[It's early in the morning at the van der Bilt household, and Taiwan is up at the crack of dawn.  Today's an important day for her - Double Ten Day, which is her national day and the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising that led to the establishment of what would eventually become her national government.  She's up on the roof as the sun rises, ( Read more... )

[It's holiday time again in Taiwan's house - or it would be, if she weren't trapped in Mayfield.  But still, she tends to take her holidays pretty seriously even here, and generally likes to share the spirit of the celebration with other people even if they don't know her specific customs.  So have a telephone call, assorted non-drone citizens of ( Read more... )

[Filtered from China]

"So... I have a friend who asked me for some advice the other day, and I'm not sure what to tell her.  Her adoptive father recently showed up in Mayfield, and he's from a time when she was just a little girl.  She was kind of a brat back then, always throwing temper tantrums and acting rebellious.  He tried to get her to act ( Read more... )

[On Monday, Taiwan can be seen outside her house more or less all day long cleaning up the front yard and the garden after Wy's artistic adventure the previous day.  The micronation managed to finish the green and yellow paint job on the house, but Taiwan is largely ignoring that for the time being in favor of getting her garden back in order.  The ( Read more... )

[In the blink of an eye, Taiwan is suddenly no longer at her house on Beulah Street.  Instead of her usual pink qipao, she's got the proverbial 'little black dress' thing going, just barely concealing some lacy unmentionables underneath.  Her eyes are as wide as saucers as she tries to get her bearings, but of course the first thing she notices is ( Read more... )

[Filtered away from Korea]

"...So, my brother Korea is in town.  His birthday was on the 15th, but he and I both forgot about it.  I want to make it up to him by throwing a surprise belated birthday party for him.  I know it's a little short notice, but would anyone be interested in coming?  It'll be at my house on Beulah Street this weekend, in the ( Read more... )

[Taiwan hasn't had much time to worry about holidays lately, what with two of her family members being droned recently and all of the things going on around town, but she's at least going to find some time to perform and celebrate the most important rituals of Ghost Month.

She couldn't find any incense on short notice, so she's burning some ( Read more... )

"Well, time to take out the garbage..."

[Taiwan can be found angrily marching out to the curb to toss the cereal box top coupon book into one of the trash cans out there.  She manages to stomp all the way there before wistfully flipping through its pages one more time and tossing it in with a deep sigh.  After staring down at it for a few long ( Read more... )

[On Sunday evening, the general populace of Mayfield is treated to the following phone call by Taiwan and Seychelles, who are both huddled around the telephone in the van der Bilt family's living room.  PURPLE text is Taiwan, BLUE is Seychelles.  Taiwan's the one on the phone, and Seychelles will be interjecting things from behind her as she talks ( Read more... )

[Taiwan has been pretty scarce around town ever since she caught wind of Japan's droning.  It hit her hard enough to begin with when it happened to Netherlands, but after she heard about Japan... well, it felt like a little part of her had just shriveled up and died deep inside.  When she'd first come to this place, she was so in love with him, to ( Read more... )