don't blame us!!

[ladybro]

Who: Crew of the Blameless and their visitors!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Blameless
When: October

[ so, fellow innocents! we're a-drifting again and it's time to hang out with your shipmates aboard the blameless!

as always, visitors are definitely welcome to swing by and bug those aboard. ]

Comments

[ladybro]

Barbie? She's an iconic fashion doll. For kids. Insane measurements and a resume longer than a pharmacy receipt.

[precedented]

Ah. The ones made out of plastic and fake hair, correct? I never understood the appeal.

[ladybro]

To be fair, you don't really strike me as the target demographic.

[precedented]

It was a little past my time.

[ By. Centuries. ]

[ladybro]

...That'll do it. Can't say I'm upset they go out of fashion.

[precedented]

I can't recall if they were missed. History is history, though, even if it is small like a plastic figurine.

[ladybro]

The doll was small. The marketing empire was huge. Corporate did well with that one, yep. A lot of execs got decent bonuses on the back of that unattainable fantasy. At least, that's my guess.

[precedented]

That's often the case with kingdoms and corporations.

[ladybro]

Tell me about it. Corporate greed gets a bit sociopathic.

[precedented]

All the more reason to rise above it. Especially here, when we're subject to it.

[ladybro]

I confess -- when I was a little girl, I was kinda enthralled by the whole corporate sphere. I wanted to be a big time exec when I grew up.

[precedented]

It is a fascinating environment. Brutal at times, but you could affect change on a large scale.

[ He lapses into silence. ] Being in a noble family was much like that. Brutal. But my family no less.

[ladybro]

Then you probably get it. My dad -- he runs a pretty substantial publishing operation, back home. As big time execs go, he's one of the biggest. It's hard not to admire your parents, y'know, when you're young. And they're your world.

[precedented]

My father was everyone's world, in a way.

[ Leto's feelings on his family are complex. ] He was a god to many, a messiah. He changed the universe as they knew it. I knew him like I knew myself, but he never knew me.

[ladybro]

That's, ah -- a pretty lofty description.

[precedented]

It's the one that is used the most.

[ladybro]

Quite an act to follow.

[precedented]

Family legacies are like that. They hound you or they hang over your head.

[ladybro]

Do they ever.

[precedented]

Still . . . family is family.

[ He loves them, but he dislikes the political structure. He may enjoy the game, but he knows the cost. ]

[ladybro]

I dunno. That platitude only takes you so far -- like, I love my big sister. She's annoying as hell but family is family. But then it comes to my dad and...

Yeah, no. He can go futz off.

[precedented]

Well. All family is a bit broad.