tmmyhug:

nothing compares to the calendar on this site. flat fuck friday. the halloween post that always shows up mid july. you see four anime girls and immediately know what day of the week it is. on the ides of march we all wake up and clown on some guy who got stabbed two thousand years ago. last week we celebrated down with cis day. I can’t wait for ever given and nov 5th anniversary memes. anyways have a lovely neil banging out the tunes day

This is unironically a tribute to the utility of enchanting the cycle of seasons with a calendar of annual holidays as a culture-consolidating force

tmmyhug:

nothing compares to the calendar on this site. flat fuck friday. the halloween post that always shows up mid july. you see four anime girls and immediately know what day of the week it is. on the ides of march we all wake up and clown on some guy who got stabbed two thousand years ago. last week we celebrated down with cis day. I can’t wait for ever given and nov 5th anniversary memes. anyways have a lovely neil banging out the tunes day

acreaturecalledgreed:

acreaturecalledgreed:

for the first like 14 years of my life i thought that the story of saint valentine and valentines day were a celebration of a massive gay polyamorous marriage and let me tell you, i was sorely disappointed when i learned i had massively misunderstood that story

i was told the basic story of “the king had made it illegal for young men to get married so that they could be drafted off to go to war (as married men with families were not, apparently)” and that “saint valentine thought this was cruel, and married the young men in secret”

what this was supposed to communicate to me was “saint valentine would marry young men to their girlfriends in secret as a priest at his own risk and thats why we celebrate valentines day” 

what i got out of it was “saint valentine married a shitton of dudes so he could protect his army of husbands from having to go to war and it was beautiful and love can halt war in its tracks and thats why we celebrate valentines day”

and thats why the assumption that a child would automatically get a hetero interpretation of the story and the innate unclarity of the english language made me think that valentines day was about mass gay poly marriage until i was like fourteen and recited the story to a friend who stared at me like id grown three extra heads

i like my version better im not gonna lie

Happy Allosexual Day of Visibility

excitementshewrote:

jiskblr:

whywishesarehorses:

happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!

I hope @dagny-hashtaggart​ has a truly staggering amount of fingers readied for the occasion

Well, whatever else it was, this year was better than 2020.

Thinking of celebrating St. George’s Day in place of St. Patrick’s Day this year in hellenized, Anglophone Irish acknowledgment of Cromwell’s conquest

tanadrin:

necarion:

brawltogethernow:

Am I a Gävlebocken information resource now because I posted about it once at three a.m. I am not. I’m just going to type from the heart on my phone without fact-checking properly. Each of you as private individuals have to fact check.

Once a year in Gävle, Sweden they build a massive Yule goat out of straw. Once a year the public takes it upon themselves to try to set it on fire and destroy it. This is illegal. The people displaying the goat do not want this to happen. You’d think at this point 55 years into the thing they’d have sort of good humoredly accepted the game they are participating in, but they have not. Every time an arsonist succeeds they tighten security on the goat. Nevertheless, trying to kill this Christmas symbol is Tradition, and when the goat burns the world rejoices. More extreme goat protection measures are responded to with greater feats of human ingenuity and/or dumb luck. A team got it with flame-tipped arrows once.

The Gävle goat has been set at least somewhat on fire the majority of times it’s been erected, but stood untouched for an unprecedented four year streak from 2017 to 2020, widely regarded as a shit bundle of years. Like not to be American about a seasonal Swedish tourist attraction but that sure is every single year the Trump administration was in office. Restrictions about gatherings mean its 2020 survival was literally a symptom of COVID-19. So to our innately apophenic species the decoration being reduced to ash and structural skeleton yesterday feels like a good omen, a necessary sacrifice even. Hats off to the brave vandal that got it this time. I am unclear if there’s a way to internationally crowdfund his likely fines.

There is a chart describing the yearly fates of the goat and its smaller sister goat on Wikipedia and it is hilarious.

Spokeswoman Rebecca Steiner said she was devastated by the attack on the seasonal institution.

“It’s just a week before Christmas and I cannot understand how a person can carry out this kind of attack to a Christmas symbol known all over the world,” she told the BBC.

the annual Yule offering must be made to propitiate the dark winter gods of chaos, lest they reign unchecked over the ensuing year

abgael661-deactivated20241209:

Austro-Hungarian soldier dressed as Krampus, the Christmas demon, 1917

kontextmaschine:

I myself think that Batman is the flip side of Santa Claus, who - as I’ve said - in turn is the modern vision of the Christian God.

The lineage follows that in the age of desert nomadism, God was a force that created water and food in the desert and rearranged inconvenient geography - mountains, seas; that in the age of early settlement and tribal war he demanded ethnic solidarity, granting in return victory in war; that in the era where settled tribes were subsumed into Mediterranean empire, he was a fisherman/shepherd who unified mankind and ended war; that in the era of courtly feudalism he was at the head of heirarchies of angels, saints rewarded with face time to press their clients’ claims; and so obviously in the age of bourgeois democracy he’s an industrialist who rewards socially approved behavior with consumer goods and punishes its opposite with violence.

plutotheforgotten:

momfricker:

wheel-skellington:

brandnewatari2600:

today is video games’s birthday.

Happy birthday videogames

Video games will have existed for 50 years next year

For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

Although meant to unify people, the 19th-century campaign to make Thanksgiving a permanent holiday was seen by prominent Southerners as a culture war. They considered it a Northern holiday intended to force New England values on the rest of the country. To them, pumpkin pie, a Yankee food, was a deviously sweet symbol of anti-slavery sentiment.

rendakuenthusiast:

Playing His Own Game: A Thanksgiving Post

Internet friend wrote a Thanksgiving effortpost, about Squanto.

anocana:

ALT

themysteriousmurasamecastle:

themysteriousmurasamecastle:

condescending online man day

i almost forgot, happy condescending online man day everyone