Hi guys, it's Emil and this week's topic is our favorite holidays.
Well, I think you might already have figured this out, but my favorite holiday is Halloween.
I love Halloween, and to be honest it is because of Tumblr, because Tumblr hypes Halloween
so much.
But I feel like Tumblr opened my eyes to the reality of Halloween.
It's not just about candy.
It's about the spook.
You know?
It is a culture that comes to life during October, especially towards the end, that
is fantastic.
No, okay, seriously.
The reason I like Halloween so much is because I, you know, I cosplay, so I love costumes,
and just seeing other people's costumes and knowing that I have the opportunity to make
my own even if I don't always do that.
Um, it just- It's fun, and to, like, to do Halloween makeup, and to just... um, I don't
know, it's just, it's so creative and I really like that.
I don't know, it's not because of the candy because I don't- I'm not a huge candy person,
so you'd think I'd prefer Christmas with all the food, but I don't like...
See, my problem with a lot of holidays is you have a lot of responsibilities, and I
like Christmas, 'cause I like the food, I like the feeling of togetherness.
I really like the atmosphere, you know when they start playing Christmas songs everywhere,
and you know it's just, everything smells nice and... [laughs] it's nice.
And it's nice that people, um, take time to buy each other things.
It's just- It's cute but it's also- It comes with all these responsibilities to go to all
these places and even if I like seeing my extended family, which I do, it is a responsibility,
and it's not my favorite holiday 'cause I don't always have a lot of money.
I don't think there's been any Christmas when I've had a lot of money to buy Christmas gifts.
No, there hasn't.
[Laughs] So my problem is that buying Christmas gifts has just become and extremely stressful
thing.
'Cause I love giving people gifts, but I always feel like I'm being insufficient and like
I'm bad compared to the rest of my family 'cause I can't give people the presents that
I wanna give them because I can't afford it.
Anyway.
I love Halloween a lot because it doesn't have a lot of responsibilities, you can do
whatever you want.
You can celebrate it or not celebrate it, and you can go to a party, you can just go
out and be spoopy, or you can not to anything at all, or you can carve pumpkins, you can
carve turnips.
You know, it's just such a creative holiday.
And it's also- I like the, sort of the background- Like, it is an "otherworldly" holiday.
The entire holiday has the witchy aesthetic, and I like...
I don't talk about this, but I'm actually sort of into witchcraft, so I like the aesthetic,
and like the whole spooky thing.
I like that.
You know, I do...
"I do", I don't "do", I've read about palm reading, I've read about astrology, I've read
about- Okay, I'm...
I am that weird person who has crystals.
I have a deer skull.
Okay.
I am that person.
So I really like Halloween because of the aesthetic and because of the general spooky
atmosphere.
You can celebrate it in the traditional sense if you want to.
You can like... what do people do?
Light a candle for people who have passed over to the other side?
Or you can just go trick or treating, or you can do cool Halloween makeup and post it on
Instagram, or you can get some friends together and carve pumpkins, or you can have a party,
or you can... you know, you can literally do whatever you want.
And I like how it's become so...
It's become this thing.
I like when holidays are a modernized thing and they're not just about the ancient...
what it used to be long before.
I like that, too.
I just like, like for me, I like...
Not that I wanna forget about the roots of the holidays at all.
Absolutely not.
I don't know what I'm trying to say.
I can't put it into words.
I...
Whatever.
I like when holidays become modernized, and when they are something that you can really
relate to right now, like and...
I don't know.
I like that Halloween is creative, I like that you have so much choice with what you
can do with it, I like that there's not a lot of responsibilities, I like the aesthetic.
Also, if you could make up a holiday, what kind of holiday would you create?
I would create something related to aliens.
I would have the extraterr- the ET holiday.
And we would- Everyone would get alien stuff, and there would just be that space aesthetic,
and we would discuss theories, and it would be a recognition of the possibility of aliens
existing and visiting Earth.
That would be really cool.
So that was my video about my favorite holiday, and if you want to, I'd love it if you told
me your favorite holiday in the comments below, and tell me why it is your favorite holiday.
Anyway, I'll see you next week when we talk about something else.
And then it's Halloween week, isn't it?
Yeah, it's like two- Yeah!
Then it's Halloween week.
Just you wait.
It's gonna be so spoopy, so creppy.
I'm gonna spoop the spoop out of you.
No, no jumpscares or anything like that, don't worry about it.
Anyway, I'll see you, love you, bye.