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Graingy Survey: How was your holiday?

35.8k Graingy  11 months ago

Now that the holiday is over (not counting those that use the January 7th date, or our Post-Soviet comrades with New Year's), how was yours?
Please, go into as much detail as you wish. I'm willing to listen!


Me, personally, mine went well enough.
Exchanged presents (Shirts, cans of cashews, a physical copy of a crappy web novel I've been following for over a year (Whatever you do stay away from the community, they are weirdly attracted to the aliens), skinwalker Lego tanks, etc.), gave my sister the Djungelskog I bought her, she got me a second Blahaj (for the record, no, I am not transgender, it's just that when I first saw it I knew I needed it no matter what), I gave my mother a printed copy of The Christmas (sort of) Saved by Kindness (Whether she intended to or not), we had breakfast.
I then uploaded the Graingy Christmas Special, which had... disappointing results. I suppose I can only blame myself, seeing as I did a horrible job with the thumbnail for the SAN-74, and the short story is almost 5000 words (nobody is gonna read that much lmao), but still. Disappointing, considering the effort. Not to make this a sob story, but that was what I was the most excited for of all.

After that I headed with my immediate family to Christmas dinner. Barely spoke to anyone, mostly worked on a Cobi tank and talked with you joyful folk while my cousins and sister worked through an I Spy book.
Two of them are grown adults, and the other is a bloody giant anyways.

Then, the absolute highlight of my day:

Someone read my short story. I playfully pressured them into it, but they still read at least part of it.

"(okay, personally, I'm not a fan of this kind of stories, but I must say, it's well written! though I'm still somewhat confused as to what "Kindness" is, assuming the same or similar species as you, a reptilian-alien maybe? but that aside, i must say, MS here is quite... an annoying character, in a good way! you delivered the annoyance of Kindness very well, i might be biased but for a kind of story that i don't usually read, 8/10! oh and, cookie pretty but all that effort only to be eaten, hm)"
-Monarchii

This made me really, really happy. Actually having someone beyond my immediate family say that what I've made ain't terrible is quite nice, I must say.

Also

"This needs to be published"
-RepublicOfCursedPlanes

My Face hurt.
So thanks to those who read my little yarn, it means a lot to me :,)


Anyways, enough about me.

How have you people been?

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    35.8k Graingy

    @ComradeInCommune 1812?

    11 months ago
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    @Graingy I wonder if the prize for defeating the US and taking washington D.C is the list of warcrimes it committed

    11 months ago
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    @ComradeInCommune
    *It's not a warcrime if nobody is able or willing to persecute you for it.
    It's been a while since school. I can hardly remember.
    Also you can't post images in comments you dingus

    11 months ago
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    @Graingy "Its not a warcrime if you win"
    Also the natives in canada did actually fight a war with the french against what is known as the united states (while it was being colonized? I need to read into it but correct me if im wrong).
    .
    I believe it was Battle of Saint-Foy(also known as Battle of Quebec), and the canadians(natives/french) somehow won
    !north america situation

    11 months ago
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    @Yish42 I don’t believe there was really a concept of “War crime” back then.
    Besides, fighting off the Americans is a core part of Canadian identity.
    Unless you are thinking of a different Battle of Quebec than the 1775 one Google gave me.

    +1 11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy do you know what are warcrime?
    You know,it's the opposite of fair fight...

    11 months ago
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    35.8k Graingy

    @Yish42 and who cares what’s a fair fight.
    What matters is winning, honour be damned.

    11 months ago
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    @Yish42 Nope.
    As annoying as Quebec may be (having to put up with a, in population terms, mini France is a curse), without it Canada wouldn’t be the second biggest county by total area, and if not the second biggest then Canada truly is nothing.

    11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy no,that on was a fair fight
    But the battle of Québec was not!
    Québec libre!

    11 months ago
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    35.8k Graingy

    Had to google "battle where English defeated French at night in Canada" or something similar.

    11 months ago
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    @Yish42 Battle on the Plains of Abraham?
    My memory of Canadian history is... poor, to say the least.

    11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy correct! the english!

    11 months ago
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    35.8k Graingy

    @Yish42 Extraterrestrial!
    Uhhh...
    Gimme I sec I'm trying to...
    hmmm...
    nevermind.
    Extraterrestrial!

    11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy No...it start with an "E"...

    11 months ago
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    @Yish42 Santa Claus?

    +1 11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy evil? so who attacked us when we were sleeping uhhhh?

    11 months ago
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    @Yish42 Canadien! (The 'e' stands for EVIL!)

    +1 11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    @Graingy yes,even better than Canada!right?

    11 months ago
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    35.8k Graingy

    @Yish42 OH dear neptune I just opened your account.
    QUEBEC!!?!

    DEAR LORD

    +1 11 months ago
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    @Yish42 "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

    +1 11 months ago
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    8,845 Yish42

    My holiday:

    Uh,Did some wood (that'show i call it when you remove nail from wood),got my gift on the 24th because of a tradition in my family,the gifts were:
    •candy
    •architecture book
    •twinkies
    •a single box of juice
    •carbon fiber
    this,not an airsoft
    •clothes
    It was pretty good,went at the beach (black sand?),relax and now I'm waiting for the gifts I'll have at my mother's house

    +1 11 months ago
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    @Graingy But I’m a pl- insert death noises

    11 months ago
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    35.8k Graingy

    @Boeing727200F What's that? You want your money back?
    Oh of course!
    Just stand in the middle of that painted target on the ground and don't move an inch, m'kay?
    Airplane engines? They're getting louder?
    You're imagining things!

    11 months ago
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    @Graingy worth it

    11 months ago
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    @Boeing727200F $33 Trillion in debt later

    11 months ago
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