The Magpie Emporium, Friday (4/29)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Anyone who'd visited The Magpie Emporium before would notice some pretty significant changes if they happened to walk in today. The comics, for example, had been replaced with racks of photoshopped art featuring various Fandom Island residents. Don't worry, though, all of the NSFW art (and there was a lot of it) was tucked into clearly-labeled folders, so any minors who happened to wander in wouldn't see it. Unless, you know, they were capable of opening up a folder.

There were racks of t-shirts with catchphrases (did you know you had a catchphrase? because you do now!) emblazoned on them. Also ship names. Because who wouldn't want to walk around in a shirt that just said "CLITTY" on it? Though if geeky shirts weren't your thing, there were plenty of shippy glitter flags.

And plushies. So many plushies. Raccoons, squirrels, gremlins, teal deer, fuzzy fish, you name it.

Custom Funko pops took up a large section of one wall- there were the regular versions as well as shirtless, because of course there were shirtless versions. Another section sported various sculptures made out of tiny rum bottles.

Near the register there was a rack of novelty greeting cards- but there were no "happy birthdays" or "thank yous" here- it was more "Sorry I missed your birthday, I was a can of spray cheese" "That wasn't me, that was my twin I didn't know about before last weekend", etc.

And of course, of course there was the Fandom Cookbook, Third Edition.

Lest you think the entire store had been changed, though, that wasn't quite true. There were still plenty of dice to be found. It's just that all of these dice were named after Fandom residents past and present. Haven't you always wanted a set of Lee Adama-inspired dice?

The Magpie Emporium (Biggest Fan Edition) was open for business!

[OOC: Steph won't be in today, but craftalong, who wrote this post, has pinged in and the fan pop-up shop is open!]

Turtle & Canary; Friday [04/29].

[white_oleander]

Movie!Astrid was so much harder and more brooding that Fandom!Astrid, but, to her credit, Movie!Astrid had seen slightly more shit than Fandom!Astrid. But Movie!Astrid was still moving to New York after graduation with her sort-of boyfriend Paul Trout, so she was going to squeeze one last shift out of Turtle & Canary for a bit more money, which also included going around trying to mark up a lot of the prices so she could just pocket the difference. if Rena taught her anything, it was that you had to milk everything you could out of a sale.

Of course, Apu was going around and changing them all back and he was making a very big deal about the bottle of champagne he bought to pop open to celebrate once Astrid finally clocked out for her very last shift.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Shrimp Scampi
Hairball
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

Groovy Cups, A Coffee Shop That Was DEFINITELY Not a Music Store Yesterday; Friday Morning [04/29].

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Are you sure this is the right place?" asked Prompto, frowning deeply as Ignis pushed open the door to Groovy...Cups?, and let him into a coffee shop he definitely had never seen before with a definitive space-decor element to it. "This wasn't here before, right? This used to be a record store?"

Ignis just sort of gave Prompto a somewhat withering look, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose and said, "This is where Gladio said to meet him. And considering he didn't show up for training yesterday because he had apparently been here all day, I think it's safe to say that something very....Fandom has been going on."

With that, he seemed to be perfectly at ease walking up to the couneter and ordering a coffee for himself and a mocha for Prompto, then took a moment to look around the coffee shop while their drinks were being made.

"Perhaps we can figure out exactly what by the time he get here," Ignis noted, and, drinks now in hand, nodded toward one of the seemingly plentiful tables by the window and lead Prompto that way. "In the meantime, I suppose we might as well enjoy our coffee."

"....I should go check on Liz," Prompto said, the second he sat down.

"At least wait until Gladio gets here," Ignis advised. "Then you might know what it is you're about to get yourself into."

Prompto looked...doubtful. And his knee was bouncing under the table and his fingers were very twitchy as he sighed and wished Gladio would just hurry the hell up and wondering how the hell Ignis could just sit there and be so calm about any of this...

Groovy Tunes Cups is open!

[[ and, obviously, shop modded with permission XD ]]

The Park- Friday Morning

[alwaysonguard]

Dwight had been up early, as usual and had spent a the time until it was actually light enough to go outside mulling around in his shop some. Soon as the sun was up enough to make the stairs a little less treacherous, he leashed up Snoopy and headed out for a run.... without his shirt, because shirts were over rated obviously.

