Subject: And happy Chanukkah! (+belated filk)
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Posted on: 2016-12-25 07:30:00 UTC

It's well past sundown where I am, so it's very official.

To celebrate, I finally finished a holiday filk! I know the thread's over, but I really want to show this to people. I put time into it and actually had to ask Real Life friends for help. This year’s encouragement to write about what agents actually do during the holidays immediately made me think of an old classic which has been a family staple since I was very young. I refer, of course, to Tom Lehrer’s "(I’m Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica”. Concrit is always welcome, of course, but I’d like to request you listen to the original before claiming my rhymes are dodgy :P
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I’m spending Hanukkah in Tolkien's Arda,
Lighting candles as I fangirl at Bilbo!
I spent Shavuot Sue-slaying in Gringotts.
Not much fun, I’m glad I’m done fighting that schmo.

These HQ winters, I can’t endure ‘em,
So every year I pack my gear and come out here for Purim!
Rosh Hashana, I spent working in Ravka,
And Yom Kippur in the Klingon Empire,

But in December, there’s just one place to go!
I’ll grab my friends in Bree a-
Nd we will light our chanukiyah;
Like a baby in its cradle,
I’ll be playing with my dreidel;
Here’s to Jay -- and Macabeus!
Boy, if they could only see us
Spending Hannukah
In Tolkien’s Arda, with Bilbo!
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--Key hopes you enjoyed reading this as much as she enjoyed writing it and also hopes that you understand why it took her so long to find rhymes.

P.S. A disclaimer: Arda, the character of Bilbo Baggins, and the town of Bree are the creation of J.R.R. Tolkien; the bank Gringotts is that of J.K. Rowling; Ravka belongs to Leigh Bardugo although it’s basically just magic!Russia; the Klingon Empire was created by Gene Roddenberry and I think currently belongs to Viacom? Zarking corporations; it’s Roddenberry’s and his crew’s. And of course: Jay and Acacia created HQ, Jay, and the whole glorious Protectors of the Plot Continuum; Tom Lehrer wrote “(I’m Spending) Hannukah In Santa Monica” -- and, sorry, I love him, but he can keep this piece of ridiculousness.

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