IC Perspective: James T. Kirk (4th going on 5th year)

[bestandbrightest]

Character: Jim Kirk
Mun: Sloan
Plot specific: Nada

I hear this place doesn't allow any technology. Seriously? Come on guys, catch up with the times. Somethings are better left outside (I'm looking at you internet) but phones? TVs? It's great that this place is all old fashion and tradition, but you're not ending history by adapting to the future. The dark ages ended with Edison.

On that note, I can bring some modern Muggle literature with me, right? Not going to set off some "not magic related" alarm and get wanded by the anti-modern-innovation police?

Comments

[marshall_lee]

You can as long as it's not an e-reader or anything like that..those just don't work here.

Sucks because I would dearly love to have my iPods here at school.

[bestandbrightest]

Good for me then, I don't do Kindles or whatever, I like to read books from ink and paper.

I hadn't even thought about iPods. What's so wrong about some good music? Man, this is punishment.

[marshall_lee]

Oh, you'll be fine then. I bring sheet music and normal books all the time.

I know right? Vinyls are cool and all but I like having all my music handy at the touch of a button. Not to mention I can't bring my favorite guitar since its electric.

[bestandbrightest]

Excellent. What kind of music?

So, vinyls work here at least? Having music wherever, whenever you want is great, but if vinyls at least work here, then I'll survive.

[marshall_lee]

Pretty much anything but mostly rock.

Yeah, they use old fashioned graphaphones or phonographs I think they're called.

[bestandbrightest]

That's a good way to live.

Then I'm all set, just need to spruce up my record collection. Got behind in the latest releases the past few years.

[motivational]

Tell me about it. I can feel the void in my heart that technology fills.

[bestandbrightest]

[Yeah, Jim isn't that bad off]

Haven't found a good substitute for filling that void during the school year?

[motivational]

Nope. Can't say I have.

Without a phone in my hands it just feels like there's something wrong in the world. Sometimes, it makes me actually want to pay attention.

[bestandbrightest]

We'll have to fix that then. Can't have you going around and paying attention, now can we?

So, you one of those Text-Fiends or a Disconnectedly-Challenged?

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, well. this is the UK. They're kind of big on tradition after all. Annoying, but what can you do? Well what can you do that keeps you in the school anyway.

What books are you thinking of?

[bestandbrightest]

I hear they have phonographs, so that'll make the blast from the much too distant past bearable.

The kind made out of paper and ink that tell a story in 200+ pages.

[arrogantalloy]

Well, I've got some AC/DC vinyls. So I know a guy who can even wax you up some beiber if you want to listen to that.

You know, you're funny, really. Now how about the titles you were thinking of bringing?

[bestandbrightest]

Beiber is dreamy, but I'll stick to my Beastie Boys.

My Chicken Soup for The Soul collection and my Jane Austin books. They make me feel all warm inside.

[arrogantalloy]

You know. I was going to congratulate you on your taste there. But hey, now you're making jokes about reading material. So oh well, there.

[bestandbrightest]

My tastes are great.

What's it to you what books I bring anyway? I like to read, probably grab a random bag full of books I haven't read yet and call it good.

[arrogantalloy]

Well, that's circumstantial.

Well generally I call it curiosity, to see if you have you know, good taste in books. But hey, that works.

[bestandbrightest]

The Beastie Boys are great, anyone who disagrees is wrong.

So what do you consider good taste in books?

[arrogantalloy]

I mean they're not AC/DC or Zeplin. But hey, I collect them.

Vern, Asimov, Clarke, Mary Shelly. And I have every available issue of The Rocketeer. So there's some good taste in reading right there.

[bestandbrightest]

AC/DC, Zeplin, both good taste, I've got their stuff too, but nothing beats Sabotage for me.

Rocketeer? Huh, never read it. The rest I've covered, Vern is a favorite for sure. Carroll, Fitzgerald, Barrie, Hemingway, Le Guin, Adams, Brooks are there for me too.

[arrogantalloy]

Well as long as you have music that's worth it, that's all that matters.

It's a comic series, about, funnily enough a rocket man. You have some pretty deep tastes there, almost a surprise, almost.

[bestandbrightest]

My thoughts exactly.

Rocketeer is about a rocket man, shock and surprise. And only an almost?

[arrogantalloy]

Sometimes I forget that certain phrases aren't lost on muggle-borns, okay?

Yeah, almost. I mean really, all it means is you can read, and at least vaguely comprehend them. That and the fact that I don't know you, means I have no real reason to be truly surprised and potentially impressed.

[72_problems]

You should learn to adapt rather than clinging on to your precious muggle technology like a safety blanket.

[bestandbrightest]

Or maybe they should adapt rather than clinging to their safety blanket of tradition. Pretty sure that blanket needs to be washed by this point.

[72_problems]

Hardly. The wizarding world develops far faster than the meager attempts of muggles. Accept it as fact and you might find yourself actually improving as a wizard.

Maybe.

[bestandbrightest]

Oh ho ho. You're one of those.

All your opinions are now considered invalid.

[72_problems]

"One of those"? A forward thinker? A realist?

If you consider yourself a real wizard, start behaving like one.

[bestandbrightest]

Yeah, one of those anti muggle blood purists.

And to be a forward thinker, you kind of have to actually think forward, not be stuck in the ways you aren't willing to adapt.

[72_problems]

Time and time again it would appear that halfbloods and muggleborn are often the weaker members of our society. Rarely does someone of actual power come from their muddied gene pool. Are you perhaps afraid of this simple fact that most purebloods believe? That you will never be as powerful as them? Is that why you go around in circles finding every which way to convince yourself that the muggle world to which you cling is not just a pale shadow to the wizarding world - that it can provide you with some self-worth?