Fandom radio, Monday April 10th

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Right, I...um.

*chittering*

No, it's...I'm fine. But there's...there's news, from yesterday.

Steven and Detective Watts had a lazy morning and discussed relationships and holidays. Right. There are a few of those right now.

At Stark Industries, Rey had chocolate bunnies and jelly beans in the drawers.

Gladio was at the Perk texting Summer.

And at the park, Boc found Easter eggs, and he and Stark discussed holidays and candy.

And, um. I think that's it. Unless you've got anything else?

*chittering*

Right, that's all, then. Have a good week.

Fandom Radio, Tuesday (4/11)

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What's up, Fandom listeners? Steph here, and you just heard "Breezeblocks" from alt-J. It's Tuesday morning, which means it's time for me to regale you with all the things from yesterday that our rodent reporters deemed noteworthy.

*drumroll*

Give it up for the intern porg, everybody! Yeah, you're getting really good at that, buddy. Now, could you just hand me the School notes? Thanks.

Starting off with Life Skills, Summer covered the subject that I'm pretty sure literally nobody here would have even thought sounded remotely like a thing anyone would need to learn before they arrived on our wacky little island here: what to do when you, or someone you know, turns into an animal. Since she also apologized for missing class last week due to a case of being-a-squirrel, no points if you guess where she got the idea for this class. Practical Wilderness Survival went over how to find your way around without a compass or a map, and while my first impulse would be to go for my phone GPS and maps app? I'm gonna guess that's ruled out because reception in the wilderness is nonexistent, otherwise you'd have called for help a long time ago. And Sensory Deprivation Combat Training had to learn about dealing with terrain that you can't see by... rock climbing in the dark. You know, in D&D we'd call that difficult terrain and you'd be moving at half speed, but that is a game mechanic that doesn't necessarily translate accurately to real-life application.

*chittering*

Who, me? Sound like I've been having this argument with people online a lot in the last week and a half? I have no idea why you'd even think that, Leroy.

*trilling*

Okay, yeah, fine. You got me. Look, it's not my fault people refuse to understand how adaptation works. Anyway. Moving on.

To Dorms specifically, because there is actually a dorms note here! And the porg is -- oh no, stop that, please, I physically can't handle the wide-eyed joyful crying face from you. Seriously. I can't. It might be worse than your sad no-dorms-notes face. Anyway, Belle was in the third floor common room wondering why all the surplus Easter candy that was in there for some reason had weird, unhelpful, disturbingly people-typical names. Taste test time? Obviously. Libby couldn't enlighten Belle as to what people-flavored candy should taste like, but she did discover that marshmallow Peeps are too cute to eat.

*distressed trilling*

No, the candy's called Mike and Ike, but I... am pretty sure it's not actually made of people. Beta was concerned that the brightly colored candies might be a trap and also agreed with Belle that candy names? Tell you nothing.

On to Town! Rosa is back from being a panther, and luckily the Diaz & Ass. email inbox wasn't up to a stressful level of backlog, which we now know because the squirrels are a little too observant. Prompto was at the Photo Hut working on some online official photography business and also getting the usual visit from Liz, who volunteered Noctra to help Prompto pick out cat pictures for his portfolio. That sentence is so wholesome I think I just died for a second. Cutter dropped in, too, but he was looking for help buying a new camera or three to go digging for fossils with.

Sakaki was in a nervous mood at Furnado, but the good thing about working in an animal shelter when you're in that kind of mood? Plenty of cute and fuzzy distractions. Or scaly ones. Summer should absolutely get hazard -- heh -- pay for yesterday's Turtle and Canary shift, since she had to deal with avoiding all the golf balls Apu was whacking around the inside of the store. Gladio was doing sword practice in the evening at Atlas Gym, and the squirrels want me to make sure you all know he was shirtlass at the time. Vi had a whole bunch of baked goods at the Magpie Emporium, which I of course was happy to help her put away, both figuratively and literally.

Covent Garden Flowers was tragically kitten-less, but with all the lilies around the store that was probably a good call by Nell, who had Travis come in to check up on her and buy apology flowers for Stark. Aww. Man, talking about apology flowers make me miss my friend Gabe. He was constantly buying them for his girlfriend. Eliot was at the Magic Box, a note with a bunch of exclamation points next to it, except he kind of noped out of work almost immediately when faced with having to shelve inventory. Understandable.

And finally, the anticipated -- by me, at least -- Clinic Report and Crab Lore Update! Stark was a little surprised that all the leftover candy at the clinic was crab-shaped, because of course Stabby had his own candy basket. Of course he did. Stark, on the other hand, had coffee for everyone and also a visit from Travis with the aforementioned apology flowers to go along with, well. An apology. For being an ass while recovering from his concussion. And again I say awwwww.

And "awwww" is a nice note to leave you all on, so until next week, Fandom, keep it weird.

*chittering*

What? No, Leroy, Portland doesn't get a monopoly on that. You literally live here, you should know that b--

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