viiru2alert | eleven (video) ♊ vacation's where i wanna be

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eleven (video) ♊ vacation's where i wanna be

[Good evening, friends. Sollux kicks this feed off with a shot of four baby Pokémon -- a Dratini, Bulbasaur, Venipede, and Larvitar -- all kind of napping or something together. The Gear lingers on them for a second, and then twirls back around so everyone watching can get an eyeful of Sollux's hideous glasses. Oh god they're awful.] So, since Team Megido has now touched base in Olivine and I have nothing to do because, oh look, I already have my motherfucking Gym Badge [this was directed towards someone off-screen], I decided that now would be a great time to dick around a little on the PokéGear.

So, it's getting damn close to summer. The weather's getting warmer and it's fucking fabulous, I literally couldn't be happier with the current state of the thermometer right now. Unfortunately, all of the springtime fun and allergies and shit also meant that I have four freshly-hatched little asswipes crawling around all over the place. I think everyone's kind of sick of them by no-- oh, wait, did I say four? Sorry, meant five. [And the screen moves AGAIN, to a picture of an adorable baby Vullaby picking at her feathers.] Look at that bitch. Found her wandering around in the Safari Zone. Do you people know how long I've been looking for one of these? Way too fucking long.

[And then the feed goes back to him. Maybe he's done gloating about his altogether unremarkable accomplishments... maybe.] And now I'm going to get back on topic. Summer. Back on Trollplanet, the Dim Season didn't mean much except the night-time got hotter, and the day-time got... well, also hotter, but the sun also kind of scorched all of your skin off if you walked out there anyway. There weren't any of these... festivals or holidays or shit. In fact, there weren't any festivals at all.

So, what's the difference between a festival and those godawful parties? Please tell me they're at least bigger. I've been dragged to several holiday parties now and all of them have had too many people in not enough room.

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[See Kanaya. See Kanaya standing there for a moment, looking thoughtful, before she reaches down and scoops up the Dratini baby, craddling the little thing absently in her arms. Because BABY.]

Some of us enjoyed the Alternian sun, Sollux.

Coming from the guy that is a hive hermit? I'm surprised you even know what the moons looked like.

Are you going to keep bringing that up? We know you have your badge, Sollux! If you like, you can offer us sage advice, but just saying you have it repeatedly doesn't do anyone any good.

[ Aradia's sitting nearby. She waited for him to get finished to say anything, flipping through her binder and noting things down. Not about his speech, of course. ]

And from what I've heard, festivals are more like the Breeder's Convention? Sort of big and outdoors-y. I hope they do have one, it'd be fun!

Also I'm not sick of them, they're adorable. You know Jake and Kanaya and I like baby pokemon.

[And watch him ignore most of that.]

SOLLUX! I LEFT THERE LAST NIGHT! You have the worst timing! [Pausing to read the rest...]

Yeah Festivals tend to be huge outdoor things, parties tend to be cozy indoor things.

Why have you been looking for a little baby vulture thing? Not that she isn't cute, mind you.

[In...her own weird vulture-y way.]

Festivals are typically bigger than parties though, yeah. And they bring to mind a more outdoor-sy setting, though parties can take place outside too so [Shrug!] it's not like that is a defining characteristic or anything.

And they aren't as like... [He sort of knits his fingers together, quirking a brow as he tries to figure out how to word what's on his mind.] tightly knit, I guess? Festivals, I mean. Like with a party, typically you know the host or you're a friend of a friend of the host or something like that, so even if it's a really big party there's some kind of common thread usually. And typically you have to be invited to a party. Whereas a festival is more like...open to everybody, no invitation needed. If that makes sense.

For one thing, a Festival tends to be held over a few days compared to a party's timespan of a few hours [depending on how crazy it is], not to mention, they're generally held in a bigger area than say, a single floor of an apartment building.

[...do you really have to be smug about the badge thing... well okay he'd be smug too, but aristocrats are allowed to be smug

...he'll be polite and ignore it, it was probably a jab at his companions...]

...Your world's sun is intense enough to burn your skin off during the daytime? Well, I suppose you were used to it, but it's difficult to imagine a species surviving that long in those sorts of conditions.

I'm sure you've heard about the fact that festivals are generally outdoors affairs, but they usually have more venues of entertainment than your average party, as well. What is actually present depends on the festival and who's coordinating it, of course, but you can usually find a wider variety of food, competitions, music... those sorts of things.

It's a very nice bitch. [ He told her to look at it, so she did. ] Is there anything else you're looking for?

I can keep an eye out in my travels.

Cute condor y'got there.

[A beat as he processes the fact that a sun was hot enough to burn skin off.]

Soooo, I'm guessin' you were nocturnal or somethin' on your planet? Can't imagine not seein' the sun at least some of the time...

[Not that Midgar was a good place to see the sun, factoring in all that smog.]

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