Library, Monday

[intotheout]

J.Lo had sent Tip a list of suggested New Year's resolutions. Every fifth item on the list was "call your friend J.Lo more often".

So she was reading a low-key space opera full of lesbians instead.

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[intotheout]

"Faraday," Tip guessed, barely restraining a roll of her eyes. "Yeah, I met him, too."

[wefindintheashes]

Goody just grinned at that. "Were you the young lady who tore into him?"

[intotheout]

Tip narrowed her eyes and nodded. "I know you all are from a million years ago," she said. "But I don't have time for that old timey racist nonsense. Bad enough we're going to get it from that fascist your student mentioned."

[wefindintheashes]

"Now, now," he said, holding his hands up in surrender. "I'm not saying you shouldn't have. Mr. Faraday's manners are a touch... lacking."

Putting it mildly.

"He informed me that the term was no longer considered fit for polite company."

[intotheout]

"It's not the worst one he could have used," Tip allowed. "And there is still a pretty big national organization that uses it in the title. But yeah -- it mostly just reminds people that you all used to think people like me only count as three-fifths of a person."

[wefindintheashes]

Well, Goody did look suitably shamed by that reminder. Because three-fifths was being rather generous, historically speaking.

"Then, perhaps, it would do us some good to have that topic added to the list of things I ought to read up on."

[intotheout]

"The Civil Rights Movement," Tip told him. "Most books on that should give you a background of racial politics in the states leading up to it, too. Jim Crow, and all that. I hear the Smithsonian in most worlds recently opened a museum about it in DC that's supposed to be really good, if you'd rather learn that way."

[wefindintheashes]

The closest Goody got to DC before now had been in battle, so maybe that wasn't the best idea.

"Civil Rights movement," he repeated with a nod. "Would you be able to get me anything on Korea as well?"

Totally normal request.

[intotheout]

"North Korea or Republic of?" Tip. "Right, that happened in like the '50s, didn't it. We probably have some general historical overviews around here somewhere."

[wefindintheashes]

"My thanks once again," he said with a smile. "But I will need to look into finding one of those phones of yours for myself."

So he could confuse Siri with his accent.

[intotheout]

Eh, Siri deserved it.

"I bet you can pick one up on the island somewhere. They're a little pricey, though. Even in 2017 dollars."

[wefindintheashes]

"Oh, it's all a lot pricey if you ask me." Maybe he could convince Faraday to use the money from his shop on one...

"Until then, I suppose I will be spending time here. What a hardship it is to be surrounded by books."

[intotheout]

"It's pretty cool," Tip agreed. "They haven't even done anything super weird at me yet, like the Post Office does sometimes."

[wefindintheashes]

"Beg pardon?" Goody just wanted things to be normal for once, okay? But nooooo. He had to end up on the craziest island possible.

[intotheout]

"Yeah. In case you hadn't noticed, you ended up in Crazy Town."

[wefindintheashes]

"You know, I had almost hoped it was just something about the future."

So much drinking in his immediate future.