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#2, RE: (S66) S5M5 Honeymoon by the Sea
Posted by Pasha on Aug-13-13 at 04:27 PM
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>[512] inking pad - In Diqiu, as in real-life East
>Asia, there's a long-standing tradition of using stamped impressions
>(seals or "chops") to establish one's identity on documents, rather
>than writing one's name by hand. The technique is in the process of
>falling out of fashion in 25th-century Diqiu, but enough people still
>do it that places like the Phoenix House provide the facilities with
>which to do so if patrons wish (though even they use modern ink
>nowadays).

I quite liked this little bit of world building, btw. I understood it pretty instantly, and it was a tiny thing that made Diqiu (wow it's hard to type a q without following it with a u)feel more, I dunno, real and different from the rest of the UFiverse.

>[517] Utena R. Tenjou - The "R" stands for
>"Ravenhair", of course; her concession to the fact that it would be
>silly of her to take his very descriptive surname, even if such a
>thing were her style, which it isn't.

Also continuing a theme of the women in his life styling themselves with an R. in their name. :)

>[640] cactus juice - Utena thinks this is just the
>name of a cocktail, in much the same way that a screwdriver is not
>actually an implement for driving threaded fasteners. It... isn't.
>
>Though, the Phoenix House does water down
>the cactus juice it serves. Having their guests wriggle their way
>across the hotel lobby like inchworms would send the wrong message
>about the hotel.

*snrk* There's a microstory in the waiting there with Amy and Rory being clueless outsiders and Nall being a prick.

>[713] Badgermole cards - Zambo
>the Badgermole is the well-loved mascot of the Republic City Subway,
>and regularly shows up at grade schools to talk about train safety.
>He carries on the honored tradition of the Earth Kingdom's own
>transportation systems of Omashu and Ba Sing Se, the latter of which
>also has the Subterranean transport network (Corwin wants one of their
>signs for a wall in his apartment, but hasn't gotten his hands on one
>yet).

Total aside: What's he gonna do with that? Give it to Kora? (Supergirl, not Avatar)

>[1349] lemur - This is an original winged lemur,
>like Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender, not one of those
>scruffy ring-tailed ones. I make no apology for this.

Momo was in the top three best characters in the original series. And had no lines. I'm somewhat disappointed by Naga in comparison. This might be my dislike of dogs and dog-like things showing through, however.

>There's usually less complexity for those who make
>travel reservations to Diqiu over the web. People not in the know
>have no idea what that weirdass captcha at the bottom of the
>reservation page is for.

Awww, I kind of like the idea that it's only something you can get by purchasing your tickets in person, knowing the correct code. I assume there's a corresponding discreetness on the way out?

>[1858] rooftop space of the
>firebending academy
- Most firebending academies of the "old
>school", both in the Fire Nation and the Colonies, had large outdoor
>courtyards adjacent to the school for vigorous outdoor practice,
>testing new techniques, and the occasional Agni Kai (in the days when
>they weren't to the death). Much less chance of setting the whole
>building ablaze if you do those things outdoors. Since there's a lack
>of regular open fireproof space in the big city, rooftop plazas are
>used instead for the same function.

That must be impressive to watch from the street (or a high rise apartment with proper sight lines). They could do regular (even if just annually) performances a la the traveling shaolin, where they just light up the sky.

>[2185] Rolleiflex - The German-made Rolleiflex
>twin-lens reflex camera is a distinctive piece of photography
>equipment dating to the 1930s. They were once popular press cameras,
>though more often seen in Europe than in the States (American press
>photographers preferred the Speed Graphic, made by Graflex of
>Rochester, New York), and are still made today for the art photography
>market.

The Graflex being of course famous for giving us the lightsaber.

>[2280] Minox A3S - The Minox line of microcameras
>often turn up in spy films, being used to surreptitiously photograph
>documents and/or persons of interest: those little flat cameras that
>are operated by pushing a slidey part of the outer casing together and
>pulling it apart again.

Is that the one with a fixed focal point, and a chain used to determine proper distance?

>[2624] CWCD - "Credit where
>credit's due"

this stopped me in my reading tracks and I was unable to read on until I parsed that out. Which took a couple minutes and then I felt dumb, mostly because I was trying to fill in letters, not expand an acronym.

>[2672] an elaborate fountain pen - Chin is also
>carrying a stamp pad in one of his sleeves of holding, but he
>correctly deduced that a person like Kate wouldn't want it and so
>didn't break it out.

I like the idea of Sleeves of Holding, and am tempted to try and build them (in d20/pathfinder, not, you know...really make a garment with extra dimensional spaces around the arms)

>This particular one is the very popular Mr. Boomerang model
>(motto: "Mr. Boomerang always comes back!").

lol

--
-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."