♈ Hey Halloween, I'm really happy for you and I'm'a let you finish, but...

[psych0p0mps]

Hey, everyone! I just found out about the greatest Earth holiday ever and I have decided to throw a party for it. It's called "Día de los Muertos," which means "Day of the Dead." And despite the name it is actually two days!

Granted, I was a little surprised since, in my experience, a lot of humans get all uptight and gloomy about death. But apparently, not all human cultures feel that way about it! Día de los Muertos is a very cheerful festival. You go to the graveyard and set up pictures of the deceased, and a spread of their favorite foods and drinks, and a bunch of marigolds (which are a kind of flower), and the spirits of your loved ones will come back and visit you for the day! Isn't that cool?

... Although I guess it would be hard to tell if your loved ones are actually there if you can't see ghosts. But the probability of actual ghosts showing up at the party is pretty slim anyway, given the nature of death and the afterlife surrounding the castle, so the effect is about the same.

Anyway, whether they show up or not, the point of it is that rather than mourning people who have gone on ahead of us, we're celebrating the time we had with them, and looking forward to the eventual day when we'll be with them again.

Oh! And you know what's really cool? It starts the day after Halloween, so we can celebrate both! So, November 1st we will have a party in the graveyard behind the castle, and on the 2nd we'll go out to the Wanderer's Yard. I know, I know, the ones in the Wanderer's Yard aren't actually dead, but they've gone someplace ahead of us either way, and we still remember them. So in a way, it's still an appropriate setting.

[Here she finally takes a breather, and claps her hands once. A very fine white powder settles on the page, which she brushes off as she continues.]

Alright. So, who wants to help me make calaveras de azúcar? Sugar skulls, that is. We are going to need a lot of them if we're gonna leave one at every grave.

[Open for journal/action! Aradia can be found in the kitchen, coated to the elbows in powdered sugar and merengue. She has already molded a few lopsided skulls, but now she's beginning to get the hang of it.]

Comments

[madetosin]

How [revoltingly] charming...

[psych0p0mps]

Hehe, I thought so too! Did you want to help?

[madetosin]

Make candy, you mean?

[psych0p0mps]

Sure! It's really fun.

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

[So enthusiastic!]

I can come and help if you like, Aradia! I have a question, though.

[psych0p0mps]

Sure, what is it?

[cyan_maid]

What is the Wanderer's Yard?

Action

[pianoman]

[Given a bit of time, Brook will find his way into the kitchen, his interests having been fully pinged by this party announcement.]

Ah! Pardon me, but are you the one with the "sugar skulls"?

yesssss

[psych0p0mps]

[Aradia looks up from the skull she's molding, only to find... another skull! Attached to a skeleton! And an afro! She is completely unfazed by this stunning revelation, and just grins up at him. Way, way up.]

I sure am! Pull up a spot. [She motions to the counter nearby, where she has a huge bowl with plenty of the powdery mixture inside.]

just couldn't resist this eheheh

[pianoman]

Wonderful!

[He peers into the bowl.]





Pardon me, but what, exactly, am I supposed to do with it?

[chocoponying]

A party in a graveyard.

Cheerful. [Not really.]

[psych0p0mps]

It really is, though! Apparently you can even write poems poking fun at the dead people, and if that's not cheerful I don't know what is. Just as long as the spirit in question has a sense of humor, hehe.

[chocoponying]

Why would you do that?

dictated;

[hedonic]

I'm always for celebrating. You should have just started with saying you're throwing a party.

[ A scoff, soon followed teasing drawl. ]

Twenty points for timing.

[psych0p0mps]

[sees what you did there B\ she clicks her tongue once.]

I should probably mention that pants will be required at this party. And zero points for pretending you can give out points.

[hedonic]

Oh no? Do I need to give you a weapon to earn that right, as well?

[ Laughing at yooou because she's a bitch what. ]

[gottaknockhard]

[Jo, what did you do...]

I was hoping that'd catch on.

[psych0p0mps]

[it's totally york's fault actually :P]

Really? Is that the holiday you normally celebrate?

[gottaknockhard]

[York, why.]

Only the one time. Partied a little too hard.

[heliotroping]

Let's not forget about grave decorations.

[psych0p0mps]

Of course! With the candles and marigolds and everything... the pictures I saw looked absolutely gorgeous.

[heliotroping]

It's not just about how pretty it is though...

[payback]

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

[psych0p0mps]

Does it? I heard the castle celebrated it a couple years ago, but I wasn't here for that.

[payback]

Yeah, the castle did party for it, I guess. It was a bit of a to-do. Not too awful of one as far as these things go.