desperance: (Mac)
desperance ([personal profile] desperance) wrote2009-04-25 04:18 pm

Distraction must be what I keep them for

The boys just spent two frozen minutes staring at each other, across a cluttered office floor. Then, inevitably, Mac came a-hurtling into the fray - and halfway over, he landed on an empty cardboard box that made such a strange noise it quite startled him out of pounce.

So then he thought perhaps he might find his lost dignity in the bottom of the shredder. Which he has tipped over and emptied, and is now scratching vainly at the unforthcoming plastic.

Barry is just staring at the whole performance, utterly bewildered.

[identity profile] mevennen.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
The other day, Bear stalked Sid. She did so stealthily, quietly, one big paw carefully raised and put down again, and then - she BOUNCED! BOING! Which would have been effective had Sid not been staring directly at her the whole time, with a 'you poor fool' trademark pitying stare.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Hopeless doggy optimism: you sort of have to admire it, in a cynical feline kind of way...

[identity profile] mevennen.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Sid only admires it in the sense that it can be Manipulated.

[identity profile] esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to pair off Mac and Mal, and Barry and Sagwa, to see how they would interact with each other. In the name of Science.

If it wouldn't be hazardous to everyone involved, anyway.

In my imagination, Barry and Sagwa would mellow out in a sunbeam and that would be that.

Mac and Mal would beat each other up and shred boxes until they got bored, then they'd chase Sagwa and Barry in new and entertaining combos.

It would all be very dire.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. We should probably be grateful for the Atlantic: protecting us from dire since, um...