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entranceway2018-02-07 09:26 pm
talesuntold) wrote in entranceway2018-02-07 09:26 pm
03 | Video
[Maggie looks a bit paler and much more exhausted than usual, but puts on as warm and chipper a front as she can. She's clearly sitting on the floor as she posts this.]
Hello again, Wonderland! While it's good to see all of your lovely faces, those nine flights of stairs up to my room are a considerably less welcome sight. Would someone be so kind as to help me up to my bed? A couple of someones if necessary? I've had an eventful week and I'm not at my best.
Once that's managed, I intend to stay there for a few days at barest minimum.
I'll be hosting horror movie marathons tomorrow night and the night after, in room 969, barring Wonderland-interference. Prior acquaintance not required! If horror isn't your cup of tea, feel free to stop by during the afternoons instead. Incidentally, non-metaphorical cups of tea will be available, or your hot or caffeinated beverage of choice. Hope to see you soon, darlings!
((Spam tags for movie night or afternoon visits also welcome!))
[Private to Mahir, Shaun, and Georgia]
[More seriously, dropping any pretense:]
How long was I gone? Let me find my bed, and then all of you get over here before you ask what you've missed back home.
[She doesn't want to do this more than once.]
Hello again, Wonderland! While it's good to see all of your lovely faces, those nine flights of stairs up to my room are a considerably less welcome sight. Would someone be so kind as to help me up to my bed? A couple of someones if necessary? I've had an eventful week and I'm not at my best.
Once that's managed, I intend to stay there for a few days at barest minimum.
I'll be hosting horror movie marathons tomorrow night and the night after, in room 969, barring Wonderland-interference. Prior acquaintance not required! If horror isn't your cup of tea, feel free to stop by during the afternoons instead. Incidentally, non-metaphorical cups of tea will be available, or your hot or caffeinated beverage of choice. Hope to see you soon, darlings!
((Spam tags for movie night or afternoon visits also welcome!))
[Private to Mahir, Shaun, and Georgia]
[More seriously, dropping any pretense:]
How long was I gone? Let me find my bed, and then all of you get over here before you ask what you've missed back home.
[She doesn't want to do this more than once.]
Action
"So...I didn't actually know what your favorites are, so I found some of mine? I-If you don't like them, that's okay too though," he quickly backpedals. Despite the anxious words, he's genuinely excited as he plucks a book off the top of the pile. "I found a collection by William Carlos Williams! I think he's probably my favorite American poet? He does like, amazing things with the rhythm of his poetry. The spacing really gives each line a punch of importance and it's just...melodic, when you're reading any of it out loud."
Any poet that makes Wirt want to read their work out loud is worthy of note for that alone. Someday he'd like to be as good at triadic stanzas as William Carlos Williams.
Re: Action
She's glad to see him perch, at least, and any urging to settle in can wait.
"Good choice. That sounds lovely, Wirt. When you put it that way, though, I think I might need to hear them to properly appreciate the rhythm of the words. Would you be willing?" Maggie isn't above using sympathy for her injury as a lever to get Wirt to try something that requires a bit of confidence.
"Thank you for coming," she adds softly. She's always much happier when she isn't left alone. All the more so when she's injured, and she particularly likes her current visitor.
Action
"I...I-I don't know. I--"
She's happy he's here though. She wants to hear him read it, and she's actually asked him to. She's thanking him for being there, and it's enough to turn the volume down on every anxious voice shrieking that she will regret asking. He can feel his face turning pink.
"...I can try?" he tries. "I'm not always very good at reading out loud, so it might not be that good, but...yeah. I guess if you really want me to?"