#can't wait for christmas though

[gatoiberico]

some winter waddlers

~ stickers ~

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #penguins #posting this on a day where the weather reversed itself and it felt like summer instead of fall/winter fghdg #can't wait for christmas though #I am in the MOOD #elgatoiberico

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Christmas Invasion (Part 40)

Excerpt from the Radio Times, 17-30 December 2005, interviews by Nick Griffiths

Prepare to see a different side of Jackie Tyler. The one-woman soap, all bleached hair and simmering libido, is turning over a new leaf. Sort of. As Christmas trees attack and Santas turn bad, Jackie is on hand - and there's that handsome Doctor lying in bed in her flat, clad only in pyjamas. "I'm very proud of her, because she restrains herself from being a complete floozy," says actress Camille Coduri. "Instead she becomes quite nurturing. She tries to get things going, to look after people. She's very concerned, and there's a side of her that you've not seen before - she's less selfish, amazingly so. Because she's very self-centered, really." Rose, her daughter, may have the time-travel/alien-battling stuff worked out but, as Coduri observes, "Jackie's still grappling with it. Also the Doctor has changed. She'd just got used to the other one [played by Christopher Eccleston], and suddenly..." Jackie quite fancied the previous Doctor, didn't she? "She did. Very much. And she really fancies this one, as well. A lot!" Coduri elaborates: "I think both Rose and Jackie are in love with this man, because he's quite wonderful. He's the Wizard of Oz. And he's gorgeous and divine!"

For more, see [ part one ] of the Christmas Invasion Behind-the-scenes posts (although [ part two ] appears to be the most popular one in this set…), or click the [ #whoBtsCi ] tag or the full episode list [ here ]

#david tennant #billie piper #doctor who #rtdedit #the christmas invasion #a christmas episode for christmas eve #whoBtsCi #my favorite christmas episode #I can't wait to see ncuti's first christmas episode though #here's to many more! #stuff i posted #whoBts #camille coduri #gorgeous and divine indeed!

[aquanutart]

I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!

The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!

The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!

The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!

And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!

I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!

Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day! The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)

#pokemon #pokemon tcg #long post #i have deep affection for bulbasaur as well though and i also love the bulbasaur/ivysaur cards in this set #i SO wish we'd gotten art of the final evolutions in the same style as the pre-evos' standard cards!! #(yes i do love the full art ones but i also love the illustrations on the standard cards!) #from the way the settings in these two were going; i would have imagined blastoise to be set at night (??) #i LOVE pokemon cards. i can't keep up with every set but i started collecting again now and then a few years ago #and 151 has really got me wanting the full set the way i haven't since childhood. SO many beautiful illustrations (but there always are) #it's like having little pieces of art of my favorite characters and it's only.. slightly... less expensive than actually commissioning .... #i KNOW it's less expensive to buy the individuals online but it's so much less fun #part of the fun is having YOUR own pokemon journey ((going to the store)) and seeing what YOU encounter ((when you open the pack)) #i do buy them online sometimes but i usually dont form as strong associations with them as when i open a pack in a certain setting or place #i tend to try to save them to open right before a significant event like starting something new or a holiday. so that i form associations #and it's like 'oh that's the galarian obstagoon from when my mom came home for christmas' #and 'that's the snorlax who reassured me when i was hurt' #i don't buy them too often so i've got to make it count #anyway i know i should wait for the prices on this one to come down because it's absolutely ridiculous #i didn't buy anything at release because i was like $6 for one booster pack??? but i couldn't take just sitting and watching them sell out #i really like the poster because i can look at so many beautiful pictures all together #i could say stuff like this about literally every pokemon illustration (if i had time to write it out) and sometimes i've wanted to #i just chose these two because these are a couple of my original favorite pokemon and i just couldn't keep it to myself. i LOVE these

[coquelicoq]

Do you mind sharing your brand for ear plugs and noise canceling headphones? I’ve tried so many different kinds but have had trouble finding ones that work well or are also comfortable. I know our needs might be different but it would be worth a try! Ty <3

for earplugs i just use the kroger brand foam ones for sleeping and going to concerts. i really only need two things from earplugs: 1) they don't fall out and 2) they reduce noise somewhat. these work well enough so i haven't really shopped around for other options.

i don't actually like my noise-cancelling headphones, they're pretty uncomfortable on my head. they often give me a headache, and they make my ears all sweaty. but there are frequently very loud events on my street, and for a while there my neighbor was having a lot of noisy sex that i really didn't want to hear, and i was kind of losing my mind. so i asked for some headphones for christmas and am just using whatever random pair i was given. i think they're skullcandy brand.

i hope you have better luck soon!

