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I HATE WHEN TAGS GO POOF

Aug 09, 2009 01:15

Who: Everyone in town, SVP
What: Lulu's 20th Birthday Party!
When: August 8th, 8ish
Where: Lulu/Clarice/Moira abode

Note: If you can, subject your entry with the time your character got there, just for convenience.

( I HATE when LJ eats my entries. )

!party, clarice ferguson, lulu spencer, castiel, richie cunningham, !open, moira byrne

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8 PM richie_bucko August 12 2009, 19:09:47 UTC

It was Richie, carrying a large tray with twenty pink-frosted chocolate cupcakes he'd made himself. Since he admittedly had never spent much time learning to cook, the frosting was messy and the cupcakes were somewhat uneven. Still, Richie had made an extra one to taste himself, and everything tasted fine.

"Hi, Lulu!" Richie said with a big grin, holding out his tray so she could see it. "Happy birthday!"

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 21 2009, 01:25:33 UTC

"Weird. I mean, I like looking in books and all, but the convenience of it is totally gone. Um...maybe? I can't say I'm terribly knowledgeable about it. But it's just a guys thing?"

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 21 2009, 01:30:02 UTC

Richie nodded. "Yeah, I understand that." He chuckled. "No, well, I only know about it because my dad belonged. Uh...I guess it is a guy thing." He'd never really thought about it before. "But, you know, women pretty much stay home in my time, so they can socialize whenever they want. And there are quilting clubs and sewing circles and stuff." He thought his mother belonged to one of them, though he couldn't really be sure. He didn't pay much attention to girl stuff.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 21 2009, 01:37:06 UTC

Lulu raised her eyebrows. "Well if it's still just a guy thing I probably don't know about it since my dad wasn't exactly a picture perfect father of the year figure." Women stayed home and socialized and quilted? "Well that's just dumb."

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 21 2009, 01:38:49 UTC

Richie nodded. "I don't know. I haven't heard anybody talk about the Elks here, so it might've died out. Or it might just be older guys who belong now." Richie frowned slightly. "Wait, what's dumb?" Was he not being a twenty-first century guy? He'd been trying so hard to get up to date.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 21 2009, 01:41:30 UTC

"I don't know. I mean, my dad was old enough, just...not really family-community oriented enough, I guess." Lulu widened her eyes. "The whole women staying home and socializing and quilting! I mean, why not go to school and take classes or have jobs?"

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 21 2009, 01:46:20 UTC

Richie nodded, patting Lulu's shoulder sympathetically. He knew she hadn't had an easy family life at all. "Well. If you ever met my dad...I don't know what you'd think of him. He's pretty...set in his ways." Code for 'very much a man of his time'.

Richie considered her words. "But that's part of it. I mean, that's how...that's one way that a man can feel proud of what he does. He knows he can support his wife and she doesn't have to work. In a way, if his wife has to work...he's failed. It's a failure, because he wasn't a good enough provider." That was definitely how he'd been raised.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 21 2009, 04:32:11 UTC

"Oh?" Lulu raised an eyebrow. She never did well with people who were set in their ways, given what most of their ways were.

"But what if she wants to work. What if she wants to provide and her husband can stay home?"

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 21 2009, 13:30:48 UTC

"He's a good guy," Richie hastened to reassure her. "It's just that he's never, you know...I mean, he wouldn't know about how things are now. And he's a little more blustery sometimes than he really is at heart."

Richie wrinkled his forehead. "Well...in my time, that's usually not how it works. There are some exceptions, I'm sure, but mostly it's the guys who work and the girls who stay home and take care of the house and the kids and stuff." He raised his hands. "I'm not saying that's how it should be or anything like that. Just how it is where I come from." He really didn't want to make Lulu upset with him.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 21 2009, 21:25:09 UTC

Lulu didn't blame Richie. She wasn't even upset with him. It was just the backwards way of thinking that was the 1950s that bothered her. "Well I guess it's a good thing I'm not from the 50s because I'd probably be ostracized with no friends."

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 29 2009, 23:36:59 UTC

Richie laughed softly, shaking his head. "No, you wouldn't. You'd be used to it because that's how you would've grown up. And anyway, you'd be one of the most popular girls in school, I bet."

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 30 2009, 04:56:00 UTC

Lulu snorted. "I would not be one of the most popular girls in school. I certainly wasn't anywhere close in my high school. And I think I'd still have different sensibilities."

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 30 2009, 15:12:08 UTC

Richie shrugged. "Okay. But I bet you'd still have a lot of friends. I mean, girls who kind of...knew what they thought about things had a pretty big social circle." Contrary to the ethos of the time.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 30 2009, 17:01:08 UTC

Lulu laughed. "No, not here at least. Well, here yes, but not back home. Girls who had opinions about things that weren't makeup or whatever were usually not in the "in" crowd."

Re: 8 PM richie_bucko August 30 2009, 18:23:12 UTC

Richie found it impossible to understand how anybody could not like Lulu. How could someone so nice not be popular wherever she was? "I was gonna say, you're very popular here. And I'm glad you're here and not there anyway." He grinned at her.

Re: 8 PM lulu8889 August 30 2009, 21:39:26 UTC

She grinned back. "Because here I'm not in high school, the dreaded social cliques. I'm just. I don't know, it's different. I'm glad I'm here, too."

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