elisi: https://www.tumblr.com/sirwatson/763789889485586432/day-4-eternity (Ghosts)
Here, have the most delightful tradition from Denmark - the whole country watches this comedy sketch every year. <3



Here's to 2026!

ETA: Realised I should have added more context - no one in the UK knows this sketch, but people in Scandinavia, Germany... [insert random countries] have a tradition for watching this stretching back years.
elisi: Snoopy w/Keffiyeh (Free Palestine)
So here are a few things from Mastodon:


A gentle soul on Twitter ages ago got me to change from making new years resolutions to making a bingo card of different things I wanted to try and do in the new year.

This massively improved my life. Instead of a big-stakes failbomb, I have a mix of big to small goals that let me incrementally work towards larger goals.

It's also great to see your progress throughout the year!

Also I give myself a little treat whenever I complete a new bingo, which rules.

(x)

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Adorable cat picture

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Don't forget to write 2025 as
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
(next opportunity is only in 3025)!
(x)

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Aljazeera: The pope is right about Israel and Gaza. This is cruelty, not war

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ETA: And finally, to say Happy New Year:

elisi: https://www.tumblr.com/azimuthal-art/726256604870230016/someone-has-to-leave-first-this-is-a-very-old?source=share (Angels)


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Here is to 2024 reversing the trend since... forever! <3
elisi: Dimash kisses (<3)
Happy 2023 everyone! May it be measurably better than 2022.

And here is a photo of our Christmas tree, since - as a Scandinavian - we have A Real Tree with Real Candles. We light them on Christmas Eve and then again on New Year's Eve (just before midnight).

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elisi: ALL THE LOVE (Staged)
Happy New Year in... some hours' time! :)

First, some lovely wholesome content.

With endless thanks to Owls, there is a NEW Staged video:



Ilovethemsomuchit'sRIDICULOUS.

They also won an award and made that hilarious too:



(Sidebar: Everything is better when they have Good Omens hair. ♥)

Also LOOK AT THIS. It is the MOST Good Omens picture ever:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHZE9UKwKk/

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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In honour of New Year's: Photos from 2021 from AP news. (Not sure why the pictures aren't showing atm. Try again later?)

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Daily Dimash: Thousands of Miles, A Common Dream + Never Land

Dimash sang in New Year in China on the CCTV channel with Thousands of Miles, A Common Dream (万里梦同心), a duet with Yingxi Zhang. (Link goes to his instagram.

ETA:



Gorgeous, gorgeous song. (Prerecorded, obvs, he spent NY chilling w/friends). The song is based on the poetry of Zhang Jiuling of the Tang Dynasty. The poem was written to comfort friends who are about to travel a long journey.)

And then I remembered
this performance of 'Never Land' for the New Year Global Gala BTV (also China, but 2018) and had to include it. Completely the other side of the spectrum in every way possible. Yet I can't really argue with techno on top of a skyscraper with dancing polar bears! :D



Another performance here (Fantastic Carnival CCTV3), the set is incredible:




Dimash Masterpost

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It's ridiculously warm today (15 degrees I think?). We never turned the heating on... Anyway, this made me laugh:



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ETA: Our gingerbread house is finally finished. Darcy decided to model it after the house in Home Alone, and he has even put lights in it:

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elisi: Living in interesting times is not worth it (memes will save us)
This extremely funny & entertaining little sketch is a New Year's Eve tradition in Denmark (and elsewhere in Scandinavia too I believe? And Germany?), and is always shown on TV just before midnight. Thought I would share it with you all, since you deserve to smile as this year ends. It is called 'Dinner for One' or 'The 90th Birthday':



(I have set it so it should start at 2.30 minutes in, since the intro is a) in German and b) unnecessary. ETA: OK, might possibly need to explain that since she is so old all her friends have died and her manservant has to impersonate them.)

ENJOY! ♥