#feasting and dancing in Jerusalem

[shalom-iamcominghome]

This part in the song This Year has just been hitting different as of late

[rarepairnation]

2024

THROW YOUR PHONE IN THE RIVER

NOT REALLY. THERE'S FRIENDS IN THERE. BUT FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE HOURS A DAY

SEE YOUR FRIENDS

NOT EVERY THRIFT TRIP WILL BE A WIN

GO FETCH A LEAF EVERY DAY

KILL THE OVERHEAD LIGHT

MAKE WEIRDER ART

READ. LIKE AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. YES I MEAN A PUBLISHED BOOK. FANFICTION DOES NOT COUNT

THE FIVE DOLLARS IT COSTS TO GET ON THE TRAIN IS WORTH GOING SOMEWHERE NEW TO WALK AROUND

LEAVE THE FUNCTION BEFORE YOU STOP HAVING A GOOD TIME

GROW GREEN ONIONS IN YOUR WINDOW

BUY YOURSELF FLOWERS

BUT THROW THEM OUT BEFORE THEY GET GROSS & MAKE YOU SAD

REMEMBER SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO BE ALONE. ALSO REMEMBER SOMETIMES YOU FEEL INSANE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO SEE ANOTHER PERSON. BOTH OF THESE EXIST AT THE SAME TIME. IT'S OKAY TO GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES

IT'S OKAY TO GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES

IT'S OKAY TO GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES

ITS OKAY IF A DAY IS BAD. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER

[francesderwent]

why does planning a wedding to the love of your life feel like "I can do it with a broken heart" and "this year" on a constant loop

[mcb3k]

Stephen Colbert Joins The Mountain Goats To Perform 'This Year'

[spiritunwilling]

every single day of my life i stare at lines written by people and wonder if they're making a tmg reference or just citing a line from scripture or a pro wrestling promo or something else somewhere that tmg also happened to reference

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

John The Mountain Goats Darnielle was right… I _am_ gonna make it through this year if it kills me

[levaagrace]

Did my yearly listen through of This Year by The Mountain Goats and hmmmmm. Hits even harder.

[rarepairnation]

THE ROAD GOES EVER ON. AND YOU MUST FOLLOW, IF YOU CAN

Decided I'm going to let the spirit of middle earth guide my 2024, not kidding. This is the year of hobbiting, elfing, dwarfing, and even, dare I say it, humaning around.

[uhode]

one must imagine sisyphus feasting and dancing in jerusalem next year

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Monty, Charles, and Edwin (Sex Pollen AU)

All the while Monty tries to keep an eye on Charles, who keeps constantly almost surfacing, trying to pull himself back into his own body, trying to break the hold that the pollen has on him, and god, the thing that hurts the worst isn’t the sex. It isn’t the friction, the passion, the thing that Monty was made for.

It’s that they kiss again. And again. It’s the one way to keep Charles pulled to earth, to distract him from the pollen coursing through his body, to ground him to himself.

Every kiss breaks off another part of Monty’s heart, because if Charles was in his right mind, if they were able to check in with each other, if Charles actually wanted this-

It wouldn’t hurt like this. It wouldn’t ache. 

-aletterinthenameofsanity, i love him, kiss his mouth (pushing it down and praying)

I downshifted as I pulled into the driveway

The motor screaming out stuck in second gear

The scene ends badly as you might imagine

In a cavalcade of anger and fear

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me

-The Mountain Goats, This Year

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@fandoms-princess @orpheusetude @jaysbraindump

@pappelsiin @itsbitmxdinhere @rexrevri @sweet-like-h0ney-lavender @saffirez

@the-ipre @sunnylemonss @days-light @agentearthling @helltechnicality

@sethlost @catboy-cabin @secretlyafiveheadeddragon @vyther15

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @queen-of-hobgobblers @every-moment-a-different-sound

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@sapphic-corgi @occasionaloneshots @troublegoblin

@natureismynature

Filled for @dbdakinkfest!

[scotianostra]

The 2nd of February is the Feast and legal Quarter Day of Candlemass.

