Alice Penelope Drake I'm told you're the person to talk to about the RH prom. Alice Penelope Drake I'm signed up as one of the chaperones so I thought I'd text and ask if there was any help needed beforehand or if I just need to show up.
Karkat Vantas I mean technically you could just show up if you want and just do whatever the fuck it is chaperones do. Karkat Vantas Shake your fist threateningly at students standing too close?? Karkat Vantas I won't say no to any actual help though.
Alice Penelope Drake Honestly I'm going to be bored when I finish thesis work for the semester, and I'd rather think about this than... Alice Penelope Drake Actually, you're on Retrospec, right? You know what I mean. Alice Penelope Drake Actually, didn't we meet back when the riding birds showed up? I remember your name now.
Karkat Vantas OH Karkat Vantas SHIT YEAH Karkat Vantas Wow that was months ago. Funny how different things are now! And by different, I mean ten times more fucked up in how little sense everything makes!!
Alice Penelope Drake I'd noticed that yes. I'm definitely getting an "it's getting worse" feeling. Alice Penelope Drake I also noticed how many Retrospec users were from your school so it feels like...I don't know. Alice Penelope Drake I should keep an eye out for this kind of weird shit happening at a big event? Since I can actually see it?
Karkat Vantas You're definitely right about the school thing. Karkat Vantas This dumb app is actually making me talk to my fellow classmates and that alone makes me want to sue. Karkat Vantas But hmmm. I suppose a lot could go wrong with a bunch of people at a function where not only do they have to deal with hormones and other teenage drama, but they are also getting superpowers or just rainbow eyes.
Alice Penelope Drake As someone who didn't talk to anyone in high school, being forced to might be a good thing. Alice Penelope Drake As it is though your prom's kind of a recipe for either superpowered fight, or vampire and/or zombie attack.
Karkat Vantas That's debatable. Karkat Vantas Oh god don't jinx us with zombies. That is taking a step way too fucking far into cliche. I refuse to deal with zombies.
Karkat Vantas Zombies are officially the new vampire. Karkat Vantas You know how before you couldn't go one week without some goddamn new vampire craze to rush by?? Karkat Vantas The only difference is that it was mostly teenage girls who were all over the vampire bullshit, so people haven't really caught on yet that the zombie thing is overplayed as quickly as they did with vampires.
Alice Penelope Drake No I have kind of noticed that with zombies. Alice Penelope Drake I really don't get why it is. Especially since zombies are never really the "bad guys" or the "good guys" like vampires are. Alice Penelope Drake They're just kind of a disaster that happens to make people turn on each other. Nothing in a zombie movie is ever more dangerous than the humans who can't get over their personal issues long enough to shoot some shambling corpses in the head. Alice Penelope Drake Hence why I'm worried about the potential combination with teenagers.
Karkat Vantas Have you met any of the people who go to my school?? Karkat Vantas I am pretty sure most of them would try to befriend the zombies before. There's no reason to turn on each other if you get your common enemy on your side.
Alice Penelope Drake Yeah most of them are kind of like that. Alice Penelope Drake That's not a bad idea though. Get everyone to work together. Honestly if people could just do that first instead of fighting we wouldn't act like we were in the Dark Ages. You just need a leader, right?
Edited (Read the regain rules a little more closely) 2017-05-05 23:41 (UTC)
Karkat Vantas Or leaders. Plural. Karkat Vantas Sometimes just one would end up pretty shitty. Karkat Vantas Were the Dark Ages really that bad anyway?
Alice Penelope Drake Depends what you mean by Dark Ages Alice Penelope Drake The whole Medieval Period had its ups and downs depending where you were. Alice Penelope Drake But generally the more things were divided up into feuding barons and earls the worse it got. Alice Penelope Drake Of course then with strong monarchies you had a strong chance of a succession war splitting everything up again. Or an incompetent king wasting everyone's resources (hi Richard I) Alice Penelope Drake Basically people needed to get over themselves and never really did that consistently.
