Country roads, take me home

[latersgators]

Who: Steven Grant and open - start your own subthreads and stuff
What: Studio Ghibli movie night
Where: Cabin 135
When: early December
Warnings: none so far

After subjecting Marc and Maeve to Ghibli nights, Steven has widened his circle of suffering to include a few other people. What was going to be 'come over and watch My Neighbour Totoro?' became a proper whole evening at Steven and Marc's cabin. They spent the afternoon tidying up the room, returning a bunch of library books and keeping the rest of his stash in a corner on the other side of the bed. Clean laundry put away, a small load of dirty clothes taken down to the wash. The ankle cuff and bungee cord is stashed away in the cupboard alongside their small emergency hoard of water, snacks and food in case they have to lock themselves in their cabin one day for weeks on end. Bathroom tidied up as well, with extra toilet paper stacked on top of the cistern in anticipation of several guests.

The cabin is still small in spite of their cleanup efforts, and Steven insists on having some snacks available, so for savoury options there's baby carrots and celery sticks with hummus dip, potato skins, kumara fries and cassava chips, and mango sticky rice and pan fried cinnamon bananas for something sweet. It's not exactly going to be the healthiest night in terms of food, but half a dozen people sitting knee to knee in a claustrophobic little cabin crying at children's anime is surely going to make up for that and be healthy for all of them.

The programme for the night is Steven's Studio Ghibli box set, although he only has one DVD player and one television so they need to pick their movies wisely since they'll only be able to watch two or three. They're always welcome to come back next time to watch more. Steven's recommending more Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke, and less Grave of the Fireflies and When Marnie Was There. They don't really want to be crying into their bowl of vegan snacks every 15 minutes...

Comments

[theweakhavepurpose]

Pratt looks confused for a minute and then realizes what Marc is getting at, "Oh. I still have it I was.. uh.. Gonna say that it was fucked up to get it in the first place considering who it belonged to back home. But I'm not gonna get rid of it because I might need it you know?"

He nods in agreement, "Seriously. Sucked for the people who got possessed, sucked for the people who had to watch ghosts pilot around other people. And then some of 'em got killed. Not to mention the ship falling apart and the restaurants running out of food and shit blowing up. Man fuck October completely."

[justneedsomehelp]

"Oh. Belonged to someone close? Or not so close?" There are a lot of reasons to not want something given to you around this place.

"Yeah... it was a lot. People must have been freaking out about the food." That's always a point of tension, right? Starvation gets... nasty.

"Then their friends turning psycho and trying to kill'em."

[theweakhavepurpose]

"Belonged to a dude I fucking hate, and I hope he shows up so I can pistol whip him with his own gun before blowing his brains out." He grumbles, which is probably some extremely violent talk while Kiki is making deliveries, but he's so easy to rile up when it comes to Jacob.

"Yeah, there was still stuff in the buffet, but all the restaurants didn't have any food. The sushi place just had plates going around that were empty. It was real sad. I don't think anyone tried to kill anyone else for food, and Ava and Bash kind of manned the coffee shop so people didn't go into caffeine withdrawal. But it still fucking sucked. And... yeah. That. I dunno how it happened in the first place, but there's gotta be a way to prevent it in the future..."

[justneedsomehelp]

"That's fair, I think. If he shows up, you should at least get to do it once, huh?" Some people just deserve it too. Or maybe Marc is just a violent asshole.

"I hope so. Guess that kinda-- depends on the Captain, right? Whether we keep a steady supply of food or not."

[theweakhavepurpose]

"I think we should all get a freebie if dickheads from home show up here. Though I guess really they're all freebies since people come back. But you know.. without anyone freaking out or saying anything." Little does Pratt know there'd be a line of people waiting to curbstomp Jacob if he showed his face here.

"Yeah. Which is why it freaks me out so many people are trying to kill him. Or seem to be anyway. Won't like.. the air go away? Or the ship sink?"

[justneedsomehelp]

"I don't think that's unfair. Some assholes deserve it after all... even if they're gonna just keep coming back." Which isn't something he's particularly thrilled with, if the guy's a legitimate asshole, but they all have to make it work, don't they?

"Yeah? I think so. I thought the big implication was if he dies, we die, and... I don't really wanna do that." Well-- maybe sometimes, but he doesn't want that for people he's met here and made friends with. He doesn't want that for Steven either.

[theweakhavepurpose]

"Just means you gotta get creative with it." He shrugs because yeah, he's thought about it. Who hasn't? Eventually some homicidal maniac who gets off on torturing kids will show up and they're gonna have to figure out what to do about it.

"Yeah I don't fucking get it. People who would rather die and kill everyone else here than try and figure this shit out for real." He sighs, looking down into his empty bowl of chips. "We're getting real deep for watching cartoons right now. I'm gonna go get some celery sticks and come back and have something way chiller to talk about. Like how good the food fucking looks in these movies."