#st nicholas

[janusfranc15]

Dangerous that. He’d be too busy punching people.

Some of my favourite pieces of Christmas media are the ones that are straight up Evangelical propaganda, but they don't want to appear as such, so they copy and paste Santa Claus into Jesus' place. Like, I appreciate the hustle, my dudes, but I cannot begin to explain how many heresies you just promulgated.

[eghostsofdeadchildren]

Old Saint Nick!

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[tomicscomics]

12/02/2024

What classes do YOU think they should pick (NOT CLERIC)?

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: In most fantasy RPGs, a "class" is your fantasy archetype. Barbarians rage and attack with melee weapons, wizards cast spells from afar, rogues sneak around and backstab, etc. In these games, a cleric is a holy magic-user. They worship a god, and they cast blessings and miracles in the name of that god. Of course, that makes it the perfect class for a saint, and since this series is about a group of saints playing together, of course they all try to pick it. However, these games are usually more fun if everyone picks a different class so the party has lots of different powers, so when the angel running the game catches on, he tells everyone to pick something besides cleric.

[ekbelsher]

I watched Violent Night and it has somehow merged in my head with Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather, and now I can’t see Father Christmas as anything but a haunted, world-weary demigod in serious need of a wash. (Also, David Harbour as Santa is dead sexy. Fight me)

[enchantedbook]

Postcard of Wiener Werkstatte 'Nikolo and Krampus' by Jozef Diveky, (1887 - 1951)

[zal-cryptid]

You’ve probably had this question before but

If Krampus has Toyland as a thing he uses to punish the naughty, then does Old Nick have an equivalent for the nice? Or is it just gifts

He's a WONDERWORKER. He makes and delivers gifts that change lives. They often take a humble form. A rattle. A wooden horse. A doll. Sometimes music, other times small miracles. But don't let them fool you. These little things create a domino effect. Their work is unseen by adult eyes. Only those with childlike wonder can see the magic these things bring and the influence they have on their lives.

Take, for instance, a helpless infant. They have no control over anything in their life, but the rattle gives them control over something. It changes something in them. Sculpts their minds.

Now, imagine if these toys were alive.

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[toyastales]

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

[andallshallbewell]

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kronstadt, RUSSIA

[ahopefulbromantic]

To celebrate the feast of St Nicholas this year me and my friends were punching heretics together!

We went to our karate training as usual and then we tried to find a heretic among us. It turned out we were all heretics in one way or another (for example i was a heretic according to the Eastern Orthodox Church) so then we beat each other up! It was so fun, highly recommend! ☺️

[angeltreasure]

Dear St. Nicholas, help us to remember that all good gifts come from God. St. Nicholas, pray for us. Amen.

[xxdunce-demonxx]

I don’t know how to feel about making Santa Clause hot

[rei-ismyname]

The Rarest Mutant of All!

Iron Man and Doctor DOOM shouldn't get too excited about their stockings unless they like coal, although DOOM has never met a powerful being he didn't want to power jack. Maybe in the future. During the King In Black event, the two men were working on various solutions to the Knull, God of Void (maker of Venom/Symbiotes) covering the Earth, when they heard bells and screeching.

Ho ho ho! Neither man believed in this most secretive of mutants, but they believed their eyes. Santa is real in 616! (And yes, he's a mutant, lol. I eagerly await the one shot where sentinels head to the North Pole to kill his ass.)

Unfortunately, he wasn't at his best. Symbiote Claus? Venom Claus? Another childhood nightmare for Tony? A mutant hate crime? All of the above, probably. Comics are so ridiculous, I love it.

[tomicscomics]

12/09/2024

(C_C;)

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. If you haven't seen the previous parts yet, go get caught up, lest I be caught up in rage. 2. Before they start playing, the angel asks his players if they have any fears or topics they'd like the story to avoid. This is one of they many questions game-masters might ask an unfamiliar group, giving the table a chance to discuss the overall tone they'd prefer. 3. However, for saints, this question is silly. Since they're in heaven, they're maximally peaceful and fulfilled. Thus, they feel no fear. However, because I am a jokey jokester who is liking to be telling the jokes, and because the whole premise of this RPG story arc is absurd on its face, I can't leave things at that. Instead, Joan pipes up and declares that she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the upcoming story, since it's how she was killed by her enemies on earth. 4. Joan is technically not an official martyr, having been sentenced for her private revelations and not for her faith in Christ. However, that’s not very hashtag Sigma, so I called her a martyr in this cartoon. If they have to revoke my Catholic cartoonist license for this, so be it. 5. After Joan says she doesn't want burning alive to be part of the game, the angel looks down at the monster he prepared for the end of the story: a fire-breathing dragon with a ton of fiery attacks. To accommodate Joan, he changes the "fire" dragon to an "ice" dragon and calls it good. He can fix the attack names later.

[dontforgetukraine]

Illustration from the publication: Kara-Vasilyeva T. History of Ukrainian embroidery. Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 2024. P. 263.

Happy St. Nicholas Day!