#advent 2020

[yesdreamilyenchantingbouquet]

Final Wednesday of Advent Meditation

Are you surprised to see the relatives of Zechariah and Elizabeth disagreeing over what to name their newborn child? The final Wednesday of Advent finds us all in the same place. We anticipate the birth of Christ. Don’t we do the same thing? This child, however has been named from above! And Elizabeth is firm in her faith and determined to see that God be glorified through this child. The name…

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#advent 2020 #Holiday

[godbirdart]

「 WANDERING FOX: 2020 SERIES 」

#fox #vulpines #furry #feral #godbirdart #godbird #2020 art #the advent of my wandering creature of indiscernible canine shaped species #animals #nonanthro #sky #clouds #art #this series followed a specific fox with a little halo that went from sad drippy to bubbly hearts #finding inner peace in 2020 #despite everything #landscape #long post

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: True Beauty (2020-2021)

Funny escape : True beauty #shorts #kdrama #koreandrama #moongayoung #comedy #chaeunwoo #hwanginyoup

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IpnAsD6uWrg

#True Beauty #여신강림 #Yeosin gangrim #The Secret of Angel #Goddess Advent #2020 #2021 #tvN #kdrama #korean drama #short video #shorts #youtube #Moon Ga Young #Im Joo Kyung #Hwang In Yeob #Han Seo Jun

[icharchivist]

I think there's something pleasant about slipping back into an old hyperfixation

Sure, it feels like you can never truly escape and reality is a joke, but it's warm and comfortable and familiar, like putting on a shirt you used to love wearing but then it kinda slipped into the back of the closet

Sorry about your emotions though

NO YEAH I AGREE

Like it's pleasant but also bittersweet, it's remembering all sort of things you might have forgotten, and why it was so important to you back then and also right now. It can be introspective, just as much as it can be familiar.

but god do you suffer and god do you end up thinking there is no escape from your fate. It's really 'oh no i'm back on my bullshit' type of experience. It's nice but goddamn.

#in my case right now with ff7 it's really hitting hard because i hyperfocused on it at very different ages #first in 2007/2008 then in 2015 to 2017 then 2019/2020 and now right back again #and the stuff i focused on each time were a bit different and similar at the same time #and what kills me is that with the remake i've grown so. so tired of the fanbases esp on twitter #that it made me take some step back (+ all my complicated thoughts about the remake added in) #but it was always something i had in the back of my head and revered a lot #but seeing my theater do a screening of advent children i really thought it'd be a shame for me not to go #and by god i didn't expect the movie to hit me this hard and still connecting to me to that level #it's familiar and homey as much as it is deep and scary #because the good time and passion is intertwined with the sad and the tragic and the way it helped me going through hard times #and the general feeling of 'i thought i outgrew this.' only to be hit by new angles it comes to resonate with me #eerie as fuck at least. #but yeah. this is fine. This is fine i'm normal. #ichareply #anonymous

[fortytworedvines]

Siegfried walks in on a very unexpected scene. Tristan doesn't help the situation.

For the @acgasfanchallenge advent event, prompt: surprise

#acgas 2020 #a very acgas advent #all creatures great and small #siegfried x audrey #my fic #tristan is going to get himself murdered one day #humour #feelings

[graceisinthelibrary]

In Eggnog veritas - Chapter 5 - GraceBe - All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020) [Archive of Our Own]

@acgasfanchallenge

The last chapter is online 🎀

Thanks for reading 😘

#fanfiction #acgas #acgas advent #all creatures great and small 2020 #all creatures great and small #audrey hall #siegfried x audrey #siegfried farnon

[dewitty1]

Love All Lovely

shealwaysreads (onereader) @shealwaysreads

Chapters: 26/26 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson Additional Tags: 25 Days of Harry and Draco 2020, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Advent Fic, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Harry Potter Deserves Nice Things, Early Bird 25 Days of Harry and Draco 2020, Primrose the Pug, Expensive Perfume, an excess of Christmas lights, soft-glow, its snowing and we’re happy about it, lots of champagne, a prickly rosebush of friends, we are hitting all the Christmas tropes, mulled wine anyone?, Yule log, Winter Solstice, background pansy/ginny, background Theo/Neville, a little bit of epistolary flirting, Mistletoe, open fires and hot chocolate, soft advent, read when you need a gentle landing

Summary:

Draco comes home for Christmas, and discovers that sharing is the best way of celebrating old traditions, and new ones too.

