Helga Vierich
Neil GaimanIt was a non-traditional Thanksgiving, far from America, with mostly not-American friends and family. And it was a joy, eating together, being with each other and being grateful. Even if I did have to explain to my mother several times that Thanksgiving had nothing to do with the War of Independence so even English people were allowed to eat a lot and be grateful for each other and their lives.
Gigawatt121@neilhimself this made me chuckle so
That Anonymous Coward@neilhimself
How do you plan to explain All Countries Matter Day scheduled for July 4th?
How do you plan to explain All Countries Matter Day scheduled for July 4th?
Buddy@neilhimself that sounds like a pretty great way to spend it. To you and yours ♥️
Terence Towles Canote@neilhimself Happy Thanksgiving!
Archimage@neilhimself A “traditional” Thanksgiving has become more of a ceremony of marketing, habit, and eating. The fact you celebrate the meaning speaks to the person.
Giles Edwards@neilhimself And bear in mind: the US was a colonial repository for some of your wing-nuttiest citizens—you are welcome.
(And Happy Thanksgiving.)
Northern Lights@gilesforyou @neilhimself very true 😂
TrixDaGnome@gilesforyou @neilhimself which was the main reason why the US is so screwed up these days. It’s just that the Puritans and Pilgrims morphed into the conservative christians that have already taken bodily autonomy away from half of the population, and they’re now starting to take the rights away from the LGBTQ+ community that we hold dear. So yeah…thanksgiving truly is not a holiday that should be observed anymore.
The Cyber Wolf 
@neilhimself Glad you have a great Thanksgiving, English or otherwise. I don't mind if English people engage in our 4th of July rituals... If you want to play, "where did my fingers go", that's up to you.
Peter M@neilhimself technically thanksgiving is British??? 😉🦃
Mark Tull@neilhimself Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. As a Brit living in Illinois with my American family, I get to fully enjoy giving thanks and not worry about treason day as I jokingly call the 4th to them.
dearydarlingMarried to a Brit and we lived in the town that boasts The Turning Point of the RW. Every year a parade. I suggested to the mayor that we could spice up the parade by putting my hubs at the head of it and running him out of town hehe 😉
@dearydarling @neilhimself this would be a great thing to do and I bet the local community would enjoy it too!
When i told hubby neilhimself favorited the idea of him being run out of town by a parade of american townfolk he said
"I expect this sort of thing out of you, but Neil Gaiman?" and then did his very English brand of head shaking at the both of us 😉
Steve Cleff@neilhimself Happy Thanksgiving. Glad you all enjoyed the day
Cosmic Tentacle 
@neilhimself Haha I'm glad you were still able to celebrate Thanksgiving with those that are special to you.
Allan Quatermain@neilhimself This is very beautiful. I hope you find rest and joy for what's left of the year.
Gallifrey Dolls@neilhimself That sounds lovely. Glad it was a day full of warmth, love, and good food 💕
Jon_Alper@neilhimself The very British father (living in the U.S.) of a friend used to jokingly call the Fourth Of July “British Thanksgiving”.
Shadow125@neilhimself Not the first Brit I have seen adopt the tradition after they got to experience it a few times. Happy you had a great one!
A.J.@neilhimself I'm eating Thanksgiving dinner with a Brit. Who happens to be my brother-in-law.
Bonnie Engelstein@neilhimself When my family moved to the US from Canada, Thanksgiving quickly became our favorite holiday. It’s just about family, friends and food.
So glad you had a good one. #thanksgiving
Kate@neilhimself Hullo, Neil. Glad you enjoyed some fellowship with caring people! You are welcome to borrow our holiday as an excuse to eat a lot. You’ve been looking too thin lately, anyway. Have some more pie. 🙂
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@neilhimself you mean the war of parliamentary aggression, don’t you, Neil? 😂
Tofu Golem@neilhimself
The main point of Thanksgiving is to direct attention away from countless acts of genocide by America.
I love the opportunity to make a big meal for my family, but it's hard for me to forget that part.
Phil Allsopp@neilhimself as an Englishman in America I can enpathize. We had a quiet, simple Thanksgiving. And for us Thanksgiving was a very big “Thank you” for all our friends & family here in the US and the Uk and EU, Australia & New Zealand.
Mark Codes the Web@neilhimself glad you had a nice time.
Prof. Sundar
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Waitman Gobble@@neilhimself My 4-year-old daughter made unicorn cupcakes today in Santo Domingo. We're thankful with a 'muchas gracias' that Europeans landed here. I'm quite relaxed, microdosing L Tryptophan.
People who believe in unicorns always want to get into a fist brawl when I suggest the correct term is 'unihorns'. The animals do not have one corn. The person who invented unicorns had a weird dyslexic lisp. "I'm naming my invention 'The Unicorn'" "Unicorn? certainly you must mean 'Unihorn', sire?" "That's what I said! Unicorn!"
