Bad Movie Night (Open to All | Mingle)

[madeupnames]

who: Anyone who wants to stop by??? Y'all come down and OTA if you want!
what: Bad Movie Night (tm)
when: Saturday, 7/7/18, or some such.
where: Riverview High School.
warnings: N/A, this is a nice chill log for stupid movies and hanging out!

Carnivale is a ton of fun, but sometimes you just need a breather from the big parties —

Something easy! Like watching godawful movies and munching on popcorn.

Peter had originally planned for a much smaller movie night, but once the school and its excitable staff and slew of teenagers caught wind that Peter got a room for bad movie night, they were very susceptible to expanding on it; it's not even Peter's sole anxiety-inducing mini-project anymore, and for that he's kind of grateful, to be honest. People from school and the staff can help set it up without him wringing his hands and worrying that maybe he's flattering himself, trying to do something that requires guests and friends and people who actually listen to the monsoon of words that come out of his face when he's nervous.

The Riverview Highschool has put aside some of their typical school rooms, and in each there's a decent television with a movie player — nothing too fancy, but perfect for bad movies, right? The desks have been pushed around a bit and a collection of blankets and pillows fill the middle section, free to be used. Judging from the patterns on some, they were either made by the teenagers at the school or offered up by sweet old grandmas who love to crochet. Some rooms also have the beginnings of fortes being made by some of the older kids who totally did a little manual labor in exchange for sweets and chips.

Movies like Sharknado, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and old cheesy monster movies like 1954's Them! (where's Ant-Man when you need him) are playing from room to room, but anyone's free to play whatever awful movie they've scrounged up — free reign, as long as it's nothing too gross; don't be weirdos and play grindhouse movies to scar everyone in the room who just wanted to enjoy the popcorn.

There is one added benefit, as well! Pam the overly complicated pancake-making robot (in a questionable apron) is going room to room with warm pancakes and condiments, offering whoever asks a stack — and without screwing them up, either!  You probably can't thank Peter completely for that, he had to get a little help from people like Shuri. Of course, if you tell Pam your name when she asks, she doesn't remotely get the name right. Sorry, man, it's just a... flaw of the system, and not her being intentionally programmed to say the most endearingly incorrect and embarrassing name she can give you.

Have fun, snuggle up, question people's tastes in flicks.

Comments

Jyushimatsu Matsuno | OTA

[yakyuuman]

[ Jyushimatsu never thought he would return to school as a grown ass adult, but such is life, so full of surprises. Or it's just because he's in the company of other grown ass adults and some kids who have gathered together for a bad movie night.

Claiming a stack of fluffy pillows and holding a grand total of four bowls full of chips, popcorn and candies in his arms, he's in the midst of watching the start of Sharknado with trepidation. That's exactly his favourite brand: stuff that doesn't make any fucking sense, some blood splattering around, sharks flying and eating people, random explosions. You know, movies he'd be definitely a protagonist of if he pursued a career as an actor.

He'll be mostly entranced by the movie, but he won't ignore the commentary going on around him and he's open to bond with anyone over the shitty movie. You can also snatch some of the food, too, he won't mind unless you try to grab a whole bowl. He will also happily accept pancakes and whatever Pam-chan serves him, and he's not even bothered by the bot calling him Fourteen Pines for some inexplicable reason; he supposes it's a pet name she's giving him.

At some points he'll even yell and laugh like a madman. Feel free to scold him or scream along. ]

[nyahilistic]

[You had better believe he's helping you eat your snacks, Jyushimatsu. He's actually somehow wedged himself partway between two of the pillows in his brother's stack, wound in what can't possibly be a comfortable pretzel-like fold that he's been settled into for the entire movie, now. He's raptly watching, regardless, sometimes even forgetting to claim himself a new palmful of snack, or pressing popcorn kernels into his cheek because he forgot to turn his head enough to get them in his mouth.]

What. The fuck. Is this movie.

[yakyuuman]

It's a great movie, that's what it is!

[ He shouldn't be laughing at a movie he considers great, but here's a wheezing Jyushimatsu having to wait until he catches his breath before he can stuff more food in his mouth. ]

Something like this would totally happen in our world! Nobody ever came up with the idea though!

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[nyahilistic]

[He makes a sound that's vaguely similar to hissing, cringing.]

If somebody starts throwing sharks into tornadoes I'm foisting Iyami off on them.

[yakyuuman]

Iyami doesn't make enough explosions though! Strap a few bombs on him first!

[ Come on nii-san we can do worse. ]

[nyahilistic]

Are the sharks and tornadoes not enough?

[yakyuuman]

Nope! Needs more explosions! Imagine a tornado that's got sharks on fire!

[ GO HARD OR GO HOME is his motto. ]

[nyahilistic]

[He exhales something like a laugh through his nose and shakes his head.]

Nothing like having a psychopath for a little brother to make a guy feel sane.

[yakyuuman]

[ Pouts! ]

I only suggested something to make things more epic! How is any of that psychotic?