#gifting advice

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hey did they Valentine's day gifts come with letters? Do you know what they are?

While Twst did announce what the 2025 Valentine Gifts are, please note that they don’t finish production + get shipped out until late spring or (more likely) mid to late summer 2025. In fact, preorders for the 2025 Valentine Gifts are still open until the 9th of March.

And yes, there are always new messages for each character every year. However, as I said earlier, the messages aren’t available right now. If you’d like to read the messages from previous years, I’ll link them below for your reference:

2021

2022

2023

2024

I’ll keep my eyes and ears peeled to make a 2025 Valentine Gifts message compilation too ^^ but again, those honestly won’t be out for at least a few months. Please be patient!

[lurukifennecfox]

i want a ghost courting fanfic Dead on Main

i want it to be intentional from Danny's side and Red Hood/Jason to be confused™

i want it to be where Danny moved to gotham for reasons (it's pre reveal for danny or reveal gone right) and he's met that really cute guy and ohmygod what does he do?? Ember, Kitty, Johny, Skulker? how do you court someone? what should he do???

so Danny gets Ghost Courting advice and oh.. the cute dead guy is the freaking Red Hood who Danny may or may not have had a crush on even before meeting in civvies ok that's fine he'll just proceed with the plan a leave a gift in his haunt with a little hint as to who that might be from as is only proper (thanks for advice Ember!)

[mimorobo]

First of all, could I give Sans a kiss on the cheek? And second, I don't know if you've been asked this before, but how long does it take you to do the animations and how did you learn to do them?

*Illuminati sfx* uh... You probably can't, I dunno...

As for the question, the time really varies. This for instance took just under 20 minutes to make, but I can sometimes even spend 3-4 hours working on a longer/harder scene. It mostly depends on how many characters I have in them and what they're doing... And how many times they fall over...

And I learnt this as a hobby AGES ago!! I was... Like, 6? Can't remember really, but I found out about it through LEGO stop motion and started making my own inspired by it! First it was me trying to recreate the first HTTYD film with my sibling, then I got into LEGO Minecraft and started animating those Hypixel games? (Like bed wars, sky wars, all that...) I got the LEGO animation book and never felt happier!! Read and used it like it was ancient knowledge... (Didn't understand most of it I don't think XD) And basically yeah, I kept making stuff, little films, unfinished ones, complete series, and I got better every time, not saying they were GOOD but... It helped me get to where I am now so... Yeah. Also super nostalgic when I rewatch them!! And cringe... XD

[thatsbelievable]

[zivazivc]

I've been slowly tweaking these designs for a couple of weeks now, and now I can finally introduce the Uncles, the colorful group of friends/roommates who raised Hed and Les (word "raised" used loosely, but they definitely shared the living space with them).

From left to right: Kymani, Bramble, Adewale, Benji, Jenga, and Licorice "Ish" with his boys. Let's say Hed and Les are 15 and 19 here, maybe a year older, which means the rest are only in their mid 30s.

[blusandbirds]

derek and peter hale - the borders

"all for power." "for my family's power to be rightfully inherited by me."

[aennasan]

Soap forgetting to buy you a Christmas present and so during opening the presents, he asked you to close your eyes and wait for his "gift".

Turns out his gift was just him wearing nothing but a red bow.

The surprise would have worked if you didn't laugh and asked him again, "Seriously, Soap, where is my gift?". After all, you went to a lot of trouble finding his.

Let's just say someone slept on the couch throughout the night. Bothering 141 through a video call on how to make it up to you before you wake up.

[uncanny-tranny]

If somebody in your life offers to knit or crochet or, really, create anything for you, please be an active participant in the creation of the piece they are making. I adore making and gifting things, but nothing bums me out quicker than a person who passively just goes "okay," to my ideas about what I'm making them - it can send the message that they won't like it, or that they don't care, even if they're happy about my offering. The back-and-forth feedback is a great way to make sure that you are being gifted something that was truly worth the time, effort, expertise, and money that will inevitably go into the gift!

I know it's really hard to be an active participant, believe me, I'm an anxious ball of horror, but it will only do good for both parties to interact in this situation. It is a big deal to be offered a hand-crafted gift, but it's also something we want you to love and use, and that can only happen if you tell us what would make you fall in love with what we create.

