The House of Vederel ~ Willshapers of Roshar

Pilot Buck.

Flight attendant Eddie.

Airline mishaps.

One bed.

✈️ Fic Drop: Final Boarding Call (9-1-1 | Buddie AU) Pairing: Buck/Eddie Rating: Teen Word Count: [3,508] Tags: Pilot!Buck, Flight Attendant!Eddie, Enemies to Lovers, One Bed Trope, Banter, Feelings, Hickey Reveal, One-Shot

Summary: Eddie Diaz has three rules: ➀ Always be early. ➁ Never date coworkers. ➂ Absolutely, under no circumstances, fall for the pilot with the ridiculous smile.

Guess how many of those rules he breaks before the weekend’s over.

🛫 Alt universe (no firefighting), full of bickering, mid-air chemistry, and Hen being a menace when she finds the hickey.

Title: 9-1-1, I’d Like to Report a Hate Crime (aka Operation: Gaslight Ravi) Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Pairing: Buddie (Buck/Eddie) Rating: T Genre: Crack | Humor | Found Family Nonsense Word Count: [1,417] Summary:

Ravi never asked to be caught in a slow-burn rom-com with other people. But now Buck and Eddie are dating, only Ravi knows, and no one believes him. It’s fine. Really.

He’s only being gaslit by his coworkers, emotionally waterboarded by flirting, and possibly losing his mind. He’ll get through this. He has a chart.

Love is war, and Ravi is done playing nice.

Excerpt:

“Me and Eddie? We’re dating.” A long pause. “…What.” Eddie gave a casual two-finger salute. “Why are you telling me this?!” “Because no one will ever believe you.”

Not today.

I get where you’re coming from. I do. But this is SUCH a monumentally weird take.

Christmas was always a construct of man. The Catholic Church first began celebrating Christmas in 336CE, during the reign of Emperor Constantine. The date, December 25th, was determined by a theologian, Hyppolitus, based upon both the Julian calendar (the precursor to ours) and the Hebrew one. This was also based on the fact that in Jewish tradition, the date of conception of a holy person corresponded with the date of their death, meaning that the proposed date of Jesus’ death, March 25th, was exactly 9 months before December 25th. This has colloquially been termed the “calculation theory.” This theory was further backed up by three manuscripts, the Didascalia Apostolorum, Liber Pontificalis, and the Epistle of Theophilus. This shows that the date of Christmas came from JEWISH tradition, not Christian tradition.

Furthermore, the Christmas tree came from the tradition of pagan Germanic tribes and further Roman customs of decorating with evergreen branches and trees during the winter solstice. These people believed that evergreen trees were thought to have special powers since they stayed green throughout the winter. The idea of Santa Claus, though the name was a shortened version of “Saint Nicholas,” came from the Norse pagan stories of Odin, who would ride his 8 legged horse through the skies. Norse children would leave their boots (ergo, stockings!) by the fireplace, and Odin would leave presents inside. Candle lighting, caroling, and giving gifts all come from pagan tradition as well, though explaining each of these would make this post WAY too long. Ultimately, what this boils down to is that YES, a LOT of our Christmas traditions were taken from pagan tradition, solely because converts to Christianity from pagan religions would carry their traditions with them. Traditions don’t simply cease to exist just because you convert to a new religion.

What this all boils down to is that it is REALLY strange to complain about people celebrating a holiday that has been a mainstream holiday since 1890 in the United States, and earlier elsewhere. A LOT of atheists grew up in Christian households, and they are absolutely allowed to continue celebrating the traditions that they grew up with their entire lives. It is not “cultural appropriation” for people to celebrate a holiday from one of the largest religious traditions in the world. And YES, we need to acknowledge that a lot of Christian holiday traditions (Easter and Christmas for example) come from former pagan traditions. If anything, Christians are guilty of cultural appropriation if we are doing things like decorating with trees, lighting candles, or giving gifts.

