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[timelymaid]

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. ]

Comments

[papshooshing]

Really? You're not just saying that to save your own hide?

[roemance]

Kar how the fuck was I meant to know they had another human holiday comin' up? They just had one, I mean fuck how many are there.

[papshooshing]

They have holidays about every month, not that I understand this excessive need to spend all this money or waste precious time doing absolutely fuck all. Some if them are just not all that popular or regionally exclusive which makes no sense either. I just find it extremely ironic you unknowingly picked the holiday that pertains to romance.

[roemance]

So what's this romance holiday about anyway? How can it be like quadrant appreciation if they don't even have quadrants?

[papshooshing]

It's kind of like redrom only? Technically that's the only one like ours that they have. So a lot of bulgebiters go out on dates or show a plethora of flushed gestures to their significant other.

jack.

[timelymaid]

Someone else said that girls give boys chocolate on that day, and then on the fourteenth of March the boys have to give them something white in return?

[papshooshing]

Yeah I heard that once? I think that's mostly a Japanese thing?

That's the problem with humans! There's no uniform way to do any of their holidays.

[timelymaid]

I think it sounds sort of fun! Although I'm not sure why there's a gender divide on how one celebrates those two days.

So every earth country has a different list of holidays and how to do them?

[papshooshing]

Megido, you forget that this species is the same one that actually has termed same gender relationships and I guess it's even kind of looked down on. Why wouldn't they gender discriminate on a holiday like this too?

Either way, different countries have different cultures and even languages, unlike ours. So yes, you do end up with different ways to spend the same holiday.

[timelymaid]

Looked down on? [ Because her only human experiences so far have given her Jake and Dirk, and also you're dating a sort of human boy. ]

Hm. I think I'll only celebrate the ones that sound fun, then. The chocolate thing sounds fun! Although I'll ignore the part about only boys or girls.

[papshooshing]

I heard this from John so I admit that I don't completely know how accurate it is. At the time I was kind of stupidly trolling him?

...

You're not going to do handmade chocolate right?

[timelymaid]

Oh, right. The plan I abstained from!

Why not? Although Sollux needs to eat less sugar, so I think these holidays are sort of enabling him. But everyone else could probably use some chocolate!

[papshooshing]

I think Sollux just needs food in general. But now I fear for my digestive organs.

[timelymaid]

He's getting sort of better. I got him to eat healthy soup the other day?

[ and then you gave him sugary brownies so that doesn't count. fail out of lusus school, do not pass go. ]

You say that like I didn't cook for myself for years and years!

[papshooshing]

Miracles. Call Gamzee quick!

[ snorts ]

Aradia. You DIDN'T cook for years. Or do ghosts suddenly feed on flora and fauna instead of wiggler daymares?

[timelymaid]

Karkat. I wasn't always a ghost, remember?

[ like there was all that time up until her untimely death where she was alive and living alone with her lusus. Did you forget that part? ]

[roemance]

So you only give gifts to those your flushed for And not the others.
Huh.

[papshooshing]

Depends on the culture really.

[roemance]

Well not that it matters since I don't have any romantic aspirations happenin' right now.

[papshooshing]

I give that a week to change.

[roemance]

I'm being serious, there's nobody right now.

[usedshooshpap]

I am not saying you're not serious...

[roemance]

Even I know I've pretty much burned all my bridges by this point.

[usedshooshpap]

Oh you don't know that.

[roemance]

Most a' them, then.