Rory December

12/16/2015

rorykurago: What postal address would you like me to send these books to?

shmoo92: Maryanna Guillet 31 Balding Crescent Ottawa, Ontario K2K 2L3 Canada

shmoo92: sho, with your SS fic, what kind of beta would you like me to be?
advice? shredding? point out iffy areas?

rorykurago: \*repeats 'confabulatrix is confabulous' like a mantra to brace self\*

rorykurago: shredding?

rorykurago: Or whatever comes to mind

rorykurago: please and thank you

shmoo92: Shredding is when i take a thing, destroy it, and build it back up using the provided building blocks

rorykurago: Hmm, that sounds time intensive on your part

rorykurago: Maybe just iffy areas and advice then?

shmoo92: Shounds good!

shmoo92: (shredding usually is insensitive on my part, but it's usually worth it. "Red copper China break" on AO3 is such a piece ... If I were in my laptop I would send you the first draft as comparison.)

rorykurago: Mm, but all editing has to have some part of insensitivity in order to actually be helpful

shmoo92: Ha! That's the phrase I was looking for!

shmoo92: I was stuck on 'I have no emotional investment in the piece, how the bits come together, or any given line; it all reads the same to me allowing me to critique/improve/cut and save for later mercilessly'

rorykurago: Would you still like me to beta yours?

shmoo92: Yes please! I'm at 760 words and will finish tomorrow.

rorykurago: Roger!

shmoo92: Thank you! And with that, to bed with I! Have a good day!

rorykurago: Sleep well <3

12/17/2015

rorykurago: Present mailed!

rorykurago: Lady asked me if I wasn't "going home" for Christmas so I must still have my twang

shmoo92: one of us! one of us!

shmoo92: thank you!

12/19/2015

rorykurago: \*bad warbling\* Staaar Waaars!!!

12/19/2015

shmoo92: BabababaaaaaBAAAAAA

shmoo92: When will you get to see it?

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: saw it tonight

rorykurago: already (A) in love with Rey, (B) protective of Finn, (C) enraged with klandom

rorykurago: (D) bored of Kylo Ren

rorykurago: They bombed my Jaia + Jacen Solo theory out of the water already, but I'm holding onto my daughter-of-Luke theory like NONE SHALL TAKE THIS FROM ME

shmoo92: What if I offer you a possibly mind blowing alternative?

rorykurago: Fire away

rorykurago: Leia is a General and I AM SO DELIGHTED

shmoo92: Rey isn't Luke's, or Leia and Han's

rorykurago: She's a lucky fortunate bystander with high force sensitivity?

shmoo92: She's a different branch from Shmi Skywalker

rorykurago: this also crossed my mind

rorykurago: huh

rorykurago: So Shmi had kids before Anakin?

rorykurago: Because Beru and Owen were kinda flambeed

rorykurago: I mean I wouldn't put it past Lucas, and I guess the whole immaculate-conception-of-Anakin thing DOES suggest Shmi had a strong connection to the Force

rorykurago: is this a you theory or a tumblr-post theory?

shmoo92: I'm not sure when Shmi would have had Gramma Rey

shmoo92: This is my theory ^u^

shmoo92: when she and Han were finishing each other's sentences, I was like, 'twins with Kylo?'

shmoo92: Then that theory went kaput

shmoo92: And I want to punch Kylo in the face because his face looks so very punchable

rorykurago: He does look very squishable

rorykurago: kinda acts like it too

rorykurago: He's got Anakin's temper, for sure

shmoo92: He looks like he would whine a lot

shmoo92: Also like Anakin!

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: Did NOT get that from Leia

rorykurago: Whiny must be a Skywalker /male thing

rorykurago: AAAAAHHH I'm re-reading Tales From Year Zero to find pictures of Horizon Brave and Tamsin just showed up

rorykurago: I can NOT

shmoo92: O nooooo

shmoo92: Skywalker + male thing, lol

rorykurago: I /JUST realised that Horizon Brave's decal is a shamrock

rorykurago: Or at least, she has a shamrock painted on her left cannister, which suggests it's a crew/pilot thing

rorykurago: I am /SO curious now

shmoo92: O! Their logo! It's a storm cloud with a lightning bolt

rorykurago: (I mean, no more than I normally am when I find another miniscule detail no one else cares about, but yk)

rorykurago: :P

rorykurago: Is it?

rorykurago: Looks like a shamrock in the brief movie bit

rorykurago: \*gets the art book\*

rorykurago: ah, so it \*IS\* a storm cloud

rorykurago: a very... ambiguously designed one...

rorykurago: I'm... actually going to go out on a limb and suggest it's both? (Or the art team on HB can't draw...)

rorykurago: (Or a certain toddler 'helped'?)

shmoo92: [1]

