#best advent calendar

[popfizzles]

📱🌃🦷 (Cellphone, City Night, Tooth)

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#Adoptables #Adoptable #Adopt #Character Design #Three Emoji Challenge #Monster Adopt #Monster Adopt Advent Calendar #fizzles draws #zombies #strong contender for best adopt of the month #love this dude so much

[the-magpie-archives]

Happy December! Here's what advent calendars I think the characters in TMA would have!

Jon: Socks, probably. Maybe ties? Something that would be advertised as "top advent calendar to get your grumpy husband 😜". Martin bought it for him.

Martin: Teabags. I don't think I need to elaborate.

Sasha: Something really elegant and cool like second hand books or handmade jewellery. She probably saw it on etsy and told Tim about it and he bought it for her.

Tim: One of the shitty aldi own brand ones.... Sasha bought it for him as a joke. (he was even happier with it than sasha was with what he got her.)

Melanie: Some kinda murder mystery one where you get a piece of evidence each day and you have to solve it before the 24th (if this isn't already a thing it should be)

Basira: A coffee one with different flavours every day. Daisy got it for her.

Daisy: Same as Basira. They both got eachother the same one and they open it together each morning and discuss the flavours...

Elias: He has an original victorian paper one that he's always used. He lets out a little chuckle every time he opens the pictures. Even though he knows exactly what each of them is.

#There'd obviously be a lot of competition about them in the archives #Everyone's boasting about what they got that day and why it's clearly the best #This is such a meaningless post ngl but I'm so obsessed with advent calendars so I have to subject everyone to this #When I was a kid I used to beg my mum to let me have them all year round.... There's a bit of lore on me for y'all. #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #melanie king #basira hussain #daisy tonner #elias bouchard #tma posting #tma memes #tma headcanons #jonmartin

[boydykepdf]

worst thing in the world when ur love language is gifts & ur favorite people don’t care abt receiving small presents & trinkets…i understand those cats that leave dead animals on doorsteps we r living the same lifestyle

#literally LOVE getting people presents esp my close friends bc i can make them so cute + personal #but my fucking. twin. is like the least materialistic person EVER like she never wants anything… #had the brilliant idea 2 make her a personalized advent calendar xmas gift like it’s gonna be SO cute #gonna get 12 little presents package them all nicely etc…but i just know she will not care that much 🥲 #whatever tho…it’ll be fun 4 me 2 make i already knitted her a big scarf that’ll probably be day 12… #might do it for my other sister or another friend too i just feel like this is such a good idea…. #can go 2 the thrift store & find cute trinkets…get little snacks…buy some fuzzy socks + little hand lotions etc…. #then wrapping paper from the thrift store & leftover ribbon from halloween costume. little handmade number cards…. #was already planning 2 knit them scarves anyway. scream this is the best present idea and none of them will fully appreciate it 😭😭😭

[jerejerejere]

credit card: found and activated ✅

OF: subscribed to ✅

Body: ready ✅

#i'm lying i will never be ready 😅 #käärijä #81 subscriers as of yesterday evening #best advent calendar i ever treated myself to

[oliviatexts]

i think it’s gonna be käärijä glögi but oh my lord i’m praying for it to be an advent calendar

#let’s ignore the fact that i. already have two this year #one with tea and one my best friend made for me #i’d spend whatever money needed #i need a käärijä advent calendar pliiis #käärijä

[jingsyuans]

My pookie bear………

#I thought the advent calendar would be full of him but it was all luocha LMAO #himeko once during my first month playing bc she was my first 5 star #then jy I think 3 or 4 times #the rest luocha #very fair he’s the best healer I got #I also lost the 50/50 to bailu and I have her half built. she doesn’t help with debuffs so I rarely use her #rambles #going to sleep now honk shoo honk shooo #learning from the best

[ialreadyreadthatfanfic]

me, standing over a display of advent calendars and chocolate santas in local aldi on 31st october: letting christmas encroach into november is surrendering to western capitalist propaganda. november is the true spooky month. it begins with dziady when we invoke ghosts and spirits of our ancestors and ends with andrzejki when we divine our matrimonial future. christmas has no business anytime between the two. i firmly believe we should get up to all kinds of spooky rituals during that period. rip to people thinking spooky season ends on halloween but we slavs are different

the aldi cashier: very well ma'am, does that mean you won't be interested in 50% discount if you purchase two chocolate santas instead of one

