#odd holidays

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

It's Frankenstein Friday!!

Since 1997, every last Friday in October has been named Frankenstein Friday as a celebration of the book (and author) that birthed the science fiction genre as we know it today, and the monster of whom has been a horror staple ever since.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818) Frankenstein dir. James Whale starring Boris Karloff (1931)

[stylesavvychallengebot]

October 30th Challenge - "National Candy Corn Day"

This is a freestyle challenge as long as the outfit has something to do with the theme of candy corn, so use the tricolor theme for inspiration.

[afropuffsartstudios]

📖Happy National Thesaurus Day!

(January 18th)

[hellspawnmotel]

cementing my place as the crossovers for no reason guy

(third pic based on)

[spinning-feeling]

mad hatter day for spinel? (@rookie-land)

We've got a few jokes, a few jests

-"We're snorting MEN." (if you know, you know)

-making fun of PD (aka petite dong) at any given opportunity

-senselessly referencing/quoting ytp's

-"KILL, MAIM, BURN, CHAOS WILL CONSUME YOU-"

-"Brother, get the flamer. The heavy, flamer."

-randomly quoting russianbadger, especially trying to replicate skullker

-quoting warhammer memes/emperor tts (they're hilliant lmao)

I'm sure there's more, but my memory fails me, hope these suffice!

[tomatoart]

calm cabin life

[bsptourist]

gm_liminal_hotel_revamped

created by Alfarex 

[squirreltastrophe]

made some pfps for me and my pal @wormy-worm :33 Noelle has been so incredibly on the brain lately...... I should learn her theme on piano I think

[shalom-iamcominghome]

The jewish love language really is giving each other book recommendations you think they'd like........

[timmythetimesheep]

it’s my day. bow down agents‼️

[weirdchristmas]

One of my favorite Krampus cards.

[stylesavvychallengebot]

April 4th Theme - Style based on today, “National School Librarian Day”.

[mytardisisparked]

I just wanna wish a happy Easter weekend to everyone else who is alone this holiday. When you sit down for dinner, know that, spiritually, we are at the same table and I am telling you dumb stories with bad puns as we celebrate.

[kanadabiscuits]

As Christmas Eve wends its way towards midnight, it is always strange for me to contemplate a holiday that means nothing to me, is the focus of a religion I have no part of, and seems to demand a giant tithe to the god of overspending and useless commercialism. I revile so many aspects of the holiday and yet...

And yet.

I love the warmth of the glow of the lights (my tree has the same lights we've had since I was born - they turned fifty with me this year); the nostalgic timeline of ornaments collected over the years as mementos of whims, friends, family, and moments to treasure; the smell of the kitchen churning out recipes that are only made at this time of year; the fact that so much of our frenetic, fast-moving lives coasts to a stop, a cessation of forward momentum until capitalism rears its head again and Boxing Day Week fucking MONTH starts and everyone tramples each other for more deals for more shit no one needs... fuck there I go again, sorry. I am getting old and I rage on my porch sometimes.

Forgive me my moments of crotchety frustration. What I am trying to say is:

Merry Christmas if that is what this holiday is to you, happy holidays if it is something else. Be warm, be safe, may you find yourselves surrounded by love near and far, and I hope you have a moment to draw a breath and enjoy the pause, the liminal space lit by the glow of contentment before we dive back in again.

Here in this space, where we come for escape, for community, for reassurance... be well, be loved, be safe.

[princessnijireiki]

anyway my most spiciest political take right now is so many people are showing how easy it is to lash out when they are feeling helpless, or to believe in a villain they can defeat on a smaller scale than the way the bigger wheels of the world are grinding beyond our reach, because they want to be able to do something, anything, even though that can be propaganda in and of itself, and it makes you lose track of the power of kindness and aid and support in our hands that we can do.

I think the biggest thing people can do is log off, not offline entirely, but log off the platforms where people are screaming at each other just because things feel so fraught that they have to scream and having a target lulls you into feeling like it is productive, and reach out to whoever it is you DO want to help, and ask them what you can do. financially, volunteering, labor, prayer, therapy, buying phone cards, whatever.

it's not as emotionally cathartic as feeding into your own self righteous indignation by fighting strangers on the internet, it won't lie to you and tell you that you're singlehandedly making somebody across the world bulletproof or neutralizing somebody's weapon, but it is better, because it will be the truth that you need to hear, and agency over not the smallness of your limitations, but the actual span of your reach and your capability to help beyond wishing to be superhuman and hating yourself for not being that.

[lcpmon]

officially moved in and i go away on the 3rd so i dont have time to do anything w the place. me and my sisters barren house full of boxes and no furniture