Excerpt: 

Harry drew to a stop, and turned to him properly, before his eyes darted up and an altogether puckish expression stole over his face. “So, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we seem to have found ourselves in a mistletoe den.”

Draco looked around them and realised that ‘den’ didn’t quite cover it. It was a grotto. They were surrounded on three sides by great bunches of mistletoe, tied with simple twine and hung ready to be sectioned off and sold along with the Christmas trees. It was beautiful, the slender leaves, the milk-white berries; beautiful, if one wasn’t suddenly seized with fluttering panic at the impending moment.

Harry must have seen it in his eyes, and was quick to reassure. “It’s not magic mistletoe, Draco, no worries.”

“Harry, all mistletoe is magical. So we ought to—though I shouldn’t—I had wanted to apologise—” Draco hadn’t stuttered like this since he was shorter than the house-elves, so he clamped his mouth shut and tried to put his thoughts in order before everything spilled out.

It had been a non-sequitur but Harry clearly understood. “Apology accepted—no, don’t interrupt, let me finish—I wasn’t actually angry at you, not at the time, and not since. I was sad, but I understood. So. You’re forgiven.”

Forgiven. Draco knew that ditching Harry when they were eighteen and fumbling their way around feelings that seemed to dwarf even the war was the least of his bad choices, but at the time he had thought he was moving on from his prejudices and steadfast loyalty to tradition. It had cut, seeing the stark shock on Harry’s face, seeing the tremble of wetness on his lashes as they stood waiting to enter the Great Hall and graduate. Draco had done worse things in his life, but crushing that budding connection had felt irredeemable.

“We don’t have to, if you don’t want to,” Harry said. “I don’t really care about mistletoe.”

Draco frowned, he’d never not kissed someone under the mistletoe, even if it was a simple peck on the cheek. One didn’t ignore the winter spirits lightly. But— “Is there someone you—” he broke off, he had wandered into territory too painfully awkward to risk another step.

“No,” Harry said, then looked right at Draco. “Look, I haven’t been waiting for you. I’ve dated, I’ve had relationships that were—they were good, okay?”

“But you’re not—right now?”

“No. And I might not have been waiting, but I’m not going to sit on my arse when something good shows up and pretend I don’t want it. Because I do.”

“You sure about that? It’s not just the mistletoe and general feelings of festive goodwill?”

Harry pinned him with a measured look. “Yeah, I’m sure.”

Draco took a deep breath—the air smelled of pine and snow and Harry’s cologne—and thought of his wish still tucked so carefully in the boughs of his own Christmas tree. He gathered his courage, and repeated Harry’s words; a get-out if he needed it. “We don’t have to, if you don’t want to.”

Harry laughed, but then he was leaning in, and his face filled Draco’s vision. Draco closed his eyes at the proximity, and felt Harry’s breath on his face, and then the brush of lips against his own. It was soft, and chaste, and weighty.

It was Draco’s first kiss from Harry in ten years, and it felt like a beginning.

*ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚❤️

#Love All Lovely #shealwaysreads (onereader) #Drarry #Drarry fic rec #fic rec #hp fic rec #drarry fanfiction #hp fanfiction #Draco Malfoy #Harry potter #Advent fic #Christmas in july #ginsy #theo/neville #drarry fluff #Hp #Carey's Bookmark Fic Recs #Carey's personal bookmarks #25 Days of Draco and Harry 2020

[forabeatofadrum]

@coffeegleek replied to your post “”:

Wow!! You have more energy and brain power than I do. <3 I just do the "add these words in and there's no time limit" challenges.

