Fandom Island and Town

Oh, boy, did Ariel have her work cut out for her today or what? Naturally, with the sudden drop in weather, she had to go on into the back to pull out a bunch of coats and sweaters and other cute winter wear to set in the front of the shop, and move all the swimsuits and summer dresses back.

Sure, in another week or two she'd have to switch around yet again, but, well, that was just the job of an effective shop manager! And it was actually a little fun, too.

The Now Hiring!! sign was in the window, and Pixie Dust is open!

As much as she enjoyed being a pony for a while, Ariel was relieved to find out that she was still able to turn back into a human. Sure, she loved legs and having four were fantastic, but she missed having feet and you really got to appreciate the fact that you always had hands once you were stuck with hooves. Plus, she was exhausted. Frolicking and galloping everywhere really took a lot out of a girl!

But now it was back to business, and she supposed she couldn't be blamed for putting some horse inspired fashion front and center in the shop today.

The NOW HIRING! sign was still in the window and Pixie Dust is open!

Ariel was absolutely ecstatic. A shipment of new accessories and dresses and such had come in and they were all right up her alley. She was half tempted to covet them all for herself, but, with the impression that perhaps seashells could be hot this season, she happily did some rearranging around the store to put them out front and center.

The floofy dress was so totally hers, though. And, even better, she found some matching shoes to go with it.

This made it a very good day.

Pixie Dust is open!

Ariel had been feeling like taking it easy today; really, she shouldn't be spending any more money on her clothes. Not for at least another week or so. So she was hanging out at the counter, flipping idly through the fashion magazines for some insight on the upcoming trends and awesome fashions.

While singing, very randomly, some Phil Collins. Fuck yeah, Phil Collins.

Pixie Dust is open!

It was interesting, the way Ariel planned her workdays, and the fact that they had fallen into place so effectively for the summer that it worked out perfectly. When the island moved, she'd noticed it had usually been on a Monday. That was her Groovy Tunes day, and she usually skipped it for the urge to go out and explore. And then the next day, Tuesday, was her Pixie Dust day, so, after having thoroughly explored, she could make sure she at least went to that job and spend a good deal of her time there picking out all her great outfits for the new location.

Cowboy hats were totally in.

Especially pink ones.

Pixie Dust is open!

It was a good thing Ariel had Jim's solar surfer and how much fun it would be to give it a try once they got some sunshine in this place to distract her. She was moving on in her reverse alphabet with music, and had reached Uncle Kracker she was thoroughly unimpressed.

Although, if she thought about it, crackers could be kind of bland and boring, and so....approriate.

She sighed, and easily slipped off into daydreams about flying on a surfboard.

Groovy Tunes is open!

It was Monday and the island had moved, so, usually, Ariel didn't bother coming into work. It was work; it wasn't nearly as important as exploring. However, this location was definitely much different than the previous ones, and those cyborgs did not take kindly to bubbly little redhead stirring up trouble. They were insistent, too, and she was actually pretty impressed that she'd managed to escape them. Since exploring was out, at least for a few days, Ariel figured she might as well go into work.

She was soaking wet from the rain when she got in, late, but she didn't seem to mind that too much. She rung out her hair a little, and then mopped the puddle up. She switched into one of the rock band t-shirts while she hung her dress up to dry, and then went about picking out the music for the day. Let's see...Right! She was on V today, and wound up picking Veruca Salt and being very glad for it. It suited her energy after being chased through Tokyo by cyborgs.

Groovy Tunes is open!

While being late seemed to be Ariel's usual motif, today, she was switching it up a little. She had her cupcake class before work, so that didn't give her too much of an excuse about being late and not coming in right after class, but there was the fact that she'd spend all day in the store, looking at cute new fashions she could whip together to go adventuring in Alexandria in, and so she was definitely leaving early.

Could anyone really blame her? There was a whole new place out there, and SAND!

For the time being, though, she'd pass the hours she felt she should at least work to be okay on leaving early by trying on different desert-inspired fashions.

Or dessert-style, too. Cupcake class was so inspiring.

Pixie Dust is open!

Since she was doing an exceptionally horrible job of coming into the music shop on Sundays, what with the weekends being for disappearing for adventures and things like that, Ariel was now pleased to have Mondays as her new day. She'd even arrived somewhat on time for her first Monday shift.

Somewhat, of course, meaning within a half hour of when she was expected. That was progress!

She had forgotten, however, her progress on her Backwards Alphabetical Band project, until she remembered just how hard it had been to find an X one! That lead her to W, and W lead her to Whitesnake. She hoped Jono would approve; she knew she certainly liked it!

Groovy Tunes is open!

Ariel had oh so handwavily gotten back from a trip home for a sister's birthday yesterday, and she brought with her some major swag that kept her busy at the shop today. Of course, the swimsuits were starting to come in and, while several of them (okay, most of them) were super-cute, none of them would ever match Ariel's affection for her seashells.

Or her disappointment that, apparently, shells weren't in style.

So she had made sure to do some hunting for some really good shells and she would spend a good portion of her time at the counter at Pixie Dust meticulously putting together a variety of different shell tops so they'd have some available. She was determined to have them be the it style of the summer!

If not? Well, then, more variety for her!

Pixie Dust is open!

Usually, Ariel had absolutely no trouble getting excited about the normal fashions in the store, but today they were being mostly ignored for some fashion show photos in some of the fashion magazines that kept her busy at the counter.

The one that really had her fascinated was the Alexis Mabille show, which has some real hits for her and a few misses, too, but she could not get enough of the colors!

Or maybe she just would always have an affinity for dresses that looked like they could be made out of sails and ropes....

Pixie Dust is open!

