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koithelittle · 5 months

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christmas movies & cuddles

note; my first fic here, yay!! terrified would be an understatement. idk how long it’s taken me to write this but it’s been a while, i was really struggling with being okay and confident with it so if it suck’s, i’m sorry. requests are open tho! for all things, and my inbox just in general so have at it! okay that’s all.

warnings; use of daddy/dada, cutesy pet names, brief mention of alcohol (wils past wif cwistmas), ummmss,,, mark boardman is there! great sitter- okay that’s all i think! not proofread for mistakes so beware!

pairing; cg!wilbur soot x gn!little!reader

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wilbur always found enjoyment in making you happy, in doing things that would bring a smile to your face or make you laugh and giggle. he loved to be your sun, when all you were surrounded by was darkness.

he's never been fond of holidays if he's honest. he didn't like dressing up for Halloween, and as a guy in his mid-late 20s, he didn't particularly care for the party side of halloween either. when it came to Christmas, it only seemed to remind him how lonely he was. or had been. before he met you, christmas was spent inside, alone with alcohol to numb the loneliness.

but now, with you, he has every reason to celebrate it. christmas decor goes up november 1st, Christmas cookies get made the day after and he already has a list of gifts he plans on getting for you and all of your shared friends. he has plans of activities, and small outings to go on. you go ice skating together, where he holds you to his side and keeps you from falling. he takes you out to get a christmas tree together, bringing it home and setting it up in the corner of the den.

he'll stand on his toes to hang up the garlands, spending hours outside hanging up christmas lights on the porch (you tell him it's not worth the cold he'll endure, but he insists on doing it without you peeking all so it's a surprise). he loves doing things for you, and holding you and keeping you warm during the cold nights. he'll make you tea or cocoa and hold you between his legs as you both watch a christmas movie.

you show him all your favorites, although, elf is his all time favorite. he finds it bizarre and funny at the same time. how silly it is, and campy it feels. he'll rub your stomach and kiss your cheek, holding you close to his chest.

if he's honest, part of why he does all of these things is to help you, to heal you and to make christmas fun for big you and little you (because let's be honest, he does everything he can to bring a smile to your face both big and little).

lately, though, he's wanted to focus more on at home, quiet christmasy adventures. things that you would feel comfortable doing when you're regressed, which meant quiet and cuddly activities that meant being cooped up inside.

he'd seen the whole boo basket trend, and thought it was a neat idea but wanted to have his own twist on it (prior to deciding, he also saw the burr basket posts but those fizzled out before he really got a good idea of what he had planned). he sat down at his desk to list a few stores he'd stop by and what items he planned to get from each one.

the local bookstore was sure to have a santa book, and maybe even a few jellycats (you eyed them all the time, and he almost always sneakily bought the mini ones to hide around the house). after the bookshop, he'd head to another shop, one that he's sure would have a basket and maybe a blanket, some candy and instant cocoa, amongst other things.

once his list was completed, he hurried down the stairs to where you were cooped up in the corner of the couch, wrapped up in one of his blankets with your stuffed bunny held against your chest. you'd been regressed for a few hours now, and needed quiet time so he set you up in the living room awhile ago, your favorite cartoon playing on the TV.

he sat beside you, pulling you into his side as he kisses your cheek and temple. he rubs your arm as he smiles down at you, "hello, baby, you ok?" he whispers as you whine and crawl into his arms, sitting in his lap.

he chuckles softly, nuzzling his nose against your hair as your hands grip onto his shirt. he pulls back to get a look at your face, hand on the side of your head as he pushes hair out of your face.

"love," his voice is a bit more firm, "are you okay?" you shrug as a response, soft frown held on your lips as he sighs and pulls you closer. he presses kisses to the top of your head, running his fingers through your hair as his other hand rubs your back.

he holds you for a while, the TV playing as background noise more or less as he coos and whispers a soft lullaby to soothe you a bit. when your grip on his shirt loosens, and your breathing steadies out, he pulls back to look you in the eye again.

"I've gotta go out for a bit, do you want to go stay with grace or wilma?" he whispers softly, hands on your lower back as he gets you to sit up a bit more.

you shrug, eyes stuck on the wall behind him as you zone out. he rubs your back, bringing your attention to him again, "okay," you mumble, dropping your head to your shoulder.

he kisses the shell of your ear, recognizing that you're most likely nonverbal or at least close to it. he nuzzles his nose against your cheek in a light manner, tickling you. you giggle softly, tensing up before relaxing in his hold when he kisses your temple.

"what if... I called over wilma to keep an eye on you, mm? orrrr maybe joe? ash? mark?" he smirks, pressing a few kisses to your cheek.

"ummm.. mark!" you giggle softly, smiling wide and happy at the thought of getting to see Mark again. you have a few drawings for him, as well!

"mark? okay, well can you give Daddy a few minutes while I call him, yeah?"

you nod softly, scooting out of his lap and settling in front of the TV as you start to play with your stuffies. wilbur sits up, walking over to the foyer as he calls mark, listening as it rings.

mark picks up, "hey, mate! what's up?" his voice is bright and chirpy, always happy.

"hey, I've got a favor to ask," wilbur starts, and you perk up. you sit up, leaning over the back edge of the couch, looking over at him and smiling.

Wilbur smiles over at you, chuckling before he continues, "I need to head into town for a bit and I was wondering if you'd come over and look after y/n for a bit? they're little right now and I just don't want to leave them alone but I can't take them either," Wilbur sighs, pacing a slight bit as he awaits and answer from mark.

you don't bother to listen to the rest, slinking to the corner of the couch and curling up happily. he walks over a moment later, sitting beside you and rubbing your side and arm.

"hey lovebug," wilbur coos, you lift your head and smile sleepily at him. he pulls you up into his lap, holding you close.

"hi, dada," you whisper, head rested on his shoulder as he rubs your back softly, free hand playing with your hair.

"mark will be here soon, yeah?" he smiles sweetly, rubbing your upper arms as he pulls back to look at you.

he holds you close to him, humming a soft tune as you let the time pass quietly. mark soon rings the doorbell and wilbur greets him before giving him a way too detailed run down, as if he'd never been your sitter before. then, wilbur finally leaves.

he hurries out to the car, heading into town. he had the list pulled up on his phone, ready to have things marked off. he started with the book shop, sifting through the various christmas children books and collecting a few in his arms, checking out and walking next door to the children's shops.

he spends the rest of the next two hours, shopping and gathering things of all kinds. your favorite candies, a blanket, a stuffie or two, books, crayons, etc etc. anything that could make you feel better. and so, after he puts everything in the trunk, he gathers it all up into the basket, making it look all pretty before he tucks it into the passengers seat, making his way home.

while wilbur is driving home, you and Mark are set up on the kitchen floor. he made a little sensory box for you, one that he brought from home. youre playing with the toys, making the dinos fly as mark watches you and cheers you on, making you giggle with every question he has.

"what's this dinos name, little one?" mark coos, holding a blue dino up to you.

you giggle softly, taking the dino and placing it on the top of his head, making it jump around before taking it back and putting it in the box, “bluey,” you hum.

“oh, bluey? that’s a nice name, hm?” you nod at mark’s question, quietly playing in the box that holds sand and rice and an assortment of dino toys.

“when’s daddy gettin home?” you mumble quietly, eyes cast down on the dinos you’re playing with.

mark hums, thinking for a moment before he answers, “soon, hun, promise.”

soon didnt come soon enough for you, waiting not so patiently for wilbur to come home. once you hear the door click open, you jump up and hurry to the door, slinging yourself into his chest. you hug him close, babbling incoherently to him as he hugs you back.

"hey, baby, you okay? you miss me?" he croons, pulling you closer against his chest, his arms wrapped around you. you nod, giggling happily.

"missed you, dada!" you squeal as he moves to pick you up, holding you on his hip as mark cleans up in the kitchen.

"I missed you too baby! how about you settle down here, mkay?" he sets you down on the couch, tucking a blanket over you as he moves into the kitchen.

