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I am a winner! I have won a speaker that follows me and will tell me things and play me any music. I have named it der Zauber.

It is most exciting, I will never leave home without it.

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas and that the places are open today because I want to finish decorating my apartment and I need food. I'll ask der Zauber what is open if anyone wants to come to breakfast!

Now, I ain't all that much 'bout Christmas, save seein' my friends and gettin' presents that sparkle near as much as my personality, but New Year's? Shit. New Year's is fun. You got a ready-made date slapped right there on the calendar for startin' fresh, doin' new ideas, plannin' out your schemes each and every month and exertin' just a hair of control on the unbroken stallion that's your future life. Then, to make things even more fun, you got a way to make hearts go boom in two ways - either a kiss at midnight, or my personal favorite, fireworks.

( Click here for Calamity Ashe's Limited Edition New Year's Fireworks )

Now, I figure most of you people'll be drinkin' and carousin' New Year's Eve. That's just fine. When you wake up the next day madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory 'cause your throat hurts and your head hurts and you wanna die, why don't you skedaddle that pretty dehydrated ass over to the Deadgang Hideout on the edge of town (coordinates/directions attached)? B.O.B. and I'll be servin' up vittles that are guaranteed to perk you right on up and give you luck for the new year, including Hoppin' John (with ham hock and black eyed peas, 'course, this ain't my first rodeo), collards, cornbread with honey butter, and Jesse's favorite tamales, that I ain't never done before and will probably fuck up big time, but B.O.B. promised to supervise and he's got a good head for measurements. Come on by anytime between 10:00am New Year's Day through to 8:00pm. No weapons, no hollerin', and no fightin' unless you take it outside, take your shirts off, and make it look real damn good.

My resolution? Thanks for asking. Why, it's not to be so nice. I'm such a retiring, sweet little thing. I need to be more assertive, get what I want outta life.

I did not know anything about Christmas or Yule before I came here - only Solstice! But I have been excited to learn things of the cultures present, and to experience everything myself. Plus our rabbits showed up from home, all around the Jingshi, yesterday! That and growing lotus? It was a very good day.

I really really like the cameras here, though I am fond of drawing Lan Zhan when he is not paying attention, it's very very good to see how pretty he truly is through a lens and not just my artistic interpretation. Please appreciate:

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On another topic, I was curious if there are others here that come from worlds where cultiv magics they use are forbidden by others? I have talked a little to a few people about it, like my demonic cultivation, and I have been curious to hear about others and their worlds. Are there things that are forbidden? Considered evil? Things you learn or have mastered where others thought they were bad, even if they weren't? Have you been bla

Christmas didn't turn out bad at all, I'm still trying to figure out what my gift was. It's a foam tube thing, like, short as my arm and dense and thick. Thought it might be a pillow but it's not very comfortable.

Next is the full moon and then the New Years'. Love this time of year, always plenty happening and it's only a little lonely if you haven't got anyone you're close to. Been wondering what other Tom is doing back home with Annie and Hal. How their Christmas was.

Ought to be a dating app here. Home there was Tinder but I never did get on there. My dad always said it was dirty. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, though, find somebody to court and all. Wouldn't have to be cheap and tawdry like he used to say it was.