#the holidays are upon us

[nesyanast]

Baghdadi Jews celebrate Purim in Shanghai 1908

Source: Rachel Wahba

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish culture #purim #Jewish holidays #purim upon us lads #shanghai #China #Jews in China #1908 #baghdadi jews

[bread-that-draws]

The Lovers: Being at crossroads. Choices. Commitment. Falling in love. Harmony. Warmth.

The Lovers Reversed: Misalignment. Imbalance. Disharmony. Coldness.

#want some dating shoes #OKAY DETAILS RANT #the wires along the border are the same that queen uses to control people and the thorns are. Thorns #the color gradient along the border are blue and purple. Kris and Susie #both scenes you can only see in one route or the other hence why I chose them #the imagery from the deltarune can be seen on Noelle’s front and lace along with Susie’s collar/belt and Kris’s armor #Kris and Ralsei are in the top border bc they’re watching the scene #kris is pointing to Noelle’s battle sprite because they have to call upon her to beat spamton and Noelle is fucking. freezing berdley #the Entire Background of the tip except also the windows are Morse code for kris get the banana and character names #Kris’s halo is devil horns because of that story from their childhood and Noelle’s is a thorn ring #SOUL IMAGERY EVERYWHERE but especially Kris’s armor and sword (plus Noelle’s lace lol) #the binary code on Spamton spells the lyrics to big shot #Noelle and Kris are popping out of the frame at the bottom because the player is enacting control over both of them and UTDR meta like that #Kris’s clothes are lined with the same red as the soul because puppet imagery #OKAY I THINK THATS ALL OF IT??? I’m insane #deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #Noelle holiday #Susie #kris Dreemurr #spamton #suselle #kriselle #I guess????

[devilishbird]

happy passover to all who observe and a quick lesson for those who have no idea what the fuck i'm talking about

passover is a remembrance of the exodus from egypt, way back in the good ol' days when israelites built pyramids and scientifically impossible fire was a religious occurrence in addition to being cool. this occurred in the book of Exodus, hence the name. essentially, after both moses and god bullied the ruler of egypt into letting all of the israelites go, some frogs and natural disasters and family member murder (but not for the israelites; death "passed over" their homes, hence the name) later, they packed up what little shit they had, brought their unrisen bread dough along, and skedaddled through a nice little hole running right through the middle of a sea, where even more miracles occurred to thwart the indecisive ruler's desires to get his cheap labor back. because the dough had not risen, when it was baked, it became history's worst crackers, and because jews love our historic food, we eat this terrible cracker as our only form of bread or bread product for one whole week, along w/ a couple other symbolic foods.

hope this helps anyone who is curious and hope you have a great day & week :]

#passover #pesach #jewish holidays #mini culture lesson #idk if anyone cares but some of the people i talked to earlier today didn't know what i was on about #so here we are #no bread week is upon us at last :[ #judaism #jewish food #jewish culture

[beebeeazzy]

the epitome of babygirl YIPPEEEE YIPPEEE i love noelle a whole lot she is really really neat JUST LOOK AT HER GRRR 

#deltarune #deltarune fanart #noelle holiday #noelle holiday fanart #noelle deltarune #noelle fanart #yadda yadda tags tags #noelle is the cutest ever ouuuh deltarunes blessing upon us SNIFFLES SHE IS SO SILLYYYY #boops her nose as it makes a honk clown sound

[pia-duo]

Iris in one of her very own Christmas sweaters :) She seems like the type to knit everyone their own sweater haha

Bonus:

#Iris wilson #iris watson #the great ace attorney #Dai gyakuten saiban #ace attorney #Tyyyy don for the req :o) happy to draw the dotter 4 u #Sidenote i may be slow with these reqs! Holiday season is truly upon us and im swamped with work ;; #pia's art

[thefatfemme]

I can't remember a time when my mom wasn't on a diet. It makes me really sad.

#thefatfemme #My sister and I never stood a chance at having a healthy relationship with our bodies or with food #Neither of our parents could teach us how #And with the holidays upon us it's weighing on me #Mom skips dessert at almost every holiday and it's not because she doesn't like sweets #Dad counts every calorie and skips meals to 'save up' for the big family dinner #Idk it's just really sad #fatphobia #body acceptance #fat acceptance #intuitive eating #family #holidays #diet culture #Diet #Tw diet #calories #dieting

[tuttle-did-it]

remember that time Tom Paris went really fast, died, resurrected himself by became a Time Lord, evolved into a salamander, kidnapped the captain who also turned into a salamander (and possibly would have also become a Time Lord), mated with the captain (apparently REALLY quickly, they weren't missing for that long??), had three salamander babies, abandoned the salamander babies and then he and the captain were magically transformed back to normal with not even a scar? and then it was never, ever mentioned again.

