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Who: Kitty Pryde and everyone who tags!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Planet fun! Or Windrose maybe. I'm flexible.
When: Now or nowish. Definitely now-adjacent.

[Broadcast]
I have an important request. I need someone who can make cheese. Do cheese makers have an old timey name like cobblers and haberdashers or are those only for clothes? Anyway, calling all of those.

Cheese doesn't seem to be a thing here from what I can tell, but we're just one ingredient away from some really great pizza. I have no idea what cheese requires other than cows or goats or something. I grew up so close to Wisconsin, but I feel like I learned so little.

I would also accept alternative cheese. I know there were vegan kinds made out of hopes and dreams or something I assume. I can pay you or share the finished pizza or do something in trade if I had skills. I could beat someone up for you maybe. [She's not going to do that. Probably.] We'll work it out.

[Action]
[She's on the planet doing all of these things and more but this post won't get to CAPTCHA! You might find her on the Windrose veeeery rarely!]

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I'm with you for all the good and the not-so-great. [She kisses his cheek.] Really with you. We're a team, right? [There might be something a little insecure in that question as she feels the tail end of him thinking of confiding in someone who isn't her. Not that she'd ever begrudge him that! Just because she'd like to know things not just because she pulled them out of him or felt them because of the planet.]

[ jim is easy to talk to exactly because he pulls things out of him. sometimes with physical violence. ]

Right. Partners.

[ he offers her a small smile. he still doesn't feel right dropping this on her - it's his problem. but having her understand, it makes dealing with it feel a lot more feasible. ]

[She hugs him more fully.] You know I'd never do anything to hurt you, right? [Which is not the same as saying she could never hurt him. It could still happen unintentionally, but she doesn't ever want to do it on purpose at least.]

I do know.

[ he holds her tightly, leaning his head against her neck. ]

I know it doesn't make a lot of sense - but I do trust you. [ it's why he doesn't want her to do anything differently with tyrion - he would hate himself if he sabotaged their friendship, he likes tyrion himself and he loves kitty - he wants her to have everything and everyone who make her happy. is it weird to feel helpless at your own feelings? because that's what he's feeling right now, in a big way. it just sounded...she has to realize what it sounded like, right? he's not crazy, he's not. the jealousy has subsided almost completely, leaving behind it mostly anxiety at the reaction it got from him.

he trusts her. then why did he feel so shitty? ]

Feelings don't always make sense. That's not their job. [She doesn't think he's crazy and she doesn't think he's turning into his father or anything like that. She thinks he's been lonely and hurting a lot of his life and he's afraid of losing the people he has now.] You know the quest for cheese is for you, right? Or well, for us. [But it's more work than she'd go to for just herself.]

I figured.

[ he smiles again and presses a soft kiss to her cheek. ]

I'd say you shouldn't but we've been talking about pizza so much I'm actually starting to have the weirdest withdrawal dreams.

[ or more like, he'd say she shouldn't but that it's also for her makes it easier to accept gracefully. ]

Nothing weird about that. Pizza is the best. And this has led me to learning to bake with a pony.

[Pause.]

I mean a pony is going to teach me to bake. I'm not baking ponies. Life is strange.

Tell me about it.

[ look the pony is one of his favorite people around here. life is very weird. ]

[There are two! But yeah, it's the pink one.] I don't really have a lot more to say. Pinkie Pie knows how to make the cheese if we get all the ingredients together and she offered to teach me baking. I figured that was something I had to see.

[ he knows but he hasn't met the other one yet. his life is a tragedy, basically. ]

...she knows how to make cheese, too?

[ eyes going so. big. as he pulls back to look at her. ]

We could really have real pizza?

[ best girlfriend. best pony. ]

If we find everything we need. I'm not sure what kind of cheese it'll be. [She hadn't really thought about that part.]

Anything'll beat those gels - what do we need - how can I help?

[For the mods to respond if all these things are available.] Milk for one and then either lemon or vinegar so acid I guess. And cloth and I don't remember if that was it or not.

I can definitely do cloth - you can cross that right off the list.

[ it's such a relief to have something else to focus on that he latches onto it with both hands. the subject being a possible real way to get real cheese, well, just makes it a heck of a lot easier. ]

And I bet Hank could help us whip up some vinegar if we can't readily find any -

Nope. Stop. No new projects for people named Winn.

Oh come on Kitty, it's pizza!

I promise not to let it go unmade because of my pride. I'll come to you if we can't figure it out. But I mostly want you to just sit back and relax.

You and I both know that's not gonna happen.

[ though he has been indulging on the beach a little bit, because it reminds him of home so much. but even there - he lies on the sand, watching the sky or the waves - and works on theories in his head, occasionally jotting them down when he comes up with anything that might be promising. ]

A girl can dream? [She runs her fingers through his hair.] Oh, hey, Tyrion asked me to bartend on the Iskaulit too. I said I'd think about it if he still needs someone, but not until after we leave here.

That's a cool gig. [ ok so the owner scared him shitless on his first day but that was mostly winn freaking himself out, he was actually perfectly nice.

he's determined to not feel anything but excitement for her. man, trying to control his feelings as well instead of just his expression and words is hard, it's been 3 seconds and he's already exhausted. it's not that he even have particular feelings to keep at bay, but after the conversation they just had, he's worried about what pettiness could crop up if he let his guard down. ]

Do you wanna?

Maybe. I guess it could be fun. Something to do. Something to try and keep me from spending every minute with you. I wouldn't want you getting bored. [Oh, Winn. What are you dong there?

You know I was just thinking how boring it is to spend time with a beautiful, brilliant, funny woman who finds me irresistible. This works out great.

[ don't ask him, he has absolutely no idea. ]

[She kisses his neck.] We're such a good couple then.

[ going straight for the neck - that's so unfair, kitty. he practically melts against her, humming contently. ]

Took you long enough to figure that out...

[All's fair in love and war, Winn.] Yep. It was just this moment.

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