The internet is a storm of URLs, wi-fi and strings of dangerous code, whirling and thundering. Out in the wilderness you can only survive so long unaided, but in here, behind the mellow yellow windows, a safe and comforting place awaits. This place is a respite from the internet; the fire crackles invitinglyΒ and alluring rainbow-coloured drinks are poured into glasses. Exciting chatter fills the rooms from tables bustling with friends, eating from trays of warm, rusticΒ carumΒ bread and hearty stews. Gentle music comes from the band in the background.
[image description: a busy tavern lit by orange light]
Come in, chat away, have a great time! The old location may have been overrun by the Codekind, but this new building has three-meter thick walls,Β three floorsΒ and turret bedrooms to rest in at the top!Β We’ve returned, freeΒ from the battles of the secret pages! A safe micro-community of equality and no judgement. Hang up yourΒ HTML-reflective suit at the door and settle in with a drink and a meal.
Notice Board: Free candy in the bowl on the counter! What types of candy are there? Yes.
“Hola mi amigos! como estas?” Frost meowed happily, drinking a smoothie that was not there a second ago.
translation:
Hi my friends! How are you?
“Β‘Hola de nuevo a ti! Estoy bien y acabo de salir de la escuela.” chitters Rabbitflame.
Frost flashed a smile at Rabbitflame.
“Hola! Hablo muy poco espΓ nol.” Poppypaw says uncertainly.
“Asombrosa!”
βAah aprendas EspaΓ±ol? Yo tambien!β
Frost nodded her head, excitedly. “Si!”
“ΒΏCompletaste tu lecciΓ³n de espaΓ±ol de Duolingo?”
“No desafortunadamente :(”
βAprendo espaΓ±ol a un case de un amigo.β Redblaze mews. βQuizas voy a hacer un examen el aΓ±o que vienes.β
“Okay!” Frost chirped
Rabbitflame decides she wants to sing some Christmas Music, even though she’s terrible at singing and often flubbs her lines. Her teacher is still chasing her with a weed whacker while she runs to the stage, so she hastily apologizes as the band is knocked to the ground. She unleashes a punch at her teacher, who drops to the floor, and steps up to the microphone.
“I don’t want a lot for Christmas.
There’s just one thing I need,
I don’t care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas Tree.
I just want it for my own,
More than it could ever know,
Make my wish be food….
So come here
All I want for Christmas, is food!
There is just one thing I need, and I
Don’t care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don’t need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa Claus won’t make me happy
With a toy on Christmas day
I just want food for my own
More than food could ever know
Make my wish be food..
All I want for Christmas is food!
I won’t ask for much this Christmas
I won’t even wish for snow, and I
I just wanna keep on waiting
Underneath the dinner table
I won’t make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won’t even stay awake
To hear those magic reindeer click
‘Cause I just want food here tonight
Stuffing my stomach, that’s right
What more can I do (make a banquet)
Oh, stomach, all I want for Christmas is food
All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children’s
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won’t you bring me
The one thing I really need
Won’t you please bring my banquet to me quickly
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
This is all I’m asking for
I just wanna see my banquet
Stuffing my whole table full
I just want food for my own
More than food could ever know
Make my wish be food..
Oh, stomach, all I want for Christmas is food!”
“…” Frost stared. “AMAZING SONG!”
Pear casually sets a workbook aflame, looking pleased.
Poppypaw sighs,looking up from her computer. “What is up with you and fire?”
Pear smiles.
Aquila looks excited at the fire, perhaps slightly scarily so.
Windpaw continued to jack up the intensity of the sprinkler system
Redblaze looks alarmed.
“Noice, also I have a present for you!” Frost gave her a new flamethrower. “Here!”
“Nope nope nopity nope” Windpaw began to dial the fire department
“Yes, hello” “I’d like a crash course in flamethrowers and how to stop them” “Yes” “Yeah” “Okay, thanks!” “I’ll call back if it gets worse” Windpaw glared at Pear “I’m going to have have to ask you to burn the flamethrowers”
“Lol, she’s not gonna do that.” Frost laughed.