#tom paris #tom paris is a time lord #i think captain janeway must have become a timelord too because she would have evolved the same way so i'm counting it #time lords #doctor who #star trek #star trek voyager #st voy #happy threshold day #threshold #the holy holiday is upon us #they spent all that time telling us that they had no idea how to get tom back to normal #then janeway and tom are magically unsalamandered off screen in seconds #tom had a really busy day #to be fair tho that was more character development in a single episode than Tom had in the whole first season #and he had more to do in that one than he did in the whole first season so you know #janeway and tom paris are time lords and you're not going to convince me otherwise #i really hate when star trek sets up these impossible situations and then the final scene is like 'oh i did stuff and now they're fine.' #doctor who x voyager #just how long were janeway and tom missing anyway?? #sorry about the low quality video i don't know how to make gifs and vids and photos and how to get around the locks netflix and amazon have #hopefully some clever smart kid can get a good version of the video and repost this with it so you have decent quality #sorry i am old #and don't know how to use tech #or hashtags

[jamiesfootball]

So like. Anyone want a holiday gift, or???

#ask box is always open #holidays are upon us

[cryptramesses]

So I can't say much about other practices, which makes sense because I don't practice other practices -- I am a Kemetic Pagan at heart. But with the months moving on and the Nile Seasons changing, I do want to give everyone a gentle reminder.

There's still so much that we don't know and haven't recovered from Kemet. Yes festivals happened, but their dates are not super concrete. There were thousands of holidays and festivals that were held in Kemet, and thus there are thousands of such we can bring into our modern day world. However it would be a stretch to say we have any definitive calendar.

What I'm trying to get at here is when it comes to religious holidays and days of spiritual importance, do what feels right. For me I have an entire Kemetic Calendar mapped out based around the modern day 'Nile Flood' holiday, and from there I have a couple minor and major holidays in my calendar that I feel hold significance to me. The people who live with me agree and say they also feel good about it, and as such this is what we do.

Their placement is based off of what I felt was right, not what the ancients did. I feel like we all, as a community, need to stop hanging onto this concept of 'purity'. I feel as though what sets aside most non-mainstream beliefs is this idea that society evolves and changes over time, and therefore our beliefs follow suit. It is one of the many key factors that make many pagan beliefs so fascinating and powerful. (obviously not all pagan beliefs -- pagan being just a very vague umbrella term that I may define more later down the line)

If a festival or holiday does not feel right to you, it's okay to change it. Now I'm not saying celebrate the spring equinox on the autumn equinox, that defeats the purpose of those holidays, but in most holidays the dates aren't what is important. Moreover don't feel like you have to follow old traditions, make your own. It's okay. You're not a bad practitioner for doing so. Bringing in the old is alright, but the reason that holidays like Christmas and Halloween are so beloved is that they take older traditions into the modern day and reinvent them as well as adding more traditions alongside it. Take some liberties with it, so long as your heart is in the right place then you're doing good.

Just always remember, don't take away others autonomy. Anyways that's all, have a wonderful day everyone, and remember to have fun. Have many blessed festivals!

#kemeticism #kemet #kemetism #ancient egypt #paganism #pagan #witchcraft #seeing a lot of posts about the holidays and stuff and just wanted to remind people #it's okay to not be practicing the 'pure original form' of a practice #practices evolve over time #especially with holidays #additionally the last month of Peret is upon us which means new season coming! #Excited #pagantips

[ahogedetective]

T O M O R R O W

#HIS DAY!!!!! #A NATIONAL HOLIDAY SHINES UPON US S O O N . . . #📚 || out of books;; {ooc }

[1ouis]

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#oh my GOD. my sister's work (Amazon) really screwed us over and now she's feeling suicidal and idk what to do?? #she's at work and they're trying to find her. i'm so scared rn 😭😭😭 #her amazon building belatedly announced that they won't be giving holiday pay and the days they cut for the holidays won't be paid in full #just the hours they cut. so many coworkers and their families are being screwed over as well. some at risk. #we are too but i obviously can't reach my sister for the exact amount. i just know it's in the hundreds #& now the building also cut people's paid time-off. literally hundreds upon hundreds of secured dollars gone. #if i lose my sister it will be AMAZON'S fault for stretching her thin financially physically and emotionally #i can't help because i can't get paid until next month and our family's too poor... #should i set up a mutual aid post? would anyone care enough to donate or reblog?? idek. i'm so scared. #i'm close to panicking and i feel so helpless 😭 #idk how to word this better. i can't. i'm just in a state of shock at how horrible life is rn #tw sui talk #not sure what tags to use to avoid getting shadowbanned #reblogs are ok

