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Tim W█████ ([personal profile] postictal) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2018-02-12 01:16 pm

i know it's just a number but you're the eighth wonder [ OPEN MINGLE ]

Who: Tim and EVERYBODY WHO WANTS IN ON THIS CAUSE IT A MINGLE
What: Nail-painting. Destressing. We have earned something Nice for ourselves.
When: February 12th
Where: Just outside the Storyteller's Temple
Warnings: Probably nothing of note? Will add if needed.



There's a man sitting cross-legged outside the Storyteller's Temple, general hub of interaction that it seems to be turning into. He still looks like shit, granted, his face a colorful patchwork of bruising and a fresh bandage slapped around his middle, but that hasn't stopped him from making the best of things. A few vials of some various colorful fluids might not be familiar to everyone here, but after everything? Screw it, thinks Tim. They've deserved a break. He deserves a break. The kids here, especially, deserve a break. It's time to celebrate the fact that they are no longer in danger of freezing in the dark and living out the remainder of their days in a bleak, sunless existence.

And he liked colors, as a kid. In the blank white walls of a hospital, where everything was drained of variation and bleached white and left bone-blank, the occasional bursts of color allowed in packages of crayons and colored pencils at art time were treasures. They stopped giving him crayons after he drew the man in his room one too many times, a tall black shadow in the back of every drawing that had the doctors exchanging looks with tightened jaws and the clearing of throats that too clearly spoke to their disapproval.

It dogged him, even once he stepped out of those empty walls, his wardrobe as consistently drab and dull and monochrome as his life. It dogged him with featureless rooms and

Fuck that.

Fuck that especially, because it means that kids like Ren grew up without colors in their lives, and it means that they've had precious few simple little pleasures in the past month, and it means that they are all owed a goddamn break. And if he's bound to be a freak no matter what he does, he may as well be one with a spot of color or two.

So today, to celebrate? We're painting nails.

Fuck it. We're painting nails.

It's safe to say that Tim's new at this, particularly when he only has one good hand at the moment, but he'll still seem quite open to sharing with whoever happens along - especially if you're a kid.

[ooc: yes this is a mingle for painting some nails feel free to top-level all over]

prettypurpleparlor: Wily, flattering words (In a little corner sly)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-15 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[At this point Muffet is pretty much used to humans staring at her, so she just replies airily:]

Not as much as you'd think, really- I don't have the opportunity to wear it very often, since working in a bakery would just wear it all off too quickly for there to be any point.

[And she's basically always working, so yeah.]
escampist: to my fucking grave (i'm more than fucking halfway)

[personal profile] escampist 2018-02-20 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
...What, uh... what sorta stuff do you bake? Like. Flies or some shit?

[He's being such a rude boy, but then, that's Max for you.]
prettypurpleparlor: Bidding you good morning now (Dear friend)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-20 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Muffet is too happy about the opportunity to talk about baking to be offended.]

Oh, all sort of things- it's always nice to have the opportunity to try out new recipes. I have done a fair bit of work with insects, to suit my own tastes, but I find that when I'm baking for humans they often prefer to avoid those flavors. I always make certain to label my pastries very clearly, so no one accidentally bites into anything they don't care for.
escampist: (you can double suck my turtle dong)

[personal profile] escampist 2018-02-21 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're actually just a regular ass baker with a little bit of the spider person flavor. I... don't know what I expected.
prettypurpleparlor: A subtle web (I'm sure you're very welcome)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-22 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you'd care to try something with a nice bit of tarantula I certainly wouldn't discourage you, I just try not to serve it to people unexpectedly. Terribly rude to make something people won't eat.
escampist: (can't stop me... can't stop me...)

[personal profile] escampist 2018-02-26 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, no, I think I'm good, thanks.

Wait, do you eat that? Isn't that, like... cannibalism?
prettypurpleparlor: Thinking only (And I've a many curious things)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-26 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
No?

[Muffet shakes her head, and answers in the tone of one who has explained this many, many times:]

That is to say, cannibalism would be eating members of one's own species- or possibly just another sapient being in general- neither of which I do. Simply being another kind of arachnid doesn't make us the same. After all, you're a mammal and so is a sheep, but no one would call you a cannibal for eating lamb, yes?

[To be honest, it's kind of debatable whether she even counts as an animal in the biological sense, let alone an arachnid, but explaining that you're technically kind of a spider-shaped energy being usually gets sort of complicated.]
escampist: (oh my god! language!)

[personal profile] escampist 2018-02-26 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I... I don't know, I guess? People and sheep aren't really that similar at all.

...Well, actually sometimes they've got a lot in common. [Cutting social commentary by Max.] But I mean, shit, that doesn't freak you out at all?
prettypurpleparlor: Thinking only (And I've a many curious things)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-26 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither are tarantulas and I.

[Muffet tilts her head, looking genuinely confused.]

No, why would it?