Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Happy New Year!

Being a devout follower of the Great Pumpkin (hallowed be His fields), today is my local new year, for values of "local" that include me, my cats (who enjoyed their new year's treat of tuna juice from the can), and any pagans in my vicinity.

I like having multiple New Years. It gives me the chance to try again if I feel like this one isn't working out (although strict application of the math involved may well mean that I'm in my sixties). I like the fact that everything is different today than it was yesterday, even if everything is also exactly the same.

I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, whether it's something you celebrate or something you endure or something you barely notice until it's over and the basic cable stations stop showing endless horror movie marathons and repeats of Hocus Pocus. I hope you ran amok, or didn't, as your heart prefers. I hope you spent some time in the cornfield of your heart, remembering the sweetness of the season.

From all of us here (mostly me and the cats) to all of you out there, Happy New Year. Welcome to November.

It's going to be a good year.
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aylaelphaba

November 1 2012, 15:44:44 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  November 1 2012, 15:46:04 UTC

LOL, hallowed indeed be the Great Pumpkin's fields! Halloween's one of my favorite holidays of the year -- more for the dressing up and flaunting my fan-nerdiness than for the sugar-highs. Though the latter is fun, too :)

Happy New Year to you as well!


(Said fan-nerdiness this year involved combining two of my favorite fandoms in one costume…hooray!)

kimuro

November 1 2012, 15:50:12 UTC 4 years ago

You look like Abby. Love the Jareth shirt.

aylaelphaba

4 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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aylaelphaba

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whiskeychick

November 1 2012, 15:51:34 UTC 4 years ago

Blessed Samhain to you, too.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:43:55 UTC 4 years ago

And all the year to come.

vulpine137

November 1 2012, 15:53:05 UTC 4 years ago

And a happy new year to you, may the Great Pumpkin grant you all the treats you can handle.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:44:10 UTC 4 years ago

Best blessing is best.

bercilakslady

November 1 2012, 15:53:15 UTC 4 years ago

Happy new year, hon. I don't do Halloween, but I went to knit night and worked on my Rose Goblin stuffie.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:44:32 UTC 4 years ago

Awesome!

tygerversionx

November 1 2012, 15:53:35 UTC 4 years ago

Happy new-years-ish hugs to you and cuddles to your cats!

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:44:54 UTC 4 years ago

They gladly accept your cuddles.

tollers

November 1 2012, 15:57:27 UTC 4 years ago

May it be the best of happy new years for all of us!

I spent the evening w/ some of my Fire Dept. family, passing out candy at the station to all the local ghouls and goblins. We had a few quite acceptable zombies, and a really adorable black and purple bat. I was pleased by this.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:45:03 UTC 4 years ago

Most excellent.

dewline

November 1 2012, 15:59:12 UTC 4 years ago

It was quiet here. Which was good.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:45:12 UTC 4 years ago

Excellent.

docpockets

November 1 2012, 16:02:05 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year!

Question: Does the recent sale mean that Leia is now a Disney Princess?

argonel

November 1 2012, 16:12:31 UTC 4 years ago

Yes Leia is definately a Disney Princess now.

Happy new year to Seanen and everyone else who celebrates. I had a nice quiet evening at my friendly local game store. We had a variant set of rules for Arkham Horror so we played a 13 player game with ALL of the expansions. It was an awesome 3.5 hour game with many tense moments, but we prevailed with only 3 investigators devoured.

Posted at second level for Disney Princess and so Seanen doesn't feel obligated to respond.

wendyzski

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kimuro

November 1 2012, 16:03:06 UTC 4 years ago

Firstly, my favorite nerdy-math observation about my favorite holiday ...
Halloween is exactly equal to Christmas.
31 oct = 25 dec
thirty-one in base 8 = twenty-five in base 10

Secondly, I've been thinking a lot about WHY this is my favorite holiday and ... a lot of that is the dress-up aspect but that's not the most important part. It's the spiritualism. No, not the fake bible-thumping "Devil-worship" bunco, but the underlying spiritualism, the feeding of the hungry wandering spirits, the remembrance of our dead, the placating of the unknown by means of a show of open-handed generousity to beggars at the door.

I think, though, that what appeals to me most of all about this holiday as celebrated in the USofA is the universality. This is the only celebration that I know of that occurs in the immediate neighbourhood with everyone (well, most everyone) living "within the bounds" participating - regardless of ethnicity, of religion, of sexuality or gender.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:45:58 UTC 4 years ago

These are excellent points.

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seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:46:11 UTC 4 years ago

You are so very welcome.

tikiera

November 1 2012, 16:18:21 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year. I tend to think of the winter solstice as my new year, so I can understand picking Halloween.

I actually got some treat or treaters! Including some teen-agers! It was awesome (Where I have lived for the last several years was on the wrong side of a street with no light or crosswalk for more than a mile so no one every visited us on Hallowee).

