exsiliumlogs | ( open ) happy moonsgiving, everyone! (forward dated to 11/15)

Date & Time: All Day, November 15th, 3313
Location: Focused centrally on the Moon Base Cafeteria.
Characters: Any and all!
Summary: It's a feast on the moon under the guise of being a new sort of Thanksgiving! Food, drink, merriment, food comas... lend a helping hand, fill a few plates of goodies, and meet friends new and old!
Warnings: None right now. Please PM this account should anything go beyond a "my grandmother is also reading this and that is okay" level of appropriate.
Notes: Tag in action or prose, and please specify a time of day, location, or activity your character is participating in! (Set-up, the feast, clean up, etc.) Feel free to offer multiple prompts, as your heart desires! Also, Collette is asking for people to write something they're thankful for on butchers paper on the wall before getting their first plate of food. This is 100% optional!

In the morning, the setting up begins. It's hard to say what's a morning versus what isn't on the moon, but using the lighting system as a sort of guide, those who offered to help set up the feast or continue on with the cooking will all be there bright and early.

After things are cleaned, the cooking continues on while further set up of plateware and silverware and hard to break glasses are left to those helping hands with a mind for arrangement details. The whole of one section has been converted into a sort of buffet-style lineup, waiting for the dishes to be complete and set at ready. All varieties of the usual dietary fare have been offered, some in greater quantities than others.

Then comes the time where people stopping by or trickling in aren't just turned around or co-opted into assisting; it's feast time, though not before an announcement that each person getting a plate of food must write at least one thing they're thankful for on a large sheet of butcher paper taped up to the wall. There's a variety of colored markers and pens provided, from someone's personal (and eclectic) collection. It's a soft price to pay for free food and plenty of it!

When the feasting has wound down, so begins the clean up. Tired, drunk, well fed, over fed, or simply content, people will be shuffled out or dragged into helping turn the cafeteria back into working, normal form. What decorations were added will need collecting (or stealing), plates and dishes and cooking implements and pots and pans will need washing, and floors a good sweeping and waterless mopping before things are all back in order. Leftovers, if there are any, will need to be placed in sealable containers and put into refrigeration.

And then, blissfully unaware of anything impending on the horizon, to bed, or different haunts, for the night.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hey!

( Collette says with a grin, obviously pausing and blinking as she takes Mahdi in. There's something odd, but it doesn't strike her as what straight away. Accepting the napkin she laughs, shaking her head. )

No, no, not at all. Besides, purple looks good on you! Orange is more the new thing of the moment for me.

( Which, being said, means a somewhat impish look creeps into her expression. If Mahdi's face is in reach, she'll dab a spot on him; but otherwise it remains merely an impish look. )

You've got pies!

I hope I brought enough! Apple and Pumpkin, and the cakes are... spice and also apple. I had all this apple pie mixture left over from when we went to New York.

[Mahdi is definitely pleased at the compliment, and also definitely now orange right on the tip of hir nose!]

I guess we're both rocking orange now! But thank you, I really like this dress. I thought it might be too fancy, but it's what suited my mood today.

New York? Oh, right! How did that go?

( She asks, giggling at the orange on Mahdi's nose. )

Fancy's a nice thing on Thanksgiving, I think. Besides, why not wear what you want?

( Ah, that's what she was pinging to, the dress. Which was mostly weird because she can't recall seeing Mahdi in one before... is it a fashion he's fallen into? )

Those smell delicious!

That's what I started thinking awhile back, too. For a long time, I didn't want to dress in a way that drew any attention. Hm, too bad I came to this idea right when it became impossible to go shopping...!

The mission to New York went really well. I got to spend the whole time as a girl in this pretty dress and we went dancing and then stole all this food! I had a really good time. [A slight pause:] But I don't think I'd want to go back to it. Even to return the dress.

Do you want a piece? This sounds ridiculous, but I'm really not great at cutting it... but I'll do it for you!

( Something in how he says all that makes her pay attention -- she doesn't know enough to think of what this might indicate, or of the language that might be associated. her time period isn't all that enlightened for it, or concepts of genders beyond the binary division arbitrarily shown in the dichotomy of her version of North American Culture. )

There'll be time again later! Plus, I bet that one person would love to have a good customer... if you wanted nice things in styles you like here, too!

( Because it does sound weird to her to hear he had fun spending time as a girl, in part because the time she's been a boy was very literal indeed, and it was only freeing for being able to walk, not for all the weird difficulties that came along with changes in outward sex and no inner gender definitions. Then again, she guesses it could be a kind of thrill -- and when he's happy, what else matters?

What else really is important? )

Early? I don't know, would that be fair?

( But she asks with a grin that says fairness is a mythological beast and she nods her head shyly anyway, quipping: )

I'll take whatever kind of try you have. None of us can be perfect. We'd be so bored if any of us were!

Maybe not, but I don't get many opportunities to spoil one of my favorite little-sister-types. [Mahdi is actually gathering quite a disturbing collection. Though ze feels more like they tend to look after hir, not vice-versa.]

You mean Allumette, right? I texted her after your suggestion. I have to ask her if she can make a dress out of table-cloth! I'll be like one of those kids from the goat musical...

Now, I need a knife...!

There's a musical about goats?

( Wait, that sounds interesting! Collette gestures to the long tables up against the wall. )

We've got a couple serving knives out on the tables... there should be one right over there!

( She's still cleaning as much paint off as she can right now, trying to recall where she left the baby wipes. )

I don't think it was just about goats. There were all these children. And a nun! I liked her! They were like, How do you solve a problem like Maria? and I could really relate to that... I think my family looked at me like that too!

[Mahdi produces a knife, and cuts the spice cake - the easiest of the bunch, since it's loaf-shaped. It's a modest piece, but shouldn't crumble so much that handing it to Collette folded in a napkin is a problem.]

I don't want you to spoil your dinner, now!

Kinda makes you wonder if people are even meant to be problems you solve, or just things you accept!

( She snorts, shooting Mahdi a lazy grin. )

Ruin dinner? By starting with dessert? Impossible! That just makes it better!

( Even if she knew what was meant by the statement. )

You're probably right on both counts. It's a lot easier to get along with people if you just accept them for who they are.

As for dessert... you have to promise me to eat lots and lots even though I spoiled you, okay? Let me know what you think!

As soon as I can nab me a fork -- ah! Mahdi, think you can hand me the one right over there?

( She points to a stack on the table behind Mahdi. )

Here you go!

[Mahdi hands over the fork, and an extra napkin.]

( She shoots Mahdi a grin in thanks, accepting the fork and napkin, though the napkin is left on the table rather than in her lap, and she delicately shoves the fork into her slice of dessert. Bringing it up to her mouth, she chews slowly, savoring the variety of flavors rolling over her tongue. Her "mmm!" of appreciation is genuine and happy. )

Delicious! You're brilliant at this, Mahdi!

( open ) happy moonsgiving, everyone! (forward dated to 11/15)

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