#andrew yule

[tavolgisvist]

Sondra Peterson & Deborah Dixon with The Beatles during a photoshoot for McCall's Magazine in the Bahamas, photo by Enrico Caruso, 7 March 1965

Photo robbed from

A hundred to one they are quite another beautiful women, but this set always reminds me about it:

The Beatles' first exposure to heroin is believed to have taken place in 1965. While filming Help! on Huntington Hartford's estate on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, director Richard Lester witnessed two women attempting to introduce Paul McCartney to the drug. [Lester] accidentally overheard two of the most beautiful women he had ever seen, dressed in identical, stunning black swimsuits, try to coax Paul into taking heroin. The combination of their sexual come-on and the enticement towards hard drugs was one of the most chillingly evil moments Lester has ever encountered … His sense of relief when Paul rebuffed the twosome was profound.​

(The Man Who Framed the Beatles: A Biography of Richard Lester by Andrew Yule​, 1994)

[toto-4444]

The male manipulator.

[bipanicoverthegravessiblings]

Look- here me out—

These four as a friend group

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From An Old School Yule, Archie Double Digest #223 (2011).

[melistrasus]

it’s finally love actually season!!! also first post on tumblr i have no clue what to post ☹️

[swampflix]

Quick Takes: Ghosts of Yule

This hazy dead space between Christmas and the New Year finds the boundaries between this world and the next at its thinnest, even thinner than on All Hallows’ Eve.  That’s why Yule season is the perfect time to read, watch, and share ghost stories.  It’s a tradition most faithfully observed in annual retellings of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and in annual British television broadcasts…

[snowbairdd]

A Yule log. It's a wonderful tradition. One log is chosen, and everyone in the house touches it and makes a Christmas wish.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS (1997) dir. Andrew Knight

[hohohozier]

Now that the Christmas season is over and I’ve listened to most of the songs multiple times, I have some specific requests, in order of most to least important (to me lol)

O Holy Night

The First Noel

O Come All Ye Faithful

Silent Night

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

What Christman Means to Me

Go Tell It On The Mountain

I’ve kept this thought to myself for years but I believe now is the time to manifest it: Hozier Christmas/Yule album

[gardenwalrus]

Within Andrew Yule, The Man Who “Framed” the Beatles: A Biography of Richard Lester (1994)

[zsakuva]

Hi saku! Since it's Christmas time, I have some Christmas related questions.

Which listener/s would go all out for Christmas?

Does Christmas exist in serula? If so is there something like a yule ball(yes I got this from Harry potter)?

Which character/listener would be the grinch of Christmas?

Pickle, SB, and Luca's.

No, Serulla has their own traditions.

I don't think any of them would be. The closest might be Andrew.

[percicosoftcore]

andrew graves is my beloved sex symbol, walking red flag of a man who’s got a sister complex and i cherish him for it but, SINCE WE’RE APPRECIATING NEMLEI’S WORK CAN WE PLEASE TALK MORE ABOUT ‘BECAUSE LIFE WITH ME IS SO DIZZYING AND INTOXICATING’ YULE FROM NO GOOD NOELLE?

[creature-wizard]

Hii genuine question. Are Christian holidays not actually from a basis of paganism? I felt like from what I’ve read about it before made sense to me

So like, a lot of people basically jumped to conclusions whenever a Christian holiday was either celebrated near the time of an old pre-Christian holiday, or its name sounded superficially similar to something pre-Christian, or its popular celebrations included elements that didn't seem quite Christian enough.

So, let's take Easter, for example. At one point, this guy Bede mentioned that the holiday got its name from "Eostremonath," IE, Eostre Month, which was named after an old goddess, Eostre. Now, that may very well be true, but it doesn't demonstrate that the holiday had pagan origins. See, when it comes to words for the holiday celebrating Jesus's resurrections, English is an outlier. Most European languages use words that derive from Pascha, which is ultimately derived from the Hebrew word Pesach, as in Passover.

There's also no evidence that Eostre's symbols included eggs or hares. In fact, everything we know about Eostre comes from Bede. Anything else is just guesswork. Dr. Andrew Henry of ReligionForBreakfast on YouTube, by the way, has a decent video on the topic of Eostre.

So why eggs, anyway? Well, back in the day, eggs were forbidden during Lent, so by the time Easter rolled around people had like a month's worth of eggs stacked up. So like, why not eggs?

And then of course, Alexander Hislop completely pulled the Easter/Ishtar connection out of his ass, because he was an anti-Catholic conspiracy theorist who did not care about scholarship, only about demonizing the Catholic Church.

Christmas has been claimed to have been derived from Saturnalia or Sol Invictus based on similarities in dates, but scholars have found that there was this belief that holy men died on the same day they were conceived. So if we start with Good Friday and fast forward nine months, that puts us either in December or January, depending on when exactly you believe Jesus was crucified. So Western traditions, which went for March 25, settled on December 25, whereas Eastern traditions, which went with April 6, got January 6. Dr. Andrew Henry talks about this here.

Christmas trees are also claimed to be pagan, but in reality they weren't a thing until the late medieval period. The earliest known reference to a decorated tree goes back to 1419. Or, it might be a tree; the word used ("Bom") could also mean a pole, as in a decorated pole like a maypole. It was shortly after this that people began erecting trees out in public squares. Again, Dr. Andrew Henry has a video on this.

And yes, it's true that Christmas is called something like Yule or Jol in other languages, but as we've determined from Easter, a name doesn't necessarily tell us where something came from. Most languages don't use anything like Yule; for example, English uses Christmas, as in, "Christ's Mass," while many languages use a word deriving from the Latin natalis, as in "birth," as in "Jesus's birthday."

