#carol singing

[maypoleman1]

20th December

Carol Singing

Source: Alive Network website

‘Tis the season for carol-singing. As illustrated in the entries from last late spring/early summer, carols were not always restricted to Christmas. Originally a carol was simply a song with a refrain, sung in unison to a round dance and could accompany any merry-making event. Over the years they have become associated almost entirely with the Christmas season, and usually have a religious theme. The heyday of carol writing was the nineteenth century when Victorian churchmen or their wives would write songs to celebrate the Nativity to be sung by their congregations and choirs. However, carolling has a long history and the in pre-Civil War Middle Ages, after which so many were banned by the victorious Puritans, carols often had interesting, and slightly heretical, subject matter.

In the Cherry Tree Carol, a disgruntled Joseph refuses to pick cherries for his craving-possessed wife, advising Mary to get the father of her child to pick her the berries. The infant Jesus in his mother’s womb orders the cherry trees to bow to Mary so she can easily pick the fruit. The child - still in utero - then tells an awed Joseph the date of his coming birth - the 6th January! In The Bitter Withy, a resentful young Jesus, spurned by his rich friends as an impoverished Jew, creates a bridge across a river with sunbeams and runs across. His playmates follow, only for the beams to melt away, leading to the children to drown in the waters beneath. When their outraged parents complain to Mary, she puts her son across her knee and wallops his backside with a bundle of withies from a willow tree as punishment, leading the infuriated and tearful Jesus to curse the willow and condemn it to be the first tree to perish from the earth, which may account for the tree’s sinister reputation in folklore.

Many of the medieval carols have been resurrected by modern folk artists and delight again with their strange non-Biblical stories of the infant Jesus.

[ajax0404]

[florencebirdsong]

I am so normal and can be trusted with marvel women. Please give me marvel women. I won’t bite them. I am so normal about marvel women. Please give them to me

[statcue]

me when im in a try not to vocal stim challenge and they bring out hes singing down the hallway

[no-mercy-bby]

No one taking about how Jaime Lyn Beatty killed it as the ghost of Christmas past??

[loveinwisteria]

Mamma Mia! Top Gun AU

Featuring :

Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell as Donna

Jake 'Hangman' Seresin as Sophie

Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky as Sam

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw as The Boyfriend ™

Donna and the Dynamos being ofc Maverick, Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw as Rosie, and Carole as Tanya.

Ron 'Slider' Kerner as Bill (and yes he Will be pursued by Both Nick and Carole because I said so)

And Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson as Harry (he finds his One True Love at the wedding aka Warlock)

[codacheetah]

Had the startling realization that something I do regularly is so Noelle Holiday coded I had to run back inside and draw it

[lilaccbush]

quite late but merry orthodox christmas to every orthodox person here!🌟

drew some magical monsters celebrating koleda

[heatherfield]

Oh, yikes. This one's gonna need a bit more training.

How to Be a Ghost [x]

[gifs-of-puppets]

Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

[nazunanan]

femween day 1 :

nightly manor patrols... ☀️🐬🎰

[andallshallbewell]

[trash-gremlin]

VHS Christmas Carols Spoilers

a bunch of my favourite parts and reactions in the VHS Christmas Carols bc i think it needs more love (its incredible btw and definitely worth the money)

i will never get over curts acting choices for this line, the little laugh before saying it and his FACE OH MY GOSH HIS ACTINGGGGGG

maybe the real gift was the love we had for each other and the sacrifices we were willing to make to make the other one happy

these three and their vogue-esque gay ass little song is the only thing that matters to me

it took me forever to turn that into a gif so i hope you enjoy it as much as i do

their reactions to the match girl showing up + brian mouthing "what the"

again laurens reaction to the match girl

ugh ATE

smth i only noticed on like the third rewatch - you can see scrooge holding and inspecting the watch he bought off jim when he bumps into the match girl

this is here bc they all look very good in that lighting especially lauren

embarrassing to admit it took me until here to realise that the match girl died

ajs little smile makes it feel like scrooge is taunting bob here and i love ittttt especially as hes calling him bobby

THIS

the ghost of christmas past jumping rope + scrooge being confused and doing it too

meredith lighting the ghost of christmas past's cigarette

scrooge basically begs his younger self in this scene, i absolutely love ajs choices in this show as scrooge. also i am such a huge fan of this casting not only because they are both phenomenal actors that i will never shut up about but they genuinely look similar and it works very well in this context

scrooge honey you cant fight the christmas electricity

HUGE dad energy

the top of his tiny tim shirt poking out + he looks really good here

funny little thing i noticed - his shirt isnt buttoned, just folded over itself. in the actual show you can see him tuck it under his jacket those quick changes must be killing them

the way he begs them and they dont even react.. paired with the music and this is horror movie level stuff

he got his watch back :,)

no im not crying, i have allergies... yea im allergic to being sad

i went back and made it a gif bc LOOK. LOOK AT HIS ACTING OH MY GOD. IF YOU COULD HEAR THE WAY HE SAID IT YOUD BE JUST AS INSANE AS ME HOLY SHITTTTTTT

this show is incredible go rent it right now if you havnt seen it, go rent it again if you have, and sacrifice all of your money and worldly possessions to starkid thank you and goodnight

[squidd-ink]

Yeah I made him pink and retrospective

[kikathedemon]

Guess I'm back at my bullshit again, qnd right on time for Christmas. Yaay.

[themishening]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!