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tv_universe.
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: G
Words: 552
Note: The opening paragraph is lifted from another Firefly holiday fic I wrote for Valentine’s Day, but I figured it would be okay. These are all real holidays from around the world; it was fun to think about who might have celebrated what.
Even though, as River had noted, the concept of “days” and “months” was irrelevant to Life in the Black (or, as she put it, "a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles … not applicable"), there was always someone that kept them on some version of an Old Earth calendar, bringing in the half-remembered holidays from multiple cultures like faded photographs, memories in bits and pieces.
So when the alert that Kaylee and Wash has set into the ship’s computer pinged them that it was winter solstice, fortunately they happened to be down on a planet during its snowy season, so it matched the mood. No time really to gather food or other specialties, but they brought in some evergreen branches from outside, and lit candles, and had warm drinks—with a little something extra in them to lure Jayne—and sat around and told tales of memories of home.
( Holidays here... )
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tv_universe.Fandom: Firefly
Rating: G
Words: 552
Note: The opening paragraph is lifted from another Firefly holiday fic I wrote for Valentine’s Day, but I figured it would be okay. These are all real holidays from around the world; it was fun to think about who might have celebrated what.
Even though, as River had noted, the concept of “days” and “months” was irrelevant to Life in the Black (or, as she put it, "a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles … not applicable"), there was always someone that kept them on some version of an Old Earth calendar, bringing in the half-remembered holidays from multiple cultures like faded photographs, memories in bits and pieces.
So when the alert that Kaylee and Wash has set into the ship’s computer pinged them that it was winter solstice, fortunately they happened to be down on a planet during its snowy season, so it matched the mood. No time really to gather food or other specialties, but they brought in some evergreen branches from outside, and lit candles, and had warm drinks—with a little something extra in them to lure Jayne—and sat around and told tales of memories of home.
( Holidays here... )
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