"were they okay?" wilbur kneels down to help clean up the dino toys and what other things get taken out of the box.

mark smiles and nods, "of course! they missed you though, alot."

wilbur hums, smiling to himself at the thought as he and mark bid goodbyes, mark soon leaving through the front door. you peak up over the back of the couch, arms folded and chin resting atop of them.

he chuckles, walking over to you and kissing your forehead, brushing hair out of your face gently, "hi love, I'm gonna go get something, okay? be a good little love while I'm gone. I'll be right back," he places a lingering kiss to your forehead before he turns to leave out the door. you stay there, watching the door like a puppy. he steps back in a few minutes later, a basket covered with his jacket now clad in his arms.

"close your eyes, bunbun," he smiles widely, and you do as told, giggling softly as you shut your eyes. you feel him sitting down next to you and something wicker being placed in your lap.

"open, love," he smiles as you, watching as you excitedly giggle and look up at him.

“all for me?” you whisper in disbelief, eyes wide with joy as you hold the sides of the basket, waiting for the go ahead.

“mhm, just for you, baby. go on, open it. it’s for our evening,” he smiles a bit softer, hand reaching behind your head to rub your hair as he watches you excitedly unwrap it all. your eyes widening with each thing, giggling and squealing happily with each little gift. once it’s all open, you crawl into his lap and wrap your arms around his neck, settling in for a hug.

“thank you, daddy!” you giggle softly, nuzzling your face into his neck as wilbur hugs you close.

“did you like it?” he hums, kissing your temple and cheek as he guides you back so he can look down at your face.

you nod eagerly, “all of it! every bit!” you reach over for the little bunny stuffie he grabbed for you and you show it to him, “it looks like you dada!”

he chuckles, rubbing your cheek and nodding, “oh it does, doesn’t it?” he takes it into his hand, waving it a bit at you as you giggle.

“yeah! ‘s you, dada!”

“well that’s a high compliment, mm?” you nod softly at his words as he hands the bunny back to you, pulling you into his lap as he rubs his thumbs over your soft cheeks, “how does a christmas movie with popcorn and candy and cuddles sound, mm?” his lips curl up in a coy smile, eyes bright with love for you.

you nod in agreement, resting your head on his shoulder as your hands rest on his sides, “mmhm, please?”

he nods, mumbling a quick okay as he kisses your cheek and sets you aside on the couch, “i’m gonna go get stuff from the kitchen, ok? you stay here and rest,” you nod, rubbing your eyes sleepily as you curl up on your side.

he hurries into the kitchen, starting some popcorn as he fills your favorite sippy with some juice, setting that aside as he pours the popcorn in a bowl. he sits beside you, popcorn on the coffee table as he hands you your sippy cup. you hold it, leaning against his side as he sets up a movie, cuddling close with you as you both quietly watch the movie together.

the rest of the evening is spent cuddled up with a christmas movie and candy, no need to talk or chat, and that’s the best part.

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rosesnvines · 2 years

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American anti-Catholic sentiment is so interesting to me. One border between us and things are so different. Catholics are our largest Christian church. Even our 2nd largest church (Anglican) and 3rd largest church being Protestant don't give us the same anti-Catholic sentiment. My ignorant guess is certain large denominations of USA Protestants are the cause, and because their numbers are smaller here it's not so widespread? I was at a Baptist service once 10 years ago and it was the first/last time I heard someone say "Catholics are pagan, etc." in person. Would love to learn more.

It is certain USA Protestant sects, and not all of them, I can guarantee, as I am friends with several Protestants. By technicality, it kinda started with Henry VIII when he created Anglicanism, and further perpetuated by his daughter Elizabeth, hence the Catholic/Protestant divide in Ireland. Many of the Protestants and Anglicans got into the high positions of Academia, and they looked upon anything that the Irish did as pagan, so to speak. They were considered "backwards" and "superstitious". The Puritans were also hated, hence why they immigrated to America, to create their own society. Protestants followed, of course. The Catholics followed later, settling in what is now Maryland. But with the English Protestant also came the anti-Catholic sentiments. And thus it spread in America. France (until the French Revolution) and Spain, England's two biggest competitors in the "colonial race", were the two big Catholic countries, followed by Ireland. So many of the places they colonized were far more friendly to Catholics as a result.

Also, one has to look no further than Halloween. Halloween does occur the night before Samhain, but it does not take any of the traditions from Samhain. Samhain was the Celtic New Year's Day/Thanksgiving, but not a harvest festival. Samhain was the first day of winter, not of autumn. That is Lughnasa, in August, that is the autumn holiday, while Imbolc in February is for spring and Beltane in May is the summer festival. All the traditions that we associate with Halloween are primarily Catholic. The dressing up is from the French and the tradition of dressing up as saints to commemorate All Saints Day. The trick-or-treating is from an English tradition called souling where the homeless went around during November 2nd, All Souls Day, and exchanging prayers for the dead for a soul cake. Carving pumpkins does come from Ireland, where they carve turnips, but the idea that we need to make ghoulish figures to ward off the devil is also the same thinking that got Notre Dame those gargoyles. The spooky scary skeletons? Momento Mori, the remains of saints, and a church in Portugal made of bones. Zombies? Taking God out of the resurrection of the dead. Chanting done by witches? People muttering their prayers under their breath, probably in Latin and most likely the Rosary. Witches? Well, besides the obvious, malicious rumor, typically single Catholic women, probably tertiary, not a nun but not able to marry, as being single was an option for men and women in the Catholic Church. The Headless Horseman? Tales of people still alive after their head was chopped off, usually to ask for a priest. The best known saint to have that was Saint Cecilia, patroness of music. The Gothic style and music? Catholic churches and organ music. Ghost stories? Those were actually used to be told around Christmas time, hence why A Christmas Carol is the way it is. Oh, and campfires too. It's only in recent years that horror stories have become a Halloween staple. In short, this culture has turned everything Catholic into something to fear. Or, well, very nearly. The whole notion that Catholicism stole from pagan traditions is a trend that started in the Victorian era by, you guessed it, a Protestant.

But America is not the only one with such an anti-Catholic history. Look into the Cristero War. The State and Catholics were battling it out a little over a hundred years ago in Mexico. Meanwhile, China has currently banned the Catholic Church, or Christianity of any kind, while also suppressing any kind of religion. It's all happened before, and it will all happen again.

I hope that cleared up a few things for you. The history of the Catholic Church is a long and complicated series of events, full of good people, bad people, and people forgotten in the sands of time. There have been wars and peace, saints and sinners, true belief and masked intentions. And I feel like I've only scrapped off the tip of the iceberg. While the anti-Catholic rhetoric isn't as in your face as openly trucking us off to concentration camps, it is still present. Pay attention to the few Catholic movies out there, to the movies that have a few Catholics in them. Or, more than likely, what the media and Hollywood are saying when we try to stand up for our beliefs. There's one more thing, one thing they want to leave out of our history books. Italians and Irish were treated no better than the blacks, maybe even worse. How do I know? It practically slapped me in the face when I read the original text of The Hidden Staircase from the Nancy Drew books. The version that was originally printed in the 1930s, not the revised version in the 1950s, which did take out a lot of the prejudices. Also, my grandfather, who was Italian, couldn't find work except working alongside blacks in the field. There were signs that stated Italians and Irish were not allowed, right next to the blacks not allowed. Everyone seems to be lead to believe that things were only bad for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and the Native tribes, but there is a reason why the Native tribes stand in solidarity with Ireland. when your government is trying to slowly eradicate you and your culture, you will stand with others who are being treated the same. By technicality, the Irish and the Italians only gained "white status" in the past fifty years. And only in America.

So, yeah, there's a whole history of it, and hence the acronym, WASP, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Usually the root of most of our problems, but not every one, like any other group, is bad. But there still is a bit of a prejudice in them, but when you compare it to the prejudices of a hundred years ago, you do get to see just how far we have come. But we still have a ways to go as the anti-Catholic rhetoric seems to be growing another head.

#but really #there is so much #and there is a lot of digging to do #but unfortunately it seems Google doesn't have all the info #and I don't have all the books that I found this info in #so yeah

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rigmarolling · 4 years

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Historical Holiday Traditions We Really Need To Bring Back

Here comes Santa Claus, and also a bunch of annual holiday Things we do to ensure he commits a truly boggling act of breaking and entering and leaves goods underneath the large plant in the living room.

