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fandomhigh2020-07-15 09:56 am
Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 15, 2020
It was a beautiful day in the park, where a punk-looking pink chameleon with piercings and a studded net stood with Anakin. It didn't even look scary! There was just a covered cart behind them which held quite a few cages that would safely hold bugs.
"When the universe contemplates beauty, it imagines the silhouette of the long locust," Flick said, to himself but also to everyone else, before realizing he'd said it aloud. "Oh! Um. Sorry. Lost in my thoughts…"
"Is there any way you can turn off the frelling music?" Anakin asked Flick, and not for the first time. "It stopped being cheerful and started being annoying by mid-Monday."
"The only music I hear is the music of the robust cicadas," Flick answered.
So, no.
"I didn't know cicadas were such accomplished musicians," Anakin said sourly. "Welcome to our weekly meet-up, everyone! Flick here has decided to help us."
Muted meeping came from a grove of trees.
"Beaker has fallen into a hole," he added.
"Hello and welcome to the bug-off," Flick announced. "The goal is to catch as many bugs as possible in three minutes from anywhere on the island and bring them to us. Every bug you net gets you points. If you don't want them afterwards, you can sell them to me. I can pay a little extra- no price is too high for my chitinous kindred! Oh… and if you're um, interested in my art at all, just let me know, My commissions are open ok bye."
"We will work in teams," Anakin said, "and send you out to different parts of the island so everyone isn't getting smacked with a net going after the same bugs."
Which would be entertaining, but so were the holes. "To make this more interesting, Flick has planted--" he blinked, '--what did you call them again?"
"Pitfall seeds," Flick said, shrugging. "If you step on it, you'll fall in a hole."
"Meep meep MEEP meep," Beaker agreed from the hole he was in.
"So, yes. We're catching bugs for money," Anakin said. "It's not the weirdest thing I've had you do."
It was up there, though.
"Listen for your names! And thank you to the Able Sisters for their generous donation of costuming this week!"
Were you afraid? Good.
Team Astronaut
Astrid
Alara
Sabine
Miguel
Tahani
Team Sailor Suit
Steve R.
Tisarwat
Kitty
Rosa
Danny
Team Flapper
Duke
Sidon
Zoe
Tony
Alexis
Team Frog
Steve M.
Wayne
Mae
Magnus
Silver
Team Disney Princess
Jaskier
Rey
Grog
Liam
Amaya
Team Meta-For-Tron Ripoff
Barry
Yasha
Prompto
Stark
Summer
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"If you bring me a bug I can fashion a replica out of it," Flick said. "I promise to capture it in all of its skittery, chittery, sometimes-glittery glory."
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Could Flick make the butterfly glow?
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"Just the bug it's based on," Flick told him. "Visualizing and manifesting them yourself is good, but a live model is better."
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Good job, Flick.
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And he was. After the competition, a little worse for wear, but carrying both an emperor butterfly and a Queen Alexandra's birdwing.
"I can't decide. Which do you like better?"
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"I can't decide! Would you ask a mother to choose between her children?"
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"Of course not," Duke said. "Okay . . . can you do both?"
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"I would be honored. I can have it shipped to you tomorrow," Flick said, proudly.
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It was worth a shot.
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"I'll see what I can do. OUR CONTRACT IS BOUND, HUMAN!"
Ahem.
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