Oct. 14th, 2002

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*drum roll* [livejournal.com profile] alexmalfoy is my fanboy. *cymbal crash*

Finally, all that hard work has come to some kind of result. I can stop writing now.
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There are three traditions behind our Canadian Thanksgiving Day.

1. Long ago, before the first Europeans arrived in North America, the farmers in Europe held celebrations at harvest time. To give thanks for their good fortune and the abundance of food, the farm workers filled a curved goat's horn with fruit and grain. This symbol was called a cornucopia or horn of plenty. When they came to Canada they brought this tradition with them.

2. In the year 1578, the English navigator Martin Frobisher held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies.

3. The third came in the year 1621, in what is now the United States, when the Pilgrims celebrated their harvest in the New World. The Pilgrims were English colonists who had founded a permanent European settlement at Plymouth Massachusetts. By the 1750's, this joyous celebration was brought to Nova Scotia by American settlers from the south.

At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed "The Order of Good Cheer" and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.

After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

The Americans who remained faithful to the government in England were known as Loyalists. At the time of the American revolution, they moved to canada and spread the Thanksgiving celebration to other parts of the country. many of the new English settlers from Great Britain were also used to having a harvest celebration in their churches every autumn.

Eventually in 1879, Parliament declared November 6th a day of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Over the years many dates were used for Thanksgiving, the most popular was the 3rd Monday in October. After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11th occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day. Finally, on January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed "A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed... to be observed on the second Monday in October."

I stole all this information from here.

As with all things Canadian, it's a little European, a little American, and a little whatever was useful and made sense at the time.

EMERGENCY

Oct. 14th, 2002 11:48 am
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I am out of granola. *screeches*
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[livejournal.com profile] thete1 writes: But what I wanna know is this: what do you think your last five completed stories say about you, if anything?

Hmm.

5. Left Handed. Pansy/Hermione, R. A story about...er, two girls. Pansy observes Hermione and notes that she is trying too hard to be someone she's not because it's what she thinks the boys want her to be. She wants to be pretty and cute and giggly and flip her hair. Pansy figures she's better off being herself. So she gets smoochy with her. I mean, what else can a girl do in such a situation? Heh. What does this say about me? er...well, I'm left handed. How about that?

4. Turkish Delight. Narnia slash, Edmund/Bacchus, R. We were all discussing the strangeness of Narnian memory...the Pevensies spend an entire lifetime in Narnia, grow up, presumably doing all the things adults do, and then one day the disappear and end up back in England as children, returning to the same moment they left. The questions remain: how does a person return to being a child after having been an adult? What happens to the people they loved and left behind? What must it be like to be the lover of one of these kings and queens and be forced to wait until the end of the world for them to return to you? Enter Edmund/Bacchus. It still makes me all weepy.

3. Desires what is Understood. Harry/Draco, PG-13. Draco muses about the process of seduction, of passive seduction, I suppose. I really love oblivious!Harry, and I like the concept of having a mad crush on someone and not actually knowing it. Or at least, not acknowledging it. And I also like the idea that the physical response to attraction, kind of unfettered by realisation, shame, fear, or whatever, being very seductive. Hence this story, wherein Draco is seduced by Harry's own unacknowledged crush on him.

2. Fall on your Knees. Millicent, PG. This is a story wherein a girl kills a bully at school for making fun of her size. Hmm. Well, I'm not a skinny girl, per se. So I guess there's that. We all hate bullies, though, don't we?

1. Blue Vase. Harry/Draco, PG. Your standard amnesia fic. Post-war, Harry and Draco are in their 30s. Harry works as a typesetter for the Daily Prophet, and loses his memory one day. Draco has been stalking him for half a year, hoping to wreck vengeance on Harry for killing his father, but finds himself helping Harry instead. And then lets Harry think they're friends, and then that they're lovers. After a couple of days Harry remembers the truth. Or does he? dun dun dun DUN!!

What this all says about me: I have memory issues, I'm left handed, and gosh darn it, I like girls. Did I miss something?

LMFAO!

Oct. 14th, 2002 11:57 pm
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November Snowflake wrote a fic for my fic challenge, including a few key pieces of dialogue. Oh my God it's brilliant. I think it's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places, by November Snowflake.


*still laughing*

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