fireworks!!

[bohofaery]

There were fireworks tonight, the most brilliant display I've ever seen. The moment I heard the first explosions I literally jumped up and ran to Iain's room, grabbing his hand before he even had time to put on his coat, and the two of us sprinted down Trumpington Street and stood on the pavement, watching them light up the Fitzwilliam Musem

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a waste of gunpowder and sky.

[zerozero]

Fireworks have always made me sad. I like them, but they always always make me melancholy.

Re: a waste of gunpowder and sky.

[bohofaery]

but why?

Re: a waste of gunpowder and sky.

[zerozero]

if I knew that i'd change it.

Re: a waste of gunpowder and sky.

[bohofaery]

I suppose for me a part of it is still the magic of childhood bonfire nights. Frost and mittens and writing your name in the air with sparklers, and hot chocolate with marshmallows and baked potatoes and hot dogs. The whole Guy Fawkes thing always made me uneasy, but fireworks? Just incandescence, in its purest brightest form - and enough noise to please the rowdiest of eight-year-olds.

[letra]

fireworks don't excite me anymore because they go on in good ol' portslade from october til around fucking march the next year.* and I am sure they have something to do with the disappearance of two cats of mine.**

xx

* but I'm glad you enjoy them and hell, they are beautiful when it is james and I standing on a bridge above a motorway and a single fern green fireworks explodes and makes the moment. gushy mia. stop. stop.

** looking for reasons but cannot justify whatsoever, so it was a pointless comment to make.

[bohofaery]

Fireworks are still a treat for me. We used to get them at my old house but since we moved when I was fifteen we've never really had them, not proper displays like this one. And yay for James and you, and yay for bridges at night with the water all glittering in the dark. I'm dreadfully behind in my letterwriting, can you forgive me? In fact I'm going to do that now, when I've got another mug of chocolate. Yes. xx

[bohofaery]

Not that there was water, it being a motorway and all. Silly girl (me, not you.) The river here is beautiful though, but I must shut up. Am too tired and confused to be online. xx

[ghost_world]

i like the way fireworks look, but i hate them. where we live it's like being in a war zone. my boyfriend even got firebombed last year. kids let off bangers from when it turns dark to 3am. you try sleeping through that, or walking home in the dark knowing you could have one thrown at you. the sound and the fear = nasty.

[bohofaery]

Someone said tonight that the 5th of November would be an ideal time for a bombstrike, if you were going to make one - everyone in one place, distracted, and used to hearing loud explosions and seeing flashes of light. We laughed at the time, but it was quite a distressing thought, really.