Since and rejoice! Trans-Siberian Orchestra has booked their fall/holiday tour for “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve - The Best Of TSO & More” https://ghostcultmag.com/trans-siberian-orchestra-books-2023-tour-the-ghosts-of-christmas-eve-the-best-of-tso-more

#itsTSOtime
#transiberianorchestra
#TSO
#christmaseve
#christmas

Four Gathered on Christmas Eve is coming December 12 from Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan, and James Harren, published by Dark Horse Comics. https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/457802/four-gathered-on-christmas-eve-new-holiday-horror-anthology-coming-from-mike-mignola-and-eric-powell #comics #ChristmasEve #GhostStories @comics

A woman, so young and so fair
Was shot to death on Christmas Eve, there
A sub-machine gun
To the pub had come
To take Elle Edwards away from her prayer

#christmaseve #gunviolence #justiceforelle #lighthousepub #limerick #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/elle-edwards-murder-trial-shooting-b2356599.html

Decades ago when I lived much closer to the centre of #Amsterdam, I gave a rather large amount of money to a #homeless #wheelChair user on #ChristmasEve and next day they had forgotten all about it and cursed at me and that was how the concept of #EffectiveAltruism actually came about.
#trueFacts

Literal chills watching all the JR CMs from 1988 - 2000.

There's just so much nostalgia to unpack.

#tatsuroyamashita #christmaseve #music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1nAcTJO6I

Wishing a Gitten (Long) #Nittel to all observing today!

For context: those Hasidic communities who originate in areas where Orthodox Christianity was the majority (Romania, Ukraine, etc.) observe Nittel tonight, on #ChristmasEve of the old Kratzmach:
https://thesecondtransition.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-most-beautiful-night.html

Julian Calendar. When the change was made to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, a little more than 10 days were lost and by the time all of Europe accepted the Gregorian Calendar in the 17th century, it was a full 12 days from December 25 to January 6. Since the calendar was the product of Pope Gregory XIII, many protestants refused to accept it and kept celebrating Christmas in January 6. 3/3

That is my long-winded way of saying Merry Christmas again.
#holidayseason #ChristmasEve #OldChristmas

with their own children, wives, and in-laws on December 25. Some people know the term, but don't know what it means. Others often keep Christmas decorations up until after January 6, even though many don't know the significance. Some believe it is the day the three Magi arrived in Bethlehem with gifts for the baby Jesus, and the folklore here is that at midnight the animals receive the gift of speech.
The date was actually celebrated as Christmas under the 2/3
#holidayseason #ChristmasEve

I saw mention of Eastern Orthodox Christmas and it reminded me of the now nearly vanished Appalachian tradition of Old Christmas. Few people my age know it, but my grandmother, who was born in 1899, talked about when I was a child.
Catholics call January 6 the Feast of Epiphany and in Shakespeare's day it was Twelfth Night, but in Appalachia it was and is Old Christmas. A friend celebrates it when her adult children come home for Christmas after celebrating 1/2
#holidayseason #ChristmasEve

The #NocheBuena or #ChristmasEve midnight #dinner is an important #holiday tradition in the #Philippines. In our family, we usually serve #ensaymada #chickentgalatina #prawns in lemon-butter sauce, #spaghetti and a #dessert. This year, we had #applepie ala mode.

RT @GeneVatow@twitter.com

These moments
of chill
where snow flies
and fires burn
Let love be
your natural inflection
between solstice
and the holiday
and the coming
New Year turn

#vss365 #between #poetry
#ChristmasEve

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeneVatow/status/1606549779705643008

I took a walk in Street in Sapporo on Christmas Eve.🤗
クリスマスイブの日に札幌の街中を散歩しました。🤗
#札幌 #街 #クリスマスイブ #街歩き #christmaseve #illumination #walking

https://youtu.be/eYSUng-tsgs

A last bit of #holiday cheer for 2022.

Every year I get this out and set it going on #ChristmasEve, and then get too busy to enjoy it.

Today, I lit the candles, and just watched it go ‘round. 🙂

{soundtrack: Conspiratio, “Gower Wassail”}

After #sunset on #ChristmasEve.

I took a walk in Tanukikoji in Sapporo on Christmas Eve.🤗
クリスマスイブの日に札幌の狸小路を散歩しました。🤗
#札幌 #狸小路 #クリスマスイブ #街歩き #christmaseve #christmas #walking

https://youtu.be/su2L_7hLd_M

Very much looking forward to this book of short stories about Budapest that arrived on Christmas Eve. Technically, in the Hungarian tradition, the angels left it there under the tree, but I am not buying that for a second 😉 .

#KarácsonyEste #ChristmasEve #Budapest

I reviewed the English translation of a freeware visual novel called io [Christmas Eve] on (when else?) Christmas Eve. The original Japanese game was released in 2005 and the patch was released that same year. However, the game was updated in 2006, which broke the patch. In 2022, an independent translation group fixed the original 2005 patch so that it works with the final 2006 version of io [Christmas Eve]. This visual novel is Windows only (written in KiriKiri), but I was able to run it on Linux with the patch -- it requires a Japanese language environment and it works best in virtual desktop mode. I did have a minor font size issue -- but because I could read everything, I did not look too deeply into it.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/io-christmas-eve-visual-novel-review/

#visualnovel #visualnovels #kirikiri #linux #wine #lutris #christmaseve

Baa Baa Brighouse Advent Calendar Reveal!

The final full skein of our 'Retro Toys' calendar to mark Christmas Day is Rubik's Cube!

(Albeit two days late as I've been away but I'm back now).

#yarn #knitting #crochet #crafting #advent #adventcalendar #christmas #christmascountdown #christmaseve #yarnadventcalendar

Betwixmas https://johnhood.substack.com/p/betwixmas #ChristmasEve #Christmas #ChristmasDay #Betwixmas #DoctorWho #Newsletter

I took a walk in Norbesa in Sapporo on Christmas Eve.🤗
クリスマスイブの日に札幌のノルベサを散歩しました。🤗
#札幌 #ノルベサ #クリスマスイブ #街歩き #christmaseve #christmas #walking

https://youtu.be/_nA9G4hwnuA