99 Could be both

99 Someone of Irish descent/not Chinese on the team or something

rorykurago: I was actually thinking how Irish/English pubs are a big culture draw (to some extent) in some areas of coastal/westernised China

rorykurago: And if it isn't someone of Irish descent, then a bunch of people who all got onto HB together starting their acquaintance long ago, before the war, around a pool table in a /super-kitchsy Irish Murphy's Pub or something

rorykurago: \*or there's Irish money/design in it, which actually doesn't seem that likely, given Ireland's economic state, but it's possible

shmoo92: We have the Vinyl Cafe on and I am actually crying

shmoo92: It's a radio show on CBC

rorykurago: yes?

shmoo92: It's about this guy named Dave who ... he can't do anything right

rorykurago: oh

shmoo92: Right now he's trying to cook Christmas dinner for his wife

rorykurago: poor bb?

shmoo92: He forgot to buy the turkey

99 So he found one at a 24 hour grocery store

rorykurago: ...

shmoo92: And it was so, so terribly beat up

shmoo92: And frozen solid

rorykurago: \*lip wobbles\*

shmoo92: He defrosted it with an electric blanket and a hairdryer

99 And the oven didn't turn on

rorykurago: Like Steve Rogers?

shmoo92: Possibly with more scotch XD

99 so he went to a hotel and lied and had them cook it

rorykurago: WoW.

shmoo92: And then he got home and realized it didn't smell like turkey, so he did what his wife had did earlier with pine oil on the lamps and put gravy on all the lamps

rorykurago: omg

shmoo92: And the narration >dies<

shmoo92: [2]

shmoo92: I think there's a link to play in the top right

shmoo92: Anywho, I like the idea of them all going to a kitchy Irish pub after graduation and going, 'a shamrock-y lightning cloud! /perfect!'

rorykurago: The PTB are suspicious.

rorykurago: But it's "/TOTALLY a thundercloud!"

12/20/2015

shmoo92: Aaaaah the SS picture looks /amazing!

rorykurago: :D

rorykurago: I'm off to bed. Have a great day!

shmoo92: Thanks! Sleep well!

12/21/2015

rorykurago: Thanks for edits and commentary! I will work on those tonight

shmoo92: You're very welcome! Thanks a million for yours, too

99 I have decided to keep the ending you suggested (with an added "Drink up!" grins Tamsin)

rorykurago: Aces

rorykurago: Quick question: what's with the 'm's? Tamsin doing a quirk for the day?

rorykurago: Oh, and the 23rd \*is\* the deadline for a SS, but the tumblr one, not the A03 one

rorykurago: (Also: I /really love your version of the first bit. If that fits with the ANSK fusion timeline, I'd love if it went up on A03)

shmoo92: I'm so glad! (Not pictured: me squeeing with WIN!)

shmoo92: The 'm' words are Tamsin's subtle (English-centric) way of showing Mako she's on her team 100%

shmoo92: there was once a bit when they're curled up with the cats where mako rearranges a sentence to be 'm'-ish and Tamsin \o/ing, but I forgot how it went TnT

rorykurago: Aaay cutness!

rorykurago: (I kind of mixed and mashed with the re-write, so I don't really know right now how well it worked, but we'll see)

shmoo92: I don't mind looking at it again!

rorykurago: She longer now...

rorykurago: I think I originally intended 2017, but the new-dad tone kind of suggests 16, so I'll leave it with that

12/21/2015

rorykurago sent a post: "No no no no fuck

rorykurago: if he starts squealing, smack 'im and say the force did it

12/21/2015

rorykurago sent a photo: "two sick horses evaluating an orb"

rorykurago: I think these are whippets, actually

rorykurago: Not 100% sure (since whippets are pretty much miniature greyhounds) but the length of the body suggests whippet

shmoo92: According to my dad (he owned a greyhound--should tell you that story if we ever voice chat--and they hold a special place in his heart), they appear to be greyhounds

shmoo92: Otherwise that is a seriously massive bubble

shmoo92: The kid squeeing wasn't my worry, it was the kicking of my chair. Neither happened! (That I noticed.) thank /God.

rorykurago: Result!

rorykurago: I just thought it was a massive bubble; but anyway, it's probably semantic, the breeds are so close in appearance

rorykurago: Was SW as good the 2nd time around?

rorykurago: I feel like it would be...

shmoo92: It was! Mom also agreed that the villager-slaughtering and explodey scenes dragged on too long

rorykurago: What's her opinion on Kylo Ren?

rorykurago: ...also on Rey

rorykurago: ...and on Finn

shmoo92: Kylo has a really weird face; he's annoying and pathetic where Vader was loathsome

shmoo92: Dad thought Rey looked puzzled a lot (I think her 'taken aback', 'puzzled', and 'curious' expressions look similar) tho I didn't

shmoo92: And I haven't heard anything about Finn yet

shmoo92: Mom also said that the Rey-Shmi connection is "logical", not that she agrees with me (\*grump\*), and then spoke of how silly it would be for the bad guys to think there's only one force user alive at one time

shmoo92: "Haven't they learned anything?"