#halloween #dziady #andrzejki #poland #truth to be told spooky season can be year round in our hearts #but my agenda is to extend the Official Spooky Season from september all the way through to the end of november #post sponsored by local aldi selling advent calendars since the beginning of october #also best wishes to those two catholic nuns who disapproved strongly when our school did a fun andrzejki event #if doing bogus numerology for shit and giggles back then was bad it's a good thing they don't see my atheist ass now #my stuff #nebra original

[july-19th-club]

oooohohoh baby im back in business i got into a new area to explore and i got a bunch of new green things to click on and find items in and i talked to an incredibly shady mob boss and he gave me. a giant novelty check? to pay my rent with? so i'm totally in his pocket and that's not looking good BUT i've still got kim with me and kim thinks it's important that i don't sleep on the streets, so i'm proving to him that i can be a professional by doing the field autopsy with him at 9pm in the dark . also i finally leveled up my volition so i might not like . suffer dizzy spells of low morale every time i remember what dire straits im in. AND I LEARNED MY NAME jesus yeah that was a big one. the mob boss used it so now i know more or less that i have a name. but that was while having a panic attack about my lost gun. so ya win some ya lose some

#so many more tasks now tho #every time i accomplish three i wind up with six more #my favorite tasks are the secret ones bc i FEEL like ive checked something off the list #but by far the very best part of the game is clicking on green things. it's like an advent calendar it's great i love it #i love you green things #i dont love the ominous worldbuilding hints that seem to be suggesting that even if i do solve the mystery #everything will go very bad anyway. but hey . ive got kim. and ive got my snakeskin boots #disco elysium #so so so sad the first time i hear my name in my current fragile state is when a mob boss is mocking me . so sad

[sasanka-27]

#please help me out friends #when i cant decide on something your choices are always the best #spn #spn fanart #sasankastuff #spn advent calendar #art poll #vote now get cookie later

[jessreallywantsitall]

took a lil trip to Leer in Germany today to go shopping at a mall with a large grocery store so I got to use my very basic conversational German skills when I ordered pastries and later on a burger and fries 😎

#the food court was my favorite part #so delicious #also the grocery store had such a wide variety of food #I'm obsessed #I got so many cookies and snacks and CHOCOLATE #Lindt is the fucking best #I even got a Lindt advent calendar 😍 #with the little Lindt bears in them #amazing day 10/10 #welcome to my weird world

[popfizzles]

🦉🧣🍰 (Owl, Scarf, Shortcake)

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× Pay 30 USD to receive full transparent and secondary mystery alternate palette art! × Name, gender, etc. are to be decided by buyer. × First come; first served! Advent Calendar Adopts may NOT be put on hold! × Contact me through Tumblr IM or through Discord @ popfizzlescomms and I’ll send a Paypal Invoice; once payment is received I will send images by email!

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[Link to Full Advent Calendar]

#Adoptable #Adoptables #Adopt #Character Design #Three Emoji Challenge #Monster Adopt #Monster Adopt Advent Calendar #fizzles draws #this is by far the best bird ive ever drawn in my life and shes only part bird

[nebquerna]

❄️ advent calendar - day 18

had pre xmas with part of the fam, you get a wip today

#the food was freaking dope #and the company’s alright #im tired and i want to draw #i can’t wait to figure out how to act myself in social situation bleh #it’s gonna take practice and i HATE it so it also takes loads of patience #anyway there’s those colored pine cones that make fire look different color #and there’s green ones here and it’s the absolute best #adopt wip #2022 advent calender #advent calendar

[twistedtummies2]

The Devils I Know - NUMBER ONE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Welcome to the final entry for “The Devils I Know!” For this spooky time of year, I’ve spent all of October counting down My Top 31 Depictions of the Devil, from movies, television, video games, and more! And today, I unveil our topmost contender! Who is my favorite Devil? I’ll give you a hint: sunshine is his destroyer. NUMBER ONE IS…Tim Curry, from Legend.

