(mmmm, I might not get the monthly treasure set after all. I'd use the blush for sure. Maybe the eyes, but I have a lot of other eyes pretty similar. POSSIBLY the hair, every ONCE in a while.... but that's not much of it. Maybe later in the month I'll change my mind? For now I'll wait to see if the second part of the Doughnight event comes with a functional room pet.)

The blush feels exactly the same as the doughnight one >.> Just a tad lighter?

I might be misleading myself, but I think this new blush is more transparent.

The doughnight one is more opaque and looks pretty odd (to my mind) against the darker skins but this one works well with the darker tones. At least, maybe I just want blushes for the darker skins so badly I'm simply deluding myself? But it feels like it works better with them, so....

Akili Li wrote:(mmmm, I might not get the monthly treasure set after all. I'd use the blush for sure. Maybe the eyes, but I have a lot of other eyes pretty similar. POSSIBLY the hair, every ONCE in a while.... but that's not much of it. Maybe later in the month I'll change my mind? For now I'll wait to see if the second part of the Doughnight event comes with a functional room pet.)

for me it was too cute to pass up

I get the impression you definitely celebrate Christmas, redk5!
So it makes sense this month's would work well for you.

I'm happy for my friends who do, but I definitely do not celebrate Christmas and it feels very weird trying to wear avatars that are too Christmas-y. For me, it's like going to someone else's wedding and eating their cake before they cut it. It's not my party, it's someone else's, and it just feels WRONG to "celebrate" it like it was my party instead. It's really really not. I don't know, does that make sense? It's an emotional response and those are not usually very easy to describe, because they aren't logical, but I hope that was understandable.

So I can look at the items and say, "Oh! These are really cute! That looks great on you!" and be happy to see them on other people, but wearing them myself feels... wrong. I can't do it for long.

Aaaah, I am making no sense! Sorry!


I definitely agree they are cute items, though.

Akili Li wrote:I get the impression you definitely celebrate Christmas, redk5!
So it makes sense this month's would work well for you.

I'm happy for my friends who do, but I definitely do not celebrate Christmas and it feels very weird trying to wear avatars that are too Christmas-y. For me, it's like going to someone else's wedding and eating their cake before they cut it. It's not my party, it's someone else's, and it just feels WRONG to "celebrate" it like it was my party instead. It's really really not. I don't know, does that make sense? It's an emotional response and those are not usually very easy to describe, because they aren't logical, but I hope that was understandable.

So I can look at the items and say, "Oh! These are really cute! That looks great on you!" and be happy to see them on other people, but wearing them myself feels... wrong. I can't do it for long.

Aaaah, I am making no sense! Sorry!


I definitely agree they are cute items, though.

it's true I love Christmas. what do you celebrate

oh, lots of holidays -but not christian ones, because not christian. the biggest holiday times of year for my family are fall and spring, actually, rather than winter. I know that's the big one for a lot of folk but winter is not particularly busy for us. Well, not for the reason of holidays, except in a peripheral sense of how other peoples' holidays affect us. I was out doing a bunch of errands today with two of the elders and the traffic was crazy! My mum told me that it's because everyone's out getting ready for Christmas and that it won't let up until after the Gregorian calendar's new year. It caught me by surprise, because I always forget, and some years I never notice because I just don't happen to need to do much during that time.
Some of my favorites are in the fall (there's, let's see, it's four big ones within two months in the fall), and every year as soon as it's over I start prepping for the next year's. There's a basket by the library fireplace that is just items collected all year long that get used the next fall. First to decorate and then to add to the bonfire, although you always need one white and one red and one dark grey pebble which of course don't burn and even if you're supposed to find a new one every year, a lot of people just use the same ones. so far right now in the basket I've got a red pebble (I always look for it first because it's the hardest), an acorn with two perfect worm holes like little eyes, a corn husk doll, and a turnip lantern. The elders have their own basket in the kitchen, and they use the same pebbles every year and usually fill it up with dried leaves right away and then forget about it. I have some stuff I like to use every year but don't always. Like it takes forever to carve turnip lanterns and I don't make one every year, and I keep meaning to cut some pussy willows in the spring and often forget, that sort of thing.

Tell me some Christmas stories, since you love it! What are some of your favorite christmas memories and traditions?