Ariel had been worried that X was going to be a tricky letter, but she found out those worries had been unfounded as she discovered XTC. It wasn't as danceable as something like Yo-Yo Ma, but it was at least enjoyable to kind of bop to it as she organized some of the new shipments of CDs.

It was a mellow sort of day. Granted, it was likely that as soon as anyone came in, Ariel would easily go into her usual bouncy form, but this was nice for the time being.

Groovy Tunes is open!

Ariel knew she had been slacking off on...well, a lot of things, but today, when she came in to work at the music store, she was determined to get back on track in her discovering music alphabetically and backwards. Y would be an interesting one, but she would up settling on something really amazing!

As fun as the choice for Z had been, Ariel was pretty sure she almost enjoyed dancing to this even more. It was definitely the sort of song, however, that made her wish she had a dance partner.

Until one showed up, she supposed she'd just have to settle for a Justin Beiber cardboard cut-out thing.

Groovy Tunes is open!

Ariel wasn't sure yet if she was having any guests visiting this weekend or not. At most, Scuttle might fly in for a bit, which was always fun, but she doubted Sebastian would want to ever return again after last time's scuffle with that chef guy at the hotel. He'd only be here if her father made him go. It wasn't really feasible for him or her sisters or Flounder to visit, either, unless they spent all their time at the docks. Maybe she should just go home and visit them, but she wouldn't want to miss out on meeting any guests her friends might have! Like maybe Rinoa's dad; she couldn't help being curious about him. Or someone else from Chuck's (and Ellie's!) family, or even that friend he mentioned, Morgan. She'd hate to miss that!

So there was a perfectly good reason why Ariel was collecting a pile of discarded possible new outfits for the weekend instead of spending time behind the counter. After all, she had to look nice if she met anyone new! Dress to impress! She probably should be working or at least starting to put some of the clothes away, but this was a quest and it was important! And with so much to choose from, it was a good thing she'd be here for a while...

Pixie Dust is open!

Ariel was so excited to come into the shop today and see what fashions may have arrived while she was on vacation that she didn't even notice that a wee little gremlin had slipped inside with her. She was checking out some new pink dress when she let out a gasp of shock as something dug into her ankle, her very first gremlin bite, but, after that, there wasn't anything, so she just scrunched up her nose at what she was holding, put it down, and drifted over to where the sunglasses were. She found the cheapest pair she could, popped out the lenses, and then put them on her face.

With a big heavy sigh, shaking her head at everything around her. "I'd rather be thrifting," she muttered as she went to sulk behind the counter until she got distracted by the skinny jeans.

She loved skinny jeans.

And then a customer came in when she was brushing her hair, giving her an odd look, which Ariel was quick to return. "It's a dinglehopper...nevermind, you've probably never heard of it..."

Pixie Dust is open hipster.

With everything Ariel had going on, around the island and in her head, she expected she'd probably wind up running late for her meeting/sort-of date with Chuck at the bowling alley, but she was pleasantly surprised to show up with plenty of time on her hands...

Plenty of time to admire her feet in her great bowling shoes! What wasn't to love about bowling shoes? And the person behind the counter was so nice to let her go through a few of the different color combination until she found one in her size she particularly liked. True, they wouldn't sell them to her to keep, but that was okay. Those would just have to be her pair every time she came to bowl.

Musing over the fashion of bowling shoes was more than enough to keep her occupied, too, until Chuck showed up.

[[ expecting a date for probably great SP justice, but open for all your bowling, pizza, and video game needs! ]]

So much for spending her first shift at Groovy Tunes looking into some new music. Ariel had almost considered just skipping the whole first day things, considering her current visitors, but it was good to have something else to distract her. Or at least try to distract her, because being confronted with two children, apparently from the future, apparently from two very different futures, was just a bit mind-boggling.

But at least Bruce and Melody seemed to be getting along together and they didn't mind coming with her to the shop for a little. Melody had almost sort of taken Bruce on as a little brother, which made sense, because he was, but, at the same time, he wasn't, and...

Ariel groaned, rubbing her head again and trying not to think about it. It was just too weird thinking that she could have a ten or seven year old daughter or son right now. She let the two of them run around, playing tag and hide-and-seek around the store as she tried not to think about it, but only wound up thinking about it more. Because, okay, Bruce kind of made sense in a way that if everything was actually perfect and life wasn't what it was sort of way, but who the heck was Prince Eric? Did she know him? Would she know him? Was he handsome? Well, duh, of course he was, and a prince, too...

Ariel's thoughts started to drift a little, but not enough to catch a snippet of conversation from Melody. "And sometimes," she said, thinking her mother wasn't paying attention and that she was speaking much quieter than she actually was, "I even pretend....I have fins!"

If she was eating anything, Ariel would have choked on it. "Melody!" she said, eyes going wide. That was another problem with a mystery future; she had no idea what this little girl knew about her or Atlantica or anything! It could be just a time bomb, waiting to go off. "Don't talk like that!"

Melody looked surly as she winced back apologetically, with a look that made Ariel wince, too, and made her think about her father, and she was pretty sure that, as the kids went to go find something else to play with, she heard Bruce whisper, "I do that, too."

Ariel buried her face in her hands. Being a parent was hard!

Groovy Tunes is open!

Ariel had gone out into town to get some Chinese food to take back to the dorms, but it was so nice out, for her, that she decided just to stay outside and enjoy the food in the fresh air with the parting clouds and the ducks to keep her company.

She figured, too, that the ducks would like Chinese food as well. The noodles were just like worms, right? Right! Well, a few of them seemed to differ, but she believed she turned on a few fans, giggling as she sat on a bench with her lo mien and spring rolls.

And fortune cookies. Lots of extra fortune cookies. Some of them might even inspire some of her horoscopes for the newspaper. She should probably get working on those, actually, but there were ducks! Horoscopes could totally wait.

[[ open for all your park-orientated needs! ]]