text | un: crypt_thing (fwd dated to Dec. 1)

[bloodyroses]

Hey guys, just wondering, what kinda holidays you got back home for this time of year? By my calculations it's *roughly* this world's equivalent of Fellnight, which means it's Misrule season, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who knows what that is.

So, for the uninitiated: Misrule is a three-day holiday a little bit after the winter solstice where you eat delicious food and put up a bunch of decorations made of evergreens and shit...

...and then you get blackout drunk, gamble all your savings, roll around naked in the snow maybe, and start fighting people in the streets. And also bang on people's doors demanding pudding. And most importantly you set a giant dude on fire. Or sometimes it's a giant horse. And a whole bunch of other stuff.

Really, anything goes.

Comments

un: crownclown

[whitepierrot]

I've definitely never heard of Misrule but it sounds like a holiday I would celebrate. At least the part about food, but not so much the drinking and some of the other things.

As for what holiday we have where I come from? There's Christmas coming up in about a month I think, where you give gifts to people you care about, decorate everything with colorful decorations... people make lots of food and have get togethers with their family.

It certainly doesn't sound nearly as exciting as the one you're speaking of.

[bloodyroses]

Kinda sounds more like how most people where I'm from do New Year's. Misrule is more high energy, so you need to do something else for the next holiday to take the edge off.

[whitepierrot]

That makes sense. Have something really high energy and then something less... intense afterwards? It's kind of the opposite here.

New Year's is... where people get a bit stupid and drink and throw parties? I really never quite saw the appeal of it but that could just be because of my experiences.

[bloodyroses]

that just sounds like a worse misrule

I bet no one even tries to set anything on fire.

[whitepierrot]

Ah... That depends.

Usually a holiday doesn't even need to happen for that to occur. At least with the people I spent a lot of time with, a couple months back.

un: ultra_deduction

[sweetsleuth]

You guys have a holiday for that? For some of my co-workers back home, that just sounds like another Tuesday!

My world doesn't have too many unique holidays. Mostly since they're basically the same as the ones you see here, aside from that spooky moon one back in October-- since I'm from a Nippon, too.

Re: un: ultra_deduction

[bloodyroses]

Not too surprised there's other versions of this place, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the time loops aren't really a thing.

Not sure if everyone in your world goes fucking buck wild on the same day, though. Because that's totally what happens during Misrule.

Seriously, like, I think last year someone blew up a bank and it set off some fireworks?