Karkat Vantas Oh this is a topic you are actually interested in apparently. Karkat Vantas I wasn't actually expecting you to come back with an answer while even name dropping with it.
Karkat Vantas What exactly do you want to help with? Karkat Vantas There's a lot of crap that needs to be done so it'll be easier if we knew what you think you might be able to help out with. Karkat Vantas Decorating? Helping us order shit?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Facebook PM
Alice Penelope Drake I'm signed up as one of the chaperones so I thought I'd text and ask if there was any help needed beforehand or if I just need to show up.
no subject
Karkat Vantas Shake your fist threateningly at students standing too close??
Karkat Vantas I won't say no to any actual help though.
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake Actually, you're on Retrospec, right? You know what I mean.
Alice Penelope Drake Actually, didn't we meet back when the riding birds showed up? I remember your name now.
no subject
Karkat Vantas SHIT YEAH
Karkat Vantas Wow that was months ago. Funny how different things are now! And by different, I mean ten times more fucked up in how little sense everything makes!!
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake I also noticed how many Retrospec users were from your school so it feels like...I don't know.
Alice Penelope Drake I should keep an eye out for this kind of weird shit happening at a big event? Since I can actually see it?
no subject
Karkat Vantas This dumb app is actually making me talk to my fellow classmates and that alone makes me want to sue.
Karkat Vantas But hmmm. I suppose a lot could go wrong with a bunch of people at a function where not only do they have to deal with hormones and other teenage drama,
but they are also getting superpowers or just rainbow eyes.
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake As it is though your prom's kind of a recipe for either superpowered fight, or vampire and/or zombie attack.
no subject
Karkat Vantas Oh god don't jinx us with zombies.
That is taking a step way too fucking far into cliche. I refuse to deal with zombies.
no subject
no subject
Karkat Vantas You know how before you couldn't go one week without some goddamn new vampire craze to rush by??
Karkat Vantas The only difference is that it was mostly teenage girls who were all over the vampire bullshit,
so people haven't really caught on yet that the zombie thing is overplayed as quickly as they did with vampires.
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake I really don't get why it is. Especially since zombies are never really the "bad guys" or the "good guys" like vampires are.
Alice Penelope Drake They're just kind of a disaster that happens to make people turn on each other. Nothing in a zombie movie is ever more dangerous than the humans who can't get over their personal issues long enough to shoot some shambling corpses in the head.
Alice Penelope Drake Hence why I'm worried about the potential combination with teenagers.
no subject
Karkat Vantas I am pretty sure most of them would try to befriend the zombies before. There's no reason to turn on each other if you get your common enemy on your side.
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake That's not a bad idea though. Get everyone to work together. Honestly if people could just do that first instead of fighting we wouldn't act like we were in the Dark Ages. You just need a leader, right?
no subject
Plural.
Karkat Vantas Sometimes just one would end up pretty shitty.
Karkat Vantas Were the Dark Ages really that bad anyway?
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake The whole Medieval Period had its ups and downs depending where you were.
Alice Penelope Drake But generally the more things were divided up into feuding barons and earls the worse it got.
Alice Penelope Drake Of course then with strong monarchies you had a strong chance of a succession war splitting everything up again. Or an incompetent king wasting everyone's resources (hi Richard I)
Alice Penelope Drake Basically people needed to get over themselves and never really did that consistently.
no subject
Karkat Vantas I wasn't actually expecting you to come back with an answer while even name dropping with it.
no subject
no subject
Karkat Vantas I feel like I'm supposed to call it interesting here, but I don't actually think it is at all.
no subject
Alice Penelope Drake So anyway, prom.
no subject
Karkat Vantas There's a lot of crap that needs to be done so it'll be easier if we knew what you think you might be able to help out with.
Karkat Vantas Decorating? Helping us order shit?