​Honestly a part of me is a little bit like [chuckles] I’m in danger, because oh boy, as the Dutch would say, I am putting too much on my plate. But yeah I always have the @klaineadvent in my mind as a given. I sometimes even plan an upcoming Advent the moment one ends, so yeah, I knew that Advent was coming up.

Then there’s of course the Secret Santa, from @the-lima-bean and I am very excited for it, but I am also hoping to keep it small, as in under 5K or so.

And then there is @carryon-countdown, another annual thing that I don’t always participate in, due to the advent. Although I do point out every year that COC as an acronym makes me giggle, because it is also the name of the Dutch national queer organisation. I might do some of COC this year, but we’ll see. I wasn’t going to do it, but the prompts are just so good.

#replies #coffeegleek #might do a true drabble challenge for COC since i also did that with advent 2020 #aka when i didnt know what to write but still wanted to participate

[nico-meridius]

Throwback Thursday: MI:6 Snippet by Bj Jones

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#Advent 2020 Snippets #Creator: Bj Jones #Throwback Thursday

[shaymoo22]

Bui Man Seaside Eatery

Hungry? You're in good hands. We proudly make everything from scratch in our open kitchen using local ingredients and a whole lotta soul. Here, every seat in the house is a good one, and the warmth doesn't just come from our chef-graded oven. The warmth of our cooking is complemented by meticulously sourced ingredients in season from Windenburg farms and local partners. Let us make you a plate!

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This lot is placed in Windenburg where the nightclub was originally placed!

Lot size: 30 x 20

Lot Type: Restaurant

Packs Used: Get Famous, Seasons, Get Together, Get to Work, Dine Out, Spa Day

EA ID: shaymoo22

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CC List:

Awingedllama: Boho living, Blooming Rooms (only used for some plants)

ATS4: Bistro Chair 3, Bar drinks, Advent 2020 Wine Bottles

Harrie: Brutalist Bathroom, Brownstone Collection Part 1 &2 Merged, Coastal Pt 4 (double fridge), Spoons Pt 1, 2, &3 (counters, door, table, and hostess stand)

Felixandre: Chateau Pt 1 (Brick wall and window frame), Grove (arches)

Little Dica: H&B Stores (letters used for signage)

Madame Ria: Basic Luxe (stool)

Marvell World: Lux Collection (wall slats)

Myshunosun: Garden Stories (outdoor lights), Gale (dining chair), Lottie (potted tree)

Madlen: Niels Wall (exterior wallpaper)

Peacemaker: Cane Living (Artwork)

Pierisim: Domaine Du Clos Set, MCM Set

Tuds: IND Collection

Other Bottles Seen on Shelf: Lilith Set by Taurus Design, RVSN On Cloud Nine Wine Bottles

Lighting: Syb - Life Livingroom Ceiling Lamp, Sim Man - Hedwyn Living Pendant Light, Simenapule - Set Vicky Ceiling Lamp

Thank you: @pixelglam

#sims 4 #sims 4 maxis match #sims 4 build #sims 4 custom content #sims 4 cc #sims 4 lot #ts4 lots #lots #sims 4 lots #mybuilds

[riddlesfromthecrypt]

Badge & Calendar Page for the Advent Calendar 2020 Riddle project by Demo Fusion & EBM (October-November 2020). Royalty free & Public Domain source material from AntiqueClipart.com, Antique Images, Clker.com, FreePik, KissPNG, Lost & Taken, My Free Textures, OfficialPSDs, OpenClipArt, PixaBay, PNGIMG.com, StickPNG, The Graphics Fairy, WebTreats ETC @ MySiteMyWay, Wikimedia Commons, Wild Textures & WPClipart. Fonts: Arial Regular, CAC Champagne, CAC Pinafore, Industrial Regular & USIS 1949. Made in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0, with finishing touches in PhotoFiltre Studio. The Advent Calendar 2020 Riddle can be found HERE.

