#13 nights of the krampus

[ghostriderslade]

The 13 Nights of Krampus - Evening 12.

The history of the Krampus was greatly assisted by Christmas cards. The classic Krampus image of a goat-hoofed, devil-tongued monster was reinforced with each "Gruss von Krampus" card that was sent.

[mossygirl333]

MossyGirls 2024 Kinkmas Masterlist

I decided to do something festive for the holidays and got this wonderful idea from @gloomwitchwrites, seriously go check them out they're Amazing! (with a capital A of course)

These are 12 prompts leading up to Christmas day, enjoy!

(Tw for smut!!)

Day 1 (12/13)

Lumberjack!Logan 'Wolverine' Howlette x f!reader

synopsis: You were driving to your cabin in the mountains when your stupid car broke down. Frustrated ,confused, and more than cold you hauled ass to the nearest cabin to help. A rough lumberjack met you, but he'd help you with your car...oh? You can't fix it and will have to order parts? I can stay in your home for the time being? What do you mean you don't have a guest room?! Can you blame him? He hasn't seen a pretty thing like you in ages.

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Day 2 (12/14)

John Price x assistant!reader

synopsis: Price had no one to celebrate Christmas with, his ex-wife got the kids this year. It was lonely in the house, coping with beer and a good cigar. But when a sweet little lass like you comes to his doorstep with cookies and a present, he has to let you in! And reward you of course, you were always such an attentive assistant, now it's his turn to be attentive.

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Day 3 (12/15)

Simon 'Ghost' Riley x gf!reader

Synopsis: Simon never really liked Christmas until he met you, a practically walking Hallmark movie. Dragging him along to a Christmas party that your friend was hosting, 'You need to get out more! meet some new friends!', was your reasoning. With the eggnog spiced and definitely spiked, he couldn't get that stupid little skimpy Santa outfit out of his head. Good thing they had a bathroom upstairs. But shh, stay quiet, Don't want anyone to know Mr. and Mrs. Claus are up to no good.

Day 4 (12/16

Johnny 'Soap' Mactavish x f!reader

Synopsis: Christmas was always a time for spending time with family and joking around. But you and Johnny just had each other this year. Which was enough for you but...not exactly enough for him. And he's working real hard to have a chubby baby next year.

Day 5 (12/17)

König x fiance!reader

Synopsis: You were new to German culture. Growing up in America, you were more into Santa and his little elves than the Krampus festival Konig took you too. It felt more like Halloween than Christmas. With an off hand comment, calling Krampus 'hot' you had unknowingly wormed an idea into your lovers head. He's Krampus. And you're his victim. Run as fast as you can. He catches you. He fucks you.

Day 6 (12/18)

Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick x fiance!reader

Synopsis: Kyle and you are both avid Christmas enjoyers, even as children. Movie Nights, Christmas Dinner, The Parade, even Mariah Carey wormed her way into your heart the second the first snow came. Now you sat in the kitchen, making and decorating cookies. But those cookies aren't the only thing getting glazed tonight.

Day 7 (12/19)

John Price x babysitter!reader

Synopsis: John and his wife have been tense. Holidays ruined with their screaming fights and her physical violence. But things got a whole lot worse when he found out about her affair. Now he has to get back at her for her shit treatment and who else to do it with than the woman that his kids love, and his wife hates? His babysitter.

Day 8 (12/20)

Logan 'Wolverine' Howlette x f!reader

Synopsis: Logan was always a bit antsy when snow came. And you never truly understood why, maybe it was some sort of trauma related to holiday seasons. Chalking it up to that, you decided to make this Christmas the best Christmas he could get. When he avoided you, you ramped it up, desperate to get his attention (and maybe his affection) But you silly little thing. Rut was starting soon and you just locked yourself in his room.

Day 9 (12/21)

Johnny 'Soap' Mactavish x ex!reader

Synopsis: Your friend invited you to a Christmas party. You went. Saw your ex. And immediately wanted to leave. But you couldn't. Not when you remembered that stupid laugh and the way he'd call you 'Bonnie' in that stupid Scottish accent. You drank the entire time to cope and ended up sloppily making out with some hot dude. Johnny didn't like it. He took you home, he didn't mean to follow you into your house. And he didn't mean to tuck you in. And he didn't mean to start getting handsy. But how could he not when all he remembered were how sweet your sighs were and how warm your walls were around his cock?

Day 10 (12/22)

Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick x college!sweetheart!reader

Synopsis: He was home. He was finally home. Warm, that's all you felt. You had so much anxiety that he was still going to be deployed during Christmas, but he wasn't. And that meant everything to you. It was the only gift you wanted, but Kyle obviously bought you some before he left. After the hot cocoa mugs were put away, and the warmth of the fire lulled you into relaxation, he finally treated you to the best present. Him and you, in love. (and making love)

Day 11 (12/23)

Simon 'Ghost' Riley x virgin!reader

Synopsis: Simon was a gentle man. He never was overbearing or mean. Let you take the lead often. He was soft-spoken, hands practically trembling every time he held you like you would break. You begged him all year to take your virginity. You weren’t a baby and you sure as hell weren’t fragile. You could take him! Well Christmas came early this year, and his present to you- was him.

Day 12 (12/24)

Virgin!loserKonig x friend!reader

König comes from a big family. Youngest out of all of them and when it comes to be the youngest, you’re the easiest to get picked on. With his awkward demeanor and socially conservative personality, he didn’t have a girlfriend this year to take home. he was embarrassed, but you wanted to help him out. He was such a good friend anyway- and you had no where else to be on Christmas Eve. little did you know, being König’s ‘girlfriend’ was gonna get a lot more physical.

[monster-disaster]

December Masterlist

Hey friends,

This December, I’ve got a month full of monster romance and spice planned for my Patreon! If that sounds like your thing, check out the masterlist here. And don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of stories on my Tumblr too. 🎇😁

1. [orc & bear-shifter] Thrak & Rowan +1 - short fluff

2. [orc] Orion +1 - a chance for freedom

3. Request: [aliens] The diplomats - smut, threesome

4. [goblin] Bruiz - drama, runaway bride

5. [wolf-shifter] Rome +1 - smut, edging

6. [gargoyle] Haran - smut, orgasm denying

7. [tentacle] Monster under the bed +1 - smut

8. [elf] Everen +1 - short fluff

9. [alien] Bruk'x -yearning for scientist!Reader, smut

10. Request: [naga] Vellar - Grimbrook's pub, smut

11. [chimera] Grin - another wedding that doesn't go as planned

12. [wolf-shifter] Rome +1 - smut, breeding kink

13. [alien] Carmek'x - smut with the alien Captain

14. [naga] Eshra - short smut

15. [orc] Garek +1 - short fluff

16. [gnoll] Trakk - second-in-command, orgy, public smut

17. Request: [robot] 2000 - filming, smut

18. [chimeras] Grin & Nelnir - a new start for all of you

19. [chimeras] Grin & Nelnir +1 - smut, threesome

20. [krampus] Michael 1/3 - you ask for help, it doesn't go well

21. Request: [dragon] Diman +1 - smut

22. [wolf-shifter] Calum +1 - short fluff

23. [orc] Zorag +1 - the night before Christmas

24. [krampus] Michael 2/3 - the krampus and Santa's elf

25. [krampus] Michael 3/3 - smut

26. [tentacle] Christmas tree - smut

27. [minotaur] Ares - For your hand - the winner

28. [rakshasa] Dorian - For your hand - alternative ending

29. [wolf-shifter] Buck - For your hand - happy end for Buck too

30. [harpy] Akna - drunken courage

31. [orc] Your boss +1 - aftercare

[spn-con-cliffnotes]

SPN Nash 2024 gold panel

Would you consider doing any more horror movies? What are somethings you liked or miss about the genre? (3:30)

Jen: likes the genre, if opportunity arises then yeah. depends on if a) comes our way b) good project and c) available. depends largely who's involved, and budget size are very telling of quality of project. So close to doing a movie 1-2 years ago (really fun), didn't end up doing it for a variety of reasons, still hasn't watched it (proceeds to say "son of a bitch!"😂).

Jar: they are difficult to film: night filming (6pm-6am)

2. (Christmas question) Do you consider Die Hard Christmas movies? (7:56)

Jar: yeah...

