#christmas is my favorite holiday

[lavenderfairiez]

should I write a valgrace fic where it's Jason's first time celebrating Christmas bc he's spent his whole life at camp and Leo is trying to give him all the classic like Hallmark Christmas experiences?

[ranminfan]

This is my first Christmas where I'm genuinely unhappy.

I've never been so mentally and emotionally tired in my life, and I'm sure, and afraid, its going to get worst. Somethings been going on between my parents which I'm sure will affect me eventually. Things at school are stressing and draining me. My thoughts are everywhere and are all thinking of the worst for what's to come in my life in the future. I feel so unaccomplished now that the year's coming to an end, and I really... really don't know what to think at this point.

The only thing I can do is just try. I'm doing my best and sometimes I forget worrying. I'm keeping my heads up but there are days where I'm just down, so down, and I let all the emotions out. I keep doing what I love, which is art, and hope for the best.

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I've never vented here, but I guess I now know why some people do. Its relieving, getting all the emotions out especially when I have no one to talk to.

I wish everyone a Happy Holiday, and the best for the coming year.

[enignoema-a]

Idc I'm doing Christmas stuff now

Send me 🎁 to get a Christmas present from Eddie ❤️

[sparkyrat1]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Just kidding, Happy Thanksgiving yall

[hitwiththetmnt]

Master Leonardo has some tricks to show Casey for his first Christmas

[has-the-gavle-goat-burned-yet]

2023 Gävle Goat!

Well it’s getting to that time of year again, and our watch of the Gävle Goat approaches.

Our thirteen-meter tall straw friend will be inaugurated on December 3rd, and will stand for the holiday season (or until it burns).

Watch the live stream of the goat here!

Looking forward to another burn watch this year!

[sukiiwake]

Did another silly scene redraw🫶🏼

Full photo here because some of poppy’s pretty pink princess hair got cropped

[little-pup-pip]

Christmas with Bluey!!

[emry-stars-art]

Happy holidays ya filthy animals, see you in 2023

[navybrat817]

Hubby not only got me the one thing I asked for, the sweatshirt, he gifted me with a soft blanket and sequin pillow. 😂 That's love. ❤️

I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Sending all the love. ❤️

[minamoreh]

they do try to be festive

[goryhorroor]

christmas horror + title cards

[chamoemileclown]

Merry Geggmas to all those who celebrate!!!

[semiproeagle]

Netflix robbed us of a Julie and the Phantoms Christmas album, tbh

[artist-issues]

Hello, yes, it’s Halloween Week and I’d like to say one more time, here, because nobody wants to hear it elsewhere:

The death and darkness is part of the Story the Year Tells, and ignoring it is bad, but so is treating it like a good thing.

The only thing good about monsters, evil, death, and darkness, is that it all ends. But if we skip to “it’s gone,” then we miss the use we have in remembering it.

If you take the shark out of Jaws there’s no emotional climax when the main character says “I used to be afraid of the water.” If Scar doesn’t rule the Pridelands for a while, nobody cares that Simba’s coming back. If Sauron’s blanket of darkness hadn’t spread so far over Middle-Earth— if Gollum as a nasty grotesque character hadn’t existed because he’s “too scary” and “too dark”—or even if we’d seen less of him—then it wouldn’t mean as much when the good guys win. You wouldn’t care as much when Frodo is tempted by the Ring, because you’ve never seen how bad that can get, because you never got to see and dwell on Gollum, for a minute.

Halloween is the Gollum of The Story the Year Tells.

The spirit of it, the part where we remind ourselves darkness and monsters exist, but we don’t live in an UNHEALTHY obsession with them, has always been that.

The World goes “let’s make evil and monsters celebratory and awesome.” If the church goes “no we shouldn’t celebrate evil and monsters, we should totally ignore them instead!” then who is putting monsters and evil in their proper place?

Who is saying, “evil exists, monsters are real, we were once dead, we were once walking in darkness, we were once monsters, that’s why it’s SO AWESOME that we’re a new creation in Christ?”

Nobody. The world gets to go “there’s no such thing as evil, evil is actually a cooler version of good! Witches are neat, werewolves are awesome, and vampires are sexy!” And Christians get to go, “no there’s no such thing as evil, Christians don’t think about evil, the just think about pumpkins and hay bales.” But actually all you’re united in is ignoring evil.

God uses death as His do-boy. He uses dead imagery to describe parts of the salvation story. He allows decay and rot and skeletons and warping to happen, on some level, because He fixes it. And in the fixing, it shows off His character. If you pretend the darkness isn’t real or isn’t relevant, then the darkness doesn’t go away. It just gets to decide how it’s perceived. If there’s a werewolf in the room with you and you go, “I don’t do werewolves,” and turn your back guess what, it’s just going to eat you from behind.

Do what the ancient people did. Tell stories about the monsters as a cautionary tale, and describe how to get rid of them, because as dangerous as they are, ha ha, they don’t get to win.

We’re supposed to take the way the world has warped good instincts and un-warp them, not pretend they don’t exist.

So what I’m saying is, carve jack-o-lantern faces with your kids and talk about how the light shines through the dead thing. Dress them up as goblins and werewolves and then don’t let them have any candy until after they’ve taken the costumes off, and go, “see, you were once dead in your trespasses and sins, but now, in Christ, you are a new creation!” And then give em the candy. Write stories about monsters that get cured when they don’t deserve it, or monsters that are unstoppable by anything except pure sacrifice.

But don’t write out the monsters, that’s not your job.

Happy Halloween.

[silvergreenseraphim]

I love the Shinra file photo of Sephiroth that Tseng opens in “The Last Order” so much.

Sephiroth looks so morose and sad here. He was never happy in Shinra. Only did he find refuge when with Genesis and Angeal.

I always feel such strong emotions during this scene. The way it cuts from this photo to Nibelheim burning and the great “hero” cutting everyone down. 😓