(no subject)

[awkwardbot]

I spent a lot of time in Milliways enjoying the Bar's digital media library, usually in my room.

But the  longer I was at Milliways, the more time I spent in the physical library, with the books. People who live on space stations or ships generally don't have physical books, because space is at a premium or they have to travel light or both. People who live on planets in houses with lots of space usually have some books, but they're religious texts or heirlooms or things with sentimental value (or some combination of these). Big buildings full of books just weren't a thing in settled space, except in historical fiction serials.

I liked the smell of all the books too. I'm not sure why, because normally I don't feel one way or the other about most smells. (My olfactory system is not connected to a digestive system, so I don't have instinctive or visceral reactions to smells the way humans usually do.)

I'd been watching a lot of serials from a particular span of time in a certain nation-state on old Earth, and I felt like there was a lot of background I was missing. So I was at a table in the library with a bunch of books about a political entity called the USSR and something called the Cold War.

(As it turned out, both of these things were significant/awkward for a lot of humans in Milliways.)

[Tinytag: Murderbot]

Happy Hour

[childofrebellion]

Cassian's collar is pulled up and his hair wet as he enters, almost blown through the door by the wind mixing with the roar of engines on the other side. The quiet stops him, he's been going and going for a while with missions that don't leave much space in between and when he reaches the counter, a note appears with his caf and a plate of warm tacos. He nods and goes behind the Bar as he sips his caf as he writes.

Specials
Corellian whiskey
Alderaan ale
Hot chocolate (my recipe)
Caf

When they're written up, he turns to start prepping a saucepan of hot chocolate and the heady smell drifts over the Bar.

Cycle 002

[phantasmal_resplendent]

 After the last OOM, Lup is sitting by the window, with a cup of hot chocolate, looking a bit shaken. She's still trying to process the things that have happened to her lately.

She keeps glancing out the window, as if she's expecting to see something in the sky...

(no subject)

[angry_friendship_wolf]

[tri OOM:


I don't want to start
down the slippery slope
that leads to
face-biting.


Or 'the second Battle of Odaiba, Part 2: Yamato forgets honour and just goes with insanity instead.' TW for violence.]