Jen: any movie that takes place during the holidays is a christmas movie!! what's your go-to top 3 *to Jared*:

Jar: love actually, home alone, Christmas vacation

Jen: Jim Carrey's Grinch, Elf, Christmas Vacation. Krampus parade in European countries (speaking of horror), it looks like the orcs from lotr and "the scariest shit i've ever seen"

3. (pt 1: Do y'all drink whiskey?) (11:00) (pt. 2 Least fav memory filming spn?) (11:43)

Jen: "Do you have a question? I mean I guess the quesiton was 'do you drink whiskey' and now i'm holding a bottle in my hands." (11:30) "Should've just stuck with the whiskey question"

Jen: thinks for a minute the entire filming of bugs...

Jar: there was a bee wrangler

4. (16:50) senior in high school asking fav high school memory?

Jar: kind of about the people you stay in touch with. (it may change) and graduation "its been 13 years of your life; almost as long as supernatural" ties it to optimism of next chapter in life

Jen: A in trig (did not deserve) they went to huge high schools. got bullied by upperclassman when younger. getting through it and knowing some people that also experienced it sticks with you for the rest of your life; really special thing. "you only do this high school thing once, get as much as you can out of it"

5. (22:53) Have you ever used a ouija board irl?

Jar: not really?

Jen: used dowsing rods recentlly-ish in his house.

6. (25:17) Favorite meta time in Spn?

Jar: french mistake! (thought it was the end of the show)

Jen: likes the breaking of 4th wall *wink wink nudge nudge at Kripke)

7. (29:48) Jared drinking prop eggnog.

[justforbooks]

The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg

From the devilish Krampus legend to a spot of disembowelment, the author takes us on a scary romp through Europe’s most disturbing festive folklore

Shaggy figures with snarling masks and metre-long horns, scenes of wild drunkenness, random assaults on strangers, witches winding your intestines out on a stick, a giant “Yule Cat” who will eat you if you’ve failed to put on new clothes for the day – no, it’s not your annual family get-together, at least I hope not. It’s a compendium of European seasonal lore from the dark side, as explored in this excellent short book by historian and folklorist Sarah Clegg. She combines a trove of good stories with a serious critique of earlier mythographers’ ideas about them, and also takes us on adventures ranging from pre-dawn graveyard walks to the terrors of Salzburg’s pre-Christmas “Krampus night”, named for the monstrous masked figures who prowl its streets on 5 December.

Clegg approaches Christmas by a broad avenue, so we get chapters on Venice’s carnival, Saturnalia festivals in ancient Rome, the witchy shenanigans of Epiphany Eve (also known as Twelfth Night), and the wassails of January, in which good health is wished to apple trees by waving horses’ skulls at them. What all these celebrations share is a mood of maniacal excess and social exuberance. Practices include “guising”, or putting on animal disguises; “mumming”, or enacting plays; and “knocking” – going around banging on doors, asking for treats, and even dragging out unwilling residents to join the merriment. The mayhem can spill over into violence, especially in the town of Matrei in Austria, where the Krampus-like “Klaubauf” figures barge into houses and fight in the streets, to the extent that local authorities advise tourists to stay away and the hospital’s emergency department prepares for an influx of injured people. Even Clegg does not venture to Matrei, but the Krampus night she attends in Salzburg is only slightly less extreme. As she strolls amid the usual market scenes of fairy lights and glühwein stands, she is set upon by a Krampus who whacks her with two sticks. It’s all good festive fun – except that she still has the bruises and welts far into January.

Krampus is traditionally an assistant to Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus, and even the white-bearded chuckling one himself can be less pleasant than we might think. His punitive side now survives mainly in the idea that he will bring no gifts if you’ve been naughty. That’s nothing compared with the punishments inflicted by other characters in the winter-festival tradition. In northern Europe, Saint Lucy is usually visualised as a gentle, white-clad maiden with a feast day on 13 December. But she can turn from sweetness to savagery in an instant if she catches you going to work instead of celebrating on that day, or if you have forgotten to put out snacks for her and her friends. She is the one who likes winching out your intestines, but for variety she sometimes also seizes children, removes their internal organs, stuffs them with straw, and sews them up again.

In the 19th century, a shift took place towards more polite Christmas behaviour, especially in Victorian Britain. Santa Claus became portly and took to riding around with reindeer. The feasting became less about chaotic public drinking sessions and more about a family dinner presided over by the master of the house: it affirmed the hierarchy rather than upending it. The topsy-turvy elements of the season were transferred to other celebrations such as carnivals and pantomimes, and door-to-door knocking and treating became more associated with Halloween. In England today, the tradition of raucous Christmas home intrusions survives only in the (slightly) less scary form of doorstep carol singers.

Where the wilder rituals remain, they have become more self-consciously folkloric. Clegg introduces us to the wassailers of Chepstow, with their horses’ skulls on poles, and the Marshfield Mummers of Gloucestershire, who dress up like giant ragged mops and put on a play. These events are well-attended, suggesting a revival of interest; Krampus runs have even become popular in parts of the US. Clegg suggests that this might reflect an increasing disenchantment with the tame, Victorian-style Christmas, especially now that it’s so commercialised. The frenzies of last-minute gift shopping or trying to get a train or plane ticket home can’t compete with the frenzy of running around with an animal head.

If so, these mixed feelings about the 19th-century family Christmas were there from the start. Clegg notes that the century that created that kind of Christmas also created a new kind of historian, keen to find dark and ghastly “pagan” rituals lurking behind the politer ones. In 1890, James Frazer’s The Golden Bough sought a key to all mythologies in a supposed long-lost midwinter rite, during which a king was killed so as to be reborn as a new king in spring. The idea was exciting, and the book became a bestseller. The problem, says Clegg, is that there was no good reason to think any such rite ever existed. The book was “a collection of wild, unsubstantiated statements”, built upon a titillating fantasy of “primitive” fertility rituals.

Frazer has been demolished many times before, but Clegg sees his ideas living on in our tendency, even now, to assume that modern practices are rooted in a timeless hinterland of mysterious, pagan antiquity. This is misleading in several ways, she argues. First, we know too little about what really went on in the undocumented past. Second, it casts the people of long-ago Europe as passive transmitters of tradition, rather than as active agents who reimagined and adapted their celebrations through time. “Never mistake folklore for something ancient and unvarying,” she writes. Like most of what humans do, it is “creative and dynamic”.

Also, the notion of solemn and ancient mysteries ignores the idea of having fun. When the fifth-century Bishop of Ravenna, Peter Chrysologus, inquired into local festivities, people assured him that it was all “just for fun”. He thought they were putting him off the scent of something more sinister. For Clegg, they were probably telling the truth. If people, given a day off work and a good excuse, choose to race around dressed as animals, drink a lot and bash each other with sticks, perhaps they do it because it’s a holiday and it’s a laugh.

I’m not surprised Clegg is so attuned to the possibility of fun as a major cultural force, because she has a strong sense of it herself. Her book is both thought-provoking and filled with amusing asides and quips. Like Gibbon, but with more brevity, she puts many of her best jokes in footnotes. We need all the fun we can get, because, as she reminds us in one of her own more serious moments at the end of the book, “beyond the glow of firelight, the shadows are waiting”.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[jokerislandgirl32]

Yall I'm telling you watch the little red riding hood analog horror trilogy. It'll have you saying "wow" and probably sh!tting yalls pants. It's scary as hell, so, grab a stuffed animal and keep a light on cuz you ain't gonna wanna go into the woods at night after watching it

(Minors below the age of 13:DO. NOT. WATCH. Unless you wanna be more traumatized then Amelia earheart.)

I personally think it's one of the more unsettling analog horror. With the ominous silence and junk. Zach you'll probably scream like a baby so pls just control him-

Zach and Violet’s Response

Violet: Yeah, no…don’t worry, we are NOT watching this. Zach and I are not horror enthusiasts. I will watch things like A Haunting, Extreme Paranormal Witness, and These Woods are Haunted on TV, and I’ve watched the first two movies in The Conjuring Series, Krampus, and some Alfred Hitchcock Movies, but that’s it. I can’t do anything scarier.

Violet: And most of the shows/movies I watch are about hauntings or similar paranormal activity, I’m fascinated by that after losing my parents, it’s just something I gravitated towards…so while it scares me to death I can watch it for this reason. And by scares me to death I mean…I used to watch such programs against my aunt’s wishes as a child. I have forever been terrified of this show right here:

Violet: Ask Zach, I called him crying while he was in college one night and told him my dad’s old deer head had been possessed by the spirit in this episode, and it was going to get me.

