#i love the holidays

[strawberrryangel]

currently eating my halloween candy while continuing my supernatural rewatch and knowing i’ll be putting up the christmas decorations later. i am. so excited.

[mountainstogo]

Spent this week eating and drinking with family. It was a low key Christmas but I haven’t been back to my hometown in so long, it was nice seeing some ppl I love very much.

Traveling home now (hopefully - these travel delays have been insane) I just want to be back in my bed and snuggling my pets. Between COVID and the holidays I haven’t worked out much but I can’t wait to be back to my routine. 2 weeks till I start the new job!

[ponysforjaiden]

HAPPY HEARTS WARMING TO EVERYCREATURE WHO CELEBRATES!!! :D

(Shhhhhhhh no I’m not late to this you are)

[alonsoings]

merry christmas to those who celebrate!

i would like to share that my lovely father got me the mclaren bear and i immediately started sobbing 💝💓💘💕💗

[luvv4j4ybe11]

🎄 Send these trees to ten people you wish to have a good holiday and a happy new years!🎄

El I was literally js thinking ab u then I see this, I love u sm🥹🩷 and I hope you do too babygirl!

[potionpeddlerpatchy]

Miss Patchy, today on my daily walk with my dog I thought about our demon slayer au & I was wondering what kinds of fun activities we’d get up to during winter 🤭 we could make our own mulled wine to enjoy in the evenings while we chat away…maybe we could even invite some hashira (& my husband) to keep us company

I have this lovely idea that we would make a little group, consisting of myself, you and En (Kanamori's wife), where during those snowy and cold days we would stay sitting at a kotatsu and make paper lanterns and stars, and arrange and build wreaths, little things like that and use them to decorate!

I also like the thought of us going out and decorating the many dresses within the village with ribbons and lights and homemade glass-blown ornaments that your husband made.

And of course making delicious mulled wine and spending like a week together within our cozy kitchen (which I can hear you now asking me why we aren't using the vast one at my inn, to which I just ignore you) to make baked goods and traditional dishes to share to those within the village, and traveling hashira!

I just.... *happy hum*

[lightthewaybackhome]

I have just realized that my ideal holiday season would be only decorating and a party with my family on Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. That is it. No other parties.

[ultimateaclrecovery]

It’s beginning to look a little bit like Christmas 🎄

[rinnysega]

When the wifi goes out at work for an hour, I make menu cards for next month!

🥰🥰🥰

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

The fire department is on the news purposely starting a deep fried turkey fire

[mintytrifecta]

[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all (blank) a very pleasant (blank)" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant rosh hashanah". In front of Bugs there is a jar of honey, a stack of apples and pomegranates. In front of bug's mouth there is a shofar.]

[mountainstogo]

What a fun week of festivities!

Started training for a new set of talks at the zoo. It includes tigers, elephants and giraffes and I’m so so excited (and only a tiny bit nervous).

As per CO tradition, we went skiing on thanksgiving and I took a long lunch to watch brazil win their first World Cup game. Came home to a yummy vegetarian feast and the Pats game! All my favorite sports, it was a great day.

I’ve also been really social lately! After not making any effort to meet new friends since moving here, this past 1.5 weeks I’ve met up with three new girlfriends for skiing, drinks and a small hike.

Today we’re hosting Friendsgiving but we decorated for Christmas yesterday so idek what holiday we’re celebrating, I’m just excited for more yummy food and good company.

Also since today is ‘thanksgiving’ and I miss doing turkey trots, I’m doing a 5k in the morning with my roomie. Might actually do it twice for 10k bc I’m a bit behind on my fitness goals this week. Overall tho, I’ve gained a few pounds but I’m also super strong and it’s prob muscle weight. I’ve been slacking on my daily step goal and that’s an easy thing to focus on and improve next week.

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

[stonesandswords]

the seasonal place that i volunteer at reopened again and i just finished the first night of volunteering for the season

now off to a party that’s said it’s be going until at least 2am on the invitation

happy winter solstice ❄️

[vampireterzo]

help girl i need validation

[mannys-hyperfixations]

what if i blew up and died but like a firework so it can be festive