#all fool's day

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - All Fool's Day by Edmund Cooper

Berkley (1967)

[ask-runaan-anything]

I'm afraid to ask but I'll ask anyway: Why did Tink attempt to break you in half the first time(s)?

It was an All Fools’ Day prank gone horribly wrong.

We hadn’t known each other very long, and I didn’t know he had a vitally important audience with the Dragon Queen the next day. I snuck into his workshop one night and rearranged all his tools. I memorized their placement first, because I was going to put them back myself, I swear on my life. But Tink was under far more pressure than I realized, and then I came by his workshop, all innocence and moonlight, to catch his reaction in the morning.

He was standing there, looking like he’d lost his eyebrows in his hairline. Like a dragon had just flown past him at full speed and missed him by a fingernail.

And I, All Fool that I was, thought it would be a good idea to laugh.

He knew. Immediately.

I’ve never seen him move that fast in my life, before or since. He had me on the ground in half a second. I yelped like a startled puppy. I think he was trying to rip my arm off so he could beat me with it. But his furious expression was so adorable. I couldn’t stop laughing. He really did almost dislocate my shoulder, and he nearly shook me senseless. Poor frustrated moon boy. But I’ve had worse in training every day for half my life. And besides, I’d let Tink snap me in two any day. 

Long story short, he let me live, and I’ve firmly vowed never to mess with his tools ever again. I made it up to him by proving that I could put everything back exactly where it was, while he supervised my every move. Plus a month’s worth of extra pampering and attentiveness and chores and groveling.

Worth it. Tinker is always worth it.

[aranazo]

All Fool's Day by Edmund Cooper with a Chris Foss cover.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“All Fools' Day Date Believed Mistaken,” Montreal Star. March 14, 1932. Page 3. ---- SOMEONE with a perverted sense of humor or a rather vagus notion as to the dale of All-Fool's Day was abroad on Saturday night. The victims of what was at first reported as a dastardly outrage, but is believed by police to have been a practical joke, were Armand Bilodeau, clerk in the hardware store of Ravary Limited, St. Catherine street east, and his friend Miss Mary Gaudrian, who was in the store waiting for him.

Without warning all lights in the store went out. Three men entered, led Miss Gaudrian outside, and ordered her to go home, and tied Bilodeau, just tightly enough to force him to work several minutes to extricate himself. No shots were fired, as at first reported, and nothing was stolen from the store or from either Bilodeau or Miss Gaudrian.

[lorddragonfang]

Did Tumblr just steal 4chan's gag? I'm pretty sure tumblr just stole 4chan's gag.