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[bffpoltergeist]

[Activating her audio feed as was typical these days, Liz interjects a bit of her own holiday goodness.]

So, I know it's not, like, everybody's thing and that some of you, like, really don't care, but...

I think Christmas is, like, awesome and I'd love to, like, arrange some caroling or something if anyone is interested. Maybe, like, decorating the barracks common room or something.

Ummm... Staff people... are there any, like, ornaments or garland laying around that I could, like, use? If not, I could totally, like, cut out snowflakes and stuff, I guess...

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

how do you cut out 2nowflake2?

[audio] 4 ever and stuff

[bffpoltergeist]

[It really doesn't take much effort to translate troll text into regular style people text and really, Sollux's text quirks were pretty minimal in comparison to some people Liz used to chat with.]

Well, they're not, like, real snowflakes, obviously... they're paper ones. It's all in how you, like, fold the paper. Once it's folded, any cuts you make in it are, like, symmetrical or something.

When you, like, unfold it, it looks like an oversized snowflake.

txt4lfy, etc, etc

[thii2ii22tupiid]

then you...decorate wiith iit?

:Db

[bffpoltergeist]

[Liz is nodding, Sollux. She just might be a tiny bit appauled that the world of glitter and paper cutouts was not known on Skaia. SADNESS!]

Yeah! You, like, tape them up to the walls, or string them up around a room. It's, like, totally pretty looking and adds to the general wintery ambiance... or something like that.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*He didn't have much winter in his part of Alternia, either.*

2o, let me get thii2 2traiight, when iit get2 cold and 2now2, you make MORE fake 2now and put iit iin2iide?
2o iit feel2 cold there two? don't you have enough wiinter OUT2IIDE?

[bffpoltergeist]

[It's okay, Sollux, I'm sure you'll be getting your fair share of it here with 3-4" a day.

Liz listens to his explanation of what she's said, never sounding a bit phased by any of it.]

Well, it won't feel any colder in here just because we, like, hang paper snowflakes. It'll just, like, make the atmosphere a little more festive, you know?

Sure, the outside winter is cold and everything, but it'd be nice if, like, the inside was all decorated.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

yeah, but you make iit look more liike out2iide, doe2n't that ju2t make iit 2eem cold? and why ii2 wiinter fe2tiive?

*Cause he's really not liking it so far.*

[bffpoltergeist]

Nah, it doesn't have to, like, make it seem cold or anything. Not if you do it right, anyway... it's just, like, supposed to make it pretty is all. The look of snow and winter, without the cold.

And winter brings Christmas!

[thii2ii22tupiid]

iif you 2ay 2o.

*Which is code for "I think you're an idiot about that but I'm not going to keep talking about it."*

ii thought chrii2tma2 wa2 about pre2ent2?

[bffpoltergeist]

[Well, she does say so, so there. Buuuuuut, Liz isn't one to argue, nitpick, or otherwise take offense for something so trivial, so she'll roll right on with the troll's change of subject.

Then she smiles to herself, the motion audible in her tone.]

Well, presents, yes, but, like, also the spirit of giving and love and all that.

[FLUSHED FEELINGS!!]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

2piiriit of...yeah, whatever.

*No wonder humans were so weak if this was the sort of holiday they had.*

ii can help you wiith the bee2.

*For a price B]*