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[longwinded]

[The first text John sends will be arriving mid-morning.]

so it's been getting really cold outside.
well maybe not really cold.
but cold enough to notice!
which means winter and the holiday season should be coming around soon, right?

so asgard, my question to you is: what holidays do you celebrate around this time? or do you choose not to celebrate at all?

[The second follows a few moments later.]

oh, i guess i forgot to ask in my last text there. does anyone know where i could possibly obtain a job? i think i've sat on my rear end for far too long.

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[nukeoleptic]

ewwww
who would hire you :p

[longwinded]

rude!
so many people would hire me!

[nukeoleptic]

i dunnoooooo

[grimorchid]

There's a tea shop in Odin's district, if you're interested.
I could put in a good word for you.

[longwinded]

i don't know very much about tea.
but i would totally be willing to learn.
:) thank you rose.

[grimorchid]

It's not hard if you read the labels.
I trust you're at least literate enough to handle that.
Otherwise I might be worried about who I've been talking to this entire time.

[samantha_grey]

Winter Solstice most of the time. We did something related to Hogmanay around when the year turned over too. There was a dark haired guy who ran the general store that stopped by to give my mom some salt every year on that day.

I shudder to ask, but what are your qualifications as far as working?

[longwinded]

what exactly is winter solstice if you don't mind me asking? hogmanay?

i'm 15 years old.
let's think about that.
i've been playing sburb for nearly two years or more.
i haven't really had time to get a job.

[samantha_grey]

Winter Solstice is the longest night of winter, when the days are the shortest and the world is the darkest. It's a day to celebrate the cycles of death and rebirth in the world and the cycle of the harvest season. Hogmanay is a day for the changing of the year. They're similar in a way. Brush out the old, bring in the new. Good wishes for the next year. Salt was supposed to be good luck.

As for work, just start simple. As long as you can count change, you can work a desk. How old you are shouldn't matter that much for something like cleaning up or taking change.

[biifurcatiion]

what the fuck ii2 there two celebrate.

[not happy about the cold at all.]

[longwinded]

[hello grumpy. watch as john doesn't understand troll culture still.]

birthdays that fall in december.
christmas.
stuff like that.
do trolls not celebrate that stuff?

[biifurcatiion]

pre2umably iif we diid ii wouldnt have had two a2k.
we dont have frozen 2ea2on2 on alterniia.

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[takebow]

There's always winter or snow festivals and stuff... And we celebrate Christmas, too, in Japan. It's nice. They always do something around here, so they'll probably do something again.

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[longwinded]

Washington doesn't have winter or snow festivals, but we have fall festivals? That's really weird. But the USA itself celebrates Christmas.

[John is excited to hear that. He's only celebrated assumed things with Jade and Dave sprite when they had their time together.]

I wonder what they'll do. Make it snow maybe?

voice;

[takebow]

Maybe. I was thinking they'll probably throw a party at least. I dunno if they'd mess with the weather. I guess they could.

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[integrous]

I'm actually more curious what kind of stuff they'd celebrate here!

text;

[longwinded]

that is a really good question!
i wonder how we could possibly go about finding out that sort of stuff.

[burntviolet]

We celebrate Christmas around this time, if we're close to the winter season. I'm not sure it's the same in Asgard, though.

[longwinded]

i haven't heard anything about asgard celebrating.
but i suppose if we're close enough to christmas we could celebrate a general "holidays".

do you have traditions?

[Private Text]

[key_illusion]

[Hey John, it's a text from "???"...and it's completely off topic because he can:]

Do you know how to use Telepathy yet?

[Private Text]

[longwinded]

[It's mystery friend again, oh cool.]

well i'm still at a low level, so i need to be around and have contact the person.
but more or less i know how to use it.
why?

voice;

[demonicbookworm]

Back home we... don't really celebrate anything around this time.

voice;

[longwinded]

:O
would you celebrate the winter months if you had the chance to?
is there a reason you don't?

[fiduspear]

tHERE IS 12th pERIGREE'S EVE,
bUT, i DON'T THINK WE COULD CELEBRATE IT PROPERLY,
wiTHOUT A BEHEMOTH,

i am extra sorry you had to wait so long for this. exam week. i swear i wasn't ignoring you. weeps.

[longwinded]

why would we need a behemoth for that?
that sounds like something dangerous.