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Fandom Radio, Thursday, January 13
Tahiri: Oh, it's the radio booth. Why do I always end up here after I have to rescue someone from something?
Stephanie: Make a habit of this, do you?
Tahiri: Having to get rescued from the teal deer? She does, actually.
Gabrielle: Hey, hey, hey. I did not need to be rescued, thank you very much. I had the situation perfectly under control.
Stephanie: Really? Good job hiding it with all that flailing. Or was that to keep warm? It's freezing out there; ever hear of actual clothes?
Gabrielle: . . . I had a plan. A very well-thought-out plan.
Stephanie: Riiiiiiiiiiight. So! What are we doing here? Reading yesterday's news -- oooh, hey! Wow, you squirrels have surprisingly neat handwriting.
Tahiri: For not having opposable thumbs.
Stephanie: Impressive.
Gabrielle: Well, since we're all in agreement here --
Stephanie and Tahiri: -- you can start.
Classes
Gabrielle: Okay, then. I happen to not mind at all. Let's start with Extreme Physical Education. There's a phrase with a ring to it, isn't it? EXTREME Physical Education. Really makes you feel the --
Stephanie: Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is supposed to be the news, isn't it? Not a crash course in creative writing?
Gabrielle: Everything should be a crash course in creative writing, if you ask me. Words are wonderful things.
Tahiri: Somehow I have a bad feeling that it's going to be completely pointless for any of us to tell anyone else in this room right now to talk less.
Gabrielle: Can I continue now? Do you mind? Thank you. As I was saying, Extreme Physical Education geared up to go kayaking down the Rogue River in Oregon, courtesy of the Danger Shop; Juliet and Alexander teamed up for the trip, since it's the first time kayaking for both of them. There's something fascinating about the thought of taking a trip down a river for the first time. It's very --
Tahiri: Oh, Sithspawn. Never mind. Going on to The Science of Psionics, the subject of today's class discussion was what kind of experience people had with "sense psionics," which is more or less what it sounds like: people who can sense things, but not necessarily affect other people's minds. Emma and Raven were talking about Layla Miller's precognition, and how Emma wasn't really sure how it worked.
Stephanie: And there's something I never thought I'd ever hear when talking about high school classes. Every day's just full of surprises around here, you know? Speaking of which, there's What Not To Do In A Fight, which started off with -- yipes! -- Vice Principal Deadpool shooting at Professor Atreides. What was this, an extreme demonstration of the class title? Uh . . . never mind that; they went on to talk about everyone's favorite weapons and methods, and if it's bad to rely on them too heavily. Oh, look, here's something more normal: Home Ec, where I'm sure everyone was just thrilled to get to pair up and clean. Alex and Juliet did, once Juliet decided the cleaning stuff wouldn't actually inflict some horrible kind of suffering on her, Karla and Bobby Drake didn't actually get into a spray-bottle cleaner fight --
Gabrielle: Knowing both of them, that may be a miracle.
Stephanie: -- and Effy thought it was funny that Emma was making her own natural cleaner. Tony Stark -- from the shuttle, hi, Tony -- got into an argument with Steve about whether he could upgrade one of the vacuums. Oooh, tinkering with school property. That might be a no-no.
Tahiri: Speaking of school property, sounds like Gabrielle here had some fun with some of the library's Mark Twain books trying to hide themselves today, and Henry had some similar problems with true-crime books trying to reshelve themselves with the fiction.
Stephanie: I take it from your tone this is another day in the Fandom weird.
Gabrielle: Precisely. So is randomly getting turned into animals, by the way, which Faramir told me happened to him for a couple of weeks. Now, how about teachers' offices? Aha! Kukaku spent her office hours smoking and staring at the ceiling, but Captain Hook was studying up on the Danger Shop, except for when he was visiting Cindy next door; she wasn't sure if she should know him or not, even though he said a lot of students seem to recognize him from a children's story, but he didn't recognize her unless she was a transformed mermaid or fairy.
Dorms
Tahiri: In a stellar example of how some of the new kids are fitting right in already, Nathan was eating cereal and drinking in his room, in his underwear, which might have scarred Caroline for life. Possibly even more so when he tried to convince her to show him hers, and told her he's looked in her underwear drawer. Charming. Whoever Kate was texting when she came by could've gotten scarred for life, too, since she took a picture to send them. She's also, it seems, gotten into knife fighting lately. Huh. Maladicta was having trouble writing a letter home, and Faramir came by but offered to leave her alone until she was done.
Gabrielle: He's really considerate that way.