[sportsys]

I forgot I could post these now! Theyre sooo..., [roblox Guh sound as i fall apart into pieces]

Refs for the Dee designs under the cut ^_^

[bluerose5]

Lucanis could make the biggest comeback ever by gifting Davrin a Dalish inspired hunting knife. Go for it, you short, funky Antivan man. 👏

[strawboxyut]

Aurora sans gif(t)!!! My first time trying to animate flowing clothes half decent!! (I’m actually quite proud)

Happy birthday @aurora-starlight-silly ! Here’s your very late birthday gift :) aurora is very silly and aesthetic

So this took me a while :) this is my longest animation project so far that I’ve actually finished (aka a few days), can’t wait til I get to the point where projects take months 😭

[zaharacrossing]

Two new things I just learned in ACNH:

1) Using wrapping paper to re-gift an item back to the original villager who gave it to you prevents their "doesn't this look familiar?" dialogue.

2) TVs predict the weather for the next day if you wanted to know if it'll rain, snow, etc.

[mediocretosubpar-soup]

So picture this. Yue Qingyuan crushing on someone. He fucked up his most important intrapersonal relationship. Who will see him floundering and helpfully offer advice ? Who's got the ego/the balls/ the audacity?

Luo Binghe.

(the sticking point for him is that Yue Qingyuan's success will mean he won't pine after Shen Qingqiu and for that Luo Binghe will do a lot of things)

"Sect leader Yue, look pathetic! Men love their partners being pathetic!"

Yue Qingyuan flashes through numerous of Luo Binghe's pathetic acts from 14 years old up to now.

Luo Binghe,taking his pondering for doubt: Look, I, too doubted Shang Qinghua's wisdom but just look at him!

Their gazes travel across the peaks to Shang Qinghua's leisure house, where he sits on the porch auditioning the peaks while Mobei-jun peels melon seeds for him. Mobei-jun is pathetically inept at this task, his big claws clumsily fumbling with the melon seeds. Everytime he does manage to peel a seed, Shang Qinghua looks up and beams at him lovingly.

Yue Qingyuan turns away before Mobei-jun attempts to cutely handfeed Shang-shidi. There are some things, he's happy to remain ignorant of, his sect siblings' happy marital lives included.

Luo BInghe looks up at him. His eyes are kind of big, his cheeks are puffed up, his lips are weirdly pink. Are that....sparkles?! Yue Qingyuan steps into Luo Binghe's space and grabs him by the lapels when he tries to escape.

"Sparkly fireworks curse." He mutters and throws Luo BInghe over his shoulder, so he can take him to Mu Qingfang without losing precious time.

Half an hour later, he has to woodenly apologize to Luo BInghe as he sobs into Shen Qingqiu's chest.

"There, there. Binghe, Yue-shixiong didn't mean anything bad, he didn't know that your eyes just do that sometime. He actually thought that you were in grave danger." Shen Qingqiu pats the Supreme Emperor of the Demon Realm's head a few more times. Luo Binghe turns his head up. "Really?"

Yue Qingyuan stares at this brazen and shameless display, Shen Qingqiu's blushing, a loving glimmer in his eyes.

Luo Binghe's eyes catch his, see they seem to say, see how it's done.

Yue Qingyuan sees and takes notes.

[thatsbelievable]

[dungeonmalcontent]

If you ever feel like maybe it's a little embarrassing to do voices in d&d, like maybe you won't do it good enough or people will think you're weird, you will never be more embarrassed than my college rhetoric TA. This girl was maybe 23, tops, pale white girl with red hair, stood out in the room like a sore thumb. She was smart, don't get me wrong. Had the course material memorized (probably better than the professor, honestly). But the first time we went through the "lineage" of Greek philosophers and got to Cicero she busts out with the best Cicero (TeS) impersonation I've ever heard in the middle of the class. Not much, just a "what?! Cicero?!" Like someone was accusing her.

No one expected it. The Prof looked bewildered. She mumbled her explanation about how she and her bf had been playing a lot of Skyrim lately.

Anyway. Tl;Dr. You will never be more embarrassed than Cicero, my rhetoric TA.

[bedbat]

Sanji one piece fans. If you get these as gifts are you hyped? Yay or nay? (Please say yes please please please)