“No, I think it’s only a safty hazard to have multiple flamethrowers per persoN. However, if we can use flamethrowers to burn the other flamethrowers, I think that won’t be a fire safty hazard.” Windpaw explained
Actully thinking it over, Windpaw settles for putting a fire hazard sign on the wall and hiding under a sofa
“OMG THANKS!” squeals Pear happily.
Rabbitflame grins evilly. “Do you know what would go great with that flamethrower? Grilled fruit skewers…..”
Bloomie grins evilly at the blaze of flames.
“AND LET THERE BE MORE!” cackled a cream and white she-dog evilly, peering her head out of a random portal that just opened. She then pulled out some kind of flamethrower-like thing that clearly belonged to her brother and randomly started aiming it at everything.
“SIS, GIVE ME BACK MY COMMANDO-EXECUTOR!” growled a dark blue he-dog with white ears and tail, green patches, and white streaks, poking his head out of the portal and wrestling the flamethrower out of the cream and white she-dog’s paws. However, it was too late, everything was already on fire.
The cream and white she-dog and the blue, green, and white he-dog fought for a while when the portal suddenly snapped shut and both of the doggos were sent back into Raven’s mind.
“My OCs are weird,” she remarked, flicking her fluffy black tail.
Rabbitflame sips her cola. “Barkeep! Bring me some nachos!” Little does she notice that as she ordered the barkeeper to bring her nachos, she spilled a little bit of cola on the floor. Someone random rushes up with a mop, but proceeds only to smack Rabbitflame in the face as the barkeep screams, “WHoAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” and falls to the floor. Rabbitflame recovers from her face injury and quickly snaps to action. “My NACHOSSSSSSSSSSS!” She wails as she slides and catches them just as they fall to the floor. On the floor, the barkeeper curses and vows to sue Rabbitflame, but it’s too bad she’s broke……
Pear eyes the nachos greedily.
“Ooh.” Frost giggled at the scene.
“That mop must have hurt,” Bloomie winces.
Redblaze pauses after a few minutes deep in thought.
βCan someone please explain to me what thanksgiving is?β She mews
It is a holiday in the us. When the pilgrims came from england and landed at plymouth rock. the native americans were nice to them and gave them food and it has since then been known as thanksgiving
“Do you not celebrate Thanksgiving in England? On that day, we’re supposed to gather and give thanks for what we have (of course that isn’t gonna happen this year but my family is gonna do it alone) and have a meal, which usually includes roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing (not polyester, made out of food), gravy, and pumpkin pie.” explains Rabbitflame through a mouthful of her flame-scorched turkey.
βLike Christmas but with pumpkin pie?β
no. We have turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes,and no presents. we state what we are thankful for π
βTurkey is Christmas though…..β
Minktail pops her head in, overhearing the conversation and lifting a paw.
“Here in the U.S., usually turkey is Thanksgiving, and on Christmas we have ham!” She explains, producing a Thanksgiving turkey with some cranberry sauce out of nowhere. “Here, try some! There’s stuffing in the turkey- it’s like soggy croutons, but delicious,” she adds with a smile.
βSorry.β Redblaze mews. βIβm vegetarian.β
“Oh! I’m sorry, I should’ve asked,” Minktail apologizes. She sets the turkey aside for anyone who’d like some, then pauses for a moment and produces some vegetarian stuffing and a plate of mashed potatoes. “I’ve got this! Ooh, and pumpkin pie, if you like that-” she pulls out a pumpkin pie with whipped cream. At this point, even she doesn’t know where she’s getting all this food from.
“Thanksgiving is a time where you eat turkey and think what your thankful for.” Frost meowed, flicking her tail
βOh its when we celebrate people coming into America and wiping out an entire continent of people!β Says wolli
βOh uhh yay?β Redblaze mews
βYeahhhhβ says wolli. βAnyway wanna help me dump some slime on the tavern?β
Viperfrost looks at Wolli suspiciously, then resumes eating her pie.
Wolli gives viper a suspicious look back and continues mixing hir slime.
“I’m pretty sure that was my country anyway :P” Redblaze sighs
“Sure,” Frost quickly looks to the left to the right. “make sure the mods don’t see us and lets hurry, I have to work on my fanfiction.”
π
“Whoaaaaa that was fast.” Frost widened her eyes. “and hey, Cheetah!”
