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ARTEMIS RATCLIFF ([personal profile] sithiche) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2012-10-10 07:24 pm

dhà ☘ video

So, what with how, uh, dreary it's been around here -- assuming that it's actually any drearier than usual, I guess -- I thought we could maybe use some lightening up. And what with Halloween approaching, I think a celebration of quality cinema is in order. [ He says "Halloween" as though it is actually slightly painful to refer to the date by that name. ] I took the liberty of delving into the Initiative's archives for these classics, and they're all on a shelf in the front of the library now, if anyone is interested.

[ He turns the camera to display the shelf in question. It is full of VHS tapes, bearing such titles as Dawn of the Dead (1978), Dracula 2000, Howling V, Sometimes They Come Back... Again, and Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood. None of the films were released later than the year 2000, they all seem to feature supernatural creatures prominently, and most of them are, frankly, pretty awful. ]

I'm not... exactly familiar with all of them. [ He holds up a copy of 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Kristy Swanson. ] I mean, this looks a lot like Muffy the Werewolf Slayer? I'm not uh... sure if it's the same thing?

Anyway. You're welcome, Exsilium.
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't been back to Earth in...gotta be pushing 10 years now.

[Shrug.]

--Wait, no, we swung by after that mess in the Negative Zone, but just long enough to warn the local heroes.
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Pete leans and reaches off-screen, coming back with his impressively spaceman-y helmet and one of his guns, which he holds up to the camera for inspection.]

Pretty much, yeah.

[It's why he barely even registered the ears, man.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[The reference goes sailing past him. Pete was raised by a single mother in a small town, and then in an orphanage, and became a workaholic astronaut trainee at, like, 17. He does not do pop culture.]

My name's Pete. Pete Quill.
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Pete" is easier to say, but don't let me stop you.

[Good luck getting a rise out of this one with juvenile behavior, Artemis. You should meet his team.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
That would explain the willingness to watch VHS.
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Right, so, your Earth is close enough to mine we can laugh at each other's dumb technology jokes, but we don't have [he makes a gesture up and to the right of his head, clearly meant to indicate Artemis's ears] where I'm from. Do you have humans?

[He's asking this as an entirely normal question. Multiple universes, ain't no thang.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Shapeshifters?

[You're lucky you're not green or he'd be thinking "Skrull," bro.

...Okay, fine, he's thinking Skrull anyway.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, magic.

[He knows nothing about magic except that Adam can do it, it's scary, and it will backfire on you horribly, but he accepts its existence as uncontroversial.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-11 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. I guess my Earth could be crawling with you guys and I wouldn't know.

[He doesn't seem like he'd care, either.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-19 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I'm not the guy who'd know about that. Not my department.

[The number of things Pete doesn't know about Earth is surprising for someone who was born there.]
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[personal profile] toldyouso 2012-10-23 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs.]

Where I hang out, I'm the alien.

[Well, half alien. He's half Spartoi, which is one of the well-respected races out there in space.]