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[OPEN] gardening & sewing log for your domestic cottagecore needs

Who: Ain & You
What: Gardening + new tailor shop log
When: A day or two after everyone gets back from the Grove... people might be dying in the log under this we'll deal with it
Where: The Grove
Warnings: None, this is a peaceful and happy log-

I. - The Tailor Shop Prompt

[The Grove has a new shop when everyone returns from the beach. It's little, the outside sign woven with wooden motifs of leaves and carved text reading "NEEDLE & THREAD", and the windows having displays of mannequins in them, one of which has only fabric draped around its neck and the other which Ain is using to sew a dress. He's also wearing his own as he does this, ten different bobby pins in his hair to keep his bangs out of the way while he works.

Although he looks busy, shuffling about to get the display set up, he'll cheerfully greet people who come in and ask if they want anything done. He doesn't have anything premade yet because this place just opened, but he's happy to take requests — or sew something up, if you need it.]

II. - The Gardening Prompt

[After the tailor shop is fully set up, Ain can be seen walking around in short overalls with a ton of gardening supplies. Flower pots, seed packets, a toolbelt filled with gardening tools he got from Heimr... he has thirty-six packages of seeds, three each of any one type of plant, and he looks overjoyed digging in soil. He has become a Dirt Boy. Which is to say he has somehow gotten swipes of dirt on his face. If you want to help, or just stare at him, you can find Ain either:

a) futzing with flower pots and hanging planters that he's trying to get hung up on the awning of the tailor shop and on the other buildings, once things get planted; and he specifically tells you that the cacti need to be planted in large pots because they grow out too, not just up, and can you help him reach this and that or move this big heavy cactus flower pot over there?

b) digging holes into the actual ground, but not near the sunflowers so he doesn't harm them by accident, around the various buildings. Here is where he's planting lilies and frangipani and a bunch of other flowers, watering the spots the seeds are buried where they immediately spring to life thanks to him asking Moder to make them grow faster earlier. The Guardian herself is lingering in the distance supervising like a mom at the park.

c) Of course, if you didn't want to help with the process of planting things, you can find Ain a few hours later making flower crowns from the lantanas and lilies.]

[[ooc: if it's helpful to anyone wanting to garden, this is the full list of plants bought: cactus, aloe vera, lilies, frangipani, wisterias, fuchsias, begonias, hydrangeas, poppies, lantanas, calendulas, & gardenias. have fun planting plants :) ]]

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[Back at the Grove, Wolfwood has been...not exactly absent, but definitely not easily found. He's not been holing himself up at the house because he doesn't really want to be there much, already feeling weird about the way Vash dropped everything to leave it to both him and Livio. No, he's spending a majority of his time at the church, a place he feels equally strange at, but somehow less so these days in comparison. Imagine that. The pigeons have missed him and congregate around his feet any time he comes in, and once they realize Wolfwood will not be providing them with snacks, they flutter up into the rafters while he sits on one of the pews and smokes.

And smokes. And smokes.

He smokes through an entire pack, and then gets up to go buy more. That's when he notices the flowers.

Ain has gone nuts planting them basically anywhere he possibly could, and it's the little pops of color dotted around that lead him to the Tailor shop where Ain has happily situated himself, currently weaving flower crowns with some of those he'd just recently planted. It's only once he's already standing there that he realizes he's not sure why he came when he doesn't have anything to...say, but here he is, holding a half-crushed empty carton and needing to say something.]

You planted all these?

[Wolfwood reeks of cigarette smoke, dear God. Ain's nose actually crinkles at the stench briefly. It's a bit overwhelming...

And speaking of church pigeons, Zinnia pops her head up from where she's sitting (on Dachie) (Ain doesn't have his hood today so she's improvised) and coos excitedly like!! that's the man that used to give me snacks!! Sometimes he hits me with a broom waow!!]

Mr. Priest! [Despite the scent, Ain is happy to see him. Maybe if he rolls around under the begonias he'll smell better.] Haha, I've been here all day getting the shop set up and planting things. Luckily, I don't need to sleep, so it was pretty easy.

[...Ain what time did you start. Ain—]

[Hello Zinnia, he is here. He does not have a broom to smack you with today, for a small blessing. He's just here with his none-cigarettes and trying to make sure he isn't accidentally standing all over Ain's flowers and ruining his hard work.]

Yeah...you mentioned that.

[The fact he doesn't sleep, he means.

He weighs the carton in his hand for a long moment before ultimately choosing this vice over another, shoving it into his blazer pocket as he walks closer to where Ain is sitting. Not too close though, he knows he reeks.]

Did one helluva' job. They look nice.

[It's so strange, to see flowers blooming everywhere like this. It's a sight no one would have seen back home.]

[Ain continues weaving stems together. The lantanas are particularly large, and he's clearly trying to match the bright purples and yellows with the lilies. Most of what he's grabbed there has been white, but he's currently searching a nearby patch of them for some pinks.]

Haha, I'm glad you think so. You didn't have flowers back home, you said, so I bet this is a little overwhelming. Ms. Moose Monster helped me grow them quicker, and when she walks places, flowers bloom under her hooves — but still, it's a lot more now.

[The lilies are quick to replace themselves when Ain plucks them, no doubt due to whatever enchantment Moder has on them. He sits back down closer to Wolfwood, weaving the pink lilies into the overall piece.

It... is huge. And he's tying the end at the back of the head off with ribbons.]

Which flowers are Mr. Priest's favourite?

II c pls

no

damn ok leaves-

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