Just about every attempt to link a Christian holiday to a pre-Christian one is operating on similarly poor methodologies. People just kinda drew conclusions based on things looking kinda similar without looking closer to see if they were really actually connected, or based on things not lining up with their personal ideas of how Christians ought to behave. (This whole idea that pure, true Christianity is sourced 100% from the Bible and the Bible alone is very Protestant, btw. It's also a position that would have baffled the earliest Christians, who didn't even have a New Testament and didn't regard things like the the epistles as holy scripture yet.)

Now of course, the Christianization of Europe didn't overwrite its cultures entirely, and local cultural beliefs and traditions ultimately did influence holiday traditions in some way; Christmas elves are a pretty clear example of this. But this whole idea that the Catholic Church just stole all these pagan holidays and remade them into Christian ones is pseudohistory.

[ma-lark-ey]

AFTG & scientific ideas/paradoxes i connect them with no elaboration

Originally this post was going to be all scientific laws & then I remembered the Irresistible Paradox & went down a paradox rabbit hole. I simply think about how 90% of scientif law/theory/paradox is deeply poetic.

Firstly, the Monsters (+Jean) all apply to: Hedgehog's Dilemma (despite goodwill, intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm) and I mean that with my full chest.

Neil: Newton's First Law of Motion (an object in motion will stay in motion) Bhartrhari's Paradox (the idea that something can be unnameable conflicts with the notion that it is named by calling it unnameable)

Andrew: (OBVIOUSLY) The Irresistible Paradox (an unmovable object meets an unstoppable force)

Aaron: Newton's Third Law of Motion (when two objects interact, they apply forces of equal magnitude in opposite directions)

Nicky: The Catch-22 (having a need for something that can never be acquired on the basis of needing it)

Kevin: Hess' Law (the total change of a complete course of a chemical reaction is independent of the sequence of steps taken)

Jean: Hagen-Poiseuille's Law (liquid left in a vacuum will always rise)

Renee: The Law of Microscopic Reversibility (any chemical reaction can be undone if given enough energy & time)

Jeremy: Olber's Paradox (why is the night sky dark if there's infinite amounts of bright stars covering it?)

Wymack: Yule-Simpson Effect (a trend that appears in a group of data will disappear when similar groups are combined, and reverse trends will begin to appear)

Honorable Mentions:

Ferme's Paradox (the probable existence of alien life despite the complete lack of concrete evidence) (Neil)

I also think ship of theseus is very Renee coded.

Jeaneil: The Conservation of Energy (isolated systems can be found to be symmetries in time) Andrew, Aaron, Nicky: The Prisoner's Dilemma (people might not cooperate despite it being in their best interest)

The Young Sun Paradox (the evidence of liquid water early on earth despite equal evidence that the sun should not have been able to melt the ice yet)

[farm-fresh-hell]

nemlei, queen of Healthy Family Dynamics

i love that this theme continues through her works: parentification of the children as a result of the adult's poor decision making. noelle herself points out that her mother never intended to have more than three children, but that she got pregnant anyway and is now unable to care for the lot.

there's no excuse for it. not really. it's childishness and selfishness in the extreme. noelle's father has yet to show up, but that in itself is indicative of what the parental relationship is like. i'm willing to bet that noelle's mother is having sex with him as a means of keeping him around. and even if i'm wrong... what's the rationalization? "we're in love"??? HAHA!

the blithe irresponsibility is giiiiiiiving mrs. graves. if you couldn't handle one "easy child", what the fuck made you think kid #2 would be okay????

it's just so fucking tragic because these kids never ASKED to be born. the responsibility lies solely with the parent.

even if, in this case, noelle's mom is being FORCED - a lack of autonomy isn't an excuse for shirking your responsibility as a decent human being. she has no excuse for essentially shunting her daughter into sex work should it come to that.

but what's more? noelle's agreement with yule.

she isn't choosing to "help" him because she's lazy or afraid of failure - though neither of those motives would suggest moral bankruptcy either; there's a real psychological toll attached to crashing and burning. but no. SHE'S making this deal with yule because she has no choice. because OUTSIDE CIRCUMSTANCES have forced her hand. kiiiinda like how outside circumstances have forced andrew and ashley to, you know, kill and eat people.

when the pipes break and everyone starts panicking it becomes clear just how ill-equipped noelle's mother is to handle adulthood and all it entails. she's a child asking a child to help her take care of other children. noelle has no fucking choice but to cheat in order to get her license. so she can get paid. because they need the fucking money.

even if it means making a deal with a devil to see it done.

it's really sad and REALLY relatable i REALLY appreciate nemlei for addressing this shit in their work. i sat down with the intention of playing a fun game and now i'm actually considering the themes of the work and whatever else. like damn.

[ashley-kins]

These 4 are friends.

Lynn and Andrew met at a religious/cultist gathering. Andrew was a bit weirded out by Lynn until he saw Divilethion and began talking about the demon he and Ashley know.

Yule met Lynn outside the village and helped him due to Noelle pushing him to do so.

Andrew and Thiu met at a mental health group where they both went for depression and suicidal thoughts. They hit it off from early on.

Lynn and Thiu met when Divilethion marked Thiu. Lynn helped both Thius out of the city.

Andrew and Yule met by chance in a random spot. They ignored each other at first but they would constantly bump into each other so they broke the silence and chatted.

Yule met Thiu a lot like how he met Noelle, crying in the cold. Yule, not needing anything from Thiu tried to walk away, but Noelle wanted to check up on Thiu. Days later, they're friends.

I don't know why, but I feel like they would make a good friend group.