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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[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."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus laughs. "That's one way to describe it."

[papadopoulos]

"It's fun, most of the time. Not perfect, of course; but fun."

[futaille]

"Perfection is grossly unattainable, so that's unsurprising."

[vineleaves]

"If it was perfect we wouldn't need all of this," he gestures vaguely around, at the flags and everything else. "But it's definitely a nice, fun way to help in the meantime."

[papadopoulos]

"It is. And it's not quite the same here, but we figured people should learn about it in any case."

[futaille]

His voice turns slightly amused, although at what is not immediately evident. "Education is certainly important. The ABCs of a new subject, if you will."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus just giggles.

[papadopoulos]

"...Good thing I'm not the god of puns, because I might have to yell at you for that one." Yes, he knows your song(s), Grantaire.

[futaille]

His eyebrows rise suddenly. "Is there a god of puns?"

[vineleaves]

"Not... specifically?" Dionysus says, after a few moments to mentally run through all of the possible choices and try to remember if that exact title already belongs to anyone. "You could just start telling people it's you, not like anyone can prove you aren't." He glances at Apollo to see if he's getting as annoyed by that comment as Dionysus intended.

[papadopoulos]

"The god of truth could," Apollo says, throwing a rude gesture Dionysus' way. Because he is a mature god, you see.

[futaille]

"I don't need to be a god anyway. I'll just tell people the god of puns is Jambonette Capiglet."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus definitely has heard about the stuffed animal his son (???) gave his boyfriend. He giggles and grins. "I don't even know if that entirely counts as a lie. Who's to say Jambonette is not a god of this place?"

[papadopoulos]

Needless to say, Apollo has not. He rolls his eyes and settles back into his beadwork. "Yeah, okay, you two have fun."

[futaille]

"Well, I also know who isn't the god of having a sense of humor, apparently."

[vineleaves]

"This is why I'm the fun god people like to hang out with, and he's the god they go to when they need to... I dunno, get a tan, or whatever." He does actually like his brother, for the record, he's just being a pain in the butt out of Little Brother Obligation.

[papadopoulos]

"Yeah, because concerts are totally boring." He sticks out his tongue. "Shut up, unless you want hay fever." They both know it's an empty threat.

[futaille]

"That depends on the concert."

[vineleaves]

"Yeah, some concerts are definitely boring." Some plays are boring too, but that's not what they're talking about right now.

[papadopoulos]

"You just don't know how to appreciate good music."

[futaille]

"The concerts of good music aren't the boring ones."

[vineleaves]

"Exactly! Thank you, Étienne, you beat me to it." Dionysus gives him a kiss on the cheek.