Zach: Yeah…I had to travel all the way from New England to North Carolina in one weekend just to help calm her down…then she showed me the freaking episode, and we were both a mess! And her aunt was pissed because she accused me of showing it to Violet!

Zach: I can’t watch anything horror related without having a panic attack! You know the movie The Birds? I watched that with the Kratts and my brother, Zeb, when we were kids, and it horrified me. I still freak out if a bird swoops next to me! So why would I voluntarily show something scary to a 13-year-old knowing it could traumatize her for life?

Zach & Violet: So yeah…No horror shows/movies for us…

[mulderscreek]

A Mythful Yuletide Challenge

The Wild Hunt from European myths is most often claimed to be seen during the yule season, close to the winter solstice, which is also when the dead can return, and they're said to led a chase across the sky after a hapless victim. ⊛ Alpine folklore has Krampus who is a monster typically depicted with a long tongue and large horns, who is the opposite side of the coin to Santa, collecting naughty children in December. ⊛ In Germany Belsnickel wears a mask with horns, and quizzes children on their behavior, good behavior is rewarded, but if they been naughty, he beats them. ⊛ In Iceland there are the Yule Lads & their mother Grýla, a child eating ogress, who play nasty tricks on people after dark. And Jólakötturinn/The Yule Cat is said to eat children who have not received new clothing for Christmas. ⊛ Italy has La Befana, a Christmas witch who rewards children who have been well behaved, and like Santa gives coal to the naughty. ⊛ Before Norway celebrated St. Lucia’s day, December 13 was formerly known as Lussi’s night, named for a demonic figure accompanied by evil spirits to see that towns completed their work for the year. ⊛ And in Wales Mari Lwyd might be a pantomime involving a decorated horse skull being paraded around…or might be a zombie horse who rises from the dead to get the living to reflect upon their lives while it tries to break into their house.

These are just some examples of mythological figures centered on the month of December through early January; there are others, and you may know more about some of them than we do.

Your Challenge is to write an early winter tale about Mulder, Scully, and at least one of their offspring having a brush with the wild hunt or a mythological yule figure on a night between December 1st and January 5th. Maybe the family is traveling, maybe the myth or monster has come to the US for reasons of its own – up to you, dear writers.

Here are some links to help you brush up on the wild hunt and other yule myths and monsters(including some I didn't describe above):

Please tag @mulderscreek when you post your story, submit your story or the link to it to nurseryfiles@mulderscreek.com, post here on our submissions Tumblr, or send me a message with a link to your fic on Tumblr to reblog by 2/1/2025

[rathayibacter]

ratings of friday the 13ths

Friday, October 13th: 13/10 perfection. no notes. not only is it the spooky day in the spooky month, its mirrored with Halloween's October 31st.

Friday, November 13th: 9/10 pretty great! its two weeks post-Halloween and then this guy shows up and it's like a little spooky booster shot to help you through.

Friday, December 13th: 6/10 alright, the long nights are pretty creepy so that's cool, but Christmas' bright lights and candy canes hold fast against the dark, and nobody finds Krampus scary anymore.

Friday, January 13th: 8/10 now we're talking! all the Christmas trees are rotting in the streets and there's nothing left to do but shiver in your home and hope nothing's waiting for you in the snow.

Friday, February 13th: 10/10 perfect time to ask your sleep paralysis demon to be your Valentine

Friday, March 13th: 7/10 pretty good, unremarkable but not unwelcome. nice change of pace from all the not much you're probably doing in March.

Friday, April 13th: hom

Friday, May 13th: 3/10 despite my best efforts i cannot find anything remotely scary about the month of May. May's a delightful little month and that really works against it here.

Friday, June 13th: 8/10 the possibilities of summer lay before you, and here comes a lovely visitor from autumn to see you off. watch horror movies in your friend's basement and fall asleep on the couch.

Friday, July 13th: 8/10 creeps up on you, especially if you're a kid with no concept of time over the summer. one day it's BBQ cookouts and going to the pool, the next there's Creatures

Friday, August 13th: 10/10 the trees buzz, the sky is golden, summer finally gives up its hottest days. during the day you'll laugh it off, but when night comes at last it'll slip through your open window and crawl into your dreams. fall is coming, and winter after, and when the sun turns its back on you and the winds grow cruel, there'll be nothing left to protect you.

Friday, September 13th: 2/10 you really couldnt have held out a little longer? come on. get serious man

[sheydmade]

the Winter Ones: Folkloric Figures of Winter, Yule, & Christmas

by Keziah

The winter holidays are ebbing ever closer for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. With each passing year, more and more practitioners of witchcraft and/or followers of pagan paths have looked to taking up the customs of their ancestors or incorporating those customs into their practices in some way. Holidays have become a popular way of embracing such traditions, traditions that can make diasporic practitioners feel a little closer to home, traditions that can bring one nearer their ancestors, traditions that can aid in making one’s practice and customs truly unique to them.

Winter has many customs and traditions, and those practices differ from region to region. One of my favorite aspects of winter is the amount of figures associated with the season – folk figures unique to the regions from which they hail. For many people, if you ask them about figures they associate with winter, you’ll hear Father Christmas, Krampus, and maybe even a nod or two to Hans Trapp, but there are so many more winter figures out there! In this post, we’ll meet a variety of these folk spirits, and we’ll learn a bit about their tales. It’s my hope that readers of this blog may find a new way of incorporating beliefs or customs of their ancestors or of their homelands (for our readers who are members of diasporic populations), and that, in doing so, their winter holidays may be brighter for it. Now, shall we dive in? Who to meet first…

GRÝLA, JÓLASVEINAR, & JÓLAKÖTTURINN

Grýla, the Yule Lads, and the Yule Cat

(Icelandic Folklore)

A prominent feature in Icelandic Christmas and Yule folklore is the tale of a mountain-dwelling family that descends upon Icelandic communities during the Yule season, or during the 13 days leading up to Christmas. This family consists of –

Grýla – a large, frightening giantess, ogress, or half-troll/half-ogre (depending on what version of the tale you hear) who feasts upon naughty children;

Jólasveinar / the Yule Lads – Grýla’s thirteen thieving, tricksy sons;

and Jólakötturinn / the Yule Cat – Grýla’s pet cat, a massive, vicious, people-eating creature.

According to lore, throughout most of the year Grýla and her crew keep to themselves in some isolated mountainous area. If not in the mountains, it’s often said that Grýla and co. live in Dimmuborgir (lava formations in north Iceland). During the Yule or Christmas season, though, Grýla and her brood leave their domain behind to bring a bit of terror to the inhabitants of Iceland.

For thirteen nights, Grýla’s sons, the Yule Lads, will leave gifts for (and party with, play games with, and perform for) well-behaved children, and leave tricks or warnings for naughty children, but this version only came about after a shift in the tone of the tale. Most sources state that the Yule Lads were once purely horrible and simply wreaked havoc for the thirteen nights leading up to Christmas. Why the change? Well, apparently the original lore was so terrifying that the parliament of Iceland officially outlawed its use as a scare tactic against children. Thus, the brighter lore of playfully mischievous Yule Lads was born, differing greatly from the ‘creepy and revolting’ ways exhibited in the earlier tales.

As the stories go, one-by-one, the Yule Lads go into inhabited areas of Iceland and sow a little terror and chaos, each carrying out his own special form of mischief. They could only do their deeds at night, and were quite terrifying to behold – large, dirty, and ‘humanoid and bestial in equal measure’ (though now most depictions of the Yule Lads feature cheerful, bearded men with woolen clothes and pointed hats). The Yule Lads arrive (one per night) starting thirteen days before Christmas, and each continues their mischief spree for thirteen nights, only then departing (again, one per night).

The Yule Lads are:

Stekkjastaur ‘Sheep-Cote Clod’ – from the 12th - 25th of December, Stekkjastaur sneaks into pens and stables to harass sheep, attempting to suckle them all, though this is made difficult by his long, stiff, wooden legs, which don’t allow him to bend his knees and kneel on the ground.

