Side Game: Dystopia

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

In the world you are entering, there is a Federation. There is an Enterprise. There is even a Captain Kirk.

But in this world, they are not as you know them.

George Lowther, 27, is the captain of the pirate ship known throughout the galaxy as the Enterprise. Of course, he's not the real George Lowther, and neither was the man before him, a fellow called Chris Pike. They're in the process of trading the identity, so Pike can retire, having made his fortune. The new Lowther, real name James T. Kirk, has hired on a crew, and they're off on their first voyage, affiliated with the Federation of Interstellar Pirates.

So. How's the crew doing? And, of course, who's fucking?

Comments

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

SORRY EMMY CAN'T RESPOND RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THAT IMAGE JUST MELTED HER INTO A HOT PILE OF SCHMOOP.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

IKR

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

I'M ACTUALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT MY FALL SCHEDULE AND IT'S HARD TO LOOK AT TWO DIFFERENT TABS IN MY BROWSER, A SHEET OF PAPER, AND TWO BOOKLETS AND STILL MANAGE SEXY TALK. BUT WHAT I TYPED ABOVE SOUNDS SO MUCH COOLER THAN WHAT I'M ACTUALLY DOING.

ALSO, I THINK I'M DOING HISTORY SAM. THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

I MISS MAKING SCHEDULES IT WAS FUN.

YAY! EXCITING! TAKE SOME COLE WAR-ERA CHINESE HISTORY AND WE CAN GEEK OUT TOGETHER.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

I HATE IT SO MUCH. I ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE TOO MANY COURSES AND THEN I HAVE TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH ONES I ABSOLUTELY WANT TO TAKE AND URGH. WHY DOES EVERY SINGLE CLASS HAVE TO SOUND SO INTERESTING?

NO CHINESE HISTORY OFFERED TO ME RIGHT NOW BUT THERE MIGHT BE NEXT SEMESTER SO I'LL TRY IT THEN OKAY?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

I WANT TO HELP CAN I HELP?

ANY COLD WAR WILL DO. IT MAKES ALL OF WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW MAKE SENSE. PUTS THE WORLD IN ORDER. OR JUST READ GADDIS.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

SURE. PICK ONE:

ENGL 2322 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: ANGLO SAXON TIMES TO MID-18TH CENTURY
ENGL 2323 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: MID-18TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
ENGL 2327 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: COLONIAL TO CIVIL WAR
ENGL 2328 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT
ENGL 2332 SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE: ANCIENT TIMES TO MID 17TH CENTURY

OKAY I WILL KEEP THAT IN MIND.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

DO ANY OF THEM COME WITH BOOKLISTS?

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

NO BOOKLISTS HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET BUT I HAVE FINANCIAL AID SO THE GOVERNMENT (GOD BLESS THE USA) IS PAYING FOR MY TEXTBOOKS.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ooh, the first one! I love Old/Middle English lit!

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

YOU THINK? I LOVE THEM ALL HENCE MY INDECISION.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Beowulf! Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! And possibly Paradise Lost (first BNF Bible fanfic)! Shakespeare!

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

I LIKE EVERYTHING BUT BEOWULF. I READ THAT IN HIGHSCHOOL. I DID NOT LIKE IT. BUT SHAKESPEARE IS LIKE CRACK FOR ME.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

OH WELL, WHICH TRANSLATION DID YOU HAVE? WE HAD THE SEAMUS HEANEY ONE WITH THE ANGLO-SAXON ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE AND THAT WAS AWESOME EVEN IF BEOWULF IS A BONEHEAD.

I <3 SHAKESPEARE SO MUCH, FOR SRS.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

I LOVE BEOWULF. WE READ IT IN MY SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS AND IT TOOK A COUPLE WEEKS BECAUSE WE HAD LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT. WELL, I SAY WE BUT IT WAS REALLY ME AND MR. ENGLISH AND MAYBE TWO OTHER GUYS. EVERYONE ELSE JUST TALKED AMONGST THEMSELVES. BUT IT WAS STILL FUN.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

See, that would never have flown in my high school English classes. If you didn't pay attention and participate you failed that unit. Do it enough and you'd fail the class.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

I was in Tech Prep rather than College Prep, and at my school if you were Tech Prep you weren't really expected to make much of yourself after graduation (actually, for most of high school people kept telling me to change to College Prep because it would be better for me, and most of them wouldn't listen when I told them I had reasons of my own and that no, it had nothing to do with the workload, and no, I'm not going to tell you because my guidance counselor is the only one who needs to know and she understands). So it didn't matter. He yelled at them a few times but during discussions like that he knew there wasn't much point.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

SEE THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T LIKE IT. BECAUSE BEOWULF IS A BONEHEAD. I DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSLATION OR ANYTHING. I JUST THOUGHT...IDK. BEOWULF HIMSELF RUINED IT.

OMG SHAKESPEARE. I WOULD TAP THAT.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

MMM, BUT THE LANGUAGE... IDK, I LOVE MYTHOLOGY TOO AND MOST OF THE GODS AND HEROES ARE DICKS AND BONEHEADS. I DON'T LIKE THE CHARACTERS, BUT THE POETRY/STORY STILL ROCKS.

MMMHM!

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

HAHA, MAYBE I SHOULD REREAD IT THEN. YES BUT GODS ARE PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED IN THEIR DICKISH BONEHEADERY. I GENERALLY PREFER 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY LIT MYSELF. SHAKESPEARE IS THE GRAND EXCEPTION TO THAT.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

I GOT IN TROUBLE IN FRESHMAN ENGLISH IN HS FOR CALLING BEOWOLF "THE STORY OF A CO-DEPENDENT MONSTER AND THE MAN WHO RIPS HIS ARM OFF."

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

SEE? THAT KIND OF THINKING WAS ENCOURAGED IN MY ENGLISH CLASSES. I DID A PROJECT FOR HEART OF DARKNESS THAT WAS A MIRROR WITH PLASTIC GRASS. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

HEEHEE, YES.

[theoreticalpixy.livejournal.com]

THE SEAMUS HEANEY TRANSLATION IS A THING OF PURE BEAUTY. UNF LANGUAGE UNF.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

MMMHM!