#Advent23

[haunting-heroes-creative-games]

❄️ Haunting Heroes DPxDC Winter Advent 2023: The AO3 Collection ❄️

As we near the end of our first week of the Winter Advent 2023 event (a DPxDC prompt-based event open for all types of creators), we'd also like to remind you we have an AO3 Collection, where more amazing stories can be found.

You can find the collection here:

For the full list of prompts and dates, you can check out the calendar for the event here.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: you can communicate a lot of winter vibes with a cold palette of whites and greys, with maybe a splash of red for an accent. The green you can take or leave. @Nitron drew this #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[halfagone]

DPxDC Winter Advent 2023 - Day 10

@haunting-heroes-creative-games

Rated: Gen

Summary:

Alfred finds his grandson awake later than he ought to be. Danny has a sweet reason why.

I swear I'll go to bed now lol

[unwashedmass]

This year for December I participated in an MS-DOS based ANSI art Advent calendar project with my vintage computer art colleagues in and around the Mistigris computer arts collective at @mistfunk . I clumsily drew two screens for its 25-day run, one of which comes up today: a rendition of the homocidal "Robot Santa Claus", who terrifies holiday celebrants in Matt Groening's Futurama. Like any good Advent calendar, the program is calibrated only to show the contents of the current and previous dates, so you can't see tomorrow's art without a little low-grade hacking. If you're curious but lack access to an MS-DOS machine of your own to run the program on (have you checked the attic?) you can access the program through your web browser courtesy of an embedded DOSbox emulation via http://andyh.org/advent23/ or https://16colo.rs/pack/advent23/ADVENT.EXE

(And of course if you'd be interested in participating in future such exercises in creative retrocomputing, I'd be only to happy to hook you up!)

[tomwe]

"Away!" Day 23: Santa’s sleigh #adventcalendar #playmobil

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @littlebitspace drew this wickedly grim #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[halfagone]

DPxDC Winter Advent 2023 - Day 9

@haunting-heroes-creative-games

Rated: Gen

Summary:

Although Martha lost her unborn baby, that doesn't stop her from being a mother. Nor does it stop her from showing kindness to strangers. She is surprised to see how one stranger shows his appreciation.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @thegreenherring drew this #ANSIart scene of #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer's big moment for this date on last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: with aid of a microscope, @littlebitspace conducted some #blockASCII research investigating just why snowflakes are so cold in this screen from today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. His report back: be very glad they are not warm.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @littlebitspace drew this cozy-but-not-relaxing #monochrome #blockASCII screen of an indoor view through a crowded window on a snowy day for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. The house rule is: don't rub the cat's tummy.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen of a trio of skeletons navigating the darkest time of year together was drawn by @littlebitspace in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @Codefenix drew this cozy #ANSIart scene for today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. If you like it, you can see more such ANSI screens from this year's ADVENT24 at his Constructive Chaos BBS via conchaos.synchro.net

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: @TheGreenHerring drew this totally lagomorphic wintery #ANSIart scene for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

[halfagone]

DPxDC Winter Advent 2023 - Day 11

@haunting-heroes-creative-games

Rated: Gen

Summary:

"Some things are meant to be..." It's the day of her wedding, and Jazz has never felt so in love.

Excerpt:

Jazz felt like she was on cloud nine. She felt like she was high on helium and if it weren't for her weighted gown she might just float away and never come back down.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: just to remind, we just dropped ADVENT23, an #MSDOS program (here's a taste of its source code!) by Andy "Moebius" Herbert acting as an #ANSIart #AdventCalendar: every day (up to Dec 25) it unlocks a new 25-line ANSI screen for your viewing pleasure, viewable -- supposing your 486 hasn't POSTed since Y2K -- through a web browser via https://16colo.rs/pack/advent23/ADVENT.EXE or http://andyh.org/advent23/

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, @littlebitspace drew a magnificent and chilling #blockASCII portrait of the late Jolly Old St. Nick, apparently reduced to nowt but bones and beard following his magical night's impossible exertions.