colors_tcg | Advent Calendar Day 02

surprising probably nobody ever, my latest tradition has been playing the yakuza games!

"but andie," you may ask, "what the hell does yakuza have to do with christmas?" i'm glad you asked! much like how die hard can be considered a christmas movie, so too can the yakuza series--almost every game takes place in december! this is a screenshot from kiwami 2! and in 5...

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ok this is an odd one i think, but every year in the first week of december as a Holiday Tradition i do on my own, i watch rise of the guardians. i don't even know why i do this. it's just a strange Need i have in december. it has jack frost and santa so it's okay, i say, every year as i bundle up with a cup of hot cocoa. (it rarely gets below 40f/4c where i live, btw)

one perhaps a little odd family tradition that we do is watch a christmas carol. every year. which version changes, but the one we bust out the last few years is the one with jim carrey as scrooge. unrelated but it's two days into december and i havent seen baby grinch now that i mention jim carrey and christmas in one sentence..... unusual!!

i'm nabbing planners02, planners03, and cetra03, cetra04!

Edited 2021-12-02 08:25 (UTC)

every year, i get a tea advent calendar and a jam advent calendar. i really enjoy everything that goes into brewing tea, so i make a pot of tea and some toast with jam to share with the rest of my household. it's a nice thing that forces me to take a break from homework/work-work and just mindfully make some tea about folks i care about.

i also always have to start a new game file in skyrim around finals... i just associate it with this time of year, and it just feels right to finish a test and then unwind with a game i'm SUPER familiar with.

i'll take deepsleep07, deepsleep08, girlboss02, girlboss03

Edited 2021-12-02 09:01 (UTC)

HELL yea it's skyrim season, i do the same thing!

my usual winter tradition is to refresh my skyrim modlist and start a new file, i really like snuggling up and playing when it's cold out. but todd fucked us over this year so i haven't had to motivation to sort out all the changes that'd be needed to update to AE (or whether i'd even want to), my modlist is a very delicate house of cards at this point (700+ mods) and it's going to be a big mess.

(more realistically, for the past few years my work schedule has been CRAZY busy between thanksgiving and new years so i'm usually just praying i don't have to work on christmas day :/)

taking sticker03, sticker04, freikugel12, freikugel13!

My wintertime tradition is always watching Love Actually... I'm not usually a romcom person but for some reason that one is consistently my favorite.

In terms of family, I usually visit home for Christmas. Since I was a little kid, my mom has had a tradition that we're allowed to open a present on Christmas Eve, but every year, it is always pajamas. She always tries to play coy that it's not but its because she wants us to look cute for pictures LOL. Since then, though, I've also done this at home! I always buy my fiancee a pair of pjs for christmas eve. c:

taking: cultivation07, cultivation08 and baxia13, baxia19!

It's not Hanukkah unless you have latkes at least once. I'm a sour cream kind of girl - I don't like applesauce just in general - but they're also super delicious plain. I had some Tuesday night they were so good ♥

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Aside from putting up the tree with my mom, every year I watch this movie called Olive the Other Reindeer. It's a vey sweet movie by... Matt Groening (yeah that Matt Groening) about a dog who misunderstands a song and thinks she's a reindeer. It's just a made for TV movie, but one of the reasons I like it so much is the way I relate to it changes a little every year and it's an interesting reflection of how I've grown up. Also it still just makes me laugh. I either watch it with some friends or by myself.

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I remember this movie, my grandparents actually had a copy of it. XD

Every December/Christmas season, my mom and I always watch some form of The Nutcracker, whether a play IRL, or just one on TV/the Internet! The weekend before Christmas, we usually bake cookies together, too, as a tradition.

I'd honestly like to do more traditions with other people, but it's hard to find something that can be a regularly annual thing, and also make the time for it when everyone is busy for the holidays!

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i am... Unfortunately Boring and i don't really do any sort of tradition cries. i want to pick up some sort of tradition but i'm Old and Tired..... pls help

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my family doesn't really do any traditions especially since we largely live apart now, but my siblings & step-siblings and I (there's six of us, including myself) do secret santa every year because it was easier than buying gifts for the entire group...

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Edited 2021-12-02 19:57 (UTC)

I actually haven't had any holidy/winter traditions since I was a kid, or at least since around my teens. I actually wound up moving away from home 8 years ago, and haven't really made any of my own traditions that actually stick, or have any real meaning. I've only visited my family a few times in the last 8 years, and only 2 of those times were for Christmas. But with Covid, and a State court case for custody of my daughter who was taken at birth for no real reason, I haven't been able to even think about visiting my family for Christmas.

