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Funnel cakes

LET'S GO TO THE FAIR MEME

It's time to go to the fair! Food, rides, games, historical reenactments, the choices are endless! Go with your friends, your family, or if you're feeling romantic, go with a date! Don't run out of tickets.

LOCATIONS

1. COUNTY/STATE FAIR From the hokey to the bright and brilliant, you've been waiting for this all year! Are those rides up to code? Can you find the perfect fair food? Damn, those churros look good.
2. REN/PIRATE FAIRE Is something a little older your style? Try out a Renaissance or a pirate faire! You can dress up like the times or just be a civilian passing through. Mead, turkey legs, butt grabbing...
3. AMUSEMENT PARK Screw fairs, you want to go to Disneyland! Or Legoland, or Universal Studios... Whatever, you just want to go to the REAL THING. Elitest. You're not better than us.
4. HAUNTED CARNIVAL You thought this was a normal fair, but something seems... off. Are the ghosts fake or are they real? Does that guy have fangs? What the hell is this, Scooby Doo?
5. MUSIC FESTIVAL Who needs fairs when you can go to a venue and pay $40 for a t-shirt and watch thirty bands in one day and get heat exhaustion while drinking cheap beer? That's what we thought.
6. HOLIDAY FAIR It's Halloween! Or Christmas! You want to see pumpkin carving! Or Santa Claus! Whatever, man. You just like holidays.

SCENARIOS

1. RIDES The Tilt-a-Whirl costs how many tickets? This had better be worth it.
2. FOOD Holy shit, you have to try this chocolate covered, deep-fried ice cream! We'll stand by with some paddles.
3. EXHIBITS You want to look at photography? Art? Some kid's ode to his dog made of popsicle sticks? Let's go for it.
4. ANIMALS Are those tiny pigs wearing JACKETS and running a RACE? We have to go right now. Alternatively, pay to see the world's biggest live alligator. Her name is Susy.
5. GAMES You really want to win that giant unicorn but for some reason, the pins won't fall over even when you hit them dead-center. Is this rigged?
6. ROMANCE Whether it's the tunnel of love, jousting for someone's hand, or just sitting around sharing a dessert, we've got you covered on the date front.
7. MASCOTS Maybe you want to meet Mickey. Or Santa. Or, I don't know, whatever the hell that dude over there in a suit is. Careful though, a lot of times little kids can be real scared.
8. CONTESTS Baking contest? Are there funny notes in the grading cards for some of them? Maybe you want to look at how some nerd set a table. Check them out, try to steal one of the blue ribbons, whatever.
9. SHOPPING Everything here is SO COOL. Did you see that light up headband? That shirt with an emoji on it? Seriously, what will they think of next? Just don't get swindled out of your money!
10. CONCERTS This is it, this is the good stuff. You wanted some music and now you've got it; what kind of music is your jam? Will you be sitting comfortably or are you going to meet someone in the pit?

If your scenario doesn't match the location, make something up or pick a different one, we won't tell! As always, these are just suggestions. Make up anything you want, as long as you're having fun!

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[ parks and cruises, anyone? ]

[music festivals are, of course, a no-brainer. come see dethklok live and try to survive. other than that, down for all kinds of palling around at the fair/amusement park/whatever else. shopping sprees! motherfucking petting zoo! bribing carnies for the best plushies! if romance gets involved, 18+ please.]

[I've seen Across the Spiderverse but I'm happy to mark for or avoid spoilers as needed! OTA, canon, cross canon, assumed CR, etc.]

[ ota. ]

[OTA scenarios - but music festivals like EDC, Electric Forest, Tomorrowland are his jam.]

[Find him walking around a summer festival with snacks and spacing out.]

[ here's the thing about human advancement -- when geto suguru had been hell-bent on following his desperate dream to eliminate humans and just about everything they stand for, he'd never actually thought that the monkeys can go anywhere beyond what they're capable of.

so when news of a theme park with actual dinosaurs came about, complete with some sort of hybrid creature they'd cooked up in their labs, suguru has viewed it with an extremely healthy amount of skepticism (and more); despite his burgeoning interest, his distaste for anything human-made has consistent prevailed -- up until, well.

up until now. magic, meet science, and meet just about every social media platforms' robust advertising algorithms.

and so suguru books satoru and himself a trip to this theme park island, together with flight tickets and everything, and promptly fuck off from all the complications of their lives in japan right to south america and the finest theme park hotel suite that his money-making monkeys can gratefully buy. he feels like a goddamn tourist, feels like this kind of thing should be humanly impossible, but here he is together with the sometimes-estranged love of his life, his hair pulled back thanks to the warm weather on this lush, green, dinosaur inhabited island. hell, he's even decided to wear one of those obnoxiously loud hawaiian shirts just for this (with a matching set for satoru).

with their luggages brought up and set aside, suguru chooses the priority entrance to the park, his nose buried in the remarkably thick brochure they'd made for vip guests, outlining all the sights and express pathways accorded to them. goodness. the first thing they get, however, is a raptor-themed cap for satoru to keep the sun out from his eyes. the sunglasses can only do so much, and the blindfolds will raise too many questions. ]

I think they have candy floss shaped like T-Rexes. [ he says after a few moments, flipping through the food and beverage section of the brochure. ] Do you want to get one first?

