Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

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Despite its romantic connotations, mistletoe is a parasitic plant with poisonous berries, that relies on other plants for its survival. Full disclosure,” Kara says after a moment. “I really want to kiss you right now. Like kiss your lips. With my lips. But I want you to know that’s it’s not just because of the mistletoe, and I don’t want our first kiss to be because of a holiday tradition, I want it to be because we both want to.” But the main issue I had with the book was the writing style. I couldn’t stand it. It felt so muddled and incohesive at times. It’s so very English that sometimes when reading books that are so English it almost feels like it’s being written by an American or an AI if you asked it to write an English romance book. I mean who says supper? I don’t. I understand this book was written in 2008 but it felt so much older. Maybe 2002. The English slang was jarring. It was like for example in really romantic times it would be ruined by how over the top the writing is. The same with sad or intense moments it was just so English I couldn’t take it seriously. It was like it was almost written like a caricature. There was no room for emotion it was all ya want a cuppa and whatdya want for supper like it was something from Oliver Twist. Merlin had dreamt of this more than he’d like to admit. He felt drunk off the taste and feel of Arthur. Even his magic seemed to spiral out of control, fizzing through his blood and leaving him lightheaded with lust.

Eating the berries off a mistletoe plant seems to have fallen out of tradition in recent years, though, and perhaps rightfully so. Swallowing American mistletoe can cause an upset stomach. Everything he did was for Arthur, yet he thought Merlin was an idiot. It stung, knowing he'd never be seen as more than a clumsy, irreverent servant. Meanwhile, Arthur would go on to have beautiful blonde babies with a princess like Elwynne. Although commonly found in Europe, the myriad of mistletoe species spread geographically and can now be found in Central Valley, California. If you happen to forage through the trees, you may find green balls up to 2 feet wide forming on the branches -- and that's the mistletoe! Merlin helped him in and out of his clothes, seizing the chance to covertly ogle him, before fastening his sable-lined cloak over his shoulders. In lieu of his usual crown, Arthur selected a thin silver circlet that looked as though it were wrought from ice crystals.But then Kara is following her, stepping in close and Lena can’t breathe, because Kara’s hands fall to her hips and all she can smell is Kara’s perfume and it wouldn’t take much to just lean forward and close the rest of the space between them. I heard you want to kiss me,” Lena says, using all the courage built up from Kara’s rambling, her thumb soothing over the soft skin under Kara’s eye. “Because I’ve wanted to kiss you for, well, years, so maybe we could try that?” And it can be found in all types of movies, ranging from Christmas staples like "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to more non-denominational films like the Harry Potter series, and– wait for it– "American Psycho." Mistletoe makes its annual appearance each December as millions of Americans and Europeans hang a sprig of it in their doorways during the holiday season. According to custom, if you're caught standing under the mistletoe, you may get a kiss. If he’d expected Camelot’s Yule celebrations to be better, he’d been sorely disappointed. While grander in scale, the festivities were intended for the nobility. The after-party held in the servant quarters was entertaining, but by that point, Merlin was usually too dead on his feet to partake in dancing and carolling.

The mistletoe then invades the host, “stealing" nutrients and water from it. In fact, the scientific name for American mistletoe (Phoradendron) is Greek for “thief of the tree."

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The plant has also been tied to the Romans, who used it as a representation ofpeace, love and understanding and would hang it over doorways, historian Jane Vyer previously told the BBC. By the 1700s, traditional “kissing balls” made of boxwood, holly, and mistletoe were hung in windows and doorways during the holiday season. A young lady caught under the mistletoe could not refuse to give a kiss. This was supposed to increase her chances of marriage since a girl who wasn’t kissed could still be single next Christmas. According to ancient custom, one berry is removed after each kiss until they are allgone. Mistletoe Meaning, Legend, andFolklore A brief inspection of the ceiling would be all that it took to avoid that, whereas being forced into a loveless marriage in a world without divorce or any semblance of women’s rights would have been rather harder to escape,” he tells TIME. Noting that it is extremely difficult to decode a phenomenon two centuries later, he adds, “I can say with some certainty, though, that accidentally finding yourself under the mistletoe would have been very, very far down the list of worries and disadvantages of a woman alive in the year 1800.” Mistletoe is considered a symbol of life because even when its host is leafless, it is evergreen and bears fruit in the winter. The word mistletoe is thought to stemfrom Saxon mistl-tan, meaning “differenttwig.” I'm fine," she demurred. "I was merely overwhelmed by the excitement. But I wish to return to the feast."