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Christmas 1862, Part 3: "My home is in the bivouac." A Civil War Christmas
Although we do not honor the cause McCabe fought for, or the banner he fought under, we may still honor those American soldiers who served honorably and well and commemorate in word and deed the trials and travail which soldiers on both sides endured.
William Gordon McCabe, was a soldier in the Confederate Army, and in the postwar era a noted Latin scholar with the University of Virginia. In December of 1862 he was moved to write this poem expressing his feelings while on guard duty in winter bivouac around Christmas of that year. It is known as “Christmas, 1862” and occasionally by its last line, “My Home is in the Bivouacs.” Although we do…
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Einsame Weihnachten (A Lonely Christmas/Lonesome Christmas) by Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow (German, 1862--1925)
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Fraternizing
There is some historical context to the 1862 scene that I think might be of interest to quite a few of you, if it's not something you already know. It deals with the evolution in meaning of the word fraternizing.
In 1862, the word fraternizing did not have any sexual connotation whatsoever. Like the words fraternal and fraternity, fraternizing comes from the Latin fraternus, which means brotherly. It was, originally, a very specifically non-sexual word that meant to bond as brothers, either by blood or by choice.
It is from this that it developed its definition as a military term meaning to be on friendly terms with enemy soldiers. The first known use of fraternizing in that way, though, was as a then-apparently-relatively new term that was first recorded in 1897, some 35 years after the 1862 scene. Fraternizing apparently didn't really fully come into common use as a military term until during and after WW1, though, when it was used to describe actions by soldiers during the Christmas Armistice of 1914.
It isn't until after World War II that the word fraternizing developed a sexual connotation. Then, it had evolved across several Allied armies to mean to have sex with women in enemy countries. No one is entirely sure how this word that was so absolutely about brotherhood and nothing else came to refer to sex across enemy lines but the most common theory is that it began amongst the soldiers as sarcasm over the military definition of fraternizing being condemning soldiers for viewing those of the opposing armies as human. The idea is that they were probably using the same word because of the military frowning on relationships with people in enemy countries in a general way, whether that was a sexual relationship or a non-sexual one. It's off of this connotation that we get the other, modern one, where the word fraternizing is sometimes used with relationship to company policies regarding social interaction, both in a general way and with regards to sexual relationships, in workplace environments.
Anyway, the point is that, in 1862, when Crowley is asking Aziraphale for holy water in the park where they could be overheard, it causes Aziraphale to need to reply in such a way that he needs to find a word to describe his relationship with Crowley that could be overheard by people working for Heaven/Hell. Aziraphale is worried then that Heaven/Hell will find out about them. He knows that, if they get caught, they'd have a far better chance of surviving it if they could play their relationship off as sibling-like because Aziraphale thinks (and likely isn't wrong) that they are as good as dead if Heaven/Hell finds out that they're lovers.
In 1862, the fact that fraternizing only meant brotherly was why Aziraphale landed on that choice of word, even if his tone of voice doesn't quite successfully sell it.
Crowley being upset with that choice of words is because he knows that they both know that 'brotherly' is a wildly inaccurate description of their relationship. Crowley is in a low place in 1862 and other dialogue in the scene suggests that they're struggling a bit with that relationship, which is probably why Crowley is vulnerable enough to challenge that word choice in the open park. The inaccurate description is the reason for the sarcastic way Crowley uses fraternizing in his reply. He's angry because they are not brothers, they are lovers.
#good omens#ineffable husbands#crowley#aziraphale#aziracrow#good omens meta#crowley x aziraphale#etymology
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Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow (German, 1862–1925) - Lonely Christmas
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The history of Christmas traditions kept evolving throughout the 19th century, when most of the familiar components of the modern Christmas including St. Nicholas, Santa Claus, and Christmas trees, became popular. The changes in how Christmas was celebrated were so profound that it's safe to say someone alive in 1800 would not even recognize the Christmas celebrations held in 1900.
Washington Irving and St. Nicholas
Early Dutch settlers of New York considered St. Nicholas to be their patron saint and practiced a yearly ritual of hanging stockings to receive presents on St. Nicholas Eve, in early December. Washington Irving, in his fanciful History of New York, mentioned that St. Nicholas had a wagon he could ride “over the tops of trees” when he brought “his yearly presents to children.”
