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you are pitting Jesus and Santa Claus against each other. I am acknowledging Santa as both a mythic symbol of Christ and a cultural legend based upon a real man whose faithfulness to Christ was used by God to grant common grace not just to the people of Myra but throughout the entire world. we are not the same.
#I know anti-Santa people who are not smug but the anti-Santa influencers are getting smugger and smugger each year#my generation was not raised to cope with loss of childhood#pro-tip: it comes back when you have your own children#I know because I get a taste of it whenever I visit my friends’ kids#mobile#x#Christmas#Christianity#history#mythology#let kids believe in magic again#you know what believing in magic did for me? trained my heart to recognize the wondrous when I see it#trained me to accept that I don’t and can’t know everything#trained me to live by the faith of adherence when i cannot enjoy the faith of assurance (Matthew Henry)#I was the only person in any of my friend groups who ever believed in Santa#and you know why I didn’t feel betrayed to find out I’d misplaced my belief? because Santa is real.#someone moves even terrible parents to give good gifts to their children on the same holy day every year#someone moves the imagination to ensure that the darkest week of the year will produce the most ethereal lights#someone moves the ancient and forgotten back into our conscious present minds#and if you’re wondering whether I’m talking about Jesus or Santa that’s a GOOD thing!#that’s the whole point!#the Santa mythos *impacts* people all over the world. and that is an act of Providence whether you believe in God or not
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Oh good god NO….
It’s happening again!
*Monument Mythos flashbacks intensify*
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#christmas tree#tree#trees#rockefeller center#john d rockefeller#my poor attempt at a joke#news#massachusetts#new york#nyc#new york city#mister manticore#manticore#analog horror#monument mythos#special tree#oh no#not again#it’s happening again#if you know you know
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Photos from my trip to New York featuring my OC’s
Central Park: it feels colder than it looks
Random hippo statue
Carousel: Josie and Adar are running from the cops
Lego store: Emily is vibing
FAO Schwartz: I used to love these toys. Viney is trying to get Linda to angle the camera correctly
Nintendo store
Bryant park: Christmas season
Carlos bakery
Largest candy store: their both impressed
#drawing#my art#oc#art#original character#artwork#artists on tumblr#illustration#oc art#digital art#Mytho me#artists#art process#new york#new your city#new york city#nyc#calico critters#candy#central park#park#christmas#carousel#bakery aesthetic#pastries#pastry#trip#ocs#my ocs#nintendo
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Ok. Real question. How many people Actually have believed in Santa? Bc I never did, mostly bc my dad never bothered with the entire pretense, so the whole concept is just. Really fucking strange to me
Putting an actual poll bc I feel like I'm losing my mind a bit thinking about how apparently widespread it is. Like. It's just so... weird? Why is this the thing people have popularized? It makes no sense.
#speculation nation#polls#like ok my dad's an atheist raised by jewish parents so xmas has never really been a religious sort of holiday to me#we celebrate it bc it's fun to give gifts and spend time with family#but that's... it.#all the lore and mythos of xmas is just so weird to me#like baby jesus etc etc but now here comes saint nicholas with the steel chair! (breaking into your house to eat your cookies#and leave presents Only for the rich kids! why only the rich ones? uhmmm Dont worry about it!)#genuinely speaking my dad's worked at ups my whole life so growing up he'd say he (and the rest of his coworkers) were the real santas#said as a joke mostly bc theyre the ones Actually delivering the packages#but i took it to heart. told people at school that my dad was the Real santa.#no one believed me lol which i found quite frustrating.#but yeah i have never once in my entire life believed in Santa#and im content with that. it seems like such a stupid thing i will be honest.#'what about the magic of christmas' what about the poor kids who dont get gifts & feel abandoned by this all-powerful man?#in fact why do we Want kids to not think it's their parents giving gifts? they cant thank the right people if we trick them.#it's a convoluted setup that makes absolutely 0 sense to me#trust me christmas had more than enough 'magic' for me as a kid just bc of all the cool lights and all the free gifts#dont need some mythological man who can travel the globe in one night and is a professional in B&E#makes no sense for Real.#there was a time with my ex step siblings where me n my sister were told not to spoil the fun for them#so i had to pretend like santa existed as they opened presents marked from him#and even back then i was just thinking 'this is So Dumb'#this is an anti santa zone i guess. me and myself hate the popularized version of this strange strange belief system.