Because I’ve always got a hankerin’ for the days of yore, here are some historical holiday traditions we really need to bring back:

1. Everything that happened on Saturnalia

Saturnalia was the ancient Roman winter festival held on December 25th--which is why we celebrate Christmas on that day and not on the day historians speculate Jesus was actually born, which was probably in the spring.

Saturnalia was bonkers. As the name suggests, it celebrated the god Saturn, who represented wealth and liberty and generally having a great time.

Above: Their party is way cooler than yours could ever hope to be.

During Saturnalia, masters would serve their slaves, because it was the one day during the year when everybody agreed that freedom for all is great, actually, let’s just do that. Everyone wore a coned hat called the pilleus to denote that they were all bros and equal, and also to disguise the fact that they hadn’t brushed their hair after partying hard all week, probably.

Gambling was allowed on Saturnalia, so all of Rome basically turned into ancient Vegas, complete with Caesar’s Palace, except with the actual Caesar and his palace because he was, you know. Alive.

The most famous part (besides getting drunk off your rocker) was gift-giving--usually gag gifts. Historians have records of people giving each other some truly impressive white elephant gifts for Saturnalia, including: a parrot, balls, toothpicks, a pig, one single sausage, spoons, and deliberately awful books of poetry.

Above: Me, except all the time.

Partygoers also crowned a King of Saturnalia, which was a predecessor to the King of Fools popular in medieval festivals. The king was basically the head idiot who delivered absurd commands to everyone there, like, “Sing naked!” or “run around screaming for an hour,” or “slap your butt cheeks real hard in front of your crush; DO IT, Brutus.”

Oh, wait. Everyone was already doing all that. Hell yes.

(Quick clarification: early celebrations of Saturnalia did feature human sacrifice, so let’s just leave that bit out and instead wear the pointy hats and sing naked, okay? Io Saturnalia, everybody.)

2. Leaving out treats for Sleipnir in the hopes of avoiding Odin’s complete disregard for your property

The whole “leave out cookies and milk for Santa” thing comes from a much older tradition of trying to appease old guys with white beards. In Norse mythology, Odin, who was sort of the head god but preferred to be on a perpetual road trip instead, took an annual nighttime ride through the winter sky called the Wild Hunt.

Above: The holidays, now with 300% more heavy metal.

Variations of the Wild Hunt story exist in a bunch of European folklore--in Odin’s case, he usually brought along a bunch of supernatural buddies, like spirits and other gods and Valkyries and ghost dogs, who, the Vikings said, you could hear howling and barking as the group approached (GOOD DOGGOS).

That was the thing, though; you never actually saw Odin’s hunt--you only heard it. And hearing it did not spark the same sense of childish glee you felt when you thought you heard Santa’s sleigh bells approaching as a kid--instead, the Vikings said, you should be afraid. Be VERY afraid.

Because Odin could be kind of a dick.

Odin was also known as the Allfather, and like any father, he hated asking for directions. GPS who? I’m the Allfather, I’m riding the same way I always ride.

And that was pretty much it: “I took this road last year and I’m taking it again this year.”

“But,” someone would pipe up from the back, “there are houses on the road now--we’re gonna run right into them. We could just take a different path; there’s actually a detour off the--”

“Nope,” Odin would say. “They know the rules. My road, my hunt, my rules. We’re going this way.”

So if you were unlucky enough to have built your house along one of Odin’s favorite road trip sky-ways, he wouldn’t just plow right past you.

He would burn your entire house down--and your family along with it.

Kids playing in the yard? Torch ‘em; they should have known better. Grandma knitting while she waits for her gingerbread Einherjar to finish baking? Sucks to be her; my road, my rules, my beard, I’m the Allfather, bitch.

Above: Santa, but so much worse.

To be fair to Odin, he could be a cool guy sometimes. He just turned into any dad when he was on a road trip and wanted to MAKE GOOD TIME, DAMN IT, I AM NOT STOPPING; YOU SHOULD HAVE PEED BEFORE WE LEFT.

To ensure they didn’t incur Odin’s road trip wrath, the Vikings had a few ways of smoothing things over with Dad.

They would leave Odin offerings on the road, like pieces of steel (??? okay ???) or bread for his dogs, or food for his giant, eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, because the only true way to a man’s heart is through his pet.

People would generally leave veggies and oats and other horse-y things out for Sleipnir, whose eight legs made him the fastest flying horse in the world and also made him the only horse to ever win Asgard’s coveted tap dancing championship.

(Side note: EIGHT legs...EIGHT tiny reindeer...eh? Eh? See how we got here? Thanks, nightmare horse!)

Above: An excellent prancer AND dancer.

And if Odin was feeling particularly charitable and not in the mood for horrific acts of arson, children would also leave their shoes out for him--it was said that he’d put gifts in your boots to ring in a happy new year.

If all that didn’t work and the Vikings heard the hunt approaching, they would resort to throwing themselves on the ground and covering their heads while the massive party sped above them like a giant Halloween rager.

So this holiday season, leave your boots out for Odin and some carrots out for his giant spider horse or you and your entire family will die in a fiery inferno, the end.

3. Yule Logs

Speaking of Scandinavia, another Northern European winter solstice tradition was the yule log. Today, if you google “yule log,” something like this will pop up:

...which isn’t an actual log, but is instead log-shaped food that you shove into your mouth along with 500 other cakes at the same time because it’s CHRISTMAS, and I’m having ME TIME; so WHAT if I ate the whole jar of Nutella by myself, alone, in the dark at 3 am?

But that log cake is actually inspired by actual logs of yore that Celtic, Germanic, and Scandinavian peoples decorated with fragrant plants like holly, ivy, pinecones, and other Stuff That Smells Nice before tossing the log into the fire.

This served a few purposes:

It smelled nice, and Bath and Body Works scented candles hadn’t been invented yet.

It had religious and/or spiritual significance as a way to mark the winter solstice.

It was a symbolic way of ringing in the new year and kicking out the old.

Common belief held that the ashes of a yule log could ward off lightning strikes and bad energy.

Winter cold. Fire warm.

Everybody loves to watch things burn. (See: Odin.)

The yule log cakes we eat today got their start in 19th century Paris, when bakers thought it was a cute idea to resurrect an ancient pagan tradition in the form of a delicious dessert, and boy, howdy, were they right.

In any case, I’m 100% down with eating a chocolate yule log while burning an actual yule log in my backyard because everybody loves to watch things burn; winter cold, fire warm; and hnnnngggg pine tree smell hnnnnggg.

(Quick note: The word “yule” is the name of a traditional pagan winter festival, still celebrated culturally or religiously in modern pagan practice. It’s also another name for Odin. He had a bunch of other names, one of the most well-known being jólfaðr, which is Old Norse for “Yule father.” If you would like to royally piss him off, or if you are Loki, feel free to call him “Yule Daddy.”)

4. Upside down Christmas trees

I just found out that apparently, upside down Christmas trees are a hot new trend with HGTV types this year, so I guess this is one historical trend we did bring back, meaning it doesn’t really belong on this list, but I’m gonna talk about it, anyway.

Side note: Oh, my god, that BANNISTER. I NEED.

Historians aren’t actually sure where the inverted Christmas tree thing came from, but we know people were bringing home trees and then hanging them upside down in the living room as early as the 7th century. We have a couple theories as to why people turned trees on their heads:

Logistically, it’s way easier to hang a giant pine tree from your rafters upside down by its trunk and roots. You just hoist that baby up there, wind some rope around the rafter and the trunk, and boom. Start decorating.

A Christian tradition says that one day in the 7th century, a Benedictine monk named Saint Boniface stumbled across a group of pagans worshipping an oak tree. So, instead of minding his own damn business, he cut the tree down and replaced it with a fir tree. While the pagans were like, “Dude, what the hell?” Boniface used the triangular shape of the fir tree to explain the concept of the holy trinity to the pagans. Some versions have him planting it right-side up, others having him displaying a fir tree upside down. Either way, it’s still a triangle that’s a solid but ultimately very rude way of explaining God. Word’s still out on whether anyone was converted or just rightly pissed off that this random guy strolled into their place of worship, chopped down their sacred tree, and plopped HIS tree down instead. Please do not do that this holiday season.

