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WHO: Sort of open. This is for of Themyscira-Zatara Family & friends.
WHERE: Diana and Zee's place and elsewhere.
WHEN: Throughout December.
WARNINGS: Enough of them.
SUMMARY: Cute winter holiday stuff. Please specify in the subject line if your threads are open or closed (and if they are closed, to which people).
FORMAT: Whatever you feel like.

[Come December first, Zatanna's already done a number on the house. Mostly in that she has finally relinquished her death-grip on the spooky Halloween mansion that it had been for Halloween (that had morphed into Thankschilling Day).

By the eighth, she has given up on normalcy and forced snow upon the house itself and the front and backyards; it is natural and cold and wet to the touch. More importantly, it's clean. It doesn't melt much or get sloshy and muddy. The forest she'd created for Halloween remains, though not overgrown. The air is sweet with the smell of pine, but not thickly so. She's cleared it out a little, made it easier to navigate. There is now plenty of room for building snow people and snow forts, in addition to the occasional snowball fight.

The inside of the house no longer (quite as) spooky. The fireplace in the living room seems to permanently be full of logs and remains lit even when no one is home. Halfway through the month, a pine tree also appears, growing through some dimensional wormhole so it remains real without having to cut one down. The dining room has a warm glow from candles and wall sconces and the kitchen seems to always have some wonderful smell wafting from it.

There is a fat orange Persian walking around, dressed as a reindeer. It doesn't seem perturbed by its costume and appears quite content, although trying to curl up and sleep almost anywhere in between desired pettings. Hermes has become more mellowed out since Halloween (and much larger, too) and only wears antlers on his head. Teekl and Gabranth declined to join the festivities.

This holiday season is going to be good. Or, hopefully at least much better than last year's.]

► OPEN: COOKIES FOR ME, COOKIES FOR FREE (ZATANNA).
► CLOSED: VESPER & ZATANNA.
► OPEN: ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS (APRIL).
► OPEN: AWKWARD SOCIALIZATION (GIL).
► OPEN: EXTREME MANLINESS CHALLENGE (JAMES)!!!
► OPEN: S'NO PROBLEM (TEREZI).
► OPEN: CUTE CHRISTMAS SWEATER PART II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (MOLLY).
► OPEN: HOW DO I SECRET IDENTITY? LOL (WALLY).
► OPEN: PRETTY MUCH JUST A FUN-HATER (MITCH).
► OPEN: SNEAKY SANTA (HAN).
► OPEN: A LOT LESS OF A FUN-HATER, APPARENTLY (BRADBURY).
► OPEN: THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR PIE (NED).

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Or hide. [Klarion piped up, looking over at Bond. After all, that was what they were doing.]

Now now. We're not hiding. We're being useful. [This kid still had so much to learn :|]

Aaah, I get it. Because we're doing something slightly useful, we have claim to say that we're being useful.

Precisely. Then, when you're asked where you were or what you were doing, you have a valid answer that doesn't involve hiding or avoiding social interaction.

How smart of you. Normally, I would simply vanish from their sight. [aka 'run away']

And yet then you have to explain yourself upon your return.

Unfortunately, "I was out" does not suffice with Zatanna.

Which is why you have to get a little more creative with your reasoning. Hence the wood splitting. Productive and a perfect excuse.

What other ideas do you have?

[James, you are now the favorite parent.]

[Success. His plans to corrupt the youth are working beautifully.]

Remember to always agree with the women of the house. Don't have to do as they ask, just pretend you're going to.

[At that, Klarion made a face.]

But they're women! More often than not, they're wrong.

[A roll of his eyes.] You know that and I know that, but they don't. It's better to just let them think they're right. It makes life so much easier.

I suppose you're right. [grumble grumble grump]

You'll understand when you're older, kid. Might even thank me for it.