shmoo92: So a touch grumpy because I couldn't impress upon her that 'because you see the connection I do, I'm not far-fetched, crazy, and imagining things' and I want to get to the bottom of what she thinks but I'm not sure how to do that without getting snapped at for dwelling

shmoo92: I'm also trying to figure out what my boyfriend's saying about representation and activism, and I can't tell if he's not getting/not caring enough/not thinking it's important or if I'm saying that there needs to be more representation and in the same breath saying how awful things are for PoC

shmoo92: (I don't think that's what I'm doing because my argument is 'when the warm bodies are only white people while PoC have leads and play extraordinary characters, the message sent is that to exist in a fictional setting, a PoC must be 'PoC + [blank]', never just PoC (unlike white characters)', so even though they're getting representation, they still have to settle (for scraps) so nothing really changes

shmoo92: Feeling a little better now. Thank you for letting me vent.

rorykurago: Talking it out can help a little :)

rorykurago: I think the POC argument is decent, and it all kind of plays back into the 'white = default' thing

rorykurago: So I thought it was awesome in FA particularly how there were visible women and POC /purely because it was a crowd scene an ytf should everyone be a white dude

shmoo92: I think besides Guy-from-Heroes and Poe (both of whom admittedly had a lot of lines)m the only other white guy who spoke in the crowd was an old guy

shmoo92: All the other one line reports/tableau 'interrupting' (like the woman who handed Leia the report about the oscillator) were women, woc, or PoC

rorykurago: Ann Oscaar Isaac is Latino, so, I mean, whether or not that counts depends on the viewer I guess

rorykurago: (Woc represent!)

shmoo92: Aaaaand that is why this shmoo should really not be contributing to this argument (in general) because she cannot reliably judge race >\_<

shmoo92: And one particularly great thing is Guy with the third most lines was of East Asian descent which possibly offsets the gang of them

rorykurago: (Dude is white-passing, and I only know because he's been vocal about how awesome it is that he's getting varied roles on behalf of Latinx in media, so you're off the hook on that one)

rorykurago: Can we talk about how the highest-ranked StormTrooper was a chick?

rorykurago: \*based on voice

shmoo92: The highest ranking storm trooper was played by the same actress who plays Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. Her last name is Christie and her first name is Welsh and starts with 'Gwen'. I can reliably spell Brienne so I stick to that XD

shmoo92: The weird thing is, the signing of both Brienne and Lupita (shiny red alien who Finn traded work for a transport to the outer rim) were really big news items

rorykurago: Gwendolyn Christie

shmoo92: Like, 'they will have a major role' big

rorykurago: Well... that may have been smoke screen

shmoo92: There's no 'I'. I've been thinking there's an 'i', dang it. Thank you!

rorykurago: or they may come back

rorykurago: I have picked my first Star Wars battle, and it is bisexual Poe Dameron

rorykurago: (I would also accept dramatic-scene-sloppy-makeouts with Finn in Ep8)
shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: You have a point with the smokescreen (thinking about meta about the trailer on the disrepair Millennium falcon and the gamble one takes when risking the icon of a series)

shmoo92: I want to be sold on OT3 Rey-Finn-Poe

shmoo92: Which is possibly the same thing as bisexual Poe

rorykurago: You want to be? Or you are?

rorykurago: I FOUND THEM:

rorykurago: this one: [3]

shmoo92: I want to be; I don't have enough data on Rey/ yet

rorykurago: aaaand this one: [4]

shmoo92: \*rey/poe

rorykurago: Gotta say, I LOVED that Rey's interactions with Finn could be platonic

rorykurago: like, it probs isn't, but it DOESN'T have to be all about romance

rorykurago: RE Rey/Poe: there IS that lost scene from the novelisation

rorykurago: [5]

shmoo92: Re link two: riiiiight, I should post the think I wrote about that

shmoo92: \*link one

shmoo92: Rey/Finn could be platonic, good point! (Little bro grabbing big sis's hand, big bro dragging little sis around the corner away from Raptar's)

12/22/2015

shmoo92: My theory spawned an amazing thought: here's kylo with anakin's face (recessive genes), he can't build or fly so he only has the /need to be the Sith his grandfather was & /more, & with a cobbled together lightsaber. Enter Rey, a Skywalker via Shmi's sibling, with an intuitive grasp of machines & flying, unparalleled raw talent, & /the skywalker lightsaber. Kylo will do anything to be a better Anakin. Rey is all that and so much more.

rorykurago: Ouch

rorykurago: I'm almost sorry for him

12/22/2015

rorykurago: "some arrangement of twins" oh my god

shmoo92: I got lazy with names >\_\_<

rorykurago: But it works so well?? Like !!!

rorykurago: "IDEK who it is this week, but they're there"

rorykurago: I'm going to sleep :)

rorykurago: Have a good one

shmoo92: I'm off to my grandparents

shmoo92: I don't want to go

shmoo92: God help me. Buddha, you know Jeannie. Lend me strength!

shmoo92: Rey Kylo gets better: Kylo wants a lightsaber, Luke says he's not ready, Kylo throws a tantrum and wrecks everything, Luke not only /doesn't surrender Anakin's lightsaber, he sends it away to who knows where.

rorykurago: Sounds abt right

rorykurago: ..."But uncle Oweeeen, I was going to go to the station to pick up some power conveerterrrs!"

rorykurago: Think of Rey's pilot helmet. Think of the OTP of the Travelling Jacket. Think of Poe being from Yavin 4, because Tikal is Guatemalan like Oscar Isaac.

shmoo92: That's beautiful!

rorykurago: Happy thoughts. Star Wars thoughts.

shmoo92: The Guatemala thing is amazing

rorykurago: I /love that he asked for that detail

rorykurago: Like, Han is a space Australian; Poe is a space Latinx

shmoo92: >snork<

shmoo92: Sleep well!

