#snow-covered magic

[liliths-den]

Day 15 – Behind Today’s “Door” Lies a Frost-Touched Toadstool Holding the Keys to Untold Secrets

Welcome to Day 15 of The Winter Children Visual Advent Calendar! Ever curious and brave, the Winter Children find themselves before an ancient wonder deep in the frost-bound forest—a towering toadstool dusted with snow. Hanging from its cap, they spot a glowing lantern, mysterious keys, and faint footprints leading into the unknown. What secrets could this frozen marvel hold? The children’s…

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: theslowtraveler

[maureen2musings]

jukkapaa

[missedmilemarkers]

[coolchicstylefashion]

[downfalldestiny]

Winter ❄️ sunset 🌄 in black Forest ..

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Snow-Covered Mountain

Artist: John Zeleznik TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[jadiaashley]

down some ole dirt road

[cutestkilla]

"She asked me to give you something…"

"What?"

Simon holds on to my shoulders and stands on his toes to kiss my forehead.

Then he settles back on his heels and smiles at me. "That."

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

It's cold outside

[music4soul]

I don’t think people talk about how magical snow is. Like, yeah it’s cold outside and it makes you want to hop into the nearest pit of fire, but just looking out at the scenery around you is just so.. unreal.

Spring is cool, Summer is.. alright, and Fall is great and all, but none of those amount to beauty that Winter has, and I’ll sit and die on that hill.

[wallbeatjournal]

if you had to base a new riverdale season off three movies, which would you choose and why? they could be tonal choices or you can pluck entire elements of the movies and work them in.

ok i broke the rules bc i didn't stick to movies, i went novels and pop culture with it too. and i also kind of embroidered a few references together around each main riff in a way that i think COULD be riverdalian, but these are my 3 selections:

jt leroy (2018). trashy iffy-hot-take kristen stewart/laura dern movie about a very 2000s literary scandal/internet drama run Too Far into irl drama that i think riverdale would know better what to do with. two ideas (this is a jughead plot btw):

put jughead in the dissociated trauma-projecting controlling persona-having laura albert/jt leroy role and rope veronica and reggie and their monetary-business motivations into the scam angle. monica posh savannah knoop stuff and rattling veronica and jughead around in a jar together intensely in a campy way

or step lightly outside the bounds of this script into the real livejournal and myspace based drama of it all and jughead's sometimes-characterization as a guy who needs help unpacking metaphor even though he's swimming in it. make him into one of the many emo band boys (ryan ross?? ryan ross????) who related so so so so sosososo much to the writing of jeremiah terminator and then had a whole crisis when j.t. was unmasked as a middle-aged woman with a metaphorical literary persona.

permissible bonus web-weaves: james frey a million little pieces and oprah, augusten burroughs and running with scissors. we're doing the 2000s obsession with author authenticity is-this-really-autobiographical-if-it's-not-literally-true-or-are-you-shaming-your-family-for-NOTHING questions and scandals. but we're especially doing the emo community freaking the fuck out about blorbo from their novels doing a catfish online to extend the persona just that much further.

the avril lavigne replacement conspiracy theory (linking the wiki even though what i'm REALLY thinking of here is this moving pandemic essay alexander chee my beloved posted that i can't locate now, riffing on themes of feeling like a ghost inhabiting your own life after a major trauma). they can work in some other famous body double / replacement and assassination conspiracies (paul is dead, jfk) too but avril is the main reference and this is a betty plot.

pull in some actual alexander chee images and motifs too maybe, his novels about csa grooming trauma and having complicated feelings about your intimate abusers via like grandiose opera/paris siege metaphors (the queen of the night) and fox demons (edinburgh) betty would eat, i fear, even if they're a step off her normal serial killer media mix. dark betty has the range <3

stephen king's the long walk / suzanne collins' the hunger games / battle royale / state-sponsored brutal murderous game show authority abuse dystopia media homage in general!! especially when it's homoerotic and full of ptsd and institutional abuse, because clearly this is a plot primarily for archie and the lads. imo the long walk ("how bad do you have to hate yourself to join the military" but it's game show horror) and the hunger games ("child stardom is traumatic institutional abuse especially in the era of social media and society simply pretends not to see it" but make it a ya game show adventure) should be the main references, but we could work the academic/art-competition angle of battle royale for kevin. as a treat. ok yeah and maybe work in that arnold schwarzenneger movie the running man too while we're here picking up interwoven motifs at the store. why not!

[herbalnature]

A serene winter wonderland, where trees wear a delicate blanket of snow. The world feels hushed and magical, just like a scene from a holiday card.

[maureen2musings]

Frozen forest

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[missedmilemarkers]

[freebooter4ever]

The rain'll let up, they said. It'll be gone by noon, they said.