Eastern Europeans lay claim to the upside-down tree phenomenon with a tradition called podłazniczek in Poland--people hung the tree from the ceiling and decorated it with fruits and nuts and seeds and ribbons and other festive doodads.

(God, who lives in these houses? Look at that. That’s like a swanky version of Gaston’s hunting lodge. Where do I get one? Which enchanted castle do I have to stumble into to chill out in a Christmas living room like that?)

Today, at least in the West, upside-down trees are making a comeback because...I don’t know. Chip and Joanna Gaines said so.

Some folks say it’s a surefire way to keep your cats from clawing their way through the tree and then puking up fir needles for weeks afterward, which checks out for me.

5. Incredibly weird Victorian Christmas cards

So back in the 19th century, the Christmas card industry was really getting fired up. Victorians loved their mail, let me tell you. They loved sending it. They loved getting it. They loved writing it. They loved opening it. They loved those sexy wax seals you use to keep all that sweet, sweet mail inside that sizzling envelope. (Those things are incredibly sexy. Have you ever made a wax seal? Oh, man, it’s hot.)

The problem, though, was that while the Victorians arguably helped standardize many of the holiday traditions we know and love today (Christmas trees, caroling, Dickens everything, spending too much money, etc.) back in 1800-whenever, a lot of that Christmas symbolism was, um...still under construction. No one had really agreed on which visual holiday cues worked and which...didn’t.

Meaning everyone just kind of made up their own holiday symbols. Which resulted in monstrous aberrations like this card:

What the hell is that? A beet? Is that a beet? Or a turnip? Why is it...oh, God, why does it have a man’s head? Why does the man beet have insect claws?

What is it that he’s holding? A cookie? Cardboard? A terra cotta planter?

And then there’s this one:

“A Merry Christmas to you,” it says, while depicting a brutal frog murder/mugging.

What are you trying to tell me? Are you threatening me with this card? Is that it? Is this a threat? How the hell am I supposed to interpret this? “Merry Christmas, hide your money or you’re dead, you stupid bitch.”

Also, why is the dead frog naked? Did the other frog steal his clothes after the murder? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?

Victorian holiday cards also doubled as early absurdist Internet memes, apparently, because how else do I explain this?

Is this some sort of tiny animal Santa? A mouse riding a lobster? Like, the mouse, I get. Mice are fine. Disney built an empire on a mouse. And look, he’s got a little list of things he’s presumably going to bring you: Peace, joy, health, happiness. (In French. Oh, wait, is that that Patton Oswalt rat?)

But a LOBSTER? What’s with the lobster? It’s basically a sea scorpion. Why in the name of all that is good and holy would you saddle up a LOBSTER? I hate it. I hate it so, so much. Just scurrying around the floor with more legs than are strictly necessary, smelling like the seafood section of Smith’s, snapping its giant claws.

This whole card is a health inspector’s worst nightmare. It really is.

I gotta say, though, I am a fan of this one:

Presumably, that polar bear is going in for a hug because nothing stamps out a polar bear’s innate desire to rip your face from your skull than candy canes and Coke and Christmas spirit.

This next one is actually fantastic, but for all the wrong reasons:

I know everyone overuses “same” these days but geez, LOOK at that kid. I can HEAR it. SAME.

If you’ve ever been in a shopping mall stuffed with kids, nothing sums it up better than this card. This is like the perverse version of those Anne Geddes portraits that were everywhere in the late 90s. “Make wee Jacob sit in the tea pot; everyone will--Jacob, STOP, look at Mommy; I said LOOK. AT. MOMMY--everyone will love it.”

Actually, you know what? Every other Christmas card is cancelled. This is the only card we will be using from now on. This is it.

Wait, no. We can also use this one:

Merry Christmas. Here’s a fuckin’...just a dead fuckin’ bird.

#victorian #listory #christmas #holidays #mythtory #norse mythology #odin

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with Christmas season approaching, what kind of 'Hallmark movie premise' would you see for Haruhi x the hosts??? bc everytime I see 'city lawyer woman and small town woodsman who teaches her about the magic of Christmas' I think Mori x Haruhi and like. Disney level animal sidekicks of Mori's raccoon and chick lol. Hope your halloween went well btw and ty for the video series!!! You have the prettiest brown eyes btw ^^

This is the cutest idea and I want a fan-fiction series of these hallmark stories 😭 Also thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed the videos! I was very disheartened because they flopped on TikTok but I still had fun making them ☺️.

Haruhi x Takashi:

I can definitely see their story being a "city lawyer woman meets rugged yet shy woodsman". I can even see Takashi being a school teacher in this scenario. Maybe he still lives in the woods because he enjoys his privacy but from 7-3 he teaches history at the high school.

Now, I want to say their situation would be the classic "there are no hotel rooms available in this small town" and Haruhi so happens to meet Takashi at the only has station. He overhears her asking where she can stay the night and he knows she won't find a place at this time of night so he walks over and offers the small guest cabin on his property. He explains that's where his cousin stays when he comes to visit but she can stay there as long as she needs to.

Also, when Haruhi goes to the high school to talk to Takashi about the case she's working on his students ooh and awe at the hottie standing in the hallway and when he walks back inside they're all snickering that he has a secret girlfriend. He doesn't correct them, just tells them to turn to page 30 in their textbooks.

She offers to make them dinner as her way of thanking him for his generosity. They eat together almost every night. At first they talk about the case - or what Haruhi can disclose - and the town's history, but after a while they start talking about their lives, their families, their goals and dreams. Soon their light chatter isn't just friendly conversation anymore.

Takashi looks forward to seeing her after work and Haruhi finds a strange peace in living in the quiet wood. Then one night they're sitting outside under the stars with a cup of coffee and Takashi gathers the courage to ask if she has to leave when the case is done... or if she could stay with him.

Haruhi x Kyoya:

Hear me out; small town girl living in the big city to pursue her dream of becoming a lawyer meets cocky businessman who is visiting to scope out a coffee shop. He wants to buy it so he can turn it into an office for the Ootori Group so they'll have grounds in the city. It also so happens to be Haruhi's favorite coffee shop.

They meet by accident one morning but it's not the classic meet-cute scenario. Haruhi sits down with her cup by the window and Kyoya approaches her with a tablet in one hand and a tea in the other. He asks to sit with her since the place is packed and the only seat available is right in front of her. She says yes and for a while they sit in silence until Haruhi asks what he's working on. He states it's rude to pry on other's business. Haruhi says she can see him designing a building blueprint on his tablet and it looked cool. Kyoya adjusts his glasses and asks if the people here are always this nosey. Haruhi gets insulted. Kyoya doesn't care since the coffee shop will hopefully be gone by the end of the month and leaves.

They continue meeting each other nearly every day at the coffee shop. Their backhanded insults slowly turn into sarcastic flirting. Soon Kyoya and Haruhi are caught in the rain and he offers her a ride to her apartment. In the car he opens up about his life, confessing that his father is the one who is making him do this. If he can establish the Ootori Group in this city it'll help prove himself. Haruhi considers this and asks if that's really what he wants, if he really wants to take over the family business or if that's just another thing his father is making him do. Kyoya stays awake that night, unable to sleep because of that question.

The next day he texts his father and informs him the coffee shop isn't a good location for their office. His father is disappointed and makes a sly comment of asking one of his brothers to finish the task Kyoya couldn't do on his own.

That was what made Kyoya realize - he didn't want to work beneath this tyrant forever. He didn't want a life ruled by his father.

Kyoya returns to the coffee shop and sees Haruhi sitting in their usual spot. With a smile and a newfound goal, he approaches her with a tablet in one hand and a tea in the other.

