Does it hurt terribly, Draco?*

[sdk]

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Pansy Parkinson

April Showers

Greenhouse 3

Wolfsbane

Under the Stars

Bird's Nest

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Shelly is getting us started with a nice bottle of Prosecco and Torino is chatting for a bit but not drinking until later as she's double-booked herself. Hooray! How about you folks? What's the drink that's got you through the last year or the one you look forward to having the next time you're out with family or friends?

Let's get our drunk on!

*Yes, this is the only inoffensive Pansy Parkinson quote we could find. Possibly why we've both embraced fanon Pansy!

Comments

[torino10154]

I'll reply to myself as I'm neither drinking nor writing. I'm thinking for the next round, sometime in idk July? we should start at like noon EDT for our European participants. Definitely on a Saturday. Thoughts?

[sdk]

I think that sounds good! I may have to still start late or just take a break from my usual Saturday activities.

(Also... this is off-topic but I might be heading your way this summer!)

[torino10154]

Yay!!!!! We'll touch base elsewhere but as ever I don't have a whole lot going on. Lol

future Saturdays

[oldtoadwoman]

If I still have my current work schedule, I'd have to start an hour late, but that's well within a reasonable overlap.

Re: future Saturdays

[torino10154]

Yeah, I think we couldn't do it every time just because me and Shelly can't just drink all day. Lol but there are definitely some folks who really never get a chance to chat because we start at bedtime. Fingers crossed we can pull it off.

[lq_traintracks]

Love that, yes!!! Of course I love everything right now, so I can't be trusted. :DDD

[sdk]

Ahhhh the wonders of a good glass of wine! XD

[lq_traintracks]

Or three. *finger guns*

[sdk]

Oh goodness, the finger guns are coming out! *pow pow* XD

[lq_traintracks]

Like a G6 is on. All bets are off. LOL.

[lq_traintracks]

Wait, Bikini Kill. That's cooler. Can I change my answer?? :DDD

[sdk]

noooo you can't! Because I had to go find Like a G6 and listen to it after you said that, LOLOL.

[ride_4ever]

Finger guns! *grin*

[corvidology]

A post=booostre fever and a bottle and a half of wine. I'm reeady!

ET: All fingers are now guns!

[a_belladonna]

Sounds like a good idea! It's definitely getting a little late here (almost 2am at GMT+1, and I guess I'll just try and finish whatever I'm writing right now, because I'm really tired now).

[sdk]

Oh gosh, yeah that's late! I tend to pass out before 11 on FWF nights!

[ride_4ever]

July request: I'm going to the Con*Strict con in Henderson, Nevada in mid-July so I hope that a July FWF would be before or after that. I'll be there from July 11th to July 20th.

(maraudersaffair, take note! Nevada!)

[torino10154]

I will put that in my calendar. Incidentally that's almost exactly when my son will be in Greece. He was meant to go in 2020 so you can see how that went. Lol

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, I do know how that went. I had to roll over fancon regs from 2020 to 2021 and then from 2021 to 2022. I'm going to Con*Strict this summer, but I still rolled over some of those 2022s to 2023.

What's the story on your son having chosen Greece to visit?

[torino10154]

Yeah, they thought maybe 2021 as well but that quickly was obviously not gonna happen.

So.... These teachers from one of the schools my kids went to started organizing overseas trips, primarily for 8-11th grade students. My daughter went to England, Scotland and a quick stop in Paris for her trip between 10th-11th grade. She also did Costa Rica as her graduation present. ANYWAY lol we wanted him to go but he's a bit pickier tbh and I knew Greece or Italy was probably the most likely one he'd want to go on--big on those classical eras--so when they offered it summer before his senior year it seemed perfect. We've been waiting a long time for it.

[ride_4ever]

I think there's something about an "era" with these travels for young people. when I was in high school in the 1970s I did not know one single grade school or high school person travelling abroad. In recent years (other than COVID years) it seems to have become practically a norm.

(Gah. I am still so coherent. Well, about to finish my first bottle of wine and move on to the bottle of artisanal barley ale.)

[torino10154]

I was fortunate to go on a trip myself at 16, to the Soviet Union but my mom, who had gone on trips in her youth including Egypt in the mid-60s, probably helped facilitate that. But yeah it's also big business of course. Lol

I'm about an hour from home and somehow can't imagine I'll have it in me to write tonight.

[ride_4ever]

Travelled to Canada on family vacation when I was in grade school, sparking a lifelong love of Canada. Didn't travel again until I went to Israel when I was in my mid-20s. Alas, my spouse hates travel, so even though partnered, when I travel I'm a solo traveller.

Hope you still have it in you to write fic tonight, but even if you don't, you have done such service to this comm by being its cohost!

[paulamcg]

A July Saturday and starting before my bedtime would be great! (And I truly hope that by then I'll find some of the motivation I lost about a month ago.) There'll just be a son's wedding on July 9, but I'd be able to take part on any other day in July or late June (if I get the long summer holiday I NEED.)

[torino10154]

I do understand wanting to get to the summer holidays!!

I will have to check the calendar but the very last week of June I'll be at the beach. :D We may have to do a poll and see whether people prefer July 2nd (which is part of 4th of July weekend for us Yanks though the timing is meant for the Europeans mostly anyway) OR July 30th (my 29th wedding anniversary ROFL but if we're day drinking in my time zone, who cares).