May the Fourth be with you!

[melannen]

Happy Star Wars day, everybody! May the Fourth starts off a month of important holidays every year:

May 4: Star Wars Day (Feast of St. Carrie)/Reichenbach Day
First Saturday in May (May 5 this year): Free Comic Book Day
May 25: Lilac Day/Towel Day
June 5: Barricade Day


Of course there's also:
February 15: International Fanworks Day
March 11: The Eleventh of March, March the Eleventh
March 14: Pi Day
The Monday after the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox: Republic of Two Systems Independence Day
September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 22: A Long-Expected Party Day
October 3: 3 OCT 11 Don't Forget
October 13: XF Day
October 23: Mole Day (unless you are one of the schismatics who celebrates on June 2)
December 25 - January 1: Yuletide Reading Week
Mid-Late January: More Joy Day


What other important holidays am I missing?

Comments

[genarti]

Hahaha! I mean... true. I did kind of hesitate before I typed the word "holiday" there. And Barricade Day is at least, uh, gleefully angsty, most of the time? Er.

If December 25th is Yuletide Reading Day (which: yes, obviously), does that make January 1 Yuletide Reveals Day/Year Round-Up Memes Day, or is that getting entirely too granular?

[melannen]

I was trying to avoid too many fest-related ones (otherwise this would definitely have to include things like Lupercalia) - it would quickly turn into a fest calendar - but I feel like YT reading day was too important to leave off. (Really it's a weeklong holiday from the 25th to the 1st, I guess.)

[genarti]

Yeah, sensible. They're two different kinds of fandom calendar, really. So having the one YT day stand in for the whole extended festival of it makes sense!