Third Miracle [video]

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

You know what I suddenly really miss?

Christmas cake.

We didn't really have them in Gensokyo, as they're kind of a modern thing. But I've been seriously craving some for days. In fact... I kind of miss a few of the modern traditions. Most people in Gensokyo had never even HEARD of Christmas... It kind of makes me wonder what we can do here for the holidays. Besides, you know... awkward situations with mistletoe.

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[ritsu-kouyou.livejournal.com]

[Not talking about the mistletoe. Not even LOOKING at the Vine as she responds.]

I'm letting Kohaku cook what she wants. I'm sure there will be Christmas cake somewhere in everything.

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, lucky.

[ritsu-kouyou.livejournal.com]

She goes entirely overboard if I don't reign her in. [a soft sigh] I don't feel like doing so this year. I'm sure there will plenty if you desperately want Christmas cake.

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

Eh, I... I wouldn't want to ask anything else of you. You've helped me out a lot more than I probably deserve.

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[existwithoutme.livejournal.com]

What is this "Christmas" you speak of?

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

It's a holiday where I come from. It started as a religious holiday for Christians, but it's mostly secular in the rest of the world now. In Japan, it's all pretty commercial.

I used to sit down with Suwako-sama and Kanako-sama and we'd all have a chicken dinner and eat Christmas cake and exchange gifts. I never had any boyfriends, so I always just ended up spending the holiday at home in the shrine...

Since moving to Gensokyo, a place trapped in a time before Christmas became a thing in Japan, we've kind of just forgotten about it.

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[existwithoutme.livejournal.com]

I'm familiar with such celebrations. [She's not very interested in them, either.] So there's no particular point to it, other than gifts and a feast? You may do that at any point here, so I'd say do what you like, when you like.

[A pause.] You reside in a shrine?

[grandtheftmecha.livejournal.com]

Were you thinking some kinda Christmas party? I'd be up for that.

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

I dunno about a party...

[grandtheftmecha.livejournal.com]

I dunno much about Christmas Cake myself, though.

[bluetruths.livejournal.com]

Hey, that sounds pretty good right about now.

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

I know, right? It's a big tradition in my house to have one every year after chicken dinner!

[bluetruths.livejournal.com]

The question is finding one now.

[doihavepanties.livejournal.com]

Can't you prepare your own cake?

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to buy Christmas Cake, not make one.

[doihavepanties.livejournal.com]

Ah, is that how it goes?

[reluctantstop.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of a Christmas either until recently.

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty neat holiday!

[reluctantstop.livejournal.com]

It seems a little weird to me...

[vower.livejournal.com]

Is there a difference between a Christmas cake and a regular cake?

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

Well... it has to be sponge cake, for one.

[vower.livejournal.com]

And for another?

[nekomikoreimu.livejournal.com]

I still fully get the idea of Christmas. It's some western Holiday right?

[is-a-good-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's a religious holiday, but no one really cares about that part.

[nekomikoreimu.livejournal.com]

What religion?