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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #75 on: December 08, 2020, 09:20:08 AM »
Johannabelle, aaah, it´s so beautiful! XoX The composition, the colors, everything!
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #76 on: December 08, 2020, 01:13:25 PM »
I think chloroform may have been involved.

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Johannabelle, your vignette is so sweet and gorgeous! The pose... the colours... the light... aaaaah!  <3
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #77 on: December 08, 2020, 05:45:19 PM »
Thanks, guys!  ^-^ <3 I was just thinking it'd be cute if Onni's luonto and Tuuri's spirit bird could hang out, however that would work.
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #78 on: December 09, 2020, 12:16:41 AM »

Spoiler: open the door • show

We have perhaps a bit of a cat theme emerging on the calendar this year?  Maybe that's wishful thinking on your humble mod's part, but, courtesy of first-timer for the calendar, Lallicat, enjoy today's punctual treat!

Spoiler: meowy catmas • show

Meowy Catmas

Or a story about Kitty and Dagny getting up to some shenanigans while Sigrun and Mikkel are gone containing an ungodly amount of cat puns.

It was not unusual for the humans to leave the house for long periods of time. And while Kitty sometimes longed for the days in the wild, there was something appealing about relaxing while curled up on the rug in front of the fireplace. So when the humans left once again, she was purr-fectly content to take a catnap on a couch pillow. However, Dagny had different ideas. Sigrun had brought back the tiny ball of energy sporting a Grade A collar one day, and he had proceeded to make Kitty’s life as difficult as possible ever since. He was a positively clawful nuisance. But she loved him anyway. However, when he was jumping on her while she was trying to sleep, it was easy to lose sight of that fact. She angrily swatted him away, giving him a warning nip on the ear. She didn’t want to play with him. He didn’t relent. However, after a minute of him batting her in the face, she decided to put herself out of her mew-sery and slowly opened one blue eye. Then the other. She stretched, causing Dagny to topple off the couch. She flicked her tail while yawning, which, as everyone knows, means “okay, I’m up, what do you want to do?” in cat language. Dagny led the way towards the kitchen. There was an open bag of cat treats on the counter.

        “AT LAST!” yowled Dagny, most likely talking to the high countertop. “A MOST FUR-MIDABLE FOE! I WILL DEFEAT YOU!” He proceeded to try to jump onto said countertop. His attempts were fruitless, as he was much too tiny. Kitty gave a snort of disapproval. She leapt up onto the countertop in one jump.

   “Amateur,” she scoffed. “Purr-haps you should leave the high climbing to me.” She batted the bag off the counter. “Mew are fur-tunate that I’m feline nice. It was a paw-sibility for me to keep them for meow-self.” Dagny rolled his eyes.

   “Yes, yes, I know, you’re so claw-ver. Purr-haps you should stop congratulating yourself and get down here before I eat all of these. I already know that mew are a paw-some fur-end.” They feasted victoriously on the treats until they felt like their bellies would burst. Then Kitty finally took that nap she had been wanting to take, Dagny curled on top of her. The door creaked open; Sigrun and Mikkel walked inside, shaking snow from their hair.

        “Aww, look at them,” Sigrun whispered. “They’ve been perfect angels.”

[center]~*~*~ A few days later ~*~*~[/center]

“Mikkel, where did you put the cat treats?”


Was this story an excuse to exercise my pun-writing muscle? Yes. And I regret nothing.

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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #79 on: December 09, 2020, 03:40:58 AM »
That was a sweet story, Lallicat, and very funny (punny?)
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #80 on: December 09, 2020, 09:07:51 AM »
Lallicat, that's a punishing amount of puns to pack into prose. Perfect!
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #81 on: December 09, 2020, 10:19:33 AM »
Lallicat, cute story! :) Not gonna lie, that was an impressive amount of puns that I was not prepared for. (fur-midable was my personal favorite. or fur-end?)
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #82 on: December 09, 2020, 11:41:26 AM »
Heh, amazing Lallicat, or should I say purr-fect! :'D Aww, the Kitty and Dagny-interactions are adorable, and this is indeed an impressive number of puns.
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #83 on: December 09, 2020, 04:45:26 PM »
Aww, thanks guys! It was fun to make!
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #84 on: December 09, 2020, 08:18:52 PM »
Oooh, goodness, Johannabelle, this is adorable and a bit sad! But the colors and the composition... Touching... <3 :sparkle:

Ahah, Lallicat, purr-fect, as Mirasol said! I love this story! Ah, snow! They are shaking the snow off of their hats! I miss snow so much this year... It snowed two times here in mid-Michigan, during nights and in the mornings we would get like a centimeter of snow on the ground..
But your story is just great! :D
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #85 on: December 10, 2020, 12:16:14 AM »

Spoiler: open the door • show

Sunset on 10 December marks the beginning of Hannukah this year, and wavewright62 imagines how some of the crew might celebrate the festival.