If you know me especially well, then you probably already knew this would be my number one choice. But for those who don’t…I could just simply say “it’s Tim Curry playing the Devil, I don’t need any other reason,” and leave it at that (which, frankly, would be true), but I’m an old windbag who likes to ramble and pontificate, sooo…nope. I’m gonna talk all your ears of…or…um…type all your eyes out…that sounds terrible, ANYWAY…! Directed by Ridley Scott – famous for the “Alien” franchise, of all things – 1985’s “Legend” was a film meant to be an homage to classic fairy-tales of yore. It’s not directly based on any specific story, mind you; it’s simply meant to be a story that FEELS like a classic fairy-tale. The plot is essentially a conglomeration of various elements and tropes taking from many myths and fables, so it isn’t exactly the most complex or unique…but, to be honest, that’s part of the point. “Legend” is meant to feel like a story out of your past, a story we all know, despite being its own original piece, and it’s more about the fantasy and the spectacle than anything else. It is a feast for the eyes and the imagination, with some hidden meaning under its surface, much like so many illustrated fairy-tale storybooks of decades past were. Now, to be fair, these same elements can turn some people off from the film, so to speak (not me, but some people), but I’ve yet to hear ANYBODY complain about one thing in the film. That one thing – the one part everyone agrees is the best part of the picture – is its villain: Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness, or simply “Darkness.” Darkness is, of course, the Devil: he essentially has two plans in the film sort of moving together. Darkness wants to first of all kill the last two unicorns in the world, as apparently the unicorns are angelic symbols of light, and, being Darkness, light isn’t exactly something he cares for much. (“Sunshine is my destroyer!” he recites a couple of times in the film.) He ends up getting some unwitting help from the beautiful but naive Princess Lili. This, for me, is where Darkness gets interesting: he actually falls in love with Lili. And…he actually means it! Yeah! He legitimately loves her, and wants to impress and please her. It doesn’t seem to be a mere case of lust, he’s not offering her anything in exchange for loving him, exactly…he just…loves her, and wants to marry her. Of course, being the Lord of Darkness, he has no idea how to properly EXPRESS and handle love. Lili is not receptive of his advances, and ends up actually using that love against him to trick him and help save the day at the end (ouch, poor devil…literally), but I’ve always found this specific element fascinating. Because the rest of the time, Darkness is a classic Devil in every way: a pure evil fiend with no real redeeming qualities and a lot of power and prestige. But this one sympathetic element really helps make him a more layered character, and helps to make an already amazing Devil even more amazing. Beyond the sympathy, what qualities make him amazing? Well, beyond all else, two things: the actor, and the costume and makeup. I mean…freaking LOOK AT THAT THING. My God…or…My Devil! Just…LOOK AT THAT THING. That has to be one of the greatest costume and makeup designs of any movie ever, without question. Curry is completely buried, literaly head to toe, in that makeup. In fact, there’s a story about how Curry tried desperately to keep his own eyes for the outfit, only for them to demand he wear special contact lenses to give him feline-like eyes. Curry grumbled as he put them in…but the moment he looked in the mirror, he immediately felt impressed by how he, himself, looked in the full regalia. And he deserved to be impressed, not only because the Devil in the film is MAGNIFICENT to behold – like a blood red living sculpture of evil beauty – but because Curry himself, through all that makeup, not to mention vocal effects that deepened his voice and gave it a powerful, unsettling echo, manages to give, in my opinion, possibly the finest performance in his entire career. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite Tim Curry performance, if nothing else, and part of it is how effortlessly he seems to pull it off; he just lives inside that costume and that makeup, as if it is nothing. You have no problem believing this Devil as a walking, living, mighty thing as Darkness strides across the screen. Curry was cast because, to paraphrase Ridley Scott, he felt that the actor could bring something “operatic” to the role, which was obviously desired. Indeed, Curry is his usual melodramatic self, but it’s in the best way: this is an imposing creature, ruling the room with every moment he has onscreen, but also so human with his more sympathetic qualities. When I think of Tim Curry, Darkness is one of the first things I think of. When I think of the Devil, again, Darkness is one of the first things I think of, if not THE first thing I think of. This is just how I would imagine the Devil to look and behave, beyond all else, and to me, that is what makes him so great. He has the right balance of so many qualities other Devils, before and after, have: he’s theatrical, yet he’s genuine; he’s malicious, he’s tragic; he’s a master manipulator, and a beast of the battlefield, all at the same time. It’s the full package. These facts, beyond all else, are what make the Lord of Darkness from “Legend” My Favorite Portrayal of the Devil. No more need be said. Thank you all for joining me! I hope you had fun with this crazy little list. And don’t worry: when and if the day comes I see what Old Scratch actually looks like, I’ll let you know if any of the plus-thirty versions I’ve covered were anywhere near the mark. ;)

