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[deshabille]

Who: Mal and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Marsiva
When: Right meow (November 8)

Is everyone having fun?

[You know . . . if her expression were any different, that would sound absolutely sarcastic and pretty condescending. But she's positively beaming. Gleeful. Mal is having a great few weeks.]

It's more fun on the ships, I have to admit, but everyone's minds are so interesting. People can look almost exactly the same on the outside and be absolutely distinctive on the inside. [And she thinks that's beautiful.]

Also, a question - most of these videos and things are from Earth, yes? Well, I'm not, so someone ought to tell me where to start. My requirements thus far are: no folk music, no Taylor Swift.

[A beat. She frowns.]

No romance unless there's also a lot of punching. [Or you're Cassandra. The only exception.]

Comments

[theshabbiestofmen]

I have a friend who would absolutely insist you try listening to the Clash.

[Vampire, meet tired werewolf.]

That being said, personally, I always quite enjoyed swing.

[deshabille]

What the hell is a clash? See, this is why I don't know where to start. None of these names make any godsdamned sense.

[Mal you sound approximately 5000 years old right now. Also it's probably for the best that she can't smell you right now, Remus, werewolves smell just awful. #rudebuttrue]

[In a slightly more calm tone, though:]

Swing what? Music? [Listening, right?] Is that a band too?

[theshabbiestofmen]

A band and a type of music, respectively. Perhaps this might be easier if you told me what you liked first, and I could work from there.

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[forgetyourusedtobe]

You know some of the best stories ever told are romance stories, right?

[deshabille]

Name one.

[forgetyourusedtobe]

Romeo & Juliet's had a pretty lasting effect, but you'd probably criticize everything about it because it's a series of one bad decision after the next.

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[openhands]

Fun.

[Why yes, she's only going to say one word and it's going to come out as flat as humanly possible. Mal, she likes you a lot. She might even love you by now. But what in Andraste's name are you talking about?]

[deshabille]

Don't you think so? It's really interesting, seeing what the insides of people's heads are like. I hope mine's as interesting, anyway, although it probably is. Given that I'm fascinating.

[What??????]

[openhands]

[Flatly:] It's also invasive and deplorable.

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[nextlineis]

Music's changed a lot from my time, but I like a lot of it. [Sing-song because how is she supposed to say no?] I put together a pretty good list if you ever want to check it out.

[deshabille]

That's because you're old.

[MAL YOU CAN'T EVEN TALK. Nevertheless:]

What's on the list?

[nextlineis]

[Joseph crinkles his nose because hold on a second, Captain.]

There's probably fossils younger than you.

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[takeabow]

I'm as lost as you are.

[deshabille]

Isn't it awful? Someone draw us a map. Alternately I could just dive in at random, but then I'd spend at least a week complaining before I found something less than terrible.

[takeabow]

Yeah, I'm not sure it'd help much.

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[mordedura]

You might enjoy....I forget the actor's name...Belushi? Belogi? [Actually, she means Bela Lugosi, something she had no access to until Richie introduced her to it.]

I'm not much help when it comes to this sort of thing.

[deshabille]

Hm. I wonder why.

[Dry as dust, naturally. They seem to be equally caught out, just in different ways: her in time, Mal in space.]

What's a Belogi do?

[mordedura]

He did these old films about vampires -- it's entertaining at least.

[redactions]

I've got an iPod with about a century's worth a'music, and they gave me my vinyl records from home. If you like, we can start with 'em.

As for movies — you seen Casablanca?

[deshabille]

Half of what you just said is totally meaningless to me, but all right.

Haven't. What's it about? Sounds foreign.

[redactions]

The short version is, it's music.

It's a film named after the city it's set in, a place in Morocco, during my War. If you want to start there. If not, I have a list.

[mikangirl]

I'm not from Earth either. Although I've already been pestered by one person to watch "Errol Flynn" movies, so I guess you could start there, if you find any.

[deshabille]

Errol Flynn sounds like a bird. [WHY ARE YOU SO CRITICAL] I bet I could find them quick if they're here, though. What're they supposed to be about?

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[electrostatics]

Techno. Electroswing, maybe. And guitar covers of just about anything, if you can get them, but acoustic guitar works pretty well. [ Music, he can do. ]

[deshabille]

See, I at least know what a guitar is. I can work with this. What's electroswing?