12/23/2015

rorykurago: h oh we've reached the stage I start seeing porn gifs an automatically think of PoeRey

shmoo92: >headdesk<

shmoo92: I would call that 'plummeting hard for a ship' XD

rorykurago: in fairness.... it was a really nice gif...

rorykurago: nfsw ahoy: [6]

shmoo92: I must agree with that sentiment

shmoo92: And also force myself off the internet because I am stupid tired

shmoo92: >fingers crossed<

shmoo92: Have a good day!

rorykurago: G'night

12/23/2015

rorykurago: ^ goes out drinkin

rorykurago: ^ meets Alan Cummings at a bar

shmoo92: You went out drinking and met Alan "/murder" Cummings at a bar?

shmoo92: (I watch lots of PBS masterpiece mysteries)

rorykurago: YES

rorykurago: (and I felt awful for interrupting him getting his flirt on with a dude, but he seemed was okay with it)

shmoo92: hol

shmoo92: Ly

shmoo92: Shit

shmoo92: That paints a very amusing tableau

shmoo92: (Would you be taller than him or was he wearing crazy shoes?)

rorykurago: He was sitting down, but I'd guess we would've been about the same height, and I had heels on

rorykurago: his eyelashes are super pretty up close, btw

shmoo92: \*u\*

shmoo92: What colour's his hair nowadays?

rorykurago: silver

rorykurago: ...also I just realised I called him Alan Cummings, and he was nice enough not to correct me

rorykurago: plz just shoot me

rorykurago: oh my god

shmoo92: The magazine photo shoot that I'm using in my head as reference is thus some what accurate! XD

rorykurago: probably

shmoo92: It's not Alan Cummings?

shmoo92: >erps<

rorykurago: Alan Cumming, according to wiki?

rorykurago: srsly plz shoot, I'm dying and not in the cutesy tumblr way

rorykurago: that's so fkn embarrassing

shmoo92: was the bar maybe hopefully loud so he couldn't hear you very well?

rorykurago: No, he said 'Cummings' after I did.

rorykurago: Hopefullly he thought I was just drunk, which is only a SMIDGE better

shmoo92: O dear god

shmoo92: I am so sorry

shmoo92: >holds gently<

rorykurago: \*sniffling\*

shmoo92: In less mortifying news, I discovered this morning that I can still food a paper crane with my eyes closed!

shmoo92: Which is kinda like holding a candle to your supernova and saying 'look! bright!'

rorykurago: AY!

rorykurago: I like shiny things

rorykurago: I will always take shiny things

rorykurago: like a magpie

shmoo92: Oooo, means you're smart!

shmoo92: "How old do you think I am?!" "I dunno, sir, I'm in to speed dating, not carbon dating."

shmoo92: Oooo, an old fogey of a priest who's into rock and roll! (same episode)

rorykurago: omg that's beautiful

12/23/2015

shmoo92: secret santa is done and dusted!

rorykurago:

rorykurago: NICE

rorykurago: art SS is.... not

rorykurago: D:

shmoo92: o, you're doing two secret santas?

rorykurago: Yah

rorykurago: the writing one on A03, and the art one here

shmoo92: o boi

shmoo92: who's it for?

rorykurago: pooryorickdraw

rorykurago: "Stacker + Mako" & "secret plans, special foods"

rorykurago: hence Japanese-xmas-cake-esk food, and Tamsin telling HUGE lies about the shenanigans she and Stacks pulled as pilots

shmoo92: would it help if i suggested having Stacker shielding his eyes

rorykurago: I'll take that under advisement, but I need to see how long other things (like these damn deckchairs) take

shmoo92: I wish thee the best!

rorykurago: Danke!

rorykurago: Good night!

