back to silliness because the gatekeeping was such a drag

That parody fic about the fans of a fictional hockey team saying "We won the Stanley Cup" (recommended, no real sports knowledge necessary) and the rest of this situation gave me a beautiful mental image of a Hugo award going on world tour the way the Stanley Cup does, spending a week with each team member the summer after they win.

WHAT IF: Every Fan on AO3 coming up with increasingly kinky uses for said statue and liveblogging 'their day' (or I guess it's a summer divided by a million users or whatever, so it's probably more like their 5 seconds) with photo[shop]s!

Of course, being a salad bowl, the Stanley Cup is suited for drinking champagne out of, eating cereal out of, carrying babies in, etc. The Hugo is a cigar-shaped rocket, which is... pretty dildoish, honestly, so aside from just photographing it in different places Amelie (or meme) -style, it's maybe harder to think beyond the obvious off-label usage... :

• Paint stirrer? Drink stirrer?


• Murder weapon?


• Doorstop


• Actual very tiny rocketship in a battle with tiny space aliens, provided some kind of ray gun was used to miniaturize the passengers first


• Hood ornament


• A character in a comic


• A bollard for a rather small road/parking lot


• A plumb bob

I know most of these aren't very kinky, but the kinkier ones seemed like low-hanging fruit, given the shape. I mean, we've all read the fic. At least, everyone sharing the award has.

radiator ignition

The radiators are on! They're warming up as we speak! The geothermal heat pump is working and is also heating our hot water!

I thought bleeding the radiators (... yeah) was going to take much longer. It was only an hour or two.

We have heating!




So now we have to buy two beds and move all of everyone's stuff... again...