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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

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? ]

[papshooshing]

Cooking skills. Rusty. Besides! When did you ever make chocolate back home? I know that I never did.

[timelymaid]

I've been cooking since I got here! I did the cooking for Roxy and I, and Jane was giving me lessons on human sweets.

I successfully made brownies the other day and no one died, so there!

[ she's this close to sticking her tongue out. so mature. ]

[papshooshing]

Was Sollux, poor sweet mentally unstable Sollux, your test squeak beast?

[timelymaid]

No, I tried them myself! And then gave some to Jake and Dirk.

And after he bothered to ask for some, I gave him a few. [ yes she did troll Sollux via brownies, but to be fair that was AFTER he locked her out of her own gear for three hours. ]

[papshooshing]

At least now I'm less petrified if the Strider ate them.

[timelymaid]

Assuming you get any chocolates from me, that is!

[ he is. everyone is. ]

[papshooshing]

You would deprive my own sweet fang?

Shame on you, Megido. And here I was starting to think you aren't as much if a moron as the others.

they have dinosaur pun valentines cards. GUESS WHAT EVERYONE GETS.

[timelymaid]

Well, you didn't sound very interested in it!

And anyway, I've already started working on cards. They have these cute little - wait, I can't tell you about that. Well, you'll see!

Best

[papshooshing]

Who would honestly turn down free treats?

[timelymaid]

Doesn't John dislike cake and things?

[papshooshing]

Do I look like a buck toothed, blue eyed Neanderthal?

But I get your point.

[timelymaid]

[ She's going to pretend to consider this deeply. ]

Well...

And good! Are you going to do anything that day?

[papshooshing]

Oh god. Don't you even dare Megido. That's not even remotely funny to leave me hanging like a limp tree dick like that.

[timelymaid]

I think it's sort of funny!!