The Dutch word “Sinterklaas” for St. Nicholas evolved into the English “Santa Claus,” thanks in part to a New York City printer, William Gilley, who published an anonymous poem referring to “Santeclaus” in a children’s book in 1821. The poem was also the first mention of a character based on St. Nicholas having a sleigh, in this case, pulled by a single reindeer.
Clement Clarke Moore and The Night Before Christmas
Perhaps the best-known poem in the English language is “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” or as it’s often called, “The Night Before Christmas.” Its author, Clement Clarke Moore, a professor who owned an estate on the west side of Manhattan, would have been quite familiar with the St. Nicholas traditions followed in early 19th century New York. The poem was first published, anonymously, in a newspaper in Troy, New York, on December 23, 1823.
Reading the poem today, one might assume that Moore simply portrayed the common traditions. Yet he actually did something quite radical by changing some of the traditions while also describing features that were entirely new.
For instance, the St. Nicholas gift giving would have taken place on December 5, the eve of St. Nicholas Day. Moore moved the events he describes to Christmas Eve. He also came up with the concept of “St. Nick” having eight reindeer, each of them with a distinctive name.
Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol
The other great work of Christmas literature from the 19th century is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In writing the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Dickens wanted to comment on greed in Victorian Britain. He also made Christmas a more prominent holiday and permanently associated himself with Christmas celebrations.
Dickens was inspired to write his classic story after speaking to working people in the industrial city of Manchester, England, in early October 1843. He wrote A Christmas Carol quickly, and when it appeared in bookstores the week before Christmas 1843 it began to sell very well.
The book crossed the Atlantic and began to sell in America in time for Christmas 1844, and became extremely popular. When Dickens made his second trip to America in 1867 crowds clamored to hear him read from A Christmas Carol. His tale of Scrooge and the true meaning of Christmas had become an American favorite. The story has never been out of print, and Scrooge is one of the best-known characters in literature.
Santa Claus Drawn by Thomas Nast
The famed American cartoonist Thomas Nast is generally credited as having invented the modern depiction of Santa Claus. Nast, who had worked as a magazine illustrator and created campaign posters for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, was hired by Harper’s Weekly in 1862. For the Christmas season, he was assigned to draw the magazine’s cover, and legend has it that Lincoln himself requested a depiction of Santa Claus visiting Union troops.
The resulting cover, from Harper’s Weekly dated January 3, 1863, was a hit. It shows Santa Claus on his sleigh, which has arrived at a U.S. Army camp festooned with a “Welcome Santa Claus” sign.
Santa’s suit features the stars and stripes of the American flag, and he’s distributing Christmas packages to the soldiers. One soldier is holding up a new pair of socks, which might be a boring present today, but would have been a highly prized item in the Army of the Potomac.
Beneath Nast's illustration was the caption, “Santa Claus In Camp.” Appearing not long after the carnage at Antietam and Fredericksburg, the magazine cover is an apparent attempt to boost morale in a dark time.
The Santa Claus illustrations proved so popular that Thomas Nast kept drawing them every year for decades. He is also credited with creating the notion that Santa lived at the North Pole and kept a workshop manned by elves. The figure of Santa Claus endured, with the version drawn by Nast becoming the accepted standard version of the character. By the early 20th century the Nast-inspired version of Santa became a very common figure in advertising.
Prince Albert and Queen Victoria Made Christmas Trees Fashionable
The tradition of the Christmas tree came from Germany, and there are accounts of early 19th century Christmas trees in America, but the custom wasn’t widespread outside German communities.
The Christmas tree first gained popularity in British and American society thanks to the husband of Queen Victoria, the German-born Prince Albert. He installed a decorated Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1841, and woodcut illustrations of the Royal Family’s tree appeared in London magazines in 1848. Those illustrations, published in America a year later, created the fashionable impression of the Christmas tree in upper-class homes.
By the late 1850s reports of Christmas trees were appearing in American newspapers. And in the years following the Civil War ordinary American households celebrated the season by decorating a Christmas tree.
