#holiday heroine

[amaditalks]

I have found my new quest.

Someone in a Facebook group I’m in posted this picture of a hanukkiah they saw in a thrift shop and did not purchase. Everyone in the group was telling them to go back and get it. They didn’t recognize what they were seeing.

It’s Yehudit brandishing her sword and the head of Holofernes.

She is being anointed with oil to honor her for her triumph.

On a hannukiah.

I need this so badly I can taste it. 

[dailyfigures]

Mysterious Heroine X ; Fate/Grand Order ☆ Sentinel

[mana-sputachu]

Happy Miss X in SNK Heroines Day!!

Happy Miss X in SNK Heroines Day to those who celebrate~

Pinned post (with commission infos and where you can find me)!

[mzannthropy]

So I started listening to The Glitch, Grace's chapters are narrated by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Henry's chapters are narrated by Sam Claflin, the first four chapters are all Grace's chapters, the story is introduced by her, I've only listened to 3 chapters so far so not got to Sam's narration yet, but Henry is described by Grace as having jade green eyes, like aurora borealis. JADE GREEN EYES LIKE AURORA BOREALIS.

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

Calendar of the first 1.5 months of Round 17

because i made the mistake of writing a canon-divergent fic and i needed this info for it

Contains spoilers for up until the end of the Mirror Dungeon arc.

Note:

February 1st is when the week of rewinds takes place. I can't remember what the festival's name is.

Floor 300 was apparently 3 months before the start of Round 17. This would place it at around February, but chronologically Floor 300 should be before February 1st so it doesn't add up.

Ignore the days of the week

(~) indicates that the date is approximate

[always-coffee]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays from me and this goon dog.

If this time of year is hard for you for any reason, I am sending you good thoughts. I wish kindness and joy and peace for you.

If you are missing someone, near or far or no longer with us, know that your feelings are valid. That there is no timeframe for grief, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they are wrong.

May you know you are valued and loved for who you are, because who you are is pretty damn great. What you do may be cool as hell, but your heart shines bigger than all of it.

And in the whole mad world, across this whole mad universe, we exist at the same time in each other’s orbit—and if that isn’t magick, I don’t know what is.

Love and hugs,

Ali

[garebeary]

Merry Miss X-mas!!

Pose reference here

[globalknock]

South Heroine Pragya Jaiswal Enjoying Her Holiday At Beach

South Heroine Pragya Jaiswal Enjoying Her Holiday At Beach South Heroine Pragya Jaiswal pics are papped while enjoying her holiday at Bali beach in the hot looking bikini. Pragya bikini stills make the fans crazy. South Heroine Pragya Jaiswal

[shabadarada]

You think bc I didnt put much thought into my ocs names that i at least put some thought into their non canon birthdays. And youd be right i did. But also half of it is just "Valentine's day for the girlies all about love 🥰💕😍😘" "Halloween for the magical witches out there 🪄🦄🔮🧙‍♂️",, Hero's birthday being set to the 7th of July the day of Tanabata where 2 lovers get to meet eachother after a year of seperation had NOTHING to do with the multiple times ive seperated 2 people and the concept of "Becoming One Whole Person through another" it was a FAIRY TAIL REFERENCE.

[suzannerogers]

Cover Reveal - Baby Cakes: The Complete Bite Series!

S.J. Tilly has revealed the gorgeous cover and tropes for Baby Cakes: The Complete Bite Series! Releasing: December 10, 2024 Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design Photographer & Model: Wander Aguiar When a holiday baking competition goes incredibly wrong. Or right… Michael – I’m starting to think I’ve been doing this for too long. The screaming fans. The constant media attention. The fat…

[comicsart3]

Sidekick Gals 10

Holiday Hill was the fabulously-named sidekick to long running aviator hero Bruce Gentry, creation of illustrator Ray Bailey. Although for much of his publication history (1945-51) Gentry appeared in a newspaper syndicated strip, he did enjoy a short run of his own title in 1948-49, which collected many of his stories into one place. Gentry’s adventures generally took place in a postwar, often South American, world, where the flyer worked either for the air force or commercial operators, and usually came up against sundry spies and criminals. Holiday was something of a tough cookie, but despite this, was hopelessly in love with Bruce and spent much of her time mooning after the rugged hero, rather like the Silver Age Lois Lane and her obsession with Superman.

