fandomhigh | 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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"It is. All I did this morning was sit and watch the sky. I found a cloud that looks like a sandwich."

Oh, Moe.

"Gotta love a good sandwich cloud," Duke said. "You see those little rock things all over the beach?"

"The star fragments! I'm going to use mine to build furniture!"

That was suspiciously normal.

"Oh, right. Star fragments. That are . . . solid and used for furniture making."

"I already made a wand," Moe explained. "I don't use it, though. I like this shirt. Not a single stain on it!"

"That is . . . a completely unstained shirt, yes. Do wands do laundry or something?"

"They change your clothes! You don't even have to dig around the piles in your campsite to find them!"

"Ah, right. I should have guessed that."

Should he have, should he really?

"And where does one get one of these clothes-changing wands?"

"Here, I'll give you the recipe," Moe said, pulling one out of his pockets. (Where were these pockets?) "You can make your own!"

"Uh, yeah." That was a little card with an acorn on it. "Thanks, man." Duke patted his pockets and came up with a bright blue shell. "Here, I bet you can find something fun to do with one of these, too."

"Oh, wow! You're the best, myawn!"

His bugs would probably love it!

"Hey, what are friends for?" Duke asked.

He was friends with a blue cat who was into bugs now. This was his real life.

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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