text & video » open

[mucked]

Who: Peggy Carter, some rumours, and you!
Broadcast: text, then video.
Action: y, aboard the starstruck.
When: today!

[ a message materializes on the network around midday: ]

Peggy Carter's got a veritable guy-pile of suitors: Edwin Jarvis, Max Rockatansky, Jason Wilkes, Jack Thompson, Howard Stark, Stefan Salvatore, Steve Rogers, Sam Winchester, James Barnes, Clint Barton, Daniel Sousa, and counting! How many more can you name?

[ and not long after (in a state of utter pique and dismay), that same network registers a rather heartfelt reaction -- but this time with accompanying wide-eyed video. ] Jack -- Jack Thompson? Un-bloody-likely. The only thing he's ever got his eyes on is the next greasy rung on the ladder. [ peggy scoffs, disgusted. ] As pranks go, this one's been truly shambolic. The first of April was days ago.

[ in a few hours, she'll enjoy her meltdown all over again when she finds a box of sponsor gifts in the cargo bay filled with stickers, each with a different so-called suitor's name scribbled into the blank space. all of them are filled in except for an ominous pile with an attached note: in case there's so many you start to forget their names. blanks included for any others that we might have missed. ]

Comments

video.

[mucked]

I've never had one. [ a television. ] But I've been to a few two-bit cinemas in my time. I wasn't ever a fan.

video.

[exothermia]

I rarely had the time for such things. [Or the resources, or the interest.] Young people are more enamoured of it, but even what I've seen them watch tends to have some artistry to it.

[As opposed to essentially watching people mill around in a space zoo. It's a concept he still finds confusing, and degrading.]

video.

[mucked]

I've an associate, back home, who's just meandered his way into the film-making business. [ a huff. ] It seems like a whole lot of faff that doesn't ever amount to much. Not on the books, at least.

[ hollywood accounting. ]

video.

[exothermia]

There's a certain power to film, in the right circumstances. [Having broadcast some of his exploits worldwide, Erik has definitely made use of it.] The majority of films do seem very lightweight, though.

video.

[mucked]

Lightweight's not the half of it. Stark was eager to make some dreadful one about Kid Colt.

[ a movie? based on a comic book? how gauche. ]

video.

[exothermia]

I can't say I'm familiar with the title... though I did meet a Stark here once.