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Murderbot | SecUnit ([personal profile] offinventory) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2023-03-12 04:55 pm

[Open] The Entertainment Feed -- March

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.

Everything in the universe had come to a halt. (Book Club)

This month, the book club meets Tuesdays March 14th and 28th. It is reading The Girl Who Grew Nasty Things by Will Mara, available via written or audio formats.

Maddie Dragonette doesn't like people. A loner, she prefers to be among the rare plants she grows in her greenhouse, plants that can cause great pain. When Maddie doesn't get a part in the school play, her anger grows as wild as her nasty plants. What happens when anger and hate grow out of control?

How do you handle anger and hate? What manifests them? Are those manifestations themselves evil? Are the plants in Trench evil, sick, a natural part of the cycle?

Trench's 11… (Silent Disco)

This month, the silent disco happens Fridays March 3rd, 17th, and 31st. Headphones and music are available. Play your own music or listen to DJ's mix. (open)

Each night you will hear a mix of music from soundtracks of Ocean's 11 movies and other casino heist movies. Murderbot may mix in some other general casino and heist music to keep it fun.

They say taupe is very soothing. (Movie viewings)

This month, The Entertainment Feed shows double features every Sunday and Thursday featuring heist & gambling movies.

1. March 5th: Ocean's 11 | Ocean's 12
2. March 9th: Ocean's 13 | Ocean's 8
3. March 12th: Army of the Dead | The Italian Job
4. March 16th: The Pink Panther | The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
5. March 19th: The Usual Suspects | Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
6. March 23rd: Uncut Gems | Tricheurs
7. March 26th: The Hustle | The Color of Money
8. March 30th: Owning Mahowny | Mississippi Grind

Stuff-A-Squid. (Kid's Corner)

Children's programming includes building your own stuffed animal this month.

Children's programming is now an ongoing part of The Entertainment Feed. Children may come to the Kid's Corner at any time this month and build a stuffed animal of their choice. Options include squid, deer, bear, dog, raven, and trout. Other animals can also be made. Little clothes are also available to dress your stuffed animal. Murderbot thanks Sansa for helping prepare the unstuffed animals and little clothes.

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)
schoolingfish: (Listening human)

Nasty Things

[personal profile] schoolingfish 2023-03-15 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well...it depends. I don't think they're evil or anything, but if they're going to kill people, it's better to destroy them before more people die. But...if there's a way to make them not kill people, that would be better. It also depends on what kind of thing was made. Like...if it's a person with it's own reasons for doing things, because if it's a person it can probably change, but if it's not, then probably not."

And so that leaves them to figure out if the murder plant in question is, in fact, a person.
schoolingfish: (Listening human)

[personal profile] schoolingfish 2023-03-20 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"But if it's sentient, doesn't that automatically make it a person? But in that case...I guess it's only okay to kill it if there's no other way to stop the killing."
schoolingfish: (Listening human)

[personal profile] schoolingfish 2023-03-22 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. I have?"

He's surprised at that, since usually adults weren't convinced of things so easily when it was a kid saying the thing.

"Well...I'm glad. Because I know some humans don't think of sea folk as people, and some sea folk don't think of humans as people, but in the end if everyone that someone didn't think was people didn't count as people, then no one would be people, so clearly I'm right."

Because it makes far more sense that everyone discussing who was people would definitely qualify as people if they could have such a discussion.
schoolingfish: (Neutral human)

[personal profile] schoolingfish 2023-03-23 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah...I hope I never stop seeing other people as not people, though."

Because the thought of turning into someone like Ercole is just horrifying.

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movie night preamble (aka it's before the movie)

[personal profile] auferstanden 2023-03-31 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of these films came out after Sarah's time, but exist in her world; some of them, she recognizes but has never seen. (One--Ocean's 11--is ambiguous on that front.) But The Pink Panther is a comfort film, and so it's hearing about that that brings her into the Entertainment Feed properly for the first time.

It's somewhere she's always meant to go, to come check things out, find out if she can obtain any of the c-dramas she'd started and not gotten to finish, but she keeps getting embroiled in plants, which is absolutely the way of things. With no other external tasks to keep her on track, days blend together.

