It's the first week of summer in the northern hemisphere and my part of the world has decided to celebrate this fact with a freak heatwave. Thanks a lot, summer. Way to ease us into it
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[xmfc] charles/erik - unbearable - pg13pocky_slashJune 22 2012, 15:53:29 UTC
It's unbearably hot in Texas.
"Unbearably." That's Charles' word. Erik knows from unbearable and he wouldn't use it to describe the discomfort from a hundred degree day and a broken air conditioner, but Charles is practically wilting as he mournfully watches the maintenance worker poke at the machine.
"It'll take a few hours," he says. "Gotta go into town to get the part. We're all booked up for the night or I'd have 'em move you."
"But you can fix it, can't you?" Charles asks and the man nods
( ... )
[xmfc] charles/erik - unbearable - pg13 - part twopocky_slashJune 22 2012, 15:54:05 UTC
He watches Charles stretch in the sun, pretending to stare at his book but raising his eyes just enough to follow the line of Charles' back and see the water droplets rushing across his skin as he shakes his hair dry. There is water beaded in his eyelashes. It's obscene.
And then he crosses to where Erik is sitting and lies on his stomach on a lounge chair, just a few feet out of Erik's reach, and that is the new definition of obscene
( ... )
[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers] Gen - Beat the Heat - Gsecond_batgirlJune 22 2012, 16:33:48 UTC
Before Rita (and Zedd) had started attacking, Angel Grove had normal California weather. That meant that they were used to it being fairly hot in the summer.
Of course, once Rita attacked, such odd things had happened as snow in the middle of August (although that had technically been the fault of a visiting alien who had a crush on Billy), storms that had been entirely confined to Angel Grove's borders, and of course the time that Angel Grove and only Angel Grove had experienced a solar eclipse. (Billy had tried to explain the theory of it to the other Rangers, but since Trini was the only one who was understanding more than one word out of three, his explanation had stopped when Kimberly began threatening to blow up his computer.)
So when Angel Grove was hit with temperatures of over 100 degrees in the middle of February, most of the city assumed that it wasn't global warming that was to blame (considering that neighboring Stone Canyon was just fine), but that instead Rita and Zedd were planning somethingMost of the citizens were
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Re: [Mighty Morphin Power Rangers] Gen - Beat the Heat - GlikeadeuceJune 24 2012, 03:43:30 UTC
That's adorable! I remember when you floated this idea on Twitter, and I'm glad you went with it. Your writing style is great at capturing how routine this really weird stuff is for these kids -- really perfect.
[glee] Blaine/Kurt - what a lark, what a plunge - G (1/2)robotsfightingJune 22 2012, 21:11:40 UTC
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Blaine must have fallen asleep lying on his stomach somewhere around the time Peter Walsh fell in step with the boys marching up Whitehall, the book falling out of his hands to flap gently closed on the blanket he'd spread out in the back yard, his legs stretching and relaxing until his toes brushed the edges of the grass. He woke up with his head pillowed on his arms, the skin on his shoulders and calves prickling pleasantly from the sun, and he kept his eyes closed and smiled blearily into the crook of his elbow. The smell of humidity was thick and warm all around him, heavy and nostalgic, the way it felt to be little and running around at some relative's barbeque with his cousins while the adults sat around talking about boring things like taxes and the housing market. Or to be thirteen and alone in his house for long stretches of days with just the air conditioning and neverending marathons on Discovery and Bravo, throwing popcorn at the TV when Austin didn't win Project
( ... )
[glee] Blaine/Kurt - what a lark, what a plunge - G (2/2)robotsfightingJune 22 2012, 21:13:45 UTC
He heard Kurt snort softly, then felt him lean over and pick up the book Blaine had abandoned, with the flutter of pages as he settled back down. “Mrs. Dalloway“Summer reading.” Blaine blinked one eye open to look up at Kurt, all blue-tinged and washed out by the tint of his sunglasses. “I really like it so far. It’s one of the ones we didn’t read at Dalton
( ... )
"You're not going to splash me, are you?" Arthur sounds like he looks: cautious, prim, with a sly quirk of humour hiding underneath. Ariadne cracks open one eye and is treated to the vision of him standing there in a tee shirt and loose linen trousers. Eames is busy untying the knot in his sarong - of course he's wearing one, it was that or a Hawaiian shirt - and merely grins
( ... )
[xmfc] charles/erik - summer term pocky_slashJune 23 2012, 04:24:37 UTC
This takes place in a college AU I spend a lot of time writing about in emails to pearl_o.