Giljagaur ‘Gully-Gawk’ – from the 13th - 26th of December, Giljagaur hides in the gullies near homes until all the household has fallen asleep. Then, he makes his way to the cowsheds to steal milk.

Stúfur ‘Stubby’ –Stúfur will, from the 14th - 27th of December, steal into homes and nab anything leftover in the pans. Some versions say he steals the pan itself, for he likes to eat the ‘crust’ left behind on them from cooking.

Þvörusleikir ‘Spoon-Licker’ – from the 15th - 28th of December, Þvörusleikir sets about his diabolical task of breaking into homes and licking all the spoons (in particular, the wooden spoons).

Pottaskefill ‘Pot-Scraper’ – from 16th - 29th of December, Pottaskefill breaks into homes to steal unwashed pots so he can lick up all that’s left, be that the remnants of sauces, broths, and gravies, or leftover bits of food. He’s also said to eat any unfinished foods from plates.

Askasleikir ‘Bowl-Licker’ – from 17th - 30th of December, Askasleikir hides beneath beds, lying in wait for anyone to set their askur down. An askur is an Icelandic wooden bowl with a lid, which, according to these Yule tales, would sometimes be carried off to bed whilst one was enjoying a late-night snack. The bowl would then be placed on the floor beside the bed or just under the bed, where Askasleikir would be waiting to scarf down whatever is left in the askur.

Hurðaskellir ‘Door-Slammer’ – from 18th - 31st of December, Hurðaskellir starts his rounds, going around slamming doors. He finds it even more fun to do whilst everyone is sleeping.

Skyrgámur ‘Skyr-Gobbler’ – from 19th of December - 01st of January, Skygámur commits the heinous act of robbing any and every pantry or refrigerator he can find of skyr, a traditional Icelandic dairy food similar to yoghurt.

Bjúgnakrækir ‘Sausage-Swiper’ – as if Skyrgámur’s antics weren’t enough, Bjúgnakrækir is a rotten old sausage thief. He sits in the rafters of homes, waiting for everyone to go to bed or to look away. Then, he steals as many sausages as he can manage. Bjúgnakrækir makes his arrival on the 20th of December and leaves on the 02nd of January.

Gluggagægir ‘Window-Peeper’ – perhaps the creepiest of the lot thus far (though someone licking all the spoons is the stuff of nightmares), Gluggagægir makes his rounds from the 21st of December - 03rd of January, peeping through windows into homes, hoping to spy something to steal.

Gáttaþefur ‘Doorway-Sniffer’ – from the 22nd of December - 04th of January, Gáttaþefur, lured to your home by the scent of freshly baked laufabrauð (‘leaf bread,’ a traditional Icelandic Christmas bread), arrives to one’s doorway and will attempt to steal the laufabrauð.

Ketkrókur ‘Meat-Hook’ – from the 23rd of December to the 05th of January, Ketkrókur would find a way to steal the meat from your kitchen. He’d hide in the pantry, behind doorways, in the rafters, up the chimney, and he’d use his long, hooked staff, or meat hook, to quickly snatch away the meat either while it was being prepared or from the holiday table itself.

Kertasníkir ‘Candle-Stealer’ or ‘Candle-Beggar’ – from the 24th of December to the 06th of January, Kertasníker, the last of the Yule of Lads, steals candles, especially from children. Candles were once typically made from tallow and were edible, and some lore states that Kertasníker would steal the candles to snack on.

Nowadays, the Yule Lads are said to leave candies and small gifts for good children, placing the goods in the shoes that kids leave on their windowsills in hopes of finding them later filled with presents. Bad children, however, are said to be left nothing but rotten potatoes.

As for Grýla, well… Grýla comes and kidnaps naughty children, loading them into her sack and carrying them back to her husband, Leppalúði (who most sources say is quite lazy and prefers to stay in his cave than to go with Grýla and the Yule Lads to terrorize Icelandic children). Grýla and Leppalúði then eat the naughty children, cooking them up in Grýla’s giant pot or cauldron. Though Grýla and Leppalúði are known to have a particular fondness for eating children, some sources also warn that they’ll eat adults caught outdoors on their own during those long, dark winter nights.

If Grýla and her husband weren’t bad enough, you still have the Yule Cat to worry about, especially if you didn’t receive any gifts of new clothes for the holidays. It’s said that the Yule Cat, on Christmas night, eats anyone it catches that isn’t wearing at least one new item of clothing.

LA BEFANA

(Italian Folklore)

With particular association with Epiphany Eve (the night of the 05th of January), La Befana is witch in Italian folklore (sometimes called, fondly, the Christmas Witch). She’s said to fly around Italy on her broom on the night of Epiphany Eve, when she visits each household with children and fills each child’s stocking with gifts or punishments, depending on whether they were well or poorly behaved. Well-behaved children receive gifts and sweets, while those who were naughtier receive a coal lump, black rock candy, or a stick. Some tales also say that La Befana (who is obsessively tidy in some variations of her origin story) may sweep or clean your house before she leaves.

La Befana is said to be a very old woman with a cheerful, kindly disposition. She dresses simply, usually wearing a shawl either around her shoulders or tied over her hair (sometimes both), and her clothes are soot-covered, as the tales say she flies into each home via the chimney. She carries a wicker basket or cloth sack filled with all of the gifts and sweets she must deliver.

In some Italian regions, bonfires are burned on Epiphany, and those bonfires sometimes feature effigies of La Befana. Many people dress as La Befana at various Epiphany events and festivals in Italy.

ST. NICHOLAS & KRAMPUS

(Central European Folklore)

On Saint Nicholas Day (observed on the 5th or 6th of December, depending on the region), many children throughout Europe (and in diasporic communities around the world), wake up excited to check in their shoes or under their pillows for gifts from St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas, is a tall, lean, cheerful old man with a long white beard, usually depicted as being dressed in fine vestments, including a cape or chasuble, and almost always wearing an ornate miter atop his head. In Central European (and some Eastern European) folklore, though, jolly old St. Nicholas does not work alone.

The Krampus travels as Saint Nicholas’ companion. Usually depicted as a large red, black, or brown demon with cloven hooves and the legs and horns of a goat, pointed ears, a long, pointed or forked tongue, and a frightening, human face with a crazed or menacing expression, Krampus is truly the stuff of childhood nightmares. Saint Nicholas and Krampus make their rounds on Krampusnacht – the night of the 05th of December. While the well-behaved children received gifts from Saint Nicholas, naughty children meet punishment at the hands of Krampus. The punishment varies from one tale to the next – some say that Krampus switches the children with birch branches; some say that Krampus devours the children, often swallowing them whole; and still other tales say that Krampus nabs the children, loading them into the basket or pouch he wears upon his back and taking them to hell.

Despite attempts by the Catholic Church to ban Krampus, belief in the goat demon is very much still alive, with festivals and parades dedicated to Krampus, such as Krampuslauf, booming in popularity.

BELSNICKEL

(Germanic Folklore)

Belsnickel (also often spelled Belschnickel or Beltznickle) is a figure of Germanic folklore that finds its origins in Rheinpfalz, a historic region of Southwestern Germany. The belief in Belsnickel finds life still yet in some areas within this region, as well as in diasporic German peoples (and the descendants thereof) in Pennsylvania Dutch communities (birthed from settlers from the Rheinpfalz region) throughout the US.

Belsnickel is a man dressed in tattered, dirtied furs and clothes. In some versions, he also wears a mask with a long, pointed tongue. Belsnickel travels around at night (usually on the night of Christmas Eve), wielding a long switch in one hand and carrying a sack filled with cakes, candies, fruits, and nuts in the other hand or on his back. Poorly behaved children would receive a switching, while well-behaved children would be given sweets from the sack.

Brown’s Miscellaneous Writings features a first-hand account (having taken place around 1830) of one Beltznickel tradition from Maryland, USA –

‘One hand would scatter the goodies upon the floor, and then the scramble would begin by the delighted children, and the other hand would ply the switch upon the backs of the excited youngsters – who would not show a wince…’

In some Pennsylvania Dutch communities, it’s said that Belsnickel arrives one-to-two weeks before Christmas to ‘check in’ on how the children were behaving, punishing the bad children and serving as a frightening warning and reminder that they had better correct their ways before Christmas.

PERCHTA

(Alpine Folklore)

Known by many names, such as Pehta Baba (in Slovenian lore), Frau Perchta, and Frau Faste (in some Swiss and Slovenian lore), Perchta is a goddess associated with winter, spinning, and folk magic, particularly in Germany and Austria.

