Din Djarin

Good morning, everyone. If you haven't gone outside yet, it's snowing and making everything colorful.

*annoyed meowing*

Including Tony.

*more annoyed chittering*

And the squirrels, but I'm not going to give them baths. Let's get to the news, okay?

In classes, Liliana cancelled class due to excessive mistletoe, Belle was dealing with slightly less aggressive mistletoe in the library, and my class watched British people destroy s'mores.

*Tony meowing*

And my optimism a little bit, yeah. In town, Steven was doing a lot of work at the museum and Rey and Stark were very over the mistletoe. And that's everything! Have a great day.

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Steve came into the class with a cat-shaped Tony on his shoulder. "So, leaving Tony alone during last week's class was a terrible idea," he said. "Fortunately, everything is almost dried out at home...but we're going to just sit and watch an episode of British people making food instead of setting anything onto the stove for Tony to knock over."

Tony looked unmoved. "It will be relaxing," Steve concluded.

Until the technical challenge was making s'mores, then Steve would be indignant.

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Belle was as yet unaware of today's bit of oddness.

But then she hadn't been around anyone else so the mistletoe had not yet had any opportunities whatsoever. Would that change now? Nobody knew for sure. Certainly not Belle.

There was some mistletoe on the ceiling and creeping around the tops of tail shelves but there were also plenty of other decorations.

For now, Belle was happily reading a rather spicy romance novel at the desk.

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Maybe it was because she'd been alone today before now, but Rey had made it to the Peek without incident. She'd ordered her drink without a problem.

But she'd just sat down at her table when the mistletoe started its thing, and she was glad she had a to go cup or the coffee would have gone everywhere.

The barista who'd made her drink kind of shrugged like she'd been dealing with this all day but hey, she was open. Rey was ignoring them both.

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wrongkindofsith posting in

*kissy noises*

No. Go harass someone else.

*louder, more insistent kissy noises*

I have the squirrel's rum and I have a lighter.

*marked absence of kissy noises*

Moving on. Up at the School, Health Education had Liliana substituting and talking herbs, while in the Library, Arden had to deal with dogs and gremlins and the pipes.

The Dorms and Town were both fairly quiet, with Adrian also having pipe issues at Pick Your Poison, while Pam considered the horrors.

*chittering*

I don't know, maybe if you'd written more specific notes we'd know what horrors.

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Liliana was a little more than halfway to the school when she noticed the mistletoe. She considered that, considered the fact that she was heading in to teach a class, and promptly decided that that was a mess she had no desire to deal with.

Soon, there was a message going around to everyone enrolled in Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. Class canceled due to aggressive mistletoe.

Look, either you understood why this was a favor, or you would by that afternoon.

She also contemplated just having office hours instead, but something about the idea of catching up on grading gave her the shivers and so, she decided that the best thing to do would be to return home and let everything sort itself out next week.

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It was a busy time of year in work and out. At the moment Steven was combining the two, as Blathers had asked him to take care of sending something to the various vendors they used to wish them a happy holidays.

Which in turn had Steven grateful he'd already done his shopping for gifts for Blathers and Gregorith.

On top of that, Hanukkah was next week and there was a chance Steven and Llewellyn would be out of town for the bulk of it. As such Steven was busy making sure everything was taken care of just to be safe. He didn't want to leave Gregorith feeling like he'd been burdened with extra work during the holidays after all.

Steven was very busy behind the Welcome Desk, but interruptible for visitors of course.

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stykera posting in

Good morning. If you haven’t already tried do not try to shower you’ll regret it. Wait until tomorrow. It’s better that way. I promise.

*chittering*

No, I didn’t. I shower at night but I used the sink. So I know.

Right. It’s Wednesday. The island is odd and I hope you have bottled water if you need it. So now let’s talk about yesterday.

The School had the usual classes. Ghanima took her Reclaiming Your Childhood students sledding. Which could be fun, if it weren’t cold. Diplomacy students had to pretend to work in a call center and the squirrels seem extremely horrified. It’s like they’ve never met Anakin before. He’s like this. And my Dealing With Other People’s Trauma class was…mostly about me not liking winter and being frightened by yesterday’s reindeer which really isn’t funny even if Leroy is laughing.

Nothing from the dorms yesterday but a few notes from the town.

Adrian invited Rey to his grove to watch the reindeer.

And Kitty dealt with Tino trying to ride a reindeer and then Gregorith, who I still haven’t met yet, came in and they discussed the December oddness of the island.

