Consuela in Natter:

Congratulations, Callaluna. May you shake the dust off your feet and stride forth into a shiny new life. (Sorry America just peed all over the couch cushions, though...)

Jessica in Bureau:

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2016: Come Back, David Bowie

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2016: And Bring Prince With You

In Natter:

Toddson

To make my life complete, my office is having a team building thing on Friday. Our head person let something drop and I've figured out that it's going to be one of those locked room deals. I offered to keep quiet about it if she'd give me the key.

Matt the Bruins Fan

Guess it's time for Bring a Chainsaw to Work Day.

shrift

I had a reasonably good meeting with my manager today, and he told me that he wanted me to be more aggressive with our team.

Steph L.

That's code for "bring your chainsaw to work."

In Natter:

Zenkitty

This noise is bout ta drive me mad. Sounds like a pneumatic jackhammer. They're working under my trees. If they damage them I'm going on a rampage. Just so you know. Maybe I'll arm myself and take over a wildlife refuge. That's okay now, right? I bet it's quiet at a wildlife refuge.

-t

Well, you are white, but you aren't male, so I'm not sure. Might only be half okay.

Zenkitty

Hmpf. Probably any white male I could find to back me up in this protest would be unpleasant company. Of course, he would hypothetically have all the guns. My only weapons are an iron skillet, a bayonet, and an Iron Man action figure.

Jesse

Um, Zen, for what it's worth, you could probably go to a wildlife refuge for the quiet without an armed takeover.

Zenkitty

Is that even legal?

Zenkitty

I am convinced that HRC lost because I didn't wear Madame President on my nails that night.

JZ

I would be crushed if that were so, but OTOH our pundits could then stop wasting everyone's time tearing us all to shreds over our inability to adequately empathize with angry white men and urging us to stop talking so much about civil rights and race and gender and other things that prevent angry white men from voting for our team. Sorry, guys, turns out it was just Zen's nail polish, so you can all shut up now.

Mine is a bitter laugh. In Bitches:

Steph: 2016 is like a lab assignment the fucking devil is rushing to finish before it's due on December 31.

In Bitches.

Jilli I'm assuming this wasn't a buffista, but it's still an odd Secret Santa thing -- left on my front porch this morning was a bag of cute gothy purses. It was hanging around the neck of one of our larger gargoyles. No note, just little purses with skulls and bat wings.

Steph Have you started manifesting your will through handbags?

Jessica creates a drinking game in Literary:

-Drink every time someone shivers, despite the temperature of the room/day
-Drink every time someone is eating while receiving bad news, and feels the food turn into a solid ball in their stomach
-Drink twice if it's a ball of ice
-Drink every time Claire mentions that Jamie is tall
-Drink every time Claire describes Jamie's eyelashes
-Drink every time the phrase "long straight nose" appears
-Drink every time the phrase "wide sweet mouth" appears
-Stop reading right now because you have alcohol poisoning

I think mentioning that's for Diana Gabaldon might be of some use. Not sure those rules would get you even a slight buzz reading Elizabeth Peters.

Vortex clearing things up in Natter:

I would think that it defeats the point of a sacrifice to the gods if you eat it. Then it's just dinner and a show.