IC Prospective (fifth year)

[metaing]

Character: Abed Nadir
Mun: Amanda
Plot specific: Nope


Does anyone ever feel like going to school here is just one big life lesson over how love and friendship conquer all? Or is that just me?

If it's just me then that's okay; I'm pretty used to it.

Comments

[motivational]

I think I speak for everyone when I say: it's just you.

[metaing]

Thank you, Jeff. I wasn't sure because the message just seems so obvious.

[motivational]

Yeah, well, here's the thing. Life isn't about messages, Abed. There comes a time when you have to step back and realise that you're reading into things too much.

[Not a hypocrite.]

[metaing]

Funny for you to say. I mean, you're always telling people what they need to hear so statistically speaking you'd be the first person to accept that life is about messages, even if they're not always the warm fuzzy Saturday cartoon ones.

[motivational]

I am always telling people what they need to hear, you're right. So when I say there are no messages, it means you need a reality check.

[metaing]

Reality is boring and confusing. Fiction makes much more sense.

[motivational]

Reality is only as boring as you let it be, Abed. You should watch enough TV to know that.

[metaing]

Are you saying the choice is mine to make the world a better place?

[motivational]

I feel like I'm treading on dangerous territory here.

[meltdowns]

Aww, Abed. That's such a nice way at look at, even is school is really just about making sure we get really good, successful careers in life.

[metaing]

Aren't careers just a way for "the man" to make sure everyone stays in line? Besides, this is a school with a bunch of teenagers. They're all about the warm feelings.

[meltdowns]

No they'e very important, to make sure society runs as it should Abed. And as for that. Well perhaps we should all be a little less of that. It's going to cause problems eventually.

[metaing]

But there's no sense of fulfillment. Everyone in the movies or TV always seems so unsatisfied with the job they got saddled with and it causes a lot of stress and drama for them and their families. I don't want one a career like they do, I want to make movies.

[meltdowns]

Well that's why it's important to study hard and get excellent OWL's and NEWTs so that you can go into a career that we really want to be in so we're not unhappy and then end up becoming drunks and end up living in the gutter till we die at the age of 30.

[Annie... no]

...Besides Abed... wizards really don't have movies. The technology doesn't work well with magic.

[metaing]

It feels an awful lot like you're projecting your fears on me, which is okay. A lot of people do that, but I don't think you have to worry about any of that happening to you.

Someone should probably fix that. Can you imagine what you could do with magic while making a movie? They already have moving photographs so film shouldn't be too hard.

[meltdowns]

I. I'm not doing that. And even if I was, it's important for you to know what could happen too. Some needs to remind you that you need to worry too.

The photos move after they're developed. You've seen the camera they need to use to take them, they're really quite old considering how much muggle technology has advanced.

[stubbornskeptic]

That's an interesting way to think about it, Abed!
One could say that about most educational programs though, don't you think?
What we ultimately learn is to depend on one another to grow as people!

[metaing]

Like after school specials and children's cartoons. It's all about the magic of friendship and acceptance.
Seems a bit heavy handed sometimes.

this made me go watch an ep of community when i saw it, btw |D

[stubbornskeptic]

Well, one might argue that we have an awful lot of real magic too!
But I do agree that muggle television has a lot of stories based around banding together in a strange new place.
Hogwarts would certainly fit the bill, hoo hoo!

good!!

[metaing]

Maybe we have too much magic. Though I'm pretty sure that's not possible. All the excess magic always has a purpose in the end or is part of a big reveal, so I bet all of our friendships will be integral to our survival.

Do you think wizards would be more open to television if they knew how much of it is accessible to them? Pretty much all the shenanigans you see on TV have happened here, like animals running wild or teachers having really dramatic and fascinating relationships. Like with Professor Donoghue and Professor Strider. It's good stuff.

[stubbornskeptic]

What exactly do you think we need to survive?
Other than all the homework, I mean.

Oh, maybe! Wizards do like books, after all.
But I think sometimes wizards don't like seeing that muggles are capable of their own sort of magic.
If that makes sense, I mean.
Television and movies can do some amazing things that most wizards wouldn't expect muggles to even be able to create an illusion of!
And I do get the feeling that they would get a little impatient with the detective films I love so much.
They know the quick and fast magical way to solve the mystery in seconds!
It takes away the magic if you don't know much about the muggle world as it really is, I think.

[metaing]

Family, friends, a high tolerance for pain after jumping through windows, the Force, a whip, lots of other things.

Good point. I guess it's their loss, really. If they can't appreciate them then it's more for you and me and Muggles and open minded wizards.

[stubbornskeptic]

Hoo hoo, indeed!
I have to say, I wonder what it'd be like if I hadn't had exposure as a kid.
Having a foot into the muggle world was certainly interesting!

[metaing]

You'd probably be even stuffier, not to mention you'd probably say unintentionally hurtful things a lot. It wouldn't be because of you, but I've seen a lot of purebloods either being outright hateful or just ignorant. It's pretty easy to spot who's pure and who's half because of that.

[stubbornskeptic]

Abed, I'd appreciate it if you didn't put it that way.
It sounds like you're saying I'm stuffy already. :B