more than you know

Axel: do you think fg would let us have a Halloween party on the tourney field?? 👀👀

Puck: wake and bake?

Puck: Pro-tip: if you need to deodorize a mattress or something, just soak it in rubbing alcohol and wait for that sucker to evaporate. Deodorized AND sanitized.

Puck: Little trick I found when moving into dorms last year. Figured with that time about to come rolling around again, I'd share the knowledge.

Oaklynn: I usually think of rubbing alcohol for disinfecting wounds, but if your mattress was injured then I can see where the inspiration came from!!!

Cassie: I know I'm not supposed to have favorite animals at the shelter and technically I don't BUT my favorite doe Erica is a mother now and it's so exciting! She had three fawns about two weeks ago and sadly we still don't have names for them, so I thought it'd be fun to ask the Internet for suggestions! I'd love any help, especially because all of my name ideas are dumb. Thank you!

Oaklynn: Sometimes you just can't help it! You love them all, but some of them just speak to you in a way that the others don't. It's almost like there was a piece of your heart missing and then when you found them, you found the piece inside of them!

Oaklynn: You spent the entire night trying to get me to make out with you

Oaklynn: Are you lost?

“You’d probably be better at it than me,” Beau encouraged with a grin, “dress or no dress. But for sure, you know I’ve got you.” It was so Oaklynn to worry about forgetting her animals, but he shook his head. “That would never happen though. In fact, I bet if you ever did get amnesia, seeing one of your animal friends would be the thing to cure you and bring you back to us.”

And how could he not think that? The way she talked about animals, even non-traditionally cute ones like snakes, was a testament to how much she loved them. It was so sweet. “Not that I’ve ever seen but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t. If she hasn’t, or even if she has, she’d probably let you put a bow on ‘em though; every snake deserves to feel cute.” He took a seat besides her and opened up the basket, starting to take things out with care as he considered her question. “Yellow! Wait, no,” he corrected, laughing at himself. It was hard not to match her bubbly energy. “Yellow is my favorite color to see, and white is my favorite to wear so…one of those? Sorry, I should be like way more decisive about this, huh? Am I failing the test already? Am I too indecisive to be a pet daddy?”

“You’re such a sweetie,” Oaklynn laughed, shaking her head at him. She was sure she would have had fun on this ‘date’ no matter who had bought her, but it was hard not to suspect that Beau was the best of the bunch, with how effortlessly he tossed out little comments like those that made her smile. “I’m sure it would be the animals that would get my brain back in shape, too, but friends like you would definitely help too. Not like -- in a ‘you have to help, I demand it!’ kind of way, just in a ‘you’re pretty unforgettable, seeing you would jumpstart my brain’ kind of way.”

Oaklynn’s smile lingered as Beau helped her unpack the picnic basket; so thoughtful, so easy to be around. She passed out the plates and silverware she’d packed for them while she contemplated his answer, shaking her head softly when he claimed to be failing the quiz. “No, no! I change my mind about answers all the time; sometimes I’ll be on literally the last question and refresh the whole quiz so I can go back and re-answer it and be my most authentic self,” she reassured him, deciding that she’d count yellow as his answer and leave white out of the mix entirely. “We’ll factor in your indecisiveness later -- it can be a personality question to determine what pet temperament you’d vibe best with. For now, though... what’s your favorite breakfast food? I’ll give you options to make it less overwhelming,” she declared as she popped the tupperware lid off of the ants in a log first, putting one on his plate before taking one for herself and munching on a bite as she thought. “You can choose... bacon, a smoothie, french toast, an omelette, coffee, or nothing because you don’t have time to eat breakfast.”

Beau: The toast-ess we're all engross-ess-ed with... okay, I tried, but that rhyme was so weak right now that it'd be knocked over by a firefly 😂 you're already the Toast-ess, it's too late to be a rookie again, you just gotta keep on keeping on! Scrambled eggs on toast sounds right as rain. Want to go get breakfast for dinner sometime soon?

Beau: That's what happens when people are geared to love so much, I think. We just have to deal with the sad that comes from the after-love. Your method of dealing with it is a good one, I'm not too great at that myself yet. Maybe I just need more practice.

