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[studmuffin]

When: August 14th.
Rating: R.
Characters: Everyone! Tell your friends!
Summary: There are no Star Wars people in the City so let's have ourselves a bit of education.

What started off as a brosession quickly turned into a free for all movie night. Not that Stiles minds considering, but it means he has to plan and execute everything a lot more smoothly. So when Saya offers up the equipment they need he jumps at the chance.

Isaac helps cart everything about - werewolf strength, Stiles is envious -, and together they track down a space in Xanadu and fill it. It's not a hot night but it's warm and balmy and nobody's going to end up with pneumonia. Squashy beanbags get borrowed off a particularly hipster coffee shop and placed liberally about the place. They take what they can, couches that fit out of doors and large obnoxious cushions so everyone has a place to settle. There's a fuckton of candy too. Stiles pretty much wipes out a weeks allowance alone getting it and the soda. But if he's doing something he's doing it properly and he texts everyone the time and the place and all but collapses into a beanbag.

When people arrive he'll move. Honest.

Comments

[had_not_lived]

Oh! That's not it at all,

[he says brightly, smiling back.]

I've already seen them-- at least, some of them,

[studmuffin]

Cool!

[ He likes when people have. It gives them extra points in his life. /side-eyeing Scott.

He offers Neil a candy and then settles. ] So is people watching more your thing?

[had_not_lived]

I've just always wondered why-- well, why is this such a big thing?

[Don't give him too much credit, it's all thanks to Billy, who couldn't live with two teenage boys who'd never seen Star Wars.. Admittedly, Neil and Todd had a good excuse-- predating it by nearly twenty years-- but he'd seen to their education.

Neil takes the candy with a nod of thanks.]

I mean, it's not that I don't like them but so many people are... A little obsessed?

[studmuffin]

It's because it's so awesome. There are so many cool things to latch on to. Like the light sabers. And the Millennium Falcon. And Darth Vader. It's a geeks dream come true.

[ Who doesn't want to be a Jedi? ]

[had_not_lived]

The light-saber fighting is interesting, just, everything moves so fast.

[He shrugs it off, not really bothered. Sometimes the future is just strange, to Neil's way of thinking.]

I met the princess once. She came on a Visitors' Day.

[studmuffin]

What?

[ Stiles practically screeches that, startling at least a dozen people before looking apologetic. ] Seriously? Seriously - seriously?

[had_not_lived]

[Startling Neil, too, honestly, though not so badly.]

That sort of thing happens here, sometimes. People who aren't real in others worlds are just as real in the City. She was nice.

[studmuffin]

[ Sorry, not sorry. ]

I know, I'm just super jealous.

[had_not_lived]

Maybe she'll come by another time. You never know.

[studmuffin]

Every visitor weekend I am just going to combust with hope.

[had_not_lived]

See? That's exactly what I mean! How excited people get.

[studmuffin]

I think it's the spaceships. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid.

[had_not_lived]

You don't want to anymore?

[studmuffin]

Nah. I don't have the concentration for it. [ He grins. ] Couldn't space out in space, right?

[had_not_lived]

I guess not. [What does Neil know? If you want to talk about Sputnik, he could talk about Sputnik. That's about it, though. Which makes him curious.]

Is that something you could make a career in, though, where you're from? If you wanted to?

[studmuffin]

Yeah! I mean you probably have to go to school. And Space Camp. But I don't know. The desire lasted for like a week and then my dad told me they didn't have videogames in the spaceship.

[had_not_lived]

I guess there's a downside to any job.

[studmuffin]

Besides, who ever knows what they're going to do when they're kids? I could still change my mind tomorrow.

[had_not_lived]

Sure, why not? I don't think anyone should ever feel stuck with something, especially not if they're unhappy.

[studmuffin]

So what do you do?

[had_not_lived]

I run a used bookstore. And sometimes I put on plays, though it's been a while since we've done one.

[studmuffin]

Oh hey, cool. I've been looking out for a bookstore. [ Because he needs to get his nerd on. ]

Plays?

[had_not_lived]

Shakespeare, mostly, though not exclusively. The last one was one Todd wrote.

[studmuffin]

I've never really been a play guy but hey, that sounds kind of cool, dude.

[had_not_lived]

I love acting. [He shrugs a bit.] It's only a hobby, really, but it's one of my favorite things.