“Hey, Frost!” Cheetah replied, scraping some leftover gum someone had left on one of the counters with a disgusted look on her face. “What are you doing with that suspicious-looking bucket of slime?”
Willowpaw turns to frost βquick! Hurryβ she drags the slime bucket up to the balcony as fast as hir can
“No… please don’t…” Cheetah whined weekly, too lazy to actually go up and stop them.
Willowpaw thinks for a second βwhat if we clean it up afterwards?β
“This is normal,” said Raven, sitting down on the nearest chair.
“UM, YEAH UH LITERALLY NOTHING! HEHEHEHE!” She giggled, nervously. “Ew, that looks gross.” She grimaced, staring at the gum.
“It is.” Cheetah deadpanned. “I’m on cleaning duty this week and if someone happened to dump slime on the tavern I would be forced to clean it. I can already feel the misery…”
βWhat if i cleaned it?β Asks wolli
βIts a win-winβ
“Hmph. Fine. But if I have to get involved at all you might just make me cry,” she sniffed.
“Oh uhhhhhh…” Frost stammered, debating whether she should help Cheetah with the gum or dumping gooey slime on the tavern
“Just leave me to suffer…” she mumbled.
Willowpaw gives Cheeto a hug and tilts the slime bucket over the tavern βlook out belowβ
” π “
oof lol
“It’s the least valid holiday,” says Pear.
“It is a US-exclusive holiday. It’s where we celebrate the Europeans settling onto a country and wiping out nearly all the natives with measles and mumps,” replied Raven.
Rabbitflame decides to sing some Japanese music.:
Se no!
Demo sonnan ja dame
Mou sonnan ja hora
Kokoro wa shinka suru yo
Motto motto
Kotoba ni sureba kiechau kankei nara
Kotoba o keseba ii ya tte
Omotteta? osoreteta?
Dakedo are? nanka chigau kamo…
Senri no michi mo ippo kara!
Ishi no you ni katai sonna ishi de
Chiri mo tsumoreba Yamato Nadeshiko?
‘Shi’ nuki de iya shinu ki de!
Fuwafuwari fuwafuwaru
Anata ga namae o yobu
Sore dake de
Chuu e ukabu
Fuwafuwaru fuwafuwari
Anata ga waratte iru
Sore dake de
Egao ni naru
Kami-sama arigatou
Unmei no itazura demo
Meguriaeta koto ga
Shiawase na no
Demo sonnan ja dame
Mou sonnan ja hora
Kokoro wa shinka suru yo
Motto motto
Sou sonnan ja ya da
Nee sonnan ja mada
Watashi no koto mitete ne
Zutto zutto
Watashi no naka no anata hodo
Anata no naka no watashi no sonzai wa
Madamada ookikunaiβ¦
Rabbitflame would also like to say this is her favorite Japanese song and this is the legit version right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-aScQHImk&list=WL&index=1
Duskblaze casually walks in, and then looks around in confusion. “Where am I? I was trying to get to the Fanfic Organization page..,” she asks, gazing at the… iNtErEsTiNg stuff going on.
Poppypaw looks up and smiles slightly as Duskblaze stares at everything going on. “I’m not very good with directions,but if you go left from here for around a mile,you should come across the Fanfiction Organization.”
Redblaze looks up from her go board
βWhat she saidβ
“Hi, Duskblaze!” She yelled as she turns on her flamethrower. “Wahoo!” Frost screamed in delight.
Pear sips her un-fruit water as she glances around suspiciously, searching for signs of fruit eating. She spots something and glares. Pear pulls a pen out of her pocket and writes something down on her tiny notebook.
Rabbitflame ducks underneath a table. She reaches a paw up and bats a strawberry to the floor. It rolls around. Rabbitflame quickly surveys Pear, but she’s busy watching Willow search up pictures of fruit while drooling at them. She snatches up the strawberry and shoves it into her mouth. Success! she thought.
Pear whips her head around to glare at Rabbitflame. “What did you just do?” she asks.
Rabbitflame flinches.
“Pear,I want to protect the fruit but I’m gonna get scurvy at this rate.” Poppypaw says carefully. “And I really don’t want scurvy!”