The first electric Christmas tree lights appeared in the 1880s, thanks to an associate of Thomas Edison, but were too costly for most households. Most people in the 1800s lit their Christmas trees with small candles.
The First White House Christmas Tree
The first Christmas tree in the White House was displayed in 1889, during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. The Harrison family, including his young grandchildren, decorated the tree with toy soldiers and glass ornaments for their small family gathering.
There are some reports of president Franklin Pierce displaying a Christmas tree in the early 1850s. But the stories of a Pierce tree are vague and there doesn't seem to be contemporaneous mentions in newspapers of the time.
Benjamin Harrison's Christmas cheer was closely documented in newspaper accounts. An article on the front page of the New York Times on Christmas Day 1889 detailed the lavish presents he was going to give his grandchildren. And though Harrison was generally regarded as a fairly serious person, he vigorously embraced the Christmas spirit.
Not all subsequent presidents continued the tradition of having a Christmas tree in the White House. By the middle of the 20th century, White House Christmas trees became established. And over the years it has evolved into an elaborate and very public production.
The first National Christmas Tree was placed on The Ellipse, an area just south of the White House, in 1923, and the lighting of it was presided over by President Calvin Coolidge. The lighting of the National Christmas Tree has become quite a large annual event, typically presided over by the current president and members of the First Family.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
In 1897 an eight-year-old girl in New York City wrote to a newspaper, the New York Sun, asking if her friends, who doubted the existence of Santa Claus, were right. An editor at the newspaper, Francis Pharcellus Church, responded by publishing, on September 21, 1897, an unsigned editorial. The response to the little girl has become the most famous newspaper editorial ever printed.
The second paragraph is often quoted:
"Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS."
Church’s eloquent editorial asserting the existence of Santa Claus seemed a fitting conclusion to a century that began with modest observances of St. Nicholas and ended with the foundations of the modern Christmas season firmly intact.
By the end of the 19th century, the essential components of a modern Christmas, from Santa to the story of Scrooge to strings of electric lights were firmly established in America.
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Gaston Bussiere (1862-1929), 'Salome', ''The Tatler'', Christmas Issue, 1925 Source
#Gaston Bussiere#french artists#the tatler#salome#vintage illustration#vintage art#color illustration
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✨ "You'll catch a cold, dear." Backstory: To make amends for the "holy water" refusal of 1862, in 1906 Aziraphale invited Crowley to the theater for the Christmas nutcracker show. They had missed each other very much. ♥️✨ + a little comic sketch on my reel, in witch Azi make a sly proposal :D Recently I saw Wilde and I definitely wanted to draw them with Edwardian style dresses. 🤭🎩Azi looks a lot like Robbie Ross! 😂
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#procreate#digitalart#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#michael sheen#david tennant#Instagram
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antique dolls go through a lot over the years and are frequently damaged as they get older
except this one doll currently for sale on Ruby Lane called Cora, who was given to a little girl named Florence for Christmas 1862 only for Florence to take her to bed on Christmas night, fall out of bed, and promptly break her porcelain head presumably less than 24 hours after receiving her
people have always been people
#history#antiques#antique dolls#doll#(they fixed Cora. there's family provenance relating the story)
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Marcel Ryder (French, 1862 –1942) • Decorating the Christmas Tree • 1898
#art#fine art#painting#paintings of interiors#art history#marcel ryder#the painted room blog#paintings of domestic interiors#art blog#french artist#christmas scene#artist#artwork#art appreciation
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Christmas - C Muller , 1914
Austrian , 1862 - 1938
Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 55.5 cm.