Akili Li wrote:oh, lots of holidays -but not christian ones, because not christian. the biggest holiday times of year for my family are fall and spring, actually, rather than winter. I know that's the big one for a lot of folk but winter is not particularly busy for us. Well, not for the reason of holidays, except in a peripheral sense of how other peoples' holidays affect us. I was out doing a bunch of errands today with two of the elders and the traffic was crazy! My mum told me that it's because everyone's out getting ready for Christmas and that it won't let up until after the Gregorian calendar's new year. It caught me by surprise, because I always forget, and some years I never notice because I just don't happen to need to do much during that time.
Some of my favorites are in the fall (there's, let's see, it's four big ones within two months in the fall), and every year as soon as it's over I start prepping for the next year's. There's a basket by the library fireplace that is just items collected all year long that get used the next fall. First to decorate and then to add to the bonfire, although you always need one white and one red and one dark grey pebble which of course don't burn and even if you're supposed to find a new one every year, a lot of people just use the same ones. so far right now in the basket I've got a red pebble (I always look for it first because it's the hardest), an acorn with two perfect worm holes like little eyes, a corn husk doll, and a turnip lantern. The elders have their own basket in the kitchen, and they use the same pebbles every year and usually fill it up with dried leaves right away and then forget about it. I have some stuff I like to use every year but don't always. Like it takes forever to carve turnip lanterns and I don't make one every year, and I keep meaning to cut some pussy willows in the spring and often forget, that sort of thing.

Tell me some Christmas stories, since you love it! What are some of your favorite christmas memories and traditions?

I know many people that aren't Christians but still celebrate it so that thought never occurred to me. I thought it was because of where you live. tradition is that on Christmas Eve we all open one gift at midnight. One time I got to open more then one gift. I thought that was fishy pun intended. The gift was a gold fish. What do you mean by Christmas stories? or did you mean Christmas movies? I love the move Frozen, Home Alone, Netflix has a bunch too. I like when family comes together, the music, snow, also the look on peoples faces when they open my gift

edit: I made you this

Oh how fun! A nice use of the hair and braid without being christmasy! What a gift you have for making avatars, red You always seem to have one perfect for any occasion.

I mean 'christmas stories' in the sense of stories of fun christmases you have celebrated and christmas-related things you've seen or experienced or were impacted by in some fashion.
You've already told me several, like the christmas story of the golden fish.
(Like an automobile story could be anything from the Time A Deer Tried To Suicide And You Saved It Anyhow to how you found a strange mysterious small metal object in the middle of a sewing basket at a rummage sale one year and eventually discovered it was some sort of car plug, or perhaps the story is that you once saw a double-decker bus whose sides were painted all over with tiny cartoon cars zooming around a maze-like race track painted all around it. That sort of story.)

I know some people who say they aren't christian, too, and still celebrate christmas -but all their cultural traditions derive from christian cultures, so just because they aren't religiously christian, they're still pretty culturally christian. They just tend to not see that, because they tend to think of it as a 'default' culture and not realize, that, no, it's definitely a thing, just like everyone has an accent- you just can't usually hear your own.

I like gift-giving too, for that same reason! Watching people's dawning joy is just so special!

Akili Li wrote:Oh how fun! A nice use of the hair and braid without being christmasy! What a gift you have for making avatars, red You always seem to have one perfect for any occasion.

I mean 'christmas stories' in the sense of stories of fun christmases you have celebrated and christmas-related things you've seen or experienced or were impacted by in some fashion.
You've already told me several, like the christmas story of the golden fish.
(Like an automobile story could be anything from the Time A Deer Tried To Suicide And You Saved It Anyhow to how you found a strange mysterious small metal object in the middle of a sewing basket at a rummage sale one year and eventually discovered it was some sort of car plug, or perhaps the story is that you once saw a double-decker bus whose sides were painted all over with tiny cartoon cars zooming around a maze-like race track painted all around it. That sort of story.)

I know some people who say they aren't christian, too, and still celebrate christmas -but all their cultural traditions derive from christian cultures, so just because they aren't religiously christian, they're still pretty culturally christian. They just tend to not see that, because they tend to think of it as a 'default' culture and not realize, that, no, it's definitely a thing, just like everyone has an accent- you just can't usually hear your own.

I like gift-giving too, for that same reason! Watching people's dawning joy is just so special!

Thanks

Better not tell that to the atheists who celebrate Christmas