girlofprey

I've been thinking about some of my favourite Christmas songs lately, and some of the ones I really like are quite dark. There's Fairytale of New York, which is ultimately about a really unhealthy relationship, and uses the f-slur if anyone's particularly upset by that:



And Can You Stop the Calvary, which is an anti-war song which is pretty fucking relevant today:



Also partially about the threat of nuclear war, which I hoped would never again be relevant in my lifetime, but here we are.

But I've been thinking about it, and I think it's pretty natural to be a bit melancholy at Christmas. I mean, Christ's birth was supposed to be in September anyway, so a lot of the point of celebrating it in December was to take over from the old celebration of Yule. And as far as I can tell, a lot of the point of that was to light candles in the depths of the dark winter, to 'call back' the sun. So I think it's pretty natural at this time of year to be a bit sad, and to think about sad things, and just let yourself exist in the darkest time of the year. But also to put up lights, and remember that the sun will come back round again.

Don't kill yourself this Christmas. That is honestly kind of a side-note I was thinking about when I was thinking of the stuff above, but it's still pretty important. x