The Japanese Practice Of Shinrin-yoku—literally Translated As “forest Bathing”—is Based On A

Ben is getting so tall!

BILL WATTERSON - “A Cartoonist’s Advice”

Galileo’s sketches from Sidereus Nuncius (1610), the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope

I think more famous people should do what robert pattinson does / what will wood used to do and just lie spectacularly about their personal lives. a) it makes it harder to invade their privacy, b) it would cut down on the weird cultural obsession we have with connecting a creator's life to their works, and c) it's funny as hell.

Yeah the Rudolph elf meme is funny, but are we really forgetting about all the other great and bizarre Christmas specials moments, like when Rankin/Bass beat DreamWorks to the idea of “Hot Jack Frost” by more than 30 years?

How about when they made a Nativity fanfic with a misfit donkey and a baby angel?

That Santa Claus started off giving toys exclusively to depressed World War I-era German children? (Did I mention he was a ginger)

We also shouldn’t gloss over the time when Rudolph teamed up with a caveman, a knight and goddamn Benjamin Franklin not to walk into a bar but to save the Baby New Year.

Really, Rudolph could fill up this entire list all by himself, considering that he also teamed up with Frosty the Snowman one time to fight this wintery motherfucker

WHO HAS GIANT ICE DRAGONS TAKE THAT NIGHT KING

And is one of the five or six clowns who are supposed to be running winter in this universe (they were not very creative when it came to making up bad guys apparently)

And later dies in the most HORRIFYING WAY POSSIBLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SHOW THIS MOVIE TO CHILDREN AGE FIVE AND UNDER

Oh, and by the way, Rudolph is also Reindeer Jesus. Look it up.

Confirmed: God is a woman. 

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Jan Mankes Big Owl, Raven on a Birch Tree 1913