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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Were you a veteran Fandom resident? Did you finish getting your brain broken by your sibling and/or buddy? Did you just want to sit down to recover from the shuttle ride? If so, then there were plenty of tables and chairs set up across the lawn just waiting to be filled!

[This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"Yes," Kathy said, a mischievous smile blooming. "Why don't you let us go and I'll explain to Elsa what an animated gif is. Have a good picnic, Barry!"

WHO WAS PLOTTING SOMETHING? NOT KATHY! NEVER.

...She was totes the sneakiest.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa wasn't entirely certain it was possible to compete with that much sneakiness. Kathy? A master of sneaky, truly.

"What a what is?"

... Her takeaway from this was that Kathy and Barry were both terrible, yes.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"An animated gif," Kathy said absently, poking at the internet. "It's basically a few seconds of a looping scene compressed into a gif format. The quality is usually lower, but it takes up much less room than other kinds of files, so you can have an animated image that uses the same amount of file space as, say, a really high quality .jpg or .png image."

Which cleared everything right up for Elsa right?

"Okay," she said a second later. "Now text him and make him call you."

This was going to be epic.

"Hmm. We may want to be closer so he can hear it, too."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa... hadn't figured out texting yet. But that was okay. She could puzzle over that while moving closer to Barry, giving Kathy a baffled side-eye.

Yeah, she was going to just give up on figuring out what an animated gif was now, before Kathy could hurt her brain.

"Do I want to know what you did while you were poking at it?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"I assigned him a ringtone," Kathy said as innocently as she could. "Since he picked out one for you, I thought it was only fair that you personalized yours for him."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

"Okay, but it was you who personalized it," Elsa pointed out, and quietly delighted when the icon that she tapped actually led to a window where she could type in text and select Barry's name. "Just ask him to text me back?"

I found the text button!

Look, it was exciting.

And Kathy wants you to text me back.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry did text something back:

----<---{@

He doubted Elsa would understand but if Kathy was around she could explain.

And if he knew about the ring tone the text would have been something completely different.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"Awwww," Kathy said, leaning over to look at the screen. "He sent you a flower. That's adorable. Barry's a romantic."

She made a mental note to tell him to buy Elsa real flowers, considering the past week, but that was something she could take up with him. Later.

"But, no, he needs to call you. So you can hear his ringtone." And then share it with him.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa blinked, and then blushed a little, taking a moment to appreciate the flower, once she figured out what it was meant to be.

"Oh, right. I text, he calls. I... maybe got a little excited."

Learning how to find the texting option all on her own was sort of a big deal, okay?

That's cute! She says she gave you a ringtone too? She wants you to call so I can hear it.

Somebody here was about to die of embarrassment. Somebody.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to regret this!" Barry shouted after he read the text but dialed Elsa's phone anyway.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

It actually took Elsa a moment to register the song that started to play after Barry dialed.

She wasn't familiar with it, no, but the opening sort of spoke for itself.

The look that she gave Kathy as her phone started singing, "I'm too sexy for my love, too sexy for my love..."

Well.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry let out a snort of amusement and sent a text to Elsa's phone.

That's okay. I set up another ringtone. Have Kathy call your phone.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy looked suspicious. "I knew I should have set up a ringtone for me while I was fiddling with your phone," she muttered, but dialed anyway.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa waited for Kathy to dial, and then looked, clearly puzzled, at her phone as it rang. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJtEyxHhkA)

It was... happy? And there was something about rainbows. And Elsa had no idea who the picture that popped up on the screen as the phone rang was, but she was short and dressed in rainbows and she had huge blonde hair, and she most certainly wasn't Kathy.

"I... don't..." She blinked at her phone as it continued to ring. "I don't get it. I am clearly missing something, here."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy wasn't. Kathy so wasn't.

"Barry!" Kathy yelped. "Barry, you jerk! I am not--Ooooh, I should have gone with something even ruder for your ringtone. Can I have your phone again?"

Don't do it, Elsa. Gillette has an entire discography she can choose from.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure that's such a..."

Wait, no. The song about butts was on Barry's phone, Elsa was so handing hers back to Kathy again.

"... Do your worst."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

You were going to regret that, Elsa. You really were. Because Kathy's worst was definitely pretty bad. Certainly bad enough to make certain, proper princesses blush with horror.

With narrowed eyes, Kathy scrolled until she found the perfect song. Hey, Elsa had said to do her worst! Kathy had only complied!

And while she was there, she adjusted her picture and ringtone, snapping a quick selfie and finding a good song for her. It was a little more militant than Kathy normally ever was, but, hey LINES HAD BEEN DRAWN.

"Now have him call."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was going to be beautiful. Beautiful.

She's done it again, Barry. Could I get another call?

Elsa was not even remotely repentant anymore.