Even with all the parties that I helped coordinate throughout the year, Tabula Rasa Day had become my favorite. I'm not sure who started the tradition, but civic-minded as I'd become, I appreciated the idea of us having our own, self-determined tradition that celebrated not some holiday brought from another culture, but us as a community. Half ( Read more... )

Dated 31 October, 2010:
There have been a few times now when Wallace has stricken him silent. Talking about kissing him is definitely one of those times. This? This is somehow both better and worse. He didn't actually ask Wallace to throw out a list of his good features and his ears turn a little red as Wallace lists them out. When is the last time ( Read more... )

Dated 17 October 2010:
After leaving the Truth or Dare party, Wallace and Alcuin spend the night together. They are surprisingly poignant and surprisingly PG about it.

[ HERE | FTB | PG]

Wallace is considering a hut ( Read more... )

An optimistic person might say it only takes Scott four hours to show up at the abandoned building, but Kim’s pretty sure optimists don’t get kidnapped by psychotic Japanese twins at four in the morning, strung up in a cage in a condemned building and left to stew until drunk on way too much tequila becomes still drunk and kind of hung over, still ( Read more... )

I have to admit, I had wondered whether I was tempting fate by hosting a party on Halloween. Sure, the last Halloween had been mostly harmless and Tony and Pepper's party had gone off without a hitch. But I'd been on the island far too long to trust in its benevolence ( Read more... )

Tommy leapt to the futon and bent over the huge cat. He wasn’t sure how he was supposed to go about this, but he could see the healthy red life aura around Chet, and he could hear his little kitty heart pounding ( Read more... )

Xander looked over the assembled sight with a sense of pride. There was a large campfire high up enough on the beach that they wouldn’t be disturbed by the tides. He’d circled it with stones to be safe and stacked up enough fire food to go into the night. He’d rescued logs from the forests and buildings sights for seats, both stumps for chairs and ( Read more... )

If Kon had seen him, he'd probably make some comment about brooding like a certain Bat, but that wasn't what Bart was doing. It was more that he was trying to wrap his mind around things, and part of that had led to making a list. He'd thought about doing the pros and cons of the island, but really, the cons were pretty obvious. Not being home, ( Read more... )

Priestly is an amazing cook. Not only is he amazing, he's absolutely tireless, cooking breakfast for everyone in the Compound kitchens, donating pretty much his entire Saturday to the Winchester lunch and dinner shifts. He's a saint, and he ought to be rewarded ( Read more... )