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There's no air conditioning in the shitty dorm Erik has for the summer. It's awful. If it was just him, he thinks he would be able to manage, but sharing a space that small with two other people and three computers in the middle of July is painful. Granted, he's glad that the population of the room has temporarily increased, but he's really starting to regret not allowing Charles to book them a hotel for the week like he had wanted to
( ... )
[xmfc] charles/erik - summer term - 2/4pocky_slashJune 23 2012, 04:26:20 UTC
Bruce's car is a Prius, but it's older and obviously well-loved. Bruce's ex-girlfriend also somehow finagled him a Cambridge parking permit so he could avoid the three hundred bucks it would have cost to park it at MIT for the duration of their course. Erik's car is back in Jersey for that very reason--Boston's public transit isn't as good as New York's, but it's good enough that Erik can go without his car for two months. The best thing about Bruce's car, though, is that the air conditioning works. By the time they're pulling out of Cambridge and onto the highway, Erik already feels better. He stretches out across the backseat and naps to the sound of Charles chatting happily with Bruce about some physics book they both recently read
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[xmfc] charles/erik - summer term - 4/4pocky_slashJune 23 2012, 04:27:29 UTC
They're interrupted by Charles skidding back down the sand dune. He's smiling, just a little, and when he gets close enough, he wraps his arms around Erik's middle and sighs happily
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"Unbearably." That's Charles' word. Erik knows from unbearable and he wouldn't use it to describe the discomfort from a hundred degree day and a broken air conditioner, but Charles is practically wilting as he mournfully watches the maintenance worker poke at the machine.
"It'll take a few hours," he says. "Gotta go into town to get the part. We're all booked up for the night or I'd have 'em move you."
"But you can fix it, can't you?" Charles asks and the man nods ( ... )
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Of course, once Rita attacked, such odd things had happened as snow in the middle of August (although that had technically been the fault of a visiting alien who had a crush on Billy), storms that had been entirely confined to Angel Grove's borders, and of course the time that Angel Grove and only Angel Grove had experienced a solar eclipse. (Billy had tried to explain the theory of it to the other Rangers, but since Trini was the only one who was understanding more than one word out of three, his explanation had stopped when Kimberly began threatening to blow up his computer.)
So when Angel Grove was hit with temperatures of over 100 degrees in the middle of February, most of the city assumed that it wasn't global warming that was to blame (considering that neighboring Stone Canyon was just fine), but that instead Rita and Zedd were planning somethingMost of the citizens were ( ... )
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Poor Billy trying to explain things. At least Trini understands him.
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Blaine must have fallen asleep lying on his stomach somewhere around the time Peter Walsh fell in step with the boys marching up Whitehall, the book falling out of his hands to flap gently closed on the blanket he'd spread out in the back yard, his legs stretching and relaxing until his toes brushed the edges of the grass. He woke up with his head pillowed on his arms, the skin on his shoulders and calves prickling pleasantly from the sun, and he kept his eyes closed and smiled blearily into the crook of his elbow. The smell of humidity was thick and warm all around him, heavy and nostalgic, the way it felt to be little and running around at some relative's barbeque with his cousins while the adults sat around talking about boring things like taxes and the housing market. Or to be thirteen and alone in his house for long stretches of days with just the air conditioning and neverending marathons on Discovery and Bravo, throwing popcorn at the TV when Austin didn't win Project ( ... )
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There's no air conditioning in the shitty dorm Erik has for the summer. It's awful. If it was just him, he thinks he would be able to manage, but sharing a space that small with two other people and three computers in the middle of July is painful. Granted, he's glad that the population of the room has temporarily increased, but he's really starting to regret not allowing Charles to book them a hotel for the week like he had wanted to ( ... )
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