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[open radio show] Sharky's Super Chill Disco Relaxation Station
Who: The entirety of the Serena Eterna, but also Sharky.
What: The Sharkster's got full aux control for the next couple of hours. Enjoy!
When: over the course of 6pm to 9pm, August 1st
Where: ALL OVER via the PA system; you can find Sharky himself broadcasting from the Guest Services desk.
Warnings: Some of the music videos linked could be awkward to watch around other people. Other than that, just a little on-air swearing!
Notes: THIS IS TECHNICALLY A MINGLE LOG. some of the stuff you can do here:
- thread out reactions to songs (someone struck by nostalgia might be caught singing along, or maybe they want to dance with their loved ones)
- drop off some single-post introspective narration about the State of your character now that they've dealt with the Lastest Event
- reactions to the fact that apparently, people can just??? use??? the pa system to play whatever they want???
- save the post so you can have your character get a song stuck in their head in future logs
- seriously do whatever you want, i love you guys and will enjoy seeing any effect this radio broadcast has!
there is a top-level header for Sharky at the desk. any ic comments, questions, concerns, etc can be directed right to him :)
[around 6-7pm on the first of August, the ship's PA system crackle on, and Sharky's voice comes down on high from the connected speakers. like last time, the following "radio" show can be heard across the ship; there are occasional bouts of dead air as Sharky leaves to get food or drinks or use the bathroom, and eagle-eared listeners will overhear the occasional background chatter, given that Sharky can't just plug his boombox directly into the aux. BUMMER!]
Uhhh, okay, cool. Hey dudes, it's your pal Sharky here. Been a hot minute since I took over the airwaves, but I figured it was time I rolled up to the conch... mic... thing... and played some more music for y'all. The way I see it, if I still got that shitty song stuck in my head, so do all of you guys. Unless you were on the excursion, uhhh, in that case, you probably already know buuuut we could pretty much see everything y'all did. Like, uhhhh, eeeeverything.
[singling people out without even saying their names, how do you like that??]
I'm gonna try to keep it lowkey, play some chillout music so people can, you know... chill out. If you wanna hit me up for somethin', I'm in the Atrium with our best girl Friday, soooo, come find me. But not if you want me to stop, 'cos I'm not gonna!
Anyway, let's start off with.... ffff, um, well, some disco, obvi. Sister Sledge is supes popular 'cos they did the Family song, but I like their early shit, like this bop off their debut album! "Love, Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me" is fly, let's play that.
[one of them is for Flan... the other, though, is for Sharky ;)]
[the first 10 seconds of a song start, before he pauses it.] Noooo, that's, uhh, not it -- oh, screw it. This is a classic, ok, and it's got a built-in dance component, which is why it's on this random-ass CD of mine...
What: The Sharkster's got full aux control for the next couple of hours. Enjoy!
When: over the course of 6pm to 9pm, August 1st
Where: ALL OVER via the PA system; you can find Sharky himself broadcasting from the Guest Services desk.
Warnings: Some of the music videos linked could be awkward to watch around other people. Other than that, just a little on-air swearing!
Notes: THIS IS TECHNICALLY A MINGLE LOG. some of the stuff you can do here:
- thread out reactions to songs (someone struck by nostalgia might be caught singing along, or maybe they want to dance with their loved ones)
- drop off some single-post introspective narration about the State of your character now that they've dealt with the Lastest Event
- reactions to the fact that apparently, people can just??? use??? the pa system to play whatever they want???
- save the post so you can have your character get a song stuck in their head in future logs
- seriously do whatever you want, i love you guys and will enjoy seeing any effect this radio broadcast has!
there is a top-level header for Sharky at the desk. any ic comments, questions, concerns, etc can be directed right to him :)
[around 6-7pm on the first of August, the ship's PA system crackle on, and Sharky's voice comes down on high from the connected speakers. like last time, the following "radio" show can be heard across the ship; there are occasional bouts of dead air as Sharky leaves to get food or drinks or use the bathroom, and eagle-eared listeners will overhear the occasional background chatter, given that Sharky can't just plug his boombox directly into the aux. BUMMER!]
Uhhh, okay, cool. Hey dudes, it's your pal Sharky here. Been a hot minute since I took over the airwaves, but I figured it was time I rolled up to the conch... mic... thing... and played some more music for y'all. The way I see it, if I still got that shitty song stuck in my head, so do all of you guys. Unless you were on the excursion, uhhh, in that case, you probably already know buuuut we could pretty much see everything y'all did. Like, uhhhh, eeeeverything.
[singling people out without even saying their names, how do you like that??]