12/24/2015

rorykurago: finding things I want to change \*grumble grumble\*

rorykurago: But on the upside: better Tendo, and not half-bad orange trees (if I do say so myself)

shmoo92: >applause>

rorykurago: SLIGHT PANIC AND LACK OF SLEEP

rorykurago: IT NOT DONE

rorykurago: muuuch closer to

rorykurago: but not done

rorykurago: \*and I'm not pulling an all-nighter

rorykurago: (also: Wei birthday post is up, with a bb photo of the trips I think you will appreciate)

shmoo92: O nose!

shmoo92: But weibies are so cute ^u^

12/24/2015

shmoo92: merry Christmas, Rory!

rorykurago: Merry Christmas, shmoo 🎉🎄

shmoo92: u up so early! (and thank you!)

shmoo92: [7] since it will still be evening here if you listen to it with breakfast and because I don't want to wait another year for you to hear this masterpiece, "The Shepherd"

rorykurago: 11? Haha. Present-and-dog time, and then more arting

shmoo92: its not 6am there?

rorykurago: 11am

shmoo92: wait 14 hours ahead is 8 am plus 2 is 10 and daylight savings time weirdness

shmoo92: whoops ;^u^

rorykurago: 9pm there, yes?

rorykurago: 24th

shmoo92: 8pm

shmoo92: 8pm on the 24th

rorykurago: Mm hmm. I go "2 hrs back, swap am/pm"

rorykurago: -1hr extra :p

shmoo92: >shakes fist at daylights savings time< XD

shmoo92: and I just sneezed down my shirt. whyyyyy

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: probably the same reason dogs see the need to stick their heads out /your window, then sneeze

shmoo92: >snork<

shmoo92: good loot under the twee?

rorykurago: I... \*touches pointer fingers together\* ...didn't really bother putting up a Christmas tree this year heheh

rorykurago: loot thus far is my brother putting money towards \*something\* (future, i.e. visas, travel costs etc), and his gf giving me tea (!!)

rorykurago: (Which means I also need to go tea shopping for her in the near future)
Are you essited for tomorrow?

rorykurago: (I posted books express, so it should be 3-10 business days. Let me know when they arrive?)

shmoo92: you shall be the second-sixth to know!

shmoo92: (depending on who's home XD )

shmoo92: i am essited for tomorrow!

shmoo92: (mostly for food, which is a first, and also peculiar considering with my lack of baby tooth (ie chewing surface) i haven't been a fan of food as of late)

shmoo92: but i have a mysterious something that made my dad leave work in the middle of the day and pick up my mom for

rorykurago: Oooo

12/25/2015

rorykurago: ZE THING! SHE IS FINIT-O!

rorykurago: 'm going to drink cider and watch Rise Of The Guardians

rorykurago: possibly with popcorn

rorykurago: ...turns out I'm not, because there are tipsy brother-friends asleep on couches and spare room. Oh well.

shmoo92: >giggle<

shmoo92: I found out what my parents got on a mid-day shopping trip for

shmoo92: I am now one of the legion of 'creative' Apple users (besides my tablet)

shmoo92: I have an iPhone 6S 64GB

rorykurago: NICE

12/26/2015

rorykurago: [8]

rorykurago: #1 done

rorykurago: Depressing things: Daisy Ridley is younger than me

rorykurago: bright side: she's like an EENSY bit closer to being my actual daughter

shmoo92: which means shes younger than me, too TnT

shmoo92: she inherited your baby daddy's dark hair, eh? XD

rorykurago: good genes

rorykurago: or, idk, both my parents have dark hair

rorykurago: baby daddy just must not have had the red gene

shmoo92: totally going the recessive gene route as she takes after you.

rorykurago: Well two redheads ( rr rr) will always throw a ginger baby (rr), so to get a brunette baby (Br), one parent must have brunette hair

rorykurago: (which is unfortunate, bc it rules out my fave baby-daddy potentials; and fortunate, bc I like brunettes)

rorykurago: :P

rorykurago: how was Christmas?

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: Christmas was wonderful in that ny aunt and uncle have a not-quite-grown up cat who is the consistency of catquid (cat liquid). ill scoop her up and shell just ooze in my arms in the position I settle her in

rorykurago: hahaha puttycat

shmoo92: I had dibs on cat for most of the visit ^u^ my aunt and uncle were previously unaware of my love for felines. "we found a real cat lover in you." no, no I was always a cat lover. just the rest of my immediate family is allergic.

rorykurago: always awkward

shmoo92: if j had a say, we would have lots of cats. alas TnT

shmoo92: and I got her so relaxed at one point she made like a flat hamster along my legs

shmoo92: except she was a cat who was flat ^u^

rorykurago: awwwww

shmoo92: how was yours? did you ever find a tv or were you forced to go to bed?

rorykurago: I did what I usually do when I can't do something I want to--went for a run XD

rorykurago: then I read some A03 things and went to bed

shmoo92: anything good on ao3?

rorykurago: I'm going through the SS ones

rorykurago: If you haven't read Finders Keepers yet, I LOVE IT TO DEATH

rorykurago: [9]

shmoo92: \*rubs hands\*

shmoo92: some of them are so SAD

rorykurago: I KNOW

rorykurago: ....(I'm not reading the Newmann ones)

rorykurago: (maybe eventually)

rorykurago: (any rain in a drought)

rorykurago: (but I'm not /that thirsty yet)

shmoo92: if is undeniably hilarious to me how the fics are literally split down the middle in terms of content: newmann, or Tamsin & mako & Stacker

rorykurago: I lol'd

rorykurago: a lot

rorykurago: Not a lot of Maleigh this year...