#it sucks to have to hear the bad sounds all the time so i really hope you find something that works for you <3 #i wish i had better headphones but i'm allergic to shopping. when i need something i haven't gotten before i just wait until christmas #and make someone else figure it out. unfortunately this means whatever they get me is sometimes not what i wanted #or doesn't work or is uncomfortable. but i use it anyway. because what else am i gonna do look for it myself??? #<-incidentally this is a large part of why i haven't moved yet even though i've known for a couple years that i need to #what do you mean i have to look at apartments online? can't i outsource this??? #asks #anon

[corrienteallita]

I just wanted to say - I am super slow at replying to comments, asks etc. I'm sorry! Life is busy and anxiety often kicks my arse. I will reply, it might just be a month or so late.

#non sims #i'm slow #also i could use some time off work #but my leave year runs from april - april #and i thought that i would be able to make it from christmas to easter without taking any time off work #so i used my last few days off over christmas #spoiler alert #i cannot go three whole damn months without some time off work #IT SUCKS #can't wait for easter! #although we will be redecorating so not sure how much time off we'll really have #it'll be fun though #i like redecorating #and we're getting new flooring!

[winterrhayle]

had a head and stomach ache for the whole of christmas eve and christmas day😭😭😭 all i want for christmas is MORE NUROFEN

#was literally at the front of church trying to lead the music #but the whole time i was like ahhhhrgalapthgwpahfb #can't wait for bedtime #sad that this is my last christmas as a child though☠️ #boxing day is more fun anyway that's when i go to my cousins #hope i'm feeling normal tmrw #personal

[noxumbra]

This image is old as hell (2021). It was made around the same time as my fake Jerma ad, but I never posted it for obvious reasons, lol.

This ad is based off of those weird romance Renta ads I used to see all the time.

I made a whole bunch of fake ads for a point-and-click Wix site game I made (which is now defunct). These showed up as you scrolled through a bunch of fake in-game websites.

#The other ads were pretty lame and standard comparatively. This and the Jerma one were my favorite fake ads I made lol. #I was on speedrun mode trying to make this so no one seen it before the website was unveiled for Christmas. (1/2) #Also because I was embarrassed at the thought of having to explain what I was doing before it fully looked like an ad lol (2/2) #I considered drawing Naruto and Sasuke's faces myself but the idea to just paste them in was way funnier. Sasuke is straight from the manga #They're also supposed to be in a sauna but you can't really tell lol #my art #my edit #fake ad #fake advertisement #suggestive #naruto #narusasu #webcore #old web #I have an ad blocker now so I can't see those weird webtoon ads anymore but honestly I miss them. They were always hilarious to me (1/3) #Like the art and premise was always so crazy and for what? I'm waiting to watch a baking vid and I get an mpreg yaoi manga ad instead. (2/3 #Honestly respect though. Those ads always made my day. Give me something crazy instead of the same three instagram ads any day. (3/3) #also sorry to anyone who had to see this lol. I'm posting it for archival reasons and also to match the Jerma ad.

