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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: Bidding you good morning now (Dear friend)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-02-26 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Why thank you, dearie.

[Muffet smiles cheerfully, always happy to take a compliment.]

I did, aside from Tim's much-appreciated contribution of getting us all this nail polish in the first place. To be fair, it doesn't take nearly as much time when you have so many spare hands to work with.
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[personal profile] daydreamy 2018-03-01 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess it doesn't! You must have a super steady hand, though. I only have two to worry about and my nails still always end up really smudgy.

[ She's still peering admiringly at all those layers of colours as she says this ]

What'd he get all this nail polish for anyway?
prettypurpleparlor: Wily, flattering words (In a little corner sly)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-03-05 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it's from all the practice I get while baking- some cakes require very careful decoration.

[Spun sugar is fucking hard to work with, okay?]

I'm not sure why, but I'm certainly happy he did. Perhaps he just wanted everyone to have something nice, after how stressful recent events have been.
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[personal profile] daydreamy 2018-03-06 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugggghhh, right?!

[ She gives the most dramatic of sighs. ]

It's not bad enough we got dragged here, we've gotta get involved in all the drama too. Don't get me wrong! If someone needs help, I wanna help them, for sure! But it's so much, all the time. It's like-- give us a break sometime, you know?
prettypurpleparlor: I have within my pantry (Table ready)

[personal profile] prettypurpleparlor 2018-03-06 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Muffet nods in agreement.]

Or at least some kind of advance warning. A regular schedule for these things would work wonders, frankly.