poly_chromatic | 025 ▌Un to Intentional Recording [video]

[The crankyness isn't directed at him or directly caused by him so there's a good chance he'll be able to handle it.]

Switchin' out the tags might work or we could just do 'way with sizes all together. Just guesstimate on everybody. Belts are in or they ought to be anyhow.

[She gives his question some thought.] Sense cold 'cause the dehydratin's an easy fix. Just carry water 'round with you. Love indigo. Brilliant color. Why?

[It's very possible her mood is turning around because his stream of consciousness style ramble right now is fairly adorable in her opinion.]

Are they actually? I didn't know that. I don't wear belts. [How he manages without them, I don't actually know, considering he's got almost nonexistent hips, but that's another conversation.] Doing away with sizes would probably be good for quite a lot of people's self image, although it would mean rather a bit more work for the clothing industry in general. Go back to having clothes tailor made for each person. They'd fit better anyway.

Sensing cold it is then. And a check to indigo. One's for a theoretical tissue idea I had earlier that I'm working out the mechanics of and the other's part of an array of ultra-radiant paints. A number of the colours I was trying were coming out with an indigo sheen under florescent lighting. Natural lighting's fine though. Incandescent makes them a little beigey, which... I don't quite understand. Something to do with the emeration resonance maybe... Would you even need belts if everything was tailored individually, you think?

Sorta Cinna's specialty here. You buy it off the rack and he tailors it to fit you. Also does just-for-you sorta things. [It's one reason her work clothes always look good. They're tailored just for her.]

[She nods at the ramble about what he's working on.] Tissue like some sorta skin? [So much potential eww there.]

Natural lightin's better anyhow. Could be a market for it. Mood changin' sorta paint. Maybe you feel like beige so you put it under incandescent light. Not sure why anyone would feel like beige. Just for an accessory sorta thing. Cinna puts them on things because it finishes the outfit or some sorta thing.

Just for me? Tell him he shouldn't have.

[His turn to nod.] Well, possibly. Lots of things are tissues. Or are composed of them anyway. Skin's the one you'd probably be the most familiar with, outside of tissues. Or paper.

Natural lighting's mostly better because a lot of the time it means you're outside. Beige is actually not really a terrible colour; you lot overuse it to an extreme, but throughout the galaxy really it's not quite done to such excess. And you tell most people it's technically a shade of orange and they don't believe you. Doesn't seem exciting enough maybe, but that's probably just because it's overused. You overuse anything and it's not exciting anymore - too much of anything is a youknowtherest. Except when that isn't the case at all. There's a handful of things that it's almost impossible to have too much of.

Not just--[And then stops because he probably knows that.] Ought to have him do your next suit though.

What's the tissue you're workin' on for?

[and then there's some smirking.] All right then. Beige isn't bad in small doses. It's really a shade of orange aaaaand some things you can't have too much of like say...

Doctor? [Tip of the tongue teasing smile.]Maybe that's just me.

[He does know; he was joking with the words. Badly, apparently.] My next suit? Do I need another one? [He's examining the jacket he's got on now.] Do you not like it?

That is an excellent question and when I properly work out an answer I'll be sure to let you know. Right now it slash they are and is quite theoretical still. See? [Have a look at a page of writing and scribbledy drawings and general science! Rose. With some doodles on the side.] It's coming along fine but there's some parts that aren't cooperating for some reason. Which I suppose means it isn't coming along that fine. It's coming along coarsely.

[Why are you all smirky about beige, Rose? All he did was delineate why it's an unjustly maligned colour.] Yeah! Can't ever have too much Doctor. Which is good because I've been told there's rather a lot of me. But yes, exactly like that, and like how I'm talking to one of my can't-get-enough-of things. Few times you have to watch out for supposed givens, but that's definitely very much not one of them.

[The jokes come off better when she's less cranky with the ticking. Really, she's handling it fairly poorly on the whole.] No, I like that one a lot. It's the one I always remember you in. Just if you decided you needed a spare, I bet Cinna would make you a brilliant one.