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Adrian wasn't entirely sure how the water in his systems had gotten turned into holiday beverages, but then, who was he to grouse about magic not being logical?

So there would be no major cleaning today, leaving him time to work on his list of Christmas presents for people...and trying to convince Lydia-kitty to forgive him for not informing her that Bran turned into a raven before this. She was apparently very upset about him keeping that from her and was ostentatiously ignoring him.

And sometimes glancing backwards to make sure he noticed that she was VERY MUCH IGNORING HIM.

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The worst thing about 'beverages from the pipes' day was not, as Arden was learning, the inability to shower before class. It wasn't even keeping your golden retriever brother from trying to drink mocha, despite chocolate being terrible for dogs! (And, you know, coffee was just terrible in general.) It was, apparently, keeping the gremlins from trying to start the sprinkler systems in the library so they could have something to drink.

"This stuff is literally on tap!" Arden protested. "Why are you trying to wreck the library?!?"

Fortunately, Raiden was happy to try to chase the gremlins off (she was pretty sure he thought it was a new and possibly best game), while Gray napped in the blanket sling she rigged up, but anybody looking for peace and quiet should try...pretty much anywhere else.

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This was probably not the professor the class was expecting when they walked into the room. Luckily for them, said professor had Planeswalked to Ravnica for a shower this morning and therefore was in a much better mood than she might otherwise have been, had she not been able to do so. (Even luckier for them, said professor's fiancé was awake much earlier than she and had managed to stop her from getting into a shower on the island, and so she hadn't been drenched with either wine nor mocha.)

"Hello class," Liliana said. "Dr. Blake kindly took over one of my classes this semester and, in exchange, I promised to teach one of his. I am not a doctor and my health education was certainly very different than his, but one thing I did learn was knife and herb healing. There are a great many medicinal plants across the multiverse; many of them are also poisonous in the wrong dosage or from the wrong part, but that's a different class. Instead, I'm here to tell you about some of the more common medicinal herbs and plants you can find here on Earth and then show you how to use them."

Which wasn't as robust as if she were to do a class on Dominarian medicinal herbs, but a lot more useful.

( Yes, the necromancer is talking about healing herbs. )

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The classroom was set up like a call center, several reindeer somehow managing to get headsets around their antlers and lights. "Welcome to telling people what they don't want to hear, but in a nice way," began the man not known for ever telling anyone anything in a nice way.

"A properly diplomatic tone can smooth over any number of situations, even when it would be more satisfying in the short-term to knock head together," Ahsoka said in the tone of someone who'd been witness to many such occasions.

"That's why this exercise is over the comms instead of in person," Anakin said. "As long as you control your voice, your face can do whatever it wants."

including judging you, as shown by Ahsoka's as she continued. "You'd be surprised what you can get away with if you sound sufficiently mysterious and wise."

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Students today had been instructed to meet at Ghanima's classroom today, where there were trucks and trunks of winter gear. Snow suits, boots, mittens, hats, scarves... if you could dream it, she had it, in your size.

Brand new, even, as if perhaps some winter fairy had gone shopping with each person in mind.

"Suit up," Ghanima said cheerfully, doing her best to wrangle mittens on to a reticent Trebor. "We're popping off-campus to go play outside -- to go sledding!"

"A lot of Earth media about winter or winter holidays has a scene in it about sledding, also known as sledging or sleighing. It is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled. It is also the basis of three Olympic sports: luge, skeleton and bobsledding."

"The practical use of sleds is ancient and widespread. They were used as vehicles to transport materials and/or people, often in icy and snowy conditions. Early designs included hand-pulled sizes as well as larger dog, reindeer, horse, or ox drawn versions."

"In the modern day, the term 'sledding' refers to traveling down a snowy hill using a flat sled, sometimes made out of wood, but flat plastic or aluminum discs and improvised sleds such as baking trays, cafeteria trays, sheets of cardboard, car tires, and so on, may also be used.

"Dress for warmth," she warned, "as we will be outside for the next hour. However, if it gets to be too much, you can always come back to the classroom to warm up."

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“The reindeer,” Stark said with a sigh, “are not attacking even if you think they are because you were once attacked by an inflatable reindeer that tried to eat you.”

He paused. “That was almost certainly just my experience. Never mind. In any case, the reindeer are not trying to hurt anyone.”

Probably. But who knew, really?

