[So it took a bit longer than usual, but James will find he's gotten a box. It's wrapped in dog paper, and all the dogs are wearing birthday hats. Inside is a shirt, very suggestive and tie-dye as fuck. It's like Woodstock all over again in one shirt. Under that is another shirt, no awful list of puns. It's just plain tie-dye. Because sometimes a guy who loves the rainbow just wants to wear it and nothing else, right?
The birthday card between the two shirts features a sexy, sexy fish with big red lips and long eyelashes perched on a hook over the words DID YOU CALL FOR A HOOKER, BIRTHDAY BOY? The inside is blank, save Will's scribbling.
Happy birthday! Hope it was a good one and I hope you like your gifts. Feel free to stop by the shop if they don't live up to expectations. Best fishes, Will Graham
Yeah, yeah. He wrote "best fishes" in all sincerity because of course he would.]
[The video doesn't show Cold, it shows Mick. It shows Mick, shirtless and in yoga pants, on a stage in a mall, surrounded by burning candles and in a particularly interesting yoga position. There are the heads of people watching, a lot of them mothers in just the right age.
Just Leonard Snart, sharing the bounty. He finally turns the camera, smirking into it.]
[ The day after Axel arrives, Mick bakes a chocolate cake and divides it by three, wrapping each part separately and carefully labelling them with each of his housemates' names.
He leaves them on the kitchen counter with a firm note not to steal anyone else's and that there's ice cream in the freezer, make sure to leave some for the others. Neopolitan, so choose a flavour. ]
[It's not exactly what he called about, but he has to react to that message.]
-- what?! 8000 smackers to keep your lips from smacking? No way. No freaking way, old man. I am not paying 8000 bucks when all I want is for you to not talk to ONE PERSON about something you don't even want to talk about anyway. Call me back. It's Bart. And it's [phone number].
Or text me whatever I don't really want to chat. Whatever is least annoying. I can't believe I'm the one saying that.
[and then the attachment-- a slightly streaky cellphone shot of gabriel grey, of zombae fame, hunched over standing on the sidewalk. his pixellated face looks unamused.]
[ For Christmas, James receives three homemade soy candles that smell faintly of sweets, a combination between a vanilla cake and a candy cane, a woven necklace of bright red and yellow, and one more homemade gift: a knit flamingo. ]
Whatever holiday you celebrate, James, I wish you a happy one, filled with all of the sweet drinks and brightly feathered animals of your choosing. Perhaps another road trip is in order for the new year!
This magazine had this list of Valentine's Dos and Don'ts and it said not to talk about exes. Does an alternate universe version of yourself count as an ex?
[ How about carrier mockingbird instead of carrier pigeon? Because that's how this letter's arriving -- complete with a wax mockingbird sigil and everything. So fancy. ]
Dear, Mr. Jesse -
We have not spoken before, but my name is Petyr Baelish. I serve as the ambassador for Maurtia Falls. I write to you on behalf of a project I am working on within my city. Construction has already begun on rebuilding a much larger library, but I wish for this to be more than simply a bigger structure. I hope to inspire education and the spread of knowledge to the natives of Maurtia Falls as well as provide an invaluable resource to new arrivals here. But more than that, I wish to use it to pay homage to the natives who lost their lives within Maurtia Falls due to imPort related tragedies. Their names will be honored within the library itself and donations will be set up to be made to the families.
For this project to succeed, I need your help. If you are able to donate anything at all to the cause, it would be most appreciated -- whether that is books, money, or simply your time.
I thank you for reading, and I do hope to hear back from you soon.
Sincerely, Ambassador Petyr Baelish
[ OOC: You can feel free to just respond to this OOCly if he would donate anything or not! ]
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