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@whalekeeper

WhAt??????

It’s a great tradition. Also, homemade tamales are almost worth dying for.

@esther-c

Ah. That makes sense. We have turkey and ham for both, so we have dressing at both.

@esther-c

So, does your family have dressing or stuffing (or neither)?

We usually have cornbread dressing, although we have family up north who have stuffing, and I like both. The debates over which is better are fun to listen to.

We also have a bonfire and fireworks on Christmas Eve. It’s great fun.

@esther-c

Really? My family usually has a more traditional Christmas dinner with cornbread dressing, potatoes, turkey, ect. But we did barbeque one year with extended family, and enchiladas another.

I’m born and raised Texan, and yeah. Tamales especially are definitely a holiday food here. Although that doesn’t mean we don’t eat them year round,…[Read more]

@theducktator

It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a Fisherprice nativity.😃

Agreed. XD

@esther-c

Random side note because I did recently find this out. Easter is mentioned in the KJV Bible (Acts 12:4), but it was an incorrect/imperfect translation. Most other translations use Passover.

We also have a new tradition where we eat a different cuisine for dinner on the three(?) nights leading up to Christmas.

That’s awesome. A lot of…[Read more]

@theshadow

I do. I also have friends who do not. One family I know celebrate a Christian version of Hanukkah instead, which is essentially celebrating how Jesus brought light into the world. The other doesn’t observe anything that could be confused with Winter Solstice and Yule. For me, I agree with @power . The holiday is what you make it.

My…[Read more]

@highscribeofaetherium @ellette-giselle

It’s fine with me.

@theducktator

That’s perfect. Making up stories for things can be really handy though. I have a whole legend for a dress I’m making that has me as the younger daughter of a Holiness Methodist preacher in the woods of Texas who was heavily influenced by the Cane Ridge revival. We’re lower of the middle class, so my second best dress is a little…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle Bwahahahaha

@liberty lol. I have 52 snowballs as of the last count.

*cackling*

@ellette-giselle Glad you liked it! This is probably the closest thing to a romance plot that I’ve written. (Instead of it being a small side plot.)

@stephie Since you apparently want to lay catch. *chases you*

OK…

*a giant cloud of snowballs puffs up from my…[Read more]

@esther-c @liberty @ellette-giselle

OK. There won’t be as many more scenes from this story that I’ll share, but here you go. Its 95o words should render me free from all residual snowball debts I owe.

Tada…………..

She laughed as she dusted her hands free of crumbs.

From the sounds coming from the nearby cotes, the other shepherds were…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Depends on what you mean as rough, and the time period.

If you mean worn; mismatched/replaced buttons, fraying hems, taped glasses, scuffed but clean shoes, fraying laces.

If you mean hardworking: muddy shoes, rolled cuffs, denim, flannel, holes in pockets/knees, strapped gloves.

If you mean from the hood? Worn clothing, denim, T-…[Read more]

@esther-c @liberty

Y’all are terrible. XD Now I owe almost a thousand words. I’m going to have so much fun once I have my words written.

@loopylin @mineralizedwritings @ellette-giselle

Ok y’all. I redid the math and I owe you collectively 900 words. Here’s 257 words, which heals me from whatever damage done by Min and Loopy’s snowballs and puts me toward toward finishing Elllette’s. XD

Just beware y’all. To my most recent calculations, I have 46 snowballs in the arsenal.

Sir…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Yeah… We’ll see. XD I want you to love them before you know who dies. It’s a pity, because it’s such a great weapon. 😉

Ah well. To hear is to obey.

@ellette-giselle

lol. Well, you will get some more of it, although you might also get some scenes from other WIPs. I have Audrye and the team on my mind today. It’s a pity you don’t know them enough or I’d share A***n’s death as vengeance. Or maybe his mother’s. Or maybe Yosi’s nightmares as “character development”.

I am in a dangerous mood. XD

@ellette-giselle

*shriek of dismay*

Why?????????? @loopylin @mineralizedwritings already got me x3!

You are plotting your own demise.

@ellette-giselle

I can tell. XD (it is getting pretty good, isn’t it?)

Leo

His smile widened into a grin.

“Any time, kid. I don’t mind.”

Rory looked back at him, a little baffled. Leo just .

“We do need to get home. Although, I think if that creep was going to find us, we’d be got by now. They’re not quite everywhere.” He grinned, then let…[Read more]