May Log

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Who: Everyone!
Where: Anywhere
What: May mod log!
When: The First two weeks of May.
Warnings: Use your best discretion.

May Open log

First of May, First of May

So apparently the open festive mood on the locals hasn’t stopped so May opens with a tradition that happens within it. It’s May Day, or Beltane if you’re feeling formal and it doesn’t just last for the day. Instead it lasts for two weeks, because why do in one day what you can party for multiple days over?

There are the traditional May Day things of course. There’s the May pole stretching upwards with its brightly colored ribbons welcoming people to do it either together or separately. The colors are explained of course, purple for a good year, pink for fertility, green for fiscal gain, blue for calmness. Each ribbon wrapped around the ancient poll is a wish, an old woman tells you. So you should take it seriously. But if you do is up to you.

Ringing outside of the giant circle in the recreation dome are large bonfires. People are writing down their wishes for the year and burning them into the universe. Some more… adventurous people are hopping over the fire in order to increase the effectiveness of the wishes. In case you were wondering, John is standing ready with a med kit and a judgmental look on her face.

There are small picnics set up around rather than tables, and spring foods are placed on it. Strawberries, oat cakes, chocolate, and things like real food are scattered on them, letting people pick and share the platters around them equally. Wine flows freely, of course. Wine made here in the Sphere that comes in a variety of fruited flavors.

Traditional things such as three legged races and general races are occurring, people grouping those with powers together in order to make it fair. Other games are happening. Including Max in the dunk tank for a few minutes, so you may wanna get that in.

There are of course things that are non-traditional as well. After all, this is the Sphere. A series of bouncy castles is set up, as is an inflatable obstacle course. One of the larger castles is even set aside for the adults because well, why not.

Several large ball pits are set up and people are bringing drinks to them. There’s no way that can go wrong. It’s adults only because sometimes everyone just needs a ball pit.

Fireworks happen every night. Or at least something that looks like fireworks, minus the fire and the noise. But they fill the sky above the Sphere, making it seem as if they are under a real sky.

painting the roses red.

After celebrating the spring in April, May brings with it the work of what spring actually entails. What it entails especially after the loss of the person in charge (rip Annie) is doing the sort of normal planting in the fields. There are people around to supervise and to hand out seeds and the other things that one needs to successfully plant fields and all of that.

There are other fields and vegetable patches to be weeded and harvested, because the agriculture dome tends to always be in a state of flux depending on how many people are currently living in the sphere at the time.

But it wouldn’t be a community event if food wasn’t provided, so there’s a sort of barbecue going on. It definitely smells like barbecue that’s for sure, and there are people tending long pits of things that look like meat but that definitely aren’t. Still it tastes like good old bbq and that’s really what matters isn’t it?

Of course it wouldn’t be bbq without beer, so there’s a lot of it. It’s free-flowing (a little too free-flowing actually) and some of the teenagers have gotten their hands on it. On way too much of it as a matter of fact. Which is why it seemed like a good idea to them to show up at the work picnic with squirt guns full of washable paint.

If it’s washable and non-toxic, one argues, then it’s not as if anyone can be really angry.

But honestly it’s a paint fight. Join in or be an innocent victim there are definitely squirt guns a plenty around.

Everyone loves bathtime, right?

Well, people requested baths, so the staff at the pools in the Rec dome have tried to accommodate them! While normally, the events at the pools go something like this: The largest of the three pools, and the light is constant and sunny here. The large pool is Olympic sized, and is a sparkling blue. It’s fresh water, and probably clean enough to drink. I still wouldn’t drink it. The second pool is slightly smaller and more kidney shaped with a gradual sand mound at one end of it. This pool is salt water and looks a bit more like a beach than a pool. The third pool is a kiddie pool, complete with a splash pad, that’s running. Buckets drop, it’s got one of those mushroom things, and sprinkler jets. There aren’t any kids though, so people are welcome to go nuts.

Bathing suits and towels are provided in the divided changing rooms. There’s frozen and fruity drinks flowing freely, along with finger food and snacks.

The Sphere has increased it towards bathing though, through the use of temporary means. There’s a large bamboo building near it, and inside are various sets of hot and cool pools, sauna and steam pools, a masseuse and other spa treatments and the like. There’s three options for these times. 1.Strictly bathing suits, 2, strictly mixed nudity/ bathing suits and 3. Strictly separated nudity. No one below the age of eighteen is getting naked in the baths, sorry kids.

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[garrrr]

Instead of taking the fruit by hand, Gar cheekily leans forward to take a bite while Tommy's still holding it and then leaning back on his hands as he looks around, not just at the blanket spread and all.

"Are you trying to impress me, tommy?" he teases gently. Because he doesn't need to be impressed or spoiled. Just Tommy is enough.

[doubled_speed]

That's cheeky, and Tommy actually sort of approves of it. Doesn't even flinch away. is he doing better at this boyfriend thing?

"Maybe," Tommy laughs. "Or maybe I just want a good day."

[garrrr]

Gar swallows the bite of fruit and his eyes appraise the other.

"It's going to be an amazing day."

[doubled_speed]

Oh, really? Is it? Tommy smiles and lays back to look up at the 'sky'.

