#start of yule

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

Happy Winter Solstice

[enbysiriusblack]

marauders at the yule ball, pt 5: lily evans

hair/outfit/shoes/accessory/hat/makeup/the last row is the after party outfit change

pt 4, peter pettigrew here

pt 6, mary macdonald here

[ghost-proofbaby]

happy winter solstice y’all!!! (or summer solstice to any friends south of the equator)

may your long nights (or days) be filled with so much love and happiness 🖤

[k44l33v44]

They're late for elf practice.

Happy Holidays !

[origamiyoda]

you're back!!!!

*cue the sounds the yule lads make in the background of Kane having a near-meltdown over them eating his midnight chocolates and burrito supplies*

THEY LET ME COME BACK !!!

[honeybyte]

its when im possessed by god that i paint a portrait for a comic which i sketched out twice and lined in like. 4 hours

[scalpelsister]

idk how to word this but getting a job has really made me like. care about how i present myself in a way i havent in a while.

[pkmn-smashorpass]

Merry day for everyone!

I know some people don't celebrate Christmas (or hanukkah or another holiday) but i hope your day goes great nonetheless!

Also happy birthday to you!

-🌵

Happy holiday season to everyone!!! Even if that just means the upcoming new year!!! And thank you ❤️

[sometimesanequine]

11.27.2023

[stevviefox]

To all who celebrate today. Light up the homes to guide the Sun back to us.

[finartin]

Gift art done for Bepotelkh's 2023 Yule Exchange, featuring Thy's sonoelkh Nue! :D I was SO insanely lucky I managed to finish and upload this just before my PC's battery totally kicked the bucket man I was sweatin;;;

Let me also take this opportunity to advertise yet another event of theirs- the Month of the Aiti, where this year they're giving away one free Aitielkh fawn MYO ticket each to all members!! ☆o☆

Join in the fun here before this month is up [if you want to of course I mean no pressure]:

[vahrutasgrace]

¯`°¤.¸.¤ ¯`°¤.-- ♕ II "Merry Yuletide and Happy Solstice to all my fellow Hyruleans. Whatever you may celebrate this festive time of year, I pray that it is filled with abundance and happiness. May all your blessings ring true."

[looselipssinkships-x]

I did all of my holiday baking last night

I woke up, ate breakfast, and baked for nine and a half hours straight

I made 212 cookies

I feel like i blacked out and the spirit of a manic 85yo took over

[trickstarbrave]

Are you seriously trying to say forced conversion to Christianity didn't happen?

a lotta ppl were forcibly converted to christianity, that isn't deniable. but for scandiavians the process wasn't a violent, forceful one overall. in places like denmark they encountered christianity through raids, and taking christian slaves or wives. in other places kings or leaders would agree to convert and build a church, so it led to little pockets of christianity. and over all the process took literal centuries because people either did or didn't want to give up the old gods. things like "we will send you soldiers and give you political power" was a lot more valuable in the conversion process as ppl tended to follow political leaders rather than say, destruction of old places of worship, burning old books, killing people, and kidnapping children.

norse people for one didn't have many things in the way of concrete temples like you see in rome. nor did they have books for their religions as most of it was oral traditions. there was no one norse religion monolith to tackle and discredit. and like i said people were more utilitarian with religion--you worshiped the gods because the gods had something of value be it history, boons, protection, etc. if a better god comes along you might take up worshiping him. and even when people converted they tended to do it in a old gods style--old stories and traditions survived for CENTURIES in some form of another purely orally past christianization for that reason.

like. there are a lot of cases to be mad about pope sanctioned forced conversion. many slavic ppl experienced it. the irish and scottish experienced it. countless people of cultures forcibly colonized by western powers (see: the americas, parts of asia, parts of africa, parts of the middle east) experienced it. you don't need to come up to bat for us in particular i promise. it is not our pain to bemoan. and talking about cases of where christianization wasn't horrifically violent is important i think because it means: yeah the church didn't have to do any of that. at all. if people wanna covert they will and trying to force it just leads to the destruction of culture and with it all the knowledge baked into that culture.

[draftmare]

Happy Winter Solstice!

[angel-dust-addict]

//Thanksgiving is now officially over in the entirety of the US, and we all know what that means. It's time for Yule! Christmas? Never met her. Nope, Yule time. Planning to get my tree up, my various decorations out, and my alter changed over this weekend. Putting the Halloween decorations up too, because those never got put up this year. I was sick and stressed out for all of spooky season. So I'm decorating for "Hallowmas." I mean, Halloween is gay Christmas, after all. It fits. Shhhhhh, no, my decorations make sense. 🤫 >_>;;;