Thanks to the generous SPANIARD KIWI, the text of Cadance of Cloudsdale so far is now in Spanish! Mr. Kiwi has done a tremendous amount of work translating many of my stories into Spanish, but this goes above and beyond. If you're curious, you may visit the project so far here at this
Things feel a bit subdued today, due to the coincidence of Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday through a quirk of the liturgical calendar. It is somewhat difficult to juxtapose the splash of corporate-encouraged love with the festival that literally exists to remind us of our mortality. The pink of Valentine's washes against the purple of Lent. So I'm in a pensive mood, more so than usual on this
Just got home from PVCF and it was an amazing con experience! The minific-based ARG that circulated around the con the whole weekend was high-concept, and I was worried about engagement, but everyone seemed to really get into searching out the hard-to-find stories concealed around the convention hall (in places as obscure as "the desktop wallpaper on one of the monitors in the video game room,
I still celebrate all 12 days. Also solstices, equinoxes, norooz, halloween, kwanzaa... heck, I even celebrate the feast day of St. Agathangelus! Never miss a chance to celebrate!
I still celebrate all 12 days. Also solstices, equinoxes, norooz, halloween, kwanzaa... heck, I even celebrate the feast day of St. Agathangelus! Never miss a chance to celebrate!
With all the feast and remembrance days in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, I bet you could take pretty much the whole year off for "Religious Observances"
It used to be Saturnalia.
It was invented by Charles Dickens.
I still celebrate all 12 days. Also solstices, equinoxes, norooz, halloween, kwanzaa... heck, I even celebrate the feast day of St. Agathangelus! Never miss a chance to celebrate!
So... happy everything to you!
In Sweden, it's called the Thirteenth Day's Eve.
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... no, no it was not. The twelve days of various observances between Christmas and Epiphany are much older than Dickens.
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Don't worry, I was just being puckish
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Good. My eye was twitching uncontrollably and I was about to release the goddamned hounds.
Maybe, but I was really getting sick of all those lords a-leaping.
... they're probably easier to put up with if you have just one true love at a time.
Huh. Having no knowledge of this whatsoever, I always assumed that the other eleven days came before Christmas, rather than after.
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With all the feast and remembrance days in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, I bet you could take pretty much the whole year off for "Religious Observances"
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It's worth a try!
Man, who knew that the War on Christmas had actually managed to take out 11/12 of the holiday?
If they ever start a War on NaNoWriMo it's time to worry.