Tahiri: Gabrielle, when I want your contribution, I'll ask for it, okay? Yesterday afternoon, Ender was doing laps in the pool -- I suppose I really should work more on that learning to swim thing -- and in the evening Alexander was up in the third floor common room watching some CW show involving cheerleaders and another one about spies, but not Rumor Gal. That's usually Raven's show, which she's usually watching this night every week, so I guess Elphaba wouldn't be too far off-base thinking maybe he was Raven. Weirder things have happened in Fandom, after all.
Stephanie: Raven. Watches Rumor Gal.
Tahiri: Yes -- I don't know why that's so funny. Cloud was talking to himself about needing to get music while he cleaned his room.
Stephanie: Humming works in a pinch, I hear. Momoko was panicking over the university exams she was cramming for in her room, except when Scully came by to find out what was wrong, and Bruce checked up to find what was going on, plus talked to her in Japanese, since he spent some time in Japan before he came here. Looks like Charlie was having trouble falling asleep last night.
Gabrielle: And over at Magic and Support Reserves, where the order of the day was having a scavenger hunt, Tara and Karla were busy worrying about Raven.
Town
Tahiri: River was visiting the island today, stopping in at the Perk (where the squirrels also spotted Scully at one point), and also visiting Kerrigan to catch up on what's been going on with both of them. Charlie and Ariel were out in the preserve, blowing things up for entertainment --
Stephanie: That's entertainment?!?
Gabrielle: Look, just because your ideas of entertainment don't always match up to everyone else's, it's no reason to get that indignant.
Tahiri: Can I kriffing finish? It sure got Principal Winchester's attention, and she wanted to know what happened. Charlie said what happened was her.
Stephanie: Well, that . . . could have gone worse? On to business news, Ino was reading at Wellspring Arms, and Triela visited with Thai food for lunch and a request for Ino to write to her home every week to give progress reports. Hank was playing with a turtle at Turtle and Canary -- despite his "HankCo" sign on the counter, Turtle and Canary is the name of the store, kiddies -- and got bitten for it. That's amphibian thanks for you. Shunsui was pretty disappointed that Hank came back this week, and it was only after that, and after promising he'll be an awesome employee and getting the turtle taken away from him, that Hank realized that turtle bites hurt when they happen to you.
Gabrielle: You don't say. Why was Alexander hanging the cute-kitten paintings at Things Reborn backwards today? I don't know, but he was organizing the rest of the paintings. At Pixie Dust, Shelley was devoting some thought to chunky bracelets and the necessity of toe-rings, Lion-O had some words with the Luke's Diner busboy for tracking mud everywhere, and William was doing a lot of writing at Fixer-Uppers. Cally Tyrol was busy cleaning the lobby at MCA, and over at Groovy Tunes, Lindsay was listening to . . . Bon Jovi? I could almost swear that sounds like the name of a warlord I heard of.
Stephanie: Well, they might have some things in common.
Tahiri: I'm fine staying unclear on that aspect of Earth culture, I think. Caritas was busy tonight, wasn't it? And I don't just mean Tino swapping labels on the bottles because my favorite person ever, Alex Karev, was making him do it. I'm also having a hard time believing he was actually nice to Jane Porter, who was really scientifically interested in the zombies.
Gabrielle: You can't believe that was possible? That's not very optimistic of you.
Stephanie: You two could keep arguing that point, so I don't have to talk too much about Shelley and Alex's conversation about wool pants and zombie anatomy, and when it comes to the anatomy in question, let's just say it's in the vicinity of pants. Shelley and Jane introduced themselves, Jane learned a mnemonic trick from Shelley about keeping track of people's names, and they compared family and job stuff.
Tahiri: And Henry De Tamble came in to get an Irish whiskey, because it's kriffing cold out there, and got flirted with a lot by Shelley after asking her if the drink she had meant she had a hard day. And Bruce was there, ordering a martini, and getting Alex to offer to find him a zombie to kiss. Oh, that's just beautiful, Alex.
Stephanie: Ohmygod.
Gabrielle: Stephanie? Are you okay?
Stephanie: Zombie . . . kissing. It's a terrifying mental image.
Gabrielle: Well, there is that.
Tahiri: And what a fantastic image to start everyone's day on. Truly. Good one, Gabrielle.
Gabrielle: I could have been more descriptive, you know.
Stephanie and Tahiri: Please don't.
Gabrielle: Oh, all right. Let's see, I can come up with something more cheerful and picturesque to send everyone off on . . .
