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Take Your Fandom Home With You Day. (What do you mean that's silly, shut up.)

Mar 28, 2011 13:01

Last night gyzym wrote this adorable thingy where Danny and Steve are living in her home state and doing home state-y things, and it got me to thinking - a few years ago somebody hosted this awesome "Take Your Fandom To Work Day" (which I still want to revive at some point, seriously) where you took your characters and sometimes your canon plots and ( Read more... )

-fic in comments, -i'm not full of myself at all, -no really you should try it, -promptfest needs a catchier title, -challenge? i accept!

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Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 1 allheadybooks March 29 2011, 16:22:38 UTC

It's snow. She's seen snow before. She visited friends in Seattle once, and it snowed there, light twisting flakes that looked so beautiful in the air but melted into trickles of ice water on her sleeves and collar and neck. This, they need a different name for.

"Danny, what the fuck--" she says, but Danny cuts her off with a hand slicing the space between them.

"No, no," he says, "if that was going to be a complaint out of your mouth, if that was going to be you bitching about the mainland in general or the northeast specifically--Kono, god help me, if you were about to blame me for this offense to the good name of weather everywhere--" He pauses, presumably to breathe. His cheeks are pink between the scarf and the hat ( ... )

Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 allheadybooks March 29 2011, 16:57:44 UTC

The perp's mom owns a diner. They realize this when they double back, checking house numbers against the address that Kono pulls up on her smartphone, cupping her hand over the screen to keep the snow off. It is called, hilariously, "Mom's Diner ( ... )

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 leupagus March 29 2011, 18:27:28 UTC

AAAAHHH this is great. My aunt and uncle live in Syracuse and yeah, this is exactly what it's like - there's a reason I never visit them in winter.

Plus:

"This coffee," he says, "it's so bad. It's the worst coffee I've ever had." He sips again, still moaning in what she now thinks might not be pleasure. Maybe he's burning his tongue. "It is so burnt, this is terrible diner coffee and I love it so much."

I laughed so hard at this. You're a freaking genius, this is gold.

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 allheadybooks March 29 2011, 19:13:25 UTC

It's not my hometown, thank god--I'm just here for grad school. They sold the program to me by saying "hey, you'll be snowed into your apartment four months out the year, so you have no choice but to get lots of writing done!", which I thought was a joke, and then December hit and we got like 72 inches in three weeks.

Bad diner coffee is my favorite thing ever. Me and Danny, we're on the same wavelength about that.

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 madgicai April 2 2011, 18:47:36 UTC

Lol. I am also here in Syracuse for grad school - although thankfully almost done. This story was spot on and hilarious. Poor Kono. She wasn't prepared for our winters!

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 somehowunbroken March 29 2011, 19:11:12 UTC

I love Kono getting ready to bitch about the weather, the mom just turning the kid over, and Danny loving the awful diner coffee (oh, diner coffee, it's so terrible). Oh, Syracuse :)

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 allheadybooks March 29 2011, 20:16:16 UTC

Thanks! It's fucking ridiculous here but the diners, the diners are something to love and cherish, I want to just hold them to my bosom and cuddle them forever.

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 shanachie_quill March 30 2011, 01:19:19 UTC

*flails so hard* Oh my fucking goddess...this? This right here is my happy place right now...because I grew UP in this town! Okay? Seriously! You do NOT know how happy I was to read this! Okay well I actually grew up like half-way between Syracuse and Rochester, but yes! This was my life for EIGHTEEN YEARS!!

So awesome! Diner food I miss you so much! Thank you for this!

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 allheadybooks March 30 2011, 01:31:53 UTC

You're very welcome! Sounds like you grew up in the same vicinity as my landlady. After spending one winter here and four in Michigan, I have nothing but respect for northerners.

Also, for you and other current or past Syracuse residents: there is a Mom's Diner in Syracuse, but it's on Westcott, not off Salina. Artistic license. They do have amazing home fries though!

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 shanachie_quill March 30 2011, 02:35:35 UTC

I grew up in Wayne County. Smack between Rochester and Syracuse. LOL yeah...I still shake my head at the people in the state I now live in (which is Jersey) since I think they're wusses.

LOL awesome! I go to a pub when I get home to get that taste of home I miss and there's also a diner my sister takes me too. :-)

Re: Syracuse, NY, snowiest city of any size in the continental US; part 2 audrey1nd March 31 2011, 12:52:08 UTC

Snooooow! I miss snow! And proper rain. I have no need of my hunter boots in London and it makes me sad.
This was just great. Love the diner and the trekking through the snow (I know exactly how that goes) and Kono coveting the snow boots. And Danny moaning over his coffee.

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