[Public Channel] Radio Mingle, Day 48+ after closing time

[worldlyafflictions]

'evening, Carnival!

Since we'll want ta help each other out while we're out here in the stacks, 'n since not all of us have been here years or however long you vets have been hanging in there, why don't ya introduce yourselves before ya read off anything interesting ya've found? Seems like a good time ta get ta know each other, right~?

I'll start!

Shima Renzou, reporting! And rright nnoowww.. [A pause and there's a shuffling of loose papers, possibly being rolled on or swum through.] I've found the biggest mountain of old newspaper clippings I've ever seen. Do Fae have newspapers? Ah, some of it might be poems--let's see...

"A few young sages one bright day..."

'Sages' is promising, right?

"Disputed, doth an old tale say,
Which is the prettiest part of women:"

Oooh...

"Some said the cheeks, and some the eyes,
And so they sought the beauteous Lais,
And asked her to award the prize.
The lady said, perhaps displeased,
These thoughts I cannot understand.

"If you could have them where you pleased,
I wonder where you'd put your hand?
'Twould be, you would see,
On their..."

...Oops, ehehe! I can't say that out loud ♥


((ooc: Mingle! This post is for sharing readings with everyone--dumb stuff, little plot stuff, 'anonymous' CR-related stuff to accidentally embarrass people in the carnival if you've found something on them, whatever your character might put on the air. Thread jumping encouraged! Shima will respond to anyone to who addresses him directly, feel free to show up just to roll your eyes at him.))

Comments

[dontpokethat]

They're not really bad, Reira, it's just... kind of rude to talk about them in public.

[He is trying SO hard to maintain a straight face and be the responsible adult here, but also this is really funny.]

[soft_focus]

...So Shima is being polite...?

[She says it with dripping skepticism.]

[dontpokethat]

If he were being polite he wouldn't have made a big deal of how he couldn't read the rest.

[Also he's guessing that last word is not "butt" but Reira doesn't need to know that.]

[soft_focus]

[.....................................but]

....why didn't he just say it then...

[dontpokethat]

Because then he could get in trouble. This way he can say he didn't actually say anything wrong.

But he still should have read it first, seen that it was inappropriate, and just not read it aloud.

[Hear that, Shima? Obviously he's not telling you directly, but anyway.]

[soft_focus]

....Oh, so he's just scared of things.

[Such Disdain from this child.]

[dontpokethat]

[Okay well now he needs to stop and compose himself so she doesn't hear him trying not to laugh when he replies.]

That's one way of looking at it, sure.

[Ginko no]

[worldlyafflictions]

I was so polite.

[dontpokethat]

Reading most of something inappropriate, suddenly stopping, and basically informing everyone that it was inappropriate after all isn't really very polite.

[sunflowerfields]

That's a good way of putting it.

[She's screaming internally.]

[dontpokethat]

I'm, uh... here to help, I guess. [And keep children from getting weird ideas about butts being an inherently 'bad' concept.]

[worldlyafflictions]

HEY WOW, stopping when I realized what the punchline was is totally more polite than these accusations you're encouraging here at least! Jeez, ya offer people some conversation so we don't a die of boredom three days in and people treat ya like this...

[This is definitely over-dramatic whining happening here.]

[dontpokethat]

Arguably.

[But only arguably.]

Anyway, I'm sure most of us appreciate the sentiment. But you really shouldn't read text over a public network if you haven't already looked it over yourself.

[Just in case Shima actually hadn't thought of that.