#happy xmas war is over

[miss-star-dust]

Trying not to cry whilst putting the Christmas tree up with my family since Happy Xmas (war is over) just came on.

I'm trying not to cry because I can't explain to them that it's because of Dead Gay Wizards and the mental fandom that prefers angst and pain lmao.

[dorothy16]

stephentrask 2023 Wrap-Up - Part One BTS rehearsal of our “Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)” - “Wig In A Box” mashup. On December 19, Darren Criss brought “A Very Darren Crissmas” to the Lexington Opera House and @jane_is_not_acoustic videotaped our rough and ready first run through at my studio that afternoon. Here is the mashup we performed that night, “Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) and “Wig In A Box”. It’s a fun bit of off the cuff music making with a couple of friends, a couple of instruments, and a couple of songs.

[bybyefromurgirlodam]

channeling Yoko Ono and John Lennon in the happy xmas (war is over) intro into every interaction with everyone today

[queenofstelena]

The war is over (Elena turning off her humanity edit)

[dovetailjoints]

just when I think my love for John has hit peak capacity, the holiday season rolls around and I remember he wrote the best Christmas song of all damn time

[datshitrandom]

Darren Criss and Stephen Trask at Lexington Opera House | December 19, 2023 | 📸 via stephen

[weedle-testaburger]

i just thought of a weird idea for a christmas poll:

[feralchaton]

And so this is Christmas (War is over)

For weak and for strong. (If you want it)

The rich and the poor ones (War is over)

The road is so long. (Now)

[therealjohnlennon]

Yoko and I meeting Henry Kissinger to talk about peace. We said to stop fighting and killing each other, he suggested that to achieve world peace we commit war crimes, bomb civilians, overthrow democratically elected leaders and kill everyone. That way we will achieve peace because when everyone’s dead they can’t fight each other. RIP.

[littlequeenies]

1971 - May Pang can be seen on the backround of the cover photo of John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas" (War is Over), recorded between October 28 and 31, 1971.

The Harlem Community Choir – 30 children, most of them four to twelve years of age – came to the studio on the afternoon of 31 October to record backing vocals for the counter-melody and sing-along chorus. Photographs for the original sleeve cover were also taken during that session by Iain Macmillan.

Third photo, our screencap from May's documentary "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story".

[krispyweiss]

“WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” Gets Oscar Nomination

- Animated short is showing in select theaters in package with other nominees

A 53-year-old song inspired a short film that is now up for a 2024 Oscar.

The animated short is titled “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” and based loosely around 1971’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over!).” But this 11-minute film focuses not on the main title, but rather, its parenthetical subtitle.

“This is an anti-war song; it’s a protest song,” writer and director Dave Mullins said in a making-of featurette for the film. “It’s why we didn’t make a Christmas or holiday short - we made an anti-war short.”

There’s no dialogue as “WAR IS OVER!” tells the story of soldiers on opposing sides of a fictionalized battlefield playing a surreptitious game of chess via carrier pigeon as the fighting rages. The filmmakers had trouble finding a place for the title song - executive producer Sean Ono Lennon had no interest in making a traditional music video for such a well-known number - so it runs over the credits. Thomas Newman composed the score, which Mullins said serves “as the emotional voice of the characters.”

Lennon said he wanted to “do good by (his parents’) art” in working on the short.

“What I don’t want,” he later told The New York Times, “is for my mother and father’s work to disappear with the sands of time.”

Not yet streaming, “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” is showing in select North American movie houses in package screenings with other Oscar nominees in the Animated Short Film category.

3/2/24

[wildshadowtamer]

Favourite type of song nostalgia is whatever the fuck Happy Xmas (War Is Over) induces at the part where all the voices join in, i never heard that song growing up but i get to that part and am immediately transported to a snowy 70s december with a sense of deep longing. I was not alive in the 70s.

[wr1t3w1tm3]

War is Over

Based on the song Happy Xmas by John Lennon, linked below.

Gigi stands, gathering the last of her things. This is it, her final final exam of the semester. After this she's off to her room. She just has to move everything over to her car and she'll be good to go. She'll leave by three and be home by six. Hopefully people will have their Christmas lights up. She's planning on listening to Christmas music on the way home. She's made a playlist: there's the obvious classics, some Bing Crosby and the War is Over song by John Lennon, even the Wiggles have a couple Christmas songs she's thrown in for good measure.

Dr. Scisser takes the exam. Gigi glances up at him for a split second. His glasses lenses have a couple water spots on them, which make her notice the ones on her own glasses. Hopefully she hasn't packed her cleaning cloth too far away.

"Thank you." he whispers.

"Merry Christmas," Gigi turns to head up the stairs.

"You too."

The campus is already a ghost town. Hers is the last final of the day and the last final of the week. It is nice that they only have the eight and ten am finals on Tuesday, but it makes getting a check out time really, really hard.

She treks up to the parking lot where she keeps her car first. She has to drive around the block and she listens to Feliz Navidad as she does. Gigi manages to find a spot right outside of her dorm building, and she pulls in. She drags her backpack in with her, to repack it with her snacks.

All of her suitemates are gone. Evie moved her stuff to her sisters off-campus house the day prior and is already checked out; and Gwen and Ames are leaving for the airport.

It's melancholic, seeing her little pile of a duffel bag, backpack, and suitcase. She's going to have to bring her two blanket projects out first, so she does that. After those are in her trunk, she takes everything else out in one trip. She finishes tidying up the dorm, unplugging everything and turning off all the lights. She double checks that the bathroom is stalked, and all the cleaning supplies are tucked under the bathroom sink. The shower is dry and even the ice machine is unplugged and clean. She eats a couple Slim Jim minis, waiting for the RA to come check her out.

Check out goes off without a hitch, and Marge wishes her a Merry Christmas. Gigi smiles gently and waves as she hurries down the steps. Her car doesn't have auto start, so she sits inside for a few minutes, letting it come to temperature like an oven in which she's the bun.

She plugs her phone into the aux cord - it's an old car - and sets up her play list. As she shifts into gear White Christmas begins to play, but the dreary sky above doesn't promise even a speck of snow between here and home.

Gigi instead makes her way around the block before skipping the last few seconds of the song. Next in the que is Happy Xmas. The plucky mandolin, or whatever instrument that is plays as she rolls down the big hill, stopping at the stop sign at the bottom. A cop car passes her, headed up the hill. Gigi waves before pulling out, turning so she can stop at the Scooters on 4th street. She gets a small hot mocha, tips the baristas a dollar, and restarts the song.

She drives through the rest of town with the song on repeat, smiling as a couple tears try to escape her eye. The semester had been hell, but she's survived it. Her war is over, if only for the time being. Just one more semester and she can start nursing school.

The thought terrifies her, but she'll just have to take it one step at a time.

The End.

[randomrichards]

WAR IS OVER: INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF JOHN AND YOKO

Carrier pigeon

Sparks chess game between soldiers

From opposing sides