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[neuroticalson]

Let's get one thing straight.

I hate Christmas. If I could get rid of one holiday, it'd be fucking Christmas. I hate Christmas trees. I hate Christmas carolers. I hate people making goddamn fucking Grinch or Scrooge jokes at me when I talk about Christmas

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[Private]

[sixthanimorph]

[David's face pops up on the screen. He looks disheveled and panicked.]

Dude. Shit just went down. I need somewhere safe from the wardens for a little while. Your room okay?

[Private]

[neuroticalson]

Yeah, sure.

What went down? I was kind of avoiding whatever that clusterfuck was this weekend.

[Private, with a side of spam]

[sixthanimorph]

I'll tell you when I get there.

[And eight minutes later, David's skittered under Slick's door as a roach and starts demorphing. He's in a cagey mood, apparently, not even risking the trip to Slick's room in human form.]

[spam]

[neuroticalson]

[He jumps a little when he finally notices David - the lights in his room are dim and he's wearing his sunglasses as always, so he barely noticed anything until David was human again.

But, he's aware of the morphing thing, so he doesn't question how he got in here.]

Alright, spill the beans. I could use an interesting story.

[feels_no_love]

I despise this season as well. So much forced, fake merry-making. So many rituals stolen and bastardized by the filth from Rome and then claimed to be "holy". And the bonfires until dawn: mere whistling in the dark.

[neuroticalson]

The Christmas season has the highest rate of depression, you know. Probably because anyone who ain't happy is ridiculed because someone put lights on a fucking tree and you're clearly a horrible bastard if that doesn't fill you with joy.

If I ever got a spark of faith in humanity, it'd be crushed when I remember that most of us are still slaves to fucking Christmas.

[feels_no_love]

I never liked it, especially after Victoria's British popularized it so. It is an empty exercise which leaves far too many disappointed and isolated instead of included and comforted. As a holiday it is a failure--and here we must choke it down likely until the New Year.

[neuroticalson]

The Admiral seems like the type of guy who'd like Christmas. Can't say I'm surprised.

I'd almost feel sorry for people who have nothing better to do than look forward to some arbitrary day, but I just don't give enough of a damn about them.

[hourglass_twin]

I never heard of Christmas before I came here.

As of yet, I'm unimpressed.

[neuroticalson]

Yeah, it's pretty fucking boring. People with sad, mediocre lives go crazy for it.

[hourglass_twin]

Hm. Krynn has holidays like that, as well. I've never been particularly interested in celebrations.

[officerrenaldi]

...Someone'sin a good mood.

[neuroticalson]

Hold up, there. You're dangerously close to a "bah, humbug" joke.

[officerrenaldi]

...Actually no? I was commenting on the general tone.

[neuroticalson]

Oh, well, as long as it's not related to Christmas, feel free to make sarcastic remarks on my attitude.

This is my usual general tone, by the way, so consider getting used to it.

[hatestriangles]

The forced-Christmas shit is just more of the Admiral's goddamn sadism.

[neuroticalson]

I assume it exists to instill some sort of cheerful spirit and good will in all of us.

I'm gonna counter that by being even less cheerful than normal.

[hatestriangles]

Or he's trying to make us all pissed off enough to strangle each other. I could see that being his game plan.