[antiqua-lugar]

I might have developed PMDD this German winter, which is surreal. It's watching your body do things that make absolutely make no sense and knowing they make absolutely no sense and you can't stop it.

#antiqua personal #obviously the holidays are upon us so I can't see a doctor

[nerdie-faerie]

Life's meaningless, buy a cake

#random #beach body season is upon us and if i hear 1 more person tell me theyre tryna lose weight to fit a beauty standard for holiday imma flip #im eating brownies btches. #you be miserable denying yourself lifes little pleasures for the fleeting memory of how you looked on a single summer #but imma be eating my dessert and having a good time ive spent too much of my life hating my body for the way it looks as is #none of it matters in the long term im tired of wasting my life on shame when theres cake

[countessofravenclaw]

Wohooo! The holiday season is upon us and you all know what that means...

Holiday fics!

Last year I launched this idea of a writing advent calendar and it's coming back this year as well. I'm going be doing it (and maybe going insane in the process) and I hope people join in. I actually mapped out what I am going to be writing for each day in advance this year, given that I have more school in December and will be busier than last year. What I have planned this far is little bit of continuations for the stories of last year's calendar and then we're gonna tap into some next gen content as well, since that area has been unlocked with me and my writing during the past year. Anyways, I am excited to see where we go, I already have written a few ahead of time for days I know I'll be busy. I hope people join. The calendar is going to be published on Friday.

Then I have my dedicated Holiday fic. I call it specifically Holiday fic, since it's not necessary about Christmas, like the way my last year's Christmas fic was: (Christmas is the time for joy and unexpected events). It's more about the winter holidays during and after Christmas time, and the events happen more around the New Years, but there obviously will be Christmassy stuff in there.

It will be a multi chapter story and takes us the furthest on my expanded canon timeline we have gone this far, excluding the Next Gen fic, so some personal life changes may or may not be happening to certain characters are they keep getting further into their adult lives. It will Star Gastina, Lutteo and Simbat who will go on... should we say an adventure of a frosty sort.

The story will be called: A homeland this north, country dear fathers!

It's a english translation of a lyric from our Finnish national anthem: Kotimaa tää pohjoinen, maa kallis isien!

That may or may not be a hint about what will be happening in the fic, but we'll see...

I'm actually really happy how that story turned out. I actually wrote it during the August and September of this year, so it has been sitting in the vault for a while now.

Let the Holidays begin!!

#soy luna #gastina #lutteo #Holidays #Christmas #Holiday are upon us so lets celeprate #Soy Luna fanfiction #Youtube

[thehouseofgrey]

It’s that time of year again where no-contact children start getting harassed by their families relentlessly. So, a gentle reminder for those who may need it:

#holiday season is upon us #do not call your abusive parents or family. they have not changed #id in alt text #no contact is cool

[percy-x-luke]

Hii! First of all, I love your stories and especially “Even the thorns have roses”!

Second of all, how do you get the inspiration to write so much? I am currently making my way through your ao3 catalogue (and thoroughly enjoying myself) and it’s so many fics?!

Happy holidays!

Thank you! I'm glad you've been enjoying Even The Thorns Have Roses. And though you didn't ask, I'll tell you now that none of my WIPs have been shelved permanently and they'll all be finished eventually (unless I literally die before I can finish them).

I've been debating how to answer your question about inspiration in a way that doesn't sound completely insane but I can't. I'm addicted to dreaming - both sleeping dreams and wakeful dreams - and writing is like daydreaming except it gives your hands something to do.

#answered asks #probably the most unhinged answer i could have given but ultimately the truest i think #dreaming is a lifelong passion of mine and i used to write my dreams down #as i discovered fan fic it morphed into putting characters into my dreams #and the praise heaped upon me in those early days inspired me to keep writing fan fic #and here we are eighteen years later #that's the condensed version anyway #inspiration comes from my lifelong need to escape reality #and is reinforced by positive comments on my works #hope that isn't too depressing of an answer #happy holidays to you too