(no subject)

[flickerflash]

Who: Katie and anyone!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Vanquish
When: Today!

( Cut for small child angst )

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[By the second week she starts making dolls. Simplistic blue yarn dolls at the base. It's just something to do with her hands and mind at first. Then she makes one in which her blue wool is dipped sporadically into black ink as she makes it, so the doll looks rather like it got thrown in a tar puddle when she's done. She attaches five or six pieces of loose, spattered wool to its shoulders, closes her eyes, and blows gently on its darkened face.

Don't ask why she does creepy things.

Then she stares at her little collection, swallows... and goes to watch Princess Bride instead.  It's video courage!  (Which small children have to make do with instead of liquid courage.)  Which leads to this post on the network twenty minutes in, very grumpily:]

[Video]

If we're in space and everything's so very future and all, why don't we even have television? [Petulant, pale child alert. Please ignore the spattered bits of ink on her chin.] Aren't we allowed to watch alien TV?

...I don't suppose anyone can make a TV with magic, can they? I don't think you should have to watch movies on this thing. [She taps the screen and accidentally turns it off. OH WELL. Question stands.

...but now that it's off, after a few minutes there comes an addition in text:]

[Text]

If it would make everything better, would you do something terrible so that nobody else had to?

[Hopefully, that part's anonymous. Right?]

ss bloodsport mingle

[ownassets]

Who: ss bloodsport + visitors
Broadcast:
Action: ss bloodsport
When:

( mingle, mingle, mingle? )

three twins mingle post whoop

[nedstarksbastard]

Who: the crew of the Three Twins and whoever might decide to visit them!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Three Twins
When: Just after this latest Shuffle.

[good news, folks: your engineer's not floating anymore!]

(no subject)

[complicatedliar]

Who: Loki
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the moon initially, but he'll be back to the Paisley soon, and probably on the Iskaulit
When: June 5 (ends June 12)

Video

[Video starts with... that sure is Loki. But there's something subtly weird about his expression. There's nothing guarded or calculated about it, a slight relaxation of ever-present tension that was never apparent before, perhaps. The best poker face in all Nine Realms is nowhere to be seen. If anything, he looks upset. Confused, worried, a bit scared. And he's out in the forest on the toxic moon, which is just great, let him tell you. No mask, but he's never needed one before, not that he's aware of that, or of the fact that most people have to wear them.]

Hello? Yes, this seems to be working. What a curious device. [Anyway. The point.]

I seem to be lost. Very lost. Where is this?

[A view of the forest, brief but steady.]

And--[Careful breath.]--who am I?

Action

[Lucky Loki, his augment has glitched and while he remembers how to do things--and the occasional esoteric fact--he has no idea who he is. Good news--or bad news depending on your opinion of his usual space asshole personality--he'll get over it in about a week.

Even if no one comes find him, he'll make his way back to civilization eventually and be very confused about life and where he's even supposed to be. Good thing he's practically indestructible. But eventually, he will be around on the Paisley, and on the Iskaulit, poking about.]

[Closed-ish] and here's the flipside

[theroadwarrior]

Who: Max Rockatansky (still 22... for a bit...) and you.
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Iskaulit, Starstruck, etc.
When: the days before the 8th. Follow-up to his first post. It may also involve threads after Max reverts back, to keep things all together.

Max slowly reverts back to his old ways -- and it's terrifying.

Warnings for mental illness, PTSD, and the situations that may arise from them! There will be top comments for different people inside; if you're interested in tagging into this with Max as he reverts back to older!Max, hit me up via PP on plurk or PM, and we can flesh something out!)

Culture and Tradition and ... Accidental Videos

[therewerefifty]

Who:  Misty, Makie, and Anyone!
Broadcast:  Fleetwide, whoops
Action:  SS Windrose
When:  Today


[The feed switches on suddenly, showing a brief glimpse of Makie’s face before it slides out of view, showing a portion of the cargo hold recognisable to those who know it as belonging to the Windrose. Misty, wearing a pale green kimono, is kneeling on what looks like a small exercise or yoga mat in the middle of the room. Her back is ramrod straight and her expression is very serious as she holds a shamisen in her lap, somewhat awkwardly. She looks at Makie with some uncertainty.]

Just to keep them out of the way. [Makie puts her own comm down and then turns to glance at Misty, and after a moment she smiles.] That’s good posture. Relax your shoulders a little. You don’t want to get stiff.

[Misty nods and relaxes her shoulders, then tries to position the shamisen like Makie showed her earlier, with only half of the shamisen resting on her lap.] Like this?

That’s right. I think you’re a faster learner than I was. [Said with good humour. Makie walks a small half-circle around Misty, before sitting nearby in much the same fashion.] It’s not always necessary to be so formal, but I think… it’s better this way, sometimes.

Gotta learn the proper way first, right? Before you can start experimentin’?

Mmm. There’s a great amount of tradition behind the shamisen. Though I suppose that’s true of any form of music. Regardless, I think you look very pretty in a kimono.

[She reaches out to make the tiniest adjustment to Misty’s grip of the bachi. Honestly, though, the other woman’s form is near perfect, if it weren’t for the uncertainty.] Relax, and don’t lock your wrists. Nobody can see you but me.

[...about that.]

[Misty beams at the compliment.]Thank you for letting me wear it - I don’t think I’ve ever worn anything so beautiful. [Then she takes a deep breath.] Ready?

Yes. Whenever you are. [For this performance, Makie will just be an attentive audience.]

[A piece of Misty’s voluminous hair falls in her face. She quickly brushes it aside before reassuming her position and starting to play. The song is simple enough, clearly meant for a beginner. Misty plays very slowly and unsurely, missing a few notes here and there, but she resists the urge to go back to redo them. This time, she’s going to play all the way through if she can. Of course, unbeknownst to her, she’s giving the fleet a free concert.]