#The Christmas Trip

[ritusmiles]

Book and a Brew with Ritu - A Holiday Romance In Ferry Lane Market by @nicolamay1 #NewRelease #BookReview

An extra special guest! How exciting! Today, I am hosting the wonderfully talented Nicola May, an author who has shown how youcan make it successfully as a self-published one! Hello, and welcome to But I Smile Anyway, Nicola! Now, the first thing we do is get thedrinks sorted. How lovely to be invited, thank you. Before I get all flustered and fangirly, let me get you a drink. What I your…

[ghostiidasponk]

Nightmare before christmas costume for my sona :DD

Im rlly proud of the heels lmao and also the twst chibi sprite i made that by hand sdijvbwrijvbrwoiwrvnw

Concept sketches ^

[bebs-art-gallery]

Foggy Winter

— by James O’Brien (Vadim Ignatiev)

[sourapplesauces]

the question is:

[drawthethingdoppelganger]

Oh what's this? Me actually posting a holidays fanart on time? Either witchcraft or a Christmas miracle, there's no middleground

But yeah, have a couple of doodles to appreciate the most annoying muppet woman who's just soooooo incredibly normal about Christmas ❤

[toxictoxicities]

I'm not too bad financially but I thought this would be a good way to get some passive income while also making some more content during exams

Support me here <3 , It'll be under the Iterator tier

[304wv66]

friendship ENDED with tarnished, now calico critters are her best friends

(listen... they hang out on my desk together... you must understand my vision.)

[sesamenom]

the man in the moon went on too many sidequests

hilarious how the Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late / Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon implies that tilion once wandered off, got drunk, and after being dragged back he fell out of the Moon and got stuck in a fishing net

[ruthbaderjaneway]

One of my favorite scenes in Star Trek Enterprise's "Regeneration."

[ritusmiles]

Book and a Brew with Ritu - The Nosey Parker Series by Fiona Leitch #AuthorChat #BookReview

Another return guest! How exciting! Today, I am hosting the lovely Fiona Leitch, whose books I have wanted to read for a while,but as you all know, my TBR is a teetering pile! Still, I went off and prioritised a certain seriesin September… Hello, and welcome to But I Smile Anyway, Fiona! Now, the first thing we do is get thedrinks sorted. I have all the hot drinks available. Let me know what…

[overchromatic]

quick sketch of Kieran in an outfit i own irl

[salmonpiffy]

Merry Christmas, Grumbles <3

[jouyato]

wow the fic i like just ended here's some art of these two being happy and spending christmas together because wow the ending was so sweet and wholesome!!!

pls read stalker au!burda (И пусть никто не уйдет обиженным) on ao3🙏🙏🙏🙏

update:

author approved delusions yippeeee u heard it here first folks no one dies 🥴🤝🥴🤝🥴

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

[egberts]

our first Christmas tree!! we got it set up a little late because money has been tight and we were waiting for sales... the sale stuff kinda went off tho 😳 I'm so proud of it, it's like art to me. oh and the cookie boxes I made, those were also a lot of work 🤣 anyway merry christmas!! this year has been nuts for us but we are trying to end on a high note with some holiday spirit. and then alana's mom went and brought over a mountain of presents to go with the tree 😭