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Experiencing a Traditional Smoky Mountain Christmas
As the chill of December blankets the Smoky Mountains, the region transforms into a winter wonderland, making it the perfect backdrop for a traditional Christmas celebration. The combination of breathtaking scenery, rustic charm, and age-old customs creates a festive ambiance that feels like stepping into a postcard.
The Smokies, with their tall pines dusted with snow and sprawling vistas, offer a stunning setting for the holidays. Families gather around cozy cabins, their fireplaces crackling with warmth, and twinkling lights adorn the trees outside. The scent of pine mingles with the aroma of cinnamon and nutmeg, bringing holiday cheer to every corner.
Festive Traditions
One of the highlights of a Smoky Mountain Christmas is the embrace of tradition. Many families partake in the age-old custom of cutting down their own Christmas tree. A trip to a local Christmas tree farm is an adventure filled with laughter, hot cocoa, and the joy of finding the perfect pine. Once brought home, the tree is lovingly decorated with handmade ornaments, reflecting the family’s history and bonds.
In the evenings, caroling among the snow-covered roads or gathering around the piano for a sing-along brings communities together, strengthening the ties that bind. The rich Appalachian heritage is evident in the folk songs that echo through the crisp air, fostering connections and creating memories.
Culinary Delights
No Christmas celebration is complete without a feast. In the Smoky Mountains, traditional dishes take center stage at holiday tables. Families often prepare hearty meals featuring ham, cornbread, and green beans, along with sweet treats like pecan pie and apple cider, drawing inspiration from both Southern and Appalachian cuisines. Sharing these festive meals brings a warmth that only the sharing of food can accomplish.
Outdoor Adventures
For those eager to embrace the winter weather, the Smoky Mountains offer a plethora of outdoor activities. From sleigh rides through serene snow-draped landscapes to hiking trails glistening with frost, adventure awaits. Many families enjoy sledding down hills, building snowmen, or simply warming up around a fire with marshmallows roasting under the starlit sky.
Conclusion
A traditional Smoky Mountain Christmas is more than just a season; it’s a heartfelt celebration of family, community, and nature’s beauty. Whether through the warmth of candlelight, the joy of shared traditions, or the breathtaking views of snow-capped mountains, this festive time of year creates lasting memories that residents and visitors cherish alike. So, if you’re seeking a holiday escape filled with warmth and wonder, the Smoky Mountains are the perfect destination to experience the magic of Christmas.
#Smoky Mountains#Christmas#holiday traditions#winter wonderland#family gatherings#Christmas tree#Appalachian heritage#festive meals#outdoor adventures#ornaments#caroling#Southern cuisine#pecan pie#apple cider#sledding#snowmen#holiday memories#rustic charm#community#nature#winter scenery#cozy cabins#holiday escape.
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—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.
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#juneteenth#mexico#nacimiento mexico#black mexicans#african american ancestors#slavery escape route#southern underground railroad#texas#emancipation holiday#unique traditions#slave hunters#texas rangers#mexican army
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Unwrapping a new world
#original illustration#artists on tumblr#I really don’t know why I drew this.#I was thinking about the holidays and working and how we wanna escape I unno.
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once more around the sun!! :3
#mine#cats#happy new year!!! a little late but alas#i didnt like th colours here but now i love them hehehehehheheh#i hope everyone had a good holidays life development for me is i now like ice hockey#in my sports fan era...these greasy sweaty bloody white men...intrigue me#also i got a new diary!! im using th hobonichi cousin in kinda alarmed by it ngl a5 is a lot of space to fill#i tried the hobonichi techo a couple years ago n found it a rlly weird size 2 work in but now.........big page scawwy#im trying not 2 b too insane about it . like relax who cares#if i do cute spreads i will share them :3#also in th same vein im not setting a book goal this year !! tbh i surpassed my goal last year by a lot and wasnt stressed about it at All#but i get so guilty about not reading sometimes like girl . guilty to who? god? are we catholic now? get a grip#anyway anway im going to toot on my flute and then eat my weight in mac n cheese#love how i had to get a new cork in my flute bc i didnt play for like 10 months n th guy was like play regularly! n i was like yeh will do!#and then did not do that#alas...time escapes me
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secret santa [ id in alt ] 🎄
a festive warm comic made for the giftorangezine!