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Christmas 1862, Part 2: Home Sweet Home. A Civil War Christmas
Christmas 1862, Part 2: Home Sweet Home. A Civil War Christmas
Louis Prang’s somewhat romanticized portrayal of Christmas in 1862. Many a Union soldier wished the food were that abundant at the front. Back east both armies had had enough fighting at Fredericksburg before Christmas to satisfy the politicians, and so Christmas Day, as cold and snowy as it was, came as peaceful relief. Not so in the western Confederacy. Out west, Christmas Day was anything…
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#A Civil War Christmas#Army of Tennessee#Army of the Cumberland#Battle of Stones River#Battle of the Bands#Christmas 1862#Home Sweet Home
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When You Are Young
pairing: JJ Maybank x Fem!Reader
summary: Vintage tee, brand new phone/High heels on cobblestones/When you are young, they assume you know nothing/Sequin smile, black lipstick/Sensual politics/When you are young, they assume you know nothing
word count: 1862
warnings: reader has uncaring family (no physical abuse)
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She was sitting nicely at the Country Club, head resting on a closed fist and pretending to be interested in what her father was saying. He wouldn't let her be on her phone, a lesson she learned the hard way when she went to text JJ back and her father had gotten so angry they left immediately and she couldn't have her phone for a week.
She moved her eyes to roam slightly, taking in the beach and the perfect green grass and the workers all in their suits and JJ and the flowers and-
JJ.
Her eyes widened and she sat up slightly, a small smile playing on her lips. He was sneaking around the grass, staying out of sight of all the other kooks who laughed delicately and sipped their wine and didn't have anything better to do.
"I have to go to the bathroom." She said suddenly, ignoring the way her mother glared. She winked at JJ before walking into the building, hoping her parents didn't see him following her but not caring at all if they somehow did.
She was barely in the girls bathroom when JJ attacked her in a hug, kissing her neck and cheek as she giggled and put her arms around his neck. She had seen him only yesterday, but this seemed like forever ago after practically living together the first part of the summer. She told her parents she was staying with Kie while Kiara told her parents she was staying with Y/N, which caused problems when after not coming home for two and a half weeks they finally talked.
Y/N tripped over her heels, JJ holding her to himself around the waist and causing them both to fall a little bit before JJ stopped them. He grabbed the bottom of her dress and lifted it up to palm her ass, picking her up and putting her up on the counter.
"J, this is a public bathroom." She was mostly teasing, because she knows that they'd hear the high stilettos of anyone who wanted to come into the bathroom long before they came in.
"Does it look like I give a shit?" JJ asked, sighing as she hooked her ankles behind his back, pulling him close.
"I have never known you to give a shit." She chuckles, causing him to smile as he leans in and kisses her deeply.
"Why are you here?" She asks, almost regretting it because she knows that they have a minute left.
"I haven't seen you in too long. I want you to come back to the Chateau." He whines, and she frowns.
"I can't believe I let my parents catch me." She lets JJ help her down, fixing her hair.
"It'll be okay." She lets herself look at his face while soaking in the last couple seconds they have.
When she goes back to the table, her parents are talking to different people. She doesn't really know what to do, either not liking or not knowing anyone her age there. She watched JJ run away, trying to evade security, but once he was gone she was alone.
She walks up to her mom, who pays no attention to her. They're talking about some type of magazine and it's contents this month, and it isn't until her mothers friend turned to her that she was finally allowed to participate.
"Y/N doesn't know about these things yet." Her mother laughed, and Y/N felt her face heat. How could her mother embarrass her like this, especially in front of her own friends? And what was she supposed to say to that? She didn't know that much about what was 'in season' or what she was supposed to wear. She put on what her mother told her to when she was forced to attend outings with her family, but otherwise she didn't really care.
This led to her acting out at Halloween, deciding to stray from her mother's theme of Disney. Her family always won the group costume, and this year she knew her siblings would be dressed as princesses and princes - despite their annoyed sighs and the fact that they would change as soon as they left the Country Club - and her mother would be a queen, her father a king. Y/N was staring at the beautiful dress on her bed, mourning it for a moment. She would even be inclined to wear it if her mother's words didn't replay during every moment of her routine during the day. So instead, with the help of Sarah and Kie, Y/N went for the most opposite thing she could find, making sure she could match JJ.
They would be Sandy and Danny. But not from Summer Nights, where she wore a flowy skirt and a blouse. No, she was wearing tight jeans and an even tighter shirt, her black leather jacket popping against them.
Her mother was going to hate her.
"Y/N, we have to go!" Her mother called out, but Y/N knew she couldn't leave with her mother; she'd just be forced to change.