But she's cheerfully humming the song under her breath while looking for the individual who she believes to be the proprietor, and when she locates (Most Likely) Eden Rin before the movie starts, offers a polite, "Has he been by? Moss King. If he hasn't allow me to pass along that he appreciates your selection."
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[personal profile] auferstanden 2023-04-01 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's contagious; Sarah, too, looks toward the door like Moss King was just behind her a minute ago. He wasn't, and somehow he never was, even at the times when he is--conversations with him are weird even for a prophet.

"He saw my note with the movie schedule. Not that I know if he's ever actually seen any of them, but knowing the way he works he probably just absorbed the knowledge of each one start to finish in some alternate, simultaneous timeframe that the human mind cannot comprehend." She talks like this is a normal, everyday event, because isn't it? It's also completely normal to talk to people you've never met like you know them ... no, even Sarah knows better than that, which is why she blushes a little and ducks her head shyly before offering a hand to shake, instead of bolting away like she might have once in her life. "Sorry, awkward of me to just blurt all that out. I'm Sarah."
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[personal profile] auferstanden 2023-04-01 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Sarah actually smiles more broadly for a second at the idea of not shaking hands, before forcing the expression away in a way that ... would manage to not be blatant to a human. She's faster with it than most people, hiding her initial emotional reaction, but for who she's talking to now? No chance. Rin definitely noticed, but Sarah doesn't know that.

"No problem. It's a really weird custom, anyway." And people who shake hands with her shove their thoughts through her palms sometimes. "Makes sense other cultures don't do it, I should remind myself I don't have to. I'm ... not sure if he watched them, exactly, or just sort of processed them all at once? I suspect it means he missed a chance to appreciate the funny parts, though."

In some reality, maybe Moss King is dropping in and watching!

It continues to not be this one.

"You're running this whole place alone, yes? That has got to be a lot of work. Thank you for the service to the community. And showing one of my top five when I was having a bad day."
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[personal profile] auferstanden 2023-04-01 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes with their hands, Sarah does not say, even though she thinks it: that would be cruel on so many levels, even some to herself. She didn't even want to think it.

"It's a good theme—must be why Moss King's month is my birth month. I'm sure it actually isn't, but it would be nice to imagine that it all came back to heist flicks." Not that she'd encountered those before she was about twenty! But she finds them one of the better things about experiencing a wider world than her upbringing.

"The ... whole thing? I would feel like I was taking advantage if I didn't pay for that somehow—I don't suppose that you need fresh fruit supplied though."

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[personal profile] distant_one 2023-03-26 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
D finds Rin to be an acceptable person to spend time around except for the fact that they often make requests and assumptions D doesn't like.

He isn't an actor. He doesn't want to appear in videos. But he has made some allowances for things that benefit the sleeper population and Trench. They both share a common goal in creating infrastructure and reducing corruption and beast problems at their root rather than by spilling blood, even if D still does spend quite a bit of time violently solving the problem.

The plants reach for D and then recoil once any part of them gets without about three feet of him. He could extend that range further, but he chooses not to.
distant_one: (pic#12360495)

[personal profile] distant_one 2023-03-26 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes. You're proposing an ongoing contract or retainer contract instead of negotiating each time," D says. He's not opposed to it. So far he's provided more services at Rin's request than he's received, but Rin's work is also important for the cause they both pursue.

Even if he would prefer that it involve using his face less often.

"As long as you take efforts to avoid requesting things that will have more people following me."
distant_one: (pic#12360495)

[personal profile] distant_one 2023-03-26 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
D nods in agreement. It's sometimes useful, and D has certainly put it to use himself, but he hates doing so every time. It's almost as bad as commanding people.

"You're a darkblood, aren't you? I'm working on a project that will require a large amount of blood magic and darkblood in particular. If you're still a blood virgin, a virgin bloodstone is suitable payment, if not, then bloodstones every few months."

It's a payment that means D won't have to deal with her very often, and won't lead to another awkward situation of watching one another sleep or other favors D doesn't need to get specifically from her.