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#meryl stryfe#milly thompson#merylmilly#vashwood#Tid bits of them. My sweeties.#ruporas art#posting this before the holidays escape me entirely. time goes by way too fast!!!#i feel like every time i hop into a trigun zine im like... i want to draw the main 4... i want to draw them having FUN and be joyous togeth#even if its something silly like Secret Santa. ive been dipping my toes too much into modern au lmfao it's my comfort#but i need to go back to canon and draw merylmilly driving away in their car as vw chases them on foot...#their dynamic with each other is very precious to me
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#nature#landscape#scenery#holiday#retreat#travel#explore#escape#adventure#free#freedom#wanderlust#paradise#discover#journey#world#see the world#peace#peaceful#relax#relaxing#happiness#hot tub
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its 10pm here which is still christmas time so i can still post this. happy holidays from the detective agency
(parody of that one My Hero Academia Christmas omake)
#bsd atsushi#bsd dazai#sorry but that omake is genuine gold#and i think it would be very funny for atsushi especially#he'd only ask for a playstation to play games with kyouka#and kyouka is beating his ass at every game. atsushi's never touched a console in his life#does he even have a tv actually. what do they know#apologies for no art either. ive been in a hellpit but ive escaped#i hope your holidays have been wonderous and loving#and yeah dazai's flapping#flamboyantly may i add#art tag
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who let mephone direct the purim play?? (edit: fixed a typo lol)
(objectober 2024 day 7: production)
#dandy's doodles#inanimate insanity#ii#ii baseball#ii nickel#ii balloon#ii suitcase#ii clover#ii mephone#ii cabby#purim#objectober#objectober 2024#fitting for me to reference the other costume holiday no? :)#seriously the armless alliance fits very well into the purim characters#suitcase does fit better than clover as esther but i feel like clover would be more likely to get that role in a play. y'know?#but yeah. baseball as achashverosh... the leader who's passive and ineffectual though well-meaning; always relies on his second-in-command#then nickel as haman. the second-in-command who puts all his energy into hating people and guides the leader into enforcing that hatred#balloon as mordechai... the guy the king's second-in-command despises (though here it's for different reasons)#and for esther... someone half in the party of people nickel/haman would hate and half in the party of people he'd like#who recognizes the way he's cruel and screwed up and eventually points it out#suitcase works better as i've said. cuz she's actively pissed at nickel and causes him to experience some punishment for what he does#while clover more gently tells him to change#for vashti... suitcase can work for her yeah. part of the group but excommunicated for disobeying#if i'd pick someone else i'd do soap i think? but i'm not sure#anyway i'm really not escaping the symbolist allegations... adapting mythological/biblical imagery for art......#it's fun though! and in this case it can be silly too
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📍Unique Holiday cottage in the Lake District, England.
#light academia#dark academia#classical#academia aesthetic#escapism#academia#books and libraries#classic literature#books#architecture#travel#place#destination#photography#unique#holiday#cottage#lake district#england#uk#united kingdom#cozy#royal core#cottage core#aesthetic#cozy aesthetic#building#mood#vibe#tumblr
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Happy holidays and Christmas! .
It has been a rough time for a lot of people lately, including, me too. But I just hope everyone who sees this post will have a good time. Also, the new year is coming now. So, I wish for the bad thing in this year to go away quickly, and we could start a new year with happiness <33
Also, I'm right now planning on something that's cøming soon... Something that I'm sure you guys are probably excited to see. But until that day, stay safe!
A sketch of Turbø and KC's winter outfit :
Some details have changed .
#wondergotten#the fool's escape#au#holiday special#turbotastic#king candy#procreate#procreateart#procreatedrawing#drawing
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erika is such an insanely underrated player. They are so conscious to set people up to have their moment, even when they play an antagonistic character like ava in burrows end. Watch any season with erika in it and you will see how they gently steer the roleplay in a way that makes sure everyone gets a word in. I love all the players, but i think erika is a great example of the kind of player that brings a party together and makes dnd a team game.
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#ask#dropout#dropout tv#dimension 20#erika ishii#lilith#escape from the bloodkeep#dream#xX_Broken_Dream_Xx#K#misfits and magic#misfits & magic#misfits & magic holiday special#misfits and magic holiday special#danielle barkstock#the seven#may wong#coffin run#ava burrow's end#ava#burrow's end
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The devil made me do it but the devil is David Tennant and the "it" in question is just watching a niche piece of media I'd never have watched otherwise
#david tennant#good omens#doctor who#wait I said niche media didn't I?#nativity 2: danger in the manger#what we did on our holiday#takin' over the asylum#there she goes#mad to be normal#escape artist#bad samaritan#united#spies of warsaw#the decoy bride#and such like#recovery#einstein and eddington
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why cant he go to the cinema :(
Dazai: "Hmf.."
@megaroniandcheez
Chuuya: "You're acting really strange, y'know."
Chuuya: "After all, you don't get all fussy when I go out with Akutagawa or Kajii."
Chuuya: "Hey.."
