Chapter Three [Multiple]

[thebestseller]

Text message to Levi

Levi, I hope you don't mind the pole I put up in the living room. I can explain the significance if you want.

[Video, to everyone]

I was feeling a bit cranky about not being home for Christmas, but you know what? I don't want to be. I am the anti-cranky. I have things to be thankful for here. Like, say, all of the lovely friends I've made so far.

So cheers to you, Heropa- and wherever else imPorts reside. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Festivus, or whatever it is you celebrate. And if you don't celebrate at all, I hope you have a great day.

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[alofts]

An explanation would be appreciated

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[thebestseller]

[Castle texts a link to the Wikipedia page on Festivus.]

It's Festivus for the rest of us! Basically I've been watching too much Seinfeld lately.

text :

[alofts]

[ Wait. ]

...How can a show be about nothing?

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[thebestseller]

Pretty easily. It's not about literal nothing, but there's not, like, a big, overarching plot either.

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[parallels]

Cheers to positivity. Suppose that's what this time of year is about, yeah? Finding the light in dark times.

As unfortunate as being here is... I can think of worse places to be stuck.

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[thebestseller]

That's going to be my mentality about it. ... I do miss being home and doing all the traditional things with my mom, my daughter and my fiance, but... pouting over it isn't gonna change it.

[parallels]

I don't have children or a fiance. So I've got to say, you're probably doing much more work on keeping positive than I am.

[thebestseller]

I've got more than enough to go around.

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[abadidea]

[He can't help but smile a little at the post. There's just something Isaac likes about this guy.]

Yeah, Merry Christmas to you, too.

[There's just something about a place who's chief religion isn't destroying the universe. He likes it here.]

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[thebestseller]

[Castle toasts with a glass of wine he's holding.]

I wonder what the new year will bring? I am eager to find out.

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[abadidea]

Aren't you a little worried? [He's doing his best not to look nervous, okay.] I mean, with all the weird stuff going on around here. [That's always going on around here?]

( video )

[thebestseller]

A little bit, honestly. Especially because I'm just a writer- there's not much I can do on the heroic side.

( video )

[abadidea]

And I'm just an engineer, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

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[thebestseller]

I am at least trying to learn how to use my powers better, so that's something. Let's hope it doesn't come to anything serious for a while.

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[foreshadower]

I think you may have to explain this festivus to us old souls who don't recognize the holiday.

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[thebestseller]

It started off as a made-up holiday on a TV show for people who didn't celebrate Christmas. An anti-Christmas, if you will. Then people began actually celebrating it.

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[foreshadower]

I see. So a fake holiday in opposition to a real one becomes a real holiday?

Isn't that a study on irony?

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[thebestseller]

Finally, someone knows how to use irony correctly!

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[foreshadower]

I'm delighted to prove that I am adept at such things. Is there anything different about this festivus as opposed to Christmas?

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[thebestseller]

Everyone started getting it wrong after that Alanis Morissette song. And thus the popular meaning changed and the true one was lost forever.

Festivus involves the barest of decorations and the airing of grievances against one another.

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[rocketsmodernlife]

u don't even know most of us
y would u say that

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[thebestseller]

Because it's a nice thing to say?

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[rocketsmodernlife]

sayin you hope that everybody has a nice day
what about people robbin crap. have a great day, hope it goes well.
real nice of u pal

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[thebestseller]

Well, you're a regular ball of sunshine, aren't you?

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[rocketsmodernlife]

i'm just sayin blanket statements sometimes bite you in the ass