a pinch of thesauritis, a soupçon of eggcorn, and a generous tablespoonful of homophones*

[cimorene]

1. hands moved parsimoniously down his body until they were firmly accentuated on his hips,


2. quote-on-quote "fucking awesome,"


3. like an electrical currant


4. has the gull to ask


5. voice riddled with concern


6. eye contact does not waiver

*I sought a one-word description of #5, but I failed.

Comments

[oracne]

Mmm, electrical currant jam.

[cimorene]

I was thinking it's a new flavor of Kool-Aid.

[dorothean]

I hope #3 is from a story in which the Stranger Things characters watch a California Raisins commercial.

[cimorene]

I feel like on the absolute scale of weird things for dried fruit to be, sentient and sapient quadrupeds is some way beyond electrical.

[dorothean]

True. I was thinking more literally that one of them plays electric guitar, though.

[cimorene]

I haven't seen California Raisins since age 5, so I have no memory or knowledge whether there are already currants in canon, but this brings up an interesting question, if the currant is also a guitarist (but not one of the band members, who are all raisins). For one thing, it's signficantly smaller, so it would look a bit like a child hanging out with adults if they were in the same band, or like a child band if you had a band of just currants alongside the raisins. They'd probably have to have those smaller instruments. Maybe they play a completely different genre of music. (Heavy metal? Folk?)

[niqaeli]

I mean, currants as little people in the California Raisin universe would be plausible enough. Probably they would need smaller instruments, though, you're right.

[niqaeli]

hands moved parsimoniously down his body until they were firmly accentuated on his hips

...I. I kind of want to turn this into a cross-stitch sampler, this is ART. terrible, hilarious art.

[cimorene]

Agreed. Sometimes it's pure poetry.

Too bad she resisted the urge to check the thesaurus for firmly too - missed the chance for "sturdily" or perhaps "energetically" accentuated.