No bomb

[ladyofastolat]

I drove past the former site of the bomb today. Nothing remains but a trench marked with fluttery ribbon; a soldier up to his waist in earth, wielding a very small spade; and one small flag.

Pellinor told me a small flag was a vital piece of emergency equipment. I scoffed.

EDIT: The flag is yellow. This is, perhaps, Significant.

Comments

[sally_maria]

I shall look forward to the presence of the small flag in the action figure story. :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! What a lovely idea! I can see it now. All I need to do is buy a 12 inch American flag, and we can re-enact the Iwo Jima moment in a rockery. We need an enemy - rival action figures who are trying to claim the garden for their own. Hmm... Perhaps the return of the Lego? Or the LotR action figures make an appearance... Ooh, I can't wait to write this one. Episode 5 has TEETH, but this one can fill the episode 6 slot, or maybe 7.

(Whereupon all the other readers of this journal, who haven't a clue what I'm talking about, finally decide once and for all that I've gone mad.)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

We worked out that you are mad ages ago, that's why we read your journal. ;-)

[sally_maria]

I finally decided that probably having friends who think being mad is a good thing, is a good thing - on the grounds that at least that way they won't get any nasty surprises. :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, but are you going to re-enact the moment the marines planted the flag on Iwo Jima, or the moment they re-enacted this for the cameras? ;-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Given that the flag-raising will be done by a couple of plastic action figures with limited points of articulation, I don't think such fine distinctions are going to come into it. It is not, perhaps, the best medium with which to reenact an iconic moment. ;-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Isn't it now considered the case that only the first of these events really happened?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I think about it, the dramatic flag moment fits better in a much later chapter. (I know it's rather unbelievable, but I actually have a vague plot arc worked out for this silliness.) But when it finally comes, I'll credit you. Yay! Someone else to share the blame! ;-)

[sally_maria]

Yay! Credit in a fic. :-)

It was really pellinor's idea, perhaps we ought to blame him.

[nilsigma.livejournal.com]

Should we be worried about the half-buried soldier? Is he digging in, or trying to dig himself out?

[segh.livejournal.com]

He's probably trying to discover whether it is true that when you find yourself in a hole you should stop digging.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Well, he wasn't there when I came home this evening. Wasn't visible, anyway. Whether this means he's dug himself out, or been engulfed in the earth, I know not. Given that they appear to have mislaid a 40 foot mine in this field, I think one little six foot soldier has no chance of being found again.

[gileswench.livejournal.com]

You see? Never mock the small flag. It is vital to all emergency undertakings.

BTW, who here didn't know you were mad? I knew. That's why I toddled over to join the fun back when you held your virtual flame war.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oh, the flame war. Bring up old memories, would you?! Now I'm seething with fury all over again. I was RIGHT - RIGHT, I tell you! And you lot all JUMPED on me and SHOUTED at me and were WRONG and HORRIBLE and STUPID, and I thought I'd got over it, but now you rake it all up again. I was right. I was. And everybody else was completely utterly wrong.

[gileswench.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE seething with fury???? YOU'RE the one who started all the bad feeling and shouting!!!!

(flails with barely - okay, not at all - restrained anger)

(Writes up scathing fuck you message and flounces off)

(Comes back for one last parting shot)

I was right and you were wrong, so NYAAAAAAAHH!!!

(flounces away again, shaking booty in provocative manner as I go)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

*shrilly contends that I was right right right. The rightest you can possibly image rightness being.*

*vaguely cites various vaguely defined "clever people I know" who have all said that I was right*

*uses lots of CAPITALS to hide the fact that I don't actually have the faintest memory of what the flame war was about, or what position I was arguing back then, but that DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL because I was RIGHT.*

[westerling.livejournal.com]

*points out the existence of the ljcomm efw (existential flame war), for all your flame war needs*

I didn't get to read the whole story of the bomb until it was already over and your post was mostly edits. :) I always enjoy a happy ending. Well, mostly always. Certainly in this case.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Trolls along much later to rake angst up again ...

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

My small flag is yellow.