- Raven wrote:
- Hope there can still be more airings
Indeed, that is a Damme valuable point Raven - but with the Ber Months just around the corner, obviously we will need to start prep-airing (see what I did there?) in hopes of
the most precious airings of them all!
As well as how prayers to Santa Claude 'officially' begin on Yoshimoto's birthday, there is another, more prominent -perhaps the
most prominent- Santa Claude tradition we can prepare for in advance:
Kylie Minogue's Christmas music. Keep an eye on those music channels et al, people!
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Yes, it is true, that my
first Santa Claude visit (in Spanish Deadeye Month 2004) was precisely what avenged the original Mute Incident - indeed making the Mute For Coal Incident
a very tragic irony. But it was only thanks to a kind gesture by our dear boss man Kunzite in 2007, how airings in my special month earned their elevated status.
However... because Kylie did not yet have a Christmas album, we would have to
improvise on that, yes, my family typically plays Christmas music for such things as decking the halls. As such, when indeed we got our wish, with the announcement for airings on December 9 and 10 2007... my family had to use Kylie's then-newest album X, for a pre-Christmas lunch breakfast with some of our theatre friends. Mind you, our using Europe's The Final Countdown album in 2012 (for the airings which Carie ruined) was understandable - blissfully unaware of the impending doom, that Santa Claude visit was to be our first
with The Final Countdown now part of airing tradition.
Yes, I created the Street Fighter mandate -including to start planning out
distinguishments, for any edition of my cause which includes Santa Claude coming to town- because of the misfortune as detailed in my article 'Jay Tavare's genuine kindness', in particular because of mom's shocking 2015 New Year's resolution. Apologies that I failed to mention this before, but mom's resolution included the shock return of another old enemy, one which she first wounded me with in contribution to the NES War (my past sorrow which, sad but true, began on the same day as Raul Julia's funeral):
a Listeria attack!
And... as well as that my
first Special Champion Edition of my cause would mean my revenge on Carie, there was
al-red-y another reason, in favour of creating the Street Fighter mandate: due to certain family reasons at the time, it may not be too many years, before
Ken Masters would have to make himself at home under the Christmas tree! Just to be on the safe side, I would request at least one Ken item
every year until it was time (my dad -himself a Ken main- actually
thanked me for this verdict) - and I would not rule out the possibility, that Ken could thus take center stage for my revenge on Carie.
But as if creating my cause wasn't enough, and yes it is true that I was rescued from my situation by
Jay :jay: ... 2015 also saw the release, of another distinguishment: Kylie Minogue at last released a Christmas album! I would since have the standard edition for my 31st birthday, and the deluxe edition (which includes a few additional tracks, plus a bonus disc with the official music videos for some of Kylie's Christmas tunes) come the 2016 Ber Months - but not the Snow Queen Edition reissue released in 2016, as that includes her cover of Wonderful Christmastime by McFartney and the Wings (an ironic choice, I know, considering the wicked DJ who *gasp*
publicly bullied me when I was 20).
To mark the release of her Christmas album, Kylie hosted a televised Christmas concert (this was the one which mom defaced) right here in the UK, in Deadeye Month 2015. I simply watched it, and went with the flow - but when Your Disco Needs You started up, for me that
cemented about her Christmas album being exclusive to Santa Claude!
I would also like to take this opportunity to remind you, I actually first heard Your Disco Needs You
in my immediate revenge, against the DJ who bullied me when I was 20 - it was one of the Kylie tunes I had downloaded for me, itself right after the
obvious choice at the time, In Your Eyes (which, in a surprise addition to my revenge, I then went on to sing on karaoke when I was 21). Ten years since winning me over, and Your Disco Needs You would help to secure a prominent tradition for the most precious of airings!
While the album is exclusive to Santa Claude... a little airing dress rehearsal (see what I did there?) never hurt anyone, just in case! I would since take advantage, of certain common traditions:
-That the music channels would stream Christmas music videos. Yes, they do show a few of Kylie's Christmas songs - most commonly 100 Degrees (which she duetted with her sister Dannii), Every Day's Like Christmas, and her cover of It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
-The shops playing Christmas music - just last year, I only entered a bargain clothes store, because they were playing Kylie's cover of Santa Baby!
-I had to bring back my old habit, of how
I too would enjoy Christmas stuff
throughout the year (be honest - who else here does this?) - in particular,
Kylie's Christmas songs!
The concert would also be good for practice, obviously. If not entirely (should I watch it entirely, then it's usually in the background while I do morning chores or whatever), then yes I watch it up to Your Disco Needs You.
