#st. lucia's day

[teenwolf-confessions]

We let you get all your negativity out today (December 9, 2024). For the next three weeks (December 10, 2024 - January 1, 2025) it’s positivity or bust. Nothing negative will be posted. We will save the negative confessions until after the first of the year. Happy Holidays. Holiday confessions are also welcome.

(I tried to tag all the holidays I could remember. If I’m forgetting one important to you, let me know.)

[wolfnowl]

Another new blog post for you: "Celebrating the Holidays!"

[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

[cosmignon]

I meant to post THIS yesterday for actual St. Lucia's Day, but better late than never! This is an illustration of Ellie dressed up for the holiday that I drew /last/ year for Spiderforest's 2023 December News Banner :)

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[alittlebitbethany]

Hello everybody for day 13 of A Very Dolly Christmas Countdown 2024 Kirsten and I would like to wish our friends and followers who celebrate it a happy St Lucia’s Day. Kirsten is dressed in her St Lucia gown but I couldn’t find her wreath so I had to improve. Kirsten is very relieved that she will not have to try and wear my Mum’s Christmas centrepiece! Image Description: a photo of an American Girl doll wearing a white nightgown with a red sash and red hair ribbons. She is standing behind lit Christmas centrepiece decorated with icicles, bauble and pinecones. There is a Christmas backdrop.

[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

[murderousink23]

12/13/2024 is St. Lucia Day 🌎, Christmas Jumper Day 🌎, National Cocoa Day 🇺🇸, National Violin Day 🎻🇺🇸, National Day of the Horse 🐎🇺🇸, Pick A Pathologist Day 🇺🇸, Underdog Day 🇺🇸, National Hot Chocolate Day 🇬🇧

[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.

[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!

[softskiesahead]

12 days of lukeyaya

do you think yayas family celebrated Christmas growing up in stellis? I don't know if rosas did, but if they were in proximity to luke, he might have at least seen yayas, right? if his or rosas families DID celebrate Christmas, do u think they left him any ornaments? or any that he simply got to keep from amongst their belongings? if yayas celebrates, would she hang those on the tree? would luke get to decorate the tree, misty tears in his eyes? an ornament of two gingerbread people and their little son... a handmade stocking with the threads a little eaten by moths by now.....

I thought for sure you’d forget 😔

I think they did celebrate, possibly even with luke’s family when they were young since they were neighbors! I could see all the parents crafting/choosing ornaments to save for their kids……..little luke yaya and rosa eating cookies together……they’re a bit too young to fully remember it well but the warm fuzzy feeling is still there and so are the ornaments from their parents <3 bonus if luke comes across his among the things rosa’s parents packed away from him to help with the grief.

umm bonus but I think yaya’s family also celebrated st lucia’s day. little yaya in a white dress and a little crown of ivy and those fake candles knocking on the doors of luke and rosa’s apartment to give them pastries :)