Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

A dear friend set a positive and hopeful challenge for next New Years' Eve, but my brain keeps circling back here.

Broken treaties lead to stolen food and five dead settlers, a brief war, the displacement of several nations, and the execution of 38 Dakota warriors at once.

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/this-day-in-history-dec-26-1862-38-dakota-men-executed-by-order-of-abraham-lincoln

it's Christmas! please consult the following gift etiquette chart to make the appropriate face and/or gesture for the camera when opening a given category of present:

- toys and games: pure childlike delight, just like in the commercials

- cooking gear: hold it up and pretend to lick it (can be tricky if it's a stand mixer)

- socks (general): bemused stare

- socks (thigh-highs and/or pride colors): put them on immediately. if multiple people got you these, put the longest ones on first so the shorter ones can show

- box full of nothing: grin knowingly and place a cat in the box, or yourself if you are a catgirl

- electronics: not so much a gesture as the extended performance piece that is integrating them into the local A/V web

- batteries for other gifts: find the giver and hug the shit out of them and tell them you treasure their foresight and they're just, the best, you know?

- anything horny: ahegao hard, or ahegao home