video † 001 † 02-19-10

[slantedcross]

[OOC/Filter: Here's the deal. Youji intended for this post to be ladies-only, but due to a variety of factors--lack of familiarity with the device, the gender ambiguity of some names, and the weather messing with the Dreamberries--it's pretty much failed. So anyone is free to see this post (or not see it!), but if you're not a cute girl over 18, he's going to be polite, but unenthusiastic. XD]

[Youji is sitting back on his couch, looking charmingly sheepish and pleasantly cheerful.]

Hello!

I'm laid up with a broken leg, and rather bored. I don't suppose anyone could help me out...? Any recommendations are appreciated. Books, movies, snacks, art supplies, or just your sparkling conversation!

Comments

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Fluffy blankets are the best kind.

Were you here last winter?

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

I've only been here since December I'm afraid. But the winters in England were never this bad.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Really now? This must be quite a difficult change for you.

I'll bet the spring in England is very lovely, then.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

At first it was lovely. I made a snow man. But now? I just want to see flowers again.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

I understand. Winter always seem long, and spring not long enough.

You know, I work in a flower shop. [Or will.] What's your favorite flower?

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Hmm... My favorite flowers are white and pink lilies! What's your favorite?

//brb looking up language of flowers & hanakotoba

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Those are good choices. White lilies mean "purity," did you know that?

I like orchids. [He gives them to girls, anyway.]

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

No I didn't! What do pink ones mean!

And orchids are very pretty too.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

"Wealth and prosperity." Nice sentiment, right?

Orchids used to be very popular flowers, you know. People used to go on expeditions to South America just to find new species of them.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

I think the language of flowers sounds lovely. Although if you speak with them they most certainly don't say or sound like what they mean.

[Pauses because even to her that sounds like a bit confuddled but she can't help that.]

I didn't! But why travel across the ocean just to find a new species?

[Though she supposes if you're going to travel to a new country to find something, flowers are a certainly good reason. She's guilty of traveling through another world to find a beautiful garden.]

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Well, so that you can say you discovered a brand-new one, and so that you have one that no one else does, I suppose.

[He's never really liked the flower shop, but. This is kind of nice.]

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

If I discovered a new flower I wouldn't keep it to myself. Because if I kept it to myself and it died as flowers are wont to do then I wouldn't have it anymore!

And some people don't like certain flowers. And some people don't like flowers at all! Which I think is such a curious thing! How could you not like a single flower at all? In the entire world there isn't a flower someone likes? It just doesn't make any sense to me!

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Well, eventually, the flowers make seeds that make more flowers, so they have to share.

I think, as much as different flowers have different meanings, some flowers mean different things to different people. So sometimes, they might mean bad things.

Did you know different places have different languages of flowers? In my country, we call it hanakotoba. I think England has a separate language--but white lilies mean the same thing in both.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Han-ah-coo-tub-ah? Goodness! And han-ah-coo-tub-ah means the "language of flowers?" in your language?

And I wonder why the white lily means the same! Although that's very nice to know!

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

That's right!

I don't really know, but I'll bring some lilies to your tea party, how about that?

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Really! Oh thank you so very much Mr. Yo-gee!

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, Miss Alice.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

That's very kind of you sir! They'll look so lovely on the table!

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure you get only the best.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Ah! Since you're holed up with a broken leg who is cooking for you Mr. Yo-gee?

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

A couple of my friends know how to cook--we're in the same apartment complex, so we don't have to go outside to see each other.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Ah well as a thank you for the flowers I would like to make you something!

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

Well, you invited me to your tea party, didn't you? The flowers are my thank you for that.

[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much then Mr. Yo-gee.

[slantedcross.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.