Chuuya: "You haven't made any dumb or stupid remarks in the past 5 minutes and you're awfully warm.."
#long post#ask#update#anonymous#megaroniandcheez#bsd chuuya#bsd dazai#bungo stray dogs#skk#soukoku#(Oops neither of them can escape from this one now)#(Aaaand I'm off to take a week break cause it's the holidays and all)#(Have fun with this cliffhanger(?))#(Yeah youre welcome!!)#(also sorry if the qualitys kinda off Im not working off my usual computer so I dont have all my brushes n stuff)
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alright, friends, it's time for a lil heart-to-heart.
for quite a while now, i've struggled with feeling like the rpc is an actual community. there's a few things that contribute to this feeling, but it mostly comes down to a lack of interaction and visible interest. sometimes i feel very one-sided in my interest and attachment to my mutuals bc when i see their ooc posts or headcanons, i like them or comment, yet this isn't reciprocated by everyone. i can usually guess who i'm about to see in my notifications, and to be absolutely clear, i'm very grateful for those people!! it's a handful or two of you, but it could be just one and i'd be grateful. it's not about numbers whatsoever but rather growing uncomfortable that not all of my mutuals are all that interested in my character or me.
i write on here to share the excitement of creating with other people. i write on here to create together, too, but i'm also here to share characters and ideas and lore with people i know are happy to hear me ramble. i'm just getting to the point in which i'm questioning how many of you are actually happy to listen, and that's just not a good feeling at all. i'm not a mind reader, y'all. if you don't tell or show me that you care about the things i talk about or even about interacting, there's no way for me to know. eventually, i'm going to question why you're following me if i never see or hear from you, and eventually, i'm going to softblock and move on. that's the only way forward i see right now because i just do not feel comfortable on my own blog. i feel like i'm retreating into this quiet bubble to avoid discomfort, and it really sucks. it's killing my muse.
i'm not perfect. none of us are, and we can't be online at all times to catch every little post. but if we're a community, then we should be supporting each other when we can and liking headcanons, liking/commenting on those lil ooc posts that remind us our writing partners are humans with lives outside this site, reblogging their promo posts, sending in that meme they've reblogged even if we're nervous to reach out first -- if we're a roleplaying community, then we need to act like it. " community " implies connection, and a connection doesn't really begin when you follow each other. it begins when you reach out, even if it's in some small way.
tldr: i think we can all do better to support our mutuals and to connect, and i'm going to softblock people rather than continue to feel unsure where i stand with my mutuals. i won't start until sometime next week, and i won't make one of those " like this to remain mutuals " posts. they're not helpful to me, if i'm honest. if you're worried, just reach out. i'm literally a 4'9'' gremlin who sleeps with a m.unchlax plushie -- i promise i'm not scary despite this post uvu
#if i reread this one more time my head will explode asdfg so i'm done and hitting post#i need to stress though i'm very thankful for the people i have connected with in small and big ways <3 it means a lot to me#but i've been told bottling things up isn't a great idea so it's time i was just honest#also i’ve felt like this for a long time#so it’s not the time of year bc i know everyone gets busy during the holidays#i’m just feeling frustrated and tired bc in some instances my efforts do feel one-sided and this hobby is supposed to be an escape#rn it’s not such a great escape for me. i’m trying to be honest so that can change#i’m trying overall to reshape this blog a little in how i run it bc i want us all to have fun and feel seen#that means creating boundaries and being honest and trying new methods so that i don’t get overwhelmed and can actually write and chat#with everyone that i’d like to write and chat with uvu#alright……. i think that’s it after i’ve rambled in the tags asfhjk#i’ll queue this and a bunch of other stuff later when i’ve got time#for now i gotta finish getting ready for work — pls have a lovely day everyone!#get ready to ramble | ooc
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Merry Christmas everyone!!! 🎄🥰 to celebrate, have a Jack Frost version of that adorable little gingerbread plushie 🙈❄️
#i was giggling the whole time i was drawing this honestly 😂❄️ he's just so CUTE!!! i want a real one 🥺🥺#happy holidays to everyone who celebrates!! and i hope you're all having a lovely restful time :3c#jack frost#martin short#the santa clause 3: the escape clause#the santa clause 3#the santa clause#starleskart
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I've read 4 books this weekend if you were wondering how I'm coping 🫠✌️
#escapism#im trying to write now but i want to go and yell at someone#im gonna read another book before the day is out#some fluffly romance#this spells love is the one i finished this morning and i loved it it was so cute#i read a murder mystery yesterday and that one was also good an alice foley book the hunting party#the holiday swap was identical twins switching lives for a week it was fine#and the heiress gets a duke was like a 3.5 stars
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