“I’ve published an article about it actually!” says Pear, still watching for signs for fruits being eaten.
“…” Frost took a step back. “o…k” She grabbed her flamethrower, getting ready to turn it on.
Raven eats one cube of watermelon, then quickly transforms into a raven and flies away.
“Hey!” Pear calls after the raven.
The raven had already disappeared by then.
Minktail looks around, noticing Pear and ducking behind a counter. Quietly, she produced a plum from the cabinet behind her and bit into it. She couldn’t help it! Plums were her favorite fruit- especially when they’re so ripe, you can bite through them like soft butter.
“Mm, butter,” she mumbles quietly through a mouthful of fruit. She might have a small butter addiction in addition to plums.
Pear suddenly looked up, sensing the distress of another fruit. “Minktail, what is that?” she says suspiciously.
Minktail froze, turning slowly to face Pear with the plum hidden behind her back. “Ummm…. Butter?” She mews sheepishly, swallowing the last mouthful of fruit and smiling innocently.
While Pear is distracted,Poppypaw ate a grape. She then hid behind a chair.
Willowpaw walks up to the bar βcan i have a room permanently?β Hir gets out 300 pixels. βWill this cover it for now?β
“Yes, and we’ll let you know when your next payment is due!” A room key is handed over to Willowpaw. “Just go up those stairs to the floor number listed, and then walk down to your room!”
Redblaze spies a neopronoun. “You use hir? I’ll make sure I do from now on!”
Unless it’s just a typo in that case don’t mind meβYep! I still use she/her as well :Dβ
Pear slowly walks over to a table. “Is that a FRUIT you’re eating?” she demands icily.
“NO,” answered Ttera. “It’s a COCONUT.” She continues to bite the hairy food thing (yes that is totally the biological term)
“I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to eat that.” Poppypaw points out.
“Coconuts are fruits
according to google.” Pear replies.“No,” replied Raven, pointing her tail towards something that is not watermelon, “This is very sweet, unusually red meat with black stuff in it, cubed.”
“So…a watermelon then?” asks Pear.
“Nope, sweet unusually red meat with black stuff in it,” replied Raven.
“NOPE IT’S A TOMATO!” She laughed evily and getting her flamethrower just in case.
“TOMATOES ARE TECHNICALLY FRUITS!” Pear shouts.
Minktail pops her head in, wanting to contribute to the shouting.
“ALSO, VEGETABLES ARE TECHNICALLY SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS!” She shouts, waving the many articles she’s collected on this topic for some odd reason in the air.
“UM! TOTALLY ISN’T!” She grabbed a pear. “At least I’m not eating this.”
“Isn’t a tomato biologically a fruit?” asked Raven.
Redblaze nods
Ferretpaw looks at the ground, realizing it had been over a month since she had been on blogclan’s website.
Minktail spots Ferretpaw and bounces over, grinning.
“Hey! Long hiatus buddies!!!” She mews happily, extending her paw for a high-five. “I used to go by Rainspirit here, and then I left for like a year, and then I came back as Minktail, and then I left again for like six months, and then I came back as Minktail again!” She says in one breath. She wheezed and paused to refill her lungs. “That’s the beauty o’ BlogClan- you can keep coming back after hiatuses, and it’s still the same loving place!” She grins, taking a sip of a CSS Cola that had definitely not been in her paws a few seconds ago.
Ferretpaw laughs then smiles broadly.
“Hi!” Frost grinned.
“Hi!” Ferretpaw replies smiling.
Aquila smiles at Ferretpaw, happy to see her again. Then she realises that this is the first comment sheβs posted all day and she didnβt comment at all yesterday, she blames her school friends, her school, Instagram and discord for consuming her life π
Frost hissed as someone stepped on her tail. “Grrr.” She put on her headphones and turned on the cup song. She calmed herself down by actually doing the cup song, singing softly.
Raven looks at the sign in the Hazelpage.
Some parts of it read “Weβve returned, free from the battles of the secret pages! A safe micro-community of equality and no judgement.”
Raven shakes her head, and says, “I believe it forgot to mention some qUeStIonAbLe things happen here.” She then walked off and bought a rainbow cherry milkshake, taking out her waterthrower just in case.