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[recollecters]

Welcome back, users. Looks like we were able to bring you back online and tracked again...here's hoping the layers are settled now, but the readings are off the chart. We're doing our best to stabilize the city for December while we track some of the magical sources we're picking up. It may take us some time though, so please bear with us! We may be working through the holidays, too, if this keeps up. But it's okay. You opened the doors and new routes for us to check. Stay positive, users. December is a special time of the year. What's your favorite holiday tradition? You'd be surprised how thoughts shape things here. Please take care. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever they chose last month and are permanently locked in! Newbies may pick a new name for their first use on Retrospec, but whatever they pick will also become permanent. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa The Magic of Christmas thing is when people who don't normally celebrate find some reason to celebrate.
Hitori Togusa In the movies, it spontaneously happens. But in real life, some people can only get into the season if they're looking for a reason to.

[godcards]

I'll admit that makes more sense than any of the movies I've half-watched... I don't celebrate due to indifference, even if that might be hard to believe coming from me. Everyone else can celebrate around me, I don't really care.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa As much as I do celebrate the holiday, and I support the messages of including everyone, room for all at the table? Sometimes that gets twisted around into being...oh, what's the word I want? Confrontational?
Hitori Togusa That if you don't want to celebrate, they have to force you into it. Or one person not being in the mood supposedly "ruins" it for everyone else. That's really not true. I understand not wanting to celebrate.

[godcards]

You've just described my entire life from age 6. I'm a little surprised that someone else seems to understand what it's been like.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I love Christmas. But I can accept that not everybody does, and shoving it down somebody else's throat makes the bitterness worse.

[There is a long pause, before he dares to type anything else.]

Hitori Togusa The first year coming to America, half the world away from anyone I knew, every Christmas light just made me angrier. Made me regret my choice, and resent the people that had all their support structures intact. I know it doesn't compare to your life. But, yeah, I get it.

[godcards]

[ This got too real too fast. Time for diversion tactics: ]

So does that mean I get a pony this year?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Black with flames coming out of its mane and tail, of course.

[godcards]

I would expect nothing less.