Haruhi x Tamaki:

Why did I first think of Elf 🤣. In all seriousness, I think Tamaki would be the one hoping to fill Haruhi with Christmas cheer. I can see Haruhi working at a law firm but not as a lawyer, maybe as the receptionist, and she's all business. She has goals and she's intent on climbing the ladder to her own office. Tamaki is a new intern at the firm, hired during the Holidays since the Christmas season is usually the busiest time of year for the firm. Tamaki instantly takes a liking to Haruhi and stops by her desk every morning for a hello and a smile.

Soon he's bringing her a cup of coffee. Peppermint, mocha, salty caramel, whatever sweet seasonal flavors the area has to offer. He just wants to see her smile. One day she does.

Tamaki asks her out on a date which she declines but after five more attempts she says yes and meets him at a casual restaurant a few blocks from the firm.

Haruhi opens up and confesses Christmas is a hard time for her since losing her mother. Tamaki becomes solemn and says he can relate with her, that he too misses his mother during the holidays. Haruhi avoids the holidays while Tamaki embraces them - for the same reason.

With this new bondship they unknowingly become closer.

Tamaki still tries to get Haruhi into the Christmas mood but giving her small treats every morning and she complains he's going to make her fat but he only laughs it off.

Then the firm closes for the Christmas weekend and Haruhi is sitting in her apartment alone. No Christmas tree, no Christmas lights, not even a Santa mug... But she sees the pumpkin spiced muffin on her kitchen counter from that morning and decides...

She calls Tamaki and asks to spend Christmas with him.

Haruhi x Hikaru:

Ok hear me out; Haruhi is a lawyer with her own office on the top floor and Hikaru is the computer tech who is charged with teaching her how to use the new technology the firm just adopted. He has to teach her how to use the new tablets, presentation screens, and mobile devices. Haruhi wishes they would have left things as they are but she has no choice. Time to adapt.

With all the time they spend together they begin talking - then they talk over coffee - then they talk over dinner. At first Haruhi tells herself she's just making a new friend, that her busy work schedule doesn't allow for romance, that they can't be more than friends. She's been putting off relationships for so long so she could focus on her work. Surely Hikaru would understand.

He doesn't. Within a month's time his work there is done. He's installed all the new technology into her office, taught her how to use it, and left the manuals on her desk - along with a note explaining his feelings.

Haruhi realizes she loves him just as he's walking out of building and for the first time since working at the firm Haruhi is seen running down the stairs.

Haruhi x Kaoru:

Obviously Kaoru has to be a fashion designer. I'd say Haruhi is a small town girl going to a community college when Kaoru stumbles into town. She's going to get her associates there before moving onto a big-name college in the city for the rest of her law degree. Kaoru is just supposed to be passing through on his way to a convention.

He gets caught in a blizzard and ends up at Haruhi's front door. Thankfully she's able to live on her own in a one bedroom apartment so Kaoru takes the couch for the night. It all happens so fast they don't even have an introduction until morning.

Over coffee Kaoru introduces himself as a rising fashion designer and how he's supposed to be at a convention by the next day for fresh and upcoming trends. Haruhi sadly tells him it'll take a week for the plowers to reach her street. He's stuck there.

Kaoru, bored out of his mind, goes through Haruhi's closet and tosses her bland clothing on the bed. He promises to renovate her wardrobe when he gets the chance to which Haruhi refuses. She doesn't need to look like a rich snob. Kaoru reminds her law school will demand a sense of fashion, even if it's just business suits. Name brands have a voice in the world in the law.

During their time together Haruhi and Kaoru realize they get along very well. During the week stuck inside they sit by the floor heater with their instant hot chocolates and joke that it beats a roaring fire.

Soon the blizzard stops and the roads are plowed within 9 days time. Kaoru already missed the convention and he's very disappointed but he's still hesitant to leave. He asks Haruhi when she'll obtain her associates degree. She says by spring. Kaoru smiles and tells her to live with him when she goes to college in the city. He had a spacious three bedroom apartment on the skirt of the city - with a walk in closet.

Haruhi x Mitsukuni:

Forgive me but I can't think of a scenario where Mitsukuni isn't an elf in disguise 🤣. It's the perfect job for him; he'd be surrounded by sweets and toys all day. Maybe he has to act as Haruhi's Christmas guardian. He has to help her fall in love with Christmas again.

They don't fall in love... I can just see them becoming good friends. Maybe Mitsukuni gives her a snow globe of the North Pole and says that's where he'll be if she ever needs him again.

#ouran high school host club #haruhi fujioka #takashi morinozuka #kyoya ootori #ohshc #mitsukuni haninozuka #tamaki suoh #hikaru hitachiin #kaoru hitachiin #hallmark #Christmas

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Amazon title enlightenment: Amazon sellers turn to stand-alone action guide

In the previous issues of Amazon's title enlightenment, the importance of private domain traffic in cross-border e-commerce business has been popularized, the role and value of "brands" for cross-border e-commerce, and why independent sites are cross-border growth The second curve. All kinds of data and trends show that the layout of independent stations is now an excellent time.

Since the reason is good, it is better to act directly! In this issue, I will talk to you about a practical topic. What exactly do Amazon sellers need to do when they switch to independent stations?

Amazon transfers to an independent station, first from the concept

From Amazon to independent stations, sellers may not be as big as they imagined. Many Amazon sellers have accumulated mature supply chain resources, have their own on-site operation team, and have in-depth understanding of the commercial situation of a certain vertical product target market. These are extremely valuable experiences and will also play an important role in the process of building independent stations.

However, there are also differences in the operation of platforms and independent stations. If you take platform thinking for granted, it is naturally difficult to succeed.

The world view determines the methodology. Let's first talk about how the concept should change if we want to cultivate the fertile soil of Independence Station.

Part → Global. The strong autonomy of independent stations means that each link needs to be grasped by itself. Shop decoration style, shopping process settings, product details page content, payment channels, logistics method selection... independent station sellers are required to start from the overall situation to plan the path for consumers to enter the independent station, as well as the complete shopping process carried out in the station. Overall planning, while optimizing the consumer experience, control costs and obtain higher returns.

Product → brand. According to marketing scientist David Ike, a brand can become an asset of a company. Out of trust in the brand, consumers will be less sensitive to prices, reduce the time for purchasing decisions, and become more sticky to the brand. The characteristic of independent stations is to encourage merchants to build their own brands, use brand power to break through the endless price wars between cross-border e-commerce, and build their own strong competitiveness.

Short-term detonation → long-term development. Compared with the platform, independent station is a longer-term business. The long-term can be understood from two aspects. First, compared to third-party platforms with built-in traffic, independent stations need to undergo a "cold start" process and continue to invest in a long-term perspective. Second, compared to the platform, the traffic introduced by independent stations can be accumulated for a long time. After converting consumers into their own private domain traffic, and further retention, conversion and value mining, it will show longer-term value and form Constantly updated flow closed loop. Amazon title enlightenment: Amazon sellers turn to stand-alone action guide

After the concept is established, what preparation do sellers who want to get involved in independent stations need to make? Let’s first look at the difference between Amazon and independent stations.

Taking a physical store as an analogy, Amazon is like a supermarket. Sellers are suppliers. They need to pay entry fees and shelf fees to sell their products on supermarket shelves. At the same time, they plan promotional activities under the guidance and restrictions of supermarkets, which are mainly attracted Consumers who have entered the supermarket. The independent station is more like a branded store, you need to choose your own location to open a store, decorate, and you can freely organize various marketing activities to attract all potential consumers.

Therefore, we can extract the two biggest differences between independent stations and third-party platforms-the need to build their own stations and divert traffic. And this is exactly what Amazon sellers need to pay attention to when transferring to independent sites.

Station building tools-the cornerstone of independent stations

1. Selection of site building tools

There are currently three main ways to build an independent station:

1) Form your own team to develop the website;

2) Use open source programs such as WordPress, Magento, and Opencart to build;

3) Use the SaaS system to build a website.

The first two methods have certain technical thresholds and require a dedicated team for development and later operation and maintenance, which is costly for ordinary sellers. In the event of a surge in traffic during peak seasons, self-maintained systems are prone to servers that cannot withstand the traffic, causing serious losses.

