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Cecil Gershwin Palmer ([personal profile] lasthumanvoice) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-10-13 02:12 pm

[OPEN, Mingle] Yamsgiving

Who: Cecil and EVERYONE
What: Another Harvest Celebration
When: Beginning of Pumpkinfest
Where: Center of town
Warning(s): Discussion of the Gala and its attendant CWs may come up

1. Yes, we're happy as fish [Food Prep, Oak and Iron kitchen]
Cecil's made a point of seeking out the best known chefs in town to help him put everything together for this meal. While sweet potato dishes are the star, at least one available with every course, he's hoping to hit a broad variety so everyone can find something they like. He, of course, is peeling and chopping his eternal sweet potato to make sure there's enough to go around.

(Of course you don't need to worry about him with a knife! He's fine! Don't you know he was once a boy scout?)

If someone needs an extra hand for their dishes, though, he's happy to lend one. There's an attitude of camaraderie and cheer in the room, with Cecil even breaking out singing at one or two points in the evening.


2. And gorgeous as geese [The Meal; Festival Green]
Everyone's invited to the feast. That is, in fact, the whole point. Cecil's always been pointedly neutral in the town's tensions, working as the most unbiased media monkey he can. He's the Voice of Pumpkin Hollow, and that means not taking sides between Dahlia and Neil and the Temple and whoever else. But after the gala, he's made a choice to act, to try to foster goodwill and warm feelings. This isn't the stone stew he offered during January's famine, this is a Redwall-style feast.

So, between glasses of mead from Kasprak Farm and dandelion wine, everyone is invited to fill their plate with candied yams and zucchini bread, roast chicken and venison donated by one of the Enforcers. There's a homemade cranberry sauce with citrus wedges and dandelion-leaf salad with an apple cider vinaigrette and toasted acorns for garnish. There's pasta with a homemade pesto sauce and cheese. Desserts, too, are plentiful, some even flavored with...chocolate. But many are not, and feature sweet potatoes. Muffins, pies, etc.

Find a table with a friend or a stranger, and indulge. This is a warm-fuzzy type thing--feel free to use it as a mingle.


3. And wonderfully clean in the morning [Cleanup; Also Festival Green]
Cecil is, quite honestly, expecting to be the only person to stay and clean up. He's been up since about five in the morning and he's dragging a bit at this point. Oh, he did take the time to eat, so he's not starving, but like. He could use help putting the Green back to rights.


4. We've got everything, we're growing everything [Cecil Wildcards]
[You know how to find me to plot.]
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-10-21 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
George acknowledges the hand movement, they'll come back to that, he wants to check in properly. But for now his ego's being stroked and he's nothing if not a little vain.

"Flatterer," he says with a chuckle, "I think I'd rather like to kiss you again."
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-10-21 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think that would be quite enjoyable. Please, do."

Something about this everything with George that he enjoys is how open George has been with everything. There's no thought of who might see and what they might think. They just kiss. They just dance. They just hold hands on the trolley. It seems that easy.
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-10-23 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
So he does, because it is that easy. George spent a lifetime forced hide his relationships, and now he rejoices in the fact that he doesn't have to anymore.

This kiss is a little deeper than the last, but still restrained. Even if George has no worry of who may see, to his mind there's still no need to make a spectacle of themselves.
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-10-24 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Siebren, meanwhile, still has a vague back-of-mind surprise at being wanted, being pursued and cherished like this. As the kiss ends, he giggles, unable to help himself.

"Every time is just as amazing."
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[personal profile] stonecoldtop 2024-10-28 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I couldn't agree more," George laughs, although he soon settles back to something on the edge of serious, "I'm glad you were able to make it here, how have you been?"
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[personal profile] spaghettification 2024-10-28 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
He's not going to lie and say everything is hunky-dory, but it's a good night. "Stable enough. I've been making it to work and only caused one dizzy spell to another person this week, so I'm not so concerned as I was."

Unmentioned: the ones he's caused himself as backlash, pulling back when something startles him enough for the power to begin reaching out.