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[candidly]

[ oh look. gwen's inside a blanket fort she built in the corner of the living room. she's nomming on some marshmallows and she's got her homework next to her. ]

Have you ever done something that you haven't since you were a kid, just for kicks, and found out it's just as awesome as it was when you were five? 'Cause I'm totally having one of those moments right now and I gotta say, if you haven't built a blanket fort in the past five years? You should definitely do it again.

[ there's a pause and she looks around. ]

Extra credit if you can get it to cover your entire living room. I wonder if we've got enough blankets for that...

[ the feed clicks off as gwen gets up, presumably in search of more pillows and blankets. ]

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[recurve]

I think I am impossibly jealous right now.

[candidly]

You should be. I have mad blanket fort skills.

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[magicalworld]

Hey, nice technique. [Eyeing the pillowmanship of that fort.]

[recurve]

You're gonna sleep in it tonight, right?

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[candidly]

Thanks. I'm pretty proud of it.

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[magicalworld]

I thought that most people forgot how to make decent forts when they got old. But it looks like you got the folds in the right place and everything.

[candidly]

Duh. Why else would I have built it?

[candidly]

The cool old people remember how to do the awesome stuff.

[voice]

[whatwouldspideydo]

The stuff I did as a kid would probably be a lot less cute if an adult did it.

Still, that's impressive.

[voice]

[candidly]

There's gotta be something. Did you ever try and make sculptures out of your mashed potatoes?

[text]

[undeadsidekick]

You're pretty big for a ten year old.

[voice]

[whatwouldspideydo]

Have you seen me eat before? Where would I find time in between shoveling everything down my throat?

[recurve]

To admire your own engineering skills and marvel at the impressive craftsmanship?

[voice]

[incywincyhero]

Can I attest to that one.

--But Gwen, a blanket fort without confiscated couch cushions is no fort at all. You'd better get on that, stat.

[candidly]

That sounds kiiinda boring.

[voice]

[candidly]

I tended to not pay much attention to you. Like, at all.

... I'd say you should start a food fight some time, but that's kinda hard without a cafeteria and a bunch of other people who won't mind.

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[invoking]

You'll get dust and dirt on those sheets.

[candidly]

Already on it. Do we have more blankets anywhere?

[voice]

[whatwouldspideydo]

Or I could go to the nearest fast food place and lob a cheeseburger right into someone's face.

See what I mean? Way less cute as a grown-up.

[text]

[candidly]

those two fives were totally unrelated

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[candidly]

That's what the washing machine is for.

[voice]

[whatwouldspideydo]

Yeah, now shoving someone into a locker counts as assault. How unfair is that?

[candidly]

[ thinking thinking thinking... snap! ]

S'mores! Specifically trying to make them on the stove.

[recurve]

I think it sounds awesome. You could challenge others in a fort construction contest.

[incywincyhero]

Did you add the ones Johnny brought already? Otherwise I think that's all of them ... other than the mylar ones in the first aid kits, and no, you can't use those.

[Because Peter's obviously going to be using them tonight ... that and a web-hammock.]