"Christmas Elf" is a career path, and in Elf culture it's seen as being an unsavoury job, with those who take it treated with disdain, a Christmas Elf comes home for the Moon Festival

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35941175

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thylnr@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 211d (1 reply)

"It is tedious work, you are pretty much a slave", I muse to the still bewildered child, wondering who I am and what I am supposed to be.

"And this Santa, does he even pay you?"

"Well, he waves it off as saying we are paid in peaks of laughter, so there's something"

"That's hor-"

"That is not horrible. Believe me, that is the least horrible thing"

"But you said it yourself, you are pretty much a slave"

"Well, I chose this. It is a labour of love. You get your eyes drowning in their sockets and socks so itchy they keep you from being drowsy. But what he said was real"

"I could understand. But you must really be careful, with that travel blessings of yours"

"Yeah, I was a bit drunk. I called it out as to 'send me where the children really understand and enjoy the fruits of the labor of their parents' cause I was getting a little bit frustrated with some of those ungrateful brats, never thought I would be sent to a harvest festival."

"You should have been more specific"

"I thought serendipity didn't have this huge a reach. Anyways, everything is an experience"

"Hopefully you won't face those ungrateful brats again"

"I think Christmas as a whole belongs to the ungrateful perhaps. Goodness often begins, from undeserved love"

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 211d

Ooh that's excellent, and a take on it I didn't expect