Perchta’s association with winter bears particular emphasis on midwinter and Twelfth Night. It’s said that Perchta would enter homes during the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, and she would dole out rewards and punishments. Children and servants of the home who had worked hard throughout the year and who had been good people would wake the next morning to find a small gift left by Perchta (usually a coin or trinket, though some modern customs say she may leave candies).

Her punishments, however, were far greater than her gifts. For children and servants who had been poorly behaved, unkind, and lazy, Perchta enters their bedrooms while they slumber, cuts them open, and replaces their stomach and guts with straw. Some tales say she does not replace one's entrails but simply fills the stomach with straw. It’s also said in some tales that Perchta delivers this same punishment to those who on the night of Perchta’s feast day eat something aside from the traditional foods of her feast day (those foods being fish and gruel).

Perchta’s association with spinning also comes into play in some variations of this tale, in which Perchta’s punishment is reserved for those who did not complete their spinning by the time of her visit. She was also said to trample or set fire to any half-spun fibers she discovered.

Perchta’s links to midwinter come from her ties to the legend of the Wild Hunt. Some tales of the Wild Hunt feature Perchta as the leader of the hunt.

As for Perchta’s appearance, there are two main versions. Perchta is sometimes described as a beautiful, young woman, with white or very pale hair and fair skin, usually dressed in white or silvery white hues. This Perchta differs greatly from that featured in some old depictions, which describe a hag woman dressed in rags, with a wrinkled face and a large beak-like nose made of iron. Some descriptions say this woman carries a cane, and many depictions feature her keeping a knife or blade beneath her skirts or robes.

The difference in these two depictions of Perchta is also reflected in the two variations of Perchten – a term that is used to apply to both the masks worn at festivals and processions honoring Perchta, as well as to figures associated with Perchta and seen as her subjects or helpers. Of these figures, there are two types –

Schönperchten: the beautiful, bright Perchten dressed in silvers and whites, said to deliver blessings of wealth and good luck during the Twelve Nights,

and Schiachperchten: the monstrously ugly Perchten with fangs and tusks, horns, tails, and beastly, fur-covered faces. The Schiachperchten are said to drive away evil spirits, ghosts, and demons.

SPILLAHOLLE

The Spillaholle – also known as Mickadrulle / Mickatrulle, Popelholle (‘Hooded Holle’), Zumpeldrulle –  is believed to be a regional variation of Frau Holle or Perchta. She is said to be a very short old woman dressed in ragged, tattered clothing and a hood, and is, in some tales, said to carry stinging nettles with her.

The Spillaholle appears in towns and villages during winter, especially nearing Christmas or during the Twelve Nights of Christmas. The Spillaholle, who is strongly associated with spinning, is said to travel through town, peeking in the windows of each house to check to see ‘if the children and spinsters are spinning diligently.’ If their spinning hasn’t been taken care of by evening or nightfall, it’s said that the Spillaholle will dole out punishments. It’s even said that the Spillaholle will take the lazy spinsters away, beating them with the stinging nettles she carries with her. As for those who have finished their spinning, instead of a punishment, the Spillaholle leaves a blessing of protection – a single nettle is left upon the stoop or at the threshold of the home, a nettle that shall protect the house from various misfortunes for the next year.

MARI LWYD

(Welsh Folklore)

The origins of the Christmas tradition of the parading of the Mari Lwyd are up for debate. Some say it’s an early Christian practice, while many others believe that it’s a surviving pre-Christian tradition that’s been Christianized throughout the years. Believed to have come from a wassailing custom, the Mari Lwyd (said by some to mean ‘Grey Mary,’ ‘Holy Mary,’ or ‘Blessed Mary,’ and by others to mean ‘Grey Mare’) is a hobby horse, puppet, doll, or effigy that is paraded through town, carried from door-to-door by wassail-singing groups. This is done during the Christmas season, often ‘between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night.’

The head of the Mari Lwyd is usually a skull of a hoarse (and in most cases, the same skull is to be used each year), though there have been accounts of a head being carved from wood or shaped from a pillow. The skull (or makeshift horse head) is beautifully decorated with flowers and ribbons (the ribbons usually making up the Mari Lwyd’s mane), and has lights, baubles, or bottle glass for eyes. A white cloth is draped from the horse’s head down over the base of the Mari Lwyd, concealing the carrier of the doll underneath. A spring or stick is usually attached to the lower jaw of the skull, so that the jaw can be made to open and snap shut.

The parade is to begin at dusk or sundown. Singing and dancing is to be enjoyed whilst the Mari Lwyd makes her way along. At each door, the Mari Lwyd procession would perform traditional songs, and the household was to reply (usually through the closed door) with improvised, taunting poetry, usually delivering some kind of funny insult. A competition then ensues, a back-and-forth between the Mari Lwyd party and the household (this is a ritual called pwnco), until one side was bested and gave up, having no reply. Should the Mari Lwyd procession singers lose, they leave empty-handed. Mari Lwyd winning and entering the house, though, is believed to be a blessing that will bring good fortune to the household for the coming year.

The Mari Lwyd is said to be mischievous as well – chasing people, gnashing her jaws to scare children, and even trying to steal things or knock things about when she enters a home.

DED MOROZ & SNEGUROCHKA

(Slavic Folklore)

Ded Moroz (also called Dedushka Moroz – and other variations of Grandfather Frost – and Morozko) is familiar to many as Russian Santa, but Ded Moroz is much, much more than that. Ded Moroz finds his origins in pre-Christian Slavic paganism and folklore as a great magician and wizard of winter. Belief in Ded Moroz and customs surrounding him were banned during the early Soviet era. Nevertheless, Ded Moroz not only lives on, but has become a winter icon in East Slavic culture and is now the main figure associated with Novy God, the secular Christmas-like Russian celebration of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

Ded Moroz – a tall, old man with rosy cheeks and long white beard, who dresses in a floor-length fur coat and fur hat, and usually wields a magic staff – travels about (usually depicted travelling by a horse-drawn sleigh) delivering gifts to children. Some tales say that he delivers gifts all through December as well as on New Year’s Eve night, when he places the gifts under the New Year Tree whilst the household is sleeping.

One aspect of Ded Moroz’s tale that is rather unique is that of Snegurochka – Ded Moroz’s granddaughter who helps him make his deliveries. Snegurochka (also called Snegurka and the Snow Maiden), unlike Ded Moroz, doesn’t find her roots in pre-Christian Slavic lore, but rather in 19th century Russian fairytales. Snegurochka wasn’t depicted as Ded Moroz’s granddaughter until after 1935, when the holiday of Novy God was permitted by the Russia Federation. From then on, Snegurochka became Ded Moroz’s granddaughter and assistant, and has since been more commonly depicted as wearing wintery silver and blue cloaks and a fur hat (sometimes a crown made of glistening snowflakes).

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Þjóðsögur Jóns Árnasonar - the Collection of Folklore of Jón Árnason The Icelandic Yule Lads and their evil mother Gryla A Journey Around the Figure of the Befana – Manciocco, Claudia; Manciocco, Luigi Krampus | Definition, History, & Facts The Origin of Krampus, Europe's Evil Twist on Santa ‘the Krampus and the Old Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil’ – Ridenour, Al The Winter Goddess: Percht, Holda, and Related Figures: Folklore: Vol 95, No 2 ‘Deutsche Mythologie’ – Grimm, Jakob Holda: Between Folklore and Linguistics Who is Belsnickel in Pennsylvania German Christmas lore? ‘Brown’s Miscellaneous Writings’ – Brown, Jacob Yes Helen, there is a Belsnickel ‘A Dictionary of British Folk Customs’ – Hole, Christina The Mari Lwyd ‘Ritual Animal Disguise: A Historical and Geographical Study of Animal Disguise in the British Isles’ – Cawte, E.C. Mari Lwyd, a Welsh Christmas Tradition ‘A Tour Through Part of North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at Other Times’ – Evans, J. ‘Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments’ – Smith, John B. Felix und Ulrich Mueller - Percht und Krampus ‘the Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year’ – Raedisch, Linda "Дед Мороз и Снегурочка" (Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden) –Dushechkina, E. B. ‘Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend’ – Dixon-Kennedy, Mike

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Christmas Writing Challenge 2023 Masterlist

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Day 1: North Pole Breakfast- The Yorks’ nanny plans a magical surprise for the girls.

