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[roseapothecary]

Yes.

I take fashion very seriously.

[persisto]

Okay, okay. School me on vintage, then.

[can it possibly involve as many rules as d&d?

probably]

ow, my heart!

[roseapothecary]

[ She actually... cares? That makes David pointedly uncomfortable, but also...

It's nice. To talk about things he cares about. Most people don't care at all about that sort of stuff up here. ]

Well.

The older, the more expensive, but not always the most tasteful.

Like, people are really into the whole 80's thing right now, again. For some reason.

[persisto]

Which 80's? The 1980s?

[this might be infinitely easier than d&d, then]

Where do shoulder pads sit on the tasteful spectrum?

[roseapothecary]

Of COURSE the 1980's.
What, did you think petticoats came back in style?

Nowhere.
They sit absolutely nowhere.

Unless you're, like...
Reimaginging Working Girl as a play or something.

[persisto]

Keeping myself open to the possibilities.

Is that a movie?

[only two years into the future and yet!!]

[roseapothecary]

It would be really difficult to make petticoats work. Please don't keep that option open.

It's... yes? Of course?
What women in film did you look up to?

[persisto]

Noted.

Oh, Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Hands down. Maybe not as a fashion icon, but for everything else.

[roseapothecary]

...Okay, I'll give you that.

Though her style in that film is pretty much what we're stuck wearing now, so...

Thanks for those nightmare associations.

[persisto]

In fairness, we have at least twice as many monster hunters stuffed into every corner of this ship.

[roseapothecary]

Okay, that's... true.
And reassuring.

Are you one of them?

[persisto]

Remember to hold onto that.

A little bit. Definitely amateur hour compared to most folks here. You?

[roseapothecary]

Um. No.

Not unless we're including customer service monsters.

What's an 'amateur' monster?

[persisto]

No one's saying those aren't scary.

The ones that don't need to be hunted down, I guess. And, I mean, we were going at it with baseball bats and fire. Pretty low tech all around.

[roseapothecary]

Try owning a store in a town where people don't know the difference between day and night creams.

Sounds sort of like how I deal with spiders?

[persisto]

Is that anywhere other than New York?

How often are you using fire for spiders?