donnajosh:

I don’t have a predilection for panic and exaggeration.

    
actuallylorelaigilmore : Fic request: The Santos Administration's first inaugural ball (all characters are good characters)

etraytin:

Today’s fic is actually a double prompt response, because I am just that efficient! I responded to the above prompt, and also a somewhat slantwise approach to a prompt from Anonymous, who asked “ how does Ronna feel being the only gay person in a group that is entirely heterosexual and extremely heteronormative?” Hope you both enjoy! Feedback is welcome, constructive criticism is welcome, pretty much every form of engagement is good. :D 


If her heels hadn’t been quite so high and quite so skinny, Ronna might have stomped them with impatience as she waited outside the bathroom door. “Come on, we’re going to be late! If we don’t get there in time to catch the motorcade, we’ll be stuck trying to find a taxi on Inauguration Night!”

“I’m almost done!” Cindy called back through the door. “I told you to take your shower earlier, I had to let all the humidity clear out before I could do my stuff. It’s not my fault your hair looks great when you just blow-dry it.”

“I did more than blow-dry it today,” Ronna pouted, reaching up a hand to touch the rhinestone barrettes clipped into her short hair to make it sparkle. She was interrupted as the door opened and her girlfriend stepped out with a swish of silk and the humid scent of flowers. “Wow, you look fantastic.”

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