Also, I hope you have fun on your vacation! Going anywhere fun?

Sooty you are THE BEST. The best. <333333

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“Just wanna…squish ya.” Vash slurs.

His hand comes up and squishes your cheeks together. Your brows tick up while your mouth purses like a fish. “Ye’h?” You say.

He hums. Scoots closer on the bench. The bar is full of life, and Vash has drunk enough to fill half their bellies. You can smell the booze on his breath when he leans in. “Just squeeze!” He wraps his arms around you and does just that. You let out a wheezy breath. He’s just barely holding back.

Then, his teeth are at your shoulder, and he bites.

“Ow! Vash!” You slap his ear.

Vash lets out a sweet giggle, rubbing his forehead on the teeth marks he just made on your skin. “Sorry! You’re just…y’er just cute.” He lays his cheek on your shoulder, now, and stares doe-eyed up at you.

You blow air out your nose. “Does that mean I get to bite you back?”

He gasps dramatically. “You think I’m cute?”

Shyness grips you, but you take up his hand and bite his palm softly. Vash stills, goes quiet for the first time since the night started. A sudden intimacy overtakes you both.

You desperately shake it off. Shake his arms off too. “There. Now we’re even.” Despite your embarrassment, the side of your mouth turns up in a half smile as you lean an elbow against the bar and look away.

Vash stares at you a long, long moment, his cheeks getting redder and redder. Then, he signals the bartender with a loud bellow. “BARTENDER! Another round for me and the cute lady!” All the while, he stares at the indents of your teeth on his palm, rubbing a thumb over them.

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George Harrison’s foreword to the Geoff Tibballs book The Secret Life of Sooty (1990), alongside a photo that appeared in that book, captioned: “One of Sooty’s greatest fans, George Harrison’s son Dhani, with his dad.”

It was so lovely to meet Adam Savage yesterday at Supanova Sydney!

I had made him a small pouch using some of my first ever handspuns that I had woven using a pin loom into cloth. He was fascinated and appreciative of the gift & I hope it serves him well into the future.

Sooty also came along to show off his handmade travel puppet box.