posted sunday idc

[geminids]

↧ saturday, holiday party

broderick's house is full of people, laughter, and wine... so, so much wine. and bracken loves it all. he's slicing a baguette beside broderick, who's armed with a corkscrew and a fresh bottle of some fancy magicked red, when two of the wizard's colleagues get into a debate about the best shape for potion vials. (fucking nerds.) they trade good-natured and childish barbs until one scoffs and calls the other a pwrs.

it means 'purse' and 'nutsack,' which makes it the best homonym bracken's learned so far. he snorts a laugh. broderick freezes mid-(cork)screw, jaw slack, dumbfounded. a brief squabble — bracken understood that? did he learn insults? ... he learned welsh? bracken gets all he ever wanted (a kiss, gratitude laced with lingering shock, that borders on inappropriate). when he only answers follow-up questions with a smarmy little grin, broderick shoves the wine at a bystander and drags bracken to a room, out of sight. they don't reappear until later.

↧ sunday, london

"i take it off when i'm inside. ma'am." bracken doffs his beaver felt hat for the the illustrious mrs. harriet parish — grant's momma, brook's nan, the woman who'd extended a special invitation to join her at sunday service. she called it an olive branch, her son called it a test. bracken called it a necessary evil and donned his sunday best to try his very best, everything ironed and clean and crisp, polished when necessary. he even has cufflinks! he'd been raised to raise hell across the mountain states and he can face the matriarch of the parish clan.

and yet.

(they down cocktails and oysters for two and a half hours after church and apparently bracken's attending a polo match next month.)

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ok nobody let me wear the hat next time. anyways tell me what's good

Comments

[osmotheque]

See now I thought that the hat was charming.

[geminids]

it's charming as fuck!!!!!! it's whimsical. and country. and expensive

[osmotheque]

So why would you not want to wear it next time?

[geminids]

wrong kinda country

[osmotheque]

With whom did you attend religious services? The fashion authorities?

[geminids]

i reckon she was around for when they invented fashion.

[osmotheque]

And here I had presumed you were attending human religious services.

[abracadavers]

There was nothing wrong with the hat. If the colonizers had an issue with seeing the proof of their coloni You looked very handsome.

[geminids]

i always look very handsome babe it's my blessing n my curse

[abracadavers]

You do.

[geminids]

i ever told you you're the best damn backup a wolf could ask for???

[abracadavers]

You didn't have to. 1) obviously 2) you can't bluff for shit, your big moony eyes give everything away.

[geminids]

yeah and being like "this's the guy brook's spending lots of time with, he has a phd and a house and he's real smart n connected n also actually real and a good person and whatever other shit you care about" is like. a plus for convincing old ladies how their grandkid's being treated good

[abracadavers]

Weird that you didn't let me wear the trophy husband t-shirt to mass.

And if they don't already know their grandkid is being treated well because Brook has an incredible Father then I hope their christi they get comfortable in hell [...] think they suck.

[arietids]

They call you cowboy too many times?

[geminids]

that'd be "uncouth". like they say






"the american" but imagine they said it like they don't believe i got a job

[arietids]

Wow, hoity-toity.

Didn't hear them talking shit about you? Was hoping you'd come back with some fresh insults for me to call you.

[abracadavers]

Why, when muppet is so perfect.

[arietids]

Too affectionate. I need something dripping with the disdain of an old British woman.

[abracadavers]

Troglodyte, blithering idiot, cretinous pillock, cockwomble...

I was told once by some old bat that it was always lovely to meet the Welsh because it reminded her of the virtues of the English.

[geminids]

these're supposed to be insults for ME [...] that last one's pretty funny though

[geminids]

ok wait cause i texted fran some of their choices cause i wanna use em again later

i'm rugged
the states're delightfully simple
how the midwest must've been so peaceful when everything in london's so ✨complex✨
then one of her buddies asked what i do for work and said she thought right when she assumed i work with my hands

[osmotheque]

I should sincerely enjoy to speak with these individuals when they are not communing with their god.

[geminids]

nah it's cool. harriet even admitted most of those ladies got sticks up their asses. arses.

[arietids]

Don't worry, this is mostly funny Pretty.