With regard to
Damme well actually using Kylie's Christmas album, thus far I have used it three times:
-The album made its debut in 2016, which yes was
confirmed to be
the year for Ken Masters - one such gesture, which I made as a favour to Raven, even resulted in my maining Ken in
all ports of the standard Street Fighter 2 (the one without the four bosses playable, or at least not Vega in some ports). That's
two-and-a-half Ken mains in my family, I obviously being the 'half' -
Donut Lord was a Ken main back in the day, albeit not out of sentiment like dad and me...
A few days before Santa Claude's sleigh landed, Kylie hosted a second Christmas concert over here - this one wasn't televised, but clips can be found on YouTube (I avoid the Wonderful Christmastime clip though, yes). Kylie's performance of Your Disco Needs You at
this concert did, indeed,
further cement about her Christmas album being exclusive to Santa Claude.
-2019 - which saw Ken have to
retake his festive spotlight, due to the shock passing of my cat Mel... whose case for the Rainbow Bridge airing security was
purrticularly purrsonal to my
dad, due to one of the airing days at the time. Ken's festive spotlight was
al-red-y assured, in fact just
hours after I had the announcement for the airing day in question - but it was just as 'Mel' really, I know!
As 'Mel' as Ken items
altogether, it was also in 2019 when I bought the Lego Street Fighter baubles - including a Ken one (which Gran happily funded), Vega, Cammy "
Of COURSE!"
, and a Guile one I bought just
hours after learning that yes Santa Claude was coming to town.
My parents were in Egypt (hence
Menat also earning a mention, that year!), at the time when I had the big news - so we decked the halls upon their return. I remember explaining to mom, that the news will mean "
My second Special Champion Edition"
.
-2020. I at last had a new tree of my own, after nearly 17 years (Blinky and Raul proved true the feline version, of Oh Christmas Tree! LOL) - so I could use the Lego Street Fighter baubles et al
in my apartment now, as opposed to at my parents' house. Still... where applicable, we'd still use Kylie's Christmas album
at my parents' house as well as in my apartment.
As I suspected, the fact that this was while I still had airings
coming out of my ears meant, that yes Santa Claude answered our prayers once again. So within just
minutes of getting the announcement, early that morning... the Kylie Christmas album was on, and I started hanging the Lego Street Fighter baubles and so on;
as well as that year seeing the debut of the Ryu and Ken 'Bauble Heads' baubles, which arrived on the day after I had the announcement.
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After mom's blasphemy to Kylie, yes I obviously had to
step up once again - including the Cammy binge, yes in a similar liberty to that which I previously had to grant to Ken. As well as simply Kylie alone, yes there is the matter of
precisely why she earned her elevated status for us, in the first place - hence my verdict, that yes I will temporarily (if not permanently) main Cammy should I ever play Street Fighter 6.
In fact, in the
immediate revenge against mom's blasphemy... one of my choices for my birthday eBaying was a paperback of the Cammy Gaiden! I know some of the gallery scans (or at least, scans donated to other sites?) are from this, most notably a picture of Vega wearing a tux and carrying a bouquet of roses - so we could also consider my doing so, as another me-style means of giving credit.
Yes, Kylie's Christmas concert became a more permanent fixture - I now
always watch it (unless it clashes with an airing, obviously), as opposed to occasionally;
and yes, I still watch it up to Your Disco Needs You if not entirely. One such scheduling last year meant, that I had to stay up
past midnight!
But before anyone asks, no this does
not mean that Kylie's Infinite Disco livestream is a definite must! I say so because, as an added bonus... it, too, was on TV last Deadeye Month, so yes I watched it.
We are now also in talks, about getting the
record of Kylie's Christmas album, as well as to download a 'tweaked' version of the Snow Queen Edition (i.e.
without Wonderful Christmastime - but her cover of Night Fever, included on the
French release of the Snow Queen Edition, will do) - yes,
because (my CDs of) the album debuted for my revenge on Carie, i.e. due to why Ken indeed took center stage for the revenge.
Options are also being considered, for this year's Street Fighter mandate - including that, in case no other options come forward... to print off more pictures of more Street Fighter costumes, as I had in 2019. I want to see Cammy's third Street Fighter 6 costume, before I make a decision on that front - but her SF5 holiday costume is well in consideration, doubly so because its White Mage-like appearance influenced some of my job class verdicts throughout Final Fantasy.
If not for certain commissions rules, I would also gladly accept offers of fanart of Cammy playing with my kitty Jasmine, and maybe with a video of any of Kylie's Christmas songs playing on the TV in the background - even more so, as yes getting justice for Kylie will also mean the debut, for all Santa Claude-exclusive ornaments I have
purrchased
because of Jasmine. Cammy is, herself, a cat lover;
and note that Jasmine is successor to Yoshimoto (and thus, in turn, she is
Raul the 3rd!), whose birthday is the start of our Santa Claude prayers - so, well, there you go!