#* s1.

[aspirinqs]

@bartend​

    “i must confess, sam, i struggle to believe that this boat of yours is anything but a fiction.”

    “should you want to characterize yourself, you want to characterize yourself. fine. i understand. go right ahead,” she tosses her hand, and cites the acquired colloquialism: “knock yourself out. but, sailing? sea mist? a – high sun's glitter sprinkled upon a gentler wave’s caress? the sam malone i know would never feel inclined toward something so tame.”

[readbetween]

@eyeshone

"Why, the funny thing is, Ms. Diane, I count myself among them! The, oh, the senseless. Many things go over my head—I know! But I don't feel shorter for it!"

"okay, listen," diane good-naturedly objects. "i have had my dawnings with the discipline," which discipline, you ask? she will get to that. "enough, to be qualified to tell, that there have been plenty of illustrious minds throughout philosophy who have rehearsed, and, re-rehearsed, that wisdom — that's true wisdom — is in knowing where one is unknowing.

therefore, those minds, would come right out and say that you, sir, have more sense than you claim you do!" ta-da! a semi-curtsy.

[aspirinqs]

@choicescreen​ / finn.

    “this could become very sticky business,” singing her syllables, she pokes finn’s shoulder at every tuneful jump. “matter of fact, we are apt to pen all the intricacies of our merry upbringing, lest we later confuse two tales.” then, in the eye-rolling neighborhood of a murmur, “ – not that anyone in here would notice ... ”

   “finn?” sobering into a curiousity that's both convivial and creative, “would you mind any if i were to ask, if any of your clearly inspired details are true of your own, well, true, childhood?”

[aspirinqs]

@vamporn​ said: 🎵 ( shuffle meme ! )

on-repeat; goody two shoes, adam ant.

    she palms the banded gloss of a pool ball, and rolls it with just enough might for it to go clacking. it’s all idle to the academic’s pondering as she mulls over different games entirely.

    unable to contain this inly, she soliloquizes to a perfect stranger: “i think the games have gone much too far.” diane feels that she’s collected enough observations for her to deepen her parsing of them. “i mean, what is it about places like this, can you tell me that? they see such wonderful unity. camaraderie, i would go so far as to say. so. how can it be that they tend to unspeakably diminish into – ” her hand gesture predicts her phrasing, “ – fanning the flames of falsehood?”

[aspirinqs]

@miscreating​​ / call: aka kirin gets season 1 diane.

    “excuse me. ah, yes, hello. while i recognize how terrible a gaucherie it is to barge in upon one’s, well, much-needed time of leisure, something’s the matter with our payphone. it isn’t so much about profit, mind you – lord knows we’ve a steady enough flow tonight – but if the bar’s main line remains so busy, we may miss tending entirely to an important, uh, business-related matter.”

yes. precisely. one of those.

   ...

    “all this to say, that while i understand that yours is so extensive a purview, a man such as yourself, the merest gander may help us out a great deal.”