discedo | ❀ - [Video/Action] - 第五 [中秋節; Mid-Autumn Festival, Discedo]

[Hopefully by now, most people on Fortuna have somehow received a prettily wrapped package containing four different varieties of home-made mooncake outside their doorstep. Those within Discedo had them hand-delivered; everyone else...hope they made it...]

Hey everyone! I know things have been really crazy recently, but if you have a chance [pause] and are in someplace where it's safe to do it [pause...], you should definitely go outside and take a look up at the moon! If you squint really closely, maybe you'll see Chang'e ( 嫦娥), the moon goddess who lives there, or the Jade Rabbit making medicine!

[A soft, kind of wistful laugh] At least, that's what I would say if we were at home...

Anyway, I hope all my packages made it safely, but even if it's not the same moon, you can definitely still eat the mooncake! There's 4 kinds: lotus-paste, red bean, green tea, and chocolate! Just for variety.

I included egg-yolk in a few of them, but you don't have to eat it if you don't like it.

[Oh wait...] Yeah, and I guess it's China's birthday tomorrow too.

祝你生日快樂，老師！ You're still old, by the way!

Oh, and I don't care if you changed to simplified, you're still going to have to get all your greetings in traditional from me! [Yes, Taiwan did just stick her tongue out in the video. How mature.]

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Something like that.

And yeah, I did. Mine are totally on the way, I think. [ He thinks. ]

We could always try and make some for later. It'd still count, yeah?

Ooh! If you're not busy we can make some tonight and light them! Before something else crazy happens...

Yeah, I'm not doing anything right now. [ He sort of rolls his eyes. ] Before something crazy happens, right.

Oh, also!

Teacher's birthday is tomorrow, what should we do to him? [Note 'to' and not 'for'...]

[ The wording is noted. ]

I dunno, what haven't we done lately?

I don't know, but Stocking say I can have him for the afternoon so...

We should think of something good.

Yeah, we totally should.

I wish I had more fireworks. [ You always wish that, Hong Kong. ]

Can never have too many, right? Too bad we can't wake him up with those, that wouldn't be very fair to Stocking...

Yeah, I don't think she'd like that too much.

Teacher's much more fun to tease anyway! Maybe we should dye his hair white or something...

It's about time he went grey anyway, right? That's a good one.

Do you think he'll be sad though?

About getting grey hair?

About it being his birthday.

I dunno. He's had a few, right? D'you think this one's better or worse than all the others?

Well, it's bigger than all his other ones, right?

Every year's like that though. [ He's trying to puzzle this out. ]

Yeah, you'd really think he'd just get over it, right?

Maybe old people just get really set in their ways...

Nobody's more set in their ways than he is.

Pretty sure that's because there isn't anyone older than him!

Right?

But what about like, Egypt? He's pretty old.

He doesn't really act that old though...

You know how Teacher can get... all [trying to imitate his voice and failing. Badly] ow my back, things are changing too fast and all...

And he's always talking about the past. Like, that's done and all, right? I get that being retrospective's a thing and all, but he goes way overboard.

Yeah, seriously. [You're the best bro, bro.] We need to knock him out of that, right?

How're we gonna do it though? [ Other than via the use of relatively harmless but potentially dangerous explosives? ]

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