry, I'm a bit thick this morning)

rorykurago: Does he mean time?

shmoo92: Like, can the author be more obvious he's a guy? P

shmoo92: And this woman was wearing a scoop neck sweater and short skirt and is supposed to be a psychologist

shmoo92: Which is clever if I don't think about it for very long XD

rorykurago: Ooor the 'other thing'

shmoo92: 'Other thing'

rorykurago: Sigh

shmoo92: He would have trouble keeping his own shape

rorykurago: Have to say, my female characters spend more time ogling people than my male ones do

rorykurago: What is it about male authors?

shmoo92: Female gaze! Yay!

shmoo92: I KNOW

shmoo92: I'm describing this book and thinking, good heavens, John Grisham much?

rorykurago: GRR Martin and that godawful "her young breasts moving freely beneath the loose-fitting Dothraki top" thing

rorykurago: Can't say I've read Grisham

shmoo92: His middle age white male lawyers/professors almost always have a young, promiscuous, beautiful woman lusting after them who rarely contributes to the plot

rorykurago: eurgh

rorykurago: Strong argument right there against 'write what you know'/wish fulfillment

shmoo92: Seriously

rorykurago: Stephen King generally writes middle-aged white writers/professionals, but HE manages not to be gross about it

rorykurago: So it's not like anyone can scream "it's a guy thing!"

shmoo92: Admittedly, ive only read two Stephen king books, but neither seemed to have that stuff

shmoo92: (As you just said)

shmoo92: Though I can't recall women being in the picture either

rorykurago: They don't avoid sexuality, but it's never obsessed over/fetishised? IMO

rorykurago: Aside from male weirdness, how are you finding the book?

rorykurago: Do you find reading in a second language way more tiring?

shmoo92: Short:

shmoo92: *answer: yes

shmoo92: Long answer: it's like walking on a rocky beach (French) vs walking on a paved road

shmoo92: I can't just forget I'm reading and fall into a mental movie

shmoo92: Also I get really tickled when there's something that I can't just translate into English one for one

shmoo92: Or a nifty/different way of describing something or building a sentence

shmoo92: This was in class--my professor remarked that a classmate "had the face of a question mark"

shmoo92: Which is a bizarre metaphor in English but works great in French

shmoo92: This shmoo is keeping a list!

rorykurago: Huh

rorykurago: I guess 'quizzical' is the closest, but it does lack poetry :p

shmoo92: Or 'you look confused'

shmoo92: But those are just words

shmoo92: (Who woulda thunk it, two languages from different families couldn't be translated one:one? XD )

shmoo92: Did you sleep well?

rorykurago: Okay. Still haven't worked out the weird, but exercising seems to suppress it somewhat

rorykurago: How was snow?

shmoo92: Wet, heavy, and wonderful ^u^

shmoo92: What're you up to today?

rorykurago: God I miss snow

rorykurago: I am be domestic today

rorykurago: Study on the cards for you tomorrow?

shmoo92: Rorykurago! Domestic goddess!

rorykurago: It's my sekrit alter ego to balance out Rorykurago! Goddess of girls-kicking-butt!

shmoo92: ... I have the arts now

shmoo92: But bed! But arts! But bus trip tomorrow!

shmoo92: Arts will be delayed until tomorrow

shmoo92: However!

rorykurago: Pfft, sleep on the bus. Arts!

shmoo92: >breaks out the pencils<

rorykurago: >muffled cheering<

rorykurago: Star Wars arts?

shmoo92: Rory the goddess arts!

rorykurago: hahaha I look forward to seeing that

rorykurago: ...what is so bad about your cafeteria that the china is making a break for it?

shmoo92: I don't think so; my hair is in bad need of a wash and I'll be going to Yarmouth (closest town of decent size) for a few hours

shmoo92: BUT

shmoo92: I just realized that in the morning tomorrow, because brunch doesn't start until 11:30 at which point I will be 1h30 late for my meds and will have starved to death, that I don't need cream in my res room--I can just bring my oatmeal to the caf!

shmoo92: (W/r/t studying because my tablet didn't reconnect to the internet until just now)

rorykurago: ah. At least you've got it all sorted :P

01/30/2016

shmoo92: I'm forcing myself to sleep at ten to three in the morning

shmoo92: Sooooo gonna regret this tomorrow >__<

shmoo92: o well!

shmoo92: Have a great day!

rorykurago: SLEEEEEP, sayeth the deity of the pink apron

rorykurago: Sleep deep

shmoo92: >salutes!<

01/30/2016

rorykurago:

rorykurago: uuuuuugh why did this take so looooong

shmoo92: it was almost too awesome to live, is why

rorykurago: <3

shmoo92: fun times in a tag wrangling discussion about "'American' as pertaining to/from the USA": this dummy, morgan, ug

shmoo92: "I actually disagree that "everyone here seems to get that the term 'American' has issues" and we do not all think that."

rorykurago: "I don't think anyone else in THE AMERICAS has the right to call themselves American, because clearly only we - the white inhabitants of this neighbourhood - are American"?

shmoo92: uuuuuuuuuuggggggggg

shmoo92: your impression is so accurate it hurts

rorykurago: That was plainly the mental process of a couple of people in my Spanish class when we realised that in Spanish you don't say 'American' to mean someone from the US--you say 'a USer' (basically)

rorykurago: because - duh - EVERYONE from the Americas is 'American'

rorykurago: RE tags: I /did consider calling the PacRim/Star Wars thing "The Drift Awakens" lol

shmoo92: clearly, our intraplanetary drift link is as healthy as ever XD

01/31/2016

shmoo92 sent a photoset, "So the Del Toro show is over" Gotta say, this was pretty cute XD

rorykurago: That one, I just....

rorykurago: poor Rals

shmoo92: Eeek! I meant the pdf in general!!!