"I'll take my own car! Just gotta finish up!" Timing was perfect, it seemed, as just that moment JJ climbed through her open window, rolling on the floor and standing quickly, a strand of gelled back hair falling into his eyes. She smiled, taking in his matching costume.
"You look," JJ said as the door downstairs slammed shut and everyone headed to the car.
"Not as good as you." Y/N smiled as he pulled her close, hands around her hips and her's around his neck.
"Better." He leaned forward to kiss her, smudging her lipstick slightly while she messed up his hair.
"It would be better if you would just come with me to the Club." They had talked about it before, how she would either be kicked out or leave early to go to the party the Pouges were throwing after.
"I think that'd just speed run the process of you getting kicked out." JJ laughs, kissing her once more. "Now, fix your makeup, and then you can show up in real style - on the back of my bike." Y/N throws her head back in laugher and moves away as JJ releases her, letting her fix her makeup as he fixes his hair over her reflection. A couple minutes later they're on his bike, her arms tight around him. When they get to the Country Club, music is blasting.
"I'll see you soon." JJ tells her with a smirk as she takes the helmet off, smiling at him. No one has noticed her arrival, not yet, but they will. Y/N thinks she can't wait to see what Kiara and Sarah have planned to leave early, or if they'll even show up.
Y/N strides in, heart racing slightly, but she doesn't feel regret. She smiles at the bouncers, who hide their surprise well. She knows they recognize her - they do let her in anyway. It's once she gets pass them that people begin to stare openly. No one drops their drink or gasps, it's not that dramatic, but she knows they all whisper as soon as she walks past.
It's once she gets to her mother that she thinks maybe, just maybe, she should have gone along with the theme during this one part and sneak away later.
The lady her mother is talking catches Y/N's eyes and her smile drops slowly, her eyes widening. When her mother notices, she turns and looks at what could cause her friend to frown so quickly.
Her face goes from shock to anger so quickly that Y/N for a moment lets her smile falter.
"What the hell are you wearing?" Her mother seethed through her teeth as soon as Y/N was close enough to hear.
"I'm Sandy," Y/N starts, trying to stand tall. There was a reason she was doing this. Her mother didn't listen, treated her like a child even though she was well past that. A thought ran through her head, that her family could kick her out. For a moment, before she remembered that her family was only about saving face, she wondered if her mother would do it.
"What happened to the dress that I had made for you?" Y/N feels sorry for only a moment, because that dress was truly the only reason she wouldn't want to go against her mother.
"I'm sorry, I must not have understood." Y/N smiled sweetly, making her mother even more angry. "Too much of a child, apparently."
"Go home and change." Her mother plasters as smile on her face, one that matches Y/N's own.
"Gladly." She struts out, and for a moment she wonders if it would have been better to not show at all, since she's not coming back anyway. But then her eyes meet Kie's, who's dressed as a mermaid, and Sarah's, who's dressed as a space cowboy. The two smirk and follow her out, slipping away from their parents easily.
"Your family is gonna murder you." Kie whispers as they run to her car.
"Worth it." Y/N smiles, her lips stretching and cracking her lipstick.
She has to sleep at the Chateau for a week, with only the extra clothes that others can scrounge for her, waiting for her parents to text her and tell her that they were being dramatic, of course they want their daughter to come home. By the time they do, Y/N doesn't care much, and only comes home to get her things. JJ helps, but her mother comes back before she can leave, just as she's carrying the last box into the car that JJ already started.
"What are you doing?" Her mother admonishes, seeing the Twinkie loaded with all her shit.
"Moving." Y/N shrugs. If her parents don't bother to check up on her a week after leaving her to fend for herself, she doesn't care about their money. She doesn't have to pay rent at the Chateau, she can split groceries, she has her own job. She throws the last box into the Twinkie, closing the door.
"You can't do this to us." There goes her mother, making everything about herself. Y/N doesn't care about saving face, walking into the Twinkie without so much as a wave. She knows she'll still see her siblings; what she doesn't know is if her parents will make her look bad to save themselves or just troubled.
"Bye, mom." She mutters, shutting the door and looking straight forward as JJ turns the radio up to drown out the shouts of her mother. She still hears it, though, the stinging words that started the whole thing.