#2020 #advent #advent calendar #badge #browser game #calendar #calendar page #creative commons #demo #demofusion #ebmmedia #fusion #game #itch.io #page #riddle #riddle game #url replacement

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: True Beauty (2020-2021)

Greenest flag ever ♥️ #shorts #kdrama #truebeauty #hwanginyeop #love #moongayoung

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ow6UP0jQxR4

#True Beauty #여신강림 #Yeosin gangrim #The Secret of Angel #Goddess Advent #2020 #2021 #tvN #kdrama #korean drama #short video #shorts #youtube #Moon Ga Young #Im Joo Kyung #Hwang In Yeob #Han Seo Jun

[morallyinept]

A list of all my favourite PEDRO CHARACTER FESTIVE FIC RECS, with the writers tagged. Includes fics I am currently reading/want to read.

PART 1 | PART 2 HERE | PART 3 HERE

Please show some love to the writers by re-blogging and commenting on their work. 🖤

⚠️ Please ensure you check the triggers/warnings etc... on the stories themselves as some of them may not be suitable to your own particular tastes.

Includes festive themed stories from previous years, as well as current. Will be added to as more are released.

Happy Reading! 🖤🎄

MIXED PEDRO BOYS MASTERLISTS:

12 Days Of XXX-Mas Stories Masterlist - @morallyinept

12 Days Of Pedro - @hellishjoel

Christmas Countdown - @pedroshotwifey

A Merry Fic-Mas - @ladamedusoif

12 Days Of Pedromas - @yeollie-plz

Pedro Pascal Advent Calendar - @softpascalito

Christmas Writing Challenge 2021 - @musings-of-a-rose

Winter Writing Challenge - @nobedofroses

December 500 - @trulybetty

8 Days Of Christmas 2022 - @guess-my-next-obsession

Christmas Writing Challenge 2023 - @pintsizemama

SINGULAR PEDRO BOY MASTERLISTS:

Dincember 2023 - @dindjarindiaries Din Djarin

Cowboycember 2023 - @anabdaniels Agent Whiskey

Daddycember 2023 - @whiskeynwriting Agent Whiskey

Holi-Dave Masterlist - @wildemaven Dave York

Domestic December - @clawdeewritesfanfic Dave York

DBF!Joel Miller Holiday Masterlist - @joelsgreys Joel Miller

It's Consent Season 2022 - @fuckyeahdindjarin Dieter Bravo

Single Dad Frankie Christmas Series - @pintsizemama Frankie Morales

DIETER BRAVO:

Sleazy Santa - @morallyinept

Sweet, Sweet Icing - @palioom

Baby, It's Cold Outside - @theywhowriteandknowthings

Jingle My Bells - @joels-shitty-puns

I Crawl Home To Her - @chronically-ghosted

We Fall Like Snow Series - @psychedelic-ink

JOEL MILLER:

Foot Prints - @sin-djarin

A Very Furby Christmas - @proxima-writes

Traditions - @mandoisapunk

'Tis The Damn Season - @jksprincess10

The Tree - @bluestar22x

All I Wanted - @fhatbhabie

I'll Be Home For Christmas - @punkshort

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - @thetriumphantpanda

DAVE YORK:

Meet The Yorks - @foli-vora

Christmas Affair - @absurdthirst

FRANKIE MORALES:

A New Tradition With Frankie - @nerdieforpedro

Coming Under The Christmas Tree - @undercoverpena

Secret Santa - @frenchiereading

Candy Cane - @cerridwen007

JAVIER PEÑA:

