ryslig Inbox: 056.06.156.56

[riptidequeen]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, LAPIS LAZULI|ULTRAMARINE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 056.06.156.56 *** ULTRAMARINE has joined 056.06.156.56 <ULTRAMARINE> Hello?. <ULTRAMARINE> Oh this is kind of like Peridots thing. <ULTRAMARINE> This is fine.

Alternate user name(s): MirrorTrapped

Comments

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

You don't even want to know what it is?

Could be a water slide.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

I don't need a water slide.

And if you want to tell me what it is, nothing is stopping you.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Does anyone?

Christmas sweaters.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

A what-mas sweater?

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

[ Congrats, you got ALL of his eyes squinting. ]

Christmas.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

[And she thinks he's making fun of her.]

Sounds made up and fake.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

It's a holiday created by corporate conglomerates to incentive consumerism and to give the appearance of sustainable capitalism.

And reindeer.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

So...

Made up and fake. Got it.

<cellist> ( cw: Christianity talk )

[ikonsuit]

There's a religious aspect. Some guy named Jesus H. Christ is rumored to have been born in a barn sometime around the 25th of December between 6 and 4 BC.

The guy, Christ, performs miracles and comes back from the dead. After being in Ryslig, that's a pretty common occurrence. He's not so special.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

... Okay.

I still don't get it.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Most people don't.

The bottom line is that people see it as an opportunity to come together and share gifts with one another.

Becomes a lot more simple if you think of it in those terms.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

Oh, like a wedding then?

Or a funeral?

[Yes, Lapis somehow knows about those but not Christmas.]

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

[ . . . ]

You give gifts at funerals? That a Mirror-World thing?

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

[Look. Blame the weird, not a Thanksgiving episode.]

No, and I've only been to one. But It was also a wedding and a bunch of other parties together because this human who was mad about some stuff liked that kind of thing? So we threw a party that was a wedding and a funeral together.

Only nobody was dead.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Not a funeral if no one's dead.

What, did you mash a bunch of holidays into one *big* holiday?

[ ...She gets points for efficiency. ]

Christmas is less complicated. Give a gift. Get a gift. Wear funny hats.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

There was a tombstone though.

And yeah, basically.

[Wasn't even her idea to do it!]

I thought it was wear sweaters, not hats?

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

[ A tombstone might make it count. ]

It's both. It's anything. People wear reindeer ears and paint their noses red.

Clearly, it's a lawless time of year.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

[Man this is just getting more and more confusing.]

It certainly sounds like it is, lawless I mean.

<cellist>

[ikonsuit]

Takes some getting used to.

Your invitation should be showing up in the mail at some point.

<ULTRAMARINE>

[riptidequeen]

I'll have to keep an eye out for this invitation then.

[ikonsuit]

[ By the next morning, said invitation arrives.

...Doodles courtesy of a man with too much time on his hands. ]

[riptidequeen]

[... A fish, this is just.

What. But hey she'll keep the date in mind and might actually show up.]