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entranceway2018-04-17 04:07 pm
talesuntold) wrote in entranceway2018-04-17 04:07 pm
04 | Video
Good afternoon, my darlings.
That last event was a rough one for a lot of people, and I know some of us are also bracing for what comes next. I'll be in the kitchen for the next four hours, and I'll take requests the whole time I'm there. I think we could all use a little comfort food, or some distraction.
Requests don't necessarily have to be culinary in nature. I'd be delighted to improvise a poem or tell you a story. An off-the-cuff Scheherazade, with bonus cookies.
Come keep me company for awhile.
[Of course, certain people don't have a choice in the matter. She has conchas baking for Seth, cookies for Wirt, all her teammates' favorites, and so on. Friends and acquaintances who fail to show up may well find Maggie at their doors afterward with a plate in hand.
Even a few people who might not expect it, if she's ever had reason to worry about them.
Maggie is going to start climbing the walls if she doesn't find meaningful ways to fill up her days here. This takes care of one day.]
That last event was a rough one for a lot of people, and I know some of us are also bracing for what comes next. I'll be in the kitchen for the next four hours, and I'll take requests the whole time I'm there. I think we could all use a little comfort food, or some distraction.
Requests don't necessarily have to be culinary in nature. I'd be delighted to improvise a poem or tell you a story. An off-the-cuff Scheherazade, with bonus cookies.
Come keep me company for awhile.
[Of course, certain people don't have a choice in the matter. She has conchas baking for Seth, cookies for Wirt, all her teammates' favorites, and so on. Friends and acquaintances who fail to show up may well find Maggie at their doors afterward with a plate in hand.
Even a few people who might not expect it, if she's ever had reason to worry about them.
Maggie is going to start climbing the walls if she doesn't find meaningful ways to fill up her days here. This takes care of one day.]
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So, she's a journalist, interesting.
"More interested in getting lost in amazing, gripping tales versus cold hard truth? I don't blame you. Truth is boring."
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"My California is probably pretty different from yours, and the setting's a lot more creepy. My house is very comfortable, though."
Truth has been anything but boring. Pursuit of truth got people killed, and got her shot. Maggie's hands tighten around the glass baking pan she's just pulled out, knuckles whitening slightly. She manages to keep her face and voice light, but she's tense, if you look close enough.
"I could do with truth being a bit more boring, actually. I look forward to getting lost in fiction again."
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Shawn actually has sympathy in his voice, not trying to belittle her or the situation she's from, but trying to make her comfortable if she wants to talk it out. "Good news is, there's plenty of fiction to pick from in this place."
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"The walking dead, I could live with. Massive government conspiracies were more problematic, especially when my colleagues started digging into them." Maggie isn't a factual reporter, but that kept her at the fringes of the (sometimes literal) blast radius.
"Wonderland makes almost as much sense as a Romero movie does." She's struggling much less with Wonderland's oddities and more with being lonely here. She's used to her slew of dogs and a constant stream of house guests. "How long have you been here? Are you settling in alright?"
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She's having house parties, that has to count for something.
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"Things broke down for about four years, from 2014 to 2018. Some parts of the world are still, if you'll pardon the phrasing, dead zones. It's 2041 now, though, so we've had some time settle into our new reality." In other words, Maggie can't remember a world without zombies. This just how she's grown up.
"What about your world? Is there anything that sets it apart, or is it pretty much the garden variety Earth mine was up until the dead started walking?"
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What if his horror movie nightmares possibly come true? There's literally no way of knowing whether or not his future is filled with zombies. And so, he's free to assume it is.
"My Earth is garden variety. Very boring, a surprising lack of flying cars so far but I believe science is working on it."
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"You're probably safe unless people try to come up with genetically engineered viruses to cure cancer and the common cold," Maggie tells Shawn cheerfully. "I'm immune to both of those, there's just the slight drawback of zombie hordes. The two helper viruses combined and mutated."
She pauses, then adds, "No flying cars yet, sorry. You can hope that the zombie uprising just derailed our scientific progress. Maybe you'll get flying cars instead of the walking dead."
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"So society rebuilt? I mean, at least that's encouraging. It only took a generation? Apocalypse movies are so off base."
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"To be fair to Dr. Kellis, he had no intention of releasing his virus without significant further testing. His lab was broken into after a sensationalist newspaper article. If anything, I blame the journalist, not the scientist."
Journalistic integrity has a fair amount of meaning for her, even if Maggie works in fiction and poetry rather than for the news division of her site. She's still a licensed journalist.
"Society reestablished itself, with a few significant differences. Amusingly, the most popular names include George, Georgia, Georgette, Barbara... We actually credit Romero with a fair bit of our survival. Nobody makes horror movies anymore, though." Much to Maggie's dismay.
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"I mean, sounds like people lived through a horror movie, so that makes a fair amount of sense."
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"Stalnaker's article claimed that Kellis planned on selling the cure and reserving it for the wealthy. Which was of course utter bullshit if you looked at the science; it was designed to be contagious. Unethical journalism plus anarchist college students who smoke too much pot aren't a pretty combination."
Maggie shrugs. "If horror movies saved all our lives, I see no reason we should stop making or watching them. I do still manage to drum up an audience, but we only have classics to watch."