The Gym: Wednesday Afternoon

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

Dipper decided today to do something healthy. Like work out with the weight machine to try to perform a bench press.

It wasn't working well. He could barely push the bar up.

If one listen closely, they could hear him mutter "Stupid. Noodle. Arms."

Hopefully no one else would be around to witness his humiliation.

Comments

[dwarvenswagger]

What a very odd question to ask.

"We call it Middle-earth." For some reason that e really needed to be lower case. Ask Tolkien why. Pretentious little man that he was. "And I suppose you could say that. I've heard of walking trees, but I doubt the validity of the historical claims."

Poor, poor Ents.

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

"Walking trees! So cool!" Dipper exclaimed as he continued to write down everything Thorin said. "I've never run into walking trees before. Dinosaurs, sure but not walking trees."

[dwarvenswagger]

"What are dinosaurs?" Thorin was forced to ask.

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

"Think of a giant lizard, some of them as big as a building and you'd have a rough idea," Dipper explained. "I still have a tooth from a run-in I had with one two years ago."

[dwarvenswagger]

"...a dragon." What you described there was a dragon, Dipper.

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

No. It's a dinosaur. They don't breathe fire, Thorin.

Unless it's a Dino-bot but we're not dealing with cartoons here.

Okay, Dipper is a cartoon but that's another debate.

"Well, these don't breathe any fire or stuff like that," Dipper explained even though the narrative had already done that. "They were pretty much animalistic creatures without any intelligence. And are you saying you have dragons? Really?"

[dwarvenswagger]

Thorin was a cartoon once, but that was possibly animated while on acid. So.

"Ah. No, dragons have a cruelty to their intelligence from what I have been told."

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

"That is so cool!" Dipper exclaimed excitingly before realizing his reaction wasn't really appropriate. "Um. That is if you haven't had to deal with one, I guess."

[dwarvenswagger]

"Indeed," Thorin replied dryly. "They say the largest of their ilk had a wingspan that rivaled a mountain."

Because Tolkien had no concept of scale.