I'm gonna try to keep it lowkey, play some chillout music so people can, you know... chill out. If you wanna hit me up for somethin', I'm in the Atrium with our best girl Friday, soooo, come find me. But not if you want me to stop, 'cos I'm not gonna!
Anyway, let's start off with.... ffff, um, well, some disco, obvi. Sister Sledge is supes popular 'cos they did the Family song, but I like their early shit, like this bop off their debut album! "Love, Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me" is fly, let's play that.
Sister Sledge - Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Mandy Moore - Crush
[one of them is for Flan... the other, though, is for Sharky ;)]
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Fuel - Bad Day
OK, I gotta go take a leak, it's just gonna play a couple disco songs while I'm AFK. Nobody touch my shit, man, Friday's here and she'll totally rat you out to me.Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
The BeeGees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
The BeeGees - Tragedy
Same band, waaaaaay different vibes. Uhhh, ok, I didn't really plan much of this so let's just see what comes on when I put this thing on shuffle...Erasure - Take a Chance On Me
Seal - Kiss from a Rose
Haddaway - What is Love
Rick Astley - Never Give U Up
If you know, you know. OK, OK, that's gettin' a little too up-tempo for the mood, let's bring it down with... I said I had some Marvin Gaye, I just gotta remember where I put it. Maybe here??[the first 10 seconds of a song start, before he pauses it.] Noooo, that's, uhh, not it -- oh, screw it. This is a classic, ok, and it's got a built-in dance component, which is why it's on this random-ass CD of mine...
Cali Swag District - Teach Me How to Dougie
OK, cool cool cool, I think I found the CD I was lookin' for. I think I'm just gonna shut up and let the last couple songs play for you guys. First up's gonna be a Barry White hit, then I'll one-two punch y'all with some Marvin Gaye. You're welcome for getting that shitty recorder song out of your head, and you're super welcome if it's been replaced by the need to learn how to Dougie.Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up
MID-SHOW REPORTS, ANNOUCEMENTS, ETC.
[OTA] Sharky On Air
he's here for anyone who might have comments, questions, or complaints, although the latter is like, his least favorite!]
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Are you taking questions right now?
[He places the torch on the counter. The name Marceline is engraved on its side. Rita can't bond with objects that don't have names!]
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[it's love at first torch-light, apparently]
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[Totally oblivious to the fact he just called it a "her."]
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Ooooh, Ritaaaa. [in the exact sort of teasing tone best reserved for little kids making fun of a friend's crush.] I met her at Pride! She was real cute, man, she got hella flustered about you!
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So? It's probably because you acted like a five year old.
[And if Sharky needs more teasing fuel, there's a familiar looking doll hovering behind him...]
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Is he going to admit it when teased directly? Hell no. He can't do anything about the flustered blush, but he sure is going to sound confident!]
It's not a doll, it's Ritanaga. [It's totally a doll.] You're just jealous because you're single.
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[he grins at the idea that he's single in any sense of the word, but he hasn't actually asked Giles if, like, that's something he should be broadcasting or not, so instead he settles for:] No such thing as single when you're as ready to mingle as I am! Anyway, I'm not jealous, dude, I think it's hella sweet. She's pretty fuckin', uhhhhh, what's the word... bombtastic, right??
[he means bombastic. it's close enough, right??]
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Yeah. That's why she's awesome.
[Rita's passion is her best trait even if it's often channeled in the wrong directions and he will die on this hill.]
Anyway, I wanted to ask if you know how to improve her torch. It's not bad but it's got a pretty small range.
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[in case Natsuno needs the reassurance that his girlfriend is lowkey obsessed with him!]
Oh, yeah man, for sure! I can totes do that. Not, uhhh, not right now, 'cos this Beegee's song is almost over, but when I'm done here? Thinkin' its nozzle needs an adjustment, probably more pressure -- but I should probs use Pratt's workbench to do that.
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[He makes a face.]
Really annoying how you can't light fire outside.
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[dejected side-eye at Friday, who's arguably too busy keeping the ship together to notice some 55-year-old guy trying to puppy-dog-eye her into letting them set fires.]
I guess since we're on a boat or whatever it's not safe, but like... Fire's so pretty. [:(]
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[Unlike Sharky's pyro obsession, Natsuno's wish to set shit on fire is totally rational!]
If violent murder is okay, you'd think fire would be too. [He looks at Friday as well. Her job is bad enough as it is, so to clarify he's just complaining:] But since it's not allowed on cruise ships, we won't try it outside the smoking zones.
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[he sighs, briefly charmed by the memory of the last fire he saw. even if it was contained in a fire pit, it was still gorgeous.]
Oh, but, uuhhh, yeah! Def not gonna start fires anywhere we can't have 'em. [gotta front in front of Friday! he so definitely learned his lesson last time, no need to worry about him!]
