Fifth floor common room, Saturday afternoon/evening

[kenselvren]

After yesterday's class on propaganda, a light had gone on for Jalian. This was how one person could change more than just their surroundings. She'd largely ignored movies and TV before, but now she was curious.

So, she was sitting in the common room, watching TV. She had a bowl of popcorn and was frowning at the screen trying to pick out which parts were stupid and which might be some form of propaganda.

So far the judgment had mainly come down on "both". For just about everything.



[OOC: Open post!]

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[crimson_sister]

Lucille hadn't seen Jalian since the trip, and she had decided to stop by for a cup of evening tea. She found her in the common room in front of that thing called the TV.

"Good evening, Jalian. What is the TV like tonight?"

[SP due to sleep soon?]

[kenselvren]

Jalian rolled her eyes. "Tedious and annoying. But the teacher yesterday told us about propaganda, so I'm trying to figure it out."

She held the bowl out toward Lucille. "Hello. Popcorn?"


[No prob!]

[crimson_sister]

"Propaganda?" Lucille picked a popcorn from the bowl. "Is that what they are showing on the TV?"

[kenselvren]

"I can't tell," Jalian admitted. "Sometimes it all seems like it is, and sometimes I think it's just senseless. The propaganda in class was the teacher dancing."

In very skimpy shorts.

[crimson_sister]

"That sounds unexpected," Lucille replied, reaching for another popcorn.

[kenselvren]

Jalian grinned. "He had very nice legs."

[crimson_sister]

"Oh." Lucille considered that. "Then at least the propaganda offered something of interest. Who is the teacher?"

[kenselvren]

"Steve Rogers," Jalian answered. "He seems very practical for a male, and he knows quite a bit of this country's history."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Eventually Ringo had to leave her room, if only because she really needed to eat. And get some more water. She still didn't look all that great, face a little puffy and eyes a little red, but she'd gotten some pretty restful napping done throughout the day.

"Anything good on?" she asked Jalian absently as she walked through the room toward the fridge.

Because she could use a lighthearted distraction like some good TV.

[kenselvren]

Jalian wrinkled her nose. "Not that I've found. You can change it if you like. Popcorn?" she offered.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Oh, thanks." Ringo's smile wasn't as bright as usual, but it was genuine. "You want me to grab you something to drink while I'm up?" That would be a fair trade for popcorn she didn't have to make herself.

[kenselvren]

"Tea or water?"

Jalian eyed Ringo a bit; she'd heard the radio about the Kathy thing, after all. But if it were her, she'd be tired of talking about it already. Maybe Ringo was, too. "Happy birthday, a little late."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo blinked, then grinned. "Thanks," she said, grabbing a bottle of water for Jalian and putting on a kettle for tea to make that, too. "I don't think any of the cake is left," she stuck her head into the fridge to check. "Sorry."

[kenselvren]

Jalian shrugged. "I can't eat cake anyway." She took the water bottle and raised it in thanks. "I didn't know you could send a cake in the mail, though."

[soniaroadsqueen]

"No cake?" Awww, that was sad! Ringo scooped up a small handful of popcorn and tossed a piece into her mouth.

"And, yeah. It apparently involves boxes full of dry ice, so it's like a mini refrigerator or whatever."

[kenselvren]

"No sugar," Jalian clarified. "It makes me sick. What is dry ice?"

[tigerundercover]

Raven was on a wander, and stopped in to see what Jalian was up to.

"Wow. I don't think I've ever seen you watching TV before."

[kenselvren]

Jalian smiled up at Raven. "I'm trying to understand what we talked about yesterday - the propaganda. But most things seem like they might be? Also most are stupid."

She offered Raven the popcorn. "But I have food."

[tigerundercover]

"Ooo, food." Raven took a handful of popcorn and plopped down next to Jalian with a grin. "And I can totally help you figure out the propaganda. Though I'm guessing these days it involves a lot less nuclear war and red panic."

[kenselvren]

"Maybe." Jalian stayed close, smiling back. "What's red panic?"

[tigerundercover]

"The US used to be terrified of communists. Pretty much the way they are now of Muslims. Totally irrational, totally full of paranoia and creepy stereotypes. Somehow as a country we seem to have missed being afraid of murderous dictators and decided instead to aim for really broad groups of people instead."

[kenselvren]

Jalian made a disgusted noise. "I used to think the problem with this timeline was males. Now I think it is more stupid people. Although," she added with a shrug, "a lot of the stupid people still are males."

[tigerundercover]

"It's because society tells them they're right all the time," Raven said. "They never have to learn to second guess themselves, so they lose out on valuable critical thinking skills."

Kathy had trained Raven well in the basics of kyriarchy, oh yes.

[kenselvren]

Jalian thought about it for a minute, then gave a slow nod. "Some of the Huntresses were like that," she conceded. "The only thing you could do was to challenge and beat them."

She smirked. "Maybe more males need to be challenged." Or beaten up by a scrawny girl; that worked, too. Though Jalian was getting less scrawny, if no more curvy.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Hey, Raven," Ringo called softly, adding a tiny wave. She was totally going to act like it wasn't at all awkward talking to Kathy's roommate.

Super-convincingly!