Day 9 - THANKSGARBAGE

[pandatrash]

[Did you have a good Trashmas? If you kept any of the gifts that you were given, you will find that the raccoons placed a single poop somewhere in your room. Let us not dwell on the origins of said poop. This is the only punishment for failing to regift your Trashmas gifts.]

[Today's morning announcements are as follows:]

Did you know that after Trashmas, which we regret not calling Shitscram, there's another sacred raccoon holiday? That's right, today is Thanksgarbage! It's the day you cook a big, huge, giant, enormous, humungous feast and we eat all the trash!

[OBNOXIOUS LAUGHTER ENSUES]

It would be totally fucked up to have a killing night after Thanksgarbage, so we're not gonna! Everybody can enjoy food comas in peace! Especially us!

[Should you venture to the kitchen, you'll find it's suddenly stocked with a wide variety of ingredients for all sorts of fall foods; not just the American Thanksgiving and/or pumpkin spice fare, but Japanese ones as well, such as eggplants, persimmons, nashi, kobocha, chestnuts, Japanese sweet potatoes, and everything you need to make oden.]

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Comments

[purrtagonist]

Partially. And the other part of it is just the nature of the beans themselves.

They're bred and grown to be less bitter than other coffees.

[flamingprick]

How come some coffee gets so bitter? Do people like it that way?

[purrtagonist]

A good cup of coffee is only slightly bitter, and only in the kinds of ways that bring out the rest of the flavors.

[let him explain!!]

If it's too bitter-- like instant coffee usually is-- it means that something went wrong in the preparation stage. The beans weren't ground the right way. There wasn't enough water used. You let the water and the coffee grinds steep for too long. Things like that.

[flamingprick]

Huh.

[Suddenly, he thinks of something.]

Hey, do you, um...just know everything about coffee? Like EVERYTHING?

[purrtagonist]

I-- [. . .]

[he was about to say, "no, not everything," but now that he thinks about it]

. . . I think so?

[AND DESPITE THE LESSONS HE RECEIVED FROM SOJIRO, THAT'S KIND OF WEIRD]

[flamingprick]

Isn't that weird? You're still a teenager, right? And you shouldn't know EVERYTHING yet just because you're still young. Stuff like that takes years and years to master.

[Which is the problem he's having too, though with stuff besides coffee.]

[purrtagonist]

[does that stuff just so happen to be EXORCISM, Rin]

Well, yeah. It's really weird, especially since most of the stuff I know is stuff that my mentor didn't teach me.

I'm just kind of rolling with it, though.

[flamingprick]

[YES]

Yeah, that's what I mean! It happened to me with exorcist stuff too!

[purrtagonist]

. . . are they expecting you to exorcise something while you're here?

[he's. just wondering. because if the answer to that is yes then he's a little concerned, too]

[flamingprick]

Maybe that's what I'm supposed to do to those raccoons?

[purrtagonist]

Would attempting an exorcism count as bullying them?

[flamingprick]

If I exorcise 'em, are they even gonna be around to claim I bullied them?

[purrtagonist]

Ooooh, smart. Do you need an assistant? I want in on this.

[flamingprick]

I dunno, you sure you wanna follow me? The last time you did what I said to do, you laughed at the word 'porcupine'.

[purrtagonist]

. . .

How did you get away with not making a total fool of yourself?

[flamingprick]

Oh, I did. It's just that nobody found me.

I hid in the art room for a few hours thinking I was dying.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . RIN???]

I yelled "smoke bomb" really loudly and rolled off of a cafeteria table while trying to escape from Ichigo.

My knees are still bruised.

[flamingprick]

Wow.

Weed really sucks, doesn't it?

[purrtagonist]

Yeeeeep.

[pops the 'p' for emphasis]

Never again.

[flamingprick]

How much trouble did you get in anyway?

[purrtagonist]

Ichigo and Akechi grounded me and sent me to detention with McGonagall.

So, only a little bit.

[HE SOUNDS SO WRY]

[flamingprick]

Hey now, detention sucks. That's definitely a punishment.

[purrtagonist]

Does it count as real detention if I slept through most of it?

[flamingprick]

Sure, that's the best kind of detention.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . pfffft]

If only we could convince schools everywhere to make all detentions glorified nap sessions.