[video] star light star bright
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maddestDear 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.
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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Date: 2011-08-22 08:29 am (UTC)[video: private/unhackable]
Date: 2011-08-22 08:38 am (UTC)Lucifer really, really likes peanut butter, and can usually be defused if you know how to both flatter himself and be convincingly humble in just the right split second window. It was a long shot, but you stood a chance with peanut butter cookies.
A very long shot.
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Date: 2011-08-22 07:17 pm (UTC)[video: private/unhackable]
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Date: 2011-08-22 07:29 pm (UTC)But all he can do is grin and deal.]
Not bad, bucko. Actually, it's damn near impressive.
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Date: 2011-08-22 07:31 pm (UTC)Come make these cookies. It'll help with the patch-up.
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Date: 2011-08-23 05:33 am (UTC)[video: private/unhackable]
Date: 2011-08-23 07:12 am (UTC)I can't make things worse. And at the very least, when the conversation is done, and you still don't want to give them to him, more cookies for you!
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Date: 2011-08-24 04:48 am (UTC)[...It's quite literally a second. Knock. Knock.]
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Date: 2011-08-24 04:50 am (UTC)That was fast.
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Date: 2011-08-25 04:29 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-25 04:33 am (UTC)[Ignoring him, going to lay baking ingredients out on the counter.]
And stop picking on Jinx when she can't defend herself. If he sent you a basket, then he doesn't want to gut you where you stand- which is more than most people here can say.
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Date: 2011-08-25 09:07 pm (UTC)[The comment about Jinx makes him seethe] She picks on me where it hurts. Have you ever had to pull a hot barely-legal girl off you because she's off her head and it'd be really wrong to take advantage of her? [He looks at Break.] ...never mind. The point is, him not wanting to gut me isn't good enough. He's my brother. I took the fall for a human and Castiel and I broke his trust, because... Let's face it, I'm on their side. That doesn't make the whole thing any less painful.
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Date: 2011-08-25 11:38 pm (UTC)I've had my share of admirers, but no, I haven't had quite that experience before. The whole thing sounds exhausting.
It sounds like you're protecting her, to some extent, by refusing her. Then you're protecting Rei and Castiel by taking the blame for them, since you had a chance of coming out alive and they didn't. You're even protecting Lucifer, in a way, trying to neutralize him rather than destroy him, if he ever were to go off the deep end.
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Date: 2011-08-26 04:02 am (UTC)Although Lucifer's reaction seems like it was born of fear rather than reason. You think that cookies aren't enough- but once the terror of being confined again subsides, he's still going to love you as a little brother. As the wound heals, the perceived betrayal should too.
Whoops!
[As flour puffs all over the counter.]
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Date: 2011-08-26 05:25 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-26 05:31 am (UTC)[He pads over, and offers the spoon he'd used to mix the batter to Gabriel. That'll help.]
He knew I was right. How is your Grace? Healing? You don't seem as badly off as Raphael was when she came by for tea.
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Date: 2011-08-28 02:11 am (UTC)...Okay, maybe it is. Whatever.
[He huffs] It's fine. And Raphael got the worst of it. She had to go and play the hero on me. ]A beat] Are you just collecting angels?
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Date: 2011-08-28 06:41 am (UTC)[He smiles at him, beatifically.]
I'm going to get the whole set.
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Date: 2011-08-29 05:34 pm (UTC)...[That earns an eyeroll] Nice. Omnipotent beings reduced to beanie babies.
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Date: 2011-08-29 06:19 pm (UTC)I told him that what he was doing with Jinx was uncomfortably close to outright deception, and that I had lost a great deal of respect for him.
What's a beanie baby?
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