My grandparents had a conversation pit. Or a sunken living room. It seemed pretty awesome to me at the time.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Feb 06, 2012 9:16:08 am PST #20608 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2012 9:16:35 am PST #20609 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am not even beating about the bush anymore. Fully fledged "You know this isn't my job, right? I'll do it, but it's not my job..." Because, seriously, being the most familiar and/or approachable face on the project is reaching ridiculous proportions.
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2012 9:17:39 am PST #20610 of 30001
brillig
I apologize for my brain.
No, no, I snickered. My brain is as much to blame as anyone's.
smonster - Feb 06, 2012 9:17:54 am PST #20611 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
The bathroom kind of reminds me of the passenger lounge on Serenity.
Polter-Cow - Feb 06, 2012 9:17:55 am PST #20612 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"He played a key roll in the successful launch of x."
And I just picture an engineer on a dinner plate, with melting butter.
Whereas I imagine him with a twelve-sided die, making the critical saving throw.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 06, 2012 9:18:23 am PST #20613 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Interior design circa 1970: [link]
That living room with the butterfly cube on the table is like someone took a bad migraine and translated it into physical form.
Zenkitty - Feb 06, 2012 9:31:47 am PST #20614 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Conversation pit looks like a place to facilitate the pouring of liquids on one's head by kids and pets.
Glad I didn't know any fashionable people in the 70s. I was too impressionable, I could have imprinted on that! Instead of Rocky Horror. The, um, horror.
Consuela - Feb 06, 2012 9:38:39 am PST #20615 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My elementary school had a conversation pit in the library. It was kind of awesome.
Toddson - Feb 06, 2012 9:42:25 am PST #20616 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Those rooms are ... um ... bright. I don't remember ever seeing anyplace that looked like that. Obviously, I didn't go to any of the "cool" houses. Or bachelor pads.
Amy - Feb 06, 2012 9:43:32 am PST #20617 of 30001
Because books.
An open-plan elementary school I went to in second and third grade had a pit for an auditorium. A really big one, obviously.