Unfortunately for Holiday, despite one or two liaisons, Bruce tended to favour the more winsome and glamorous females that always seemed to pop up in the stories. Perhaps the feisty Holiday was too much for our hero to handle. His taken-for-granted sidekick eventually faded from the adventures altogether and Bruce went on to marry his fiancée, Cleo Patric. In the pages shown, Holiday demonstrates a tenacity and lack of fear rarely seen in most damsels in distress, even obtaining a grudging recognition from Gentry of her role in capturing the criminal, the Ace of Diamonds, at the end. Sadly for the perennial sidekick, this was not enough to win the man of her dreams. This adventure, entitled Death and the Ace of Diamonds appeared in Bruce Gentry #5 (April 1949).

Sources: The Bruce Gentry Wikipedia page for some of the Bruce Gentry background and comicbookplus for the comic pages.

[thesmokinpossum]

One of my most baffling reading memory is from this book I read when I was about 9 years old. It was from some romance from a big 00's chick lit collection and it was the point of view of a woman veterinarian.

It started as this pretty standard 00's fun romance with the classic set of kooky friends and slightly dysfunctional family members and then she met fell in love with a photograph who had a bunch of scars on his hands, which became relevant when she realise that he's was a survivor of that one time she litterally send a homemade bomb to his father's house (said father was a scientistic known to do some animal testing and at this point of her life she was in some sort of radical animal right group).

I don't really remember anything else about the plot except that she owned a rescue dachshaund and that the photographer does learn about her being responsible for the bombing at some point. They still ended up together btw.

[afriblaq]

Events leading up to Billie’s death.

—In 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, ‘Strange Fruit’ —“Strange Fruit” was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings and later set it to music. First performed by Meeropol’s wife and their friends in social contexts, his protest song gained a certain success in and around New York

—The song soon came to Billie Holiday’s attention, and after so many frequent requests of that song, she closed out EVERY performance with it. The waiters would stop serving ahead of time for complete silence, the room would darken, a spotlight would shine on Holiday’s face, and there would be no encore

—Radio stations in the South wouldn’t play it, record labels wouldn’t record it, oa BUT YET, the song rose in the charts selling over I million copies. Despite the success, a government agency was determined to shut her down.

—One night in 1939, Holiday received a warning from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to never sing the song again. This order was led by FBN commissioner Harry Anslinger, also known as an “extreme racist in the 1920’s”. He had a mission to eradicate all drugs everywhere, and believed jazz music was the problem. His attack on this genre of music was racially led.

—Holiday’s known struggles with alcohol, drugs, and vocal voice against white supremacy made her a target. He sent undercover agents after her, including arranging for her abusive husband to set her up.

—She was put on trial (The United States of America vs. Billie Holiday) just wanting to recover, but was sent to prison and her cabaret license was revoked. That didn’t keep her down. She continue to perform “Strange Fruit” even at a sold out show at Carnegie Hall

—In 1959, Holiday collapsed and was sent to the hospital with liver disease and goes into heroin withdrawal. Her friend managed to have the hospital give her methadone to help her recover.

—Arslinger’s team arrested her on her hospital bed cutting off her methadone medication after claiming to have found heroin in her bedroom. I0 days later, Holiday died.

In other words, they murdered her.

