Thanks to boat trolls, now whenever I read Avengers fic I imagine that the Super Soldier Formula was invented by an alien sea prince. (I can't remember what Erskine looks like so naturally Erskin takes his place... )
@roach @jacktrash i has a fanfic fic under spoilers Spoiler: I accidentally a stream-of-consciousness for that one clerk trying to spade-block Bel re: lainey/erskin: so like an ashen instigator, rather than <>/<3? also, didn't bel track down cloris using that shop's name? does he recognize it? was erskin even in any state to be able to recognize the faces of anyone he took a swat at, what with the pain and the leg and the various substances he'd been on since? ... also, coming from the clerk's point of view... I bet he's got his Professional Face on. I bet he wouldn't react in an untoward way to Bel coming in the store, even if he did want to kill him, because he probably lives his life in a perpetual state of wanting to kill highbloods, and has had to learn to deal with that, since the fail state there is highbloods killing you back. I bet he's pretty casteist in a Stockholm-syndromy kind of way, and when he came home from a really shitty day of almost getting his face clawed off by a fucking seadweller, he decided to unwind by reading the gossip pages and getting really fucking drunk, possibly in that order, and figures out the REAL reason he almost had his mucous membranes spattered all over the fucking wall today: this jumped up, high taking, gun-toting cobalt BITCH, exactly the kind of person he spends all-day every day thinking about EVISCERATING but CAN'T. HE'S why one of his clients went red-eyed highblood fuckballs on him today, it wasn't anything to do with the customer service (no!) and couldn't have been Miss Cloris, you don't care what they say, she's one of the good kind of lowblood (the kind with money) and hey, didn't that Lord Aspera look like absolute hell when he was in here? (caste-sense and gin say hold on, if you're acting on behalf of a seadweller, couldn't you get away with taking out that blue fucker's spleen for a trophy) HEY! ANGRY DRUNKEN LETTER TIME!!! Oh, but you'd never do something like that during work hours. They won't even see your eye twitch. Professional Face! (who even is that coming in the door oh god no) ... helping?
i forgot to work in the part where somewhere between "justifiable cobalt spleen trophy," "wow worn-raw seadweller is kinda really hot what" and "more gin" that he decides Lord Aspera is a darling purple jelly bean who must be protected at all cost. even after taking that swipe at his head. caste-driven stockholm syndrome's a bitch, man. ("H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MULT1PL3 OCCAS1ONS, K4RK4T." "I THINK THAT'S JUST HIS WAY OF SAYING HI!")
Oh, god, massive second hand cringe. Oooooow. Yes, that was definitely a creep move there Johoal, you cannot protect someone you do not know, and should not offer them money to do it unless they have clearly advertized that they would be interested in such a transaction. also, oh god, he's brown, i'd been assuming the employees would be teal-ish through low cerulean-ish, now the power dynamic is adding squick to the cringe... i hope the penalty for scene-causing on work hours isn't anything too gruesome. >~<
i had a really cool dream, probably mad-max-inspired, in which the boat trolls were doing some kind of heroic rebel convoy road trip. it involved bel and erskin competing for coolest way to evade/break a police roadblock on a motorcycle, jethro offroading for great justice, and pancho driving a semi. my first thought when i woke up was "of COURSE pancho drives the war rig."
Re: the latest post; Oh Erskin baby sweety honeypie nooo. ;__; He won't wear purple because it'll let people see him but he'll post amateur porn to the internet and grandstand like it's his job. You poor dumb idiot baby. He ain't scare. He ain't scare of no things.
heyyy guess who has two thumbs and updated the boat trolls log! Angst Bucket Tango 4: Chasing Erskin erskin/the color green = otp?
"With his teeth at your throat, no one else's can be." *swoooooon* Oh the diamonds, that is beautiful.
Wow, Cloris is so creepy even when (especially when?) she's doing the "I just met you and this is crazy" thing. Also, I noticed Pancho saying this near the end: "and your no-this-is-totally-not-jade green". If I remember correctly, in the AU where Bel Ascended, met Galley and fried his brain trying to save him Pancho was a jade who had pretended to be slightly lower green to get out of the cavern-caring deal. So... is she actually canonically a jade in disguise (or almost jade, I guess) or am I reading too much into things?
yep, you done spotted it, well done! here is your Attentive Reader cookie: during the medical drama, when galley was identifying people by their blood temperature with his eyes closed at one point, he referred to her as jade, too. she claims she can't change her blood color, but it turns out that over a long period she can change it just a little -- just enough that she has some hope she won't get left behind by everyone she cares about and stuck in a brooding cavern with a bunch of mommy types and pre-verbal poop factories forever. that is her worst nightmare.
The latest posts on the Be celebrities thread have made me think about Pancho/Bel/Erskin/Jethro paleblack foursome. It sounds like a... very interesting idea. I would like to subscribe to its newsletter. #things I did not know I wanted #*embarrassed blushing in the corner*
i have absolutely no clue what happens to a giant pillbug if you marinate it in lime juice. does it get cooked like white fish does? or does it become a fragrant citrusy nookworm? let's be real, this is alternia, so the more disturbing answer is probably right.
I am not sure if commentary on the planning thread goes here, but Spoiler @roachpatrol you are so enthusiastic about birds that I am now excited about birds!!
