entry twenty three: unexpected (christmas) Hogswatch letter writing.

[pleasesmirk]

Comments

[sensiblesusan]

I don't hate you, Swing. I don't like you either, and I take an extremely dim view of the way you operated under Winder, but that's not the same as hate.

Anyway, the way I see it, Hogswatch can either be observed at the same time the Roundworlders mark Christmas (given the similarity of traditions), or it's marked on the Roundworld New Year. Apparently in some parts of the Roundworld they celebrate a holiday called Hogmanay, which is basically Roundworld New Year's Eve. Perhaps that would do?

[pleasesmirk]

...I was simply covering all bases. I'm pretty sure some people hate me instantly.

Is that not...pandering to their traditions a little too much? Doesn't it devalue it by just treating it as a slight diversion from their holiday?

I suppose it will do.

[sensiblesusan]

I usually need a very good reason to hate people. I don't do it lightly. Disliking is another matter altogether.

Not participating in any way at all seems a little churlish, though, doesn't it? When in Ephebe and all that.

[pleasesmirk]

...I'm surprised you haven't come up with a good reason yet.

I simply think that if I'm going to follow some stupid and ridiculous traditions and no doubt humiliate myself, I'm going to humiliate myself following my stupid and ridiculous traditions. Not the Roundworld ones. Incidentally, we're not on the Roundworld either, so we're not really in the proverbial Ephebe, are we?

Private

[heavenonthemind]

The card is... it's great. Thank you.

Private

[pleasesmirk]

Most welcome.

[gotgreenmagic]

...

Thanks. I think.

[pleasesmirk]

It was intended as a positive thing, I promise you.

[pleasesmirk]

To feed the pigs that pull the Hogfather's... magical sleigh, of course.

[pleasesmirk]

I said I wasn't putting out turnips. I'm not 10. Having to write a letter was bad enough.