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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[notoriousreign]

lmao Victorian cards were so hardcore.

[espressotorte]

They understood the inherent violence of Christmas

[wwgrogudo]

What an amazing post OP - thank you! 🙂🎊🎄✨️🎁

What a bunch of terrifying images/cards! 😬😯😳

[peddlestools]

that mercury poisoning made them draw some wild shit

[my_thots_exctly]

I wanted to say this kind of art was still normal to find on cards and calenders until recently but then I have to remember it's 2023 and not the 70s/80s lol. I still have my mom's Max und Moritz and Struwwelpeter books and at least 3 of my cards from my childhood have cabbage fairies.

[anterrabre]

Oh, is that what she is? I thought she was just a lettuce lady, I'll go ahead and change that. Thanks!

[my_thots_exctly]

One of my cards has a sleeping cabbage fairy with a man nearby who looks like he's contemplating harvesting the cabbage. It's also for new years and I think it's supposed to be a nod to Der Krautesel, where a hungry man steals a cabbage and turns into a donkey after eating it. Kind of a 'make wise decisions' kind of thing. Most these cards justly thinly veiled threats I think lol

[evilfirepixie8]

Someday I'm going to actually make the time to learn more about the Victorians, because they were some delightfully fucked up people.