Jokes on you that was exactly how I would describe arena scheduling. Especially in a high school full of kids with super powers.
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Tahi: Hellbinder gave me the mace, just in case
Tahi: it seems it wasn’t necessary because I joined mid-term and most students’ schedules have already been fixed
Kiln: ah, the same goes for me
Kiln: I wonder what it was like for other students
Roddy: I kept the brass knuckles they gave me for orientation!
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Tahi: Do you have problems with getting the schedule you want?
Joey: Where does an 800 lb. gorilla take his classes?
Tahi: I sense this is a meme I’m expected to recognize.
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Alex: It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from school
Alex: That’s nothing that a hundred sophomores could ever do
Alex: I guess the brain’s down in Africa
Alex: Gonna take some time to meet the apes and Joey’s dad
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Alex: what protein supplements does an 800 lb gorilla use? Any whey he wants
Joey: haha
Alex: what’s fall fashion look like for an 800 lb gorilla? Any wear he wants
Joey: I get it already
Alex: where does an 800 lb gorilla take a girl on their first date?
Joey: … Well?
Alex: well go ask her out and then we’ll all know
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((Feeling so much for Alex …))
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Tahi: I have learned of a musical group and wish to share its existence with you
Joey: I’d love to know what kinda modern music you like
Tahi: it is called “Savage Garden”
Joey: imma take a pass on that
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Joey: uh, any other groups? Taylor Swift…?
Tahi: Screaming Trees
Joey: er-
Tahi: Iron Butterfly
Joey: maybe a uh, less on point group? Imagine Dragons–
Tahi: in my day we didn’t have to imagine
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Joey: Um, Mette … you’re from the future, right?
Mette: No.
Joey: But you already know who wins –
Mette: No.
Joey: Goddammit.
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Kiln, poring over a map with Tahi: Alright. We need to go around the Castle of Ill Advised Opening, giving wide berth to the Swamp of Pestilence, then make our way through the Endless Desert. Watch out for the final obstacle - the Watchers.
Alex: What are you guys doing? Planning our next field trip?
Kiln: Planning out to get to our polling place to vote.
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Alex, looking at the map: Hold up isn’t the Swamp of Pestilence the local stadium?
Kiln: There was a maskless rally there yesterday.
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Joey: I can’t stand it.
Kiln: Me, neither.
Joey: The tension, the stress, the aggravation …
Kiln: This cannot go on.
Joey: I know! This vote count and electoral vote insanity is just …
Kiln: I meant the number of pencils you’re going through.
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Joey: is there anything you can’t hack into?
Alex: oh quite a lot. It all comes down to the system in question and its rules, and how much trouble I want to get into finding a way around them
Joey: I feel the same way about punching people
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@james wrote:
“Amethyst fairy has never been translated correctly.” I took this literally translated incorrectly. Like there is a common habit of ancient greek purple being translated as red. So not only does not one quite believe that Amethyst Fairy was someone/something that stayed behind, but also it isn’t always translated the same way. Sometimes it is amber. Sometimes it is elf or wing or magic. So any discussion about them in the future is full of “no it’s x!” contradictions.
Translations from Homer, ἀλάστωρ ἁλίχλαινος [The Purple-Robed Avenging Spirit], ll. 78-79:
Garbed in royal purple, princess-queen of shadowed joy,
She comes in vict’ry, at great cost, her enemies but a toy.
[tr. Pope (1723)]
At first they thought her a mere girl, dark-draped, but when they saw her true form, the greatest of enemies must give battle, and so they fell.
[tr. Rolfe (1930)]
She who rides in vengeance, robed as a monarch, spirit shadowed;
None stand before her, and even the greatest enemy will fall.
[tr. Fagles (1987)]
The dawn rises over the battlefield,
Oranges and purples conquering the gloom of night,
And all enemies flee at the coming light.
[tr. Johnston (2011)]
Bro! She’s no little girl, she bursts to true form in a blood-red gush.
Now there’s someone no enemy dares mess with.
[tr. Headley (2013)]
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Joey: can you please stop playing games on your Switch?
Alex: Super Metroid says no, I can’t
Joey: but we’re almost to the temple in the Congo! This could be a big important moment!
Alex: ancient temples mean dangerous moving platforms and sudden traps, so I’m practicing
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Roddy: I saved Gothwitch, my team uncovered a major threat, and now we’re heading to Africa to save the world!
Roddy: the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades
Mette: that light is the nuclear bomb going off
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Villain: when the train leaves the station at 9:02am, speeding toward the hostage on the track 2 miles away…
Alex: hold up, is this legit or are you torturing us with math problems?
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Alex: Tahi joining the school as a student could be called…
Kiln: Joey, don’t let them finish!
Alex: “rock enroll!”
Joey: (lunges)
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Mette: in emergencies, the ship is programmed to find the closest landmass and make an automatic landing
Roddy: it’s never done that before?
Mette: it never worked before
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Alex: I have one request before I die
Tahi: what is it?
Alex: next time build temples in some nicer god damn places
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