[Closed] The sweetest summer gift of all

[talesuntold]

Who: After the End Times staff
Where: Floor 9, room 69.
When: 10/19
Rating: PG/PG-13
Summary: Auntie Maggie summons everybody over for dinner and movies.
The Story:

Everyone on the After the End Times staff received a message this morning.

Hello After the End Times staff,

I'm Maggie Garcia, and I've taken over as head of the Fictional department.

I still haven't met all of you, and with our crew as small as it is here in Wonderland, that hardly seems reasonable. Come by floor 9, room 69 this evening for a very informal staff meeting. Introductions, dinner, and a relaxing movie night. I'm currently taking requests for both food and films, though I reserve the right to veto the latter. I have to draw the line somewhere.

See you later, darlings!

--

True to her word, Maggie spent the afternoon cooking. (She likes cooking; why order from the closets what she could make herself?) A meal is laid out honoring any requests she got, and the public half of her room has its usual assortment of comfortable antique chairs and couches, plus a projector screen set up for movies once they're done eating and talking.

She also has a popcorn maker and plenty of ammunition for it. No movie night is complete without popcorn.

((Feel free to use this post as a mingle. Post top levels, tag around, etc! If anyone wants to respond to Maggie's initial message, you're also welcome to do that, just specify in the subject line.))

Comments

[choosetruth]

She's not denying it. But she does roll her eyes, shifting her weight back onto her heels. "What's wrong with what I'm wearing now?"

[talesuntold]

"Absolutely nothing." Debatable, because Maggie would revamp Georgia's wardrobe with slightly more variety and impeccably precise tailoring, given half a chance. "It's just fine for a professional setting. I was hoping for a little less formal tonight, that's all."

[choosetruth]

"And by a little less formal you mean, apparently, that we're going to be cutting down trees and eating a lot of maple syrup?"

She takes the flannel shirt dubiously and holds it up in front of her.

[talesuntold]

She laughs. "No, I'd bring you a red one if I expected you to become a lumberjack today."

Feel how soft that flannel is, Georgia. Maggie specifically asked the closets for the softest they could produce.

[choosetruth]

"Yes, but you obviously knew red would be a non-starter." It's not that Georgia owns nothing that has any color in it. It's just that when you wear color you have to worry about things like matching and what shows up well on camera and whether or not blood will show up on it. With black clothes, she has to worry about bleach stains, but that's about it, and it's easy enough to dye those back out if she needs to. "I'll think about it."

[talesuntold]

"I have met you," Maggie agrees cheerfully. She's fairly certain the only way she'd get Georgia into colors is if the other woman suddenly developed colorblindness and couldn't tell.

"Good," she says, and hands over the clothes. "Is there anyone I might have forgotten who should get an invitation, or anything I ought to know about our staff members?"

[choosetruth]

Georgia shrugs, folding the clothes back up and putting them on the bed to consider later.

"It's hard to really call us a full staff. Mostly, we publish what people submit to us. The only people who are solidly officially hired are Clementine, Tim D, and Jay." She grimaces. "And of those, only Jay is old enough to vote, and he's the one I have the least amount of faith in. 'Moron' doesn't go far enough. But Rocket tends to hang around, even if he doesn't really do anything besides provide sarcastic commentary and the occasional tech update, and Tim W has a tendency to stick to Jay like glue. I think he's afraid Jay will walk off a cliff if left unsupervised and I can't honestly say his fears are unwarranted."

[talesuntold]

"Keep an eye on the baby bloggers, since half of them might as well be actual babies. Understood." She smiles, because she's pretty sure there's fondness hiding under that critique.

"Seems I'll have to recruit my own Fictionals. That's a project for another day, once I've met everyone we already have."

[choosetruth]

"It is the area we've slacked on the most." It probably won't surprise Maggie. Georgia and Shaun know the importance of having a fictional section, but it's neither of their main focus. And Wonderland being what it is... the news tends to sound like fiction more often than not. "We accept submissions, but there's nothing regular."

[talesuntold]

"That wasn't a criticism, just an observation," Maggie assures Georgia. "Keep an eye out and pass me any relevant names, would you? Otherwise, I can manage."

She's fond of people, and she's done a bit of hiring for her section of the site back home. It's just hard when people don't have published bodies of work for her to refer to.