[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 :) ]]

Comments

[eidxiety]

[Dachie immediately starts making happy owldog noises. They sound like the screams of the damned, but soft.]

Haha, I see... I'll get this patched up as best I can, but you're going to have stitch lines here and there. I can only do so much with spare fabric and a needle. Is that okay?

[sesa]

[Scritch scritch the dachie]

Mmm...that depends.

Can you make it look cool? Like I've been scarred in battle?

[eidxiety]

...I can try, haha? Why do you want it to look like that?

[Looks at Sesa.]

Don't you already have scars somewhere? You're a dragon... you guys are pretty fighty, right?

[Stereotyping Sesa based on Perkisas like...]

murders ain

[sesa]

[Ain you can't just ask people that-]

I suppose some are...but not me. I am a pacifist!

[But he hums, considering...and since he already forked over his coat for Ain to work with, it's easy enough for him to reach down and pull his tank off over his head, just right there in the fucking middle of the shop, chest muscles flexing as he drapes it over his forearm now that he's topless.]

I do have quite a few scars from welding and machinery accidents. See?

[They're on his chest along with his arms, dotted around his scales because he's clumsy when he works sometimes.]

what is up with every man in this game out to get his ass!!!

[eidxiety]

[Racially stereotypes you!!! Sorry he still hasn't figured out what racism is yet. Anyway, Ain is sitting there waiting for an explanation and by Elria's light my GUY—]

I-I... yes, haha, I do see! Wow, you'll just take your shirt off anywhere, won't you! [Not that he minds, but still!] No wonder Mr. Pigeon claws you so much...

:3c?

[sesa]

Well, you asked!

[Sesa you are......you are.]

I can't say I mind it, though. The scratches left behind are symbols of his everlasting devotion.

[He sighs wistfully.]

But unfortunately, the ripping does need to be mended. It isn't safe to work in a workshop with too much loose clothing.