o8 . clockhouse summer

[clocktowers]

Who: clocktowers, housemates, and visitors.
What: The usual bonding, mingles, and chaos.
When: June
Where: Gaze

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[lipochrome]

[ Gideon grimaces, because that is the worst image in the world! No thanks! ]

Well, I feel like if it didn't like us, it'd probably leave? Maybe? There's lots of grass to chew in other places.

[ the weird rubs continue ]

You could write a cow in your book. I bet people find stuff like this super romantic.

[ exactly as appealing as globular asses, probably. ]

[megatheorem]

Point. About the grass; I am not entirely sold on the romance.

[A beat. A glance. Gideon, buddy...]

Do you think it's romantic? Viktor didn't want to come, so I'm assuming that's one 'no,' but I'd accept another perspective.

[Soft Gideon, lover of farm dates??]

[lipochrome]

[ Gideon looks over at Harrow, who is occupied by another animal. She promptly feels very stupid for hearing romantic and making eyes right at Harrow, like, who does that? Palamedes might as well climb into bed with the both of them, with an admission like that.

The fact that they share a bed is also not a big deal. It's whatever. It's practical, actually, and at least they're not in bunk beds. ]

I mean. You know.

[ Very smooth! Gideon goes back to studying that cow. ]

It could be, if someone was into that sort of thing. It's kind of like visiting a garden, except the plants move around and make noises.

[megatheorem]

[Palamedes, who is a very polite and good friend, says nothing about this extremely overt behavior. Mostly because he doesn't even have to say anything, it's already there, all he has to do is arch an eyebrow and wait.

A garden where the plants move around and make noises, though, that's a concept? Like, in the way that a bowl of cereal is like if a fresh baked pie was cold and full of loose milk, which is to say: that's nothing, Gideon. Very good try, though.]

For the record, I've read more novels featuring romantic garden moments than romantic farm moments. You know, for future reference. For storytelling.

[And whatever else.]

[lipochrome]

Well, maybe that's because we don't have lots of animals? Like, yeah, romantic trips to the vat-meat processing plant are definitely not a thing.

[ But she does take that under advisement. It's good to....collect different ideas. For storytelling, as Palamedes says.

There's no harm in fishing for more tips. For the story, of course. ]

But what are people even supposed to do in a garden? Go, 'oh, that's a nice rose, let's make out'? [ a beat. ] Actually, I did read a comic kind of like that once, but I thought the whole thing was kind of rushed.

[megatheorem]

I think that's the main goal, yeah. In Marriage Season, [which he's now abbreviating like it's a well-known piece of the local literary canon] there are... two garden scenes. No, three; only one of them lacks floridly and lovingly detailed kissing.

[So, good shit, all things considered. Maybe the written medium is more prone to kissing.

Hmm, well, in the interest of open friendship sharing time...]

I would probably kiss in a garden. Why not, right? We hardly have gardens in the Nine Houses, either.

[lipochrome]

[ It's an incredibly influential masterwork! ]

Two garden make-out sessions? Man, there aren't even enough good mouth words out there.

[ Most mouth words are bad. That's why pictures are important.

But, oh, that's kind of cute. Thank you for the friendship sharing, Pal. Gideon offers a lopsided smile that would be knowing if she were, you know, thinking with her brain. ]

Oh, yeah? Would you, like, tell Viktor in advance, or surprise him?

[ yes, Gideon may be fishing for tips. what about it. ]

[megatheorem]

You can reuse words. In fact, it's even encouraged.

[Or else you will definitely fall into the Gross Vibe Words subset, and nobody wants that.

Anyway, this fishing... Well, he does think about it, because he is a good friend. Whew.]

Either. Both? I'm not sure the surprise would extend further than, 'Oh, Palamedes, you want to be outside for more than an hour, this is personal growth'— and it would be, guilty as charged.

[Truly, Outdoors is the worst.]

In the fictitious scenario wherein I have never kissed him before... always read the room before a surprise.