Not quite the 30th yet

[flemmings]

But happy birthday stanking anyway.

Erm. Also sappy Christmas fic, 100 Demons, not finished in time for Christmas and not written for anyone in particular. Writing means abandoning shame, and I'm bad at that.

The Bird of Dawning

I might do yuletide if it ever moved itself to a new year's deadline and a Little Christmas reveal. But even for the unreligious lapsed agnostic, Christmas in this society is too busy for writing fic.

Comments

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

*claps hand*....

Lovely how absolutely lovely!!!! ^___^

Happy New Year and many *hugs* thank YOU for sharing your year with me and I hope you didn't mind sharing mine!

Much love and all the best for good 2008!!!

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

Hahaha enjoyed!

[proanon.livejournal.com]

*smirks* That was wonderful. I'd never thought about what would happen if you brought someone with a completely separate belief system into Ritsu's world, but you handled it perfectly. And I was grinning and nodding over a fair bit of it - you worked in a perfect depiction of the Japanese concept of "kurisumasu."

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Always happy to share your years. Happy New Year back atcha!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My hard-earned experience comes in handy on occasion.

Common wisdom when I was in Tokyo was that we were always out of step with the Japanese. At Christmas when we wanted to be family or religious or sentimental as per temperament, they wanted to go out drinking in rowdy groups- because IIRC the bounenkai often do start as early as the 25th. At New Year's when we were all ready for a great big party, they wanted to be family or religious, and most of the time they weren't even there at all but back home with the folks in Gifu.

[incandescens]

Lovely piece! Thank you very much indeed.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and welcome.

[proanon.livejournal.com]

That's my experience as well. Bounenkai start very early indeed, and people have trouble understanding why I want to fly home for Christmas and don't really care if I come back before New Year. (I usually just explain that actually, Christmas IS the American O-Shougatsu. They're used to me rambling about the cultural roots of American traditions - they should be, they hired me to do it! - so they're usually willing to hear the explanation out.)

I particularly like the way you presented the dichotomy from Ritsu's perspective, though. You didn't just have the facts accurate, but you presented the cultural environment without hitting the reader over the head with it.