The twin celebrations of St Brigid’s Day and Candlemas take place across the 1st and 2nd of February, respectfully. Candlemas celebrates the presentation of the Christ child at the temple in Jerusalem, forty days after his birth. In the Jewish faith, a mother was considered impure for six weeks after giving birth, after which she had to attend the Temple to be purified. Candlemas gets its name from the custom of blessing and distributing candles which are then used in a procession prior to the mass.

Thus, Candlemas is a festival of Lights and occurs the day after St Brigid’s Day. In Scotland, it used to include what was known as the Candlemas Bleeze. The good Christian folk would walk in procession to the town or Mercat cross, bearing their candles and torches in their hands. Once they had arrived, they would then light the bleeze or bonfire. Sometimes they would simply burn any clump of gorse or ‘whins’ in the vicinity. Candles would be donated to the church on this day, but this was later replaced with money. Dancing would be held into the evening. Some people would carry around candle stubs from Candlemas, sewn into the corners of their coats. The stubs were thought to have the power to repel evil.

Candlemas is a celebration of light, rebirth and purification but its origins are older and based on a festival which also involved light, fire, rebirth and purification.

It is also a Scottish legal "quarter day" when rents and other payments fall due. There is an old traditional poem which said that:

If Candlemas Day be bright and fair Half the winter is to come and mair (more) If Candlemas Day be dark and foul Half the winter was over at Yowl (Christmas)

Find out more about the traditions here https://hewcullanmysteries.com/candlemas/

[eileennatural]

i added FOUR calendar reminders to call my real doctor tomorrow i am not dealing w this man again. gritting my teeth i am gonna make it through this year. if it kills me

why did my counselor even make me bare my soul to him by listing out all the symptoms i've been trying to hide and manage on my own for nearly a decade if he wasn't going to acknowledge any of them and instead tell me i need to get better at doing my homework

[mariacallous]

The scene ends badly as you might imagine In a cavalcade of anger and fear There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me

[sharkjumpers]

I broke free on a Saturday morning 🌈🌈 I put the pedal to the floor headed north on Mill's Avenue and listened to the engine roar 🌈 my broken house behind me and good things ahead 🌈 a girl named Cathy wants a little of my time six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking Ahaa listen to the engine whine 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 I played video games in a drunken haze I was 17 years young hurt my knuckles punching the machines the taste of scotch rich on my tongue 🌈 and then Catchy showed up and we hung out trading swigs from a bottle all bitter and clean 🌈 locking eyes 🌈 holding hands 🌈 twin high maintenance machines 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 I drove home in the California dusk 🌈🌈 I could feel the alcohol inside of me Hum 🌈 picture the look on my step-father's face 🌈 ready for the bad things to come 🌈 I downshifted as I pulled into the driveway the motor screaming out stuck in second gear the scene ends badly as you might imagine in a Cavalcade of Anger and Fear 🌈 there will be Feasting and Dancing in Jerusalem next year 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🌈 And it almost killed me 🌈

[reani]

we have yet to introduce a word that describes the emotion u feel while listening to the sunset tree. the sunset tree emotion. i am young and i am good. it breaks my heart in half (in half) when i see them try to fly— cus you just can’t do— things your body wasn’t meant to. the magpie will come midday and you will go down on all fours. there will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year. there’s gonna come a day when you feel better. i’m gonna bribe the officials i’m gonna kill all the judges it’s gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage. she told me how you died at last (at last). there’s this great big you and little old me. snakes in the grass beneath our feet rain in the clouds above some moments last forever, others flare out with love love love

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

I was listening to "This Year" by The Mountain Goats (as I usually do on New Year's Day) and there was one line that just really hit different going into 2024.

"There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year."

Isn't that sort of what "from the river to the sea" is all about? Despite everything, there is hope and Palestine will one day be free, and Palestinians in Jerusalem and in Gaza and in Jordan and everywhere else will feast and dance. They will grow olive trees and celebrate on their own land. There will be an end to the occupation and rebuilding will begin.

And that won't erase the genocide, and that won't bring back the dead. That won't undo the seventy five years of oppression that Isn'treal has inflicted onto Palestinians. Yet Palestinians still have hope for a free Palestine and it's not for us as international allies to say "oh well, there's nothing we can do." We have to keep fighting for Palestine. We have to remember, and we have to hope. Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living. The fight is not over and we can't all just move on.

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem, Palestine, next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and on into forever. Palestine will be free.