I Will Never Let You Forget About Me.

[rionaleonhart]

Here is a danegen fanvid that is entirely about what massive dorks Jensen and Jared are. By the end of it, I'd been grinning so much my face hurt.

More Final Fantasy VIII! I don't even know how many times I've played through it - five? six? - but this was the first time I realised that what you see on the Timber screen before the presidential broadcast

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[wanttobeatree]

RIONA YOU HAVE AN UNNECESSARY APOSTROPHE.

NOW FIND IT.

[rionaleonhart]

DEL USING THE POSSESSIVE BEFORE A GERUND IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE AND IN FACT SOME PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMARIANS WOULD CONDEMN 'TO CELEBRATE A TERRORIST BEING SET ON FIRE'.

If you were not referring to that, I apologise.

[wanttobeatree]

OH THERE IS AN 'A' IN THE SENTENCE. NEVER MIND MOVE ALONG.

Or maybe I wasn't referring to that. Maybe there is something else.

Although, really there are probably better ways to word that sentence. 'A terrorist's being set on fire'? Really? It's clunky, Riona. It clunks :(

[rionaleonhart]

Your attempts to induce punctuational paranoia will not work on me!

[calamitysxchild]

I AM THANKFUL FOR YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES

that is all.

[rionaleonhart]

Hee, I'm glad you enjoy them! Thank you!

[justspaz]

I AM ALSO THANKFUL FOR YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES, MY DEAR.

Your strange November holiday has fireworks and burning things at least. We have football and crazy people getting up at 2 am the next day to beat each other up over tickle me Elmo.

Which always creeped me out, to be honest. Demonic laughter and all that. Furbies were creepy too. I think my whole childhood consisted of creepy, fuzzy animatronic toys.

[rionaleonhart]

♥!

We have football and crazy people getting up at 2 am the next day to beat each other up over tickle me Elmo.

...er? All I really know about Thanksgiving I learnt from Friends is that there is turkey and gratitude. Tickle Me Elmos were not involved in my Thanksgiving education.

Furbies were great! They were terrifying, obviously, but they were also great. I was completely fascinated by the way they slowly progressed from the weird Furby language to speaking English. (THE ADVERTS GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY WOULD LEARN WORDS YOU ATTEMPTED TO TEACH THEM, HOWEVER. LIES.)

[justspaz]

The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, and well I know the sales are crazy-inspiring on Boxing Day, but this is before Christmas, which means every parent goes out impossibly early searching for the ever elusive 'Toy of the Year'.

For example, Tickle Me Elmo, Furbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Play Stations, Wiis. It is an evolving culture of craziness.

[lovestories]

AHAHAHA, that is remarkably similar to a conversation I had with my brother (who is 7, and just learning this stuff in class now).

Him: This holiday is about giving thanks to people you love! And helping other people!
Me: Actually, first it was about genocide, and now it's mostly just about eating. And football.

[rionaleonhart]

Still, the holiday has evolved to become a day of (theoretical) positivity and love, and that's something. Bonfire Night is just about explosions.

Which is pretty disturbing, when you reflect on the fact that it originated with a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Are fireworks really the best response to that? Really?

[black_regalia]

Surviving Thanksgiving as a Brit in America twenty years running takes some doing.

I remember as a kid I was always like:

Me: "Hey! We have this week in November off of school! You guys should totally come over to my house tomorrow and we can do stuff."
My friends: "It's Thanksgiving, you freak."
Me: "So? It's not like it's a real holiday. It's like Memorial Day -- you get school off, but that's about it."
Friends: *boggle at me and walk away*

One year my family thought "I dunno, maybe we should give this thing a chance. We can pretend we're Americans." We ate a really big dinner(if I remember correctly we had Beef Wellington -- we assumed it was the 'big dinner' that was the thing, not specific dinner items), then looked at each other and said "...Now what?"

To this day I still think "Thanksgiving...Yeah, but...it's not a real holiday."

[rionaleonhart]

Hee! I think I'd probably embrace Thanksgiving were I in America, because, you know, huge roast dinners. Always good.

What is Christmas dinner like in America, by the way? Does all the food just go into Thanksgiving?