my brain on break

[aesc]

This is what my brain does after being forced to contemplate things like Latin and grant applications and proposals.


aesc my aunt and uncle watch Antiques Roadshow every night, and we were watching it last night and I kept on thinking about Rodney being the scary antiques appraiser (like, a specialist in old instruments or science fiction illustration or whatever) who bitches at people for bringing in pieces of unmitigated CRAP they shoveled out from under their disaster areas of basements, and takes delight in telling them that the violin they THOUGHT was a Stradi-whatever is a ukelele and how much did they pay for it again? well, stupidity has a high price tag
sheafrotherdon hahahahhahaha! awesome
aesc and then John wanders in one day, clutching the neck of a guitar and saying he thinks it might be, you know, kind of old
sheafrotherdon :d
aescand Rodney really wants to shout at him, but can't, because the guitar is an actual, proper antique and is worth MONEY, but he can grumble and snap a bit because John sort of drawls out these careless answers to Rodney's questions, like, he needs a minute to turn over the very standard "so how did you acquire this?"
sheafrotherdon hahahaha
aesc and after Rodney rants on a bit about taking proper care of VERY RARE VERY DELICATE instruments, John asks him if he wants to go out for coffee
aesc with the cameras rolling :>
sheafrotherdon :D
sheafrotherdon and Rodney splutters?!
sheafrotherdon adorably? ;;)
aesc heeee, of course!! and turns a bright and perilous red
sheafrotherdon :>
aesc and keeps glancing helplessly at the camera, like he's hoping Ronon (the cameraman) turns it off
sheafrotherdon Ronon, however, knows good tv
aesc and keeps rolling until Rodney whimpers and goes all inarticulate with his hands and agrees
sheafrotherdon hahahahahaha
aesc John's seen Rodney before, of course, on previous episodes
sheafrotherdon :>
sheafrotherdon wee crush!
aesc a very strange sort of fascination, really
aesc he's not entirely sure why Rodney ends up on AR, since it's usually a very... family-friendly show
aesc and John usually doesn't associate withering insults with public television
sheafrotherdon :>
aesc and when he found out that AR was going to be in his town... well, even though he had absolutely no intention of selling his guitar, he got tickets right away
sheafrotherdon :>
sheafrotherdon he's so crafty!
aesc yis yis! and had to do some finagling to be sure he got in Rodney's line

[dinner-related interruption]

aesc anyway, I'm sure John was hoping he did not get TOO turned on by Rodney's cranky, appraising muttering
sheafrotherdon :d
aesc because that is DEFINITELY not for public television, except in the nature shows
sheafrotherdon :>
aesc and that will probably give him nightmares about having sex with David Attenborough doing the voiceover
sheafrotherdon :))
aesc he goes a bit pale, thinking about that
aesc also, he gets up shamefully early to pack up his guitar and go stand in line, and possibly he rehearses what he's going to say
sheafrotherdon aw!
aesc mostly, though, he tells himself to be cool, be cool
aesc and it ends up being pretty easy, even though he's kind of overwhelmed at first by the lights and experiencing Rodney's bitchy superiority first-hand, instead of experiencing it safely on the other side of his wide-screen TV
sheafrotherdon eeeeeee
sheafrotherdon and do they have SEX?
aesc well, not on screen
aesc :D later, though
aesc fortunately, Rodney is distracting enough during sex that David Attenborough only intrudes just when they're getting started, before John has Rodney's shirt off

Comments

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Does Rodney gesture at things with a tiny little pen thing and huff when John holds it by the neck only because it's delicate, don't you know anything?

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yes, in fact, he's sent people to the hospital when he has (completely inadvertently, he insists, except once, when the moron deserved it) turned the tiny pen thing into a weapon, or else gestured so enthusiastically that the little pen thing went flying and stabbed an old lady in the eye (causing her to drop what looked like a lame porcelain cow, but turned out to have been made by a famous shop in Switzerland and there was all sorts of unpleasantness with lawyers). He pokes John in the chest with it, just to emphasize that, if he had any sense of the history and sacredness of his guitar, he would have taken better care of it.

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Fjaguoafwjf, ahaha, and when John complains that guitars are meant to be played, Rodney nearly has a stroke.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Also, John's very insouciant leaning against the table (only emphasized by his shirt, jeans, and bizarrely the aviator sunglasses pushed up on his forehead), and the way his eyebrows move when Rodney explains about his guitar... neither of those is very good for Rodney's heart, either.