Video - Seelie/Unseelie

[teenyoda]

[Stiles hasn't used the lockets until today, a day spent flicking mostly through the posts and seeing how to actually work this thing and, oh, okay. Like that. It was like a weird magical phone set to Skype. Okay. He could do that.

Smile into the camera, Stiles.]

Hey there, uh, fairy people. And non-fairy people. And, uh, the draconically inclined. Or furry. I don't... just... hi. So, in light of the whole worm thing, which by the way, eww, I have a question. Since there seem to be a lot of, um, not exactly human people around and ones who have skills with like, swords and magic and stuff, ah, what... hypothetically speaking, would someone who was just a regular, normal, average human be able to do here? You know, besides hiding under tables and throwing rocks ineffectively?

[This was a very important question, Drabwurld. He wasn't a werewolf or a wizard or witch or... any of the multitude of people here that he'd run into. His coordination was subpar and, well, he didn't really have any skills that included cutting the heads off of giant worms or not getting eaten by dragons if they felt the need.]

Just, ah, I guess just reply here, if you want. Or leave a message if you're looking at it later. 'Kay. Uh, thanks.

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[steeledskin]

Beg pardon, but I don't...I don't know what you're talking about.

[teenyoda]

Yeah, I'm not surprised.

[Gee, that didn't sound rude.]

Um, I mean, that you don't know what they are. I've been running into a bunch of people from way different worlds and I'm guessing things like hockey and golf haven't really been invented in too many of them. But, if you're from a place that has jousting and hawking, I'm betting most of your sports are probably a bit more death-causing.

[steeledskin]

[ most, certainly. sansa can recall having watched a man bleed out only a handful of feet from her place in the stands. splintered lance to the throat. ]

Tell me about them, then. Hockey. And golf.

[teenyoda]

Uh, well, hockey's played on an ice rink. People wear skates and there's two teams. Each player has a stick that's, uh, curved at the bottom and they use it to hit a puck around. A puck's this little black flat disc that they have to volley and try to get in a net that belongs to the opposite team. There's one per team on opposite sides of the rink and you have a goalie that stands in front of the net and tries to stop it.

Team the scores the most wins. Golf is... boring. Most sports are pretty much two teams trying to get the best of the other. There's usually balls involved and nets or stuff. Except for baseball, which is totally different and I think might confuse you.

[More than he already had.]

[steeledskin]

[ stiles literally only one thing matters about everything you just said.

literally. only. one. thing. ] It's played on ice?

[teenyoda]

Um, yeah? Hockey is, yeah. With skates.

[steeledskin]

What? Like the fish?

[ she never liked skates much, when they were on the table. ]

[teenyoda]

Like the-- No, not like the fish. Really? Like the fish? No. They're shoes with metal blades on them and you skate around the ice on them. Ice skates.

[steeledskin]

I know ice. [ how could she not? ] But I've never seen anyone...skating on it.

[teenyoda]

No? Well... it can be a bit tricky at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's great. And when you have ten people zooming around bashing into each other, it's even better.

[steeledskin]

And is this something you do?

[teenyoda]

I don't bash around so much, but yeah, I skate.

[steeledskin]

...Does that mean there is a lot of ice, where you're from?

[ she asks a lot of questions, it seems. ]

[teenyoda]

A lot? Well, no. I mean, sure, up in the arctic and antarctic, but like, we only get it during winter. Or if they just ice up the rink. I love when they do it in summer. But, um, pretty sure it's usually a winter thing, so, you know, for a few months a year.

[steeledskin]

--so, your winters are short as well?

[ she'd spoken to a few with brief winters. how quaint. ]

[teenyoda]

I... don't know? The same as the other seasons. Three months each for winter, spring, summer, and autumn. We don't get too much snow or anything where I live, so it doesn't seem so bad.

[steeledskin]

Our winters -- [ she's getting a little more accustomed to all these differences: my world; your world; their worlds. ] They last years, sometimes.

[teenyoda]

Really? Like... a full year? Jesus. That would... suck.

[steeledskin]

...Suck?

[ sorry. that usage is unfamiliar to her. ]

[teenyoda]

Um... suck? Yeah, like... be not good. Suck di--

Just.. it's means not good.

[steeledskin]

So [ ... ] why not simply say that it isn't good, then?

[teenyoda]

Because it's a... a thing. We use slang, where I come from. Things suck, they're cool, they're lame, that's hot, that's not and so on. It's just sort of the way language has evolved.

[steeledskin]

Like...like bummer?

[ her voice drops to a whisper when she says it. someone at the feast had explained it to her, but she still feared it might be some really dreafdul word to say aloud. ]

[teenyoda]

[He has to actively fight not to laugh, not wanting her to think he's laughing at her as much as how she says it.]

Yeah, like bummer. Bummer's like, a downer. Like, 'aww, that's a bummer', means 'aww, that's not good. I'm sad about that'.

[steeledskin]

So -- am I right in thinking that something that sucks would, therefore, also be a a bummer?