"You're just glad I'm going to snuggle you like this, aren't you?"

[garrrr]

Gar relaxes more and he really likes it when Tommy smiles. He reaches to take his hand, curling their fingers together for as long as tommy will allow it as he settles back.

"Can't complain about snuggling the totally hot guy I'm dating at all."

[doubled_speed]

"If you complained, I might have to go snuggle someone else," Tommy agrees, and he allows Gar to take his hand. Even holds it for a while. he's getting better at this. He hopes.

"I... thought you should know that I've been having fun. With all of this. With us."

[garrrr]

"And I'd hate that," Gar says. Not that he's an overly jealous type but maybe -- just a little bit. He enjoys the type spent holding Tommy's hand and he relaxes in the peacefulness of the day, close to his boyfriend and while he knew Tommy had been having fun it feels extra nice to hear it out loud.

He shifts and he could have gone for the wine or more food but he leans over and kisses Tommy instead as he murmurs "me too."

[doubled_speed]

See, he's even getting used to kissing. Tommy meets the kiss too, smiling into it. And when it fades he takes up his wine and sips at it.

"I've been here a year now. It's so weird... This place has given me everything."

[garrrr]

"A year?" Gar says and he reaches for his glass as well and then another piece of fruit as he glances over at Tommy.

"I guess it's not all bad is it?" he grins.

[doubled_speed]

Oh yeah, totally a year. And that means he deserves a toast. Instead he just smiles.

"This place has given me a lot. Family. Friends. A chance with a guy like you? Sometimes I think I shouldn't go home."

[garrrr]

Gar definitely didn't think to make a toast or something. Whoops. He does grin at the other listing the good things he's gotten here, that Gar makes that list too.

"I'd be sad if you did," Gar says softly. And it's strange to think about it, to kind of feel torn between two places.

[doubled_speed]

"I've never been so torn between two very different things," Tommy admits, and he almost feels awkward to say it. He doesn't know Gar feels the same. "I want to go home, but this place... it feels more like home than Earth as I know it ever did."

[garrrr]

Gar nods and it's not the first time that it feels like Tommy can read his mind. "I know how it feels," Gar says and while sometimes this place doesn't feel like home. There's so much of his loved ones missing from it but there's also so much to live for here too. He wants to have both.

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, Tommy misses his brother too. But that isn't going to happen. So instead he moves to tug Gar right into his lap, holding him and burying his face in Gar's shirt.

"For this moment, it feels perfect."

[garrrr]

Gar's surprised when he's pulled into Tommy's lap but he settles immediately. He likes being close, likes being in Tommy's lap. He'd figured that out pretty early on on the first date.

"It really does," Gar agrees and he takes a sip of the wine before setting it to the side. "Every moment with you feels kinda perfect."

[doubled_speed]

"And now we're in danger of being sappy," Tommy laughs, but... he doesn't let Gar go. Or move away.

He's trying. He still doesn't think he's in love. But maybe... it's possible he's genuinely affectionate. Can that be enough?

[garrrr]

It's only a third or so date depending on how you really count them and all. Love doesn't need to be on the table anytime soon. Affection? Affection is more than Gar could ask for. And he's happy to bask in it.

"Mhm, so what? I know you've got squishy insides now, Tommy," he teases softly, gently. He tilts his head so his nose brushes along the other's jawline and Tommy smells so good and the urge to kiss him is getting very strong.

[doubled_speed]

"No way, man. My insides are made of steel. Not squishy at all," Tommy insists, even as he kisses Gar's neck.

The little affections mean SO MUCH to him. It's something he hadn't had growing up. The easy affection of this life since coming here is... almost heartbreaking in some ways.

And he doesn't mind it.

[garrrr]

"Mhm," Gar says but he knows better. Sure there's some steel but it just protects all the squish. He bites his lip briefly as the other kisses his neck. It tingles in the best way.

"Feels nice when you do that," he says softly because just in case someone's in hearing distance.

[doubled_speed]

So far as Tommy's hearing can tell, no one is close enough to catch them out at this. Which means he can spare another kiss.

"Well, your skin is soft and tasty, so it works."

[garrrr]

"You think I'm tasty," Gar laughs but he likes it, likes that kiss to his neck. His fings brush through Tommy's hair, tugging just a little for him to lift his head so he can kiss him properly.

[doubled_speed]

A proper kiss is something he can oblige, leaving Gar's neck to instead meet his lips.

[garrrr]

Gar closes his eyes as he kisses Tommy. The other's lips are perfect really, the kiss makes his heart race and his fingers curl in the other's hair. He hesitantly parts his lips a little, testing the waters for deepening the kiss.

[doubled_speed]

Perfect lips? Not even remotely true. But Tommy is so happy to have that kiss, letting Gar deepen it, pulling the other guy closer.

Make-outs? TOTALLY great.

[garrrr]

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder or whatever. And Gar is relieved when Tommy lets him deepen the kiss, pulling him even closer. He forgets about the picnic and that they're out in the open really because kissing Tommy like this had been on his mind for long enough and now it's reality.

His tongue brushes against the other's lips a fleeting thing.