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[vivememorleti]

The beautiful weather is even more beautiful after a summer cold snap!

TANABATA!Beginning today and lasting until August Seventh, by this place's lunar calendar, my shop will be carrying the necessaries for Tanabata and have available free snacks of the festive variety for most of the day. I expect some degree of respecting my generosity for those

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[floating_bamboo]

One of my favorite stories.

[vivememorleti]

Ukitake-san has impeccable taste.

Come by for some konnyaku?

[floating_bamboo]

I'm afraid I still have a bit of a cold...

1/2

[vivememorleti]

A cold.

[sciencedaughter]

... that is a popular legend, yes.

[vivememorleti]

And appropriate symbolism for the current situation.

[sciencedaughter]

That could be construed, yes.

[vivememorleti]

And it has been.

So would you like some lunch, Kurotsuchi-san?

[i_themagician]

Decorations are necessary, are they not?

[vivememorleti]

ALWAYS NECESSARY! ♥

[i_themagician]

We'll see what can be done about that, then. ♥

[vivememorleti]

PERFECT~♪!

[lionesscouchant]

A festival?

[vivememorleti]

In my neck of the woods, yeah. ♥

[lionesscouchant]

What is it for? Can anybody come?

[vivememorleti]

Specifically, a seasonal stellar event.

More colloquially, it's about people being happy together despite all of the circumstances.

Does that answer your second question? ♥

[nogoldbikinis]

Tanabata?

[vivememorleti]

A long time ago, Tenkou-sama, the god of the sky, had a beautiful princess daughter named Orihime. Every day she wove flawless silk cloth for the gods.

Her father Tenkou-sama was worried because his daughter worked herself so hard every day, so he made sure to set her up with a man on the other side of the river Ama-no-Gawa. His name was Kengyu-no-Hikoboshi. Kengyu took care of cows and was an equally devoted workaholic.

When they met each other, they fell in love immediately, and spent all their time together. As a result, all the cows were neglected and the gods' clothes fell into disrepair.

Tenkou-sama got upset about this unforeseen mistake and he stopped Orihime from meeting the man by keeping her on his side of Ama-no-Gawa, but even then the two young lovers were so miserable that they still couldn't find it in themselves to get the necessary jobs done.

Tenkou-sama felt sorry for them, and so told them that they could meet one day every year, if they promised to work hard, harder than ever before and with all they had, for

[nogoldbikinis]

People criticize and belittle the inspiration that love gives other individuals, but that's what drives people at the heart of it all. One of the driving factors at least. Love. And money. And power.

That is a very nice story, however.

[vivememorleti]

Love is great, but I find money to be the currency that suffers less inflation.

One wonders if the story would have had a happy ending if Tenkou had just kept Orihime on his side of the river.