video | what this library needs is a book club

[weifinder]

( This is a video message brought to you by Wei Wuxian, who just learned about video in the last week or so, and definitely knows nothing about making a video well. So congratulations, he's holding his recording tablet in one hand, in selfie mode, and grinning at the camera. He tips his head toward it, since bowing... won't work with him holding his tablet, and begins. )

This whole moving images film-creating concept is fantastic! Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, greeting all the others swept into this library and out of their proper homes with a simple suggestion for the sake of entertainment: a reading group. I even have a starting novel for the adult audience!

( He looks offscreen to pick up a novel and showcase its simple bound red front with lovely golden writing visible: Resentment of Chunshan. This is porn. It is very raunchy, very fantasy-not-reality gay porn written by a woman from ancient fantasy China. It is also, hopefully, an amusing read? )

This one promises to be absolutely scandalous! Then for the people who are more inclined toward having a sense of any other taste, well, I have recommendations. I've leafed through many, many books this last week and then some, if it's been a week, or any, or who knows? Time here is rather... stagnant. Either way, speak up here, or find me in person, I'm hanging around the third level with all the lounging space.

( ... then the tablet shakes as he tucks the book under an arm and taps at the screen to end the video. )

[ ooc note: novel found with permission from Shen Qingqiu's player! ]

Comments

[youcanyouup]

[ Unfortunately Shen Qingqiu has never turned his brain off while reading smut once in his miserable life, he is fully engaged and complaining every time he perceives words with his eyes and that's why he'll never be happy

He raises an eyebrow at that last part. ]

What was the title...?

[weifinder]

Shadows.

( Here, he sighs. A long, deep, emotional sigh. )

Just that one word. Shadows.

[youcanyouup]

Ah... Hm. That's not very specific.

[ He pauses a moment, trying to decide if he wants to try to talk about cinema as if he doesn't know what it is for the sake of Helping... ]

Usually... at the end of the, um, moving pictures, there's... a list of all the people who made it, and if it's based on a book, then it will mention the name of the author...

[weifinder]

You have to sit through all the words at the end? Because those don't all play, it kind of just...

( He makes an expansive gesture with his hands. )

Goes to the next one after a short time of names.

[youcanyouup]

[ Shen Qingqiu makes a pinched little disapproving face. ]

Well that's not very useful, in a library.

[weifinder]

Forgive me for presuming, but has anything here been useful to us versus whatever runs this building? Maybe it is the building...

( He muses, tapping his chin and looking upward, like there's some answer waiting to be seen. )

[youcanyouup]

Hmm. I don't think we know enough about its motivations to make a judgement on that, but -- if it doesn't want the books to be accessible why have a catalogue in the first place?

[ Hmm the angle he is espousing here definitely bodes poorly for his sleeve full of stallion trash, ]

[weifinder]

Who knows? It's not like all the books are even complete.

( Here he shrugs, lifting his hands and laughing; a what can you do sort of motion. )

Which surprised me, but you see it after looking at enough of these things.

[youcanyouup]

Really?

[ Shen Qingqiu has been a little preoccupied, so far, with more specific searches... His brow creases slightly. ]

Incomplete manuscripts...?

[weifinder]

( He nods, humming an affirmative note, then turning and wagging a finger at Shen Qingqiu. )

Can it be you've found nothing? I'm not even one so dedicated to the love of books, and here I am, finding time to read interesting novels and locate all sorts of plot holes.

( Okay, so what he did was flip through books and leave piles all over because he wanted a sense of answers, and found none. But he did find the weird gaps in books! )

[youcanyouup]

[ Tch -- ]

I've had other things to worry about.

Like people leaving pornography about me out in the open, apparently!