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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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"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."