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saltwaterlungs ([personal profile] saltwaterlungs) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-06-21 09:22 am

OUR HOUSE

CHARACTERS: Phil, Dimitri, Darcy, Ruby, the Venom Symbiote, and you!
DATE: June
LOCATION: The farmhouse on 499 Winter's Avenue
SITUATION: Home-making and housewarming
WARNINGS: Usual warnings for all characters involved but otherwise n/a

I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase (Closed to phil/dimitri/ruby/venom)

Moving out of the Oak and Iron has been on Darcy’s mind- well. Virtually since she got to Pumpkin Hollow. But with Phil back and all, they started making plans for it in earnest. A combination of saving up and mysterious brass from some old dude fairy (??? she isn’t asking too many questions) means that they have the means. All they have to do is do it.

The week prior to the housewarming is spent working in and around the construction of a couple of new rooms, subdivided up from the old floor plan. Paint, wallpaper, fresh fabric to reupholster some of the furniture, a lot of cleaning. Plus there’s the logistics of moving all their stuff, which is significantly harder without cars and on an island that’s bigger than one ship. Darcy doesn’t even have that much shit, it just all stacks up somehow.

She spends her time mostly between generally assisting the move, setting up the kitchen, and putting her room together once they’ve finished building it. Darcy can be found doing any of those three things.
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It’s not going to be the shindig to end all shindigs, but once the dust has settled and everyone’s recovered from moving everything around, friends and family will get a call inviting them over. All the windows are open for the mild Summer night air, the curtains drift a little in the breeze, and the song of crickets can be heard from anywhere in the house. The lights inside the house are warm and cheery, and seem to beckon you in, the shadows around them seeming… darker, somehow.

There’s lemonade with some Phil-made ice cubes in it, and Darcy hasn’t moved from the kitchen in service of making canapes to feed anyone who shows up. Cold cuts on bread, sandwiches with cucumbers left over from the carnival, small fish cakes. It’s a good way to break the kitchen in. When the food has been made, Darcy sets up out the front on the porch, curled up with some lemonade on one of the chairs, looking out into the night and making some small greeting to anyone who approaches.
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2024-06-28 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I'm doing well." She casts a look around the room, and smiles at him. "Your new house is lovely. I'm so happy for you all."
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[personal profile] goodweather 2024-07-09 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you!" he beams. "Dimitri's been doing construction work, so he did a lot of figuring out how to actually build the thing properly, and a lot of the heavy lifting." Of course. "Aside from being told what to do, I mostly figured out layout and where all the furniture was going. We still haven't completely done up everything yet, but that can wait."
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2024-07-10 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"It's good to be able to make a place yours," she says. "I'm hoping to have a chance to do that myself, once I've settled in. At least with regard to furnishings and such."
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[personal profile] goodweather 2024-07-17 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"All it takes is time, but it does take time," he assures, suddenly deeply aware that aside from the cabin on the ship, he's pretty sure Cassandra has largely only lived in a castle that had already housed her ancestors for ages. Does she know much about interior design, he wonders.

"A house takes a long time to furnish in a way that makes it really feel like yours. You have live your life in it to leave the evidence of you in there, you know?"
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2024-07-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. And," unknowingly echoing his thought, "the closest I've ever come to that is rearranging things in the castle, after the Briarwoods were gone."

A beat. "I turned the long table perpendicular, in the main dining room."

(Not the grand hall, where they held the feast that one terrible night; the smaller hall where the family dined together, often with high-ranking members of the household or less formally-received guests.)
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[personal profile] goodweather 2024-07-22 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
His brow shoots up.

With a barely suppressed laugh: “Is there still room to slide past the end seats?”
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2024-07-22 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yes," she assures him. "I had them move the sideboards as well, that made enough space. The room's really almost perfectly square, it only looked that much longer than it was wide."