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Not all that long ago, I used to do my annual Star Wars rewatch around this time since the new movies were being released in December. But to watch one a week, you have to start in like early October now just to get them all in before Christmas, so I... kinda stopped doing that. Regardless, Star Wars is now a bunch of Christmas movies in my mind, so I like to rewatch a couple of them during the holidays.

But the only movie I absolutely have to see is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. This is my favorite part. Between the "she passed away 30 years ago" and "THE BLESS!! ING!!" I don't know which is better.

Other than that! It's a time of decoration and financial stress and trying to decide if we really want to spend that much money at the local bakery or not.

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When I was a younger seal, one of my big Christmas traditions was going with my uncle to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, so I still listen to their albums when I'm feeling festive. Nowadays, my sister and I (and anyone else who wants to sit in with us) watch a small collection of movies. Her favorite movies as a small crow were A Muppet Christmas Carol, Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, and A Muppet Family Christmas (two points if you can guess the theme), and I double dip on A Nightmare Before Christmas bc it's definitely also a crimmis movie, fight me. Last year her boyfriend made a strong case for Home Alone, so we added that to the watch list and contemplated how dead the Wet Bandits would actually be before the day was out.

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i dont really have any personal ones for myself but my family would always go to spend every christmas eve with my dad's side of the family since i was little and it was always pretty nice getting to see everyone especially since we see each other alot less as we got older and moved further away in the general area. we would always just catch up, have a nice dinner and play white elephant. unfortunately covid killed that last year for obvious reasons and its up in the air whether we'll be able to do it this year or not.

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we have a pickle ornament, and each year someone has to hide the pickle- normally whoever found it last year- on the tree on christmas morning. whoever finds the pickle gets an extra box of candy!! a muppet's christmas carol is vital to the december experience as well,

(cw, car accidents) and ever since 2011, normally we get sushi on the anniversary of a car accident i survived, since... well. i survived, and i like sushi.

choice cards: windwaker01, windwaker02, karateclub01, karateclub02

Edited 2021-12-02 23:47 (UTC)

My family doesn't actually have any super special winter holiday traditions - unless opening gifts at midnight on Christmas Eve counts, which I don't think it does.

I guess we make roast beef every year.
And my own personal tradition is just marathoning as many Harry Potter movies as I can.

Taking glace17, glace19, fermata02, fermata03

~~Every year I tell myself this will be the year I finally watch Saint Young Men, but it never is...~~ I'm pretty boring, so I don't really have any traditions. The closest to a tradition I can think of was when I was a kid, my family would drive to this one neighborhood that went all out with the lights and we'd look at them from the car.

taking: gecko07, squishy13, firespin12, firespin14

chrimmus!! i've forced my family to decorate a tree whenever i can, i love them and decorate the house wherever i can. i also love watching home alone whenever i can, and i'm very scared for the remake! please don't suck, i'm begging you

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I don't have a lot of Christmas/Holiday Traditions every year. My mom, brother, and I live together, and I put up stockings (the tree used to get mauled/eaten by a cat so we've since opted against it LOL). But my favorite movie to watch is Home Alone - I will watch the first three movies, even. Christmas Eve we usually go and spend time with my Dad and fam and we open gifts and hang out together for a bit. And the morning of Christmas we make a nice breakfast, open gifts, and watch anime.

taking: alatus03, alatus04, sand01, sand02

Edited (i swear i'll do it right one of these times) 2021-12-03 04:31 (UTC)

mmmm i don't really have traditions like that any more? :,) i guess this time of year is when i drink a gallon of hot cocoa a night? :,)

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i think a lot of our traditions lessened as i got older laughs... the usual present exchange and decorating, i guess. I'M TRYING TO THINK but i can't even think of movies i watch every year, maybe nightmare before christmas but even that i definitely accidentally miss some

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It's not a tradition YET but I'm trying to make it a tradition that whenever it snows (and we're not in deathly blackout orz) we go out and take cosplay photos! I'm not really a Christmas/winter holiday person but I LOVE SNOW!!!!!! Last winter I went out and took pics as Owen from Mahoyaku and I'm hoping this winter I will get some pics in maybe Wataru or Madara from Enstars!

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i don't really have any winter traditions aside from family gatherings (which we don't do now because of gestures), but like. christmas shopping stress is a constant LMAO, it's totally worth it though because i do love surprising my friends and family with things they enjoy! i think part of the reason why i don't get extremely into the holiday spirit despite christmas being my favorite holiday is bc i don't get snow where i live. i try to make the most of it anyways!

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hmmm i don't have many traditions, but i enjoy making cookies and other baked treats!! i also watch lots of disney movies! i'd love to go down to pike place and do some holiday shopping but we shall see!!

