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aumemecomm2019-07-24 11:00 pm
automatmods) wrote in aumemecomm2019-07-24 11:00 pm
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Coffee Shop AU
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| An absolute staple. No matter what side of the counter you're on, the coffee shop is the absolute center of your life. Whether you're a barista, or just camped out in the corner with the good outlet while you write your novel. Perhaps you just really want to tell the cute person behind the counter that you've loved them since they gave you that coffee six months ago. Or you're overwhelmed with orders and nothing is going right. For good or bad, everyone needs their caffiene. ♨ Post a top level with your character and canon. Include any preferences you may have. If you're feeling bold, write a starter! ♨ Tag around, make your own world. ♨ Please mark any potentially triggering content |
because why not????
No dwarves, got it. [ He is absolutely going to write down their names as dwarves. Or the seven deadly sins. Virtues, maybe? ]
So-- do you all drink straight black coffee? [ His pen is at the ready to take the orders. ]
has he even considered the other options
Jehan drowns his coffee continuously until it's slightly brownish milk. Joly adds cinnamon and frets when there isn't any to add. Feuilly never asks, but prefers a double shot to make whatever's mediocre a little stronger and more familiar. Lesgle adds sugar (always just a little too much) and never risks milk. Bahorel argues about the difference between creamer and milk but always uses whichever his hand touches first. Courfeyrac changes his order nearly every time they sit down, as if the taste of the air around them altered his taste in the coffee. Combeferre will drink whatever Enjolras puts in front of him without seeming to notice at all.
It always takes half a beat to sort through the oddity of having all that information where something useful might be.]
They can handle it. [Unless it's going to derail starting the meeting in a flurry of reordering.] You've got cream out somewhere?
he tried not being grantaire for a while but this is easier
You're sure they all want just black? No one wants a tea or a mocha? In a group of seven the odds of having no one who wants ungodly amounts of froth in their drink is basically zero.
[ He might make shit coffee, but surely it's important to get the order right. ]
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There are fewer greater wastes of day-to-day resources.
[It's fine, really. There are an almost infinite number of coffee shops to be had. They can't be kicked out of literally all of them (probably).]
And no genuine reason to go beyond the sunk cost of what you've already brewed to wind up exchanging more capital that could have gone to a higher use for you to waste more of your time fussing with-- [a sweeping gesture behind the counter will have to serve, because he's fairly certain "coffee tools" isn't the right word for the machinery back there] --while everyone else waits around doing nothing but draining a little more electricity and wakeful hours of the day.
no one can ever know he was anything other than an anthropomorphised bean bag chair
Isn't all modern life spent exchanging capital on distractions that drain electricity and wakeful hours of the day, really?
[ Might as well drink something you enjoy while passing the time.
Also, who talks about exchanging capital that could have gone to higher uses?? No one?? ]
...thx I will never stop laughing at that metaphor
The fun surprise for now is how incredibly quickly Enjolras's attention can snap into full focus on another human being.]
Of course it isn't. [Starting soft isn't easy. It's even harder when there's no one else here with an elbow in his ribs or a hand at his shoulder. Still, a body has to try.] Redistribution isn't a distraction.
80s... 1830s... basically the same right
Everything is a distraction from the inherent meaninglessness of life and the inevitable failure and ruin of all that humanity has achieved. [ Perhaps one shouldn't grin while spouting nihilism, but there's no helping himself.
Also perhaps he shouldn't bait potential customers to see if he can get a reaction when he should be making seven cups of mediocre black coffee. He'll start in a minute. ]
just say no to experimenting with philosophy, steve
[Not everyone wants to talk. There were even times when the people who had gravitated into this particular orbit got tired of talking and seeking and striving.
So why pass up the opportunity to engage?] The ultimate failure of an achievement is a matter of creative destruction. That doesn't make the initial course of progress meaningless.
not even once. you start with a little rousseau and before you know it you're dying on a barricade.
Are you assuming that progress is meaningful in and of itself? That a little forward momentum followed by failure is better than conservative stagnation?
[ He's trying to have a serious tone, but he really can't. ]
no subject
If it's making active, positive change in the world, yes. If people are comparatively better than they were yesterday, yes. The existence of a destructive cycle doesn't mean that forward motion isn't possible.
[Necessary. Happening, even.]
no subject
Does the non-existence of forward motion mean that forward motion isn't possible?
[ coffee what coffee ]
no subject
[And Enjolras can't pretend that coffee is more important than this.]
It isn't much, and it certainly isn't enough, but it isn't nothing.