maddest: (whatever shall we do)
maddest ([personal profile] maddest) wrote2011-08-22 12:20 am

[video] star light star bright

Dear Adstringendum,

I'd like to hold a contest.

You see, we have a starfull of skies, pardon, sky full of stars, but no lore to fill it with. The constellations in my world all tell stories about heroes long fallen, about Gods and Goddesses and immortals and divinity.

I propose we make a little bit of the same for ourselves here!

The rules are simple. Find a constellation from the nighttime- be it the summer or winter sky- and remember and recount for me a 'legend' about that cluster. You can find images of the nighttime skies in old PCD video posts, if you look back.

We're talking about legend here, so any stories you tell should either be a year old at least, or should focus on events surrounding people who are no longer with us, or whose memories have been lost since the events themselves. That, or events that happened a year or so or more ago. I only want secondhand retellings. The stars are about myth, after all.

The winner will get the package of cookies I salvaged yesterday.

I'll start.



Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was an event in Adstringendum where the streets were patrolled by mean, crusty creatures called gnomes. These dreaded gnomes bossed, and bullied the city dwellers into living in buildings like dormitories for the better part of a week.

Weep and wail as they might, a curfew was strictly enforced, by the dreaded gnomes with their teeth and clubs. Enemy was planted abed next to other enemies, conflict started afresh, and by the end of the week the city was in such cranky, over exhausted turmoil, that the animus in their infinite wisdom flung the gnome creatures into the sky, never to be seen again.

The citizens of Adstringendum were released from their dormitory prison, and all that was left of the gnomes was a small cluster, just there- of stars. If you look close you see the outline of their little pot-bellies.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm really not, it was the first event I ever lived through. I was stuck in a room with two bitter enemies, they ignored me the entire time and I had no idea what was going on.

I think it might be both, though it's difficult to say.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of like how it was living with us, I bet.

Gnomes.

[And then, as a cheerful afterthought:]

My face is tired.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sweetheart, try to get some alone time?
waterbends: (this play rocks!)

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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
No, I kind of like it. At least we're not all crazy and trying to kill each other again!

[She pauses.]

A crazy woman threw a flaming corpse at me and then completely forgot about it. Maybe I'll make my constellation story about that.

[Is she joking? It's hard to tell with the grin.]

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
I think you'd need a comet for that.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Do we have stories for the moons?
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
I've met the moon at home, Break. Did I ever tell you that?
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. She was a princess who sacrificed herself to save all of us. Romantic, isn't it?

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
People have such a way of finding romance everywhere!
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing wrong with that!

[The ear to ear smile convulses a little at her own words, but maintains.]

I'll think something up.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Aang moved away, Zuko is gone, Toph filled your sock drawer with old grapes and mud.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Katara blinks once. The smile twitches but remains otherwise steady.]

What a silly thing to do, but that's just like Toph. She loves pranks.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
From afar, then. We'll eat the same food in opposite rooms.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[An honest laugh.]

Don't be ridiculous. We'll eat together.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I know.

I'll be home in an hour or so?
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be outside. I'm about to give the kitten a bath.

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