Day 2: Tree Lighting- You and Frankie take the girls to the town tree lighting.

Day 3: Decorate the Tree- It’s your first official Christmas with your four lovers, and you want it to be special.

Day 4: Chestnuts- Marcus & Peanut roast chestnuts with Grandma.

Day 5: Angel Tree- You (the nanny) and Dave go Christmas shopping.

Day 6: Glühwein- Max tries Glühwein.

Day 7: Elf- You have to do some quick thinking when there’s an elf emergency.

Day 8: Dickens- You and Draco take your son to the local Dickens Christmas Festival.

Day 9: Reindeer- Simon has a surprise for you while on holiday in Norway.

Day 10: Favorite Christmas Movie- You want to watch a Christmas movie with Joel.

Day 11: Christmas Craft Fair- Marcus and Peanut shop at the craft fair.

Day 12: Christmas Blues- Maggie is feeling depressed as the holiday looms.

Day 13: Fruitcake- A neighbor gave you fruitcake…Max is not a fan.

Day 14: Perfect Gift- Daddy Maxwell gives you a present.

Day 15: Christmas Parade- the Peñas and Murphys go to the town Christmas Parade.

Day 16: Yule Log- Draco accompanies you and your family on a hunt for a Yule log. 💦

Day 17: Decorating Cookies- You decorate cookies with Will, Frankie, Benny, and Santi.

Day 18: Christmas Party- You’re invited to the management Christmas party…but it’s not what you expected.

Day 19: Coming Home- Ghost has been away a long time, but he’s coming home for Christmas.

Day 20: Looking at Lights- You and Din take Grogu to look at Christmas lights.

Day 21: Dressing as Santa- Draco doesn’t understand your family tradition.

Day 22: Krampus- Cassian tells the kids about Krampus.

Day 23: Cookies & Milk- Draco has a talk with your father.

Day 24: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas- Maggie goes to dinner at Maxwell’s.

Day 25: Christmas Dinner- You (nanny) prepare Christmas dinner for the Yorks.

Day 26: Polar Bear Plunge- Simon shares a tradition with you.

Day 27: Snow Angels- Din and Grogu make snow angels.

Day 28: Holiday Stress- Javi helps Ari de-stress after the holidays. 💦

Day 29: Blizzard- Maggie gets stuck at Maxwell’s after Christmas.

Day 30: Warm & Toasty- Simon has one more surprise for you while on holiday in Norway.

Day 31: Resolutions- You and your husbands discuss your goals for the new year.

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My Horror List

-Here is a list of my finished horror movies. The first portion is in an unknown order, and the second portion is when I started documenting the order-

1408 (2007)

#Alive (2020)

•REC (2007)

13 Ghosts (2001)

28 Days Later… (2002)

30 Days of Night (2007)

A Classic Horror Story (2021)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Quiet Place (2018)

Anaconda (1997)

Annabelle (2014)

Army of the Dead (2021)

As Above, So Below (2014)

Banana Splits Movie (2019)

Before I Awake (2016)

Bird Box (2018)

Black Sheep (2006)

Blood Red Sky (2021)

Brainscan (1994)

Butchers (2020)

Cadaver (2020)

Cargo (2017)

Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)

Child’s Play (1988)

Child’s Play (2019)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Christine (1983)

Color Out of Space (2019)

Cube (1997)

Dave Made a Maze (2017)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Day of the Dead (2008)

Death of Me (2020)

Devil (2010)

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Don’t Breathe (2016)

Eli (2019)

Escape Room (2019)

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Evil Ed (1995)

Fear Street: Part 1 - 1994 (2021)

Fear Street: Part 2 - 1978 (2021)

Fear Street: Part 3 - 1666 (2021)

Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 3 (2006)

The Final Destination (2009)

Final Destination 5 (2011)

Friday the 13th (2009)

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Get Out (2017)

Grave Encounters (2011)

Grave Encounters 2 (2012)

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Gremlins (1984)

Halloween (1978)

Hellraiser (1987)

Hereditary (2018)

His House (2020)

Hostel (2005)

Housebound (2014)

Hush (2016)

Idle Hands (1999)

In the Tall Grass (2019)

Incantation (2022)

Insidious (2010)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

IT (2017)

IT: Chapter Two (2019)

Jaws (1975)

Jigsaw (2017)

Krampus (2015)

Lake Placid (1999)

Leatherface (2017)

Legion (2010)

Life (2017)

Lights Out (2016)

Little Evil (2017)

Ma (2019)

Mama (2013)

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Midsommar (2019)

Monster House (2006)

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

No Escape Room (2018)

Nope (2022)

Oculus (2013)

Paranormal Activity (2007)

Peninsula (2020)

Pet Sematary (1989)

Pet Sematary (2019)

Poltergeist (1982)

Psycho (1960)

Purge (2013)

Purge II (2014)

Purge III (2016)

Purge IV (2018)

Purge V (2021)

Ready or Not (2019)

Saw (2004)

Saw II (2005)

Saw III (2006)

Saw IV (2007)

Saw V (2008)

Saw VI (2009)

Saw VII (2010)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Scream (1996)

Scream 2 (1997)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Silver Bullet (1985)

Sinister (2012)

Society (1989)

Spiral (2019)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

Splice (2009)

Summer of Fear (1978)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Texas Chainsaw (2013)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The Babadook (2014)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

The Conjuring (2013)

The Craft (1996)

The Crazies (2010)

The Darkness (2016)

The Descent (2005)

The Empty Man (2020)

The Endless (2017)

The Escape Room (2018)

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Final Girls (2015)

The Forest (2016)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

The Ice Cream Truck (2017)

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

The Lost Boys (1987)

The Mist (2007)

The Nun (2018)

The Platform (2019)

The Possession (2012)

The Resort (2021)

The Ring (2002)

The Ritual (2018)

The Ruins (2008)

The Shining (1980)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Strangers (2008)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The Thing (1982)

The Void (2016)

The Woman in Black (2012)

There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021)

Train to Busan (2016)

Tremors (1990)

Truth or Dare (2018)

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Tusk (2014)

Unfriended (2014)

Us (2019)

Uzumaki (2000)

Vivarium (2019)

Warm Bodies (2013)

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

Winchester (2018)

Wish Upon (2017)

Would You Rather? (2012)

Zombieland (2009)

Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

Dated Movies

-From this point on I have the date and order I watched these movies, everything above I watched before everything below-

Drag Me to Hell (2009) - October 4th 2022, #176

The Privilege (2022) - October 12th 2022, #177

Halloween Ends (2022) - October 15th 2022, #178

The Witches of Eastwick (1987) - October 24th 2022, #179

The Perfection (2019) - October 25th 2022, #180

Barbarian (2021) - October 25th 2022, #181

The Faculty (1998) - October 30th 2022, #182

The Exorcist (1973) - October 31th 2022, #183

Smile (2022) - November 27th 2022, #184

The Menu (2022) - January 8th 2023, #185

Ghostwatch (1992) - January 28th 2023, #186

Skinamarink (2023) - February 2nd 2023, #187

The Collection (2012) - February 4th 2023, #188

The Innocents (2021) - February 7th 2023, #189

Deadstream (2022) - February 7th 2023, #190

The Dark and the Wicked (2020) - February 7th 2023, #191

Kolobos (1999) - February 8th 2023, #192

Scare Package (2019) - February 9th 2023, #193

Re-Animator (1985) - February 10th 2023, #194

The Boy (2016) - February 15th 2023, #197

The Invitation (2022) - February 18th 2023, #198

Grizzly (1976) - February 18th 2023, #199

C.O.R.N.: Field of Screams (2021) - March 2nd 2023, #200

Slumber Party Masscare II (1987) - March 2nd 2023, #201

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) - March 3rd 2023, #202

The Silence (2019) - March 5th 2023, #203

Once Upon a Time at Christmas (2017) - March 5th 2023, #204

Evil Toons (1991) - March 15th 2023, #205

Sleepaway Camp (1983) - March 15th 2023, #206

Prom Night (1980) - March 15th 2023, #207

Cooties (2014) - March 19th 2023, #208

House (1985) - March 20th 2023, #209

House of Wax (2005) - March 25th 2023, #210

Prom Night (2008) - March 25th 2023, #211

Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (1961) - March 31st 2023, #212