They had a brass horn: (bomp bomp bomp bommmmmp.) Then, an announcement from the heavens: "The Europeans have landed. Heathens must leave the island immediately."
People who believe in unicorns always want to get into a fist brawl when I suggest the correct term is 'unihorns'. The animals do not have one corn. The person who invented unicorns had a weird dyslexic lisp. "I'm naming my invention 'The Unicorn'" "Unicorn? certainly you must mean 'Unihorn', sire?" "That's what I said! Unicorn!"
They had a brass horn: (bomp bomp bomp bommmmmp.) Then, an announcement from the heavens: "The Europeans have landed. Heathens must leave the island immediately."
Waitman Gobble - [email protected]
Yvonne Betancourt@neilhimself non-traditional is everywhere, I'm in a small mountain town in Arizona, with everyone around me speaking Spanglish and with beans, rice and a very hot salsa with the turkey. #happythanksgiving
@neilhimself This is so wholesome! Tho why someone would think it has anything to do with the American war of independence is beyond me hahah
Missy@neilhimself well, British people should be very grateful for getting rid of the US.
@neilhimself you (and @toriamos) saved the life of this odd little gay dude from Texas with the biggest heart who never thought himself capable of achievement. Much love
Star Cat Books@neilhimself Glad you could be with your family in the UK this year. Love from me & Elric.
Chris Paduan@neilhimself Happy Thanksgiving! Which is a tradition we got from England I believe.
AthenaSx6@neilhimself Happy Thanksgiving, Neil.
Kirsten Corby@neilhimself
Are you a US citizen now? Just wondering. My mom was Scottish. She kind of always resented Thanksgiving.
Are you a US citizen now? Just wondering. My mom was Scottish. She kind of always resented Thanksgiving.
@kmcorby nope. Still British.
@neilhimself I guess you're a world citizen now.
@neilhimself Indeed. And I’m sure that the families of the 630 people killed and 2500 wounded in mass shootings in the US have a lot to be thankful for. I am thankful to live in a country where you can’t walk in to a supermarket, and walk out armed with any sort of firearm, from a pistol to an assault weapon. I have never understood how a single sentence in the Constitution, which to me is quite unambiguous, can be so distorted.
Helena Rigby@PendaRex @neilhimself if you look at the YouTube video Matthew Cooke made it *is* unambiguous. Very worrying that money pays the US government to pretend it isn't clear cut.
Kate Fosk@neilhimself Aaah, I'd always thought that thanks giving was a celebration of the divorce, where one party was happier about it than the other (on average).
@kkffoo @neilhimself my parents married on Independence day. And yes, they are divorced 😂
Ajax B. Corainder@neilhimself I always think of it as a "harvest festival" feast. Since it'd be about the right time of the year for it.
Avedon@saintajax33 @neilhimself Pretty sure that's what it really was.
@neilhimself We were caught off guard when we went to London in '08 and Dublin in '17 for Thanksgiving weekends to get away from "family" requirements and were asked so many times where we wanted to make reservations for Thanksgiving dinner. We just wanted local food but loved that everyone wanted to embrace us and our odd American tradition of overeating. Then a cabbie in Dublin said there were Black Friday sales but he didn't know what it meant. 😆
Joe@neilhimself Thanks for this lovely story, Neil. As an American ex-pat who has lived more than half his life in the UK now, I must admit that I unintentionally gave up on celebrating Thanksgiving years ago - the last time I did, I think I just bought a roast dinner from a chain pub's Christmas menu. By contrast, yesterday I marked the occasion with a bowl of cereal!
tbirdcymru@neilhimself Thank you for good tidings. Here in the UK, I cannot celebrate Thanksgiving until I have time on the weekend, and will invite all non-Americans except my son. And I will say I am pleased that my ancestors took a boat to North America and were not turned away by Native Americans. And I’m thankful I was welcomed to the UK - sadly not all guests are. #ThanksgivingNotInUSA
The Nancy A Collins
k_8@neilhimself yeah, it’s a lovely holiday and I agree with your sentiments. The only folks who don’t entirely enjoy it are Native Americans. More like a day of mourning for them.
@neilhimself happy thanksgiving neil!
Daniel J. Loeb@neilhimself Funny that it never occurred to me before, but it's a holiday created by dyed-in-the-wool Englishmen! Rebellion was like 150 years away. English people have as legitimate a claim to the holiday as anyone.
gzuckier@neilhimself I'd imagine you guys would be extra thankful that those Puritans had emigrated to the colonies rather than staying with you and steering the direction of your society
@neilhimself - perhaps the Americans could reclaim the original purpose of the Thanksgiving holiday: memorial day for the Civil War dead.
@neilhimself Same thing here. Covid realy interrupted our annual T-Day, and it was so great to see Roz and Cedric and Alun and Dominic - and Boopsie, who came the first time 11 years ago in a little basket, and now gets a grown-up chair. And Roz looks fantastic! And we talked about you, of course. :)