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Lester Papadopoulos || Aρołło ☼ ♫ ([personal profile] papadopoulos) wrote2024-06-02 12:53 pm

happy pride, etc

“Uh, people were killed.”
“No one was killed at Stonewall.”
“No…body…was killed???”

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The café is looking much more colorful than it has in the past. Specifically, there are various flags draped on top of the walls – certainly it is much brighter than anything Enjolras would have cared to come up with. Directly behind the pastry case there is a rainbow flag, and scattered around there are a myriad of other pride flags. (Whatever they could scrounge up from the cupboards, basically.) There is also a small table set off to one side, with various types of beaded necklaces and colored bracelets lying atop it. There is also a small flier with descriptions and explanations of what the different flags represent. Explanations of pride in general will be freely offered, as well.

Dionysus has offered up his cd player, though instead of the same music from the party, it is playing songs from various queer artists. There’s a selection ranging from Bowie to Cole Porter to Billie Holiday, including more modern artists such as Lady Gaga, Mika, Queen, and Green Day. Apollo can be found near the music as usual; but he is currently engrossed in making more of the colored bracelets. He is seated at the table with a box full of friendship bracelet making supplies, wearing an artfully cropped version of this shirt, a hyacinth bloom set behind his ear. Dionysus is at a different table, wearing a knee-length sundress of pink, yellow, and blue stripes and one of the beaded bracelets Apollo is making, this one in yellow, white, purple, and black beads. He found a small facepainting palette with a few pride flag options and is willing to offer up his services if anyone happens to want a tiny flag on their cheek (or, well, wherever.)


Let us know if you want Apollo, Dionysus, or both for your threads!
vineleaves: (Waterfront)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
There he is.

"I suppose when you look at it that way, it is sorta perfect," he says, as if this isn't a thought he's already had before, how it's so fitting that the person worshipping him here is one of the ones from a play. "Thank you, though," he says, grabbing one of Claudius's hands and kissing the back of his fingers. "It does mean a lot, that you'd trust me like this."
vineleaves: (Default)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Dionysus catches that relieved look in Lancelot, and is happy to have helped bring him some level of comfort, even if it was just by giving him a word he hadn't heard before. Another job well done for Διόνυσος Λυαῖος.
vineleaves: (Gentle smile)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I could take you on a trip across the world to taste lots of different foods! Do you have a favorite food?
vineleaves: (Shady?)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Apollo, we need to get you a boyfriend," Dionysus says suddenly. "Or girlfriend, whatever. Anyone you want us to put in a good word for you with?" A pause, then he adds with a smirk, "I think Georgia's still available, if you're going to keep being a teenager."
futaille: (grin)

[personal profile] futaille 2024-06-20 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"If you need me to put in a good word for you, I'm more than happy to do so."
vineleaves: (Well that's what I said)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, Apollo, c'mon. Who do you want us to set you up with?"
futaille: (profile)

[personal profile] futaille 2024-06-20 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Grantaire's expression turns solemn, although there's an entirely too amused gleam in his eye. "Oh, this is dire."
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-20 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Food is too different to have a favorite. I have favorite kinds of foods, he explains, very seriously. My favorite kind of cake is chocolate with vanilla ice cream. It is balanced. Laertes made it for me at Wanderers Gather.
vineleaves: (Laughing)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
“Oh, Grantaire. What are we going to do? He doesn’t even realize how tragic he sounds.”
wickedwit: (mm really?)

[personal profile] wickedwit 2024-06-20 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Claudius remembers Rome, where kissed the Ring of the Fisherman, and hoped the city's holiness would cleanse some stubborn wickedness inside him, but he only found more wickedness. It seems silly, now. "Thou art so unlike Him," he laughs. "Stop me. I'll do nothing but complain of God, like some tiresome suitor who thinks flattery is comparing his second love to the first. But He had me believe that faith must always be a trial to endure. Faith in thee comes easily."
futaille: (snark)

[personal profile] futaille 2024-06-20 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Both the reference and the haiku are completely lost on Grantaire, sadly. "Yes. Completely tragic."
lightbearinglord: (at an angle)

[personal profile] lightbearinglord 2024-06-20 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
After a slow and thoughtful pause, Lan Wangji does have a question. Although he is a god, Apollo is evidently from the same time as Magnus. "Do you know how to repair a bicycle?"
lanselos_du_lac: (oh really)

[personal profile] lanselos_du_lac 2024-06-20 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is good to make sense of things." He does grab one each of the bisexual and pansexual bracelets.
vineleaves: (Well that's what I said)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither are lost on Dionysus, he just chooses to ignore them completely. "Ooh, wait, what about Aleksander? He seems like your type. Likes poetry, y'know."
vineleaves: (Ariadne)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Dionysus melts at that, both the fact that Claudius is laughing again, and that last bit about faith in Dionysus coming easy. He may be one of the twelve Olympians, but he's aware of the many ways in which he might not live up to someone's expectations of him as a god. He's not omniscient, he can't will himself to different locations instantly, and the powers he does have, while strong, are rather limited and aren't always going to be the most massively useful things.

He runs a hand through Claudius's hair, then wraps him up in a big hug. "I'm gonna be here for you, dear. Whenever you need me."
vineleaves: (Silly)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-20 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That IS balanced! he responds excitedly and completely sincere.
futaille: (Default)

[personal profile] futaille 2024-06-21 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"How horrible life would be if we only ever got what we needed, though."
vineleaves: (Are you serious)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-21 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly, Étienne! Such sage advice, see, that's why I love you so much." And he gives Grantaire a kiss before turning back to Apollo. "Ἀπόλλων. I've known you1 for four thousand years, I know what your type is. I think you two would be sweet together."


1. Or... close enough to count, anyway.
onthewillowsthere: (contemplation)

[personal profile] onthewillowsthere 2024-06-21 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
What's your favorite?
vineleaves: (Black and White Smile)

[personal profile] vineleaves 2024-06-21 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Favorite food in general is grapes. I'm predictable. Favorite cake is... he thinks this over for a moment. Strawberry cake is good.

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