As long as the Claus regime and its fundamentalist base remains steadfast in its mission of Christmas creep expansionism, Halloween is all that’s left between us and Christmas lights going up in July.
For generations, Halloween has held the borders of Autumn established long ago in the Skellington Accords. Resolutely. Without complaint. It naturally can’t even creep father forward than Lughnasadh on August 6 due to the wobble of the Earth herself, and makes no designs to even take more than a week of August. IF you feel like it.
Meanwhile, the lands of Thanksgiving are bare, stripped to the roots to feed Claus and his elves. Christmas holds nearly every inch of Thanksgiving territory, save only a small administrative territory near the capital. They laughably claim autonomy still. Thanksgiving is little more than a province of Christmas now. A weak and middling fiefdom that serves no master other than Claus.
Fight the Claus. Fight Christmas. Saturnalia io!
Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain! Spooky season arise!
fireweed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sorry, but it’s too fucking hot most places to even think about spooky season right now.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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tyler@programming.dev 1 week ago
Costco put out Christmas stuff near us. These companies are literally completely destroying the meaning of the holidays.
protist@retrofed.com 1 week ago
Costco is particularly infamous for this. They start putting out Halloween in July and Christmas in August. By September, Halloween is over and it’s all Christmas
dkppunk@piefed.social 1 week ago
I feel like the only companies who should have stuff out early like that are craft stores because people need time to craft things.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
You have to go back pretty far to have the meaning of holidays not be about rampant consumerism.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 week ago
Like, to still it, or to decorate the store?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Costco is always a season ahead.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eh, we just had like four deaths in our extended social group in the last month. We put up our ofrenda early this year
fireweed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m sorry to hear that; I hope you’re doing well.