Community Center Class: Modern Earth Entertainment, Monday

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Peter waved at everybody as they arrived. "This next one today is based on a series of books that have been really popular for a while. When it was released, the movie was groundbreaking for its attempts at bringing them to the screen and for its effects. Keep in mind it comes from a world that doesn't have any of these races or any well-known magic, so this is all fantasy for them, and probably not a lot like the reality. Hopefully it's enough that you might all be able to follow along, though. If it's too far away...popcorn at the screen is always an option."

The introduction over, he pressed play.

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Fantastically!

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[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden

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[special_rabbit]

Amaya Blackstone

Arrive/Mingle

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See what snacks there are today (spoiler: popcorn and chips and cookies. no lembas).

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[built_fjord_tough]

Was Fjord giving the snacks a kind of frustrated once-over while trying to decide what best to sink his teeth into today? Why yes. Yes he was. Nothing here looked like it was going to satisfy that itch today, so he settled for grabbing something to drink and taking up a place to wait for the movie near the back of the room.

All the better for pacing around like a caged tiger if need be.

(Need was going to be.)

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[special_rabbit]

Amaya had just about nearly worked straight on through movie class today. She'd woken up that morning with quite an itch that didnt seem to want to be scratched, the kind of thing that a long day of forging and beating metal was usually able to chase off. Not today, apparently, and, stubborn and determined as she was, she wanted to just keep at it until she was too tired to keep on.

But...movie class. And she'd missed last week and didn't get to even see the end of the one the week before. She really didnt want to miss another one, so she stopped, cleaned up a bit, and headed over, not feeling a whole lot better and slightly irritable besides, despite all her best efforts.

She may have bruised over the popcorn a little longer than usual, too, as she found herself thinking (and maybe muttering under her breath a touch) about how she was going to be really sore especially if they wound up with mush today. She was in no mood to handle mush.

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"Hi, Amaya." Peter smiled at her, oblivious to anything else going on. "Glad you could make it."

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[special_rabbit]

See, now, and for someone what was all too aware of what was going on (though she might not exactly realize it yet), that smile, typical and downright expected as it was, was entirely unfair. But when Amaya looked up from the food and caught that smile in question, the first thing she thought was how she really did not spend enough time appreciating just how pretty Peter was.

And then she stopped to swiftly correct herself. No. She usually spent just the right amount of time appreciating how pretty Peter was, which was to say, hardly any time at all, so if her brain could just go right on back to that, she'd appreciate it.

...but zounds...

So forgive her if the smile back was a little uncertain and sheepish. And her cheeks a little red.

Too much time at the forge. Gave her that ruddiness to her complexion. You know, the one that seemed to come and go on a whim...

"Glad I could make it, too," she said, words she'd not only be eating but feasting on later. "Especially since it sounds like I missed a good one last week. Seems I was a bit too busy trying to protect all my weapons from the hordes of people who didn't at all show up to take them."

Watch the movie

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Or throw popcorn at it. Or both.

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[built_fjord_tough]

Huh. There was a lot about this that struck Fjord as strangely familiar. Close to home. Hobbits were basically halflings. Elves and dwarves and humans and--

His attention snapped to the screen with a hawklike intensity as orcs were mentioned, yes. And just... stayed there, while his expression grew increasingly more conflicted.

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When Fenris saw them, he sent his bowl of popcorn flying toward the screen at speed. "That is not what an orc looks like! That's a hurlock!"

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And there was Peter, keeping an eye on Fjord, sort of giving him a questioning look of "is everything okay?"

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[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord met that look with a furrowed brow and a clenched jaw.

No. Nope. Not okay. Pretty definitively not okay.

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden was restless. And bored. And restless. Which was why she was here, even if she was going to avoid most of the people showing up.

She rolled her eyes when it turned out to be a movie about magical rings and people with swords.

"There's a lot of walking," she noted.

And then, when the orcs showed up, she added: "At least the enemy is really ugly."

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[built_fjord_tough]

And there went Fjord's eagle-eye glare at the screen, shifting to the back of Seivarden's head at that comment.

He couldn't deny it. They were fucking hideous. But those were nominally his people, and all he could do was stand here and grit his teeth. Grit his teeth for all three hours of the movie's running time.

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[mages_suck]

"Shut the hell up, Seivarden," Fenris snapped at her, throwing an unpopped kernel of corn at her. "Your uncivilized ignorance is really ugly."

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden just ignored that comment.

"Are elves like that where you're from, Fenris?"

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[special_rabbit]

Yeah, that one was even going to pull a side-eye with a was-that-really-necessary quirk of an eyebrow from Amaya, too, but...well, there were a lot of different energies going around the room right now, so she was just going to leave it at that, sink back in her seat, and try to ignore all of it in favor of just thinking about swords.

Swords with so...so many spikes on them.

Hey. This movie had some pretty swords. Yup. Mighty fine swords in this movie, she had to give 'em that...

And bows! Lots of those, too.

...yup.

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[special_rabbit]

Well, this was off to a good start, at least. Familiar setting, characters and plot that felt incredibly homey and familiar to her, the promise of plenty of action...

...and then there were orcs.

Well. This was awkward.

Amaya blinked a little in an effort to keep her eyes trained on the screen and fight the urge to glance over at Fjord. Just when she thought she was feeling peak levels of uncomfortable today, this had to go and prove her wrong, there were definitely still levels of uncomfortable she hadn't come close to reaching yet.

But she was getting there.

Zards, she really should have just stayed home and polished her sword after all.

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[mages_suck]

Fenris was in a mood and it wasn't a good one. Nothing had gone right today. Even the air was wrong. It.. smelled. Had a smell. Air shouldn't smell. He was annoyed with everything up to and including how the air kept blowing his damned hair in his face.

He managed to keep his irritation to himself except for occasional mutterings. Right to the moment he there was an entire race of white haired elves. "That's not how it works." The scowl was mighty and he nitpicked everything. "That's not a thing. That's not a thing. .. Ok, that's a thing.. but that? No. Elven-Dwarvish feud? No. 'Hobbit', some form of beardless Dwarf mutation."

Uruk-hai? Orcs? And that's right about the point his bowl went flying toward the screen at speed. "That is not what an orc looks like! That's a hurlock!"

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[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord just kind of grunted a little at the bowl as it hit the screen, and then squared his shoulders and considered the door. It was probably good that Fenris was the one with the bowl. He would've put it through the screen today.

"No orc I've seen, no."

Not... not that he'd seen many.

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Peter blinked at that and went to pick up the bowl. "The world this is from doesn't have either," he reminded Fenris. "Actually, I don't think I've ever heard of a hurlock. What is it? Or is it 'what are they'?"

Talk to Peter

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He's here! And has no idea this movie is problematic in entirely new ways.

OOC!

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Sorry Fjord and Fenris!