Not to mention, evergreen trees being used to decorate for solstice date back pre-Christianity, whereas the medieval mystery plays you mentioned date back to the early Middle Ages, in the FIFTH CENTURY, thousands of years after the Roman Empire fell. I’m a student of archaeology, I have studied this. There is no “debunking” happening. The fact remains that the majority of Christmas traditions were not Christian at all, they were pagan or Jewish.

And what does it matter if they’re an atheist? Is it hurting you? Is them choosing to act like Christ, even though they may not believe, a bad thing? Is them choosing to emulate Christlike values a bad thing? That is the ENTIRE POINT of Christmas, to ACT LIKE CHRIST. You say they explicitly reject Him, and yet they are emulating him in their words, deeds, and actions. That doesn’t seem all that bad to me.

Not today.

I get where you’re coming from. I do. But this is SUCH a monumentally weird take.

Christmas was always a construct of man. The Catholic Church first began celebrating Christmas in 336CE, during the reign of Emperor Constantine. The date, December 25th, was determined by a theologian, Hyppolitus, based upon both the Julian calendar (the precursor to ours) and the Hebrew one. This was also based on the fact that in Jewish tradition, the date of conception of a holy person corresponded with the date of their death, meaning that the proposed date of Jesus’ death, March 25th, was exactly 9 months before December 25th. This has colloquially been termed the “calculation theory.” This theory was further backed up by three manuscripts, the Didascalia Apostolorum, Liber Pontificalis, and the Epistle of Theophilus. This shows that the date of Christmas came from JEWISH tradition, not Christian tradition.

Furthermore, the Christmas tree came from the tradition of pagan Germanic tribes and further Roman customs of decorating with evergreen branches and trees during the winter solstice. These people believed that evergreen trees were thought to have special powers since they stayed green throughout the winter. The idea of Santa Claus, though the name was a shortened version of “Saint Nicholas,” came from the Norse pagan stories of Odin, who would ride his 8 legged horse through the skies. Norse children would leave their boots (ergo, stockings!) by the fireplace, and Odin would leave presents inside. Candle lighting, caroling, and giving gifts all come from pagan tradition as well, though explaining each of these would make this post WAY too long. Ultimately, what this boils down to is that YES, a LOT of our Christmas traditions were taken from pagan tradition, solely because converts to Christianity from pagan religions would carry their traditions with them. Traditions don’t simply cease to exist just because you convert to a new religion.

What this all boils down to is that it is REALLY strange to complain about people celebrating a holiday that has been a mainstream holiday since 1890 in the United States, and earlier elsewhere. A LOT of atheists grew up in Christian households, and they are absolutely allowed to continue celebrating the traditions that they grew up with their entire lives. It is not “cultural appropriation” for people to celebrate a holiday from one of the largest religious traditions in the world. And YES, we need to acknowledge that a lot of Christian holiday traditions (Easter and Christmas for example) come from former pagan traditions. If anything, Christians are guilty of cultural appropriation if we are doing things like decorating with trees, lighting candles, or giving gifts.

I don't know. Maybe it's controversial and strange to be upset about people yelling at celebrities to comment about a conflict miles and miles away from them.

Maybe it's strange to think "oh, yeah, some of those celebrities are Jewish and probably have complex feelings and would like to not be hatecrimes for their opinions"

Maybe! Maybe!! We shouldn't be pressuring ignorant people (because frankly? The vast majority of people talking about this conflict have no idea what they're talking about and they're regurgitating talking points they read on social media without thinking) who have large platforms to say something about something THEY DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT

Have you thought for a minute how your words affect others? Have you thought how saying "blocking celebrities gets rid of ad revenue and therefore the pr teams get on their butts to post about something they know jack shit abou" sounds vaguely antisemitic (jews/zionists control the media)? Have you thought that saying "people are waking up" sounds suspiciously close to "y'all are sheeple who need to wake up" and who controls these sheeple? Jews/zionists, obviously.