That's what I Want For Christmas - @heythere-mel

Kiss Me Till I'm Warm - @chronically-ghosted

Home With You - @sp00kymulderr

DIN DJARIN:

A Slice Of Life Day - @linzels-blog

Mistletoe - @boliv-jenta

A Sprig Of Silver & Blue - @all-the-things-2020

Competing For Christmas - @something-tofightfor

MARCUS PIKE:

Our Last Christmas Series - @supernaturalgirl20

Where The Love Light Gleams Series - @themand0lorian

AGENT WHISKEY:

A Palomino Christmas - @fuckyeahdindjarin

MISC. CHARACTERS:

If Only In My Dreams - @mishasminion360 Zach Wellison

#pedro pascal x reader #pedro pascal #pedro pascal characters #joel miller x reader #frankie morales x reader #dieter bravo x reader #javier pena x reader #marcus pike x readeer #agent whiskey x reader #dave york x reader #din djarin x reader #christmas stories #festive fic recs #jett's fic recs #fic recs

[mrs-mquve-cc]

Mipmas Advent 2023 (Part 3)

Colorful walls, ceilings, and carpets!

I had done these in a ton of colors ages ago and they're my go-to sets for basic paint and carpets, but as my game style changed I was only using some of the colors and I obviously needed neons and more pastels.

Hi-Res Paint Walls & Ceilings (Pooklet colors)

These are iCad's hi-res paint walls and the ceilings I made to match them in 59 of @pooklet's colors - most of their old and 2020 unnaturals, a few of the Endless Harvest colors, and Time Bomb.

As the name suggests, they have large, hi-res textures - the walls are 512 x 1536 and the ceilings are 512 x 512 - so the file sizes are bigger and unfortunately not Mac compatible. The walls are of course categorized as paint, the ceilings can be found under misc floors.

DOWNLOAD Hi-Res Paint Walls & Ceilings (Pooklet colors) SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Hi-Res Paint Walls & Ceilings (Kinu Vaporwave colors)

And these are the same walls and ceilings in Kinu's Vaporwave pastels, there are 15:

DOWNLOAD Hi-Res Paint Walls & Ceilings (Kinu Vaporwave Pastels) SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Trapping's TBTO December 2013 Carpets (Pooklet colors)

Guess I only took one preview pic of these, but anyway, they come in the same 59 colors as the paint:

DOWNLOAD Trapping TBTO December 2013 Carpets (Pooklet colors) SFS | Google Drive | Mega Credits: Textures: iCad & Trapping Colors: Pooklet & Kinu

#sims 2 #s2cc #ts2cc #sims 2 cc #sims 2 download #build mode #walls #floors

[graceisinthelibrary]

In Eggnog veritas - Chapter 2 - GraceBe - All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020) [Archive of Our Own]

What happens when the party is over and SxA are alone?

@acgasfanchallenge

#all creatures great and small 2020 #acgas #fanfiction #acgas advent #siegfried x audrey

[eregyrn-falls-art]

Gruß vom Krampus! 

December 5th is Krampusnacht, and I've done some pieces related to that over the years. This year I decided to update my depictions of Stan and Ford in the older two pieces (from 2016 and 2017 respectively), and to put the three all together. The original piece from 2016 was done for the 2017 Hunkles calendar (December of course), and the sequel was done for New Years the following year, with the final pic in the sequence appearing in Dec. 2020.

As I said in the original post, my version of the Krampus is based on looking at traditional folk costumes actually worn by krampus figures in Austria for the Krampusnacht festival.

And finally, just to keep it all in one place: after posting the 2020 piece, I got an ask about the little collection of Pines dolls that hang off of Krampus's basket in the second pic, and that Stan is holding in the last pic. I went into a long explanation (including an overview of the Krampus tradition and celebrations), so I'll put it below a cut here:

fernikart57 asked:

In your Krampus art... what's with that belt, neclace, bead (?) of plushes from the Pines Family?