( their two-week vacation's only just started, but already gojo's thinking this is officially the best trip he's ever had in his life. 10/10. easy. mostly because he's never been anywhere with suguru before. not out of japan. not like this. the two of them had decided to head to jurassic world on a whim. sorta. he had to talk to yaga about it first, but considering he hadn't taken any time off at all, the big man really couldn't say much. plus, it's almost summer vacation time for the students anyway. 🎉 )

Mm. I saw someone holding one just now. ( something like that's hard to miss for a sweet tooth like him. ) It's this big. ( he puts his hand next to his waist to indicate the length of it from the ground up. ) We can share it, naaaaaa... ( he keeps his arm casually wrapped around suguru's shoulder while he's checking out the sights, occasionally glancing down at that brochure. there's a large crowd of people around them, but gojo's glad suguru's not making a fuss or grumbling about "monkeys". probably because of that agreement they'd made before embarking on this trip. for every time suguru calls someone a monkey, gojo will give himself an hour of overtime at the school. )

Suguru... Oi, oi. ( because how long is he gonna be reading that instead of just checking out what's already right in front of them? ) Let's just walk around and scope out the area. You can look at the brochure all night when we get back to the hotel. ( as if. he'll distract him later too. heh. probably not all night. they wouldn't want to miss the buffet breakfast at seven and that baby dinosaur egg hatching thing. swiping the brochure, he stuffs it in his back pocket and starts heading towards the large display screens. )

Man... I can't wait to see one in the flesh. ( because all gojo's seen so far are these giant promotional posters and video trailers. ) Oh, oh. What's the one with that long neck called? A broccoli? No. Brunchy? ( maybe they're gonna need that brochure after all. )

[ it took days to negotiate that little thing, and even longer still for suguru to want to associate with humans -- but satoru had been incredibly persuasive and the savvyness of his negotiation skills leaves even suguru impressed (he hadn't actually thought that satoru had any, beyond strong arming people).

so he's actually... enjoying his time here; the promise of prehistoric wonders entirely beyond his imagination is enough for him to shift his focus. that, and the incredible gift of a full two weeks together with satoru, out of anyone else's reach, and where satoru can truly enjoy himself without bearing the burden of the strongest.

letting his lover confiscate his brochure, he slips his free hand into his with a hum, making a note to look out for the candy floss stall. satoru needs his sugar to keep going, and he squeezes his hand with a soft chuckle at his excitement. the entire place is massive, and he'd marked out their route for the first day on the plane ride here -- right to the last day. ]

Brachiosaurus?

[ suguru offers, because he's always been the conscientious one (read: book nerd) of the both of them. ]

We should be seeing them first, in about ten minutes. They let them roam freely in those massive enclosures, we'll need to take one of those tram rides.

[ he smiles, holding up their hands to show him the VIP tags. ]

And we won't have to wait. Are they your favourite?

Brachiosaurus... Yeah. Why's that sounding so sexy coming out of your mouth, hm? ( he leans in and steals a kiss from him, just a quick one. ) Maybe you can name all the dinosaurs for me later while we're in bed... ( the word 'fucking' doesn't come out of his mouth though as he's mindful of the people around them. but mind in the gutter? check. it can't be helped yo. somehow they'd slept through the entire plane ride and missed out on joining the mile high club! so much for crossing that off their to-do list. )

I like Littlefoot the best. He's my favorite. ( okay. that is the name of the cartoon character in 'land before time' and not a type of dinosaur. but whatever. suguru will know. playfully, he flicks his finger at the vip pass. it's a good thing they won't have to wait in line. he can't imagine either one of them having much patience for queuing up. he knows he'll wanna leave the queue every ten minutes to go get a snack. )

What's yours? Lemme guess. T-Rex. ( he grins as he thinks about how similar suguru might be to that one. ) You've both got a powerful bite. ( he can definitely attest to that. there's still a faint mark on his collarbone from a few nights ago. he'd come home late after having dinner with nanami and shoko. instead of just taking a shower by himself, he'd picked up a sleeping suguru, carried him out of bed and drenched them both in icy cold water by mistake as he'd forgotten to turn on the heater. oops. he'd had one drink. just one. but it had been enough to get him drunk. and what happened after is still a blur. but he'd woken up with a few bite marks and bruises on his skin. )

Edited (y do i eat words?) 2023-06-08 18:00 (UTC)

[ the look suguru gives satoru when he mentions littlefoot being his favourite is so, so impossibly fond and soft that one or both of them are going to develop diabetes. it's such an unexpected thing for satoru to like that this gem is precious information, and one that he files away for future reference. ]

So, an Apatosaurus.

[ he remarks, not to be pedantic but he can't help to show off when this, specifically, gets satoru feeling all nice and warm under the collar. it's such a shame they couldn't become members of the mile high club -- not for lack of trying, but the bathroom could barely fit one of them, much less them both.

that, and suguru had been happy enough to curl up asleep next to him in their first class seat-beds.

all the same, the reminder of the bite has suguru tugging at satoru's collar lightly, smugly looking at the fading bruises of the bite -- and how satoru apparently didn't bother to heal it. suguru, rudely woken up with ice cold water by a drunk satoru, had exacted his revenge creatively after making sure he was cleaned up and cared for. ohhh, that was a good night; satoru had quite the sore ass, too. apparently cold showers make suguru mad and horny. ]

That'll teach you to mess with me. And yes, it is. Although I'm surprised you wouldn't go for a velociraptor.

[ he slides an arm around his waist while they walk, keeping him comfortably close. ]

You like playing with your food a lot.