OH HEY. I'm a sucker for a festive fandom, so behold my seasonal challenge TO YOU: The Hellcheer Holiday Mixtape!
For 12 days starting December 13th, express your Freak and Cheerleader affections as inspired by holiday music prompts (if one so titillates you), and in whatever medium you please!
Guidelines:
There are no constraints on your level of participation; do it all, do some, do none, doesn't matter; JUST HAVE FUN
Same goes for themes and subject matter; just please respect the rules of content curation and slap on appropriate tags. We observe DLDR in this house
Except, uh, whatever you post should be, you know, festive. And tie back to the prompt at least tenuously
Late posts count!!!
Tag your contributions with #hellcheerholidaymixtape (so I can see them and share them)
Share on any platform you like, but x-post here bc I'm only tumblin'
Don't be shitty (for this quest in particular, but also generally speaking)
All songs are on the Spotify playlist:
If you have thoughts, concerns, or questions, my ask box is open!
Prompts below!
13 December
"Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)" - The Ramones
"Jingle Bell Rock" - Hall & Oates
"Run, Run, Rudolph" - Bryan Adams
14 December
"Hard Candy Christmas" - Dolly Parton
"Another Lonely Christmas" - Prince
"It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)" - Barbara Mandrell
15 December
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid
"Christmas in Dixie" - Alabama
"Let's Party" - Jive Bunny & the Master Mixers
16th December
"Christmas In My Heart" - The Jets
"Thank God It's Christmas" - Queen
"Silent Night" - The Hooters
17th December
"Wonderful Christmastime" - Paul McCartney
"Santa's Beard" - They Might Be Giants
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" - U2
18th December
"Funky, Funky Xmas" - New Kids On The Block
"Hazy Shade of Winter" - The Bangles
"Merry Christmas, Everyone" - Shakin' Stevens
19th December
"Christmas Wrapping" - The Waitresses
"It's Christmas All Over the World" - Sheena Easton
"2000 Miles" - The Pretenders
20th December
"Fairytale of New York" - The Porgues (ft. Kirsty MacColl)
"Sleigh Ride" - Air Supply
"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" - Al Green & Annie Lennox
Hellcheer Holiday Mixtape Entry, Day 8: "Fairytale of New York"
This is my love letter to Hellcheer and the video of Ed Sheeran and Anne-Marie's cover of "Fairytale of New York" from 2018. If you haven't heard it already I highly recommend it <3
Hellcheer Holiday Mixtape Entry, Day 2 (not beta-ed, sorry :P)
Chrissy stroked the pebbled surface of the gumdrop shrubbery around the gingerbread house she'd painstakingly constructed using $15-worth of candy she'd always wanted to try and all the pent-up enthusiasm stored from years of begging her mom to let her make one. Laura had agreed on the condition that the house and candy accoutrements remain as decoration only.
"With all of this energy you hardly need the sugar, Chrissy," she'd remarked, eyeing the colorful sweets with disdain. "Heaven knows your thighs don't either."
She tried not to let the heartbreak show as she swore she wouldn't eat any of it. It was easy to ignore the temptation during the decorating phase, but now that it was complete, she found herself staring at each little detail. Would her mom even know if she snuck a piece? Was it worth the risk?
Chrissy sighed, knowing the answers to both. In a few days it wouldn't matter anyway. Her beautiful, delicious creation would become totally stale and destined for the dump.
A few sugar crystals rubbed off on her finger. For decoration only. What a waste...
"-ssy? Hey, sweetheart?"
Chrissy jolted from the memory to find her fingers tacky, a half-collapsed gingerbread house on the table before her--its roof and sides wonky and overfilled with icing--, and Eddie ducking down to catch her gaze.
"Sorry, what did you say?"
"I said it looks like we over-estimated the amount of materials we'd need for mini-Castle Munson," he repeated, gesturing to the kaleidescope of candy chaos around the little house. He proffered the opened bag of M&Ms with a grin edged in powdered sugar. "Shall we partake?"
She kissed the sweetness from his lips then beamed at him. "Absolutely."
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I know I have a hellcheer story that's been sitting untouched since last Christmas and a whole separate project that needs to be done by the 23rd, but "Hard Candy Christmas" is one of my FAVORITE Christmas songs so I HAD to do something. Dolly's melancholy wistfulness/wishfulness made me think of a younger Chrissy who wasn't allowed to have candy and this sprang up. If you got this far, thanks for sticking around! Hope you enjoyed it :)
Last post of the week for this, and then I'll leave you alone for a bit 😉
The HellCheer Holiday Mixtape is 12 days of festive music prompts (3 each day!), running 13th to 24th December. Should inspiration strike you, tag your creations with #hellcheerholidaymixtape!
You can read the original post with all guidelines and days and prompts right here (or send me an ask if you have one); there's also a Spotify playlist in case you want to listen linearly to seasonal bedlam (Or shuffle! I'm not your playlist supervisor!).
Days Ten, Eleven, and Twelve are probably my favorites, in particular the major potentials of Christmas Eve.
Do any of these top-tier bops rock YOUR jingle bells? 🔔
We're about a month out from the start of The HellCheer Holiday Mixtape challenge!
That's 12 days of 80s festive music prompts starting December 13th, and you can check out the original post with all prompts & guidelines right here (or send me asks if you have them)!
Tuesday-Friday this week, I'll be re-sharing all the prompts; 3 days worth each day.
In the meantime, you can listen to ALL prompt songs with this Spotify playlist.
Days One, Two, and Three are jam-packed with an eclectic mash of holiday bangers.
