Russ
Istar
There is a reason we call it the Great White North...
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Chessie
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C
Chessie
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Our state is called The Last Frontier. Allow your imagination to run wild with that. We're talking knee-deep snows and sometimes deeper. The last few days it's been ~20F at the warmest. The sun rises close to 9am and starts setting at 3:30pm. My plants are dying. It's basically a race of not going crazy until solstice when the light returns.
Sage
Snow? ...I think I vaguely remember that falling here for one day, two years ago.
C
Chessie
Guest
You should come visit! We have a young lady at church that's been here for a month up from Colorado. We were joking with her as to why on Earth she decided to move to Alaska in the middle of winter lol. Adventurous young thing.
It's not always as great as it sounds, though. Like with anything, there are downsides. The dark being one of them.
Russ
Istar
You should come visit! We have a young lady at church that's been here for a month up from Colorado. We were joking with her as to why on Earth she decided to move to Alaska in the middle of winter lol. Adventurous young thing.
It's not always as great as it sounds, though. Like with anything, there are downsides. The dark being one of them.
Great for amateur astronomers and for fans of the Northern Lights though...
I have friends who live up in Alaska, it is hard but fascinating country. I am about an hour north of TO, in the snowbelt. Which means I get lots of snow cold but can go to the opera or a hockey game quite easily.
Tom
Istar
That's terrible. Much too young. I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah, it was pretty awful. It happened over winter break so when I got back to school, everyone was going "Did you hear about that girl...?" I never knew her very well, but I had a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. When I checked the local obits and saw it was her it was like a punch to the gut.
C
Chessie
Guest
Lovecraft has an interesting voice...
I feel like I'm being told a story by some rich man in a robe, lounging in a sofa and drinking cognac by his fireplace. In his old Victorian-styled house. Where it's dark. And ambient drone music is playing in the background and the story he's telling is a really creepy one.
Yeah...not sure what I think just yet.
I feel like I'm being told a story by some rich man in a robe, lounging in a sofa and drinking cognac by his fireplace. In his old Victorian-styled house. Where it's dark. And ambient drone music is playing in the background and the story he's telling is a really creepy one.
Yeah...not sure what I think just yet.
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
So I was joking with a cousin that he owed me his first born for getting him star wars tickets. Then my mind got thinking, what if that was common place and was regulated like we regulate loans. Now I have a story kernel for people regularly using their first born as collateral for magic loans. Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Rumplestiltskin. Very interesting...
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
I think people would quickly grow tired off receiving babies in the mail.
Futhark
Inkling
So, Christmas is almost here. It's summer where I am, 30 degree Celsius plus days, shirts, shorts, thongs (footwear, not underwear, don't know what others call them; flip flops?). Anyway got the BIG question from the kids. Is Santa really real? Got me thinking about different versions from the kids movie the Guardians to Jim Butcher's (?) version where he leads the great hunt for a bit. Got me curious about what weird and wacky versions there would be if the insanely imaginative people here did a Sanata story. Wanna share?
Saigonnus
Auror
I see santa with a model of each and every person on the planet, a direct representation of them in every way. At Christmas, each is put into a machine that judges the actions of that person. It is this judgment that brings either good fortune for the new year, or bad luck.
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Futhark
Inkling
Hmm...
Voodoo Santa with dreadlocks? Does the machine poke pins in the naughty ones giving them ulcers and arthritis? Sounds fun.
Voodoo Santa with dreadlocks? Does the machine poke pins in the naughty ones giving them ulcers and arthritis? Sounds fun.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
I had an idea for a Santa story once. I don't remember the details, but basically there's a secret society at the North Pole involved in protecting some kind of magic that they use to grant wishes. Like, serious wishes. It's extremely dangerous magic.
Oh! Now I remember. If a kid witnesses Santa Claus after a certain age, they have to be abducted into the order. And in the story there are lots of sleigh drivers but the main guy is "the" Santa Claus and in the story he's a young guy, maybe 25. The MC is one of the kids who had to be kidnapped because he saw Santa and is a sleigh driver now but he has lots of problems and steals the magic to try to fix his problems...
I remember they used animals other than reindeer to pull sleighs. Arctic foxes and seals and polar bears...
Funny you should mention it. I wrote one last year. It's called Dead Santa. Still looking for a home for that one.
Ireth
Myth Weaver
I watched Arthur Christmas recently and today I had the thought... if the title of Santa Claus is passed down from father to son, what would happen if one Santa only had a daughter? Would she become Santa anyway? If she married a man, would he be Mr. Claus? I think there might be a story in there... The idea of a lesbian Santa Claus (Kristina Kringle?) is also kind of appealing, tbh.