shmoo92: (the latter category doesnt quite make up half; there's some variation but its pretty damn close)

rorykurago: I mean some, obvs, but not like the 60% normally

shmoo92: that really surprised me!

rorykurago: At risk of generalising, I feel like the Glory Days and Newmann shippers are really the two crews in this for the long haul?

rorykurago: (like, nothing to say we can't like Maleigh too, but it's "Maleigh AND...")

shmoo92: that ... is a good observation/prediction

12/27/2015

rorykurago: It's only laying out dates in my own timeline that I realise according to TFTD, Itak attacks Tokyo a little over a MONTH after Onibaba did. I'm not sure how I feel about that, given (A) the breach shouldn't have stabilised enough to let another kaiju through so quickly, (B) if they were ALREADY coming through a month apart, there must be WAY more than the 42-odd we know about (for Gottlieb to have developed his geometric-escalation theory, unless the pattern resolved later and in the early days Breaches were random) and (C)--those Precursors REALLY MUST HAVE FKN HATED TOKYO

rorykurago: Like... "did we get it?" "Negative, Mx. Subject 1XL3 was neutralised." "Damn! ...hit it again."

shmoo92: LOL

rorykurago: !!!

shmoo92: do tell!

rorykurago: Coincidentally, June 21st is ALSO the day the Beckets arrived at the Jaeger Academy + Stacker gave the welcome address

rorykurago: What is it about that date?

shmoo92: My birthday party--OMG FATHER'S DAY

shmoo92: Also, the summer/winter solstice

rorykurago: Is it?

rorykurago: hahaha

shmoo92: 3rd Sunday of June, usually between the 18-22

rorykurago: June 21st is going to be a wild ride next year

shmoo92: (I'm good with June occasions and their possible dates because my sister's dance recital was on my birthday seven years in a row)

shmoo92: (How is this possible? Dress rehearsal Thursday, performances Friday-Sunday, and then leap year.)

rorykurago: huh

rorykurago: Useful skill, anyway

rorykurago: ...my need for /canon/ is crying, because internal logic says that kaiju attack is wrongwrongwrong can't be there, then, that, maybe it's 2017 etc...

rorykurago: but it's in the book...

shmoo92: There's a timeline of Kaiju on the AN wiki, Itak could fit into one of the mystery slots

shmoo92: My rule is 'canon says the idea exists, now how do I make it make sense'.

shmoo92: Which is what you do too, I'm just nudging you there faster because I can't help but automatically work to solve problems

rorykurago: There isn't anything (yet) in the comics that means that absolutely /has to be 2016, so I'll probably push it back to 17

shmoo92: Yay! for lack of canon! XD

rorykurago: haha that's the feeling rn

rorykurago: good night, shmoo

shmoo92: Have a good day, rory

shmoo92: Tomorrow (hopefully) you sees what kept me busy this evening >rubs hands<

12/27/2015

rorykurago: Opinion question: I'm writing a YA story (trilogy) about a three-temperament trio of children - optimist/sky, pessimist/earth, realist/sea - who meet on a ship (and then there are shenanigans with pirates, shipkiller storms, mages etc)--THE QUESTION IS: girl-boy-boy, or girl-girl-boy (presently it's the former)

rorykurago: (This is the Rise Of The Elements tag on allfearofanend)

12/27/2015

rorykurago: WELP COYOTE FUCKING TANGO JUST SHOWED UP TO HELP RONIN FIGHT ITAK I GUESS IT'S NOT JUNE 2016

rorykurago: and... I think that's... Caitlin? But they've coloured her brunette?

shmoo92: Caitlin in Brawler?

rorykurago: (That said, Brawler Yukon \*IS\* still on combat duty, so maybe it's /not Caitlin. But she's talking DriftSci and reporting Duc and Kaori's compatibility to them...)

rorykurago: No, in a lab

rorykurago: lady scientist with glasses and a bun talking drift compatibility

shmoo92: Where will I find this issue?

rorykurago: Might not be Caitlin, but my internal canon sense says artist fucked up

rorykurago: Tales From The Drift #2

rorykurago: mm... wait a sec, I'll find the link

rorykurago: Pacific Rim listing (waaay down) here: [10]

rorykurago: "You heard me, you two test off the charts. Now either Drift or get out of the way for the next pair."

rorykurago: IL her. IDK if it's Caitlin, but IL her

rorykurago: hmm. It's like Beacham decided that TFTD would be his fuck-you to GDT for nix-ing all of Beacham's original ideas for the chemistry of Mako and Raleigh [Antrobus]

rorykurago: so he re-named them Duc and Kaori and slapped them into paracanon as Tacit Ronin

rorykurago: me no likey

shmoo92: Does it seem like Kaori magically speaks English after their first drift, too?

rorykurago: literally just happened

rorykurago: seething not a bit that the same thing never apparently happened to Duc

rorykurago: This is like the worst-written Chako flashback fic ever

shmoo92: Oh. My. God.

rorykurago: you DL'd it and you're sharing my pain, or 2nd hand commentary is scarring you?

