#st. lucia's day

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

Today is St. Lucia's Day, and as I just now found out, every year on this day, Marissa Lingen writes about the tension of light and darkness, hope and complexity. This year's post was something I had unconsciously needed, and I'm looking forward to reading back through the others. I hope you find something you need there too.

Fiat lux.

[frmulcahy]

I love absurdly long and unhinged video essays like yes please tell me a nearly 6 hour long history of Kirsten the American Girl Doll whilst I crochet

[musewrangler]

Happy St Lucia Day! I love these fragrant saffron buns and following the tradition of my Swedish grandmother

[nightmaresyrup]

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

[muffy-artist]

saint lucy

[the-lincyclopedia]

Winter holiday fics by lincyclopedia

Thanks for the tags, @cricketnationrise and @doggernaut! When you tagged me, I wasn't sure if I had any winter holiday fics. I have 12, across four fandoms. In my defense, I have over 200 fics total, so I lose track of what I've written sometimes. (Also, looking back through my AO3 account, it's like, man, I used to write. Unfortunately I've been too depressed to do much of that for a while now.) Anyway. Here's what I've got, organized by fandom:

Check Please

Deck the Halls with Balls of Holly

Ransom misunderstood the lyrics to "Deck the Halls," and he and Holster wind up making some interesting Christmas decorations for the Haus.

This is a super short one-shot featuring platonic Ransom & Holster friendship from Bitty's POV. (It's part of my series of fics based on misheard song lyrics.) The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Palentine's Day Karaoke

This fic is inspired by @softfloralbro's story "Shitty Knight's Palentine's Day Spectacular" and is basically a karaoke playlist wrapped in narration. The basic idea is that SMH has a karaoke party on Valentine's Day, and everyone serenades their friends. Set in February of Year 2.

This fic is full of SMH friendship, music, and not much else. The relevant holiday is Valentine's Day.

In Your Warmth I Forget How Cold It Can Be

In a world where the graduation kiss never happened, it's winter break of Bitty's senior year, and Bitty and Jack are both out and single. The plan is for Bitty to spend New Year's Eve with Jack at Jack's condo, but that plan goes awry when Bitty and Jack return from the airport to find a homophobic slur painted on Jack's parking space. TW for homophobia.

Basically, this is canon-divergent Zimbits getting together. The relevant holiday is New Year's Eve.

too long i've been afraid (of losing love i guess i've lost)

Dex gets disowned after coming out as gay. SMH is there for him.

Basically, angst, hurt/comfort, and platonic Frogs content, plus some platonic Dex & Bitty. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Five Times Lukas Was Homesick Plus One Time He Didn’t Have to Be

It can be hard to go to school in another country where everyone speaks a different language and no one celebrates your holidays. Luckily, Lukas has friends to help when he’s homesick.

Okay, this is a 5+1 and only one of the scenes is actually about a winter holiday, but I like that scene, so I'm including this fic on the list. The relevant holiday is St. Lucia Day.

When Lucia Day Dawns

For Lukas's senior project as a music major, he has to plan/lead a public music performance. He decides to form a choir to sing Swedish Lucia/Advent/Christmas songs on St. Lucia Day (December 13). This is the Friday before finals and everything is stressful—until the concert starts and suddenly it’s perfect.

This is another Lukas-centric fic about being Swedish. The relevant holiday is St. Lucia Day.

Carry On

Right Now

A one-shot set during Christmas break of Simon and Agatha's fifth year at Watford. Even though they're not ultimately meant to be, they made sense as a couple once.

This is very jossed by Any Way the Wind Blows, but I still kind of like it. It's pre-canon Simon/Agatha. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Stranded

After leaving Baz's house and dropping Penny off in London, Simon and Agatha get stranded in a ditch in the middle of a snowstorm. Ex awkwardness ensues.

Unlike "Right Now," this fic features Simon and Agatha as exes. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Sounds Like a Date

Baz is a barista stuck working on Christmas Eve. Simon is a handsome customer.

This is a coffee shop AU featuring a Snowbaz meet-cute. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Yuri on Ice

Ice Quality

One of Yuuri's college friends invites him to spend Christmas with her family, and Celestino approves as long as Yuuri promises to skate while he's there. Trouble is, the town's indoor rink is closed for renovations. A one-shot set during Yuuri's time in college in Detroit.