[She leans forward, her face closer to the screen to observe the squiggling general science! things and nods.] Sometimes the coarse stuff turns out the best, like coarse ground pepper.

[She's taking notes! And mostly just being smirky about him being one of those things and the smirky goes to straight out smiley at his comment.] Think I can keep 'em straight. You and me being those things and not much else.

[And here I'd thought he was going to be the one doing that.] I don't think I ever wore the other one around you for some reason. Must have decided you'd had enough change for one person as it was.

It depends on what you're working on. Coarse sandpaper, coarse ground pepper, coarse wedge amplifiers - great for rough edges, fish, and retroionic waves respectively. Tissue's a little more on the hair's-breadth-fine level, usually.

[Smiley! He likes smiley.] It does make it rather easy to remember doesn't it? Rose, and... Blue, and bananas - it's very hard to have too much potassium; a good portion of the beings-who-need-potassium in the universe walk around all their lives without enough of it - aaaaaand... Quandaries, like a good quandary. It's a very short list though.

[His is having more of a developmental effect. Hers is just driving her a bit barmy] The blue one? Don't much like the blue one. Prefer the brown.

[And that has nothing to do with the fact that she got left with the one in blue. Nope. Not in the least.]

M'tryin' not to visualize wearin' skin...and it's the only thing that comes to mind and m'givin' myself the creeps a bit.

[Smiley is better. He does a nice job of getting smiley out of her.] R B squared Q. Think I can remember that 'long as the list stays short. Ought to have banana daquiris when we get back to the flat.

Why on earth are you visualising wearing skin at all? I mean, you wear skin anyway, from a certain perspective. From another, eugh, definitely. Eugh. Definitely definitely. But I don't remember saying anything about wearing skin in the first place. Leather! Leather is skin. Actually a lot of clothes are skin, if you think about it. Some even have the name in the name, like a calfskin something-or-other. Snakeskin boots. Alligator purses. Shark hide. I think that's... no, it's not, nevermind.

There's a hierarchy if not a strict limit in length. For the list. Have we still got any? Thought you drank it all last time. [Teasingggg.]

'Cause you're workin' on tissue. Lots of eugh. That's why m'tryin' not to visualise it.

...Do I wanna know the hierarchy? M'not sure my ego can handle comin' in after blue or bananas. [Sticking her tongue out at him now. She does that a lot lately] Restocked. Knew we'd want 'em eventually in this place. Bein' handcuffed to you could be more interestin' this time. Not that it wasn't interestin' before.

[Maybe that will take your mind off the ticking for a little while, Doctor.]

Edited (Because she had to get some more flirting in there) 2012-01-28 02:58 (UTC)

The hierarchy is... Reverse alphabetical order with the Q floating since it doesn't refer to anything really specific, more a habitual event or thing. [Because that was a clear answer.] Anything not already mentioned comes after the aforementioned. [Totally clear.]

Have you actually got handcuffs? [Because they were the curse last time. If she's got handcuffs there's starting to be an odd trend in people-around-him-who-have-handcuffs. It's helping with the ticking a bit but he's a little distracted by the idea of her having them before he gets to what they'd be used for.] Not that you shouldn't have handcuffs. Perfectly welcome to have handcuffs if you want handcuffs. I think you're supposed to handcuff hands to objects instead of other hands - unless you're using handcuffs for their intended use - or... you just feel like doing that.

Reverse alphabetical order? [Give her a second. Normally she's a bit faster at these things but there's ticking to contend with.]

M'thinkin' I like reverse alphabetical order with a floatin' Q. So if you started likin'...sardines, they still go to the end of the list?

[Well now she's going to blush a little.] No, I don't actually have handcuffs. [Pause] Why? Should I have handcuffs? Could handcuff you to the head board I s'pose.

[He takes the time to consider some of the other things he was thinking about while she works out the alphabet and then comes back to the moment when she finishes, because he can't stand to have a moment of even mental silence.] Yes, anything added now is lower on the list than the things I told you earlier, regardless of where it falls on the alphabet.

