summerdude: cover art for hammer of thor (hot)
Magnus Chase ([personal profile] summerdude) wrote2023-11-02 09:33 pm

You Say Overkill, I Say Due Diligence [open post]

Magnus copies the sign onto seven different pieces of paper. It reads:
WANT TO LEARN NEW SKILLS? ME FREAKING TOO. I (Magnus Chase) Will Trade Lessons In Any Of The Following For Something You Know:
  • ASL (Alf/American Sign Language)

  • Camping (pitching tents, campfire safety, celestial navigation)

  • What To Do If You Find Yourself Lost In The World Tree Yggdrasil

  • Pickpocketing (But only if you promise to use it for good (stealing ONLY from dickhead rich people) and ONLY if you have to!)

  • Swordfighting for Beginners (I am intermediate but Jack is advanced and he can help!)

  • What It REALLY Feels Like To Die (NOT ADVICE!!!)

  • (Trans)Gender Identity and Fluidity (from the perspective of a cis guy) (Alex-approved content only)

  • What To Do If The God You're Talking To Is Super Obnoxious Particular

  • Why Falafel is the Best Food in the World

All skills welcome! But if you know any of the following I am especially interested: Cooking, Geometry, How To Declare Your Love To Your Partner, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Balancing a Budget, Writing Poetry, Social Studies, Codebreaking.

(Sorry but I will not learn pottery from anyone but ♥Alex Fierro♥. I hope you understand.)

PS if there's enough interest we can maybe do full classes where everybody gets to take turns teaching and learning?

He adds a note about the areas where he can most frequently be found and then posts one sign in each of the two kitchens he's encountered, one by the welcome table, one on the door to the greenhouses, one in the library, one on his bedroom door, and one by what he believes to be the most-populated lounge. Then, with a great deal of eager anticipation, he goes about his day.


[A note from Magnus's typist: Open indefinitely!]
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"It's Latin for six," flushing. "The sixth hour." He is very intentionally not thinking about sexual written messages.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"We use the sun. That's why it's shorter in the winter."
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
He nods and hands the sketchbook and pencils over.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"And it's the same all the time? All year?"
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
He hasn't decided yet whether he likes this better, but the specificity of it is pleasing. "And this," touching Magnus' picture, "is a thing that can be worn."
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Galahad wants a watch. It would make it so much easier to keep the hours -- he's already thinking about how he'd map them onto the twenty-four equal hours, and then he'd know exactly when to pray. It would make it easier to be home (he doesn't realize that he thinks of Claudius' rooms as home, but that's the place he's envisioning) when he wants to be. It would be easier to know when to eat, since his body rarely registers hunger in a clear way. It would be easier to match his understanding to someone else's, especially since Magnus has made the variation acutely clear. He longs for a watch, and compared to some of his other longings this feels safe and uncomplicated.

"Thank you." He means for explaining all this.
onthewillowsthere: (almost a smile)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Will you show me how to say thank you?"
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
There's also something relieving in the fact that all these nuances can be expressed by gesture, rather than tone: he doesn't need to sound right, because it's included in the sign. He goes through each of the signs one by one, looking to Magnus for confirmation.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-14 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Between Shen Qingqiu and Magnus, he's already figured out that hug means embrace, and he immediately rocks onto his knees and reaches for Magnus, wrapping his arms around him.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2023-11-15 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
As he holds him, Galahad signs friend against Magnus' back.