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[timelymaid]

hi again everyone!
so ive learned a bit about valentines day
and in doing so ive found its celebrated differently in different places? :o
and also in some places like japan
theres a corresponding holiday called white day!

so anyway my question today is do you celebrate valentines
and if so how
just out of curiosity
with absolutely no ulterior motive whatsoever

also exactly how many human holidays are there because so far there have been rather a lot of them my goodness
its almost like theres a holiday for every month
and there are at least five ways to celebrate each one
i think i need a chart

Comments

[enjoymyatelier]

It has more to do with how the usage has changed, really. People are generally less religious on average than they used to be, so an expression that was once a more genuine invocation of the name is now a mild curse.

There are some saints with stories that don't end in execution, but martyrs do tend to crop up more often than people who didn't die horribly, yes. Who is the Signless, exactly? Aside from a martyr, I mean--that was fairly clear.

Well, it was just one of them, really. There are far more religions than that, and I suspect the ones here would be entirely different due to the presence of Pokemon.

[timelymaid]

the signless was one of the ancestors
a long long time ago
before i was ever born
there was a troll who had mutated blood
candy red like humans!
he had visions of an alternia that was peaceful
although he would not realize that they were memories instead of visions
he told all the people about the visions he had
of a culture without conflict and suppression based on the hemospectrum
along with several others he started a revolution against the empire
and the high bloods

eventually he was caught and killed
and it was forbidden to speak of him

[enjoymyatelier]

So I see. Unsurprising, given the fate of a great deal of revolutionary movements--though, really, without knowledge of the breadth of the Sufferer's support and how well-armed his movement was, the opposite would have been equally plausible.

[timelymaid]

i dont know as much as i would like about all the details
since many were lost to time given the orders not to speak about it!
but perhaps someday ill have the chance to find out more

either way he didnt succeed so
moot point :p

[enjoymyatelier]

That doesn't surprise me, really. It's also entirely possible that the details would be wrong even if information hadn't been suppressed--I've learned that many details regarding several long-dead historical figures from my world are horribly inaccurate, and we have a great deal of information about them.

[timelymaid]

yes
im fairly certain what i know is accurate
since i heard it from a very reliable source
that being a ghost who watched it happen

[enjoymyatelier]

I learned about the actual discrepancies in my world's history in a fairly similar way, so I can certainly believe that. By this point, it seems like it's one of the few sources of information that shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt.

[timelymaid]

hahaha
taking most things with a grain of salt is probably a useful standard really
i mean just going by how many things ive learned about over the course of my existence
and how many of my original assumptions were off

[enjoymyatelier]

It really is. Then again, I know about plenty of things that the average person would consider unbelievable, so I'm less skeptical about the absurd to begin with. This place just pushes that even further beyond the admittedly flimsy boundaries I'd already set for myself.

[timelymaid]

true
i suppose at some point one just has to admit that nothing is unbelievable

[enjoymyatelier]

Honestly, there are still some things I find difficult to believe, but they're mostly related to the present day in my world. They're not things that would be particularly relevant here, of course.

[timelymaid]

what things are those?

[enjoymyatelier]

Absurd flights of fancy, for the most part.

[timelymaid]

well i can see how absurd flights of fancy might be hard to believe
:p

[enjoymyatelier]

[...colon p???]

Every world has its own particular limitations, I'm sure.

[timelymaid]

thats for sure!
i expect finding them all would take a good chunk of time though

[enjoymyatelier]

It's not as though time is something we're lacking in as long as we're here, so there's no reason why it can't be considered.

[timelymaid]

thats very true!
time is a commodity that we have an abundance of
which is nice

[enjoymyatelier]

Yes, it certainly is. I'd hate to think of what would happen if time actually passed back home while we're here. I suppose it wouldn't be particularly disastrous for some people, but that wouldn't be the case for me.

[timelymaid]

i could probably fix it if that were the case for me and the others
but youre definitely right that that might not be best!

[enjoymyatelier]

It's not really something that bears thinking about, anyway, given that it doesn't happen.

[timelymaid]

youre right there
our time is best spent focusing on the here and the now!
rather than the what if and the then

[enjoymyatelier]

Precisely. It's simply distracting, and nothing good will come of it.

[timelymaid]

i do like tangents on occasion though
for example i feel like some of our conversations can go to interesting places not originally planned!
this one started out about holidays :p

[enjoymyatelier]

Oh, yes, but there's a difference between tangents which are actually useful in some way and ones that are thoroughly pointless.