Starlight's posts

Virgil doesn't appear to be too bothered by riding on it though... hm

Oh, and the cemetery my family is buried in has a background story. It's named after one of my ancestors. The story is that he was lying on the hill one day and he really loved the spot. So he decided that was where he wanted to be buried when he died. Now there are a lot of people buried there. I assume most of them are related to me somehow, but I can't say for sure. People there used to have like 7 kids each or something, so it's certainly likely. Even my dad has 5 siblings, and I have so many cousins

Just imagine it prancing toward you...
I would run.

I love it!
My pumpkin looks like it saw something surprising though. I wonder what that could have been... -glances at my giant unicorn egg avatar-

Oh, I'm glad you got it to work!
And nice to see a fellow egg~

Glad you have internet again!

For us, most of our relatives are buried 3 hours away from where we live, so maybe it was just easier to do it all at once

Yay! Can't wait to see my fully carved pumpkin~

You know, I feel like we don't really have a holiday like that in the US. My family would do those things on Memorial Day, but technically I think that day's supposed to be for relatives who were in the military. We always just used that day to place flowers on all of our close relatives' graves then though

From Wikipedia:
"In contemporary South Korea, on Chuseok, masses of people travel from large cities to their hometowns to pay respect to the spirits of their ancestors.[7] Chuseok celebrates the bountiful harvest and strives for the next year to be better than the last. People perform ancestral worship rituals early in the morning. Then, they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants and clean the area around the tomb and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors."

I'm not sure. For Chuseok food, I only really know about the songpyeon, which are colorful rice cakes. And I believe they set up food that's meant as an offering for their ancestors as well

Ah, I had to do two chapters on my computer, and I was able to get the prizes even with Adblock on Chrome by clicking on the link from the Adblock box. I saw someone else who couldn't get it that way too though. I wonder if it depends on the version of Chrome?

Chuseok is a harvest festival, and it also involves paying respects to ancestors and such. Thanksgiving is also a harvest festival I guess, but we don't particularly pay respects to ancestors on that day.