#santa's elves

[yetitakinginventory]

Link graphics from the original rotg website leading to their games, apps, and activities.

When my fan website is up these graphics will lead you to the archived versions of these games as best as i could preserve them.

[the-elvenprince]

How perfect lol. ❤💚🎅🎄

Source: your middle earth home-facebook.

[stclements]

[countessofravenclaw]

Roller Crew as Elves because I can

Hey! anyone missed my "dressing up DCLA with different things" series that started as disneybounding (I still take request for that by the way). Well, were back with some North Pole inspired outfits, given my love for the Santa Elf AU idea... stay tooned for that day of the Advent calendar...

Right now all of you might be saying: "Elli, isn't it terribly cold in the North Pole and they will freeze". Well... Elves are magic and can stand the freezing temperatures

[sabakos]

Plato, Phaedrus 259a-d

[bearnakedbaker]

You got to give a little…

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

Sonic always taking the role of Santa, is he canonically the Santa of his world? /j

I know the indicator is a joking one and all but in Adventures, he actually is.

At the end of the final episode, Sonic Christmas Blast, the big man himself retired and the job is given to Sonic.

[bretzkysbs]

[undead-knick-knack]

Snitches get Stitches

[danu2203]

SANTA’S HELPERS

[yetitakinginventory]

Rise of the Guardian's Youtube Takeover

If you weren't there at the start, you probably missed the Rise of the Guardians custom Youtube Channel with all the trailers, character spots, Behind the Scenes, and voice actor interviews. If so, you also missed the fun and creative Youtube Takeover created by the talented folks at Ignition Interactive. Luckily artists keep and share portfolios so this little bit of youtube history didn't become lost media when the channel went away.

Head on over to Frozen Emotion to see Alvin Groen's portfolio with the breakdown of how they did it including concept sketches and Jack Frost's snowball fight video.

[misforgotten2]

It’s the first day of winter, it’s all down hill from here.

Today’s posts might look a little loopy, I’m working on 2½ of sleep and I’m literally falling asleep at the keyboard. If I close my eyes I immediately start to dream and if I keep my eyes open I’m seeing weird things in my peripheral vision. For example the lamp to my left for a second was the Dutch Cleanser girl logo.

365 Bedtime Stories  illustrated by Jill Elgin   1955

[heroineimages]

These are delightful!

elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

[countessofravenclaw]

The 2022 writing Advent calendar: Day 11

11. A Santa's Elf AU

Okay, so I was so excited to write this one. I definitely went bit overboard with creating some of my own Santa Elf lore and everything

“Matteo! Come on, we are going to be late!” Matteo was pulling his hat on as he rushed out of the cottage as his roommate Gastón kept urging him. 

“You need to start waking up on time,” Gastón continued as they walked through the snow towards the cafeteria. The apprentice elf’s cottages were located at the outskirts of Santa’s village. “If we ever want to be ascended into Maisteri Elfs, we can’t always be late.”

“Well, sorry, but I got an idea for this chord progression—”

“Matteo, look I have nothing against that,” Gastón sighed, “but you work in the sports division. Transferring department is not easy.”

“I am not looking to do that,” Matteo countered, “but you can’t help the gift North Star has given you.”

“Hey! Matteo! Gastón!” They were just passing the reindeer yard when two reindeer caretakers Pedro and Nico came up to them to the fence. “How’s it going?”

“Well, trying not to be late.” Gastón gave Matteo a side-eye. “How are the boys?”

“Ready for Christmas,” Pedro says while patience one of the reindeer’s, Twinkles, head. “How are things in the workshops?”

“As you could probably imagine. Hectic.” Matteo responded. “Somehow, rollerskates are this year's hot item.”

“I sometimes wish I would have ended up as a reindeer caregiver.” Gastón scratched Twinkle’s ear. “The literature department has been slammed. Love for storied never dies.”

“Well, you are welcome to come and help any time,” Nico rolled his eyes, “Contrary to popular belief, this is not just lounging. We are in charge of the thing boss relies on so Christmas night goes smoothly. Delfi and Jazmin were just over last week, you know, from the media department. They did a feature on as apparently, some kid has wished for a video of Santa’s reindeer.”

“Anyways, it was nice to chat, but we need to go to eat.” 

Gastón and Matteo finally made their way to the cafeteria and sat down with their bowls of rice porridge. 

“You know—” Matteo was just about to say something as he was interrupted by a cling of a sleigh bell as a folded paper appeared in front of Gastón with a white glitter poof. 

Matteo watched as Gastón picked it up and read the note and then turned his absolute heart-shaped eyes towards another table on the other side of the hall. Matteo did not need to guess who he was looking at. It was this certain brown-haired and short apprentice whole worked with him at the literature department and wore glasses. 

“And I thought it was bad when she was sending you those anonymous messages and you were desperate to figure out who you were.” Matteo groaned. “Why are you and Nina still hiding?”

