Ravenclaw Quidditch Meeting
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hh_mirrorIt seems we're up for a Quidditch match next week. We have a full team but if anyone else wants to sign up for reserves, change positions, etcetera before the next game, be sure to say so. Now, we're a player short, with a position for Beater open.
Sara - Chaser
Simon - Chaser
Ford - Chaser
Johnny - Beater
Walden - Beater
L - Keeper
River - Seeker
We also are going to need a Captain and maybe some practices to increase our chances of winning.
Sara - Chaser
Simon - Chaser
Ford - Chaser
Johnny - Beater
L - Keeper
River - Seeker
We also are going to need a Captain and maybe some practices to increase our chances of winning.
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>Slightly private RP with L<
Date: 2006-02-28 06:52 am (UTC)I uh.. I was supposed to be captain. At least that's what Sara said, but we haven't spoken in a few weeks. I'm not sure if I pissed her off or something, but I don't want to get in the way of the game. If you need me to withdraw, I will.
Re: >Slightly private RP with L<
Date: 2006-02-28 07:02 am (UTC)Re: >Slightly private RP with L<
Date: 2006-02-28 07:10 am (UTC)Never mind. *doesn't want to be mean to L, doesn't even KNOW the guy*
You don't need me on the team. You'll be fine. I'll watch from the stands. *isn't feeling too welcome in this house anyway, not that that's L's fault, once again, doesn't even know him and is trying very hard not to take it out on him*
((OOC: I apologize for Walden. He gets irrational sometimes. Most of the time.))
Re: >Slightly private RP with L<
Date: 2006-02-28 07:22 am (UTC)Like I said, you don't have to leave. You're welcome to join again later when you change your mind.
((*g* It's okay. L isn't exactly warm and comforting.))
Re: >Slightly private RP with L<
Date: 2006-02-28 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 08:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 03:18 pm (UTC)That and any other sport involving waving a long stick around.no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 09:42 pm (UTC)Isn't that a little Freudian?It looks like we're short a Beater anyway. From what I've heard, you seem to have a natural aptitude in that direction.
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Date: 2006-02-28 10:21 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with the term "Freudian", but I think I know what you mean. And maybe, but mostly it's genetic. You know, the scythe and all that.Well, I'll give it a try. Thanks.
I think.no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 10:29 pm (UTC)Well, I suppose sometime a long hard object is only a murder weapon.Should make for interesting games.
What? It was an observation.no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 10:40 pm (UTC)And sometimes it's a symbol of something else altogether, as Granddad would probably point out. Although sometimes I still don't quite follow the way his mind works around symbols.What do --? Oh.
Mr Teatime plays for Hufflepuff, doesn't he?no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 10:46 pm (UTC)That's the trouble with symbolism. You can make just about anything mean whatever you want it to if you talk a good enough line of bullshit.Yeah, he's their Seeker. I don't know why, but pretty much everyone I get along with plays Quidditch. Devi, Teatime, Adam, River... it's strange. I mean, the only reason I play is to have an excuse to fly all the time.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 12:39 am (UTC)I'd agree with you completely on that -- should that worry me? -- if I didn't come from somewhere where the consequences of meddling with symbolism can be very dangerous indeed.Well, it seems like a good reason to me. Is flying for its own sake not done much here?no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 12:47 am (UTC)Are you suggesting that my views on every matter are automatically suspect? And I never said imposing your own views on the reality around you is particularly safe. Just that it is.There don't seem to be many people who do, actually. Depressing, isn't it?no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 01:00 am (UTC)No, merely making a joke that is, on consideration, in very poor taste. I apologise. Sincerely.((And not because she's afraid; she really does feel bad.))My troubled relationship with symbolism and metaphor probably comes from the fact that my grandfather is DEATH. And my sometime-on-off-currently-off-something is Time. One could be forgiven for considering my views on the subject automatically suspect.What bothers me is that ... well, damn it, you can fly. Why wouldn't you do it for the hell of it? Back home, flying involves magic in ways that almost no normal person has access to, or wants to have access to. It seems like being able to fly whenever, wherever, would be something one would want to take advantage of whenever possible.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 01:09 am (UTC).........Apology accepted.Sounds about as complicated as my life. Probably not as unpleasant, though.I agree completely. Flying's probably the only time I'm calm.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 01:46 am (UTC)Well, I've always thought it could be worse. My own situation, that is. Policing up the occasional threat to the fabric of reality is small beans compared to some people's lives. At least I've got a comfortable living in between the times the universe almost ends.I know what you mean. Although for me it's ... I feel less constrained when I'm in the air. Less repressed.How's that for your metaphors?no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 02:03 am (UTC)From what I've seen of it the universe would be better off not existing.Well, that's sort of the point of flying, isn't it? And not metaphorically. Being apart, not having the world forced on you, not having to touch any part of it, or hear it, or look at anything but the sky.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 04:12 am (UTC)There are times when I almost agree. But when it comes down to brass tacks, I don't, really. It's this ridiculous sense of order and rightness that's built into me like cogs and clockworks; I suppose I get it from my parents. If I didn't have it, I'd have let the Auditors do their thing, and there'd be none of this messy human business to worry about.And it's the ultimate human aspiration, flight. Of all the things we're designed to do, flying is the one that requires the most work to achieve. There's a reason it's a metaphor for just about all human endeavours.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 04:27 am (UTC)Well, I know it's not a popular opinion.I don't think my fondness for it has any such philosophical underpinnings. I just like how isolated it is. Total quiet, and far away from everything.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:04 am (UTC)Maybe, but I can sympathise, at least a little bit. Especially after too many meetings with the headmistress at the school where I was teaching last.Thinking philosophically is like cracking knuckles for me, I'm afraid -- a bad habit. You're right, though. The simple pleasure of being airborne and being isolated is lovely. Things look so much less complicated from a hundred feet up.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:13 am (UTC)Yes, but there's a difference between sympathizing a little bit and really feeling it. I don't really expect people to agree with me.Most philosophy seems like so much mental masturbation to me.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:25 am (UTC)Quite so. *pause* *starts to say something, thinks better of it*Most is. Although I sometimes think of the better sort as "exercise" instead. Which, looked at from another point of view, is also a kind of masturbation, though.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:31 am (UTC)...does flying count as 'exercise'? We might be back to Freudian territory now.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:34 am (UTC)So where you come from, do they say the same things about flying dreams as in my home?no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:40 am (UTC)I get the feeling that I'd have to say yes to that, given the context.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:47 am (UTC)That's funny, I didn't think they'd have a Soul Cake Duck where you come from.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:49 am (UTC)...okay, what?no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:57 am (UTC)Well, they say that dreaming about flying the week before Soul Cake Tuesday means that you'll find the first egg that morning, or something like that.Or that you're really dreaming about sex, of course.no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 06:02 am (UTC)Never heard the first. I've heard the second far too many times, but most people think everything is about sex.