Okay so like… the explanation is probably kind of dumb.  And it’s me making stuff up, rather than relying completely on the actual folklore.

So the Krampus figure is actually a collection of figures from Central Europe, particularly in the Alps, and the specific traditions associated with the Krampus can vary from region to region and town to town.  Thus, while a set of the Krampus tropes have kind of been exported and caught on in popular culture, that pop culture figure now only resembles *some* Krampus traditions.  I don’t think it’s accurate to talk about “a” Krampus or “the” Krampus, exactly, because of that regional variation.  It’s also worth noting that Krampus celebrations are very much alive in various towns in the Alps.

Generally speaking, though, Krampus is a “wild man” figure, often with a demonic face (mask), a furry body, and goat-like features (especially horns). There are some theories that the basic figure itself is pre-Christian (like a lot of the wild-man traditions of Central and Northern Europe).  (I personally think that’s pretty plausible, given the range of costumes we see.)

After the advent of Christianity, though, the Krampus became associated with “the devil” or demonic figures.  And eventually, in a lot of traditions within the Central European mountain area, Krampus got paired with St. Nicholas, as a kind of tag-team.  St. Nicholas in those traditions is almost certainly one of the origins of Santa Claus, in that he rewards well-behaved children with presents.  (But, traditionally he dresses like a bishop, and not in the outfit that a lot of Americans are familiar with.)  The 6th of December is the Feast of St. Nicholas, so Krampusnacht (”Krampus night”) is the 5th of December.  And Krampus acts as the opposite of St. Nicholas – if presents are a means of encouraging good behavior, then Krampus is the threat used to discourage bad behavior.

So, some of the accreted trappings of the Krampus are a whip and a bundle of birch branches, for beating children / people, and a basket that he carries on his back, into which he puts the naughty children he finds, to carry them off for punishment.  (Obviously, the message there is: don’t be naughty or the Krampus will get you.)  A number of the Krampusnacht traditions involve men costumed as Krampus running wild through the streets, threatening people with their birch branches or whips and so on, making noise (thus all of the bells worn around the neck) and kind of terrorizing people (not just kids), as a set-up for St. Nicholas to come in the next day and reassert order.  (Sometimes it’s only “terrorizing” in an “all in good fun” sense, similar to Halloween scariness; but apparently in some towns, it can get kind of rough.)

So with all of that background… I was originally just looking for a sort of “crytpid” or monster for Stan and Ford to be fighting, with a December theme, for that 2017 calendar piece.  They are encountering more of a magical, “real monster” version (rather than the folkloric ritual version), and therefore I took some liberties with the idea, even though I incorporated a lot of design elements from a variety of real Krampus costumes.

I didn’t want to put any actual children into Krampus’s basket for Ford and Stan to rescue, though (in the original calendar piece, they wouldn’t have been that visible).  But when I did the second piece, I included the doll versions of the four Pines, hanging from Krampus’s basket, as a sort of… symbolic magical threat, an expression of the idea that the Pines are its supernatural targets.  The dolls act as kind of representations of Krampus’s targets, and I also thought of them, in that sense, as a darker reflection of the St. Nicholas gift-giving tradition (still toys, but toys with a sinister meaning). If Krampus was a “real” supernatural being that goes around punishing the “naughty” or “wicked”… then what is its definition of “wicked”, and would it be a fair one, or unfair? 

In this scenario, Stan and Ford are not in the mood to debate with it over whether it is fair to take them to task for being “naughty”, but they are DEFINITELY not going to stand for the idea that the Krampus might go after Dipper and Mabel, so – time to take it down!

Anyway, for more about the actual Krampus, I recommend taking a look at the Krampus article on Wikipedia, or listening to this excellent podcast (which I was listening to as I finished the piece the other day; am very interested in getting that guy’s book!).

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #sea grunks! #krampus #krampusnacht #gruss von krampus! #holidays #folklore #my art #id in alt