The SaaS site building tool has already completed the complex underlying construction work in advance, and does not require the seller to have a code foundation, which greatly reduces the threshold for independent site building. When sellers use it, they only need to simply set up modules such as commodities, store decoration, and marketing methods according to their own needs, which is more suitable for platform sellers to transform into independent stations.

Even if there is a need for further upgrades in the future, the SaaS tool can automatically access the code without affecting the autonomy of the seller. It is a way to build a website that is both customizable and templated.

2. The key steps of SaaS website construction

Next, we will show how convenient it is to build a website using SaaS from a few important steps in building a website.

Products on the shelves: Sellers who transfer from Amazon to independent sites will definitely worry about this problem. How to transfer huge product data is actually not complicated to complete.

One-click batch import via CSV form

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Use the plug-in "Skuowner" to grab products through plug-ins and URL links.

Amazon title enlightenment: Amazon sellers turn to stand-alone action guide

Shop decoration: The shop backstage is equipped with 30+ free theme templates, no additional art design and code writing are required, and you can directly enjoy best practices.

The editing page adopts the card decoration mode, and modules of different styles and functions can be added, dragged and deleted at will.

Amazon title enlightenment: Amazon sellers turn to stand-alone action guide

In addition, the corresponding holiday styles will also be launched during the shopping seasons for overseas consumers such as Halloween and Christmas. Merchants do not need to set up step by step, and can complete the change with one-click application.

Marketing promotion: The independent station backstage application market (Apps) is equipped with dozens of plug-ins, such as style combinations, bundled sales, coupons, pop-up windows, etc., to easily realize the various marketing needs of businesses, and a professional technical team is responsible for maintaining and developing more functions .

Amazon title enlightenment: Amazon sellers turn to stand-alone action guide

Drainage-the way of survival for independent stations

The independent station is "independent" precisely because it does not belong to any platform. Therefore, a pure independent station has almost no natural traffic. How to divert traffic has become an important homework for independent station sellers.

1. Traffic source

There are five common traffic sources for independent sites: Direct direct traffic, Search search traffic, Referral referral traffic, Social social traffic, and EDM email marketing. Compared with third-party platforms, there are more sources of traffic, and each channel has different forms of traffic flow.

2. Drainage method

Independent sites have a wide source of traffic, but they also pose challenges for cross-border sellers: how should they plan their limited energy and money to obtain the highest drainage benefits?

It should be noted that the drainage style has never been a template that can be fully borrowed from. All drainage work is planned according to the goals and requirements of different stages and the current cost that can be paid by itself. In terms of specific drainage methods, it can also be selected according to the types of goods sold and the needs of specific marketing activities.

Here are three methodologies from a macro perspective.

First, attach importance to materials.

Materials are an indispensable part of any drainage method. Common types of materials include products, models, usage scenarios, celebrities, evaluations, and so on.

The rise of short video content in the past two years has not only brought about a wave of current social media enthusiasm, but also demonstrated the "detonating power" of the content material itself. High-quality content marketing can trigger self-propagation by users of social platforms, and it is easier to achieve conversion. Some cross-border platform sellers used to have the concept of “emphasis on channels and light on content” in terms of attracting traffic. In fact, it takes two legs to walk. Channels and content cooperate with each other to move faster.

Second, adjust the strategy according to the timing.

The drainage strategy cannot be set in stone, nor should it be a blind attempt by the East and the West. Even if it is for the same platform, the drainage measures should be adjusted in time at different stages of development.

Take Facebook ads as an example. If users and material resources are abundant, you can directly place conversion ads; if there are few materials, you can focus on the homepage likes and attract attention in the early stage, accumulate the number of users first, and pave the way for subsequent conversions; and finally target the early pull Place remarketing ads for new and uncompleted conversions.

Third, analyze and review the market in a timely manner.

Almost all sellers will care about the results after the cost of drainage is invested. But in addition to the results, what is more important is to refine and analyze the nodes of each step of the transformation.

The backend of the independent station is connected to analysis tools such as Facebook Pixel, which can obtain data such as which pages have been viewed the most, how many people have placed orders in the shopping cart, and who have placed orders on the page but have not paid, etc., helping businesses to obtain more accurate audiences The group and the direction that consumers are interested in, so as to improve the construction and operation of independent stations, and optimize the consumer experience.

Conclusion: The vigorous platform "Title Tide" may only be a fuse. More importantly, such incidents are also leading sellers to think about whether changing platform rules will hinder their own development as the business develops and should they begin to form their own brand? The layout of independent stations is undoubtedly stepping into one The new track, but it does not mean that it is an unknown and thrilling jump for Amazon sellers. Rather than hesitating, it is better to seize development opportunities and open up the second curve of revenue growth!

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2020, According To My Tumblr Archive

January

Like many, freaked out about the Dhawan!Master reveal

Unus Annus reached 2 million subs

Ethan finally saw his sub count reach 1 million

Reblogged the elf pussy post with a version of the elf practice meme and now every time I see that meme, I think of that post

Finally made my Dyspraxic!Chase post

Fleshed out Creator!Jackie a little in terms of Nyesha (his girlfriend) and his prosthetics

February

Got really into Take Me or Leave Me for a short while which led to me watching RENT for the first time

Finally made that follow up to A Talk With The Creator I’d been meaning to write for months (aka A Day Long Overdue)

Started posting Unus Annus trigger warnings for a few weeks after the video where they demonstrate how they’d kill each other as a joke

Reached the 100 follower milestone after nearly 4 years on this site

Got very into WTNV again and binged like 60+ episodes in the space of 2 or so weeks

March

Watched Starkid’s Black Friday

Posted The Doctor on the anniversary of The Friend’s posting

Made some posts about the women of TLoJJ for International Women’s Day

Bupine received an anon ask teasing her about a typo which is common in our friendship group. Usual suspects were accused until the true culprit revealed themself via an acrostic (aka me being extra and I loved every second of it)

Went to the cat cafe in Nottingham

Made sure people were aware of World Puppetry Day by sending anon asks to people I thought might get a kick out of it

Posted Fighting Stolen Breaths

Steven Universe Future ended

Having been in the beginning stages of creation since ~Oct 2019, Jumbled AU content starts appearing

April

Spent the 1st doing an ask event for the Jumbled AU as a way of properly introducing it

Confused a bunch of people outside the Jacksepticeye community when I made a post saying how great it was that $400k had been raised in 2.5 hours during the HopeFromHome stream

Posted The Vlogger for Chase’s birthday

Got hyped to write a Śmigus Dyngus fic featuring Jumbled!Chase and his kids but got sick (regular illness, don’t worry) and therefore never finished it

Norbert Moses existed for 24 hours but he will exist much longer in our hearts

Managed to stay up to see 4:20am on April 20th

Posted the prologue and officially began the story of Jumbled

Watched Ghost for the first time

May

Fanders finally got the continuation of Selfishness vs Selflessness (Putting Others First aka SvS Redux) and learned Deceit’s name

Started talking about The Fall of Naesia

Pretty sure I hyperfixated on Queen for a week or so

Got introduced to ‘Storp Chorleigh, this game has gorn on lawng enuff’ and my life has significantly improved

CumGate happened

Got into ATLA

Black Lives Matter

Created the ‘it’s gonna be gay’ post that would destroy my inbox for the next few days

Had my first experience behind a wheel

June

Posted Flag, the response to which has made me proud of it

Poland scares and disappoints me part 1 (queer rights edition)

Sean posts another blooper video which causes me to make edits that subsequently inspire me to write Little Interruptions

Created an entire mythology purely because I thought a winged humanoid/merperson pairing was a cool concept

Reminded my friends why I should never be allowed to stay up until 4am because I just start talking nonsense

July

Finally watched An Inspector Calls and immediately wanted to make a Sanders Sides au with it.

