this post feels like it’s lost some of its original context because I remember reblogging it in 2012 when I didn’t have a smart phone and smart phone ownership was much lower in general. So being on tumblr on Christmas meant being physically at a computer and being visibly unsocial if not completely removed from any festivities. Now everyone’s on social media every day of the year. A true heritage post really
Before then, in the 00 decade that didn’t get a name, I was in a roleplay group. I had the least social life, and was in a position to see which holidays meant that the most of us were afk.
Thanksgiving.
Everything else, every other holiday, there were enough people that we could piece together a game for the evening. Thanksgiving was, consistently, when there was no one.
I’m not sure what that says about that particular roleplay group, or what it says about USAmericans and our holidays.