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I used to have a tradition of going to the city for a few weeks, but since 2020 I haven't had the chance. I also moved during that time, so it becomes slightly tricky. Other then that, Nothing too much for tradition, or nothing we really keep up with it seems hehe.
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I don't have very many traditions, but usually during the holiday season I buy myself some extra dw points, and find myself a game to occupy myself with over the holiday break. I also make some ox tail stew around this time of the year because it's really the perfect soup for a cold day

taking: manaegg10, manaegg16, sheep03, sheep04

I celebrate Hanukkah but the family that helped raise me/practically adopted me are Catholic. Every year they always ask me to make Latkes and come over during Hanukkah to eat with me and celebrate. Otherwise, there's always a big winter breakfast and dinner and while it's Exhausting it's always fun. Usually, there's at least (1) one zombie apocalypse theory or some other silly thing every year. It's just nice every year to have people who don't let you celebrate alone!

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My tradition around this time of the year is travelling to spend weeks around Christmas with my mom, her husband, their dogs and whoever happens to be there too (her husband's sister, my sister sometimes, my niece sometimes too...) and watching movies there or back in my own apartment i guess?? Also we bake for Christmas, tho we try some new things every year but we bake traditional stuff too -- apparently cheesecake is our tradition these days! I love gingerbread anytime of the year but I eat a lot of them around this time of the year. We also make food together, eat a lot, enjoy time together etc. I've always loved Christmas, it's my favorite holiday of the year and I have really great memories of it from my childhood home and both of my grandparents' houses and from many other places too.

Also I buy myself at least one, but sometimes even more than one, advent calendar every year. This year I bought myself one with chocolate bars and it has been amazing~! Shiranna also bought an ice cream calendar for me and her, we ate them all in one go since what is having space in the freezer... But they were small, 70ml sized mostly delicious cups of ice cream!!♥ We didn't even know about those ice cream calendars being a thing until the day before yesterday lmao, I know which calendars I will be getting next year too if both of these are in stores then!! Oh, I also have a kinder chocolate calendar now, ooooops, it was on sale and I will never ever say no to most chocolate things.

Choice cards: jupiter15, jupiter03, suzaku11, suzaku02

Edited 2021-12-05 00:21 (UTC)

my big tradition that ive been doing the last few years is baking for friends and mailing them out all over the US/world! its not cheap but i really enjoy it, and so long as my friends pretend they like it and blow smoke up my ass about it, im beyond happy to do it every year! otherwise i just kinda.... vibe. i live with my parents and we dont really do a whole lot beyond getting each other stuff. but i enjoy it!

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I'm on the south hemisphere gang, so I don't have snowy winter :ccc it's currently 34° celcius here and it feels like a sauna. However, yes we have some traditions! This year we're breaking one due to renovations, but we usually have the christmas tree done before the 8th, which is my dad's birthday. I personally have a really silly christmas tradition. Cannot remember when it started, but every chirstmas season I have to play the sega genesis game Daze Before Christmas. Oh my, this sounds so random xD

taking: inashiro12, inashiro13, starfox02, starfox03

Edited 2021-12-05 22:22 (UTC)

Our big family tradition has always been Christmas Eve pajamas! The night of Christmas Eve, me and my sisters would always open one gift from our mom, always a pair of pajamas and usually some kind of book or magazine. Always something we looked forward to, and even though we're older now, the tradition hasn't changed at all. c:

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My family and I don't have any like major traditions but we do a lot more baking during the winter time to help keep the house warm, so we always end up with a ton of homemade cookies this time of the year LOL. I love sweets and baking in general so it's always a lot of fun for me. The other day we actually made chocolate white chocolate chip cookies.

Besides that, my mom and I get together and watch old Christmas VHS tapes, one of them being Hello Kitty: Santa's Missing Hat that we watch every year for laughs. I've had the VHS since I was little and when I was a kid, it's been my go-to Christmas movie to watch since I've always loved Hello Kitty.

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I couldn't really do much this year because /gestures at the state of the world, but!! I like to buy Chanukkah gelt for friends or family, for as many days as I can. also I don't know if this happens nowadays with other families where one parent is Jewish and the other isn't, but we also celebrate Christmas too :'D they're usually a little closer together (Chanukkah was in November this year, wild), so usually we'd celebrate back to back, though we didn't have too many big traditions outside of dinner and presents. I guess for things we used to do a lot... while our DVD player was still working we didn't watch it every year, but I used to watch A Wonderful Life with my parents pretty regularly

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One big tradition my family always did was getting together Christmas morning and having a huge breakfast together before doing presents. We'd do pretty much everything from pancakes to biscuits, eggs, grits, bacon, cinnamon rolls...we'd all wind up in a food coma afterwards, but it was such a good time.