Stephanie: No, you know what? How about we just --
*click*
Stephanie: Make a habit of this, do you?
Tahiri: Having to get rescued from the teal deer? She does, actually.
Gabrielle: Hey, hey, hey. I did not need to be rescued, thank you very much. I had the situation perfectly under control.
Stephanie: Really? Good job hiding it with all that flailing. Or was that to keep warm? It's freezing out there; ever hear of actual clothes?
Gabrielle: . . . I had a plan. A very well-thought-out plan.
Stephanie: Riiiiiiiiiiight. So! What are we doing here? Reading yesterday's news -- oooh, hey! Wow, you squirrels have surprisingly neat handwriting.
Tahiri: For not having opposable thumbs.
Stephanie: Impressive.
Gabrielle: Well, since we're all in agreement here --
Stephanie and Tahiri: -- you can start.
Classes
Gabrielle: Okay, then. I happen to not mind at all. Let's start with Extreme Physical Education. There's a phrase with a ring to it, isn't it? EXTREME Physical Education. Really makes you feel the --
Stephanie: Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is supposed to be the news, isn't it? Not a crash course in creative writing?
Gabrielle: Everything should be a crash course in creative writing, if you ask me. Words are wonderful things.
Tahiri: Somehow I have a bad feeling that it's going to be completely pointless for any of us to tell anyone else in this room right now to talk less.
Gabrielle: Can I continue now? Do you mind? Thank you. As I was saying, Extreme Physical Education geared up to go kayaking down the Rogue River in Oregon, courtesy of the Danger Shop; Juliet and Alexander teamed up for the trip, since it's the first time kayaking for both of them. There's something fascinating about the thought of taking a trip down a river for the first time. It's very --
Tahiri: Oh, Sithspawn. Never mind. Going on to The Science of Psionics, the subject of today's class discussion was what kind of experience people had with "sense psionics," which is more or less what it sounds like: people who can sense things, but not necessarily affect other people's minds. Emma and Raven were talking about Layla Miller's precognition, and how Emma wasn't really sure how it worked.
Stephanie: And there's something I never thought I'd ever hear when talking about high school classes. Every day's just full of surprises around here, you know? Speaking of which, there's What Not To Do In A Fight, which started off with -- yipes! -- Vice Principal Deadpool shooting at Professor Atreides. What was this, an extreme demonstration of the class title? Uh . . . never mind that; they went on to talk about everyone's favorite weapons and methods, and if it's bad to rely on them too heavily. Oh, look, here's something more normal: Home Ec, where I'm sure everyone was just thrilled to get to pair up and clean. Alex and Juliet did, once Juliet decided the cleaning stuff wouldn't actually inflict some horrible kind of suffering on her, Karla and Bobby Drake didn't actually get into a spray-bottle cleaner fight --
Gabrielle: Knowing both of them, that may be a miracle.
Stephanie: -- and Effy thought it was funny that Emma was making her own natural cleaner. Tony Stark -- from the shuttle, hi, Tony -- got into an argument with Steve about whether he could upgrade one of the vacuums. Oooh, tinkering with school property. That might be a no-no.
Tahiri: Speaking of school property, sounds like Gabrielle here had some fun with some of the library's Mark Twain books trying to hide themselves today, and Henry had some similar problems with true-crime books trying to reshelve themselves with the fiction.
Stephanie: I take it from your tone this is another day in the Fandom weird.
Gabrielle: Precisely. So is randomly getting turned into animals, by the way, which Faramir told me happened to him for a couple of weeks. Now, how about teachers' offices? Aha! Kukaku spent her office hours smoking and staring at the ceiling, but Captain Hook was studying up on the Danger Shop, except for when he was visiting Cindy next door; she wasn't sure if she should know him or not, even though he said a lot of students seem to recognize him from a children's story, but he didn't recognize her unless she was a transformed mermaid or fairy.
Dorms
Tahiri: In a stellar example of how some of the new kids are fitting right in already, Nathan was eating cereal and drinking in his room, in his underwear, which might have scarred Caroline for life. Possibly even more so when he tried to convince her to show him hers, and told her he's looked in her underwear drawer. Charming. Whoever Kate was texting when she came by could've gotten scarred for life, too, since she took a picture to send them. She's also, it seems, gotten into knife fighting lately. Huh. Maladicta was having trouble writing a letter home, and Faramir came by but offered to leave her alone until she was done.
Gabrielle: He's really considerate that way.
