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[allthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

Happy Hallowe'en, for those of us who celebrate it.

A few general holiday announcements:

1) Are there ideas for Christmas? Last year was a free-for-all but perhaps a tame party may be nice. We could have Adam dress as Father Christmas. (You know the beard would suit him so well *coughDumbledore-in-trainingcough*) We could also do a Twelve Days of Christmas sort of thing. Booze and music and shinies?

2) Two words: Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Pancake Tuesday/Downhill Tuesday. Shall we adopt it the New Orleans style? Beads, masquerade, drunken orgies? Or just have pancakes and other sweets? Both? Neither?

3) Which leads into my next point: What about a challenge for the forty days of Lent (begins day after Mardi Gras - offically called Ash Wednesday for those who get marked in crosses of ashes on their foreheads) where no character is shown eating? So, characters would be eating behind the curtains but it would not be mentioned or done in threads at all. Necessity is the mother of invention (I'm going to have to find something for Azi to do rather than just give tea to everyone, oh dear).


Hallowe'en: Who went trick-or-treating? Who had costumes? What did you go as and do you have pics? :D

Comments

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

1) I'm not sure about having a formal party for Christmas. They don't tend to work out so well. But something maybe a little more organized than last year could be fun. And Adam would so put on the Santa beard and hand out presents. :D I don't know anything about how the Twelve Days of Christmas are usually celebrated.

2) Oh, I so want to have a masquerade! I'm more excited about that than Christmas. If Adam suppressed everyone's abilities to tell who was angel, demon, human, etc, and people just mingled, that could be really neat.

3) And I like the Lent challenge, but I'm not sure that not eating is it. We've frequently gone forty days without once mentioning food and people normally eat behind the scenes. What if we went forty days without saying the words 'angel' or 'demon' or 'wizard' or 'god'? XD

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

What about forty days without mentioning alcohol? I doubt we've ever done that. XD

[lumelle.livejournal.com]

Now, that might be too difficult... XD

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure our poor figments would survive! XD

[allthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale probably hasn't been sober that long since, oh, the nineteenth century... perhaps that was the only time since the Roman Empire. Quite a shock to his system. ("But! But! Wine is sacred, my dear. Christ's blood." "Come, now, what did I tell you about vampirism? Not your style.")

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

Sirius has done it, but never voluntarily.

[corroded-crown.livejournal.com]

Poll says NO. He doesn't like that idea. XD

[allthisnonsense.livejournal.com]

1) Oh, good. I have this perfect mental picture of Adam wearing the Father Christmas suit. And mistletoe, you know, that IS necessary. (Sirius, advent wreath?) There could also be a nice supper on the eve or the day itself.

2) I really do too. I just hit upon the idea for some... random reason... Okay, whoever I was speaking with when I mentioned it please tell me why? XD If we had intervention to prevent foreknowledge of who was who it could be quite fun, really.

3) I like the drinking idea most, actually. But, you know, to celebrate the end of it, another party is needed, clearly. (Whoever passes out first gets dressed in an Easter bunny suit, FYI.)

Lupercalia, Yule for Loki...? New Year's is also closer, though.

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

Sirius wants to know if you plan to celebrate Lupercalia in the way that involves lashing and sacrificing dogs, or the way that involves shagging. And he is telling me to let you know that if it's the later, he thinks it's a fantastic idea, although it needn't be a big to-do. A small, informal observance with friends might be nice, he suggests.

He just thought you should know. He also supports mistletoe. And...isn't exactly sure why you thought advent wreaths would hold special significance to him? I must admit, I share his confusion.

And I demand a New Year's party. Demand it.

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

Also, not to spam you with my comments, but I think it was me you were talking to when Mardi Gras was mentioned. Um...

Okay, checked my chat log, you mentioned it to me briefly, but you also mentioned that you mentioned it to Muri, so I've no idea. But you didn't really say why, just that you thought it would be a good idea.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

2) I think it's because I mentioned that we had carnival as a dressing up holiday here, so Halloween doesn't quite fit in here. (At least that was while you were posting it. You didn't mention the idea in chat, though, so maybe you'd already had it while talking to somebody else.

[first-catwoman.livejournal.com]

I've just done a bit of searching around, and I think that New Year's might be the only universally accepted festival we've got here.

Fancy dress/Masquerade for it? Please?

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Masquerade for New Year's? No, no, no, it's for fireworks.

Anyway are we sure all manor residents are thinking of the same date when they say New Year's?

[violet-wine.livejournal.com]

Well my characters are Pagan, and I know sphynx wouldn't really celebrate Christian holidays either, nor would the norse.

The Greeks were really into the harvest festivals, but I think Winter solstice would be lost on them since the weather in greece has winter being rather rainy and fertile-ish.

Valentine's day was another fertility holiday for the Greeks, I believe, and that was the one involving the infamous 'hold hands jump over fire naked for fertility' thing. Spring and Autumn are the two big things in pagan Greece, from what I have read. Also, having been American for quite a while, Hermes would be expecting Thanksgiving.

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This is the first year where I was officially a grown up for halloween. I didn't dress up and I didn't go out trick or treating. In fact I was planning to stay in on Halloween and just pretend it wasn't happening since it only reminds me of how pathetic my social life is. However I ended up sitting on a porch and watching other kids who didn't put any effort into their costumes get candy.

I hate halloween. After you stop being able to trick or treat it just sucks. And trick or treating is no fun if you're the only eighteen year old either.

[corroded-crown.livejournal.com]

1. I loved the tree last year. It was really interesting and... heart warming, if that's right word for the mess that resulted. XD

2. I LOVE the idea of a masquerade. It's perfect. <3 I wish I could go to one.


I didn't get to go out on Halloween. D: Had to work. All the kids in our town go out from like 2-17. It's awsome. :D! I work at the grocery store and kids came in for fun bags of stuff. And got to snitch cheetos when they didn't eat them all.