[crosbyism]

"but then again this is the guy who’s publically known for loving to eat ass so"

I'm sorry, I thought Nate eating ass was fanon. Are you telling me this is an actual canon fact??

god i love when people don’t realise how much “fanon” around sid and nate is actually canon. it’s like heroin to me. also bc it’s like. 90% of the stuff in fics (which is probably why people assume it’s fanon but. oh boy it’s not. there’s shockingly little fanon around these two, mostly because canon is so abundant).

yes, nathan mackinnon is a known ass-eater. let me direct you to this post, anon. you’re welcome.

other nate (and sid) facts you might not have realised are canon:

nate is a known advocate for therapy. he’s been seeing a sports therapist since 2017

they wear matching clothing all the fucking time, sid has said publicly that he started wearing white sneakers and updated his wardrobe due to nate’s influence (iirc nate might’ve even bought him his first pair of white sneakers? either that or it was a “he told me i need to so i did” situation). they share a tailor. unfortunately i now have to bring your attention to the fact that since they have an alarming amount of matching clothes that they’ve bought for each other, that means that they in fact have to know each other’s clothing sizes off by heart. they also low-key share clothing btw

their families celebrate canada day together and their dads are best friends. in-law behaviour goes crazy

nate did in fact stalk his way into sid’s heart (got the same personal trainer and agent at age 13; built his house next door in 2017; they’ve been spending every day in the summers together since at least 2015. sid cooks for them daily, or at least did pre-pandemic. sid refuses to use nate’s gym tho so they always use sid’s).

nate used to have a fan twitter account more or less where he rooted for the pens. it was active until 2017.

sid and nate regularly go to summer weddings together as each other’s dates. they have done this since, once again, at least 2015

nate has confirmed that he used to have a poster of sid on his wall as a teenager (he didn’t confirm he used to jerk off to it but frankly. i think that’d be saying the quiet part out loud)

when sid won the cup in 2009 and held the parade in cole harbour, nate stood by the side of the road watching it. he was about to turn 14, he was already working with sid’s trainer and agent, and he was about to start attending shattuck (sid’s junior high). due to old pics we also know that this was RIGHT before nate had his first growth spurt and hit puberty. i’m not saying seeing sid with the cup kickstarted nate’s puberty and gave him his first boner but i’m not NOT saying it

nate dated vanessa morgan of riverdale fame in his rookie year. she’s now good friends with elias petersson from the vancouver canucks (this means nothing but i do think it’s a very funny coincidence).

nate schmidt, formerly of the VGK, once failed a drug test (it turned out to be a testing-fuck-up); when nhl players were asked about it natemack iconically said “i don’t think he was sticking a needle up his ass” (i just like this one)

when he was a kid, the one other thing sid wanted to be was a hairdresser. nate, on the other hand, “didn’t have a plan B”

nate is canonically possessive of sid (see: the asg 2024) and sid is canonically delighted by this and into it

they go on so many lunch dates in the summer my dude. they go grocery shopping together. like there’s so many pics of them in grocery stores or out having coffee or weird green shakes

oh i almost forgot, they went on a roadtrip through ireland last year. they’ve been on holiday together multiple times over the years though. done some eurotripping together and stuff. in 2015 they spent three months together, three weeks of which were spent living in sid’s santa monica condo together just the two of them

sid has put up a picture of every stanley cup winning captain in his basement since 2008, when the pens lost in the scf to DET. apparently this serves as motivation for him to win the cup. he notoriously does not watch the playoffs after the pens are out

however, he partied so hard at nate’s cup party he actually closed down the party with his dad. nate is the only non-teammate sid’s ever been seen supporting for a cup run (he’s also never been to his teammates’ cup parties afaik so. there’s that)

also they talked on the phone daily and between periods during nate’s cup run. they also canonically have almost weekly phone dates that can run multiple hours. quote nate “i can’t talk to anyone else the way i can talk to him”

they each have pictures of the two of them together framed in each other’s houses

there’s rumours they’re building adjoining houses on neighbouring properties in cape breton next to a golf course bc apparently being neighbours in halifax isn’t enough or something. this one is as yet unconfirmed by reputable sources though

[hood-ex]

You can't trick Dick's heroin tasting mouth.

DCU Holiday Special