Though I did buy way too much candy - I think most of the kids went around before I got home from work.

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:46:26 UTC 4 years ago

Yay trick-or-treaters!

phillip2637

November 1 2012, 16:36:11 UTC 4 years ago

I spent the evening in a science fiction (etc.) specialty bookstore with treats, a chunk of fandom, and...did I mention "bookstore"? :-)

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2012, 16:46:37 UTC 4 years ago

BOOKSTORE.

wcg

November 1 2012, 16:42:58 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year, Seanan. May it bring you all good things.

seanan_mcguire

December 13 2012, 17:03:10 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you kindly.

kassrachel

November 1 2012, 16:52:36 UTC 4 years ago

This was a fun Halloween. I took my 3-year-old trick-or-treating for the first time. He loved it. Not so much the candy (he doesn't seem to recognize most of it as food yet) but oh, the juice box somebody handed out? he clutched that to his heart as though it were gold. \o/ But mostly it was all about the jack-o-lanterns and getting to go up to people's houses and say hi and yell "happy halloween! trick or treat!" which is apparently the most fun EVER.

Anyway. I like having multiple new years's, too. (I mostly observe the Jewish one in fall and the Gregorian one at the end of December, though this week makes a fine one, as well.) Happy new year to you!

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:31:15 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year!

groblek

November 1 2012, 17:23:33 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year to you as well! We had a fun Halloween, despite some slight rain. This year, we took Josh Trick-orTreating for the first time, as he was too young to get it last year. He had a blast in his cow costume and has learned to say "Trick or Treat", which is quite an accomplishment at that age. :) It was fun to see the neighbors' reaction to the cute toddler, and to watch him clutch the first candy bar he was given the whole time - he put the later ones in his basket, but he gripped that first Butterfingers bar until well after we got home.

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:31:34 UTC 4 years ago

GO TEAM JOSH!

Tiny trick or treaters rule.

wendyzski

November 1 2012, 17:46:38 UTC 4 years ago

HAPPY HALF-PRICE CANDY DAY!!!!!! *twitches*

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:31:42 UTC 4 years ago

WOO!

ladymurmur

November 1 2012, 17:53:52 UTC 4 years ago

A scientist friend once commented that he liked Halloween because as a holiday, its classic, historic intent so beautifully celebrated the law of conservation of energy. To him, a day where the 'veil between the worlds is thin', where our dead are remembered, aptly demonstrated that nothing is ever lost, it only ever changes form. :-)

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:31:57 UTC 4 years ago

That's beautiful.

nymeria_55

November 1 2012, 18:22:18 UTC 4 years ago

Cool idea about the multiple New Years! So....
HAPPY NEW YEAR!


I'll take this opportunity to say "thank you!" for the many enthralling hours I spent first with the Newsflesh trilogy and now with October Daye (I'm in the middle of book 5), and to ask the Great Pumpkin to bring you a constant stream of inspiration - of course this request is made for purely selfless reasons.... **insert innocent smile**

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:32:10 UTC 4 years ago

You're very welcome.

lauowolf

November 1 2012, 18:30:12 UTC 4 years ago

Greenwich Village Halloween parade was canceled because of no lights, no power, and general awfulness.
Sigh.
I think the Kid went down to her stoop intending to press candy upon strangers, but won't hear update until she treks forty blocks again to go find heat, light, power, and internet access.
In Berkeley the rain seems to have kept a lot of people home and we had NO trick-or-treaters, a first.
So I kept Halloween in my heart, and opened Their Own Cans of People Tuna for the cats.
(I am in charge of treats, and they are in charge of tricks - it sorta works.)

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:32:30 UTC 4 years ago

I hope the Kid got home okay...

dormouse_in_tea

November 1 2012, 19:59:36 UTC 4 years ago

THAT'S how you get so much done! You have more years than we do! :P

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:32:36 UTC 4 years ago

I do!

notalwaysweak

November 1 2012, 20:46:12 UTC 4 years ago

Happy new year to you!

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:32:51 UTC 4 years ago

Happy new year!

melchar

November 1 2012, 21:32:30 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year and All Hallow's day!

I love Hallowe'en ... and only partly because it's my birthday. Until I was about 6, I thought the candy was being given out -because- it was my birthday. ^_^ ...and it gave my folks something to point at as an 'explanation' of why I turned out 'odd'. So ... let's celebrate the falling time of the year!

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:33:00 UTC 4 years ago

That? Is AWESOME.

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seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:33:10 UTC 4 years ago

Happy new year!

juglore

November 1 2012, 23:17:22 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year, give my best to the Great Pumpkin.

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:33:19 UTC 4 years ago

I do every night.

umadoshi

November 2 2012, 00:09:09 UTC 4 years ago

Happy New Year! ^_^

seanan_mcguire

December 17 2012, 17:33:34 UTC 4 years ago

OTTER WITH PUMPKIN OMG.

*DIES*
*IZ DED*
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