“I told you, she is really shy,” Gastón answered after putting the note in his pocket. “Why do you think she has the gift to make text appear from thin air?”

Matteo just nodded. All the elves had a magical gifts given to them by the North Star when they had entered the academy. Gastón had the gift of generating images from his mind while Matteo was able to create a soundtrack to any scenario he saw. 

“Plus there is no rush,” Gastón continued, “North Star can only bind you together after a year, you know that.”

“Of course, I know that,” Matteo snarked.

“When are you putting yourself out there again?”

“Who’s that next to Nina?” Matteo ignored Gastón’s question as his eyes focused on another small brunette who had wavy long hair and she looked like talking animately to Jim and Yam, two elves from the music department. 

“I don’t know,” Gastón said. “She could be new.”

“A new apprentice ten days before Christmas?” Matteo laughed, “I pity that poor elf who gets settled with her. What elder has allowed that?”

“Lot of departments are understaffed. We did hit the two million Christmases mark last year and a lot of the maisteris took that milestone year to retire.” Gastón shook his head. “I mean it is really just me and Nina at the literature department, and we are still apprentices, but we might as be maisteris already. I hope we get more people next year. But don’t change the subject, how about you ask that new girl out?”

“Really?” Matteo cringed at Gastón, “You know that thing between me and Ambar didn’t end on the best of terms.”

Ambar had been an apprentice at the sports division with Matteo and they had been all but set to get bonded before the North Star this year until… well until things had gone sideways. Ambar had transferred to the dreams and wishes division and was now from the sound of it together with a post-elf called Simon. Matteo was happy for her, really. In the end, they were better off this way. 

Gling! The big bell on the ceiling of the dining hall rang, signifying that it was time to go to work. 

***

Gastón opened the door that led to the literature division in the workshop of arts. He smiled as he saw Nina already sitting on the table, already working. He had been working in the literature for two years now, and it had been just two of them since the maisteris had retired after last Christmas.

“Hey.” He sneaked a kiss on her cheek, startling her completely. 

“Oh, it was you.” She turned toward him.

“Who else would it have been?” He chuckled and pulled her up from her chair and kissed her properly. 

“Someone could come in.”

“No one ever comes in here,” Gastón said as he let her go. “Anyway, what are we working with today?”

“Nothing that different from yesterday,” Nina said as she took the list from the table. “Couple of princess stories, one space adventure, and then three wizarding stories. Actually, I heard from Dreams and Wishes that we only have a couple of shifts left. We are ahead of schedule.”

“Well, we make a pretty good team.” He ran his finger on her braid. “How about, after we are done today, meet me behind the reindeer stables?”

“I promised I’d show my roommate around today.”

“You have a new roommate?”

“Yes,” Nina answered as she sat back down on the desk and pulled an empty book from the shelf, and used her magic so words started appearing on its pages. “She is actually really nice. Really excitable and energetic.”

“Well, how about I come with you?" Gastón suggested as he produced an image that he transferred under the paragraph Nina had just finished writing. “I mean, we should probably let her know if you think we can trust her. Matteo does.”

***

“Okay, I would have not predicted that roller skates would be this year's hit gift,” Matteo remarked to Ramiro, another apprentice elf in the sports department at the action workshop. “I thought it would have been there again.” He gestured to a hockey stick he had just finished.

“Matteo.” As Matteo had just dropped off the hockey stick to the hatch where they got transported into Dreams and Wishes, where it would be assigned to a child and wrapped, so it was ready to go for Santa on Christmas eve when the action workshop elder Juliana called for him. 

“What?”

“Matteo, a new apprentice is starting at the sports department, and we want you to show her the ropes.”

“Okay.” Matteo nodded. In reality, the last thing he wanted to deal with was a newbie. Why could not some maisteri do it? Also, the new apprentice appeared to be late.

Matteo returned to his station and picked up another hockey stick… when Bang!

…someone ran straight into him. 

“Can’t you look where you are going?” He looked at the person who had almost crushed him. It was the new girl he and Gastón had seen with Nina and she was wearing pair of roller skates.

“Oh I am so sorry,” she jumped back onto her feet at once, “but I got lost and then saw these and decided to try the out.”

“I am guessing, you are the new apprentice.” Matteo just stared at her. 

“Yes, I am: I used to work at the post…as a messenger but I kept dropping the sack all the time… so I kind of got kicked out.” The girl laughed, “So I had to go back to the academy and here I am. I am Luna by the way.”

“Matteo. The elder asked me to take care of you.”

[peacrobot]

Anyone remember Wally and Marty?

Does anyone remember or otherwise know about the two Christmas elf mascots Walmart had around 2006/2007? They are my special interest right now and I was hoping to find people with the same interest, or at least others who remembered they even existed at all, lol. Been trying to do research on them and I've found some interesting things. A lot of things related to them are lost media as far as I'm aware. There was a comic book and a song, both of which I'm looking for.

(These two for context)

Happy to chat about them with anyone who's interested!

[bearnakedbaker]

Christmas Fun