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But she waits for another set of songs before she drops by to see Sharky - literally dropping out of the sky and landing near him during Erasure (which, oh my god, Erasure!! she forgot about Erasure!!). She does her best to keep her voice low just in case the equipment is super sensitive and picks up voices.]
Sharkyyyyyy. Thank you for playing Free Falling. Great set so far, I'm loving it all. I missed listening to the radio so much.
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Heyyyy, obvi, anything for you, girl! [even if it means playing Tom Petty, the guy who Hope County radio played like, 24/7] We needed some sweet jams, uhhh, you... weren't here on the ship when y'all were like, drowning and whatnot so you probably don't know that there was a truly fuckin' heinous version of Celine Dion playing the entire fuckin' time y'all were gone. It was seriously the fuckin' worst.
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Oh my god, holy shit. They tortured you guys more than us. I honestly had like, a really good time. I was worried a little at the end though, 'cause I thought I'd have to, you know- [She draws a thumb over her throat and makes a khhht sound.] But then I got swatted like a bug and that shit was instant, so that was good. Don't know if I'm going again though. It was totally new for me, but like, also way too long and bad?
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[it's too bad the world ended before Cbat became a thing...]
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[why can't he be eating shitty diner fries or swimming in a lake, damn it!]
Oh, yeah, Hurk's his legal name. Hurk Drubman Junior! He tried to go by Junior for a while 'cos he didn't wanna think about his mom and dad havin' sex, but like, it's sorta a "all roads to Rome" sitch. No matter how he tried to play it, everyone's gonna wind up thinkin' about how his mom would call his name while porkin' with his dad. 'Sides, he doesn't look like a Junior.
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Oh my god I love this man so much, I wish I could meet him! Hurk Drubman Junior! Oh my goooodddd. [She has a good giggle at poor Hurk and his name struggles.] I'm glad he went back to Hurk, that's a better name no matter what. Like I'm sorry your mom called your dad that while they were banging, but like, there's lots of names his mom might have been using during sex too and all of 'em are going to cause psychic damage. Hurk though, that's a solid ass name. I really don't think it's healthy to go by Junior anyway. I swear, any man I met that was a Junior was just kinda bonkers in a really specific way.
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[she has the weirdest taste in friends, and he's saying that AS her friend!!!]
Yeah, I miss him sometimes, but, uh, he can... be a lot. Like, people think I'm a lot, but he's a lot a lot. [that's totally parsable, right] Def glad he didn't go with Junior too, though. It's the kinda name that shitty cops have, y'know? The kind that wear aviators and have thick-ass mustaches and act like they don't know how fast you were goin' when they're the ones who pulled you the fuck over in the first place!
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[Flan's enthusiastic nod makes it clear that yeah, she totally knows what he means, especially as someone who is also a lot. There's levels! It does matter!] Oh my god, for REAL for real!! Urrrgggg the kind of dicks who are like, power-tripping assholes. They're the absolute worst! I was like, so relieved when I found out Pratt was just the normal kind of guy who took a deputy job and wasn't like, the power-tripping kind of cop. That would have been such a bummer!
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[fact check: he would speed on his way to pick up booze from illegal moonshine distilleries, sometimes with his flamethrower unsecured in the back of his truck.]
And don't get me started on the number of times him and Hudson would roll up on me just livin' my life to ticket me for being a public nuisance!
[fact check: he was chucking dynamite at turkeys in a field before Thanksgiving because he "didn't believe in funding corporate overlords" like Butterball.]
...But, like, hindsight and everything, he wasn't nearly as bad as the cops in big cities. Guess havin' to help Earl round up lost cows and shit kept him humble. You know, on top of the whole "cult" thing.
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Oh my god the number of times cops have tried to give me tickets for being places I shouldn't be, even when I wasn't hurting anyone! They really don't have anything better to do sometimes! But like, yeah yeah, doing actual regular people stuff helps a lot I think, 'cause then you can't be the kind of weirdo who thinks a badge makes you like, a better tier of human or whatever?
[You need powers for that kind of thinking!]
It's too bad he got a really shitty cult, but like, that's how it is sometimes! Also to be honest, I don't know a lot of cops in cults who aren't like, insane bastards. Plus he got some sexy scars out of it!
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[oh, wait, right, his best friend is a cop now. twice in a row, too?? which feels weird. what the fuck has happened to him??]
I'm not gonna comment on Pratt's sexiness outta respect for our bromance, but yeah, it was total bullshit. It's too bad Hurky's monkey cult never took off, I think everybody woulda been way happier drinkin' and fuckin' in the name of the monkey god.