Started talking about Creator again

Had another ask event to celebrate Jackie’s birthday

Also posted Photographs for his birthday which I love

Reached 150 followers around the middle of this month, I think

Discovered Kipo but wouldn’t fall for it head over heels with it for another month

One Direction celebrated their 10th anniversary and I was possessed by my 15 year old self for a week

Posted The Mediary which properly brought Creator AU back to my blog for a short while

August

Eddsworld came back after years

Posted The Creator and officially completed the main part of the au

Poland scares and disappoints me part 2 (queer rights edition continued)

Finally revealed Jumbled Anti’s identity to the world and got threatened on my birthday because of it

Discovered the Unus Annus video I’d been waiting all year for would be centered around them chewing on dog toys but it did feature “I’m the Unus to your Annus” so that was cool

Binged the first 2 seasons of Kipo in like a day and correctly predicted the Mega Monkey’s identity ages with very little foreshadowing to go off of

September

Started showing my love for Puppet History

Among Us was a thing

Got back into Playchoices

BBC Ghosts came back for series 2

Watched Pride twice in 24 hours and made sure everyone knew I’m heart eyes for it

October

Trump got sick

Family friend took one of my teeth

The world was blessed with Patton in a dress

Replayed Septiscape ahead of Soulscape’s release and liveblogged it

C!Thomas got a love interest and I’m really happy for him

Kipo season 3 came out

Literally the next day, the Dream SMP brainrot officially began

Discovered Thanzag existed and fell for the angsty side of their relationship despite knowing barely anything about the game

Poland scares and disappoints me part 3 (abortion edition)

Started bingeing The Magnus Archives and got through 150 episodes in about 2 weeks

Halloween was an eventful night for both the Jacksepticeye and Unus Annus communities

November

Unus Annus began its epilogue period

Watched V For Vendetta for the first time which was probably the least eventful thing to happen on the night of November 5th 2020

Destiel became somewhat canon and people found out Putin was thinking of resigning because of that

US elections

Unus Annus died following a 12 hour livestream

Somehow, my mad attempt to summarise every video of Unus Annus kinda paid off

Supernatural trended again because of its finale

Went through a period of questioning whether I’m asexual but settled on ‘sex ambivalent allosexual’ for now

Destiel became canon again but reciprocated and Spanish this time

Discovered Webtoon and Castle Swimmer

December

The monolith saga began

Elliot Page came out as trans

Mark went to hospital for an obstruction again and the community became very invested in his recovery process

Scotch eggs with your drinks became a brief meme over here in Britain

Your New Boyfriend was released

Destiel’s canon status was brought back to the spotlight once more

Watched The Godfather for the first time

Reached 200 followers

We got somewhat of a Dan and Phil video after so long with Phil trying on clothes while Dan reacts behind the camera

BBC Ghosts came back for Christmas to say Tories suck and you should make the most of your time with your family

Got into Mother Mother after Wilbur played the intro to Hayloft and I decided to see what the fuss was about

Watched Bridgerton and immediately felt the need to write something historical

The Mishapocalypse returned

#holly talks #2020 #year in review

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Horror By The Decade: 1980s!

So as you all know by now, @comicreliefmorlock and I have been doing a film series watching horror movies from each decade of film, starting in the 1890s, and it’s been a lot of fun :)

The 1980s were, for many people, the horror heyday. While compiling my list of essential films from the decade, I discovered some interesting trends:

Franchises! Every movie gets spun out into sequels, and recurring characters (and unique, brandable character design) become important in a way never before seen (except possibly in the 1930s with Universal, but even then). The 80s gives us the birth of lots of horror franchises we’re still familiar with and making movies about today

Slashers! We saw the beginnings of the slasher in the 1970s with classics like Black Christmas and Halloween, but this trend absolutely exploded in the 1980s. There are countless iterations of the basic “teenagers get carved up by a killer” formula, from the famous franchises like Jason and Freddy to the lesser-known cult classics like Prom Night and Sleepaway Camp.

B Movies! In the 70s, we had the grindhouse exploitation flick. By the 80s, VHS was gaining in prominence, and direct-to-video film releases started to happen -- starting in 1985 with a slasher called Blood Cult. This new method of cheap distribution paved the way for a ton of low-budget horrors to flourish, for better or worse.

Sci-Fi! Around 1986, there was an absolute explosion of sci-fi horror, with a proliferation of aliens, space travel, mutations and more.

Anyway, in the spirit of #SocialDistancing, we decided to do this week’s film series remotely, which actually worked out pretty well. The only downside? Netflix had some limited offerings, so our “theme night” was a bit odd. But! We persevered!

First up: Child’s Play (1988) directed by Tom Holland (no not that one)

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When notorious serial killer Charles Lee Ray is fatally wounded during a police chase through a toy store, he uses a voodoo ritual (I know) to transfer his soul into a nearby doll.

That doll then ends up in the hands of a little boy after his single mother buys it for him from a questionable back-alley vendor. Murderous mayhem follows as the possessed doll tries to clean up loose ends from his life and secure a more permanent body.

Chucky (the doll) is one of the best-known and most successful horror franchise characters from the 80s, and one responsible for traumatizing a generation of young people. A late-comer to the scene, Child’s Play manages to capitalize on a lot of things that came before -- especially, I think, A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced the world to the idea of a wise-cracking killer as opposed to a silent predator. Chucky’s attitude and smart mouth are part of what makes him such an iconic figure, just like Freddy.

Child’s Play also successfully taps into a lot of anxieties regarding class and consumer culture -- a single mother struggling to give a certain kind of life to her sweet and precocious child is a storyline that never fails to tug at primal emotions. That the story also flirts with the “satanic panic” of the 1980s, and spends so much time in the unsavory parts of inner-city Chicago (filled with so many threatening homeless people and minorities!) hardly seems like a coincidence.

The film (and certainly its sequels) leans into the inherent absurdity of its premise. It’s not afraid to be campy and cheesy, and there’s a lot of hilarity, both intentional and unintentional. But it does deliver some scares, and most especially some exquisite practical effects. If you’ve somehow never seen this, you’re in for a treat.

Speaking of unintentionally hilarious films about why white people shouldn’t fuck with the supernatural...

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Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) has its fingerprints all over the horror genre. This is THE cabin-in-the-woods film, the movie that would lay down all of the tropes we’d come to know and love.

The pitch: Five college students vacation in a rural cabin, where they discover an evil book and a voice recording that causes them to get possessed by demons. What follows is a gory, macabre and frequently hilarious sequence of mayhem involving dismemberment, sexual assault by a tree, and some spectacularly jarring claymation.

I had never actually seen this film, despite being very familiar with it (and being a big fan of the Ash vs Evil Dead TV show), and man, it is a treat. You have to go into it with the right mindset -- this movie is ridiculous and exists predominantly to provide new gross-out moments -- but if you embrace the campiness you’ll be rewarded.

Like its spiritual predecessor Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead was an exercise in torturing a young and inexperienced cast. Conditions on set were bleak, with actors sustaining injuries, catching cold, and eventually burning set pieces for warmth.

Nevertheless, it paid off, and the Evil Dead franchise took off in a big way, becoming not just a horror icon but really a facet of modern pop culture.

#horror movies #horror by the decade #horror through the decades #the evil dead #chucky #childs play #good stuff #unintentionally hilarious

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helloitisiamazing · 5 years

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Why Mileven sucks

Was originally gonna put it all in one post, but thought it would be better to split it. Rest assured, the Byler stuff is coming.

They don't know a goddamn thing about each other.

They literally just kiss when Mike is with El. We know they jumped right into a relationship after season two since season two was around halloween/Christmas ( starting 31 October and ending at the snowball which takes place at the end of December according to the stranger things wiki ) and season 3 was around the 4th of July the next year (the last episode is supposed to be the 4th of July celebration so the season starts a few days before that ) which would be about 6 months. In the first episode Hopper complains that all they have been doing for the last six months is making out in El's room. They don't go out on dates. When Mike and El ditch their friends when Dustin wants to set up cerebro to go make out, Lucas says that it has been like that all Summer, so the times they do go out are short lived. The time Mike had to get to know El was a week in 1983, and according to the wiki for season two there is a month between the final battle and the snowball in 1984, but during that month Eleven probably still had to keep a low profile, not leaving much room for hanging out with friends.

Mike is a shitty boyfriend towards El.

