Fandom Pride Parade: Saturday Afternoon

[myownface]

The day started with a rainbow. Not that there had been any rain last night, really. The island, noticing the handwavy posters up around town, had figured it wanted to contribute to the spirit of the whole thing, and slapping a big, bright rainbow into the sky had seemed like the obvious way to do it. By around noon, it was clear that the rainbow was going to be sticking around, too, less a meteorological phenominon and more a banner painted across the sky. Down below, little flowers had popped up overnight in bright colours, some mimicking the rainbow up above, some in other configurations; pink-purple-blue, blue-pink-white-pink-blue, black-grey-white-purple, yellow-white-purple-black, and so on. The flowers, fortunately, were there to be pretty, with no other weird effects on the island's populace.

Though, really, if presenting a bouquet of them to one's favourite person ended well for somebody, the island wasn't going to complain, either.

The parade itself was to start on the Causeway, a good gathering point for Fandomites in the past, and a fairly central location on the island. From there it would follow Griffin Lane to Galactica Drive, Serendipity Place, Godiva Street, back onto Serendipity and following it until it turned into Loon and Loon turned into Chimera. Then one final turn onto Apocalypse before ending up at the Park, where people were welcome to sit and mingle to their hearts' content.

The weather was nice, making liars out of the meteorologists in favour of shunting clouds aside for sunshine and a pleasant breeze. A perfect day for a parade!

[OOC: Open! Welcome to Fandom Pride!]

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Along the Parade Route!

[myownface]

For those who would rather watch than march, there's plenty of parade route to do so from. Maybe not so much in the way of sidewalk once the streets are actually full of people, but Fandomites are creative and they'll figure it out if they want to.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[crimson_sister]

Lucille had found a spot from which she could watch the parade. She wasn't going to participate, of course, and the whole thing seemed rather strange to her, but some of her closest friends here belonged to the group whose rights were being celebrated, and she could appreciate that.

She suspected that her love never would. How strange that it would perhaps be easier to find a young lady to share her life with, at least here.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[seeks_truth]

"This is very... loud," Cassandra commented mildly.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[crimson_sister]

"It is," Lucille agreed, smiling a little at Cassandra. "Although I don't know how it compares to other such parades. We don't have them where I am from."

And even if they had, Lucille hadn't been likely to have seen one.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[seeks_truth]

"We have parades. But they are not so... Bright, outside of Orlais."

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[sharp_man]

Hannibal smiled as he walked past and stopped for a moment. "Lucille. It's so good to see you again."

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[crimson_sister]

"It is good to see you too," Lucille said, smiling back. "I hadn't expected to return on a week ending in such celebrations."

It was better than an invasion.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[sharp_man]

It was.

"That just means your timing is superb," Hannibal said. "I shouldn't get too far behind, but I will see you at the park?"

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra was mildly perplexed by the entire thing. If someone had explained it to her, she would have found no issue with it, but wondering how it could be that such a thing was even necessary.

As it was, though, she would be standing along the route, frowning for a few minutes, before deciding it too much of a distraction and heading off.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[suitably_heroic]

Yeah, Atton did not think his 'occasional opportunist' qualified him to be in this thing, so he was fine to leave it to the people who did qualify.

Still, considering his roommate and everything, it felt weird not to show up in support. So there he was. Supporting people. Yep.

Standing along the sidewalk with a bottle of water in case Sparkle got a heatstroke under all of those rainbows, maybe.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[myownface]

The moment Sparkle noticed Atton on the sidewalk, he was grinning and kind of bounding over to say hi. It wasn't like the parade was going so quickly that he didn't have a minute to smile stupidly at his roommate, anyway.

"Look," he said, pointing up enthusiastically at the rainbow in the sky. "Even Fandom approves!"

You know, right up until she turned around and tried to destroy them all, inevitably, later on. Just not today.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[suitably_heroic]

"You know that's not saying much, right?" Atton said, managing to combine glancing upwards with shoving a bottle of water at Sparkle. "Could just be it's planning to kill us next week and it's giving advance warning."

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[myownface]

"Shhhhh," Sparkle said, smirking. "Shhhhh, I know. Fandom is sadistic. Don't ruin this for me."

He'd light the park on fire out of spite or something later, if Atton was right.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was cheering and waving flags on the side of the road and cheering for all her loved ones in the parade. Eliot had done her hair in embroidery floss hair wraps last night, complete with little dangling pi beads and hearts with infinity symbols and she jingled as she bounced and cheered.

[gone for most of the weekend, may have tiny phone nets.]

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[rebelseekspizza]

"Hey, look who's getting into it," Dante called from the march, grinning at her.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Those who can't march, cheer," Kathy said, blowing him a kiss and laughing.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[intotheout]

Tip had found herself a perch on a street light along the parade route, from which she was hollering and cheering.

She had no idea yet how she identified. But she was more than happy to cheer on those who'd worked it out.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Tip! Hey!" Summer waved when she spotted the other girl. "Great spot!"

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[intotheout]

"Hey Summer!" Tip waved back. "I like your top!"

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[tigerundercover]

Raven had a big, bright, pansexual flag bracelet on her wrist, which she kept picking at and fussing with. She wasn't used to wearing actual things, but Kathy had made it for her, so of course she had to wear it.

She watched the parade with a small smile from the edge of a roof towards the end of the parade route. She felt a little strange attending, like she didn't entirely belong. It'd never been the love part of her identity she'd been most anxious to hide.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Not marching?" Kathy asked, smiling down at the bracelet. "It's okay if you'd rather not wear it, by the way."

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[tigerundercover]

"Is not," Raven said. "You made it." So there. "I'd feel weird, marching," she admitted. "Too many people."

That wasn't why -- or wasn't the only rwason, rather. But she wasn't sure she could put the other one into words.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie was hooting and hollering and throwing streamers in various pride colors every which way.

Did she like girls? Who cared? She liked parties.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Of course Summer was going to be there, duh, with an appropriate thematic tank top. Girl would have fully supported one of her friend marrying a birdperson and was totally cool with her paternal grandparents having a polyamorous relationship that involved her Grampa Smith dressed up in a superhero outfit while Gramma Smith made out with her boyfriend. Love is love is love, and, please, like Summer needed a reason to party, anyway.

Re: Along the Parade Route!

[justlike_a_girl]

Dani was standing on the sidelines. She had thought about marching, but that meant admitting something to herself that she wasn't sure she could handle just yet. So for now, she was going to cheer on everyone else who was watching while keeping a wary eye out for that redhead from the hotel.