timelymaid | seventh bubble; text.

whens your birthday?
im curious
and how do you normally celebrate it at your home?

where im originally from we dont use years or months or any of these things as a time term
a sweep isnt even equivalent to a year
and you have one wriggling day a sweep
although theres not much you do on them compared to human parties which i think are more fun
i cant even begin to figure out how you would equate a wriggling day to a yearly thing anyway
so i just did what jake suggested and picked something else for fun

speaking of!
ive got a list now and since i need to get it to several people this seems appropriate
sans terezi nepeta equius gamzee the birthday calendar is as follows:
february 14 eridan ampora february 22 sollux captor march 25 aradia megido
april 13 john egbert and jane crocker august 31 kanaya maryam
september 21 or 22 karkat vantas because whichever is the equinox!
and then december 1 is jake english and jade harley
december 3 is strider day
and december 4 is lalonde day

so that crosses off everyone i know from home but i do not have the days of everyone i know here
thus this very important question!
if you dont have one we can pick one because this is exciting!

[ as always, if you respond in something else, Aradia will match you. ]

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um
hes always been like that pretty much
kill all the land dwellers etc
feferi whos above him on the hemospectrum is nice so im not really sure what happened there
its just eridan i think

...I was talking about his social skills, not his genocidal tendencies, though those are admittedly even more worrying. I'm glad that at least it isn't your entire aristocracy that's lacking even the social awareness of a teaspoon, at least.

oh yes but arent those tendencies sort of bad social skills?? :o
and really he spent a lot of our game killing the denizens of his planet
so
well its just eridan

Saying that his attempts to murder practically everything he sees that isn't someone of high blood are "bad social skills" is rather like saying the ocean is a bit wet.

haha actually
its pretty socially acceptable back home to kill people?
i mean
i know its really not for humans but killing other trolls is a thing that happens :/
especially for highbloods

Well, surely genocide is still socially unacceptable, isn't it? That's certainly above and beyond anything else.

well thats pretty much why kanaya killed him
he sort of accomplished the genocidal thing more or less
honestly everyone sort of avoided him at home
although i think some people avoided him because he hit on them
not sure

Well, I really can't blame them for it, now that I have a better picture of the kind of person he actually is. He was difficult enough as it was when I was actually trying to put up with him.

does that mean youre not going to try any longer? :p
but yeah i think he already sort of spilled everything he did!
which was blind sollux kill feferi and kanaya and the matriorb etc
i cant say that was the best move :/

He really isn't worth my time.

[Abusing aristocratic privilege and murdering people who offend you are fine, but genocide crosses so many lines...]

Well, I'll admit, I didn't find it particularly awful when he said it because I lacked context for much of what he was saying, so that... possibly could have prevented the entire network from realizing exactly what he was confessing to.

thats a legitimate take on things

youre not wrong there
i think that context for our world can be hard
since it often confuses people from our world
so you know

Well, I can understand why it's confusing. We're from entirely different planets, after all-even if there are some similarities, things that seem perfectly normal to you are going to be extremely confusing to me. It can still get somewhat awkward, though.

and its always going to be the same swapped around!
although i am always open to learning more about the things that seem normal to you :)

I'd be perfectly willing to oblige-though, I would hope that you'd return the favor when possible.

of course!!
i want to know a lot about everyones worlds
especially the people im friends with

Well, whenever there's something specific you'd like to know about, feel free to ask.

ditto that!

huh
you know ive heard the phrase before from my friends but
was that started in this world or is it an earth thing

It's a phrase that's common in my world, actually, though that isn't particularly uncommon in respect to Pokemon names. A vast majority of them are just terrible puns or portmanteaus from my perspective.

really?
which ones are puns???
i mean i think i know one or two
but im not sure if im missing any for reasons of different cultures
and i think it would be a perfect shame if i were missing out on a joke!

Too many to count, I'd say, but things like Gastly and Spearow immediately come to mind. There's not really anything I can think of there that would be difficult to miss with Gastly unless you consider the wordplay there so cringe-inducingly obvious that it goes right over your head, but "Spearow" is a play on an animal that exists in my world called a sparrow.

well i knew about gastly
oh my how gastly a deed!!!
but i didnt know about spearow
we dont have sparrows on alternia

That, and it's also a Poison type, so it's also a pun on "gas." But yes-for the most part, if it's not a pun you get, it probably has something to do with an animal that doesn't exist in your world.

ahaha oh my gosh
i wonder what the reasoning is for that in universe
as in
in this universe??
do scientists here all enjoy puns
is that like a scientist requirement in pokemon world

I honestly can't say. It seems as though some Pokemon are named after the noises they make-for example, the fairly ubiquitous Pikachu-but others are just incredibly silly.

[SAYS THE MAN WHO NAMED HIS MYSTIC CODE "MERCURY ROLLING THING" IN A DEAD LANGUAGE]

perhaps silly names are how scientists keep themselves amused here
i guess my own naming scheme isnt all that scientific either
but im not naming the species just the specific iteration!

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