#the devils i know #top 31 devils #fiction #list #countdown #happy halloween #halloween advent calendar #october special #favorites #best #number 1 #film #movies #actors #acting #legend #tim curry #legend 1985 #darkness #lord of darkness

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

December 4th

Fresh off the successful Onewa trial run, I didn't get a Bionicle till Christmas. At ten dollars a canister, I think my Mom approved of Bionicles as way more affordable than System LEGO (little did she know...). So I got Tahu.

Tahu was, and remains, my favourite. A pretty basic taste, I know, but true. In fairness, I never liked him in MoL or any later media--Hapka onward changed him into a volatile hothead, which maybe had grounding in earlier work but certainly hD little enough grounding in my mental picture. Among the driving forces of my (slumbering) alt-canon is an attempt to split "my" Tahu--the "real" Tahu--from the terrible Tahu (Nuva).

#bionicle #bionicle advent calendar #Tahu #the Hau is still the best Kanohi

[the-masterless-press]

I do not like the new advent system.

Why is it a storylet.

Where's my advent calendar doors?

#Don't mind me I'm having a normal one #But the doors were the best part of advent calendars #This just feels like going into a storylet and expecting a reward #fl #negative

[polikszena]

Ficlet Advent Calendar - Christmas at Downton

In this post you can find some ficlets from the previous challenges that are related to Downton Abbey. You can access them by clicking on the fic’s title.

Spirit

Fandom: Downton Abbey Characters: Daisy Robinson, William Mason Word Count: 767 Rating: General audience Summary: When she started working here, the sun was already up this time in the morning. Now it was still dark. Dark, cold and foggy outside. Daisy hated this weather; it made her want to stay in bed and not get up until next spring.

Miracle

Fandom: Downton Abbey Characters: Charles Carson, Elsie Hughes Word Count: 462 Rating: General Summary: On her way to her room on Christmas Eve, Mrs Hughes finds Mr Carson decorating the Christmas tree in the servants’ hall.

A secret admirer

Fandom: Downton Abbey Characters: Anna Smith, Gwen Dwason, John Bates Pairings: implied Anna/Bates Word Count: 717 Rating: General Summary: Returning to her room on Christmas Day after work, Anna finds two presents on her bed: one of them is from Gwen, but who sent the other one?

Outcasts

Fandom: Downton Abbey Characters: Matthew Crawley, Isobel Crawley, Edith Crawley, Cora Crawley, Miss O’Brien, Violet Crawley, Robert Crawley, Richard Carlisle Pairings: Matthew/a room where no-one is wrapping presents Word Count: 572 Rating: General Summary: Matthew Crawley cannot find a place to go on Christmas morning, as in every room there is someone wrapping presents. Notes: This one was inspired by a deleted scene from the Christmas Special of 2011 in which Matthew walks into the drawing room where Cora and O'Brien are wrapping presents, and seeing him they start to scream. I know this chapter is quite exaggerated (and probably wouldn't have happened), but it's all deliberate.

#downton abbey #daisy mason #william mason #mr carson #mrs hughes #charles carson #elsie hughes #anna smith #anna bates #john bates #gwen dawson #matthew crawley #isobel crawley #edith crawley #cora crawley #sarah o'brien #violet crawley #robert crawley #richard carlisle #ficlet advent calendar best of #my fics #christmas