[Open] The Entertainment Feed -- January

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who: Anyone & Everyone
what: Open Post for The Entertainment Feed
when: All month
where: The Entertainment Feed

content warnings: see individual starters. Docu-Lore: being observed/recorded.
Note: This post includes open prompts for The Entertainment Feed. Feel free to write TL's and tag each other.

You win again, you fluffy mutt. (Book Club)

This month, the book club meets Tuesdays January 10th and 24th. It is reading Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas, available via visual formats.

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program.

It's not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous training under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the pressure mounts, Aiza realizes that the "greater good" that Bayt-Sajji's military promises might not include her, and that the recruits might be in greater danger than she ever imagined.

Aiza will have to choose, once and for all: loyalty to her heart and heritage, or loyalty to the Empire.

Where is the line between community and coercion? What makes you you? Are you still you when you change age? A pivotal event changes? From a whole other universe? What parts of yourself do you want to shed? What future do you see for Trench?

Now That's… (Silent Disco)

This month, the silent disco happens Fridays January 7th and 20th. Headphones and music are available. Play your own music or listen to DJ's mix. (open)

Each night you can choose combinations of decades and countries of Now That's What I Call Music for your own unique mix.

You can also submit your own playlist Now That's What You Call Music! for others to peruse and listen to, for dancing or any other time.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. (Movie viewings)

This month, The Entertainment Feed shows double features episodes every Sunday and Thursday featuring episodes of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

Coming to a Feed Near You. (Kid's Corner)

Children's programming includes sleepovers this month.

In response to the sharp sudden increase in children neé adults, The Entertainment Feed is creating a children's program. This includes kid appropriate media of all types and calls for volunteers who specifically would like to help children. Children—particularly those who were previously adults—that lack guardians and don't live at the Orphanage can sleepover on the stage of the small auditorium with sleeping bags/other sleeping supplies. There are free child-sized pajamas, soundproofing from the other areas, and 24/7 drone footage so any requests for help or signs of distress receive quick attention, even if that's in the form of an awkward proprietor.

We listen with more than our ears. (Docu-Lore)

Murderbot has started filming events in Trench via its drones.

Perhaps a drone sees you acting weirdly. Perhaps one accompanies you to the new city or alternate world. Contribute to the video collection of lore for Trench! (Can be arranged ICly or OOCly)

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Murderbot thinks about Amena, who it likes better after going through the kidnapping, and other teenagers it has witnessed in Preservation. ART strongly likes them for some reason. Murderbot doesn't see the appeal. "Agreed, but I hold them to the same rules," it says, "Disobey? Eventually goodbye. This isn't a playground."

It looks over at Jun and completes a scan. His current form is somewhat limited, yes, but it's still developing. "There's multiple karate dojos in Trench devoted to training teenagers and others," Murderbot says, "You could check them out and see whether one would work for you. Then you'd have classes and a teacher to work with. That's easier than trying to do it all on your own."

[icanhearscreams]

"I suppose that works for a place like this. It's not really somewhere to goof around at. Socially they can be brutal, but that's an entirely different kind of misbehaving." He'd stayed out of it for the most part, just ignoring all of the popularity contests and such. He never cared for that sort of thing - just sat and observed all of the others.

Developing is... a good word for it. "I've been... er. Going to one of them. Miyagi-do. I've also been doing strength and speed training with Vi - running around roofs and things like that. ... I know I'm not going to kill a Beast in a fight. It's better for me to know how to run."