@Lady and then you will enter a period of reflective contemplation?

@Satsuma i do that year round

@Lady but you gotta do it extra during advent

@Satsuma i mean it's dark and cold you don't have many other options

@Lady yeah you gotta save the partying for January bc its even worse

@Satsuma in january at least you might get snow

@Lady in theory it snows here in December too

@Lady but yeah it is kinda interesting how ‘we will have a big party of the first day of ____’ has shifted to ‘you must spend a month preparing for _____ before immediately moving on to the next thing’

@Satsuma i was going to make a joke about opening candy on halloween so that hallowmas can be reserved for prayer but everybody does that

@Satsuma i think people have gotten confused and mixed up harvesttide, where you celebrate earth's bounty, and hallowtide, where you watch everything die

the fact that americans celebrate thanksgiving during the latter doesn't help