An hour or so later as their run was finishing up, Dwight found himself at the park and so he decided to take a bit of a break and sit and watch Snoopy chase the ducks and flamingos a bit, which had really become a bit of a favorite pastime for the pup. Don't lie, the birds loved it! They were birds. They could fly to another part of the island if they wanted. And honestly, a couple of the flamingos seemed to be egging the pup on more than anything.


(post and park are so open!)

Trooper Station, Friday

[shagthis]

It had also been far too long (though admittedly less long than they'd been doctorless) since Fandom had a sheriff, so look who was back.

Well, not really back, he'd been here the whole time, apparently. Yes, that's right. Jake Doyle was showing up for work in Fandom like it hadn't been at least five years since he'd last set foot on the island. Totally super normal. Yep.

Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Aside from visions that Try was trying to blame on weirdness, she'd had a fairly normal couple days. Well, also aside from finding out how many people was shipped with in fics, but she was repressing that. But still. Fairly normal time of it.

Till she got to the warehouse and found that the woodchucks had been replaced by shirtless NPCs.

...Yeah okay.


[Open!]

Around Town, Friday, April 29, 2022

[heroic_jawline]

Welcome to Fandom, everyone, where it's sunny with a 70 percent chance of shirtlessness again today.

But the island was nothing if not adept at just rolling with it, so the "CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES" and "CLASS OF 2022" and "NO SPACESHIP ROOFTOP PARKING, RESIDENTS ONLY" signs and banners were up all over town, hanging jauntily from windows of a completely appropriate number of coffee shops for an island of this size.

There were blue and gold balloons on light posts, bunting hanging from the back of rickshaws, and drifts of glitter absolutely everywhere because someone had taken that tiny Fandom detail and had blown it completely out of proportion.

Just another day to have completely normal interactions!

Caritas- Friday

[throughaphase]

Kitty had been through this before, and it had been awful for her, and she was wary as hell about this whole thing. She'd have stayed in this whole week, except that Tino, now sounding Australian (maybe he always was? He was a man of so few words), had called and said that he needed help, so she went in.

And Tino had been recast as what was probably a Hemsworth. And there didn't seem to be a problem.

The train tracks- Friday afternoon

[solo_sword]

Did you know Fandom had train tracks? Well it did now! And Jaina had been sent on a mission from her longtime deputy boss Jake to take out the whatever-a-sleeveens was there.

And there they'd been, betting on the porgs that had been racing around on the trains. So Jaina started to beat them up.

The sleeveens, not the porgs. The porgs were just watching her beat up a bunch of oily shirtless guys covered in glitter, being all badass and stuff.


[Open!]

Over by the Rickshaw Depot [Friday afternoon]

[grenadesandohana]

Did you know that there was a Rickshaw Depot? Because there was now. Maybe it was near the train tracks... And Steve McGarrett, Sentinel, was sneaking up on it AND the people? Woodchucks? Lemurs? Hijacking them, just like Jake told him.

His face was painted with camouflage, his gun was ready, his abs were oiled for...reasons. Very Legitimate Reasons. Probably something about Sentinels.

"Freeze! Fandom PD!" he yelled.

As usual, that never worked. The evil-doers scattered. Something exploded.

This was gonna be so good.

[OOC: Open!]

Around Fandom - Friday Morning

[notagoose]

Goose was finding he was in need of some inspiration so he decided to go for a run around the island as he normally did but that morning he decided to do it without a shirt, even though the shirtlessness wasn’t really new for Goose.

What was different for Goose, was that he was spending his run thinking of some recipes he could do from I’ve come up with a New Recipe. His last few attempts hadn’t been very successful and he’d managed to slightly singe the walls in his kitchen, Commander Walsh was not getting that security deposit back.

He needed to recreate a recipe so he could hope to one day meet Ignis, the star of aforementioned I’ve come up with a New Recipe and he wouldn’t be able to do that if he kept burning the recipes.

So Goose was up early that morning and completing his run and hoping he would find some cooking inspiration on the way.

[so very open!]

The Photo Hut - Friday

[flamesburned]

Yes sometimes Liz didn’t come downstairs to open up the store on Fridays, especially since she was now very pregnant with half demon twins and she was trying to take it easy but she felt up to working for a few hours at least and finalise the rest of the admin work that she didn’t get to after Summer’s visit yesterday.

So she was behind the computer as usual and working on a few emails, including an email to send to Hellboy, Johann and Abe to let them know how she was going and that she was missing them and couldn’t wait to see them soon.

[the Photo Hut is open!]