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When I was little, I used to go over to either my paternal grandma's house or my aunt's house for Christmas Eve and dinner, and open gifts, and then head back that night to my house where I lived with my mom and do Christmas morning stuff with her and my maternal grandma the next morning. It was very busy but it was always very fun! Most of our relatives have either moved long distances away or have passed away in the case of my paternal grandparents, so my aunt doesn't host Christmas Eve parties anymore, but I've gone over to her house on Christmas Eve and had dinner with them a couple of times on my own 'u'

As for what I personally do. I always play Katamari Damacy a lot near the holidays!! I first played it during a Christmas season many years ago and the game reminds me of that time of year so I always end up playing it when December comes around.

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My tradition is simply to spend time with my family, there's not much else to it since I don't really enjoy christmas all that much. We do, however, watch Disney's From All of Us to All of You almost every year, at least whatever changes at the end of the episode.

And of course I do tend to listen to christmas music some when I'm back home.

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As children, my sister and I would open one gift from a relative on Christmas Eve to tide us over until the next day, but most traditions have fallen away over the years now that I'm 30. I do watch Elf with my dad, though, and half of the entertainment comes from how hard he laughs each and every year as if it's his first time seeing it.

My family also has a tradition of watching A Christmas Story every Christmas Eve. It used to help my parents keep their sanity while they wrapped gifts as Santa, but they roped us in when we got older and made it a bonding moment.

"OH, FUUUUUUDGE."

Naturally, I got my dad a leg lamp Christmas ornament for the occasion several years ago.

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I like... to watch The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya... but also I'm not good at consistently doing it, haha. I really don't have any specific traditions, other than that? And it barely counts. I want to rewatch Tokyo Godfathers if I can? I'M BORING.

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No real Christmas traditions anymore because the older I get, the less I feel like dealing with any of it. But as far as some general "oh hey it's winter" stuff:

- it's cold outside? time for homemade hot cocoa and chili!!
- a lot of cheesecake (idk man it's a big comfort food for me and I love stuff like that + ice cream when it's cold)
- Year Without a Santa Claus and the first Die Hard get watched at least once ("Aletha you're one of those people?" yes. yes I am.)
- it used to be a yearly tradition to start a new Minecraft server with some friends for Christmas/New Years and play on it for at least a couple of months, but everyone got busier with jobs/relationships/Life™, so it's kind of a disaster to try and plan nowadays... alas. Maybe one day the group'll feel like doing it again.

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I actually have both a Secret Santa and a New Year's Eve party with my circle of friends from high school, whether local or returning to town for the winter holidays. Die Hard, champagne, kiss at midnight... Well, not that part this year, but yeah.

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I love catching up on my gaming this time of year! I have a bunny boy to level in FFXIV along with my leisurely stroll through MSQ (Still in Stormblood) with my main girl. As an added bonus, I've been poking around No Man's Sky.

Usually, we would go to relatives' houses for Christmas Eve and Day, but... yeah, still not this year. My parents and I had cioppino yesterday and will probably have posole sometime this next week (mainly because I love hominy). Maybe order or pick up tamales from somewhere for my dad.

Choice cards: polkadot11, polkadot13, potatopie15, potatopie16

Hmm... every year on New Years Eve we have a Soul Calibur 3 tournament on our old PS2. Aru's the defending champion this year so I gotta step up my game.

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oh i forgot i was the defending champion of the soul calibur tournament

I decorate the tree with anime merch plushies, the small bean ones are great for it. The bonus is that tree becomes catproof thanks to them bc plushies won't break even if knocked over.

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my family and i usually go to church on christmas eve, and on christmas day we used to host a huge family and friends gathering for people to come eat and catch up and exchange gifts! i still did it this year but in much smaller groups and spread out over many many more days because there were limits on the number of people for in-person gatherings, but it was nice to have people over finally!

when i was younger too my family used to decorate a really large christmas tree - now that we've moved to a smaller apartment our tree is smaller, but at least now i can put all my anime plushies and beans and mochis on our tree wwwww.

taking invibelle06, invibelle09, genbu08, genbu09!

i don't really have any traditions :,) maybe watching the nightmare before christmas if i missed it in october? i have dinner with friends? :,)

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i've been on my own for two winters now, but when i lived at home we celebrated yule every year. i wasn't super into the spiritual aspect of it, but i LOVED getting to decorate and burn the yule log every year. we tied blessings and wishes to it before we burned it...and now that i live in an apartment, i just burn some paper on my stove LOL my roommate thinks i'm crazy.

choice cards: treats06, treats10, cucumber06, cucumber10

I usually spend Christmas with my family though we don't make much of a production of it since there's no little kids in the family. Normally we make a lot of baked goods which is my favorite part lmao, decorate a tree, do a Christmas day dinner, exchange presents, the usual stuff. I usually try to watch a bunch of Christmas movies every year too.

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