#The Why of Christmas

[momentsbeforemass]

The “why” of Christmas

(by request)

A few years ago, I ended up in a conversation at the church door. About this line from my Christmas morning homily, “…Christmas brings us face to face with the God who truly is with us. In every possible way.” It went something like this,

“When you said ‘the God who truly is with us. In every possible way,’ you meant that Jesus was a real human being, right?”

“Right. Fully human. And fully divine.”

“Oh, okay.”

“And truly with us. In every possible way.”

“You mean actually born into the world? Not just a story?”

“Right. Not once upon a time, but an actual, historical event. And truly with us. In every possible way.”

“You keep saying ‘in every possible way.’ What’s that about?”

“It means that everything flows from Christmas, from the Incarnation. All the way to Good Friday.

Jesus didn’t spend the Incarnation looking at us, with all of our flaws and problems, and going “Ew, gross.” He doesn’t just love us when we get it right.

The reason Jesus became one of us is unconditional love. He’s with us, completely on our side. No matter what we’ve done. Or how far we’ve strayed.

It’s the “why” of Christmas.”

Today’s Readings

[hakogyi]

[reinbouxsworld]

Silly doodles of silly skeleton boy 💀🤲

[kensatou]

j… jesus oppa ;____;

[oddarette]

Gingerbread manatee ✨

[north-noire]

merry christmas eve from the afton family! 🎄

realized I've never drawn my afton family altogether that much (to be fair my au fic already starts at Evan being dead lmao), so I wanted to change that! sorry that the quality isn't top notch like the rest of my pieces, i just lined and colored this on my phone with my thumb LMAO.

inspired/reference;

[smoonship]

I'm sure they have the best Christmas tree in the whole underground!!

[plutonicbees]

imagine ur tim drake, it's the anniversary of ur mother's funeral, christmas eve, and you're absolutely shitting ur pants bc you let your teammate feed you the crabcakes they made

you're absolutely going through it, and then u find out that doomsday (not the villain) is coming in the form of a meteor. u try to call batman and he's off planet. u call up nightwing's team and they're dealing with their own battle. there's nobody to help so you and your team go to fuckin,, fight an evil meteor. one of your friends is writing a will. you're all ready to die (you're ready to reunite with your mother).

and then fucking santa comes and waves hi and your team tries to tell him to watch out and then the evil meteor crashes into his sleigh and fucking explodes him and the reindeers in a glorious gory death

man. what are you doing next christmas eve.

[kawareo]

How long do you think it took Ketheric to figure out he was a third wheel?

aka peepaw not properly warned of what immortality was going to look like

(click for better quality)

[courfee]

christmas season at the wolfstar flat

[elitisim]

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, DAY 3: 3 FRENCH HORNS BRAIDS

“well ackshually, Elliott, these aren’t french braids ☝🤓. They're box braids.”

They’re french curl box braids and that’s got “french” and “braid” in the title and that’s good enough for me, so it damn well better be good enough for you. Day 3 of [ELITISIM'S 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS ADVENT EXTRAVAGANZA!] is @daylifesims Janey Braid Set, one hair, styled 3 different ways for maximum versatility!

Information:

None of this is my original work! All mesh and texture credit goes to the original creator @daylifesims!

Set contains 3 Hairs for Teen ➤ Elder Females

Same polycount for each - 25.8k polys

1024px Textures

Located under Hats

It has a cute lil clawclip in the back, you can see it better in the 360 pics under the cut.

Has 3 versions: V1 (both sides of the hair in front) - V2 (one side of the hair in front, one side down the back) - V3 ( hair down the back)

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[DOWNLOAD UNMERGED]

[PICK AND CHOOSE]

Tagging list: @pis3update, @naturalhair-sims3, @xto3conversionsfinds, @kpccfinds

[Janey - V1 Download]

[Janey - V2 Download]

[Janey - V3 Download]

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[valessacat]

So here's the thing about Johnny Silverhand.

If he were a romance option, it wouldn't even be close; he'd be the most popular option. Ao3 backs this up. But the game doesn't let us choose him.

The four options the game gives us are fine as far as romance goes--they lack the depth of old-school Bioware and Larian. Panam, Judy, and Kerry are beautifully written, wonderfully messy characters. Oh yeah, then there's River (no seriously, CDPR did him dirty). But once you play through their stories, you're kinda done with them. Sure, you get some random texts, a handful of repeatable dialog, a repeatable date--but that's such a tiny sliver of your game time.

Johnny's with you for most of the game. Over the course of many hours, you get to see him warm up to V (a stand-in for you, the player), playfully trade barbs with them, and then solemly swear to off himself in order to save their/your pathetic ass.

If you think about it for more than two seconds, V has this near-psychotic level of intimacy with Johnny. The "guy in my head" trope makes a lot of narrative sense, especially in video games. It's a more interesting story when the main character has someone to talk to, rather than internal monolog or muttering to themselves. But if you overthink the trope to a concerning degree, as I have--you understand that Johnny is forced to quietly look away while V is taking a shit, showering, flicking the bean, getting random boners, violently puking blood, etc. This is way more intimacy than I have with my husband of 15 years. We close the door when we use the bathroom.

They're sharing dreams, seeing each other's memories. They pick up each other's habits. V can play the guitar. Johnny's less of an asshole and learns how to let go. They're changing each other for the better.

All the other romances in CP77 feel so damn shallow next to Johnny and V. That's not the fault of the romancable characters. It's that they've been through some very fucked-up shit together, and I don't know how you don't trauma-bond over all that. V and Johnny are the only two souls on earth who know what it's like to be an engram on a chip inside a corpse's head.

Their story is so beautiful, tragic, and fucked-up that I don't want it to end.

And I really wanna fuck that rockerboy.

[norriszn]

more pics of lando (monster energy can) in the store via keyurpatel14* on ig

*not sure if he's a knaphill news store employee but he was there when ash took those pics for the lnfour acc <3 and also provided content to norris fan pages on ig so idk THANK YOU KEYUR !

[wizardhex]

From "I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles", Walter Wick

[ihatebrainstorm]

small collection of sketchy doodlydodads from @bloominglegumes 's Jazz n Powl humanformers au bc they live in my head rent free all day everyday ;v;;