#st lucy's day

[ladamedusoif]

It's December 13th, St Lucy's Day, and in the old-school Julian calendar this was considered the shortest day of the year.

I've been struggling so much with the absence of light and short days lately. So, to mark the day that's in it, here's John Donne absolutely nailing the feeling of this time of year in the northern hemisphere in A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day (c.1627).

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;          The sun is spent, and now his flasks          Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;                 The world's whole sap is sunk; The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh, Compar'd with me, who am their epitaph.

Full poem here.

[cynosurus]

Who wore it best?

Original picture:

By Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden - Lucia 2017 D81_4616, CC BY 2.0, link.

Dear Nordic The Untamed fans (and others), it's 13 December*, do you agree y/y?

Lan Wangji for Lucia!

*Luciadagen, St Lucy's Day

[funeral]

A celebration of St. Lucia’s Day in Sweden, 1916

[daynascullys]

Every Episode of Timeless ⤷ 1x04 “Party at Castle Varlar”

You wanna know how to keep doing this? Figure out what you're fighting for, and you'll be okay.

[ravenclawlibrary]

Star Wars fans: May the Fourth be with you!

Dracula Daily fans: It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

[nightmaresyrup]

Don't let the Lucias catch you working on Feast Day.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (December 13)

St. Lucy is a virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated on December 13th.

According to tradition, Saint Lucy was born to rich and noble parents in the year 283.

Her father was of Roman origin, but his early death left her dependent upon her mother, whose name Eutychia seems to indicate that she was of Greek heritage.

Like so many of the early martyrs, Lucy had consecrated her virginity to God, and she hoped to devote all her worldly goods to the service of the poor.

Her mother Eutychia arranged a marriage for her, but for three years, she managed to postpone the marriage.

Lucy prayed at the tomb of Saint Agatha to change her mother’s mind about her faith.

As a result, her mother's long haemorrhagic illness was cured, and she consented to Lucy's desire to live for God.

Lucy’s rejected bridegroom, Paschasius, denounced Lucy as a Christian.

The governor planned to force her into prostitution, but when guards went to fetch her, they could not move her even when they hitched her to a team of oxen.

The governor ordered her to be killed instead.

After a gruesome torture, which included having her eyes torn out, she was surrounded by bundles of wood that were set afire, but the fire quickly died out.

She prophesied against her persecutors and was then executed by being stabbed to death with a dagger.

According to later accounts, Lucy warned Paschasius he would be punished.

When the governor heard this, he ordered the guards to gouge out her eyes.

However, in another telling, it was Lucy who removed her eyes in an attempt to discourage a persistent suitor who greatly admired them.

When her body was being prepared for burial, they discovered her eyes had been restored.

This and the meaning of her name ("light" or "lucid") led to her patronage with eyes: the blind, eye trouble, and other eye ailments.

[muffy-artist]

saint lucy

[lgbridgertonqa]

THE GREAT QUEER BRIDGERTON SHIP POLL 2024

At the end of 2023's Bridgerton fan Gay Week, we ran a series of polls on twitter to try and determine the most popular queer ships for every character. What resulted was a list ready to duke it out in this year's "ULTIMATE QUEER BRIDGERTON SHIP POLL".

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The poll will run all week and closes on Sat 13th July 2024, with the results to be posted in a series of announcements on our twitter that same day.

Note: if you have a favourite queer Bridgerton ship that has not made this shortlist, please let us know and we will add them. As above, this list is based off last year's poll results and written in requests.

[22plus15]

feliç sant jordi / happy st. george's day to the girls! 🫶

[fictionadventurer]

A poem for the poem ask game, if I may be so bold:

"A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day" by John Donne

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/a-nocturnal-upon-st-lucys-day

(I tried like three times to just paste the text into the ask but boy HOWDY was the formatting not having that. My apologies.)

Oh, this one's going to haunt me.

These lines especially strike me:

He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.

But this line is starting to spark an entire grief-focused Beauty and the Beast retelling.

I should prefer, If I were any beast,

[lee-romee]

St Lucia of Syracuse is a 3rd century saint who was martyred for her faith. She gave her dowry to the poor & refused to marry her betrothed, promising herself to God. In some legends, her eyes were gouged out, which brings her association with being the patron of the blind & those with occular problems.

She is associated with saffron & the colour yellow, & is almost always depicted with a crown of candles representing the coming light as we approach on the solstice. She has a major association with baking due to the legend of her bringing food to Christians hiding in the catacombs. I have recipes commonly associated with her listed below ♡

Lussebullar (saffron buns) --- when curled up, they are called lussekatt, "Lucia cats"

Lucia pepparkaka (gingersnaps)

Cuccìa (boiled wheatberry pudding) --- commemorates Lucia's intervention in ending the famine in Sicily in 1646

[thorntopieces]

lussekatter...

[wispofisis]

Noctis: "Why is the milk green?" 🍀

Me: "What do you mean?" "The leprechauns did it!"

Also got a pretty St. Patrick's bouquet. 🍀

[wpmorse]

I didn't have the chance to do a new picture for Saint Lucy's Day this year. So, here's last year's picture of one of Kate's childhood embarrassments.

[carrotcakecrumble]

-WIP-

I know no one is Lucy’s biggest fan but I just re-read that first chapter and you know what she handled that WELL