IC Prospective: Aziraphale/Ezra Fell (Librarian)

[angelfruitcake]

Character: Aziraphale Ezra Fell
Mun: Katie/rosenritter
Plot specific: N~


Recently, I popped in* for a quick visit to my shop in Soho to see how things were going. The young man I hired to look after the place while I attend to my duties here hadn't once turned the sign from "CLOSED" to "OPEN", exactly as I requested. It's so very refreshing when youths of today prove themselves capable of following such simple directions.

While I was in the area, I overheard a small group of young Muggles discussing something they called "the dubstep". I presume it's a dance of some sort, but if anyone knows any further details, I would be most obliged to hear about it. If it's at all like the gavotte, I would be quite interested in learning it.

* - quite literally, a little spot of Apparition humour there

Comments

[responsibleforglasgow]

You know, I don't think I'll ever get you and that 'store' of yours.

And you have got to stop that, your jokes are as bad as that muggle magic of yours.

[angelfruitcake]

I am adhering quite closely to the very definition of 'store'. If you find my ways too esoteric, I believe it says something about you, dear boy.

As discourteous as always I see, Crowley. I'll have you know Muggle "magic" is a charming and quite fulfilling hobby.

[responsibleforglasgow]

Have you even sold a book in the last, I don't know, ten years?

Kind of a mockery to what you're actually capable of, don't you think?

[angelfruitcake]

Over the last decade, I've sold two books. Terribly harrowing experiences both, and I'm working hard to ensure it doesn't happen again.

It's hardly a mockery. I think it's precious, that that's what they think magic is. Sort of like when ladies dress their small dogs in cuddly jumpers. And honestly, Muggle magic requires more skill to pull off than you'd think.

[responsibleforglasgow]

Why you don't just make your own personal library at home instead is beyond me. You do know this, right?

I wouldn't call small dogs in cuddly jumpy precious, in any stretch of the word.

[angelfruitcake]

Ah, I simply cannot believe that you're implying I don't already have one. Not to boast, but it's very impressive.

One must always remember that every creature has its own place in the world and its own niche to fill. Some niches just happen to involve nothing besides wearing jumpers and sitting in handbags.

[arrogantalloy]

Why are you hiring a guy to make sure the sign isn't changed to open? Isn't that a waste of money, I mean the sign's not going to unexpectedly change to open on its own.

[angelfruitcake]

As boorish as it is to boast about financial matters, I can say that money is no object for me. And as for having someone there to monitor whether or not the shop is open, it's quite important. Many of the rare magical tomes I keep in the section restricted from Muggles can get a bit... lively.

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, not an object for me, either. But I don't hire people to do nothing all day. Then put them in storage where muggles in Soho can't get at them?

[angelfruitcake]

[There's a few tiny ink blots from a quill tapping impatiently against the page, their existence almost assuredly accompanied by an immensely exasperated sigh.]

Clearly you are unfamiliar with the proper care and handling of some of the more volatile sorts of magical books. Many of them are rather set in their ways and moving them can be most inadvisable.

[arrogantalloy]

Well, I don't spend all that time fondling grumpy literature. You're a wizard, I'm sure you can out magic a book.

[angelfruitcake]

I realize you are being sarcastic, but still, one should not fondle such books. Do keep in mind that many of these volumes are old if not outright ancient, and though I certainly can - as you say - "out-magic" them, doing so may damage them.

Surely you can see the dilemma.

[arrogantalloy]

You got them into the store, didn't you? So you should be able to get them into storage.

Not much of a dilemma.

[angelfruitcake]

Yes, and I still have papercuts in the shape of teeth marks on my left forearm from the last time. It's not happening again, full stop.

[arrogantalloy]

Isn't the challenge half the fun?

[strongestoftheturks]

Dubstep is a kind of music, sir.

[angelfruitcake]

Is it? Is there any associated dance, at least?

[strongestoftheturks]

Sort off. A little. Maybe.

It's hard to explain.

[angelfruitcake]

Ah, is it similar to disco? I remember a few classes on that in my Muggle Studies courses when I was a lad. I recall that it, too, was primarily a type of music with particular dance moves as an afterthought.

[strongestoftheturks]

Maybe?

It's just moving to the beat, sir. There's no set pattern of moves.

[angelfruitcake]

Oh. [Apparently it's possible to express immense disdain in two little letters.]

I will never understand why chaos and disarray appeal so much to the young people today. Whatever is wrong with appreciating finely configured structure and well-honed talent?

[strongestoftheturks]

It's easier, I think.

[angelfruitcake]

Hm, what is easy rarely intersects with what is proper. What a pity.

[strongestoftheturks]

Is being proper, practical sir?

[angelfruitcake]

Perhaps not always. However, at the end of the day, there is always the satisfaction of having a job well and properly done.

[strongestoftheturks]

Dancing isn't a job though.

[angelfruitcake]

I imagine there are many performers in the West End who would strongly disagree.

[strongestoftheturks]

Sorry sir. That's not what I meant.

Dancing isn't a job to everyone.

omg I love you ade Crowley-mun both so much for this.

[marshall_lee]

I really don't think dubstep would be your thing sir. It's a type of music..not really a dance.
And I can sum up how it goes pretty easily! It sounds mostly like this:

[Voice continuation from him imitating the backbeat of dubstep]

WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB!

pfff, thanks XD

[angelfruitcake]

Good gracious, "the dubstep" is that infernal racket? I've heard that dreadful noise before, blasted out of some of the flash automobiles the Muggle youngsters drive about Soho. I had assumed there was some grievous problem happening in their combustion engines.

[marshall_lee]

Yep that's pretty much it. I'm a musician myself and even I don't care for it.
It's mostly played in dance clubs though, so it's not really an incredibly mainstream thing.

[angelfruitcake]

Hm, hardly a ringing endorsement when even musicians are unwilling to defend it. Perhaps it will pass even further into obscurity soon enough. Muggles have such short attention spans when it comes to their fads after all, and their youths doubly so.

[marshall_lee]

Well, I'm more of a rock and roll and grunge loving kind of guy. I like the classics though too. Dubstep is popular mostly among teenagers and early twenty-somethngs at the moment and has been for the past couple of years.

I agree that modern music is definitely trend based. At the moment it's all electronically enhanced stuff. Who knows what they'll be into a year or so from now.

[angelfruitcake]

I'm afraid modern music is one field in which my expertise is sorely lacking. I primarily listen to the works of the classical masters, and everything that has come since the rise of genres with comical names like "doo-wop" and "be-bop" all sound the same to me.

[marshall_lee]

Oh really? Do you know how to read sheet music? If you compare them side by side you can see how much they differ.

[hipsdontlie]

[Pfft. You wrote Soho and that immediately gains Fleur's interest, particularly with the talk of a store and everything else.]

Darling, what kind of store do you run in Soho? And dubstep is... a form of music, it's rather crass and beat heavy, from what I have heard of it. I'm not terribly fond of it.

[She calls everyone darling or something, really.]

[angelfruitcake]

A student has recently subjected me to the gist of it. I cannot say that it was pleasant.

As for my shop, it's a bookstore. You may be familiar with it; it's the only one in the area which caters to wizards as well as Muggles. It features a rather extensive collection of antique, rare, or otherwise esoteric tomes.

[hipsdontlie]

Poor thing, though I guess the younger generation finds some enjoyment in giving themselves headaches and destroying their eardrums. I'll never understand it.

Oh, oh! I think I have seen it before, never had a chance to actually check it out, usually quite busy when I'm in New York.