"You think you know everything? You don't know shit. You may not be in school, but you're still a little girl!"
And maybe her mom is right, in a way. Maybe she doesn't know everything. But as she looks at JJ, one hand on her thigh and the other on the steering wheel, softly singing along to the radio and bobbing his head, she wants to scream that her mother is wrong. She knows that JJ is her love, and that there's nothing they wouldn't do for each other.
She knows JJ.
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tags: @avada-kedavra-bitch-187 @one-sweet-gubler
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Here's a list of 160 completed Rosekiller fics under 2k.
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Wordcount 1031
You're in my mind
hlctrr
Wordcount 1008
Let you break my heart again
your_loverboy
Wordcount 1007
Seriously?
remusbuzzcutt
Wordcount 1004
Nothing's New
your_loverboy
Wordcount 988
le temps perdu ne se rattrape jamais
vlcekest
Wordcount 968
How it's always been
rsbarelle
Wordcount 956
At first sight
lilyofthevalleyys
Wordcount 946
Perfectly Imperfect
MNOONYTUNES
Wordcount 946
If I'm in fire (you'll be made of ashes too)
Graverobbber
Wordcount 939
Then this shall outlive every one of them
etpeggy
Wordcount 923
moonlit promises
destielcowboy
Wordcount 899
Not to disappear
juvpiter
Wordcount 889
your guard is up and I know why
Anonymous
Wordcount 888
Tell me why this has to end
starseeker (Avenegers_Whore)
Wordcount 877
Notre jour viendra
vlcekest
Wordcount 875
Make this last forever
Orphan_account
Wordcount 870
I did it for love
prongsunny
Wordcount 856
Kiss and makeup
EmoTank2137
Wordcount 841
Hope
Wilting_Rose
Wordcount 825
Are we a tragedy?
ARemuskinniethatsnamedbuglady
Wordcount 822
Spin the bottle
Lightning_McQueen
Wordcount 799
Everlasting pain
Wilting_Rose
Wordcount 798
Medicine
Orphan_account
Wordcount 786
THIS ONE IS EXPLICIT
wilted rose
raekenswishes
Wordcount 751
Nobody said it would last forever
James_Version
Wordcount 750
Amnesia
vlcekest
Wordcount 744
Caffeine and Chemistry
Wilting_Rose
Wordcount 736
An empty dorm...
BellusFabulas
Wordcount 728
THIS ONE IS EXPLICIT
bloodsport
memoristar
Wordcount 724
Fading Away
Daisyflower20
Wordcount 712
New years kiss
emisaewr
Wordcount 706
Evan rosier, loved by bartemius crouch jr
hello_there_darcy
Wordcount 697
My darling barty
MisterDuckings
Wordcount 696
Selfish
Nikito_3
Wordcount 691
Words are futile devices
Orphan_account
Wordcount 661
Him & I
fleurdeserre
Wordcount 660
Robbers
ethereal_ella
Wordcount 648
Christmas time is here
sigme7
Wordcount 635
Lost in the shadows
Marlenes_Wife_for_Life
Wordcount 634
Two peas in a pod || Rosekiller
chubby_dumpling127
Wordcount 631
Really?
KR_RoseBlock
Wordcount 604
Asylum
Rosekller
Wordcount 597
Reflection
Sigme7
Wordcount 594
Messy room
jaz_star
Wordcount 546
Revenge (eye for an eye, leg for a leg)
Anonymous
Wordcount 546
The simple way of love
ravenclawwitandhumor
Wordcount 543
Cause I never knew love (like this before)
ARemuskinniethatsnamedbuglady
Wordcount 537
Being good
rugthechaoticbisexual
Wordcount 524
Life that wasn't mine
mocha_coffee_0711
Wordcount 521
Make me a vase one day?