Tahiri: Gabrielle, when I want your contribution, I'll ask for it, okay? Yesterday afternoon, Ender was doing laps in the pool -- I suppose I really should work more on that learning to swim thing -- and in the evening Alexander was up in the third floor common room watching some CW show involving cheerleaders and another one about spies, but not Rumor Gal. That's usually Raven's show, which she's usually watching this night every week, so I guess Elphaba wouldn't be too far off-base thinking maybe he was Raven. Weirder things have happened in Fandom, after all.
Stephanie: Raven. Watches Rumor Gal.
Tahiri: Yes -- I don't know why that's so funny. Cloud was talking to himself about needing to get music while he cleaned his room.
Stephanie: Humming works in a pinch, I hear. Momoko was panicking over the university exams she was cramming for in her room, except when Scully came by to find out what was wrong, and Bruce checked up to find what was going on, plus talked to her in Japanese, since he spent some time in Japan before he came here. Looks like Charlie was having trouble falling asleep last night.
Gabrielle: And over at Magic and Support Reserves, where the order of the day was having a scavenger hunt, Tara and Karla were busy worrying about Raven.
Town
Tahiri: River was visiting the island today, stopping in at the Perk (where the squirrels also spotted Scully at one point), and also visiting Kerrigan to catch up on what's been going on with both of them. Charlie and Ariel were out in the preserve, blowing things up for entertainment --
Stephanie: That's entertainment?!?
Gabrielle: Look, just because your ideas of entertainment don't always match up to everyone else's, it's no reason to get that indignant.
Tahiri: Can I kriffing finish? It sure got Principal Winchester's attention, and she wanted to know what happened. Charlie said what happened was her.
Stephanie: Well, that . . . could have gone worse? On to business news, Ino was reading at Wellspring Arms, and Triela visited with Thai food for lunch and a request for Ino to write to her home every week to give progress reports. Hank was playing with a turtle at Turtle and Canary -- despite his "HankCo" sign on the counter, Turtle and Canary is the name of the store, kiddies -- and got bitten for it. That's amphibian thanks for you. Shunsui was pretty disappointed that Hank came back this week, and it was only after that, and after promising he'll be an awesome employee and getting the turtle taken away from him, that Hank realized that turtle bites hurt when they happen to you.
Gabrielle: You don't say. Why was Alexander hanging the cute-kitten paintings at Things Reborn backwards today? I don't know, but he was organizing the rest of the paintings. At Pixie Dust, Shelley was devoting some thought to chunky bracelets and the necessity of toe-rings, Lion-O had some words with the Luke's Diner busboy for tracking mud everywhere, and William was doing a lot of writing at Fixer-Uppers. Cally Tyrol was busy cleaning the lobby at MCA, and over at Groovy Tunes, Lindsay was listening to . . . Bon Jovi? I could almost swear that sounds like the name of a warlord I heard of.
Stephanie: Well, they might have some things in common.
Tahiri: I'm fine staying unclear on that aspect of Earth culture, I think. Caritas was busy tonight, wasn't it? And I don't just mean Tino swapping labels on the bottles because my favorite person ever, Alex Karev, was making him do it. I'm also having a hard time believing he was actually nice to Jane Porter, who was really scientifically interested in the zombies.
Gabrielle: You can't believe that was possible? That's not very optimistic of you.
Stephanie: You two could keep arguing that point, so I don't have to talk too much about Shelley and Alex's conversation about wool pants and zombie anatomy, and when it comes to the anatomy in question, let's just say it's in the vicinity of pants. Shelley and Jane introduced themselves, Jane learned a mnemonic trick from Shelley about keeping track of people's names, and they compared family and job stuff.
Tahiri: And Henry De Tamble came in to get an Irish whiskey, because it's kriffing cold out there, and got flirted with a lot by Shelley after asking her if the drink she had meant she had a hard day. And Bruce was there, ordering a martini, and getting Alex to offer to find him a zombie to kiss. Oh, that's just beautiful, Alex.
Stephanie: Ohmygod.
Gabrielle: Stephanie? Are you okay?
Stephanie: Zombie . . . kissing. It's a terrifying mental image.
Gabrielle: Well, there is that.
Tahiri: And what a fantastic image to start everyone's day on. Truly. Good one, Gabrielle.
Gabrielle: I could have been more descriptive, you know.
Stephanie and Tahiri: Please don't.
Gabrielle: Oh, all right. Let's see, I can come up with something more cheerful and picturesque to send everyone off on . . .
Stephanie: No, you know what? How about we just --
*click*
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"What the fuck did she do to me?" he yelled to no one in particular. "Goddammit!"