i'm gonna show you crazy

[deshabille]

Who: Everyone on the SS Caprine!
Broadcast: None :(
Action: mingle mingle mingle
When: month-wide, get in here whenever you want

[hey everybody it's a mingle]

[when you're not sunbathing on planet sandals beach resort, GET IN HERE]

Comments

[deshabille]

[Oh, well. At least he's self-assured. Mal is perfectly well-versed in the nature of arrogance and is satisfied to see that she's not the only one on board with a giant ego.]

I'm sure you could. Have you ever been in space before? I hadn't, before here. [A beat; she makes another face.] We also didn't have lightswitches, though, so . . .

[nextlineis]

No, space travel isn't possible yet.

[It's the "yet," that's important and key. Joseph thinks they'll figure it out eventually. With all the advancements they're making at the Speedwagon Foundation (and okay the crazy German science, too, even if he's a lot wary about the people behind it), space travel has to be around the corner.]

[Joseph is gonna be really pissed about the lack of flying cars in the future, basically.]

[deshabille]

I think the only sort of space travel that happens on the Disc is when people fall off the edge of the world by accident.

[Although admittedly she's only heard stories of that. It sounds like a pretty crappy way to go.]

[nextlineis]

[There's a confused furrowing of his brow.]

The Disc?

[water u talkin about]

[deshabille]

[Oh, gods, not this again.]

The Disc. Where I come from. Round and flat, like a disc, see? With oceans at the edges, mountains in the middle.

[She doesn't go into the elephants or Great A'Tuin, because . . . people just hardly ever believe that.]

[nextlineis]

[He squints.]

So...your world is flat? And you can actually fall off the edge?

[This should be very straightforward, but he is 90% confused as to how that's actually possible.]

[deshabille]

Yes. You've got it exactly.

[A long pause, as she looks up at the stupid look on his face very carefully.]

It's magic, [she adds helpfully.]

[nextlineis]

[Is that really helpful? Is it?]

[...No, it's really not.]

But how does that work? Planets are always round.

[deshabille]

Obviously they're not. That just goes to show your limited and prejudiced Roundworld perspective.

[She clicks her tongue and shakes her head at him. Is she joking? Is she?]

[Yes, she mostly is.]

[nextlineis]

I don't think you can be prejudiced about world shapes.

[deshabille]

Maybe no one was before you. You're a trendsetter.

[nextlineis]

You say that like I'd want to be a trendsetter about something like that?

[Aviator caps and crop tops? Sure. Prejudice? Eh, not so much.]

[deshabille]

Sometimes you don't choose the trendsetter life. It chooses you.

[God only knows where she picked that up.]

[nextlineis]

I don't think you could sound more full of shit right now even if you tried.

[deshabille]

[She laughs at that, shrugging loosely.]

I could. I'm very good at it. But I won't, just for you.

Anyway, it's still true.

[nextlineis]

What is?

[...He lost the thread of conversation, whoops.]