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

[eidxiety]

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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[lupusxylem]

[ :)))

Fine fine...he'll grab a piece for himself then, pondering it for a moment before he pops it into his mouth. And talks around it immediately, because that's attractive.]

Mmhff. S'not half bad. Kinda messy t'eat though...

[eidxiety]

That's how ice cream is usually, Wolfwood. Have you never had it before?

[Slurping that ice cream off the spoon like a damn ho like—]

I guess it would be hard where you're from.

[lupusxylem]

Yeah I- [He said it again he did it again he's going insane]...we didn't really have it much back home.

[No fun treats when you're an orphan, or when the world is struggling to do things like survive in general.

He'll take another piece though, trying not to stare too hard at Ain licking that spoon.]

[eidxiety]

[They'll finish it off together as god intended. Fun not-date they're on right. It's totally not a date it's just two guys bein' dudes y'know. This is a totally platonic male outing.]

There's a lot of treats that are sort of messy. Like the baklava. It's crumbly, so it'll fall apart as you eat it, and these cookies— [the ma'amoul] —they'll get powdered sugar all over you. That's kind of the fun of it!

[Speaking of cookies it's time for cookies. These are filled, of course, but that does not stop Ain from eating his in two huge bites.]

[lupusxylem]

[Just guys bein' dudes sharing a shit ton of food. Two guys sitting together in a hot tub 5 feet apart because they're not gay energy. They've just been Doing this.

Anyway, Wolfwood doesn't know what any of these foods are, but at least the cookies seem normal enough, even if they're covered in powdered sugar.]

One thing I'm noticin' is a lotta this shit is pretty sweet...but I guess it is a cafe, that's kinda the point.

[eidxiety]

I love sweet foods. I'm not picky in general, I'll eat anything as long as it tastes good, but sweets in particular are my favourite. It seems kind of sad to live your life without tasting them.

[Then again, Ain doesn't need to eat, so he did the same thing for most of his life until he had to pretend to be human. And now he eats like, a not-normal amount if he can, but that's fine.]

If you want savoury stuff, that's what that bar is for... but I'm not much of a drinker. Besides, and no offence to Mr. Bartender, his bar isn't adorable.

[He doesn't have a bunny running the place.]

[lupusxylem]

[Wolfwood snorts on an amused laugh at that, and you know...it does remind him of something.]

Well...It's not totally true t'say I've never had 'em. I like lollipops. I carry 'em around with me when I can afford it, back home. Gives me somethin' to suck on that isn't a cigarette for a change.

[Do you ever just have an oral fixa-]

But yeah, that tracks. You prolly like fruity drinks and shit, right?

[eidxiety]

Lollipops! Noted. [Why noted? Just noted.] Haha, I do, but I'm bad with liquor. I think I told you this when you were drunk and we kissed, [spin the bottle was a wild time,] but I get drunk pretty easily and then I get all over-emotional. It's not a good time.

[He prefers to ignore his emotions actually, it's easier that way. You know what he's not ignoring? The semolina pudding, say goodbye to it—]

[lupusxylem]

Y'did, yeah. [Feels like a century ago, now. Man. So many awful things have happened since then like wowe-] That's alright. Not everyone does good with alcohol, you don't gotta have it. For me, I guess...it helps me relax. I kindof have a hard time doin' that otherwise.

[He either drinks or he smokes, and more often it's the latter because he's just so heavily addicted at this point.

Wolfwood is also slowing down on the sharing, at this point. This is a LOT of sugar for his system, so he's going to sit back and see how much else Ain can polish off on his own. Like there's no way he'll eat it all, right-]

[eidxiety]

[Haha bitch you thought—

Ain is in fact going to wolf everything else they have down. It'll take him some time, yeah, but he munches and talks. He tells Wolfwood about how Dipper was in the shop earlier looking for new flannel shirts, and Pure Vanilla helped him plant things, and he and Livio planted succulents together and it was cute (Ain totally tried a hand-hold move on him y'know how it be), and how Mizuki wanted a dress and...

You know, stories. Said in between bites of food.

The food is gone by the time he's done yapping.]

[lupusxylem]

[Hearing about all of the little things Ain has been doing with people around the Grove...it makes him realize more and more that his initial impressions had been only skin deep. Sure, he will give as good as he gets when someone is being an asshole, but beyond that...he's very sweet and kind to those around him. Far more than Wolfwood has ever been, that's for damn sure. He feels especially warm, hearing about how he'd been planting things with Livio.

Then, before he even realizes it:]

...I'll be damned.

[He really did it. This twink really sat here and shut Wolfwood's mouth by eating EVERYTHING he ordered. He hardly counts the little bit he helped him with, because Ain otherwise ate all of this entirely on his own.]

A'ight, well. Fair's only fair. I'll get to thinkin' and come back to you with a new outfit or two once I've bought 'em.