Fourth Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

This morning, everyone in the school got a last-minute email announcing Joker's birthday party, and there were flyers posted in a few places throughout the dorms. Both strictly insisted "no presents, please".

The fourth floor common room had been done up party-style, with streamers, balloons, the whole works.

The TV was playing a bad movie marathon, and there were snacks, drinks, and pizza laid out. Joker himself was lounging on the couch, eating pizza, and watching the TV. Underneath a large banner hanging from the ceiling that said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!"

He didn't want to make a big deal out of it, after all.

(Open common room!)

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Or, you know, just wander in and wonder what's going on.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor didn't so much "arrive" as she'd been there helping him to set up. But she did take a few minutes before everyone arrived to double check that the room looked all right.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Eleanor!" Barry said in a cheerful way that was slightly out of character. "Good to see you. Especially now that I'm human and not having stray dogs trying to sniff my ducking butt."

He's so classy.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil showed up, Foucault in tow, grinning hugely. "Happy birthday!"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[kenselvren]

Jalian had no idea what a birthday party was. Well, she'd learned enough of the culture to learn that the person had apparently been born on this day in the calendar and was celebrating it, but she had no idea what that celebration entailed. So she showed up mostly out of curiosity.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker waved at her from the couch. "Hey, Jalian! Good to see you! Come in, sit down, hang out! One of our strange local customs here is that you're required to have a good time."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like Toby would pass up his roommate's boyfriend's party?

(Especially when there was free food involved)

So he was here, he was mingling, he was definitely gonna avail himself of some of that pizza in just a sec, after claiming a good spot on the couch.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"Come in," Eleanor said warmly. "We're watching terrible movies. Joker's promised to show me good ones at some point, but I'm skeptical."

He seemed to take more delight in watching bad things ironically than good ones in a more straightforward manner.

Then again, she watched Octo ER.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Toby!" Joker called. "Welcome, welcome! Have yourself a grand ol' time!"

Pay Homage

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker his holding court on the couch. Say hi! Try not to block his view of the TV.

Re: Pay Homage

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Where Eleanor was spending most of the party was here, on the couch next to Joker.

"Is it bad that I didn't throw your party?" she asked, for possibly the hundredth time. "I would have, if you wanted."

Never mind that she didn't know how to throw parties.

Re: Pay Homage

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"And you'd've stressed, and made a big deal out of it, and worried about how it came out. Nah, Babe, don't worry. I got this. See? Party." Joker shrugged, and gave her a grin. "Besides, you helped set up. What more could a guy ask?"

Re: Pay Homage

[voiceoverdue]

"I didn't bring any presents, because you said not to," Cecil said. "But I did bring a disc with a bunch of movies burned in! ♥Carlos♥ said if you like weird things, you'd love these. I'm not sure why - I mean, they're mostly local documentaries and things, a couple public access movies - but maybe just because they're twenty-first century quaint." From Night Vale.

He handed Joker the disc. "So it's really educational, and not a present at all!"

Re: Pay Homage

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Hey Joker," Barry said tossing him a small portable hard drive. "You said no presents but fuck that. That's about 20 petabytes of porn. If Eleanor asks I'll deny fuck all."

Food and Drinks

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Totally moddable snacks and drinks. For pizza, you've got plain, pepperoni, Hawaiian, and veggie.

Bad Movies

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

It's a less eclectic list than you'd expect, designed to appeal to a more general audience. Meta for Ernest Goes To Jail, Howard the Duck, the live-action Masters of the Universe movie... and, of course, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Re: Bad Movies

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry watching bad movies? What a shock.

"Fuck yeah! Plan 9!"

It takes a genius to enjoy schlock sometimes.

Re: Bad Movies

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

It was partway through the second movie when Eleanor finally gave Joker a decided Look.

"These movies are awful," she said firmly. "I wasn't saying anything, at first, because I didn't want to hurt your feelings. But you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?"

Re: Bad Movies

[spin_kick_snap]

"I love this movie," Kathy admitted, watching the alien duck movie. "It's so terrible it's awesome. I'm almost sad we don't have the movie about the kids who came from garbage cans."

Cake and Ice Cream!

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

But you have to sing first. No singing, no cake. Those are the rules.

Create Your Own Birthday Party

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

You want to start up a game of I never? Play Monopoly? Do a line dance in Joker's honor? Just hang out and talk to each other, without him? Yeah, that's cool. Rock on with your bad selves. Post your own OCD here.

Presents

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Damn you, you horrible, horrible persons for bringing Joker stuff. Go on, set them on the table with the others.

Re: Presents

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor was no good at shopping for presents. So what she'd done, instead, was to make a mix CD (http://nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com/6910.html) full of songs that she thought maybe he might like.

Some of the songs had flying themes, yes. She knew her audience.

She hadn't bothered decorating the actual disc, beyond writing JOKER MIX ♥ on it in black Sharpie.

Maybe she'd convince him that not all modern music was awful. Worth a try.

Re: Presents

[spin_kick_snap]

There were few people that Kathy felt confident buying presents for. Joker happened to be one of them.

With a card that said, Happy birthday to the best little brother I have (so far), there were two wrapped t-shirts and also a cute novelty gift.

OOC

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

YAY Last-minute party!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!