afraid_of_marshmallows | Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

Okay, sure. Arden didn't know much more than what TV said about throwing movie nights, but surely she had the gist. Many ~~moddable~~ pizzas and sodas had been ordered from Pizza Planet - look, Arden loved sweet tea, but even she knew soda was necessary for movie nights. A truly disturbing number of bags of popcorn had been popped and put into bowls and a quick stop at T&C had been made to grab a couple of different popcorn seasonings in case people wanted to experiment with popcorn flavors.

All that was left was to wait for people to show up. She'd texted both Kamala and Cal in full capslock mode about the glory of this movie, and then had ~~handwavily~~ tried to contact as many other residents as possible to tell them about the movie night - texts, email, sign on the door, whatever. Sure, nobody had to come, but she at least wanted to make sure everyone knew they were welcome. She'd also invited Steven and Watts (while double checking that, yes, it really was okay to move furniture around the living room and also eat in there) and had made sure to get a few bags of unbuttered popcorn just for them. Did she think the butter flavoring had any actual dairy in it? No. But she was gonna be careful all the same.

Now she was just pushing the furniture around to make sure that every possible seat had a good view of the incredibly large TV and was in reaching distance of a bowl of popcorn and places to put their cups of soda and plates of pizza down. Midnight Movie Night was about to begin, showcasing the absolute work of art and cultural tour de force that 2 Fast and 2 Family 4 Oceans, the fifteenth 2 Fast 2 Family sequel that was also a prequel to the Oceans Edge series.

This was gonna be great.

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moreofaponchoguy

Cal was still kind of staring at his phone as he and BD came in. "Apparently there's a movie I have to watch tonight?"

From:

afraid_of_marshmallows

"It is imperative, Kestis," Arden declared, maneuvering the couch into perfect movie-watching position. "For your own moral and emotional well-being."

Honestly, if it came down to it, Arden would put money on Cal becoming a 2 Fast 2 Family fan.

From:

moreofaponchoguy

Cal waved his hand at the couch to help her with the maneuvering, because he was a cheater like that. "Okay, well, you haven't led me astray so far, so I guess I'll take your word on this," he said. "Judging from the title, it's not a romance movie?"

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afraid_of_marshmallows

"Goddess, that is so unfair," Arden said, shaking her head but smiling a bit. "But no, not a romance, but I'll keep an eye out for those now that I know you're into them."

Could she get behind a romance-inspired movie night with chocolates and stuff? Hell yeah.

"Nope this one is a bunch of people saving the world from giant monsters by driving fast cars and yelling, 'Family!' at each other. It's very educational. Did you know you could launch a car into space? Because they did in one movie."

Couch properly magicked into place, Cal was getting a hug and BD was getting a kiss on the top of his little, perfect head.

Edited Date: 2024-05-29 03:12 pm (UTC)

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moreofaponchoguy

BD made a happy noise and a mocking beep at Cal. He could be getting head kisses too, but nooo.

"I mean, you guys have airplanes and rocket ships. I assume you know how to launch vehicles into space." He was going to be A Problem when it came to fictional stories, sorry. "I was hoping it wouldn't be a romance story that's just people kissing with no plot."

From:

afraid_of_marshmallows

Silly BD. Cal was uninterested in head kisses from Arden.

But that's okay, because she was already raising an eyebrow at Cal. "And how many romances have you seen?"

From:

moreofaponchoguy

"Well, I haven't seen any, but there are books where I'm from, and they're all just... they're either about insultingly unintelligent women getting wooed by men who don't deserve them, or they're just the... adult times. Are the movies here not the same as that?" he asked.

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afraid_of_marshmallows

"I mean, women getting wooed by unworthy men is just a fact of life," Arden scoffed, because this was a world wherein 'Man Vs Bear' was a legitimate debate.

She was going to flop down on the couch they'd just moved and patted the cushion next to her for him to sit, too. "But yeah, romance is a spectrum between cheesy romcoms from the 70s and porn," she said, both charmed and entertained by adult times - and more certain than ever that the Code meant he wasn't into them. "Romances are about people finding connection together. Falling in love. Getting past all the stupid obstacles that the world likes to insist are important and all the stupid prejudices and beliefs they've been clinging to in order to see the real person in front of them and realize that that person means the whole world to them. How is that boring?"

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moreofaponchoguy

Cal sat down beside her, only slightly blushing at her just throwing 'porn' out there like it wasn't an embarrassing thing to watch. "Romances are about people not talking to each other and letting their desire to be physical get in the way of dealing with real problems, if they even have any. Isn't there a whole series of movies about women letting their businesses fail so they can marry guys who own farms?"

He should have never been allowed to have a phone to learn Earth culture.

Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

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