New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

[summerdude]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.

Comments

[summerdude]

"You should read comics next."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"What are comics?"

[summerdude]

"Graphic novels," says Magnus, fully aware that Lancelot probably also doesn't know what a graphic novel is, going to dump the entire colander full of falafel sludge into the trash. "It's, like. Stories told with drawings. I think you'd like them."

[lanselos_du_lac]

He makes a thoughtful noise, picking one last chunk of falafel from his shirt, "Perhaps I will look into it."

[summerdude]

"My favorites are Sandman, Saga, Watchmen, and Scott Pilgrim," Magnus says, ticking them off on his fingers. "And Joe Hill's stuff. And Avengers. Volume 3 specifically. They get Thor and Asgard really wrong though." Thoughtfully, "They probably got Camelot really wrong, too. That was a different run, though." Maybe Lancelot shouldn't read Black Knight. "But anyway. There's, like, a million different genres and story types. Something for everyone."

[lanselos_du_lac]

This brings him up short, "Camelot is depicted in these... graphic books?"

[summerdude]

Magnus shrugs. "The Boston library only had one issue of the run with Camelot. They're really old. And I think it was only in, like, I dunno. Ten out of literal thousands of comic books. Thor was in a lot more." He shrugs again. "I think my dad is in some books, too, but I really specifically haven't looked up what they did with him. It's all, like, fiction anyway."

[lanselos_du_lac]

A half-shrug. Lancelot is still uncomfortable about much of this. "I see. I suppose it matters not. I shall see what the library has."

[summerdude]

Magnus squints at him for a long moment, then sketches a bow. "You can call me Bookmaster Magnus. I got all the good recommendations."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I won't be doing that," Lancelot says. But he is grinning.

[summerdude]

Magnus rolls his eyes. "Everyone's a critic."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I shall take your recommendation," moving to elbow Magnus gently, "but 'Bookmaster'? I think not."

[summerdude]

Magnus rolls his eyes at him extravagantly. "Okay, dickface," he says -- it's cheerful, and his tone is friendly.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I am glad we agree."

[summerdude]

"You definitely shouldn't change clothes before, um, practice." Magnus switches to a stage whisper for that last word, then back to his normal speaking voice. "That grease stain gives me something to aim at."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Ah, do you need a clearer target? Are you struggling?"

[summerdude]

Magnus cackles and flips Lancelot off, also in a friendly way. "If I am, it's because you haven't taught me better," he teases.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Mm," dryly, "there's only so much I can do."

[summerdude]

An affected sigh. "I see that allegations of being a terrible student have followed me from Boston."

[lanselos_du_lac]

With a very serious, though somehow still joking, air, Lancelot says, "Explain Boston."

[summerdude]

"Oh, it's the center of the universe," says Magnus, promptly.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Dryly, "That cannot be true. All eyes look to Camelot. Or Rome."

[summerdude]

"I dunno what to tell you, dude. The World Tree grows right up through Boston." Magnus pauses, sighs heavily, and allows, "Maybe in your time it hadn't migrated there yet. There has to be some reason the Norse started out in Norway."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"It is in America, is it not?"

[summerdude]

"Yep. East coast. That's the side closer to England." Magnus squints at Lancelot. "You know about the way the earth is round, right?"