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LATEST UPDATE:

6/12/2024
  • the wonderful christmastime is upon us
  • corridors of blissterday review

to do:

HIGH PRIORITY
  • finish incomplete about pages (games and records)

LOW PRIORITY
  • a sort of "memory bank"
  • decorate the
    hustler's clause
A LITTLE BIRDIE'S COMMS CHANNEL

right now, as of writing this, the clock here in poland has hit midnight and so has begun saint nicholas day, the day on which gifts would traditionally be exchanged here.

a tradition long dead by the time i was born... sort of.

though over time, through western influence, the great day of giving was pushed to christmas eve (which is still in itself unique to here), saint nicholas day still remains the day where you give eachother, like, a pack of Toffifee, for example. we put them in shoes, too.

fun fact: did you know that in poland, the gift-giver figure on christmas eve actually differs by region? in most of the country, it's santa claus - saint nick; but here in greater poland, where i reside, we say that the Gwiazdor (translating to Starman) gives us our gifts.
in upper silesia, they say it's baby jesus (classic catholics!). in the south of the country they say it's the little star/little angel, and lastly in some parts of the east they say it's Dziadek Mróz (Grandfather Frost).

it's fun seeing these little cultural differences between regions nowadays, considering how much of it was homogenized following world war II and during communist rule. for example, there are historical dialects for most regions that have nowadays gone nearly extinct, in favor of what you'd call standard polish. the only surviving part of the greater poland dialect that is still in wide use today, is us calling a slice of bread a "skibka" instead of a "kromka", that's it.

sadly, i don't ever much hear about this stuff... from anyone! like, no german has ever come up to me and told me the intricate cultural differences between, say, bavaria and schleswig-holstein, it's always "wir suchen dich!" or smthn like that.

"google it" you... fuck you, man.


-HARRAZEL