genice: (cheer | GANBA)
Victor Nikiforov ([personal profile] genice) wrote in [community profile] starlogs2016-12-31 05:11 pm

open | happy (earth) new year, everyone!

WHO: Any and all!
WHERE: 2nd residential floor lounge
WHEN: OOCly 12/31; today.
WHAT: Victor's ICly claimed the day as being the 31st, and subsequently celebrating the "New Year" with anyone who comes by! After sending out a post on the network inviting any of the new arrivals via anomalies to attend, people are welcome to come enjoy a probably very random seeming New Years celebration.
WARNINGS: There is food and alcohol here, beware!


The lounges are interesting spaces, and Victor didn't hesitate to roll up his sleeves and rearrange furniture in this section of the middle floor lounge. A cheery wave to anyone wandering through earlier on the 31st (by his calendar, he's quite cheerful in acknowledging how arbitrary that really is) while he goes about arranging things to his satisfaction, before he jets off again to finish preparing his olivie salad.

It's nowhere near fancy, but he's shown up again with a big, borrowed bowl from his work, containing the closest approximation of olivie salad he'd been able to manage working with the supplies he found on board. There's a tablecloth tossed over the table he's appropriated for holding the foodstuffs, along with simple plates, utensils, cups and bubbling wines (three, okay, that's toeing the line of careful financial management). He's even figured out how to get music playing, though it's hard to say if there's any unifying theme to what plays.

Perhaps the most ridiculous part of any of this is how he's constructed a small cone cap for the brown, fuzzy creature that had been delivered to his bunk last week. That it's a shaved ice cone inverted with the words "Happy New Year" written on it amuses him. The unidentified creature simply coos and purrs and wears the cone hat, not moving off the smaller table it's been set on.

"Happy New Year!" he says to just about anyone walking by, tipping his (oh so classy) cup their way with a smile. Welcome to the party. Bring something to contribute to the table? Very welcome to the party!

[ ooc: please tag in with your own top levels and enjoy a relaxed, informal celebration of the new year (per Victor)! ]
canadese: <user name=zeeco site=plurk.com> (i remember one year)

[personal profile] canadese 2017-01-03 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I understand. It is important to mine as well. But is it not more meaningful to witness it demonstrated through the growth of something specific? Something that you can see?

[When everyone in your species has a built-in mental stopwatch and compass, marking time doesn't really seem like that big of a deal.]
ouzel: (if you intend to truly)

[personal profile] ouzel 2017-01-03 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's the thing; no one really gets to tell anyone what is more or less meaningful. Meaning is subjective to begin with.

Clocks are very specific.
canadese: <user name=zeeco site=plurk.com> (i didn't say nothing at first)

[personal profile] canadese 2017-01-05 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Ax just tilts his head in question.]

Clocks are basic timekeeping devices, yes? Do they have some spiritual significance in your culture?
ouzel: ('cuz I feel no love)

[personal profile] ouzel 2017-01-05 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Not in mine. [ He waves his hand. ] I meant for whomever celebrates this particular sort of thing.

I guess I just find it interesting, even if I don't completely understand it.
canadese: <user name=zeeco site=plurk.com> (my mom started bugging)

[personal profile] canadese 2017-01-05 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Warning, Cassian, snobbery incoming.]

If humans were able to keep time themselves like sensible creatures they wouldn't have to waste time on these kinds of traditions.

[It is totally humanity's fault that they can't keep time without assistance.]
ouzel: (I feel no love)

[personal profile] ouzel 2017-01-05 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Cassian lets out a little laugh at that. ]

Humans don't have any real say in their abilities to measure things like time, you know.