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]

So either an obscure thing I do triggers this and it'll be a game of trial and error to figure this out or it's at random meaning I'm at mercy of it happening anytime, anywhere.

I need, like, a million cat videos just to cheer me up over this. How on earth is this going to be explained at work besides physically throwing glitter in the air to cover it?

[alienates]

How many people at your job have the app??
I mean
Would people who don't have it even consider you becoming the living embodiment of the Fourth of July weird or would they just shrug it off?

[caelestialis]

Technically? Only one that I know of and he's a sweetheart!

But to answer your question - Some people who don't use the app saw what happened to me. They were asking all sorts of questions and even were saying that they'll call the cops. It's why I panicked and hid a bit.

[alienates]

Hmmm
That's interesting.
And concerning? Since at least you can try to explain things to people who have the app, but what the fuck can you say to ones who don't??

[caelestialis]

I am thinking of just carrying a pouch of glitter on me. Every time it comes up, I just throw glitter in the air too.

Though I have a feeling I'll tell get the cops called on me if I do that too many times.

[alienates]

Lie and say you're a performance artist and that it's a part of some art project you're working on.
People would still think you're weird but you are less likely to get interned.

[caelestialis]

Oh! You always have the best ideas! That'll keep people off my back for sure.

Not all of them but definitely enough that maybe they'll gossip and have people avoid me. [ brilliant! less chances of getting called on. maybe. long as she isn't being a public hazard, you can't arrest her for sparkling. (she thinks.) ]

[alienates]

Exactly.
And maybe you'll eventually figure things out and it won't be a problem later??
If that happens you can just be like, "OK PROJECT'S OVER."

[caelestialis]

Here's to hoping it ends sooner rather than later.

I would to be considered a menace to society for sparkling too much. (I honestly never thought that sentence would be written seriously. What a world we live in right now.)

[alienates]

On the bright side, you would become very popular at raves.
If that's a thing you would be into.

[caelestialis]

I would be willing to do that for you and the others if you need emergency entertainment!

[alienates]

Alright so we're all going to a rave then I guess

[caelestialis]

Only cool cats allowed in this disco party! (Discos are still a thing, right?)

[alienates]

(I
Maybe??
I literally have no idea I never had a need to investigate this)

[caelestialis]

It has to be popular! Or at least respected. It's the basis of where all you cool kids got your fashions and dance moves after all!

[alienates]

Well a lot of people do not respect the basis of most things.
Have you seen those videos where they show kids shit like
Floppy discs?? And they think they're miniature frisbees.

[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. ]