[crystalsandbubbletea]

This was sadly out of budget for me- *Sob*

#crystalsandbubbletea #halo: outcasts #halo #olympia vale #sobbing internally #sobbing for eternity #At least I might get it for Christmas- :') #Can't wait to see more of Vale #She's my personal favorite <33333 #My number one favorite characters is definitely both Kat and Kelly though- #crystals ish #crystal ish #bubble tea ish #bubble ish #tea ish #rian ish

[coldflasher]

so idk if i mentioned this but i got really into gardening this year. i've wanted to grow my own vegetables ever since i was a kid and now i have a garden i can actually do it. so i went all out. i grew tomatoes and strawberries and courgettes and peppers (they didn't go so well, wrong climate) and i spent weeks digging up the bamboo that the former owners planted (top tip: NEVER PLANT FUCKING BAMBOO, IT'S THE DEVIL'S PLANT) so i would have more room to grow things and it was SO FUN going out and picking my own food straight out of the garden, being like 'hmm i kinda feel like lettuce' and then just. going and grabbing some from the garden. AMAZING!!!

anyways then i went on holiday for two weeks and my family did not really take care of my garden while i was gone (fair, not their job) and the wind trashed my plants so i kinda lost enthusiasm cos it was all wrecked, and then all my tomatoes got a disease due to irregular watering because i couldn't be bothered going out there to water them every night, and THEN it was winter. so i lost interest and now i only go out into the garden to put potato peelings in the compost bin

and i was sat here like damn, i really hope that gardening wasn't just a short-lived obsession because it's easily one of the coolest hobbies i've had and also gets me away from the Horrors, aka, screens and the internet, and also let's be real, i spent way too much money on compost and plant pots, so it'd really suck if i never do that again, especially because everyone says the first year you grow your own food it's not really helpful financially cos all the supplies cost so much, it's only when you've been doing it for a year or two and figure shit out and don't have to start from scratch that it starts saving you money. so like. it would be nice to actually reap some financial benefits of what was a very expensive hobby lmao. (i bought OVER TWO HUNDRED LITRES OF COMPOST. IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S REALLY NOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN MOST OF YOUR GARDEN IS PATIO SO YOU HAVE TO GROW EVERYTHING IN CONTAINERS)

ANYWAY tl;dr the switch flipped in my brain again and i spent an hour today looking up different kinds of runner bean. there's a variety called firestorm, so obviously i'm gonna have to try and grow that. and i'm mentally planning out everything i'm gonna grow and now i'm chewing on the bars of my enclosure cos i can't start growing anything until april >:( boooooo

#i also really wanna grow different kinds of tomato #i had 8 cherry tomato plants this summer and it was GREAT. i never had to buy tomatoes. which was useful cos i eat a lot of them #but i wanna branch out (pun absolutely intended) and grow some of the cool-looking ones #i found some black ones. emo tomatoes!! i wanna grow them so bad!! #and i wanna see if my strawberries are more productive this year cos apparently they don't do much in their first year #i'm excited to try beans cos i've not tried those yet. and hopefully my peppers will do better this year... #and i'm also gonna try companion planting and weave some flowers in among it all for the pollinators!! I'M SO HYPED #i'm also gonna try and grow some more fruit this year cos that shit is EXPENSIVE #i'm not gonna do that from seed though. i'm gonna buy a couple of fruit trees. you can get raspberry bushes that are designed to grow in #pots. same with blueberries. my friend is gonna get me a blueberry bush for christmas!! so i just need to get the compost. they need acidic #soil. GAHHHH I CAN'T WAIT #pls brain. don't let this obsession die by the time i can actually get out there and grow things

[neverevan]

first full draft for the puppy fic is done, the only thing left is the ski fic now 🫡

#I still need to edit the hospital and the puppy fic though but they are largely done #I'll be posting 510 today though #god can't wait to get through all these christmas fics #I mean don't get me wrong I enjoy writing them tremendously #but I miss working on the mudslide fic #that has literally my fave confession scene I ever wrote and one of my favourite smuts too #and I still need to get to the point where those happen in the story lmao #newbie stuff

[battywitch]

Alright, which one of you fuckers (affectionate, mostly) is responsible for infecting me with this bizarre desire to decorate for winter holidays?

#i am not a holly jolly bitch and i don't celebrate Christmas #i do usually do something for the solstice though and we basically went along with Christmas stuff for my kid's childhood #so they had about a week of Stuff #like. i won't shit on other people's fun! #i think some folks are way too extreme but that's between them and their god and their electric company #it's just that i don't personally vibe with most of it and since I'm not a Christian i don't have a reason to celebrate #my fave xmas things are the grinch and the dr. who specials and a Christmas Carol but i do like decorating a tree #as long as it's fun/not too serious (i like random ornaments collected over time especially if a bunch are silly or cute) #anyway. i got a tiny tree (≈55cm/22in) and it's black and i can't wait to decorate it for yule and valloween and halfway to Halloween #and summerween and Halloween 🖤🥲 #(we also have a regular artificial tree but limited space so putting it up is a hassle)

[nordic-language-love]

this time next week i’ll be taking the spoken bergenstest!

