This is a ONTD Art Moment™: The Nightmare Before Christmas Edition 🎄🐐🎁

[anterrabre]

As the days get darker and colder this time of year, people hunker down and prepare for their holiday festivities. One of the more common ways of getting in touch with friends and relatives are holiday cards either sending joy and good wishes, or news about what happened to their family that year. This is a family tradition for many, but where did

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[ritaamber]

Those Victorian cards are stunning. OP this post is incredible, down the rabbit hole I go!

[sandstorm]

"Oh yay an art post where I can use my new found(on youtube) how to look at art knowledge to discern meanings"

five photos in: oh geeze maybe this wasn't the right one. what's happening.

I'm sitting here going "did the frog who robbed the other frog take his clothes too? are those dragonflies in the distance of the dancing Frog beetle also sentient?"

[anterrabre]

He probably did, lol. Back then if you weren't careful at this time of year people would rob you for whatever they could....money, boots, clothes, etc. People would literally walk around trashed and that made them prime pickings for thieves and people down on their luck who saw an opportunity and took it. :(

[tanglespiders]

yup, there’s a reason the puritans banned christmas! aside from being killjoys. and why it was reinvented as a family-focused holiday. wassailing could take a turn for the violent, and the rich increasingly did not like the poor imposing on them, let alone threatening them. the role-reversal and carnival-like aspects of the holidays (which it has in common with saturnalia, though some people take exception to saying it’s a continuation of saturnalia, even if the feast of calends was a thing during the early church) like the lord of misrule were banned by protestants.

though, if you think about santacon, you can kinda see their point.

[allbegintoburn]

Amazing post, OP! I'm going to have to come back to give it a more thorough look later, but I already love what I've seen.

[theoryofwar]

[thereinventions]

George Santos has entered the chat.

[theoryofwar]

Choked on my water 😂

[espressotorte]

Love these posts