Wolf Creek (2005) - April 2nd 2023, #213

Body Melt (1993) - April 2nd 2023, #214

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) - April 5th 2023, #215

Death Becomes Her (1992) - April 18th 2023, #216

Stigmata (1999) - April 19th 2023, #217

Dead Silence (2007) - April 19th 2023, #218

Elevator (2012) - April 20th 2023, #219

Bad Hair (2020) - April 22nd 2023, #220

We Need to Do Something (2021) - 25th 2023, #221

Good Boy (2020) - April 25th 2023, #222

Pilgrim (2019) - April 27th 2023, #223

Piggy (2022) - April 28th 2023, #224

They Come Knocking (2019) - April 28th 2023, #225

Death Spa (1989) - April 30th 2023, #226

The Naked Witch (1961) - April 30th 2023, #227

I'm Just Fucking With You (2019) - May 2nd 2023, #228

Critters (1986) - May 3rd 2023, #229

Chopping Mall (1986) - May 5th 2023, #230

The Farm (2018) - May 12th 2023, #231

Motel Hell (1980) - May 12th 2023, #232

Jeepers Creepers (2001) - May 14th 2023, #233

Mother's Day (1980) - May 15th 2023, #234

Slaxx (2020) - May 15th 2023, #235

Slaughterhouse (1987) - May 16th 2023, #236

One Missed Call (2008) - May 19th 2023, #237

Mayhem (2017) - May 19th 2023, #238

Boar (2017) - May 19th 2023, #239

Pieces (1983) - May 22nd 2023, #240

Pandamonium (2020) - May 24th 2023, #241

All Cheerleaders Die (2014) - May 27th 2023, #242

Waxwork (1985) - May 28th 2023, #243

They Look Like People (2015) - May 28th 2023, #244

Class of Nuke'em High (1986) - May 28th 2023, #245

Fear PHarm (2020) - May 29th 2023, #246

The Stuff (1985) - June 1st 2023, #247

Planet Terror (2007) - June 2nd 2023, #248

Fear PHarm 2 (2021) - June 5th 2023, #249

Mom and Dad (2018) - June 8th 2023, #250

Renfield (2023) - June 11th 2023, #251

After Dark: The Task (2011) - June 12th 2023, #252

Terrifier (2016) - June 19th 2023, #253

It Follows (2015) - June 20th 2023, #254

Choose Or Die (2022) - June 20th 2023, #255

31 (2016) - June 21st 2023, #256

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) - June 22nd 2023, #257

Apollo 18 (2011) - June 22nd 2023, #258

Triangle (2009) - June 23rd 2023, #259

Sorority House Massacre (1986) - June 23rd 2023, #260

Braid (2018) - June 24th 2023, #261

Await Further Instructions (2018) - June 26th 2023, #262

Ghost Ship (2002) - July 9th 2023, #263

Annihilation (2018) - July 11th 2023, #264

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018) - July 13th 2023, #265

Scare BNB (2019) - July 19th 2023, #266

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) - July 20th 2023, #267

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989) - July 20th 2023, #268

The Bunnyman Massacre (2014) - July 26th 2023, #269

House (1977) - July 26th 2023, #270

Night of the Comet (1983) - August 3rd 2023, #271

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Evil Dead 2 (1987) - August 8th 2023, #273

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You’re Next (2011) - November 21st 2023, #282

Frogs (1972) - November 21st 2023, #283

Jennifer’s Body (2009) - January 8th 2024, #284

The Hunt (2020) - January 8th 2024, #285

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[ghostriderslade]

The 13 Nights of Krampus - Evening 6.

Krampus cosplayers wear animal skins and bells so that everyone is aware they are coming. Some wear chains to signify their connection to the Underworld.

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The Skyhawke archive master list is complete, and I'm now working on a list for Raffy's smut vault. I'm open to requests for the next list.

2024 February - Uploaded

AJLove Discoveries (Complete - 4 Chapters - NC-17) This tale follows Scorpius Malfoy on his path to enlightenment in regards to his father and a certain Gryffindor Muggleborn.

Allleila Count Your Blessings (Complete - 27 Chapters - R) Pansy wants to get even with Hermione for embarrassing her in front of Draco Malfoy. However, after her plan grows out of control, it is Hermione's sworn enemy who comes to the rescue. Nicest Thing (Complete - 17 Chapters - R) It was meant to be a one night stand but somehow it blossomed into much more. More than either of them was willing to accept.Post- Hogwarts Era. EWE

Ardeel Changing Fate (Abandoned - 25 Chapters - R) Hermione made up her mind. She closed her eyes and let the tears fall down her face. She knew if she went to Azkaban over this murder, at least Hogwarts would be safer for a little while longer. She grabbed her wand and silently crept out of her room toward Malfoy's.

cmcferreal One Eighty by Summer (Complete - 46 Chapters - R) Four years after the War, Hermione has a successful career and a violent ex-boyfriend. After a confrontation at the Ministry she also has something else: a magical bond that runs blood deep.

E.Caldwell Charm (Abandoned - 42 Chapters - R) What if there was a boy who didn't remember his father and it was up to you to find him? And what if his father wasn't who you expected? Hermione Granger's quest started with wanting to reconnect a father and a son, but how will it end?

Ifalna Predator and Prey (One Shot - NC-17) A dark moment of passion between Draco and Hermione. Warning: contains blade-play, blood sharing and D&S elements.

Jilly Dreamscapes (Complete - 8 Chapters - NC-17) Dreams link Draco and Hermione in a way that they never expected.

JKrazed Draco's Bitch (Complete - 31 Chapters - NC-17) When Draco passes a sleeping Hermione on a topless beach he wants to take her to his father but can't. When he runs into her at her hotel, he lies about nude photos he never took. Hiding Hermione (Complete - 25 Chapters - NC-17) Sequel to Draco's Bitch. Draco struggles between his parent's ideology and his love for a girl who will never fit into his world.

marione25 Through the Son (Abandoned - 41 Chapters - R) An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Hermione Granger will stop at nothing to slit the life out of Lucius Malfoy who has taken the lives of the ones she love the most. Her plan is futile but there is nothing she wouldn't do for a chance to take his life. And the only way to get closer towards the untouchable elitist is through the son.

Onyx_and_Elm Breath Mints / Battle Scars (Complete - 51 Chapters - NC-17) For a moment, she's almost giddy. Because Draco Malfoy's been ruined by this war and he's as out of place as she is and — yes, he has scars too. He's got an even bigger one. She wonders whether one day they'll compare sizes. Don't Look Back (Abandoned - 48 Chapters - NC-17) It’s the smell of it. Chemical. Bitter and sharp as a raw edge on metal. Just a hint of it as she passes him at breakfast — but enough to stop her dead, mid-step. There is Wolfsbane in his tea. Gruß vom Krampus (One Shot - R) Do not, under any circumstances, touch the gooseberry tarts. To Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (Complete - 3 Chapters - NC-17) “You can’t do it, can you?” And she hears, rather than sees him stop dead. The rough squeak of his shoes. She doesn’t turn to face him, even as she twists the knife. “You can’t conjure a Patronus.”

SaraC Caught In The Moment (One Shot - NC-17) Draco and Hermione get caught up in the moment, despite everything they've got going against them, and each other. The Agony of Ecstasy (One Shot - NC-17) Hermione must make a choice and it’s tearing her up inside. Love Lost, Love Found (One Shot - PG-13) Draco and Hermione reflect on lost love found Looking At You (Complete - 3 Chapters - PG-13) You can say a lot with a look, something Draco and Hermione are going to find out sooner rather than later Memorable Moments (Complete - 2 Chapters - NC-17) Stolen yet memorable moments are all Draco and Hermione have to survive on. Unexpected Reunion (Complete - 2 Chapters - R) Draco and Hermione meet again--in the most unexpected of circumstances

serpent_and_sage Seek and Find (Complete - 40 Chapters - NC-17) Granger constructed a predictable life for herself following the war. However, she realizes that within the constraints of control there is no room for want. In an uncharacteristic move, she flees her life in London to visit Neville, who works as a gardener at the Zabini Estate in Italy. The Estate, now a wellness retreat for elderly witches and wizards, is also the refuge of three of her Slytherin classmates that she has not seen since the war. This is a story of overcoming assumptions, judgmental garden gnomes, flowers, and the quest for contentment.