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[The moment he mentions 'bromance' Flan remembers questions she asked Pratt and she gets delighted realizing she can tell Sharky and he can have a good laugh at them too!]
Oh!! Oh oh oh, oh my god, oh my god right, you're going to find this hilarious! Okay so after prom I was drunk-texting Pratt and I was like okay, you gotta tell me why you and Sharky aren't dating, is he straight or something, and Pratt nearly died laughing about the idea of you being straight! Anyway like, totally get it, respect the bromance, plus he mentioned you've got your eyes on somebody eeelllsssseee which is super cute and I hope that's working out for you, 'cause you're a catch!
Anyway, you're totally right, monkey god cults are usually at least fun times, and more like, hedonistic, so the point isn't to end the world! And honestly, why'd you want to end the world anyway? We live here, and living is good!
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[...why does he feel weirdly offended that Pratt laughed about them hooking up? what the fuck, man? he is a goddamn catch, that stupid deputy just doesn't know a good guy when he sees them!!!
anyway]
Hah, yeah, me and Pratt are both probably the most straight, least straight motherfuckers on the ship. Both'a us did a whole lotta closet-organizing back in the day and whatnot. But yeah, my love life is doin' just fuckin' fine without his ass gettin' more involved in it than he already is.
It's so dumb, tho, like, the cult we had to deal with was such a fuckin' buzzkill. No sex, no drugs, no alcohol, all you got to listen to is shitty folk music they made themselves... And get this, they were totes right about the apocalypse comin', but the guy in charge was like, "boohoo maybe I was wrong." Came nearly twenty years too goddamn late, that's for sure!!!
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[She groans as she hears that the cult truly was the worst of the worst: the unfun and regretting it kind.] Oh my god, I'm so sorry, that's the WORST kind! Like first off, ending the whole world and for what?? And then the audacity to end the world, be boring and unfun, and! And!! To be like ooohhhh I'm sooooo sooooorryyyyyy oh my god, you made this bed, lie in it! Also be less boring from the start and just fuck without ending the world!
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[and he will! just, like. not right this second. because that would be rude.]
Seeeeeeeriously tho, him and his family were such total fuckin' buzzkills. I'm just glad they're not showin' up here, hopefully ever. I'd be like, duty-bound to beat the shit out of them daily. It'd be a whole fuckin' obligation and I'm soooo not into havin' a fuckin' chore wheel here.
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[A chore-wheel for beating someone makes Flan snort, and she gives Sharky a pat on the shoulder.] If they show up, I'll give 'em the astronaut training special! I might not have my abyss anymore but you bet they won't be so keen on being assholes once I make 'em spend eight hours falling at supersonic speeds!
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[he's got a feeling it's gonna be okay, but like. better safe than sorry!!]
God, I fuckin' wish. Pretty sure nobody in the Seed family had enough self-awareness to learn a goddamn lesson, though. But it'd be fuckin' funny and I fully support any weird magic bullshit that gets pulled on 'em.
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Some people are just allergic to learning anything! It's so annoying but like, yeah, enough magical and tech people here that it's no biggie! If we don't convince 'em to stay dead, then we'll keep 'em stuck in a hell of our own making! Oooo, maybe we could talk the Captain into putting those guys back into like, the fear batteries or whatever! Like a reverse Survivor, we'll vote 'em into the power plant!
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Oooooh, yeah! Joseph'd probably be all gay and "this is for the best" about it but John would whine like a lil' bitch about bein' turned into a battery, and that would make me so fuckin' happy. Uhhh, just -- just so long as Jacob and Pratt never cross paths again. Pretty sure that guy still haunts his dreams.
[this is a lot of personal information to be sharing with some rando, but Pratt wouldn't care! probably!]
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[Don't worry Sharky - Pratt's told Flan enough that she gets the score, but she's not super nosy about the details. That's not the kind of fear she likes to feed off of!]
It sucks that Pratt got the bad cult experience, but like, that's how it is for a lot of people! I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who got in with a cool cult instead of a dumb cult! And most of that is because my uncle is awesome, at least when he's not with the old-man murder club! When I was a teen, I became super sure that they didn't actually mean it that they wanted to end the world, they were just using it as a cover for like orgys and stuff, but it turns out that no, they really are just trying to end the world or whatever, and even though they're all totally gay for each other, they just do this insane century-long slow burn shit! Just fuck idiots!!!
[She lets out a big sigh and give Sharky a shrug.] Family, right?
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[huff!! he's mostly talking about Peggies at this point, but he gets the comparison Flan's making.]
This batch of songs is almost done, so I better get a couple more lined up -- but you should hit me up next time I'm in the hot tub. [:) already forgot about needing to text Giles]
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