POST ✦ ( OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE. )

[caelestialis]

A quick question:

What are the confirmed symptoms for spontaneous combustion?

I remember reading in some books that before some people exploded into flames and died fiery horrible deaths, there were reports of seeing sparks around the person before the combustion occurred.

Is this true or not? I really need to know right now. As in ASAP as in now as in really right now.

[ ooc; ainsley has been given the subset ability of her prestidigitation - triggering a shower/rain of sparkles and glitter and stars around her when she's happy. it activated today so feel free to have your character see this happening to her in public before this post came up! ]

Comments

[caelestialis]

Back in my day we actually did use broken floppy disks as frisbees! Or, more usually the case, as DIY coasters. Same thing can be applied to things like scratched up CDs.

[ it was a lot cheaper to do than buy actual coasters and frisbees when you were kids for one thing. ]

[alienates]

I just put it straight on the table.
It's cheaper all around that way.

[ his poor tables ]

[caelestialis]

Your poor tables! I suppose that is easier to do. I can't imagine doing that at all since my parents insisted I use coasters when I was a wee one.

[ with how much her parents had to put up with her antics in the past, it seemed only fair to do that for them. ]

[alienates]

Huh
My dad never bothered with them so I guess it just never rubbed off on me.

[caelestialis]

[ what do those poor tables at their house look like then?? ]

I suppose that's how you know you're really your parents' child! The strangest things just get passed down the tree.

[alienates]

[ they look like they are in severe need of coasters. ]

Uh huh
What weird habits did you pick up then?

[caelestialis]

Oh! Nothing too serious, I think.

I got my dad's love for books, especially folklore and fantasy, and my mom's inability to drink anything but fruit juice- Which she can happily continue on doing unlike me or you these days I bet. [ to this day, she mourns the fact the fruits are suddenly dancing and smiling at her. how can she have a glass of fresh lemonade knowing the poor fruit was smiling when it was chopped up?? ]

[alienates]

I want to say that you eventually get used to the fruit, but then you catch one moving out of the corner of your eye and it scares the human juice out of you. So, lucky your mom then.

[caelestialis]

At least we have each other for when we need someone to hear out our fruit fear confessions. It'll truly be a nightmare if we didn't have support for that. [ or for everything else they've been through. ]

[alienates]

Every time I think about how much more terrible this would be if we didn't have someone to scream incoherently at I become more and more thankful for technology.
Retrospec can still eat a dick though.

[caelestialis]

That's something I can get behind! It can eat all the dicks.

All of them.

[ karkat no you're influencing your former teacher too much now. ]

[alienates]

[ teachers gotta learn from the students too it's important ]

It'll eat so many dicks that when it finally croaks, and they're doing the autopsy on it, when they open it up they'll just find a bunch of shriveled up dicks.
Like octopuses.

[caelestialis]

[ oh-!

kara is looking at her owner in concern now when a sudden burst of laughter erupts from where she's resting. is she fine? is she still breathing? why is she bent over her phone like that??

humans are so weird. ] One of these days you have to teach me how you say things like these so effortlessly!

[alienates]

All you have to do is get rid of your brain to mouth filter and you're all set.

[caelestialis]

Oh no! I don't think I'll be able to do that. Not when I still teacher elementary students anyways.

Curse the need to be a responsible member of society.

[alienates]

You could lead a double life.
Elementary school teacher by day, abuser of grossly descriptive language at night.

[caelestialis]

And become an intercity woman of mystery! You always have the best ideas, Karkat. I promise I'll give you the cut in it when that double life surely flourishes in excitement and mayhem.

[alienates]

I would be extremely disappointed otherwise and would stop talking to you for like two whole weeks because of the betrayal.

[caelestialis]

Truly that would make a contender for Top 10 Anime Betrayals.

But! I promise to not do that to you, Karkat. Not after all we've been through. We're sticking together like PB and J!

[alienates]

Then we have a completely serious, non-joke deal.
I will write up the contract and we'll both sign them with a witness present.