Spoiler: good oil • show

Note:  The Festival of Lights celebrates a miracle - a ransacked temple was reconsecrated, but there was only a little of the oil needed to light the eternal flame, maybe one days' worth.  The nearest source of proper oil was 4 days' travel each way, but somehow that tiny bit of oil lasted eight days until a courier was able to procure more oil.  Therefore the celebration of the festival has come to include the eating of foods fried in oil, such as jelly doughnuts and potato pancakes. 


Here is a good basic recipe for yummy latkes, aka potato pancakes:
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Grate together: 5 medium potatoes and 1 small onion (I tend to leave the potato skins on).  I alternate potato and onion, as the onion juice helps prevent the potato from oxidising and turning grey.
Let stand for about 5 minutes - press out and discard any excess liquid.
Mix in: 2 large eggs, 3T flour, 1T oil (I use sunflower, but you can use olive, canola, etc), salt & pepper to taste.
Fry in hot oil until done in the middle and crispy on the edges.
I'll put in a heaping soupspoonful and flatten it a bit to be relatively even thickness, and not very thick - maybe about 10-15cm/4-6 inches in diameter only.  After all, the whole point is exposing the surface to the oil!

Edit: I forgot to say that these latkes can served as they are (my favourite), or with either applesauce or sour cream.

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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #86 on: December 10, 2020, 01:55:39 AM »
Beautiful! Especially the colors are lovely!

What is the thing Emil is bringing? And Onni is of course crying only because of the onions, right?
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #87 on: December 10, 2020, 04:19:57 AM »
Beautiful! Especially the colors are lovely!

What is the thing Emil is bringing? And Onni is of course crying only because of the onions, right?

Reynir brings the hannukiah, ready with the first candle, which will be lit from the center candle. Have you figured out yet what Emil is hurrying over with?  >:D

Sigrun is wiping the floor with Tuuri in a game of dreidel.  At one point, teaching Hebrew or Judaism was forbidden, so some bright spark came up with writing the letters on a spinning top. If they were raided, they would say innocently that they were just playing a gambling game. Gambling was extremely popular, after all.  It's come to us with 4 particular letters and is a gambling game again. (I'm used to using chocolate coins for the betting.) I've been told that the four letters were for A Great Miracle Happened Here, meaning the oil lasting 8 days, as a way to teach that story.  Gimel is the letter associated with Miracle, and it means you get all the coins in the middle. (Also, Hei means you get half, Shin means you pay in an extra coin, and Nun means nothing happens and you move to the next person.)
Lalli, naturally, has a jelly doughnut.
And Onni... well, yeah, onions.
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #88 on: December 10, 2020, 06:20:04 AM »
That's a wonderful artwork, Wave! And thanks for sharing the history of dreidel.
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Re: The Forum Advent Calendar 2020
« Reply #89 on: December 10, 2020, 06:55:22 AM »
Sleipnope as stand-in reindeer is clever! But I'm curious about how anybody got Lalli to dress as an elf?!  O_o   Am I seeing right?
In Germany, St. Nick's day is the 6th of December. Maybe he's a day late here because Sleighnope had a little side job to do first? >:D

That was a sweet story, Lallicat, and very funny (punny?)
"Phunny"? (Yeah, mew spell gud.)

Therefore the celebration of the festival has come to include the eating of foods fried in oil, such as jelly doughnuts and potato pancakes.
... so, there's Rievkooche only once a year? O_o And I thought that my consumption is amazingly low (for someone hailing from the Rhineland) ...

(I actually prefer pear compote with them, but it's gotten quite difficult to come by in recent years. And, of course, slices of Schwarzbrot, though I refrain from buttering those like a "real" Rhinelander would.)
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