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thelegion2017-10-12 07:34 pm
the_civilian) wrote in thelegion2017-10-12 07:34 pm
Team Bonding, AMA
[ Tadashi is reclining in a bed in medical, wearing the beatific smile of the enlightened and the well and truly stoned. ]
I love biology. Well, no, I'm enthusiastic about biology, I don't love it. I love programming and engineering and my family and helping people. Not in that order. Maybe in that order in regards to science. Except programming and engineering are the tools I use to help people, but I do love them too.
[ He stares off into space for a moment, then shakes himself and focuses back on the camera again. ]
But, you know, the thing about biology that's so cool is that we don't understand it all the way. Sometimes biological interactions happen unexpectedly. Like, these painkillers. I don't have an example of them to show you; they're already in my system and the medical staff won't give me more of them because they make me really loopy. Which is cool, because it's not an allergic reaction or a result of a miscalculated dose, it's just a reaction that happens sometimes to some people. Which is cool! Even almost a thousand years in the future of an alternate universe -- which has seriously weird rules, oh my god you guys I wish I loved biology and philosophy and physics more so I could study how weird this place is, I could write so many papers -- people still don't really know how our bodies work and why they react to certain things the way they do. Reality is amazing and I am so happy it exists!
[ He beams at the camera, but his smile eventually fades into confusion. Then he gasps in apparent surprise. ]
Oh yeah! Anyway, I'm super bored right now and I can't concentrate enough to read anything longer than a few sentences. And I've kind of been focused on dealing with my own stuff and not lighting things on fire when I shouldn't to get to know people, so I was thinking I should get off my ass and do that. Metaphorically, not literally, because the medical staff has confined to this bed until I metabolize the painkillers.
I was thinking we could do a...thingy. That thing people sometimes-- AMA! Ask Me Anything, that thing! We could do that, but just for Legionnaires. Not that I don't love the staffers here, I do, but I was thinking it could be a team bonding thing and some people here are more private than others. But I'd need one of the scary computer ladies to lock it down for me, because I can't figure out how to do that right now.
[ His eyes widen suddenly. ]
I'm sorry, I didn't mean that like "scary computers who are women", that would be rude, I meant it like "scary women who are good with computers". Computer programming has a long history of ignoring the contributions of the women who are it's backbone, and we have a lot of women here who area really good at what they do and they deserve to be afforded all the respect due to them as people and as badasses. The patriarchy sucks like the vacuum abhorred by nature.
...I think this got away from me. What was I talking about?
I love biology. Well, no, I'm enthusiastic about biology, I don't love it. I love programming and engineering and my family and helping people. Not in that order. Maybe in that order in regards to science. Except programming and engineering are the tools I use to help people, but I do love them too.
[ He stares off into space for a moment, then shakes himself and focuses back on the camera again. ]
But, you know, the thing about biology that's so cool is that we don't understand it all the way. Sometimes biological interactions happen unexpectedly. Like, these painkillers. I don't have an example of them to show you; they're already in my system and the medical staff won't give me more of them because they make me really loopy. Which is cool, because it's not an allergic reaction or a result of a miscalculated dose, it's just a reaction that happens sometimes to some people. Which is cool! Even almost a thousand years in the future of an alternate universe -- which has seriously weird rules, oh my god you guys I wish I loved biology and philosophy and physics more so I could study how weird this place is, I could write so many papers -- people still don't really know how our bodies work and why they react to certain things the way they do. Reality is amazing and I am so happy it exists!
[ He beams at the camera, but his smile eventually fades into confusion. Then he gasps in apparent surprise. ]
Oh yeah! Anyway, I'm super bored right now and I can't concentrate enough to read anything longer than a few sentences. And I've kind of been focused on dealing with my own stuff and not lighting things on fire when I shouldn't to get to know people, so I was thinking I should get off my ass and do that. Metaphorically, not literally, because the medical staff has confined to this bed until I metabolize the painkillers.
I was thinking we could do a...thingy. That thing people sometimes-- AMA! Ask Me Anything, that thing! We could do that, but just for Legionnaires. Not that I don't love the staffers here, I do, but I was thinking it could be a team bonding thing and some people here are more private than others. But I'd need one of the scary computer ladies to lock it down for me, because I can't figure out how to do that right now.
[ His eyes widen suddenly. ]
I'm sorry, I didn't mean that like "scary computers who are women", that would be rude, I meant it like "scary women who are good with computers". Computer programming has a long history of ignoring the contributions of the women who are it's backbone, and we have a lot of women here who area really good at what they do and they deserve to be afforded all the respect due to them as people and as badasses. The patriarchy sucks like the vacuum abhorred by nature.
...I think this got away from me. What was I talking about?
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[ Grif vanishes from the frame, and can be heard rifling around his room offscreen. He returns with... ]
Okay, here are our contenders.
[ Yes, those are entire open snack cake boxes. Grif pulls out a sample from each of the three. He pushes a lamp and two coffee cups off his desk and out of the way so he can present them. ]
This is a Chocolate D'xkfthagn.
[ He doesn't miss a single alien syllable as he turns the wrapped snack over in his fingers. The label is written in three different languages. ]
They didn't actually make them in chocolate flavor to start with? That's a human idea. And it rocks. Score one for humanity. A little too soft on the attack, but the flavor's good with a nice finish.
[ Grif sets it down gently and picks up his next victim. Whatever it is, it's bright pink. ]
And this is a Marshmallow Joypuff. This is from Earth. It's also a lie.
[ He squeezes all the air to one side of the wrapper to pop it and pulls out the cake. He cracks it in half with his hands, displaying the fluffy white filling. ]
That's not marshmallow. I know it looks like marshmallow, but this is the space future. Animal cruelty laws. I don't know how they did it? But they got close. The cake's not weird and squishy, either. Could've gone with something besides pink, but I'll take it.
And last...
[ That's a Little Debbie Jelly Creme Pie. It could be nothing else. Grif grins. ]
Not even the space future can kill a legend.
[ If anyone expected this reply to end without Grif digging into one of these, now is the time to be surprised. ]
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We know who the winner is here!
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[ If Grif knows York by now, he's sure York has his own sources for similar such niceties. For a moment, it's like being in a crime movie or something. ]