This is a pre-canon platonic Yuri & OFC fic. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

Happy New Year, Otabek!

Yuri and Otabek have been best friends for four years, and Yuri's had a crush on Otabek for a while, but he never expected Otabek to like him back. Until, that is, Otabek gets drunk at the Grand Prix Final banquet and says some things Yuri doesn't expect. It's going to be a very interesting New Year's celebration in Almaty . . .

This is a post-canon Yuri Plisetsky/Otabek, and it's the only multi-chapter fic on this list (though it's still pretty short). The relevant holiday is New Year's Eve.

Sherlock

Over the Table and through the Giggles

John has insisted on hosting a Christmas party. Again. Everyone but Sherlock is drinking, and John is telling stories about Sherlock, and suddenly Sherlock decides to kiss John. Plotless fluff.

This is a canon-divergent Johnlock getting-together scene based more heavily than you might guess on my sober-but-sleep-deprived friends and me being ridiculous in high school. The relevant holiday is Christmas.

I'm guessing a lot of people have been tagged, especially from the Check Please fandom, but I'm going to try to pull in some Queen's Thief folks. I tag @worldsentwined, @newtsoftheworldunite, @hoeratius, @eponymiad, and anyone else who wants to play!

[royalchildreneurope]

Princess Estelle of Sweden and Prince Oscar of Sweden, taken by their mother, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, pose for a picture to celebrate St. Lucia's Day 2023, at Haga Palace in Stockholm, Sweden -December 13th 2023.

📷 : Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden/Kungahuset.

[bogkeep]

st lucia late for anime school

[e-louise-bates]

Light in the darkness | Swedish Lucia Tradition

[simulation-machine]

HAPPY °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° HOLIDAYS!

The Orson's have already celebrated Winterfest by now, but some of the rest of us have our winter holidays right ahead of us.

Wherever you are, however you celebrate, and whoever you celebrate with: I hope your wintertime (northern hemisphere) / summertime (southern hemisphere) festivities go smoothly!

[pan-flute-skeleton]

I know I'm a day late for St. Lucia's day but I felt this would be the perfect prompt for Toki to make some traditional treats. Also contains one of my favorite lines I've ever written.

[madonna-of-the-wasps]

The night treads heavily around yards and dwellings In places unreached by sun, the shadows brood Into our dark house she comes, bearing lighted candles, Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia.

[malusienki]

top 5 operas?

oh dear. yeah good question my friend!

there are the obvious ones that i adore, like lucia and la fille du régiment, and those are definitely up there but then i also really enjoy les huguenots and don giovanni. and then traviata is lovely too. i do quite like opera hamlet.. and nozze.. its very hard to do a solid top 5 but if i had to at gunpoint it would beee:

in no particular order (because i find it so hard to rank them. sorry) lucia di lammermoor, les huguenots, la fille du régiment, don giovanni aaand traviata i suppose

they’re kind of basic answers? maybe? sorry

[vagueandominousvibes]

To those who celebrate St Lucia's day: Red dressed up as one of the starchildren!

[thechildrensmuseum]

American Girl Kirsten celebrates Saint Lucia’s Day in her white gown with her head wreath.

[kitsunehondo]

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘺

𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯,

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘥 

𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴,

𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴

𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕

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December 13th is Lucia’s day. My name’s day. If you know me or if you follow me from some time, you might already know that I’m quite fond of the meaning of my name and of all the traditions of light and gifts that this name and this day carries within ✨ also you might know it has become kind of a tradition for me to draw something every year to celebrate this day. 

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This time I took it a bit further and I decided to portrait my Lucia not as angelic as I used to. This has been a tough year for artists. We have been repeatedly attacked by people who put profit above all else and decided to exploit us more than ever before. It’s easy to despair and to get discouraged. To question what’s the point to create when you know someone will steal from you and claim it as theirs. That is why I decided that yes, I shall bring light, but I shall also defend my light from the darkness that relentlessly keep on trying to extinguish my flame, our flame. 

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Since ancient times, when Lucia was celebrated on the Winter Solstice, this is a day meant to bring hope and light during the darkest time of the year. From today the nights will start to get a little shorter and the light will last a little longer. I hope you too will keep defending you light and keep sharing it with the world. ✨ 

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