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No (New) Cosmic Horror Gift Guide This Year
#christmas#cosmic horror#cthulhu#games#gifts#h.p. lovecraft#miskatonic university#music#mythos books#new weird#rpg
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This was for a Secret Santa. Sadly can't remember who ran it or who this was for. (Their account is gone.)
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It's be-gein-ing to look a lot like Christmas~ That's right folks, it's that time of the year again! With Christmas right around the corner, we're going to be decking our halls with holiday deals and yuletide discounts that would make ol' Saint Nick himself blush! And speaking of "making ol' Saint Nick",
#CHRISTMAS!#JUST A WEEK AWAY!#GEIN TINSEL!#GEIN REINDEER!#GEIN SANTA!#GEIN SNOW!#gein....grinch....?#mister manticore#monument mythos
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my dad just now found out about elf on the shelf and he's asking why it hasn't been made illegal
#their running philosophy for us growing up was like#we do christmas gifts and a tree and fun plastic egg hunting on easter or whatever so we're not left out#but there was absolutely no mythos no santa no tooth fairy no easter bunny no nothing#bc they thought it was weird and psychologically damaging
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#crochet#amigurumi#small business#spooky season#strange and unusual#Christmas Cthulhu#cthulhu mythos#cthuhlu#plushie collection#handmade plushie#handmade plush
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Winter is a time of darkening nights, colder days and gloomy skies. Despite the weather, there are still plenty of folkloric figures out and about. Though some bring cheer and gifts to brighten up the winter, others are there to make it worst – bringing threats of coal, kidnapping and even bodily harm to make sure that people are behaving themselves over the winter period.
Grýla
The Icelandic giantess Grýla lives in a cave in the mountains with her lazy husband, Leppalúði. Predating Christmas, she is said to come down from the mountains during midwinter and Yule to snatch up disobedient children. She carries them home in her sack, killing them and cooking them up for dinner.
For a malicious harbinger of winter, Grýla is an unusually social creature. In addition to her husband, she has thirteen sons, each happy to cause mischief and – in modern interpretations – leave treats out for children. On different days during December, households are visited by a different son – each named for the type of mischief he causes, whether that’s stealing milk, harassing sheep or stealing food.
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#Mythos#Mythos Articles#Myths and Legends#Winter#Christmas#Folklore#Gyrla#Yule Lads#Yule Cat#Winter Legends#Father Christmas#Ded Moroz#Krampus#La Befana
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Trying to sing Cassilda's Song without actually knowing the melody is proving quite difficult...
#at one point i stole a melody from the bifrost incident#and then i stole from a christmas carol#amari's arbitrary articulations#the king in yellow#robert w chambers#cthulhu mythos
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Oh god no.
It’s happening again.
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#rockefeller center#new york city#christmas tree#my poor attempt at a joke#mister manticore#monument mythos#analog horror#virginia arnoldson#news#here we go again#hold onto your butts#it’s happening again
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Violent Night was a genuinely heartfelt and feel good Christmas movie about believing in magic that took itself seriously the entire length.
#Violent night#David harbour#Finally some good fucking cinema#Christmas Movies#Home alone#Diehard#It referenced so many movies while making its own mythos interesting
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A very Special Tree
Ever since I introduced my sister to The Monument Mythos we agreed to have the new Christmas tradition of watching ROCKEFELLER TREE TRAGEDY together Merry Christmas
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The 10th Annual 2023 Cosmic Horror Holiday Gift Guide
Greetings, fellow seekers of the arcane, the anomalous, and peculiar; we stand at the threshold of a festive season of celebration, congregation, and camaraderie. But to get there, we must pass through this most ominous of occasions, the bleakest of breaks. Once more, we are ensnared in a carnival of capitalist debauchery. I speak, of course, of Black Friday—the darkest of Western observances.…
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#christmas#cosmic horror#cthulhu#games#gifts#h.p. lovecraft#miskatonic university#music#mythos books#new weird#rpg
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Little Things
It’s always a good idea to keep an eye on the little things in your plan. That way they’re less likely to add up and push things off the rails. Having said that, you really shouldn’t turn your back on Bert like that, Peaseblossom.
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