OogieBoobie
Wordcount 509
Forever young
siriusly_prongs_is_bambi
Wordcount 500
Trap
HuffleStar
Wordcount 423
ii
orphan_account
Wordcount 395
Revenge XXX
KR_RoseBlock
Wordcount 352
Not half bad
ayebydan
Wordcount 347
Why find out this way
Orphan_account
Wordcount 343
Dick on Tuesday: a rewrite
mercurialstvr and orphan_account
Wordcount 337
Barty crouch time in Azkaban
itscanilathe1
Wordcount 335
Stay? Always
CanYouHearMyFear
Wordcount 327
Taste of Rust and Roses
caspian_oc and poisoninmyteacup
Wordcount 326
Bloody Hell
Blitzo
Wordcount 277
Haunted
TheFaeSys
Wordcount 276
A letter to a loved one
Orphan_account
Wordcount 264
One last smile
acvb3ns
Wordcount 258
Rosekillers decline
Idriiel
Wordcount 202
Our love
moonage_stardust
Wordcount 102
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Good Omens Gallery Filter Tags, Pt. 2
This is Part 2 of filtering tags for the @good-omens-gallery. For info about the Gallery. and for Crowley + Aziraphale tags, refer to the Good Omens Gallery Master Post.
C+A Through the Ages
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the yule cat
For most of us with cats, the worst thing we worry about come Christmastime is keeping them from utterly trashing our Christmas trees.
Iceland however has a whole other thing to be worried about when it comes to cats and Christmas.
To quote the title of an article by Danny Lewis in the Smithsonian Magazine (because it is far too perfect to not):
Each Christmas, Iceland’s Yule Cat Takes Fashion Policing to the Extreme
So, what is the Yule Cat and why is he in critiquing Iceland's Christmas clothes?
Freyja's cats aren't the only felines in town. The Yule Cat, the Jólakötturinn, also known as the Christmas Cat, is a gigantic cat the size of a house that roams the darkness of Iceland in the nights leading up to Christmas eve, peering with glowing eyes in through windows. What is he looking for? The Yule Cat is checking everyone's Christmas presents. Not for cans of tuna or kitty snacks. Oh no, the Yule Cat is looking to see who hasn't gotten any new clothes wrapped up and waiting for them.
No new clothes?
The Yule Cat will hunt the unfortunate victim down and tear them apart before eating them. (in other, gentler tales, he simple eats their Christmas 'portion' of dinner)
Still, seems a bit extreme a response to grandma forgetting to knit you yet another one of those hats with the pom-poms on top, doesn't it?
Still, that's the deal. Adults and children alike better be grateful for those packs of new underwear under the tree. Those socks are going to do more than keep their feet warm - those socks are going to save their life!
So, we've got to ask ourselves - why would new clothes be so important that folklore would come up with a monster enforcing them? Is it all a ploy just to make sure Johannes is grateful when he gets that ugly sweater instead of the toy train he was gunning for when he unwraps his presents?
Well, like most things in folklore, if you go back far enough, things get blurry. The first written mention we have of the Yule Cat is in a collection of folklore gathered by Jon Árnason in 1862. In it, the Yule Cat gets exactly one paragraph and a footnote. The footnote is the important part. It mentions a colloquial phrase of the time: "to dress the cat". 'To dress the cat' means to wear the same clothes over and over again, the idea being that cats don't change their 'clothes'.
There was also a tradition that household servants and farm workers that helped turn the season's wool into yarn would receive new clothes as a reward for their work. Those who didn't - didn't get new clothes. You can see how the Yule Cat would come in handy as motivation in this case. It also worked as a motivator for children to finish their chores in the same way, with good children getting rewarded with clothes and bad children being left as fair game for the Cat.
In 1932, Jóhannes úr Kötlum published a collection of poems centered around Christmas and one of his poems featured the Yule Cat. The Yule Cat's popularity soared and the monster soon found itself lumped in together with other Christmastime monsters from the book, becoming the pet of the evil troll, Gryla and ridden by one of her mischievous Yule Lad sons, tiny Stufur.
But wait - let's go back a bit further before we wrap this up. Because there's been some speculation that the Christmas Cat isn't just about new clothes. We need to go back, back to early St. Nick stories, when it wasn't so much Santa and his elves and reindeer. When St. Nick was, as so many winter myths are, only part of the story. Because you can't have good without evil, generosity without greed or light without darkness. Santa Claus doesn't come without Krampus in his shadow. Reward doesn't come without the threat of punishment. Krampus is only one Christmas monster but almost every region had their own version of a dark something lurking in Santa's footsteps. Perhaps, so the theory goes, the Yule Cat was once just such a creature, back when stories were still new at Christmas time and winters crept long and cold in the nights of the snow covered lands. For every saint, there must be a devil.