Oaklynn: It was definitely a valiant effort, although engrossed has never been a favorite word of mine! If it's something so good you can't look away from it, then why does it have the word GROSS in it? Seems silly to me! And oh my gosh, yes! Breakfast for dinner, in contrast, is the LEAST silly thing in the world. I'll have my toast French when we go, I think. There's a place with BREAD PUDDING French toast, have you been there yet?

Mateo: Well, I have to! If I couldn't be around cats, I couldn't be around YOU and that's just unacceptable. And I can, but theater makeup isn't my specialty so it wouldn't look REAL real. I'd rather be a sunshiny heartthrob though, to be honest, so I'm glad you said that. Castle In the Sky is sooooo good, great choice! That one is almost always in my top three, which shift around, but currently I'd say it's Howl's Moving Castle! I love a good mix of savory and sweet popcorn so like one thing of garlic parmesan popcorn, one thing of caramel corn, and one thing of plain salted butter would be my favorite but that's a lot, I know. And all movie snacks are amazing but Sour Patch Watermelon is my favorite! That and anything chocolate. What about you? If I ever see you hamster-wheeling, I'll do my best to snap a pic, I promise!

Mateo: THANK YOU FOR ADEQUATELY DISTRACTING ME BECAUSE QUEEN ELSA'S POSSIBLE SECRETS AREN'T AS IMPORTANT AS ME NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER BEING AS NOSY AS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TO YOU. From now on whenever I feel nosy, I'll pretend I'm Prince Phoney and that the urge I feel is to peek at your phone and I'll REFUSE it! I still can't believe someone did that to you, ugh. Now I want to get revenge! But I don't really know how to get revenge. I'm not that kind of person.

Oaklynn: You could still be around me! I wouldn't toss you aside completely, you'd just get me in very small, distracted bursts before I had to get home to my kitties; it would be kind of sad, but better than nothing, I hope! You have theater friends who could teach you or help you practice, right? Or friends with lots of money and maybe their own makeup teams lol. I love Howl's Moving Castle! Oooh, and a good popcorn variety pack, although I'd probably pick yellow cheddar, kettlecorn, and maybe get really fancy with chocolate covered! All of those sound good, though... maybe they have a bucket with six dividers! Have you ever had the Tropical Fruits Sour Patch kids? They're not my favorites, Lifesaver Gummies are, but they're new and exciting and I thought in order to be a good friend I needed to take this opportunity to alert you of their existence. Buncha Crunch and Milk Duds are my favorite chocolates for the occasion, though! They never taste as good as when you're eating them during a movie.

Oakley: OOOOOH OAKLYNN ODIE ACTUALLY SOUNDS? NOT BAD? What about Oaklynn Oaken-Odie? You can hyphenate and NOT LOSE THE OAKEN!

Oakley: He already got the lead role, he doesn't have to earn it anymore! And IS IT?! Weird! I bet it wouldn't be THAT bad though, why couldn't we sit together? I'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING AS BAD AS THE FOX, I DON'T THINK! I'VE JUST DONE A BUNCH OF SMALLER STUFF, ITS NOT FAIR! And YES, I TOTALLY earned the right because I've managed to KEEP a relationship for this long. Jokes on you, she and I HAVE talked about marriage, ha! It was to say we're not ready to get engaged any time soon but still! There's no reason to think we won't get there!

Oaklynn: I WAS JUST TOSSING RANDOM THINGS THAT I'D DEFINITELY NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT BEFORE OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE! But it does sound cute! Would we both be Oaken-Odies or just me? Because then his initials would be BOO and that's so cute!

Irene: I swear cats just don't like me at all! I tried to offer it a grape. one of my grapes!! next time I'll just make a cat painting and wear it around so all cats know 'irene is friendly'

I think they’re two of the best people in the whole entire world! Even if I’ve never been sure if @irene-nattura actually likes me all that much...

I think they’re adorable and wonderful too! I dare you to try and find an animal I don’t love; I don’t think you could do it!