Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[stars_and_money]

There was the bonfire for everyone who thought Maryland in January was a little too cool for their taste, as well as the moddable warm food and drinks, and chairs and tables in the school colors of blue and gold. Some tables were also set a little further away from the crowds.

Because there were always people who preferred the fringes.

[OCD up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

Whelp. That was that. All Jack was going to think about now as he looked around the other students here was fornication.

Maybe he'd use that later, and draw stick men doing horribly inappropriate things on the dorm room window in the frost for Charley...

"The hormones are a normal mortal teenager thing, right?"

He had to check.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

Somewhere, Charley is crying on the inside.

"I would assume so," Loki assured him. "It is quite the preoccupation on the internet."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"I've only ever seen other people using the internet," Jack shared, looking curiously at Loki. "I can't really just go out and buy a computer or anything. It's mostly full of, uh, sex, then?"

Sex was one of those things that Jack managed to not think about too often. A result of spending three centuries convinced that physical contact of any sort with someone who could see him was going to pretty much be right out of the question.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

Loki nodded at that. "You can always use the computers here now. The rest of the internet is of great value."

Wikipedia for instance...

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

Jack was totally going to search himself on Wikipedia, now. Thanks, Loki.

"I don't suppose you'd be willing to show a wayward winter spirit how, by any chance?" Jack shot Loki his most winning smile. "The highest form of technology that I've held in my hands... pretty much ever... is a stick."

Which was, as one might be able to tell by looking at the staff in his hand, very definitely... a stick.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

At least he had't mentioned TV Tropes or Twitter yet!

Loki looked from the boy to the staff for a moment before shrugging and pulling out his phone. "You may borrow my phone if you wish."c

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"I may?"

Well, that was way easier than Jack had anticipated, really. He blinked, and held out his hand for the phone, kind of staring at it with a flat-out mix of wonder and bafflement on his face.

He really, really had no idea what to do with it, now.

"So... people just... touch the screen part and it does things, right?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

"Indeed," Loki replied, peering over Jack's shoulder. Ikol took that time to perch on the top of the staff as well. "Simply touch the button that looks like an S and it shall take you to the internet."

StarkTech, of course they had their own browser.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

Jack glanced up at the magpie as he came to perch on the staff, gave him a quick smile, and then did as he was told, giving that S a light tap.

It was fortunate that touchscreens were capacitive, not heat-sensitive. So much of the magic of discovering the internet would have been lost in that moment, otherwise.

"That," he shared as the browser loaded, "was way easier than I thought it would be."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

"Is it not? The peoples of Midgard are most ingenious about such things."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"I might have to get one of these," Jack mused, poking at random links as different pages loaded. "I kind of feel like I've spent a lot of time missing out since these things were invented, now."

Huh. What was a '4Chan?'

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

GO THERE, JACK. IT'LL BE FUN.

"You can also use it as a phone." A beat. "If you wanted to."

Who used a cellphone as a phone these days?

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

Nobody, that's who.

"It isn't really like I'd have anybody to call," Jack pointed out, shrugging and tapping the link. And then tapping another link at random.

And then kind of staring blankly at the screen for a moment.

"Suddenly, the internet makes a whole lot more sense."

Tentacles. Yep.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

Loki followed his gaze for a moment before pulling a face. "Yes, you become desensitized to such things at a rapid pace. At least it is not a gif."

Scroll down for that one.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"A wha-whoa."

Yep. There it was.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[abitlowkey]

"I feel as though I should be covering your eyes," Loki remarked, not actually doing that. Because, well, Loki.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"I'm not entirely certain my eyes and I know just what it is we're seeing," Jack noted, not actually looking away, either. Because... Jack. If there was something he wasn't supposed to be doing, and it was right there in front of him...