shmoo92: 2nd hand commentary

shmoo92: I'm dl ing it now

rorykurago: Literally, I should have KNOWN when I saw TB was co-writing that this shit was happen. I SHOULD. HAVE. KNOWN. That guy is like a 15-year old who still thinks girls can't be Jedi if they're not the sexy ones wearing half a metre of leather

rorykurago: He needs supervision

rorykurago: Paging Guillermo Dad Toro

rorykurago: I want there to at least be Coyote buds (Pentecost/Sevier or Tunnaris) but my heart hurts.

shmoo92: >flailing with agreement<

rorykurago: I... may the Force be with you as you venture close to the Dark Side to see what abominations lurk in the deep
Fighting Tacit is cool, but the backstory is a little gagworthy

rorykurago: I DO love the way they played RABITs, and that they're simultaneously aware of repeating past actions AND chasing the RABIT

rorykurago: (also a little bit of the 'this is my special place in my memory, you need to leave' because that's a little what happens in bad Drifts when the brass try to put Chuckles and Dana together)

shmoo92: Ooooo, that's neat!

shmoo92: Devices cooperate naught so I will be reading this train wreck after breakfast.

shmoo92: With regards to rise of the elements, what will get shipped?

rorykurago: As in, what's on the boat? Or who would people think is with whom?

shmoo92: 2nd one

shmoo92: (I coulda been clearer >\_\_<)

rorykurago: Mmm... Myse (earth, lots of magic) is ace, I think

rorykurago: Kiele (air, a little magic) might be het...

rorykurago: aaand Indar (water, no magic) I thiiink is bi? Possibly?

rorykurago: He's a secretive little guy

rorykurago: (They're 10/11 in the 1st story, maybe 13/14(ish?) in the 2nd, then 18-20 in the 3rd)

rorykurago: None of them really end up 'together' tho? (Hence, I'd almost be tempted to say 'OT3' [where 1 is bi-affectionate but asexual]?)

rorykurago: Sleep time for Rorys. Happy hunting today :)

shmoo92: I'd go girl girl boy if any of them are willing to swap genders

shmoo92: Thank you, sleep well!

12/28/2015

rorykurago: jEsUS this ship turned nsfw quickly

rorykurago: \*physically restraining myself from screaming about Rise bc it's rude to infodump on unsuspecting friends\*

rorykurago: :P

rorykurago: Did you sleep okay?

shmoo92: I did, thank you!

shmoo92: Please serenade me me about Rise while I help myself to breakfast.

shmoo92: How was your day?

rorykurago: It was productive, I suppose. I neglected (bc I'm a terrible parent) to take the dog for a walk, but I nearly finished a sewing project, started another, did some gardening, proofed some fic and read some others

rorykurago: SHO--

rorykurago: (I'm picking up ur mannerisms; less time tumbling plz Rory)

shmoo92: Aiyee, I'm not rubbing off on you am I? I need me in one piece! XD

rorykurago: A central idea in Rise is that there is a corps of silk-kite-riding messangers and scouts (basically paragliders and/or Travellers from the Rowan of Rin series). This corps is neutral and non-combative (except in self-defense) and they serve every kindgom/people equally (like a postal service, I guess) running diplomatic messages, crisis reports, etc.

rorykurago: (I promise to only take teeny little renewable crumbs, and give any you want in return)

shmoo92: (If you say so ... I rubbed off on pickleplum and rubbed off a whole arm! Tho I did get it back ... Well then, MY MASTER PLAN IS COMING TO FRUITION!!!)

shmoo92: The kite riders sound really cool!

rorykurago: ....chill, Bucky

rorykurago: (or Danger. Would you prefer to be Danger?)

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago: (there may be trauma associated with that)

shmoo92: Danger, please! Nice pun there, btw

rorykurago: (although... like... has anyone written yet about how Bucky traumatically lost and am during an early mission and HYRDA was all "WE CAN REBUILD HIM"? ...or did they just go "yeah, nah, you don't need two human arms, bro, here have a robot one"?)

rorykurago: ANYWAY

shmoo92: XD

shmoo92: I was trying to set up a pun of my own with the rubbing off bit. I'm pleased my mannerisms are ... catchable(?) blrr words morning

rorykurago: transmissable?

rorykurago: that sounds like an STI...

rorykurago: mebbe not 'transmissable'

rorykurago: contagious?

rorykurago: --worse

rorykurago: hmm

Rorykurago: So, the Fliers' technology was developed out of silk kites from Lyr (like early pre-consolidation China), and it's coveted by some bc of spying possibilities, paratrooper mages etc BUT thus far, they're successfully stayed neutral. Candidates for the Academy of Flight are picked young, for a combination of air magic, affinity for heights, small size, etc. Veteran training masters like Mistress Acala travel around looking at kids for potential, and it's pretty Important to be (have) a child chosen as a candidate. (Also there's one bit of now-consolidated Lyr that is NOT ALLOWED to have candidates, bc way back when, as a kingdom, they tried to annex the country where the Academy is. (Geography-wise, think Bhutan. Crags, and valleys, and yaks, and perf places to launch kites from)

rorykurago: (thattalotta text. sry.)

