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seven things I hated (most) about The Nightmare Before Kissmas, by Sara Raasch (Patreon)

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2025-01-27 17:00:08
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2026-06
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Haiz

ohhh my goodddd YULE IS JUST CHRISTMAS (NORTHERN EUROPE EDITION). if you're gonna include yule in this book it should be a prince of wales situation or something and not a SEPARATE HOLIDAY......... (or on a more technical level it is the holiday that Became christmas, so basically if you DID want to write about a christmas that is not at all christian that's what you'd get, but that only makes it even more silly to include a non-christian christmas and yule as two separate holidays. what) ps good review thank you for sharing

Kai

I'm fascinated by the inclusion of St Patrick's Day as a holiday dynasty because like, I know y'all celebrate St Paddy's Day in the States, but like. it will always be associated with St Andrew's, St David's and St George's Day for me. We learned about them at the same time in primary school. They're the patron saints of Ireland (Patrick), Scotland (Andrew), Wales (David) and England (George). In my primary (ages ~4 to 11), we'd even celebrate all four of them even though everyone in my school was English. Obviously there was more focus on George which is why I can remember that he defeated a dragon to save a princess. I'm assuming Raasch just straight up doesn't know about the other three patron saints from countries really close to Ireland whose inhabitants celebrate on a specific day and is just going by aesthetics, but by picking St Paddy's Day, she's hitting the themes of Christianity and colonialism again. It's driving me mad because I bet she doesn't even know that Patrick wasn't even born in Ireland (neither were George or Andrew who were born in Turkey and Greece respectively) and that he's like, the founder of Christianity in Ireland. I've read something that was discussing how the myth of Patrick driving all the snakes out of Ireland and into the ocean is likely symbolic of him driving out pagans. He was one of the people coopting pagan holidays and applying a layer of Christianity to them. Does Raasch even know that? Does she know he spent half a decade as a slave in northern Ireland? Does she know he was born in Wales? Does she know that his associated colour isn't green? It's blue, it's not green, it's blue. Blue is the heraldic colour of Ireland. He shouldn't be wearing green, Sara. If I tried reading this book, I think both my brain and all the stars in the galaxy would explode.

Sophia

I mean, Halloween and Día de Muertos ARE kind of related... in that they're partially descended from adjacent Christian holidays. So how she proposes to justify it without acknowledging the influence of religion is beyond me!

Mira Gutoff

Wow, the Halloween prince being a wilting violet just feels wrong. I would have expected Pop Punk Frankenfurter at the very least. Nightmare Before Christmas, which I do enjoy, also has the "What do holidays mean and why are there only Christian and secular ones?" problem, but the whimsy carries it through. Without whimsy...I shudder to think!

rachel

comparatively minor sin but i gasped aloud at the funeral beej

Rory Banks

"And back to Hex’s one previous sexual encounter, it’s a doozy: for truly inexplicable reasons he sucked off his dead older sister’s boyfriend at his sister’s funeral, and the boyfriend didn’t even reciprocate. " w h a t. That's a truly fucky aside that belongs in a much more interesting story, oh my god.

Makenzie M.
>>162670967

the great news is that when Go Luck Yourself comes out we'll get to find out exactly how much Raasch doesn't know about the origins of St. Patrick's day!