watching x-files with no lights on, we're dans la maison

[skald]

Happy 3 AM, fellow Retrospectres who can't/won't sleep because of all the nightmares and ghosts and memory fog and all that (and happy morning to anyone who checks their phone later, I guess)! I'm going to fall asleep if I don't start talking to someone soon and I'm trying to make it until dawn.

IF YOU ARE AWAKE RIGHT NOW, PLEASE WEIGH IN ON SOME/ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS (or you can message me when you wake up, that's fine too) :

-If this fog thing lasts for much longer, isn't it going to get in the way of Trick-or-Treating? If it rains (/creepy memory fogs) on Halloween, what do little kids (/university students who don't really get to celebrate Halloween in their home countries and would like to) do instead? Do I have to make backup plans or can we start some sort of safety Halloween caravan to protect the little kids (/occasional university students with no cool powers or survival instincts) from the monsters?

-Dave and I made a Finnish-language movie about magic pirates (and some other stuff, lots of symbolism, it's very deep), does anyone want to see it? Here's a trailer: x [this links to a trailer spliced together from this disaster, namely shots of Mafuyu hurling fake severed heads into the distance, Magician's Red looking ominous on camera, someone singing something to the tune of 'A Pirate's Life For Me,' though the accent is so strong it's not identifiable as Finnish, multiple clips from fight scenes, a creepy rabbit mask, and absolutely no subtitles.]

-Completely unrelated: currently taking applications for subtitle and/or scriptwriting positions. Compensation consists of lunch from a taco truck and a couple half-completed customer loyalty cards from various cafes, and you can put it on your CV. Please contact me for additional details.

-What are your top three coffee places in the city, I'm going to try all of them by the end of the month

-Is this better or worse than when half of us disappeared and there were monsters running around in the daytime

-What's the most comfortable lounge to sleep in on the Recolle U campus (during daylight hours, so please no big windows)

-Trick or Treat?

Comments

[parodeity]

1 yeah i mean i guess to ask that you have to kind of like commit to sounding like a crazy person

2 can do and i can probably snag you a copy of the soundtrack unedited

4 haha expensive isnt a college students wheelhouse but maybe ill save up and try it sometime

5 i was turned into a cat actually

6 yes i do sometimes why do you ask

[skald]

1. I'm trying really hard not to sound like a crazy person at work right now. I've been a little tired lately so I need all the help I can get.

2. Oo thank you!

4. Yeah that's why I don't go there very often. I'm going to try every cup of coffee in the city though, so I'll rank them by price:quality for you

5. That doesn't really change what I'm trying to say

6. I didn't know that was a thing that real people did. Is it comfortable?

[parodeity]

1 i gave up on that sometime around blue and green disappearing ngl

2 np

4 you are the best of friends wtf you deserve a medal

5 then yes that is exactly what happened

6 well kinda but it does get cold recently?

[skald]

1. Speaking of, welcome back to blue crayons and people acknowledging that it's a color that exists! I feel bad for green since it's far behind, poor green.

4. I'm putting my caffeine dependency to good use! Giving back to the community! I'd accept gift cards in place of medals though

5. Right so if you guys turned into animals and got chased by a crazy guy, why isn't that terrible?

6. It's not cold at all but if you want I can lend you a heavy winter jacket for your roof naps. I'm never going to use this thing when it's so much warmer than it is back home.

[parodeity]

1) yeah honestly ive voted for blue more than green
bc
i know more people with blue eyes
and the grey eye thing is weird af

4 is there anyone who isnt addicted to caffiene
those poor sods if so

5 well we got birthday cake

6 youre literally superhuman and i wouldnt mind borrowing it
i get cold easy
poor circulation i guess

[skald]

My eyes are naturally grey >:(

[she's not responding to the rest until they resolve this.]

[parodeity]

thats not weird then
i meant its weird to like
you know someone most of your life right
and they have blue or green eyes
but now they dont
you still expect to see blue when you look over

[skald]

Okay fine just checking

Anyway I'm sorry that you get cold easily and you can borrow my grey coat (it's supposed to be blue)

[parodeity]

when will blue return from the war

[skald]

Whenever we figure out how to get those dumb polls to trigger, I guess

Hey do you ever notice a pattern about when they appear? Like do you do something that might make them show up?

[parodeity]

uh
not really?
i guess sometimes after i talk to a bunch of you guys a lot

[skald]

Mmmm yeah but "talk to each other a lot" isn't a very promising lead

I mean I guess it's better than nothing? But it sounds silly to say "let's try talking to each other a lot" because it's what we'd do anyway.

[parodeity]

yeah i dont have any real advice
for me it pops up more often at the start of the month or the end rather than the middle?

[skald]

Yeah it's sort of the same for me but I guess that's not super helpful.

Whatever I guess next time it pops up I'm going to write down what I was doing before it showed up to see if I find a pattern, you should join me.

[parodeity]

sure
ill write down the time and what i was doing
and report back to you later?

[skald]

Sounds like a plan! We're going to get to the bottom of this!

[parodeity]

sounds great
ill talk to you later tuuri