happy pride, etc

[papadopoulos]

“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.)


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[futaille]

"That would certainly be inclusive of many things that are not face."

[vineleaves]

"Several, at least."

[futaille]

"Knees, for instance."

[vineleaves]

"Shoulder blades."

[futaille]

"Ears."

[vineleaves]

"Ears are face-related enough to count as face, I think."

[futaille]

"I think ears are attached to the face, but not face itself."

[vineleaves]

"I mean, I guess I can allow it. Tummy."

[futaille]

"I would imagine so, yes. Heel."

[papadopoulos]

"Get a room, you two," Apollo says from his corner of rainbows and beads. "I can name all of the bones, and you don't hear me bragging about it."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus turns, and is definitely not blushing at all, and stares at Apollo for a moment.

"You can't put this on bones, they're on the inside, it's for external use only, dear brother."

[papadopoulos]

"Sometimes bones aren't on the inside," he points out, helpfully. "But anyway, I'm getting really tired of you two naming random body parts. Yes, we know you can paint them."

[futaille]

Grantaire laughs. "How odd that the god of truth would object to a full accounting. O Phoebus, do not make us hide the light of the many possibilities before us."

[vineleaves]

Oh this is absolutely just the best possible way for today to have gone. 10/10. Dionysus is so happy. Grantaire is reading Apollo for filth, it's a pride month miracle.

"So anyway, as I was saying before the baby from the opening of Teletubbies over there interrupted us, toes." He's aware that Grantaire will not know what the hell a Teletubby is, but he also hopes that there is enough context in his tone for it to be obvious that he's dragging the heck out of Apollo. He can explain Teletubbies later if necessary.

[papadopoulos]

"Yes, yes, no one needs to know what filthy things you two are going to get up to with the body paint later. Artists," he says with a dramatic eyeroll, like he himself is not the head of the Muses.

[futaille]

He laughs. "That's quite an assumption, Apollo Musagetes."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus basically has heart-eyes right now. Please make fun of Apollo more, it's hilarious.

"We were just listing out possibilities, tiny little baby big brother, we never said we were actually going to paint each other's heels."

[papadopoulos]

"Yes. The most scandalous of places, the heel." He leans back in his chair and sets his feet up on the table. "I've been to your parties, baby brother, I know how this ends."

[futaille]

"His parties do have excellent endings, I agree."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus winks at Grantaire and gives him a kiss on the cheek.

[papadopoulos]

Apollo just rolls his eyes and holds up a bracelet in his hand. "How about it, want a bracelet?"

[futaille]

"I'll take one, although I'm not quite sure of the occasion."

[vineleaves]

"Oh! We never really explained that, did we?" Nope, they just started listing off body parts. "There's a modern celebration -- Pride, Pride Month, Gay Pride, lots of different versions of names for it -- for being, y'know, proud, obviously, of different sexualities and gender identities. There was a protest a few decades ago in America that sort of kickstarted it, that's why it's in June specifically," Grantaire will know all about protests that take place in June. Uh. Moving on quickly from that thought, "The different colored flags all represent different identities that people might have. But there's usually parades in a lot of cities, parties, it's nice to get to see everyone being happy about who they are, y'know?"

[papadopoulos]

They sure did. Which is why Apollo interrupted to try and get them back on track, if such a thing exists. "Yeah," Apollo agrees. "The colors and stripes all have their own various meanings, if you wanna know more about them we have a little sheet over here. And the music playing is all by queer artists, though I'm guessing you probably don't know most of them."

[futaille]

Grantaire contemplates this torrent of information. "Huh. The future is an interesting place."