What do you get when you combine two teens, two pre-teens, two boxes of large glowsticks, a nighttime backyard, and a dad with an expensive camera that can do extremely long exposure times?
This.
Started out as glowstick waving and lightsaber fights,
Devolved into glowstick-throwing fight,
Then (thanks to brother managing to deflect glowsticks with his arms and me getting an idea) into throwing glowsticks for someone with a lightsaber to try and deflect,
Then finally into a lightsaber fight while being pelted with glowsticks.
Lemme tell ya, a glowstick that’s five inches long and half an inch wide makes a very loud sound when it bounces off the bicycle helmet you’re wearing.
Today I learned that I can throw marginally better than my brothers can. This is still not well, none of us are athletic. I can do a less-than-terrible job of deflecting glowsticks, too, and I suspect we all could have done better if we’d been better at aiming the glowsticks actually at each other.
[Images: various squiggles of colorful light against a dark outdoor area, caused by rapidly moving glowsticks and glowing toy lightsabers. Vague, transparent shades of moving people are visible in some.]
Okay but what if Peter and Shuri are at the Avengers Compund and Peter asks Shuri if she wants to watch a movie with him in the screening room and she says yes. So they go in and Peter turns on Star Wars and half way through the movie he jokingly says how she should make real life SW tech. She tells him to pause the movie and she walks out of the room and comes back 10 minutes later and is like “I made these when I was 11!” And pulls out 2 functioning lightsabers and hands one to Peter, who is in shock and they start running around the compound fighting with lightsabers. T’Challa is annoyed because he told Shuri to leave them at home and Tony doesn’t know if he should be impressed bc Shuri made actual lightsabers or worried that two 16 year olds are running around using ACTUAL lightsabers.
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