Which brings us to today. Because there are no stories about the Yule Cat skipping a meal because the child's parents were too poor to afford to buy new clothes.
Maybe the best way we can celebrate the Yule Cat stories today is by making sure no children ever have to think of him as anything more than a shadow that peers in their window - and then passes by.
#yule cat#christmas cat#christmas#folklore#superstition#cottagecore#iceland#yule lads#gryla#jolakotturinn#monster#st. nick#st. nicholas#santa claus#freyja#cat
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sorry to bring up character ages in tid again, but i wanted to run a theory by you about something i discovered.
in chapter 1 of clockwork princess, tessa is being fitted for her wedding dress and she says this: “he would look so young. they were both so young. tessa new it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.”
clockwork princess takes place in september/october (i think??) of 1878, and their wedding was supposed to be in december. what i’m thinking that tessa must be older than what cc has told us (in both the family tree and the “new” canon she established with the 10th anni of ca). based on the quote, we can probably assume that tessa is either already seventeen when clockwork princess starts, or will be turning seventeen sometime between then and december. which assumes jem’s birthday is somewhere in there as well. so will and jem being born in 1860 is probably correct, but tessa was probably born in 1861.
Bottom line: cc can’t even keep her own canon straight XD. im gonna try to write my own time line to try to make sense of it sigjdnd.
Waait a minute. Wow.
So, yes. Tessa's birthday is said to be January 28, 1862. Clockwork Princess takes place from October to December, which means Tessa is sixteen and turns seventeen in January 1879, which is still a couple months away from the supposed wedding.
I guess they didn't have any confirmed dates of birth before the 10th anniversary edition of Clockwork Angel, just the birth years, but I found this part with Charlotte and Jem in Clockwork Princess, chapter 13 "The Mind Has Mountains":
You are still a child, Charlotte wanted to say, but she did not. He was only a few weeks short of his eighteenth birthday, after all, when Shadowhunters became adults, and if when she looked at him she still saw the dark-haired little boy who had arrived from Shanghai clutching his violin, his eyes huge in his pale face, that did not mean he had not grown up.
Which, of course, goes along with the whole
“Yes, though Charlotte’s rather fallen off in tutoring us lately, as you might imagine,” said Will. “One either has a tutor or one is schooled in Idris—that is, until you attain your majority at eighteen. Which will be soon, thankfully, for the both of us.” “Which one of you is older?” “Jem,” said Will, and “I am,” said Jem, at the same time. They laughed in unison as well, and Will added, “Only by three months, though.”
part in Clockwork Prince which takes place from July to August, but the rest of what was previously discussed gives the idea that they both have already turned seventeen in 1878, especially when juxtaposed with Gabriel's and Nate's ages and the rest.
Otherwise it does work that Will is born in late December and Jem's birthday is in November, other than that whole mess with being "three months" apart in age. But the language is weird, Tessa won't be marrying at seventeen no matter what, though Jem' would've recently turned eighteen.
Will telling Cecily that:
“You can’t be married, Cecily! You’re only fifteen! When I get married, I’ll be eighteen! An adult!”
Will turning eighteen a week or so after that Christmas when he proposed to Tessa works in that context as well. Though they apparently married two years later in March 3, 1880, according to the bonus content.
Though not exactly on topic, I want to point out that in said bonus content, Will thinks that "It wasn’t strictly a Shadowhunter wedding, because Tessa wasn’t strictly a Shadowhunter. But Will had decided to wear wedding gear anyway, because he was going to be the head of the London Institute, and his children would be Shadowhunters" though, at least according to the comic, James' conception was such a surprise because they didn't know if Tessa as a warlock could have children. And James was born in 1886, six years after the wedding.
Anyway, it's still a bit of a mess because, though some parts do fit, other parts of the text seem to have been written in another frame of reference in any case.
The timeline idea sounds fantastic!
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