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when you're looking at this time of year specifically through a christian lens and christian only lens, there are a lot more songs about bringing out the tragedy and sorrow - and in things like the coventry carol that are about herod's massacre of the innocents. there's more discussion of the grisly reality of saying "hooray, a kid was born! ....SO HE CAN GO DIE FOR ALL OF OUR SAKES, MISERABLE, IN PAIN, SLOWLY SUFFERING. yay."

tbh i think it's something to do, especially in a minor key and traditional tunes, about how why your typical medieval peasant was far more tuned in to christmas as a tragic event as well as a happy one - yeah, yay christ is born, but yay christ is born cos HE'S GONNA DIE AT THE END OF THIS

compare how cheerful the wexford carol is vs. how downright dirgelike coventry carol

@Dayglochainsaw tldr, it's inspired by/a memorial to this one badass little celloist who played in sarajevo while it was being bombed, to show that the spark of humanity was still alive even as everything was going to hell around him. "The orchestra represents one side, the rock band the other, and single cello represents that single individual, that spark of hope." as per the Trans Siberian Orchestra's version of the song.

@Dayglochainsaw i have no idea why the original song goes so hard, but i DO know why at least one version of it goes off so fuckin hard, and it's because the TSO version is related to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve/Sarajevo_12/24

it's time... for christmas. and by that i mean listening to all the #candlenights episodes of #mbmbam

i am.... not good at the little choir rhythm game but I AM AMUSED ANYWAY, and besides my catgirl looks really good and that's the true spirit of #ffxiv

@noelle and that's how Fallout ME, or Fallout Millennium Edition, was born

someone is terribly offended that i am using her favourite blanket and fussed at me until i put it over her as she sat next to me #dogsofmastodon #pupper #dog #hollypls

i'm probably the first person in most of those hashtags but ohmygoddoitry.gif [ /he man ]

for all my other #spoonie people out there living that #sinusproblems life, i will pass along the tip from my mom's doc - you can mix double strength saline and use it in your #netipot and altho it's not as soothing, it will really help to dry things out so you can potentially avoid having to take a decongestant, which is nice, since the ones that work most effectively often cause anxiety/heart issues. but you still get to breathe, yay

maybe if i fill my neti pot with hot apple cider i can speed up the process of christmassing

i got that christmas spirit but i'm at like the point where you'd expect to be at like, around november 31st. heck

@citrustwee play a game that's grindy and repetitive (aka Time To Level Your Fishing)

@root my mom has another real similar thing like that!! her's a dexcom widget that continuously reports

tbh i'm already a cyborg already with the spinal cord stim that i might be really interested in getting one sometime, especially because the continuous monitoring is really nice. so often it's like "ok what was my blood sugar 30 minutes ago tho? is this going up or down??"

@root LOL i mean worth a go at least

i wish i had better tips but i think being a diabetic i'm dealing with way smaller needles that are a lot easier to handle (cishet mcgee over here dont know about hrt injections), also tbh diabetes i feel like has such a more solid immediate effect that i got over shyness about stabbing myself real quick LOL

except for finger sticks tho

fuck finger sticks

@root honestly it might be the cutesy presentation - i think it's a thing that was like, on shark tank or whatever

but tbh from the description it seems like you could hack it with a vibrator, an ice pack, and an ace bandage LOL

@root oh hey i might actually know something that can help

if it's the pain that gets you, i know they make these things that are actually meant for kids - it's a little buzzy thing and an ice pack, and apparently that combo throws off your body enough that it just doesn't register the needle stick at all. also they look like bumblebees or ladybugs and are super cute.

if it's the actual "aw dag time to stabbo myself" i alas have not got much there :(