What? No, I just thought you... You said being handcuffed could be more interesting this time and I assumed you had handcuffs because you said it. If you don't want to, I mean. You can have handcuffs. [The bed thing yay now he is red tipped.] Yeah, you could do that. [...] But you can do a lot of things with them, yeah. Very versatile. And much nicer than they used to be. Have you seen old handcuffs? From your... 16 to 1800s? Somewhere around there. Clunky, heavy, painful, hard to use. Some were just weird.

[Oh well that gets him a nearly 'no ticking' sort of brilliant smile.]

Haven't had a chance to be handcuffed with anythin' older than...well twenty first century. [She is a baby, Doctor. A baby who is doing some eyebrow wiggling and flirty smiling at you.]

Seen the ones lined with fur yet?

[He's quite well distracted but for a very wide variety of reasons. One train of thought is still delineating the history of handcuffs on Earth and other planets where they developed simultaneously. Another is definitely noticing the lovely pink and yellow thing of an almost mayfly flirting with him over the feed. And several others entirely unrelated to this conversation at all that are helping the flush creep back down his neck and out his ears.]

Depending on your definition of 'handcuffed with', you have, actually. They make them with fur? Why would they make them with fur?

[Her distraction is a bit more one tracked. Well two tracked if you count the ticking that she still can't ignore completely. The other train of thought is working rather well though. She smirks at his comment.]

Guess you've got a point. [Tip of the tongue between her teeth.] So no one's got bruises, Doctor.

I always have a point. I'm full of points. I'm very pointy.

Oh, right. Yeah, that would be... unfortunate. I was just thinking the fur would be tickley, which seems like it would be a bit counterproductive.

Have to remember that. Could make lyin' on top of you bit prickly.

[Rose laughs a little at that.] We'll have to give it a shot and see how it works out.

You'll just have to be careful. Amy says my hair is fluffy. Do you think it's fluffy? I don't think it's long enough to be fluffy.

[He considers that for a moment.] Okay.

[She purses her lips, pondering that for a moment. Really, the fact that Amy says it's fluffy makes her want to say it's not.] Not fluffy and it's too...thick to be fluffy. Fluffy is more...cotton candy sorta thing. I like your hair.

[As if he didn't already know that.]

Okay? [She's not entirely sure she expected that answer out of him.] Okay. I haven't ever...I mean...the first time I've had handcuffs on was when we were cursed. {Aaaaaand she's back to bright pink.]

That's what I said! Sort of. I think I said it wasn't long enough to be fluffy. Or that it was too long to be fuzzy. Something like that. Not the candy floss thing. Or that you like it. Although I know that, and I like that you like it.

[Well she's the one who said that being handcuffed would be fun.] I have, but I get arrested a lot, which isn't really all that fun.

Think you're right. It's got to be longer to be fluffy too. And you use stuff to make it more...bed head hair in a good way than fluffy. [At some point she'll probably tell Amy she likes his hair. She tells everyone else or at least gives that impression.

Well. Yes but when he agrees to things like that she always thinks she'd better fess p to how inexperienced she is so he's not expecting too much.]

Yeah, I'd hope we'd have more fun than that and if it's not, we'll keep keys nearby.

[Though losing the keys and accidental videos could be hilarious.]

... Bed head is good, right?

[He's already said it's 'been a long while' since he's done anything at all, so I'm not actually sure how far his expectations are from whatever's going to likely be the reality.]

Well granted it's not that hard to have more fun than that, but I think we probably could, yeah. History withstanding.

[There'd better not be any accidental videos.]

[Big smile.] Bed head is great. 'Least on you.

[She doesn't think it's so great on her.

Well yes but again, young girl ridiculously in love with a much older, rather amazing man.]

Think we could too. Yeah.

At least you can delete or edit then

that is the beauty in text-based communication

Yes, yes it is

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I feel really bad for laughing as much as I did at her first comment.

Nooo I laughed typing it. She's the only one who doesn't get it

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