“So. I was frightened by that, briefly.” But he had not shot any reindeer, he'd just jumped and screamed a little it was fine.

“Sometimes, things you don't expect can come up. Like reindeer running towards you. Or anything else that might remind you of a negative memory. Winter is like that for me. Cold weather and snow and ice often have me remembering things I'd rather not spend too much time thinking of. A…a lot of things happened in the winter but we're not here to talk about me. Not really. We're here to talk about other things. Like…are you all all right, with the newest things happening on our island?”

“If you're not, is there anything I can do to help? Besides the snacks, of course.” Snacks almost went without saying. Almost.

“Were your sweaters all right yesterday? Or the falling candy? Or the bears? I like the bears but they could be frightening if you weren't expecting them.”

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Kitty was trying to arrange some stuff for the New Year's party in her downtime.

Tino was riding a lit up reindeer outside. She told him they could just put lights on the mechanical bull and he wouldn't chance getting thrown down any stairs, and yet.

Also now she had to get lights for the mechanical bull for the holidays.

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afraid_of_marshmallows posting in

*sounds of the happiest barking in the world*

Hey there Fandom--no, no, Ray, I don't think the squirrels wanna be friends, I'm sorry, we'll go to the park afterwards okay?--wait, where was I? Oh, right, what up, Fandom. It's me, ya girl, Arden Finch, and today is kinda a family affair. I've got Raiden and Gray here in the studio with me, but you won't be hearing from them much--

*more excited barking*

--Well, you won't be hearing from Gray much, because he's a sloth. And currently asleep. But anyway, yes, radio notes and then I promised someone W-A-L-K-I-E-S, so let's blitz through these.

School! Still happening, even in the face of ugly sweaters! Mine was all the birds from 12 Days of Christmas, so...yeah. Busy. But anyway, Flight and Flying had Professor Solo-Fel giving us defective Z-95 Headhunters to practice on. And in case anyone was wondering, she was in a sweater that had Santa being abducted by aliens. Professor Sims showed up to Cryptozoology in a sweater with kittens in stockings - aww, that sounds cute, but the squirrels are assuring me it was hideous - and talked about krampus. DON'T GET INTO THE BAG! Or, uh. You know. I heard. Anyway, How Not To Drown's class was cancelled because all the wetsuits turned into sweaters and...yeah sure why not? The real tragedy is that the squirrel who covered that beat - Jimothy - didn't write down what the sweaters looked like.

And you call yourself a journalist.

No Dorms, but in Town, the Magpie Emporium gave Vi an ugly sweater - a cat getting stabbed? the hell? - and Saffron was also in one, but I'm not reading that in case it's equally as traumatic. Professor Vess was in a purple sweater with the 'tits out' at Infinite Consortium and cranky about Erasmus being a raven - oh no! - before heading home to meet up with Mr. Scientia - in a green sweater that said 'I'm only here for the food' - so they could decorate their tree together, complete with special ornaments. Oh, that's so sweet! And Professor James was at the Clinic with an appropriately crab-festooned sweater, while Stabby rocked a sweater with knives. Which, yeah, sounds about right.

And fortunately that's about it, because I think Ray's enthusiasm is about to run away with him and me, so this is ya girl, Arden Finch, saying bye to everyone! And enjoy Mary, Did You Know by Pentatonix! Bye!

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Stark had woken up in a new sweater.

At least it was warm? And he thought the other clinic staff might appreciate it.

Stabby had his own tiny sweater with extra arms. The pattern was knives. Of course.

The nurses had a variety of sweaters and so when Stark arrived with the coffees there were several minutes of admiring each other's unavoidable knitwear.

The clinic was open, kinda cozy, and the alien was in.

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"We're almost finished with our swimming unit," Anakin began, "which is good because the weather outside isn't exactly swimming weather."

"Everything's swimming weather if you're not a wimp," Steve muttered.

Anakin stared at him.

"...and you have the correct gear," Steve amended belatedly.

"Hypothermia is no one's friend," Anakin said, "though that's more Dr. Blake's area of expertise."

"It does lead us to our class topic today, though," Steve said with an enthusiastic smile, "the gear that keeps you from dying when you're dropped into a cold ocean from a helicopter in the middle of the night."

Anakin went back to staring at him.

"It's a real thing," Steve said, frowning.

"Hopefully nothing you'll need here, but it's better to be prepared," Anakin acknowledged. "Gear up."

They'd notice all the wetsuits were ugly holiday sweaters annnnny second now.

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