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magpieandwhale:

allofthefeelings:

In response to ameliarating’s point that holiday AU suggestions fandom posts tend to be CHRISTMAS AU suggestions fandom posts, may I present:

  • “I know you’re just trying to take a smoke break but we ran out of matches and it’s Chanukah can I steal you for five minutes” AU
  • “We both forgot to buy candles until the last minute and now there’s only one box left in the store” AU
  • “My friend dragged me to their grandma’s ridiculous sufganiyot party and I don’t know anyone here but holy crap that person’s cute” AU
  • “We are out of potatoes we are OUT OF POTATOES the latkes aren’t done this is not a drill please help” AU
  • “I accidentally set the kitchen on fire frying things and you are an attractive firefighter” AU
  • “What do you mean you’ve never played strip dreidel LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THIS PERVERSION OF THE GAME” AU
  • “We’re the only two people at this office ‘holiday’ party who seem uncomfortable with the way it’s all transparently Christmas stuff so let’s talk over here in a corner about how much we hate everything” AU
  • “This Chinese restaurant is so crowded on Christmas Eve do you mind if we share a table?” AU
  • “You seriously want me to teach you how to knit, just to make ugly Chanukah sweaters and prove a point?” AU
  • “I agree with you that Chanukah is a minor holiday that we’re only making a big deal out of because of cultural forces surrounding Christmas but since we’re already at this youth group party in the synagogue basement do you maybe want to dance? :D?” AU

MORE JEWISH AUs, PLEASE. (Feel free to prompt me any of these for the MCU. My feelings on Jewish Bucky Barnes should be known at this point, but if not, Jewish Bucky Barnes is everything.)

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#Judaism #Hanukkah #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #’what do you mean you’ve never played strip dreidel’

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oxboxer:

Happy Holidays!

Also on Tapastic~

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#long post #Christmas #while I am very fond of overthinking fictional characters #(obviously the solution to Santa’s logistical problems is time travel) #I like the not-Santa ideas #all hail the Hanukkah Octahedron #(…my brother just walked by carrying a giant light-up Star of David) #(what timing)

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sportsgoth:

I know there’s a lot of like, younger teenagers that follow me so check this out, if this is your first time driving in winter, don’t just stamp on the brake pedal to stop, if you’re on ice you’ll continue to slide for quite some distance and could possibly hit something/someone

ease into it, like small pumps on the pedal. And brake earlier, like give yourself some room because even if you’re driving slow and braking correctly you’re still probably gonna slide a bit 

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#this actually *is* going to be my first time driving in winter #I already knew that #but I appreciate the thought

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euclase2:

Eat your vegetables, drink lots of water, be kind to your neighbors, and keep an eye on your nearest volcano and know what to do when it erupts.

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#PSA #though my home is actually very low on the disaster-risk scale #(a scale that is probably measured in deci-Californias) #we don’t have any nearby volcanoes #(we’re even outside the death zone of Yellowstone) #(though I think we are slated to get a noticeable quantity of ash rain) #we’re not prone to floods #we’re not prone to wildfires #all of our earthquakes are of the ‘easily mistaken for a passing train’ variety #we almost never get tornadoes #we only get hurricanes when they’re literally a thousand miles across and strengthened by climate-change-warmed waters #(and even then the power was only out for seventy minutes and as far as I know nobody around here died) #so around here it’s more ‘know what to do when a Buffalo-style massive blizzard hits’ #(we didn’t get hit with the Buffalo blizzard) #(but it’s the sort of thing that could happen) #tag rambles

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flutterflyinvasion:

melorapazlar:

I saw a post complaining about the lack of Hanukkah-themed stuff during the spate of holiday (= Christmas) fanworks that start appearing ‘round this time, and I realized that sadly, in the Star Trek universe this makes sense. because Christmas has produced far more commercial and secularized traditions that non-Christians are well aware of; so Starfleet officers would have a vague knowledge of mistletoe but not dreidel. (wait a sec, is there really NO RELIGION among Federation members? damn you, Gene.)

but then I was like “okay who among the DS9 humans would be most likely to have Jewish heritage, even if it’s wayyy in the past” and well — not the O’Briens, not Bashir, so the most likely contenders are the Siskos.

and then I imagined SISKO MAKING LATKES and GRANDPA SISKO LIGHTING THE MENORAH and this is the story of how I died

Sisko making latkes = best thing ever.  GODDAMMIT I MIGHT HAVE TO WRITE A ONESHOT ON THAT NOW.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Benjamin Sisko #Judaism #…yes #Sisko making latkes #yes I like that #I bet Sisko would make awesome latkes