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

[bigdamnprincipal]

As the heat continued to bear down on the lawn, many of the tables and chairs were set up in the spots where there was shade, so no one got overheated or anything. That would be very rude for the first day in Fandom, after all.

[OCD is up! 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 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"I like the lipgloss analogy," Jesse said, mouth curving. "The reason I ask is... I don't know. The weird stuff where I come from, it's weird, half of it doesn't make sense, and yet... there's theories that do seem to bind it all together."

She took a bite of her burger. Her appetite had been crazy since the Bureau; maybe it was all the Objects of Power she was connected to now. Does a floppy disk get hungry?

"Like, it doesn't have to be personalized," she said, "It just has to be... personal. Like the universe knows what to do with someone who has a brain that corresponds to some parameters, you know?"

Emily's rubbing off on me.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was super proud of the lipgloss analogy, and loved the fact that at least someone could appreciate it. So she relished a little in that before really listening to what Jesse was saying and considering it, leaning forward on folded arms on the table.

"Like it knows what we're capable of handling and shoves it at us accordingly?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"Maybe?" Jesse said. "One theory where I come from about all of our weird is that, like... weird just shows up to the party, but the guests define what weird is going to do, you know? Or maybe the lipgloss container only cracks where it hits the lipstick too hard."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Instead of it shattering into a million pieces," Summer mused, as she took what Jesse said and rolled it around in her head a little, "like it does here. Or maybe it just seems that way because, here, it's being hit in so many different places all at once..."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"Maybe all the cracks are still actually tiny, and they still fit whatever made them," Jesse said, "That'd be a fun thought, wouldn't it? That it all does make sense at the end, just... sense for a universe where there's billions and billions of individual people who all need their own version of sense."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"That is a nice thought," Summer admitted. It seemed to give things a purpose, a reason. That whatever happened was because there was some little niche you were meant to fit into, a crack, either that you created or that was created for you, and it was just a matter of getting the fit right. That it wasn't all just a giant crapshoot of luck and circumstances where nothing meant anything because nothing mattered when you got right down to it.

Maybe she'd been a little too solid on the crapshoot theory, though, because it was nice, to think that it all made sense in the end, but Summer just couldn't really believe it.

She didn't want to tell Jesse that, though, because hers seemed so...optimistic by comparison, unless Summer had interpreted it way wrong.

"It's definitely different," she said, "the universe as reactionary to us rather than vice versa. It least that seems to be part of what you're saying."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"Like I said," Jesse said, picking up her burger again. "It's sort of what scientists think about my kind of weird, at least. Even that killer fridge kind of... shaped itself around this person who lost their kids and put their kids' drawings on it and... just wanted to look at it all day."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"....okay, so that's definitely creepy," said Summer, who was now willing to take back most of what she said about that idea about niches and the universe shaping itself to you being kind of comforting.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"Strong feelings can work in a lot of ways," Jesse said wryly.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

It...did not take Summer very long at all to dig up a regrettable example that made her wince a little in understanding.

"Yeahhh, that's true. So...what other sorts of things have happened back where you're from? To sort of give you this perspective on it?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"Well, right before I got here, someone opened a Threshold into another world full of mind-controlling aliens and let them into the building," Jesse said, "So..." She cleared her throat. "It's not all bad," she said. "Like there's someone who liked popping floppy disks out of computers so much that one of them developed the power of telekinesis."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You guys still use floppy disks?"

Yes, Summer, that was the weird part of the story.

Honestly, just be impressed she even knew what floppy disks were.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

"They're iconic pieces of technology and that thing was probably decades old," Jesse said, amused, "... and the building I was in blows up any tech that's younger than the 80s."