When they leave their friends on the hill, Mike is the one who says they should go, and again as evidenced by Lucas saying that it's been like that all summer, we know this isn't the first time it's happened. Mike lies to El after Hopper threatens him and instead of just talking and explaining things to her, he goes to the mall to buy something to win her over after he suspects she knows he's lying and just lies more to cover up his first lie when he get's caught. He is very possessive over her, only spending time alone with her, never with their friends for long periods. He won't let Max let El use her powers to stop the mind flayer because he wants to protect her, but also because he doesn't trust El to protect herself. This shit may sound fine if you've only ever read bad wattpad romance novels, but I assure you these are not the building blocks for a healthy relationship. Even after they broke up and Mike apologised, he never actually apologised for the actual lying.

He was really not that heart broken when El dumped him.

Sure he was upset, but all he did was complain about how he did nothing wrong and wait for her to call him to apologise. El also did not look even slightly upset after she dumped him. She and Max were laughing on the bus. She was however very upset with him lying, which lead to her braking up with him.

Their "romantic" kissing scenes felt very uncomfortable to watch.

Even if the actors are slightly older, their characters are thirteen to fourteen year olds. Most people in their late teens and older would find it uncomfortable to watch, and given that that is who the show is generally marketed to, you can't help but think that the awkwardness was intended. I mean, it felt off. Mike is probably imitating what he has seen other adults in films and on tv do, but it comes across so inorganically when they do it.

Mike is definitely not in love with El.

Taking into account everything I have mentioned above ( them not really knowing each other, neither of them being actually broken hearted when they broke up ) as well as all the times Mike struggles to say he loves El to her face. He can't get the words out and goes about the absolute stupidest way of describing love at the store, when he could easily come up with something that would better describe it to El. He can tell everyone else he loves her, but he can't tell her because subconsciously he knows that he would be lying to her. He can't even remember saying anything about love three months later ( which given that he could still remember what he said the day he met Will when they were five in season two points to the fact that the problem is not with his memory. You'd think that he would be able to remember something as important as wanting to profess his love only three months later. ) He could be lying when he says he doesn't remember, but when El says she loves him, he has all the opportunity to say it back and doesn't, there is literally nothing standing in his way. In fact, he looks very confused. He doesn't kiss her back or even close his eyes when she kisses him and is still left with a confused look when she walks away.

Mike equates the idea of falling in love and having a relationship to growing up while his feelings for Will are something he thinks he'll grow out of. He asks Will if he thought that they were never gonna grow up and get girlfriends. He imitates grown-ups he's probably seen on tv, in movies and even in his own life when it comes to his realtionship with El, instead of letting it develop naturally. The way he tries to explain love to El is by saying that it's something grown-ups say to each other. Mike settling for El would also follow the trend of Wheelers settling for people the aren't in love with ( Karen with Ted and Nancy with Steve ).

Mileven is a cute ship but the people saying that they are in love and the end all be all relationship of the show are wrong. Even the Duffers themselves described Mikes feelings for El after season three as sort of a first crush.

Could it develop into an actual fuctioning relationship as they grow older? Maybe, but it is highly unlikely. Mileven won't stay canon.

#mike wheeler #eleven #el hopper #eleven hopper #jane hopper #stranger things theory #stranger things theories #stranger things 3 #stranger things #st3

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genziewardrobes · 2 years

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Sad But Stylish

Right on schedule, the winter blues are starting to hit for many of us. As soon as the days start getting shorter, it seems that my energy was also taken with that hour. So I was thinking to myself, what are ways I can help myself get out of this seasonal funk? I could take up a winter hobby, maybe bake some Christmas goodies? Then it hit me, time to update my wardrobe from Summer/Fall to Winter! Just because we're sad doesn't mean my style has to be. In other words, let retail therapy do the work, and let's see what trends women are gravitating towards this winter from a fan fave store Zara!

Metallic Shine

During the holidays one stand out piece that comes to mind are sequins. But, if you're looking for a more subdued version, metallic pieces will give you that extra shine!

Geometric Craze

I've been loving the 70s influence that's been seen throughout fashion in the last couple of months. One of my favorite trends I will be adding to my wardrobe are pieces with funky geometric prints.

Ski School Sign-Up

I've never been skiing in my life, but you wouldn't know that with my puffer jacket collection! Puffer fabric is becoming more popular, and is being seen even outside of the usual jacket silhouette.

Double the Denim, Double the Fun

Every year, after seeing so many Britney & Justin AMA halloween costumes, I just ask myself why aren't we rocking more double denim? A super cool way to elevate a casual look, I think we will be seeing a lot more baby blue denim in the winter streets. Best part, it's easy to transition denim from summer to winter!

Mad For Plaid

Plaid skirts are one of my favorite staple pieces to bring out every year. They are versatile, ranging from prep academy to punk grunge aesthetics. Layer some tights underneath and you'll be toasty if you live in really cold areas.

What are some other winter trends you're wanting to hop on to, and what are some ways you shake off the winter blues? Hope this gives you some inspiration for your winter wardrobe, brb while I go map where the nearest Zara is!

x Emily V

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chen20200805 · 3 years

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The new round of peak season is coming soon, how can Amazon sellers stock up reasonably?

The traditional peak season in the second half of the year is coming soon! Are the seller friends already actively stocking up and preparing to sell it in the upcoming peak season?

Starting in September, it was originally the traditional peak season for the shipping industry, but on the eve of the National Day, the price plunged without warning. After several months of skyrocketing, shipping prices have finally seen signs of a fall. The current shipping price is definitely the most beautiful shipping price this year. When will we wait if we don’t stock up at this time? How to stock up for the upcoming peak season in the second half of the year?

Xiaojiejie is here today to answer some shipping questions that sellers and friends are more concerned about!

Is it cost-effective to ship now?

The answer is cost-effective. How should we look at this question? Let's listen to Xiaojie's whisper.

First, let's analyze the reasons for the skyrocketing ocean freight. The main reason for the skyrocketing sea freight is that after the outbreak, the resumption of work and production in many countries around the world is not ideal, and the global demand for trade has surged. China is the first to resume full-scale work and production, and China is the world's major manufacturing country. Caused a surge in trade demand.

On the other hand, the low efficiency of port operations at the destination port leads to a backlog of goods, which leads to abnormal delivery turnover. Moreover, the epidemic prevention policies of each country are different, which has also exacerbated port congestion. Until now. Some major ports are still congested. As a result, the shortage of containers has led to high costs, the capacity cannot meet the current export demand, and freight rates continue to skyrocket.

The current drop in ocean freight rates was only briefly affected by the news of China's electricity rationing. Short-term disturbances do not change long-term trends. The global supply chain is still in a state of congestion, and subsequent ocean freight rates are still likely to rise.

Therefore, it is the best time to ship at this stage. And now it is shipped, and it can be well in time for the goods to be put on the shelves before the peak season.

How to deal with the peak season reasonable planning and stocking?

China's power curtailment will definitely affect factory production. All sellers and friends should estimate the time and quantity of the products they will be able to deliver in the future, and make a plan for shipments.

This is an excellent time to ship. Seller friends can carry out an effective combination of Clippers and general ships to save freight.

It is guaranteed to be available for sale throughout the peak season. The peak season in the second half of the year will last for a relatively long time. Starting from Halloween, to Black Friday, Christmas, New Year, etc., are the peak sales seasons for Amazon sellers. Ensuring that goods are available for sale during this entire period of time can allow sellers to obtain considerable profits. Especially in the case of global supply chain congestion and power cuts in Chinese factories, in-stock sales may become Amazon's biggest winner this year.

What should I do if the stock is insufficient? You can choose to stock third-party overseas warehouses. Using a third-party overseas warehouse as a transit can effectively avoid stock out and realize fast replenishment. In addition, take advantage of the time when the freight is diving, and stock up more goods to overseas warehouses to save freight. Why not?

Write at the end

In this complex and changeable situation, there are dangers that must be organic. Sellers and friends must do a good job of risk control, prepare emergency plans in advance, and ensure that the goods will continue to be delivered during the peak season. Xiaojiejie is here to wish all sellers friends: everything goes well, big sales in peak season!

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