#holiday creep

[asktailikku]

Since the Internet seems to be pushing Halloween months in advance...

The Skeleton War has officially been cancelled.

Besides, here's your next holiday:

[jlilycorbie]

I love the seasons. I love all of them. I love living seasonally, tracking the year as it goes by with the foods that become available, by the sprouting and growing and fading of the plants, by the length of the days and the temperature.

I'll be honest, seasonal things getting out of their season kind of bums me out. Christmas is a notorious offender, but my beloved Halloween is almost as bad these days.

Fall has at least three distinct phases, starting with September and apples and the temperatures (here) are usually still pretty warm, but you can feel that first cool promise in the air.

October, of course, is spooky season, followed by November, which is full harvest and cold days and feasting.

Halloween is showing up in July these days, which is fully summer, swallowing the end of summer and the beginning of fall whole. Christmas, of course, shows up before Halloween has even come and gone, overwhelming the late fall and bringing winter too early.

(And for spooky things and just loving them--spooky does not depend on a season. Give me deep autumn with the falling, crackling leaves and the thinning veil. Give me fear surrounded by blooming flowers and death against the promise of returning life. The veil thins in the time between autumn and winter, and it thins again in the turning between spring and summer. Give me blood in bright daylight and heat. Give me terror in the ice and snow. Spooky is a way of life, not a season.)

I'm not here to rain on anyone's joy, which is why I hesitate to say it, but it's still time for melons and stone fruits. It was well over 110 degrees here today. It's time to splash in the water and hide from the punishing sun, even while the days are noticeably shorter. It's getting close to time for apples and cider, for the nights to finally cool off, for the autumn spiders to start weaving their webs. Then it'll be time for falling leaves and pumpkins and a real chill in the air.s I want to savor each thing in its time.

[berl-balagula]

Israel, Adar the First started. One and a half months to Purim. A chain bakery: this.

ישראל, אדר א' התחיל. חודש וחצי לפני פורים. ברשת מאפיות לא אלמונית: זה.

Holyday creep is real.

זחילת מועדים זאת תופעה קיימת.

[nawilla]

What Aisle Is This?

Its October 28, the Saturday before Halloween. This is the view in the Target Bodega. One aisle. Stocked with Halloween, Fall/Thanksgiving, Chanukah and Christmas. What the heck am I supposed to be shopping for?

I walked away humming "What Child Is This?" but as "What Aisle Is This?" and trying to remember it wasn't even Halloween yet.

Then I bought tree ornaments in the seasonal section.

They were technically all ornaments in memory of the dead, so that's kind of appropriate. I got a photo 'in memory' frame for M the Cat, a stylized yarn ball with knitting needles for my knitter friend who passed last week, and a train locomotive for my Dad who set up his Lionel trains at the foot of the tree every year.

But yes, this was a weird convergence of Holiday Creep.

[linterteatime]

Like a deer caught in headlights

[white-throated-packrat]

No, this year everyone is pushing Black Friday 2 to 3 weeks early and it's annoying

Query: Do Canadian stores just not know when American Thanksgiving is, or is it normal for Black Friday sales to start 1-3 weeks early?

[itbeaheadcannon]

hc that merlin and Gwen (who are besties btw) are absolutely running shit. Got a problem? Go to them - always to them. They're the ones who know the most about the castle and have full control of the royal schedules.

Uther does not know about this and neither does Arthur - however whenever either one of them pisses Merlin or Gwen off or they just do something like seriously fucked up (looking at you Uther you absolute ass) they bury them in work.

and I mean like bury them: making them wake up at like first light for an 'emergency' (apparently someone thought they saw a sorcerer) straight to training the Knights, to a meeting with the council to deal with the non-existant sorcerer, to confirmations of a celebration

they don't know what the celebration is for. (in truth it's not for anything, the castle just wanted an excuse for a party, and it's funny gaslighting the royals into thinking they approved some random ass celebration a few weeks ago)

The servants know and 100% annoy them with inane shit because their "input" is needed (no the fuck it's not, but getting to fuck over royalty is fun for them)

random servant #1 to Uther: Apologies for interrupting Sir, but the seamstress wanted to confirm time for your fitting for your outfit for the celebration tonight?

Uther, baffled asf running on 5hrs sleep: celebration? there is no celebration??? and what colour scheme

Servant #1 trying not to cackle: yes sir there is? you advised of it just last month - the seamstress just wanted to take last measurements

Servant #2 elbowing #1 to get their shit together: and the blue and purple scheme? You approved it over a month ago, and Prince Arthur confirmed last week before preparations were made.

(all the food is stuff Arthur and Uther barely tolerate and mildly hate and their alcohol is weak asf - meanwhile the knights and everyone else are eating amazingly, drunk off their asses)

more in the tags lol

[classycreeps]

Classy Creeps

[newkatzkafe2023]

Wukong Verse incorrect quotes #14 Christmas 🎄

(Y/N) texting her mother when MK Netflix wukong came up to Her and Said

(Netflix Wukong)(Horrified) Hey Y/N Mk reborn Wukong just asked if we wanted to.....Fell the mighty before their Time and display it's Carcasse in our home😨😨😨😰😰😰

(Y/N)( Translating the text) He's asking if we want to Cut down a Christmas trees😑

(Netflix wukong)(Understanding) Ohhhh!!!!! That makes more Sense😲😲😲😅😅😅

Feel Free to Reblog 😊👍

[greengargouille]

A probably unintented(?) but very funny thing resulting from the Welcome Home update happening in March:

You know how popular holidays are replaced by made-up similar holidays that are each associated with one of the characters? Sally with Halloween/Macabre Menagerie, Wally and/or Home with the Homewarming... And we know from the Merchandise page that Eddie was associated with "Mail-in-Time" Day, the equivalent of Valentine's Day. You know. The one that happens in February. Which just got skipped over. Very funny considering the whole deal with Eddie being ignored and out of work.

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Christmas creep is a special menace but every holiday and time of year is like this now and it drives me crazy. Beach stuff appears in the stores in late winter. Valentine's stuff chases Christmas stuff off the shelves. God forbid you need something for the time of year you're currently experiencing bc you were supposed to buy it 3 months ago and it's now been replaced with junk for whatever the next Big Holiday in a couple months is. And every big box store follows the same pageantry. You WILL celebrate Christmas while you're in this store between mid October and early December. That means depictions of snow. Not in a place with snow? You're getting snow. Fuck you. Look at the depictions of something foreign to you which we're trying to market as nostalgia.

[objectpermanences]

Me every November 1st

[dullahandyke]

Also I'm not a holidays dude but I cant wait for Halloween bcos I rlly wanna try barmbrack I've never actually tried it...... a fun little novelty

[creatrixanimi]

Ppl already posting about 9/11 and it isn't even September yet. Had to look at the date to make sure I didn't miss a whole week and a half lol

[cuubism]

merry Gay Valentines from the grocery store on December 28

[ventique18]

"Teenage" Malmal who only wears black would barely recognize himself as a dad whose winter sweater becomes more and more colorful and elaborate with each year that passes.

This year he's wearing a knitted version of a goofy reindeer pattern his daughter drew in kindergarten class.