[johnthestitcher]

Christmas is over - ALREADY ???

Here it is only the day after Christmas and looking at things retail (Valentine candy boxes are out), it’s like it happened months ago. There are already cut trees out on the curb - did you take your tree down at the stroke of midnight? Hallmark and JoAnn's bring out their Christmas stuff in the summer (Christmas in July). I understand that if you are a crafter that you don't want to be making something on Christmas Eve - but retail has been throwing Christmas stuff at you for months - and Christmas is over in 24 hours? I do feel that our European friends have the right idea - Christmas takes at least a month to ‘do’!

December 5 - Krampus Night (He's a part of Christmas, too!)

December 6 - Feast of St Nicholas

December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception

December 12 - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 

December 13 - Feast of Santa Lucia

Hanukkah - floating dates

Winter Solstice - usually December 21st

January 6 - Feast of the Three Kings

There! From December 5 to January 6 - not over in 24-hours like here in the States.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, December 21

Xander: So, you doing anything special? Buffy: Tree. Nog. Roast beast. Just me and Mom and hopefully an excess of gifts. What are you doing for Christmas? Willow: Being Jewish. Remember, people? Not everybody worships Santa.

~~Amends~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Love's Last Gift (Buffy/Angel, PG) by badly_knitted

Out of Order (Spike, Dawn, PG-13) by VeroNyxK84

The Gray Zone (Wesley/Lilah, M) by NAOA

(It's a long way down the) Holiday Road (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by mcgnagallsarmy

Between the Shadow and the Soul (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Willow91

The Merry Month of Magnus Presents... Angel (Buffy/Spike, G) by Tessa and loveisntbrains

[Chaptered Fiction]

A Very Krampus Christmas, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Faith, E) by Alwaysandforevermylove

Agency Has It's Price, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Desicat

Ready for it?, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

A Darkened Night of the Soul, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17 by In Mortal

Surviving Together, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by ionlylikebadboys

Closer, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by all-choseny

Out of Africa, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by Passion4Spike

Destiny or Choices Made?, Chapter 35 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by charmed4lifekaren

Something Lost Something Found, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Safire

A Vampire and a Slayer Walk Into a Park, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by holetoledo

Marveling at a Range of Stars, Chapter 7 (Multiple crossings, FR15) by TheDivineDemon

A Very Summers Winter, Chapter 21 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by VeroNyxK84

You Kiss Me, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, R) by scratchmeout

The Plunge, Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Harlow Turner

[Images, Audio & Video]

Crochet:[Buffy tree topper] by GWhizKatlifa

Artwork:My current wip by pocketsizedann

Manip:endless list of favorite characters by lopeirce

Gifset: Passion by detectivedawnsummers

Gifset:2x03 "School Hard" by mycatismyfriend

Gifset:S1.4 Teacher's Pet by 51kas81

Gifset:FAITH LEHANE | 3.03 – Faith, Hope & Trick by charmedslayer

[Reviews & Recaps]

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Spike on some incel bs| Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x14 "Crush" | The Normies Group Reaction! by The Normies

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 7X05 REACTION | First Time Watching by EvilQK

Buffy The Vampire Slayer 5x13 - "Blood Ties" REACTION! by Big Time Knights Reacts

"I, Robot... You, Jane" | Buffy S01E08 Review | The Re-Watcher's Council #8 | LGRN by LGRN - Entertainment

Belonging: Angel 2x19 Reaction by Dakara

Podcast: Bears Wear Hats - Angel S05E10 - Soul Purpose by Pop Culture Role Call

Publication: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Only Christmas Episode Is One of the Show's Most Important via Collider

[Recs & In Search Of]

Sparrow's 2023 Fandom Round Up by sparrow2000

[Classic February Fangfest Fics] recced by February Fangfest

[Fandom Discussions]

[Pro-Riley ask] by sunnydaleslayer and forcebookish

[What social media content would characters make?] by aufredpratt

Hating Characters by multiple authors

Who should've died in the end? by multiple authors

[Would Spike have gotten a soul without Seeing Red?] by multiple authors

Willow-Oz-Tara by multiple authors

If Buffy hadn't... by multiple authors

[Buffy's decisions on Spike vs Demon!Anya] by multiple authors

Why Did Buffy Have to Keep Her Identity Secret? by multiple authors

Small Faith moment I adore by multiple authors

Buffy should have taught self defence classes out of the back of the Magic Shop by multiple authors

Is there any small moment of Buffy and Xander's friendship that you liked? by multiple authors

Wes and angel by multiple authors

I wish they did angelus in a better season by multiple authors

What relationship do you wish they explored? by multiple authors

Tara by multiple authors

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

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[clarktooncrossing]

Giraffe's Eye View: Christmas Specials Special (2023) | ADVENT INDEX

Chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose. Mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again. All the dogs in the neighborhood somehow learned to bark Jingle Bells in sync. Yet retail workers are still more annoyed with Mariah Carey. Snow is getting shoveled, tossed, and formed into sentient beings leading parades without permits. It makes for an excellent distraction as the Krampus abducts children for bad behavior. Fruitcake is exchanged only to find its permanent home in the garbage. Terrorists have hijacked the Holiday office party right before your boss can give you a Jelly of the Month Club membership as your bonus. And of course, the Turducken has returned to wreak its fiery vengeance upon an unsuspecting world! If all this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit, perhaps these following Holiday specials will!

Greetings people of today and robots of tomorrow! It is I, Santa Clark, your geeky giraffe friend with a deep love of Christmas! My obsession for the yuletide is rivaled only by Maleficent’s hatred for it, which is saying a lot considering she once teamed up with Mad Madam Mim to kidnap the literal Spirit of Christmas. Yes, that really happened. I know this due to my annual pilgrimage to the Island of Misfit Specials, home to obscure or nerdy festive media ranging from movies, TV episodes, and comics. It’s no easy journey. Constantly I find myself confronted by sinister snowmen, genocidal gingerbread men, and worst of all, crappy commercials. Getting stabbed in the foot by a candy-cane wielding cookie is one thing, but I swear I’ve seen that ad for Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium more times than I’ve seen Miracle on 34th Street! Sometimes at night I catch myself reciting that jingle. Wilbur’s White Elephant Gift Emporium: Where Christmas meets Convenience! Huh, maybe Maleficent had a point.

Nah, my deep-rooted appreciation for this time of year can weather even the most moronic marketing! It helps that most of the merry media I’ve seen have put me in the perfect Holiday mood! Examples include the time a Ninja Turtle found himself trapped in a truck full of stollen toys, a drunk department store Santa stumbling onto a wish-granting magic bag, Big Bird nearly becoming a popsicle, Gwenpool waking up in a world where Galactus took the place of jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas, a terrifying tree stump trying to slaughter some saps over a stupid ship war, and the year when Death gave the Little Match Girl the greatest gift of all. Needless to say, I thought I had seen it all. That is, until I took my friends on a trip to the Island, tasking them to find me new, strange, seasonal specials to review! Some of them were fair, finding me festive favorites as comforting as coco in front of the fireplace. Others were fiendish, wanting to feed off my misery like Gremlins after midnight. Regardless of how naughty or nice my companions were, I’ve compiled all of their suggestions into a makeshift advent calendar! So stay tuned everyday until Christmas to see how badly my buddies can shred what little sanity I have left.

DAY 1: Barbie in Nutcracker (Suggested by Molly)

DAY 2: Care Bears Nutcracker (Suggested by Your Clairy Godmother)

DAY 3: Equestria Girls Holiday Special + Holidays Unwrapped (Suggested by @foxhatart)

DAY 4: The Flash: Running to Stand Still + Justice League: Comfort and Joy (Suggested by Zephron)

DAY 5: A Christmas Special: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (Suggested by xXFluffyPachirusuXx)

DAY 6: Klaus (Suggested by Void-Android)

DAY 7: Sakura’s Wonderful Christmas + Komi: It’s Just a Merry Christmas (Suggested by Alice2Rose)

DAY 8: Christmas with the Kranks + Tokyo Godfathers (Suggested by @burningthrucelluloid)

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To tide you over until then, Santa Clark's gonna regift some older reviews from years back during #ThrowbackThursday, so be on the lookout for those as well. Until then, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!