shmoo92: Is Mistress Acala still a messenger or is solely recruitment?

rorykurago: Since there's not a lot going on war-wise at the moment, I would think she's mainly recruitment. Kites are big and bulky, even folded, and she'd have to stay grounded to protect her bb birbs

rorykurago: ALTHOUGH

rorykurago: I hadn't considered how she would move around before she found a potential, so maybe she DOES have a kite with her

shmoo92: \*adds to folder\*

shmoo92: (Brb--shower time!)

rorykurago: (Acala: 30/40-something, lady who likes ladies, facecast is Ming-Na Wen, acts aloof 'n kind of snippy but also patiently teaches sea-sick 10-yr-olds a new language+character system, and basically singlehandedly captures a pirate ship with lightweight telescoping metal batons.)

rorykurago: (Does not like being fawned on by the ship's mini wind-daemon Magoo - bc she has hella wind magic and xe luffs it - and smacks him out of the air when he gets into her space) (which is... ballsy. Or rude. Depending on how you feel about daemons/spirits)

shmoo92: I have this great image of Magoo tucking up against her neck and refusing to leave XD

rorykurago: hahaha, but no I mean legit she smacks him out of the air like a fly

rorykurago: (I thiiiink the wind daemons look like furry, kinda insubstantial 2ft-long dragons? I only learnt of them from Indar recently)

shmoo92: that sounds adorable

shmoo92: and that was version 1 of my thought which i wasn't going to send; version two was 'attempts to tuck up against her neck and she smacks him from the air' (or to that effect)

rorykurago: Like I said, striking on is ballsy, because they're cute-looking, but they're still wind spirits and they could summon a gale-force wind

rorykurago: Even the kids know daemons are srs bsns, and they're like '...WOA'

rorykurago: (Also it's hella disrespectful to a spirit, and could potentially threaten its devotion to the ship)

shmoo92: none of them never act out when in her company i bet

rorykurago: Wild ones would. It's not that she's so powerful they're afraid of her, it's that this one's partway domesticated by being tied to a ship for so long

rorykurago: like smacking someone else's Doberman. it might whimper or it might snarl (and it's a VERY BAD IDEA), but you want it to stop what it's doing

shmoo92: aha! now i follow

12/30/2015

rorykurago: I HAVE BEEN AWAITING THIS DAY [11]

rorykurago: (P.s. Not The Star Wars AU You're Looking For Weibies are pretty dm cute)

shmoo92: FANFAAAAARE!!!!!!

12/31/2015

shmoo92: Happy New Year's Eve!!!

shmoo92: Happy new year!

shmoo92: How on earth is the pool that blue?

rorykurago: ...it's terrible, but I'm still giggling about lyrebird Chuck

rorykurago: Mm.... pool lights.

rorykurago: That's all I've got. They wouldn't let us turn it red because "it looks SO demonic"

shmoo92: I thought only Christmas lights came in that colour! (And even then, not that dark)

shmoo92: ... The urge to colour swap a lyrebird with striker colours rears its head XD

shmoo92: "No, you may not turn our pool into a pit in which to sacrifice the innocent."

rorykurago: hahaha

rorykurago: "Not even for a good cause?"

rorykurago: "No." "Aw, c'mon, Chief, y're gonna jinx us!"

rorykurago: ugh, Chuckles must be such a shitshow right now

shmoo92: Like Chuckles on Dec 31/2015-Jan 01/2016?

rorykurago: yup

rorykurago: bb Chuckles is a shithead. We all know this.

shmoo92: Yes, yes he is. XD

rorykurago: bb Mako is also a shithead, but marginally less so because she has a parent who knows how to parent

shmoo92: SNORK

rorykurago: I do feel bad for Herc, bc he evidently has zero idea what he's doing

rorykurago: --but also not really, because he had twelve years TO. LEARN.

shmoo92: I think he has a bit of an idea, but having fucked up so royally with Angela he doesn't want to try and screw up Chuck more than he has

rorykurago: I.... yeah, I'm not sober enough rn to have the parents-messing-up convo

shmoo92: XD

rorykurago: short version is, I think he just never really /got the parenting thing, but being a 2nd parent, had the luxury of kind of showing up now and then to be Dad, and then vanishing

rorykurago: so when he became fulltime dad he was like..." wtf IDK how to do this, no"

rorykurago: "Angie???"

rorykurago: "ghostguide me or smth"

shmoo92: "C'mon, you like starwars? Be a force ghost! Please?"

shmoo92: The vanishing thing works well with quigonejinn's "surprised he showed up at all" thing

rorykurago: which thing?

shmoo92: Um

shmoo92: I will try and find the link

shmoo92: Gimme a sec

rorykurago: okee

rorykurago: I am go sleep, and see you in the morning. Good night, and happy new year

shmoo92: Thank you! Sleep well!