The fun develops instantly.

[lightconductor]

Who: Watson and You
When: Post Info Meeting
Where: Anywhere you care to be.
Summary: Watson has a Polaroid camera and he's trying to distract himself. That's about it.


It's a lot of complicated feelings that everyone's dealing with. Even if Watson knew some of the details, he didn't know all of it, and now that everyone knows the permanency of their current situation, and things are not working the way they have been... it's a lot.

And he doesn't know what to do with that.

So Watson, with the late 1990s Polaroid camera that he got in a gift box for some reason, is attempting to distract himself by taking candid photos of people. He's not the most gifted of photographers, and this is quite a bit fancier than even the most portable cameras of his own era, but the joy of autofocus does make the entire process a lot simpler.

Reading in the library? Leaning dramatically over the edge of the railing? Some other place where you think you might be alone in your thoughts? Be prepared for the sudden click and whirr of a camera, and Watson will come over, smiling, to offer you the developing photo.


Closed to César:

It is late, and someone needs to come to bed. After a bit of hunting, though, Watson finds César in the library, at work and oblivious of the time. He sighs, equally parts fond and exasperated, and takes a moment to take a picture of this, too. Surprise.

"It's late, and you ought to be sleeping."

Comments

[lightconductor]

"Initially, I think it was a Frenchman. Yes, Dageurre was French, and the daguerreotype -- a type of photography -- is named after him. The invention of film was an American. But there have been many improvements, from men of many nations. I certainly couldn't name them all."

Watson turns his camera over in his hands. "At any rate, I was gifted this camera and a good collection of the film for it. Photography is rather an expensive hobby in my time, and I'm rather enjoying the chance to experience it now."

[konpeito_aji]

Nobunaga closes his eyes, trying to memorize all this too. "So amazing..."

There's a soft delighted laugh and he beams. "I'm glad too!" He bows! "Thank you for showing me, and taking the time to educate me, and humor this humble student's many questions!" He's not 100% sure that's how the manners would work for teachers of his time, what they'd expected, rather than what Nobunaga gave them, but it feels about right. It's genuinely heartfelt if nothing else.

"To think so many wondrous inventions await in the future. Humanity's capacity is truly limitless."

[lightconductor]

"My pleasure. I'm more than a century behind many people here, and it still amazes me the little things some people simply take for granted as normal conveniences."

Watson doesn't quite know what to make of being bowed to. Respectful, certainly, but it's a strange feeling. He's really not that impressive a person.

"Has anyone told you that eventually men will walk on the moon? And go farther still, to meet men who live on planets circling distant stars? That's well past either of our times, and it sometimes seems very hard to believe."

[konpeito_aji]

"Yes... about five hundred years, it's quite the experience to catch up on."

Nobunaga eyes widen about the moon. "But no mochi-making rabbits, right? Ah! Yeah, astronauts. Very cool. America was the first to do that, must be part of their -- proliferation thing. I have also met some aliens here. Air force is the step in between space and the sky. And cars and trains with their ground engines. Though I have seen none of this for myself yet... someday I want to."

A small laugh, "We don't even have clocks in my lands! Yet there's all these things here, that would be exorbitant luxuries even in Europe in my time, and no one has a clue."

[lightconductor]

"Meanwhile, most men of my time own a pocket watch of some quality. But I suppose you must have something that a man from a few hundred years or so earlier may very well be impressed with."

Watson smiles. "We did have an excursion with some cars. They were quite exciting."