#i'm so excited! #can't wait to be back in norway :D :D #dreading returning to the uk already lmao #even though i'll only be back for like two months :O and then it's on to japan! #and in between i have a fair few stilts & fire gigs #plus birthday (incl my own) and christmas and all sorts #so exciting!

[ggukkiereads]

Heyyyy hope you’re well❤️

I was trying to find this Christmas Jungkook fic where I think oc is a lawyer and they meet at a family Christmas party I think? And I remember phone sex being involved lmao

🌷 Heyyy! =) I’m doing well, thank you. Just had the time today to answer some asks. I actually saw this weeks (or maybe it was just few days) ago but I couldn’t respond then and new asks came in so this got pushed down and I forgot to get back to you. 

Anyway, you are looking for  Christmas is Waiting for You and the link just leads to a reblog of mine. It seems the author had removed all her fics on tumblr T_T. You can still read the fic on AO3 (but I think you need an account) - same pseud, same title. =) 

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#ooh Christmas stories are my favorite!!! #I have started watching Christmas fics with my cousin last night while we were fixing stuff at home lol #though some are so cliche' like the new Lindsay Lohan one - but I can't help like cheery vibes from holiday films or music or stories #fichunting #christmas is waiting for you #lamoruche #taegismochi #jungkook x reader

[ace-the-fox]

Haruka in the Bites The Dust arc:

#jjba #jjba oc #haruka kira #yoshikage kira #i can't wait to write the btd arc (plus the kosaku-kira arc in general) #i think we're a chapter away from kosaku's facenapping #it'll still take a while though because i have other stuff going on as well writing wise #(and otherwise in general as well bc I've got mock exams coming up after christmas break... scary biscuits 😨)

[astrxealis]

thinking a lot about fe3h lately dimitri felix yuri my beloveds (i have a type). also thinking about specifically akechi sandalphon g'raha (i also have a type but it's spoilers to elaborate)

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #hi ... it is 11 pm ..... i'm really busy this week and the next two especially but after that is a week break #so i'll finally get to doing all the things i want to get to! :] today is so tiring god anyways goodnight in advance #going to study for my quiz tomorrow uhm my teacher is so nice she said we're allowed to look at the materials and all. mostly because she sa #said* the questions are more... ahaha..... YEAH requires more thinking. anyways that's cool with me! #lots of homework and i have to make an essay in filipino due tomorrow oops i haven't worked on it yet #but heyy due at 11:59 pm so true <3 also really excited to play stardew valley finally since my best friend is gifting it to us as a late #christmas and birthday and valentines gift ^___^ bcs for christmas and bday they WERE going to give #but aha bcs of another friend (bcs bestie can't deliver things to where she lives so she trusted other friend) uhmm yeah. nada none no no ya #IDM THOUGH but like tbh i like this best. kinda. wait. how do i explain... she wanted to give us a ffxiv musicbox just as much as we wanted #it tbh? and then. she wants to give us stardew valley just as much as we do. even more tbh. hehe. lov my friends #AHHH RAMBLING BUT I WILL STOP NOW! self-control slay!! okay goodbye goodnight <3 #oh today was so fun... i'll write down what happened today. so much happened. it's really nice. i feel like i have a life LMFAO

[thorinkingoferebor]

when will my normal oxygen saturation return from war

#text posts by thea #put up my christmas tree and clean…. #*ed #it was a mistake #can't believes my lungs are betraying me like this even though i gave them three tasty vaccines #also anxiously waiting for andor vol 3 to be released on spotify #it's meant to come out today right??? #just give it to me so i can let my body decompose on the couch to rad music thanks #(my cough is kinda better today though....???? i really hope this means the worst is over)