nextgen_holiday (nextgen_holiday) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-12-22 20:27:00

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asleif, eiltin, halbjorn, holiday, inactive - andy walters, inactive - dawn roberts, marlow, sydney ashcroft, team - defenders, zoey ashcroft

We'll Celebrate the Yuletide and Dream a Dream By the Fireside (Defenders)
Christmas. Yule. Saturnalia. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Many cultures have celebrated and still celebrate a winter festival. There have been many names for it over the millennia. No matter the name it is a time to come together and celebrate with feasts and gifts with friends and loved ones.

Each culture has a legendary figure who would deliver gifts to children during this time. In Russia and some Slavic cultures he is known as Ded Moroz, Grandfather Frost, and comes not on Christmas but on New Year’s along with his granddaughter Snegurochka, or ‘”Snow Maiden”. In the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe he is known as Father Christmas. In the Netherlands and Belgium he is known as Saint Nicholas or “Sinterklaas” and in France he is known as Père Noël. In the United States we know him as Santa Claus.

No matter the name or who is delivering gifts, it is the season of peace, joy and togetherness. It is the season for thinking about loved ones, friends and those less fortunate. It is a time to witness the goodness and generosity the human race is capable of. It is a time for peace on Earth and goodwill toward man.

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stone_bear
2010-12-23 12:22 am UTC (link)

Halbjorn lays out the gifts for his siblings first. His time in the movie industry has inspired him to do things a little differently this year. Aridis is getting an English longbow off the set of some Robin Hood period pic. Aslief - he's never quite sure what to get her, so she's getting a promisory note to undertake a quest for any materials she might need. Svalin is getting her own Bat'leth - because he was assured that a warrior's weapon is unique though, from the Trekkies who'd know, he forged it himself for her, including tempering it in his own blood, apparently also part of the process - and he has to say, he approves of these Klingons, and the wounds didn't take long to heal.

Everyone else just gets gifts of food and mead.

Once the gifts are in place, he gets ready to head to one of the Hollywood Christmas parties he was invited to ahead of the release of his newest movie, out on Christmas Day.

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