Ooh, that one’s not in TPD, but it is in A Thousand Harmonies and it’s probably my favorite bit of that piece, so thank you!

summer and heat, though not exactly summer heat: steve is pretty okay with himself and the things he likes (though it was an adventure getting there, because people are hard, okay?) but he feels really guilty about how sexy he thinks it is when bucky and clint grill. (they don’t get to when the whole gang is together, because natasha and pepper are GOOD at it, and they’re oddly territorial about the grill at the lake house.) but when it’s just clint and coulson and bucky and steve, clint and bucky man the grill and it’s. it’s just hot. and steve feels bad about it, because he should be above getting turned on by performative masculinity and gender roles and he doesn’t think natasha’s sexy when she’s grilling. (She’s attractive, because natasha, but she’s not sexy. ew. she’s like his sister.) but whatever it is, fire and heat and smoke and meat and bucky (and clint, too, because what? Steve’s got eyes.) and that’s the recipe for a party in his pants. 

Hee. Also acceptable. How could a penguin with a cardigan on be anything other than delightful? (Or a cardigan with penguins on it!) 

I have been asked so many times why I didn’t just spell out ‘people’. The real answer is that I didn’t think it would fit and didn’t bother to check, but now I’m just using it as an internet Rorschach test. jedimara77, for instance, always reads it as ‘charming poplin cardigans’. I quite like the word poplin, so it works for me.